London vid Bombay, 1st May, Ukases have been issued remitting the arrears of Government loans to the pease-ts during bad harvests from the year 1857 to the birth of the Czarevitch. These arr.ars are estimated at £7,500,000 sterling.
Also removing most of the disabilities im on unorthodox sects, with regard to freedom of worship and civil rights. Mahomedans and Budhists are included, and they are no longer to be officially qualified as heathens, There is no provision for the relaxation of the existing anti-Jew 2nd May.
The ukase establishing practicall: complete religious freedom for all creeds has been received with enthusiasm throughout Russia, It is hailed as the greatest concession to liberal thought yet granted, and is regarded as the precursor of political freedom.—Reuter.
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