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Show Foreign Uicellany. London, 21. Telegrams to L!oyd report that a steamer grounded in tbe Sutz canal, jesterday, and tbat triiliic through the cauuI bus been slopped. Tub Post's Berliu dispatch staUti t; at reports from German consuls in tbe east urge the establishment of a direct line of L-iermao steamers to Solicinal, as a means of extending tjerman trade in tbe Levant. The Standard's Berlin dispatch reports re-ports tbat statistics of crops in Kuesia show the yield ol wheat in 1S79, as compared with 1S78, is the eame The yield of rye and oata is larger and that of barley and potatoes smaller. Iiie Standard's Paris dispatch says the Eiison Cjmp.ny have obtained permission from goverunieut to es tflblitjb telephonic communication between various quarters 0: Paris. The game dispatch states that M. Pnillipant, financier, has bought the Grand Hotel, pnyiog over 1 000.000. Tbe Xeics' Paris correspondent re ports that 5,000 pilgrims have started for LaurbesO. Tms is double the number of last year's pilgrim aue. Buiiion in the Bank of England decreased 24,000 tbe past week. Proportion of baufc reserve to liability 5S.7-16 per cent. Sir Rowland Hill, founder of tbe penny postage eystem, is dying, aged 85 years. John Baldwin Bucksioue, comedian come-dian and dramatic author, is on bis death bed and in deatitute circumstances. circum-stances. Tne Times says United Slates bonds are steady in response to tbe demand for 4 per cent, investment securities. It ia staled that a very large amount in bonds was made up for trausmis sion to New York yesterday, Joseph DeLiperre, Belgian historian histo-rian and antiquary, is dead, aged 70 years. The last comtuunicatiou tiircugb tbe cable from tbe steamer lirada, Invinu the new French cable, was re ceived on tbe Hill cf August. Toe Faraday was then experiencing heavy weather. The cable is supposed sup-posed cut, ftbd it is hoped huoyed. The steamer Wezer spoke the Faraday on too lS:h in latitude 40; l'J' norm, longitude 14J 30' west, but the only words of the signals decipherable were "Lilted seventeen hundred cable." Athens, 21. Eigut tnouand men cf the second class of the territorial army havo been called out. The king has postponed his autumn tour. Yienua, 21. Russian and English commissioners have seriously diQered relative to, the delineation of the Russo-Turkish frontier in Asia, each disputing tho accuracy ol the other's map. Lord DuQerin has guspendtd negotiations at Sc. Petersburg on the subject. Cbiistiania, 21. Two Ru?aion students, stu-dents, nihilists, havo been arretted at YVadsoe, the Russian government having demanded their extradition. |