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Day
18
Month
July
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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Al. de LeBseps stated at tbe last meeting "i the Geographical society that he does not think the total expense of constructing the Dañen Canal will exoeed 250,000.000 francs- $50,000,000. The contributions of Peter's peuce for the first nalf of the present year have increased L28,000 compared with the correRponding period in 1878. The Gol"8 estimates tüat the coat to Kussia of the war with Turkey amountcd to L150-, 000,000, and that the deatlia in the lïnssian army nnmbered 200,000. A Paris correspondent of the Times Htates that evorything tends to show that Prince Jerome Napoleon intends occupying the poRition of the deceased Prince Imperial. The French Government has Rubmitted a bilí to the Senate to amnesty soldier and aailor deserters who have not been tried and sentenced. This applies to the exiled communists who belonged to the army. It ia estimated that the measure will affect 30,000 persons. Tbousands of workmen have been engaged aeveral weeks on works designed to cause the Oxua river to return to its ancient bed, so as to establiah easy water communication between the Caspian Sea and the regions bordering on Afghanistan. A diapatch from St. Petersburg to the Daily Newa reporta that the dissenters i rom the orthodox church, hitherto unrecognized by the State, are to have entire liberty of worship. This affects 12,000,000 Ruasian subjects. The regulations, however, extend only to the sect knownas"Óld Believers." Otber disaenting secta remain under the former disabilities. The second fire at Irkutsk destroyed five churches, the convent of the Lutheran church, the court of justice, pólice offices, telegraph offices, postoffice, excise, artillery engineers, and medical establishments, three banks, barracks and the town hall. A torpedo boat attached to Admiral Lewreff'a frigate at Constandt waa blown up while at practice WedneRday last. Five men were killed and 14 wounded, Rome fatally . The Reichstag finally voted for the protective cuatoms tariff Saturday by a vote of 217 againRt 117. Prince Bismarek then read a decree closing the session. After the statue of tbo' late Prinoe In-pcial has been placed in WeRtminiter Abbey, and some other memorial erected with the fund contributed by the liritish army, it haa been reaolved to devote the surplus of the fund to the establishment of a benevolent institution commemorative of the Prince. It ia computed that the army fund alone will umount to L50,000.

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