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Show FOREIGN. Continental Europe. Birlin, 14. In the upper house of the Prussian diet to-day, a bill withdrawing with-drawing state grants, from the Roman catholic clergy was debated. Bismarck Bis-marck made a speech in which he clarrd that since the Vatican council ol Catholic bishops were merely the pope's precepts, he said he was not an enemy to the Catholic church; he warred against papacy, which had adoptetl the principle of extermiua-tiou extermiua-tiou of heretics and which was in enmity en-mity w ith the gospel, as well as with the Prussian state. Agents ol the French government have made contracts, iu Bohemia, for lillMX) hnrp( to hft (hdivfircfl I June. ' Hendage, 14. The Carlists have ! surprised Fort Aspe, near Santander, , and captured 2uU prisoners and four iguns. |