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select the most interesting of the kilograms.
LONDON, Aug. I6.-Advices from Paris say tht
city is excited. The situation is threatening anC
trouble is apprehended from various sources
To-day is the fete of Napoleon the First, and tht
air is full Of rumors that the army will revolt
against the Versailles Assembly and declare iOl
Mcmahon for Regent, and demand the Empire
People are leaving Paris in a stampede. Some
believe that the Orleanist's scheme is ripe for q
coup d'etdt, being pushed by the proposition &c
make Theirs permanent Executive, which, it il
feared, would establish a government not mon
archial. Theirs has no friends. He is hated by
the Republicans, RoYalists and Imperialists alike,
A crisis is approaching.
LONDON, Aug. 16.-A dispatch says Bismarck
has commenced a vigorous campaign against the
Papacy, and as a first blow, declared in Parlia-
ment and his official GozetteS that he regards the
ultra montana church as hostile to the State. He
has broken off all relations with it not purely
political and has dissolved the Catholic part oil
the Ministry of Public worship. He is intriguing
for the establishment of an Orthodox Catholic
party which is the name applied to the opponents
of infallibility and is actively supporting DIR.
DollInger.
LONDON, Aug. 16.-Tbere was a meeting OF
1900 people at Dundalk, Ireland, in favor OF
Roman rule.
The Scott Centenary was celebrated at Belfast.
Lord Dufferin presided at the banquet.
The Gar informed LIZ Flo, the French Minister,
that there was no treaty between Russia and
Germany.
LONDON, Aug. photographic communication
is established with Japan. Messages have been
sent from this city to Japan, and answers re-
turned to-day.
In Koni~gsberg, Prussia, on the 14th instant,
s~ixty-two persons were attacked by cholera and
twenty-five died.
The meeting of the Emperors and their advisors
at Gastein is generally regarded as a pledge of
peace. The French pretend to be Indifferent to
the meeting, and prognosticate an alliance be-
tween France and Russia.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Advices from London
state that fatal cases of cholera had appeared on
three steamers from Cronstadt to Hull, but the
English authorities were taking every means to
prevent its introduction by ships arriving at their
ports. Yesterdays dispatches received here, an
nOunce two fatal cases of cholera in Paris. Mem
bers of the Health Department of this city, think
there is little probability of the cholera visiting
this country this year. One physician says, he
no longer considers cholera a matter of American
interest. 1t has been lurking about Europe for
years, while We have escaped.
LONDON, Aug. 19.-The famine in Persia is
more terrible than previously reported. There
have been q 900 deaths ut Ispahan alone from
starvation, and the condition of the provinces is
still worse. The rice crop is n complete failure,
and the cattle plague, smallpox, and typhus
fever and cholera prevail.
VERSAILLES, Aug 1S.-Before the court-martial
to-day, Ferral described the fearful state of an
archy which pervaded under the Commune, and
stated that both Cluseret and Luilier sought to
seize the Dictatorship. The incendiaries, he
said, were nearly all foreigners.
PARIS, Aug. 1S.-The Committee to which the
motion for the prolongation of Theirs powers
was voted by the Assembly has elected Viscount
BenOist day, Chairman, and Marc Girardin re-
porter. The COMMITTEE will probably report next
Monday, and the debate on the motion will be
opened on Tuesday. Counter motions are re-
ported from Gambetta, and the Duke De Broglie,
but it is believed that the original motion with
ONE notifications will be carried.
q PARIS, Aug. 1S.-The Patrie says that Russia
Is making great military preparations. The
Car, accompanied by General LIE Flo, the French
ambassador, visited the camp of the army corps
at Izanisko. Prussia is also filling up her levies,
perfectIng her ornaments, and collecting enormous
quantities of stores. The Patrie believes the
preparations Of the latter power are aimed at
Russia.
LONDON, Aug. 18.-There was a Napoleon fete
at Chislehurst, when kilograms were received
from the Gar, the King of Sweden, the Emperor
land, and the Prince of Wales and others.
IL is SIdleu THAT an duur0SS OI welcome was
proposed to Napoleon lately, but he declined it
unless it should appear to be the general wish Of
the nation. Napoleon believes in his early res
t~oration to power. He has no faith in the sta
bility of the Theirs Government, and awaits
events.
PARIS, Aug. 19.-The German forces are with
from the neighborhood of the forti6ca-
tions northeast of Paris.
VERSAILLES, Aug. l9.-In the Assembly to-
I.y tba (Noror1ftaa nv 4ho Aro. IlII -.oI1
report recommending its passage. The bill as
to the Chamber makes military service
compulsory and allows no one the right to procure
a substitute; prohibits soldiers from voting IN
political elections, and dissolves the National
Guards throughout the country.
LONDON, Aug. ia despatch from Gum
binen, East Prussia, a town sixty-six miles east
Of Konigsberg, says the cholera has appeared in
several districts on the German side of the Rus
frontier.
LONDON, Aug. l9.-The report that a confer
ence of German Catholic Bishops will be held at
Funda proves incorrect.
In the House of Lords to-day, the Lord Chan
cellor and Viscount Halifax defended in the most
manner the measures which have been
pressed by the Government at this session of
Parliament, and especially those providing for
The use of the ballot, at elections, and for the
regulation of the army.
N stOAy n CliCuideibS III LII tudI III impOTb-
mt Russian parsonage recently told a French
iiplomatist that the result of the late war placed
Russia in the position of France after the battle
Of Sadowa.
PARIS, Aug. 20.-In the Court-martial at
the examination of witnesses was con-
,luded yesterday. The argument Tor the prose-
,utie1 begins tomorrow.
The number of deaths in Paris last week were
%, including one from cholera.
M. Ranchas has gone abroad.
LONDON, Aug. 2O.-Garibaldi has almost re-
overed from his recent severe illness.
New York, Aug. 20.-The Dublin cores
ondent of the London Times of the 9th, describ-
lg the Dublin riot, says P. j. Smyth, member
f Parliament, was proceeding with his speech,
hen suddenly there shot into view round the
,rner of the Wellington Monument, a consider
body of police, truncheon in hand, who,
ithout uttering a word of warning, notice, or
Ipostulation, began to strike merciIessly on all
des. IL an impartial enquiry be instituted by
o~vernment, l believe it viii be found that