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Paris, Juno 4. At the general meeting of the Suez Canal Company, held here to-iLiy, the Chairman, Court Ferdinand do Lessep«, presided, and in moving the adoption of the icport stated that the clirccsors had decided a year ago upon the construction of a second canal, and that negotiations, to which a favourable issue was expected, were now proceeding in England for the purpose of seeming the necessary land,

London, June 4. In the House of Commons to-day Lord E. Fitzmauiice, Under Secetary foi Foreign Affaiis, stated, in reply to a question, tfmfc H.M. ships Diagon and Ihy.id had been instructed to protect British interests in Madagascar. Messrs. Da,\itt, Healy, and Quinn, who were imprisoned for six months in Kilmainham, in February last, for refusing to find securities for th<ir good behaviour, a& directed by tire Court of Que?ifs Bench, have been released. The Oiienfc steamship Garonne, with a cargo of 5100 carcases of mutton, arrived at Plymouth to-day.

Juno 5. In the House of Commons last night the Bill for amending the Corrupt Piactices at Elections Act was under consideration, and was read a second time. Earl Dufterin has been appointed Kmght of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.