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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 184, 6 October 1876, Page 13

Relations have been resu. iied between the Vatican and the Sublime Porte, and Mgr. Hassoun, who arrived at Constantinople unexpectedly, announces that he has bad a conference with the Grand Vizier, who is disposed to revoke all the measures taken by the Porte against the Catholics. — ' Overland Mail.' There are 72 papers at Constantinople, 16 of which are printed in Turkish, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Persian, 20 in French, 1 in German, 1 iv English, 12 in Greek, 13 in Armenian, 4 in Bulg irian, 2 in Spanish, and lin Italian. There are 19 official journals in the provinces and as many official calendars or almanacs. The deepest Atlantic soundings ever mude were about ninety miles north of the Island of St. Thomas, in 3,875 futhoms. The pressure was so great at this immense depth that the bulbs of the thermometer, made to stand a pressure of three tons, broke.