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Show WASTED TIIK M a ICHEILI.Af V Tba French Sailors In I:ula R.ealTad With tlia Uraatoat Knllinalaira. Constakt, July 28. The dinner given to the French sailors yesterday at the Cronstadt exchange was marked by a lesser degree of ollicial character than any of the previous festivities. About 1100 visitors were present, and all toasts of a signiiicant nature were drunk amid tho utmost enthusiasm. enthusi-asm. During the entertainment the ollicers of tho French lleet appeared upon the balcony of the exchange, where an enormous crowd of people greeted them with frantic cheers and fought aud struggled to get a piece of the tricolor tri-color Hags which the French ollicers detached de-tached from their docoratious aud threw thorn among tho populace, shouting shout-ing at the same time, "Vive la Kussia." The people about the exchange responded re-sponded to these cries wilh "Vive la l ranee,' and in every way the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. The crowd also several times iusisled upon hearing the "Marseillaise." |