New Orleans Republican., 1875-12-30
FOREIGN.


LONDON. December GA special dig
patch reports the Orleans Princes have de-
cided not 10 sit in the Senate or Chamber of
Deputies.
D'Aumaie Declines.
The Due D D'Aumale has written letter
declining nomination for either house.
In the Assembly.
PARIS, Decem Der 29.-In the Assembly
the consideration of the press bill in detail
was continued. All the clauses relating di.
rectly to the press were adopted without
modification. A long and animated debate
followed on the clauses providing for rails
ing the state o. siege.
NJ. Challemel Lacour, radical deputy for
the Bouches-du-R Rhone, urged that the siege
be raised throughout the country. The
government, he said, desired to maintain it
in the great cities because they were too
strongly republican.
Minister Buffet declared that the govern.
ment did not hope TO influence the elections.
1t simply wished to prevent manifestations
in the great towns which might disquiet
and alarm the whole country during the
elections.
The proposal TO raise the state of siege
throughout the country was rejected by a
vote of 377 to 329.
The governments proposals to maintain
the state of siege in, Paris, Versailles,
Lyons and Marseilles we're voted on sepa-
rately for each cisEs and were carried by
large maiorities. The continuance of the
state of siege in Paris being voted by 3sl
yeas to 273 nays. The government withdrew
similar proposal in regard to Algiers.
M. Gambetta, on behalf of his friends,
| declared that although the bill was detesta-
ole, the left would vote for it in order TO
| secure partial raising of the siege.
The press bill finally passed by nearly
| unanimous vote.
The Assembly then proceeded to discuss
the report of the committee on dissolution.
A Movement in Favor of the Return (
| Queen Isabella.
New YORK, December ga Madrid
| special says Count Punonrostro is now in
| Paris, engaged in the official duty of ar
ranging tor the return of ex-Queen Isabella
TO Spain. King Alfonso opposes the will Of
| the ministry on this matter.
| He Ge1ies the Cabinet, declaring that the
ministers may resign, and that his mother
| must have an asylum in Spain. Her resi-
| dence is 70 be at Valladolid, for the reason
| that Madrid is not considered q safe place
| for her now. II is believed that this serious
issue las been forced on Alfonso by Isabella.
The results will be most disastrous. The
| Spanish army will be divided at once if the
ex-Queen takes any part in the direction or
| counsel otsState affairs. Isabella's return
will even cause the loss of Sagosta to the
Royalists.
The Election.
MADRID, December 29.-The general cleo
tlon IS ordered for January 90. The Cortes
convenes February Is.
The Terms of Turkish Pacifcatiou,
BERLIN, December 29-Austria's proiec L
for the pacltication of the Turkish prov
inces, recently drawn up by Count Andrassy,
Prime Minister, have not yet been sent to
the great powers, for some reason IN.
known.
II is reported that while an agreement
has been made with regard to the control
the treaty powers should have, negotiations
are pending between Austria and Russia as
to in what manner ii should be exercised.
L'Amerique.
RocHEs PoINT, Ireland December o.
The steamship lAmerique, which was rs-
Gently disabled at sea, proceeded to Havre.