ADDITIONAL ENGLISH ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 835, 31 March 1871, Page 2

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH ITEMS.

Pabis, Feb. 13. The . Orleanists are confident they pds- r : sess a majority in the Assembly. The 1 to negotiate a. -treaty pf peace ; has been selected, and the draft treaty ' approved of by Bismarck and Yon ' Moltke. The treaty will be signed immediately ; the German troops will then march through Paris to Strasbourg, andthere take trains for home. ..The trains SviW follow each other as rapidly as possible.-' The Assembly will then adjourn to Parisvand proceed "with the re-organi-) sation of France. , . ..;.;• i The departments not occupied by the;- --• Germans are being ravaged by bands|of: Francs-Tireurs, who are pillaging |tra^ vellers andhouses. Terror feigns in those! departments. | Discreditable revelations ' concerning, the Provisional Government _have been made. It is said that members of it hold; immense sums of money made out of: contracts ; that they secretly disposed of stores and provisions; and that in the; Hotel de Ville 52^000 .'bottles of . wine' were druiik. ' ' '''"'"'.,..,". '.. ■'. ! A second ballot will be required, in Paris to, determine the election of Favre,' Uhrich, Tonille, Faidherbe, Conchin/ and Gambier, who have not obtained the requisite majorities. : ' . •' Florence,. Feb. 10. The' newspapers • announce, that a Catholic league, to prepare an expedition against ■ Italy, has- been formed in ; Belgium, wiih branches iri Austria; Spain; and "some provinces ( of ' France, the meeting-place to" be bn"s6me island in the Mediterranean. : The Italian Government has" received information of the conspiracy. ; :; ■'• ' ,•! The armistice, has been extended tb the departments' or Cote dbrf'Jura, andDpUbS. -. . . ..... -._ „...; ._._,..; ■, , ■ The bankers of Paris' are fully provided witb;.means to furnish the city of Paris a loan of " the 2()O,0pO,OO6 francs needed for tho payment of its war contributions; Jiiles Favre, for himself and in the. name of his colleagues of • Bordeaux and Paris, haa resigned the "power confided to them as the Government J of National Defence. 'He' stated that the' ministers' would remain in officeto maintain order until the Constitution of the new Government had been- adopted.- ;. ; . -irL The Prussian Parliament has been asked for an~advance of 53,000,000 thalers to the Empire, to be refunded' by [the Parliament of Germany.' " fv* - r The Orleanists are confident that the-< Comte de Paris will foe King of France in afew weeks. • ' -.•.:■■•-;:; The correspondence relating to the : war has been submitted to the English Par-" liaraent. " If Ishows that Favre's party were always ready to conclude peace 1 on any terms which did ' not : " include'cessibn ' of territory, and -that; the Germans prosecuted the war for the sake of territorial ''aggrandisement. • '; . i.:j~- £ -;' It is reported that Rothschild will retire from the representation of the city of London/and.be palled to; the House of Lords under, the title of Earl Mentmore. ' The marriage of the Princess J Louise has been fixed for the 21st March.