File No. 10044/87.

Ambassador Leishman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

The following note from the Sublime Porte just received:

The ministry for foreign affairs has the honor of informing the Embassy of the United States of America that an imperial iradé authorizes the passage through the Dardanelles of the yacht Scorpion, which will arrive at the port of Constantinople to serve it as stationnaire.

Leishman.