GERMANY.
The Crown bridge across the Rhine has been brought down by a vessel striking ib I —40 men were killed and 20 injured. The Emperor is ill and expected to abdicate in favor of bis son. The Dalmatian insurgents have been dei feated and driven to the mountains, where troops cannot follow. [ There have been great festivities in Suez in celebration of the opening of the canal. : Prayers for the success of the undertaking have been offered by the Mussulman and Catholic priests. The Empress's almoner blessed the Khedive. M. Lesseps, in i his speech, regretted that France had opposed the abolition of the capitulation, which ] offended the Empress, and he thereby lost , his promised dukedom.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1123, 1 February 1870, Page 3
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