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Show Fore iK ii i lashes. The appropriation for the purchase of Suez c.uial shares passed to its ! third reading in the British house of commons on Monday. To-day $.-,00,000 gold coin and ?"),-. 000 silver will borfhipped from New York for Havana. On Tnuroday $",00,000 will go in the same direction. direc-tion. In the French elections on Sunday tho republicans elected 31 candidates; candi-dates; Bonapartists, 117; conservatives, conserva-tives, 11; left centre, 11; radicals, 10: legitimists, ?. Prince Jerome Napoleon Napo-leon was defeated. Victor Emanuel opened the Italian parliament ou Monday. His upeech treated of tho prosperous condition of the country, tho friendly relaliuns with f.-rein stales and the recent j visits of tho German and Austrian emperors. i GENERAL. j FORTY-FOURTH COXtUlKSS. 1 SKXATK. Washington, G. E.imunds, from tho te-lect committee to which was referred re-ferred the ri-.-olution and message Irorn the house of representatives in regard to the impeachment ot W. W. Belknap, lato secretary of war, reported re-ported a preamble and resolution declaring that tho senate will take order in the piviniseH according to its standing rule, and directing the secretary secre-tary to notify the house of representatives. representa-tives. Agreed to. After the expiration of the morning hour, Sherman called up the resolution resolu-tion of the New York chamber of commerce presented last week, and spoke in regard thereto. He look strong ground against any repeal of the resumption act of 1875, and closed by sayiue: that he would cheerfully cheer-fully vote fur a moderate tax on tea mid coflce, because this will increase our revenue without adding to the cost of the articles, be the means of enahh'ng us to repeal other taxes that are both a burden and an inconvenience, inconveni-ence, and will also strengthen the treasury, lie would gladly vote for a voluntary conversion of a limited amount of United States notes into bonds, as each of those measures would tend to prepare us for a specie i standard. At thn conclusion of Sherman's speech Bogy called up the bill intro- duced by him early in the session, authorizing the payment of duties on imports in legal tenders and national bank notes. Maxey of Texas submitted a resolution resolu-tion directing the secretary of the interior to furnish for information ol' the senate a statement showing the annual expenditures of the Indian bureau since its organization and also the number of Indians provided for at the expense of government each year since the organization of said bureau. Agreed to. Hamlin submitted a resolution requesting re-questing the postmaster general to furnish the senate with any information informa-tion which he may have touching the submission of straw bids or probable worthless or fraudulent bids for carrying carry-ing the mails of the United States in the several states in which advertisements advertise-ments for mail proposals appeared October 1st, lS7o, and that said information in-formation and all evidence in his possession pos-session be furnished before awards shall be made on said bids. Agreed to. Harvey of Kansas presented resolutions resolu-tions of the Kansas legislature relating relat-ing to the lauds of the Kansas Pacific railway company and thq right to tax the same, memoralizing congress in behalf of certain settlers ot public lands, and also asking an amendment to the existing lumber cu'uiire- act. Adjourned. |