ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 127, 28 June 1876, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

LATEST NEWS, VIA SYDNEY. LONDON. May 25. A semi-panic occurred in Stock Exchange to-day. The panic was caused by a general anxiety as to Eastern affairs. The Porte refused, though unofficially, to take cognisance of Gortschakoif’s memo read at Berlin, and will reject it unless it is modified. Alay 2G. The Times tins morning publishes a statement that England reiterates the refusal to join in terms as read, at the Berlin Conference. . England declares that the memo in which the three powers join, though professing to maintain the principles of Audrasay’s note, departs from its convention, and the demands being unreasonable, show that power is no longer an impartial mediator. Alay 28. The Inn Benchers, after fruitless correspondence with Koneally, have commenced legal proceedings to compel him to surrender his Chamber. Koneally has threatened an action against the Benchers for injuries sustained. Alay 29. A panic was caused in the Stock Exchange to-day by the intelligence that Foreign fleets were assembling in Bessica Bay, near the entrance to Dardanelles. The ironclad Sultan sailed from Portsmouth to-day for the Alcditerranean, under the command of the Duke of Edinburgh. On account of the general anxiety of Eastern affairs being unallayed, Lloyds are asking war risks. Three more ironclads have been ordered to the Alcditerranean, taking a number of the British Squadron men. Alay 30. The announcement that the Sultan has been dethroned was to-day officially made. His nephew, the heir presumptive, Marat Otfcndi, has been proclaimed Sultan in his stead. The deposition had been effected peaceably by the Alinisters of Abdul A/.ar, and he is now aprisoner(?) in Loudon. The Press considers that the dethronement of the Sultan favors a peaceable solution of the Turkish difficulty. In replying to a question this evening, Air Disraeli said ho had just received a telegram from Sir Henry Elliot, in which the only interesting fact was that Constantinople was tranquil, and that the Alusselman population was content. He hoped that the presenting of the Berlin memo would become needless. The situation, he allowed, was critical, but all precautionary measures had been taken, and ho wished dcc.dedly Instate that the interests of England would be best studied, and her honor vindicated, by taking part'in contributing towards the maintenance of peace. June 2. English Consols have fallen over one per cent. The now Sultan has reduced the civil list. Ho promises to relinquish the.' revenues derived from Crown property ; to improve the finances and education ; to reorganise the State Council and Ministry for Justice ; and will instruct the Alinistry to devise a form of Government that will be most suitable to all subjects of the Empire—securing liberty to everyone, Ho liopcs the friendship at present existing between the Empire and the Great Powers will be drawn still closer. He finally proclaims bis accession to the throne of 'Turkey by the grace of God and the will of the people. The Prince of AAmlcs is confined to his room with virus in the leg. The following is the result of the English Derby :—Mineral colt, 1 ; Forerunner, 2 ; Julius Ciesar, 3; Petrarch, 4; Skylark, 5. ST. PETERSBURG LI. . June 1. The Journal dc St. Pefersbun/h dwells on the difficulties which beset the path of the new Sultan, and declares the necessity of Ids yielding to the wishes of the Great Powers.

AUST R A L I A N. o SYDNEY. June 24. New Zealand, South Australia, and Queensland have consented to share the expense of a steamer to run from Java to Port Darwin. Victoria has not yet replied definitely to the proposal. MELBOURNE. Juno 24. In Stevensons’ case, a verdict was given for defendants. A Queensland telegram states that three escapees, recently from Noumea, have been found on the beach near Noosa. They had killed a bullock, and wore cutting the flesh into junks, and using the hide stretched on poles as tents. They had only thirty pounds of flour when leaving the penal settlement, and had scarcely anything to eat for eleven days. When a vessel bound for Sydney came alongside their boat and offered them a passage, they refused, fearing the French Consul would arrest them on arriving at Melbourne. Jas. Dawell, teller of the Bank of New South Wales, absconded last week to Adelaide with £5.000.

At the Benevolent fete recently hold iu Dunedin, there was shown a piece of ancient embroidery which tradition asserts to be the handiwork of the beautiful and unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots. Mr Hugh McLean, who carried on business as a muslin manufacturer in Glasgow 30 years ago, received it from an elderly maiden lady named Hamilton, in whose family it had been for many generations. It has since been sent back to the home country. At the Acclimatisation Society meeting held in Auckland lately, it was stated that the more-pork of New Zealand was useful in killing rats and mice in a successful manner. Mr Earl said the rat of New Zealand was developing climbing claws for getting up trees. The rats are a great nuisance in the Colony. Some sheep that strayed on the New Plymouth and Waitara railway line were recently cut to pieces by a train, to the great alarm and danger of its passengers.