, 1873-02-08

sent the spectacle of communities maintaining
liberty and order by the exercise of absolute
Selfgovernment; therefore the Union is strong
and respected.
Parls.-M. Gambetta is suffering from an at
tack of bronchitis.
Three Communist prisoners have escaped
from prison in Versailles.
A thunderstorm of unusual violence passed
over Paris last night.
~Rome.-Prince Arthur, of England, has ar
rived in this city.
Stockholm.-The annual session of the Swe-
dish Diet was opened to-day by the King, in
person, who, in his speech from the throne, ex-
pressed an earnest hope for the Development of
the Scandinavian union.
Paris.-In the Assembly to-day, after a
noisy and undignifed discussion, Mr.. Christie
Phles's motion approving the circular of the
Munster of Public Instruction on educational
reform was adopted by a vote of 420 Yeas to 80
Nays. The members of the Right ab>tained
from voting, but in vain, and the vote was de-
clared valid.=The Orleans Princes to-day,
tor the first time, attended a mass in CONNIE
moratlon of Louis XVI, at a Chapel of Ex-
platlon. The circumstance excites comment,
and IS regarded by some of the journals as an
indication that the union of the Legitimists
and OrIeanlsts has been completed.
London" The Daily Telegraph of this
morning has a special dispatch from Brussels
contradlctlng the statement that Count Schou-
valotf failed in his mission to secure the co-ope-
ration of the British Government in the mea-
sures contemplated by Russia in Central
Asia.
22nd Jany.
London.-It is reported that a conference has
ham Hold oF GbSIoI,--A IL - 100 - / - II Il
the Empress Eugene and the Prince Jerome Ma
poleon should be the political guardians of the
Prince Imperial, and therefore direct the move
ments of the party. 1t is said that no manifesto
announcing the intentions of the Bonapartists
will be issued, nor will any proclamation be pub
lished. The Prince Imperial will not be called
Napoleon ", but will be known as Count Pier
refonds. He has adopted as his motto, strength
but not Impatience."
Berlin.-By order fills Majesty the Emper-
or William, the German Court will go into
mourning one week for Napoleon.
PariS.-MaSSes for the repose of the soul of
the late eX-Emperor Napoleon were celebrated
in a number of the churches of this city today,
and large crowds attended the services.=Fe-
nOuiIIy, Decamp, and Benot, the condemned
Communists, were shot early this morning on
Satory Plain. FenouilIy died without uttering
a word. Deoamp's last words were, Il die as
sassinated. Down with false witnesses, LAWYERS,
and THEIRS" Benot died cheering the Republic.
the Commune, and the army. Only one vollev
was fired, as all died nstan taneously. There
were but few spectators on the ground
to Witness the execution The water in the
River Seine is again very high. 1t has risen q
metre and sixty centimetres above the ordinary
height, and another inundation is feared.
Madrid.-Congress was engaged to-day de-
batting the bill providing for compulsory SER
vice in the army.=The special committee of
Congress on the abolition of slavery in Porto
Rico will probably present their report to that
body to-morrow.=The question of i~ndemnifca-
ton of slaveowners has been settled, and de-
tails alone delay the report. The Committee
will propose that the emancipation of the slaves
shall be complete four months after promulga-
ton ofthe passage of the bill. The Cortes will
commence to discuss the bill at an early dav.
Marshall Serrano and the Conservative depu-
ties will decide to-day upon the course they
intend to pursue. The members of the late
Cabinet publish a declaration to-day, repudia-
ting the idea that they favoured the sale of
the island of Cuba.
Paris.-The Committee of Thirty have
agreed to an amendment proposed by M. De-
cades, to the first article of the Constitutional
project reported by the Subcommittee, where
by the President is allowed to address tho AS
sembly only on the bills before it.
St. Petersburg is an extensive emf
grafton movement to America among the Ger
man cOlonists in Russia. One hundred and