Galignani states that the French Stamp Office has just purchased the secret of the composition of an ink absolutely indelible, and which resists the strength of all known re-agents. Owing to that discovery, it will be able to put an end to the numerous frauds which are constantly committed, to the prejudice of the Treasury, and which consist in restoring to stamped paper already used its original purity. The annual loss to the revenue on that head is calculated at £600,000 in the department of the Seine alone. Count Edmund de Mirabeau, a grandnephew of Mirabeau, has just died in Russia, where he resided on the estate he had ac. quired by marriage. He was grandson ot Baron Eiquetti de Mirabeau, the Royalist deputy. There now remains but the Marquis Gabriel to bear the name of Mirabeau, and he has no child by his marriage with Madle Esclignac. Another brother was in the Papal Zouaves, and was shot accidentally by a revolver which a friend of his was fiddling with while conversing with him. He left a daughter, who is now the Countess de Martel,
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 239, 16 March 1875, Page 4
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