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Dunstan Times, Issue 461, 17 February 1871, Page 3

Lord Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon, is bankrupt. His Lordship owes to unsecured emitters, £215,292; to those holding security, £502, 362 ; there are no figures on the other side of the account. The palace of St. Cloud, which has just been burned, has been connected with the history of France for near y three hundred years. It was here, on the 2nd of August, 1589. that Henry 111., passing through the vestibule, was assassinated by the Dominican monk, Jacques Clement. In 1658 Louis IY purchased the place* and presented it to his brother, the Duke of Orleans, who laid out immense sums of money in improving and adorning it. It remained in the possession of the Orleans family for up wards of a century, when it became a royal residence, Louis XYI. purchasing it for Marie Antoinette, who made it her favorite holiday home. After 1792 it passed into the hands of the people for a short period, till on one of the last days of this century, known in history as the 18th Brnmaire, Napoleon Bonaparte, meeting some of his friends in the old Salle de I’Ornngerio, discussed and settled the arrangements which made him the absolute master of France, and St. Cloud an item in his private property. Perhaps, because it was thence that he took his first decided step towards the throne that Napoleon always loved St. Cloud, and lived there when at home. The palace Ims had its name connected with other revolutionary eras, not less important for Fiance than that, of the 18th Brumaira. The decrees which led to the Revolution of July weredone at St. Cloud ” by

Charles X. Louis Phillips, fleeing from Paris on the 24th February, stopped and rested awhile at St. Cloud. The proelamation in which Napoleon 111. made known to his people the impenal concessions of which the Ollivinr Ministry was later the outward and visible fiiyn was dated from St Cloud, and finallv it was from this, his favorite residence, as it had been bis uncle’s that the Emperor went away last July to the war. The Ballarat Star cautions the public, against a young man who goes about delivering tracts, and who steals everything he can lay his hands on. A Commercial Traveller’s Associ**tion has been formed in Melbourne.