London vit Bombay, 24th August.
A manifesto from the Czar on the occasion of the baptism of the Czarevitch provides for a general reduction in common law sentences and an amnesty for political offences, except murder.
It abolishes corporal punishment among the rural classes, and for first offences in the case of soldiers and sailors, Is remits various arrears of taxes assigns three million roubles for the benefit of Finns who do tot possess landed property; remits the fines imposed on the Pinni communes resisting the conscription law, and on the Jewish communes where the Jews evaded—military Reuter.
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