ADDITIONAL FRENCH NEWS,
Napoleon has addressed the President of the French Assembly protesting against the vote declaring the throne forfeited. There was great agitation in Paris, and the National Guard threaten to dissolve the Assembly, and Gen. Vinoy threatens to put down the National Guard with a large force. A long train . of cars of. wounded Germans returning home was run into on the 9th March, by a freight train on the Versailles railway. Nineteen passenger cars were broken to pieces, but the number of killed and wounded is unknown. The Mobiles sent to Algiers have been disarmed by the natives, and a regiment of Turcos has been sent to restore order. Rochfort is said to have been killed by a railway accident. The Reds propose a new Republic, with Victor Hugo as President ; Garibaldi, Minister of War ; Blanc, Foreign Minister. Napoleon is expected in England to take up his residence there. M'Mahon left Weisbaden to return to France. The Germans relinquish the administration of the occupied Departments touching education and religion, unless the French arrangements are unsatisfactory. Trade at Rouen is reviving, and purchases of cotton twist have commenced.
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 851, 19 April 1871, Page 2
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190ADDITIONAL FRENCH NEWS, Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 851, 19 April 1871, Page 2
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