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Show FOREIGN. THE EA9TEKN WAIt nothing keliablk. Constantinople, 13, A rumor is( is current thie afternoou that the; British ffaet has passed the Dardanelles, Darda-nelles, but, bo far, nothing reliab't has been received. AUSTRIIN JNTEEEST3, Count Aodrsssy is preparing a note to Kuasi-t, specifying tbe points in the Kusao-Turkish convention com pro mising Austrian interests. St. Petersburg, 13. A letter from a semi-official source states that the retrocession of Bessarabia ia a ptr Bona) queation to the Czar, aud it ie therefore impossible for Russia lo draw back. The settlement of the queation by the powera, ignoring Russia's Rus-sia's wishes, would raise a threatening threaten-ing storm cloud. CONFIBMATOBY, London, 14 The Advertiser publishes pub-lishes the following in official form: We have reason to believe the fleet has pnased the Dardanelles and is now i in the Sea ol Marmora. We understand under-stand that Admiral Hornby wss left lull discretion as to tbe force he would take with him, ana in all probability a larger force had gone than was first contemplated. We believe the porte has contented itself with a formal protest. The Standard and Post confirm the j report that the British ships have passed the Dardanelles. The Poat, bowever, gives the number as six. DENIED. The rumor that Lord Derby hai re-ligned re-ligned ia positively denied. 1 |