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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 888, 1 June 1871, Page 3

It is stated that the greatest activity prevails with regard to agricultural labor in the immediate neighborhood of Paris. The farmers, who have hastened to their land, are hurrying to plough their fields, to prune their vines, and to tend their fruit trees, which have not all been destroyed. It is stated by a correspondent from Bordeaux that M. Thiers is appealing to the old 1&\? of 1849, and that the Orleans Princes will be admitted to the Assembly by their election being in the first instance annulled as opposed to this law ; the Assembly will then abolish the provision which excludes the members of the House of Orleans, after which new elections will be held, in which they are certain to be returned. The Bank of France, as is well known, had branches at Metz, Strasbourg, and Mulhausen, all of which towns are ceded to Germany by the last treaty. But as the statutes of that establishment interdict it from having agencies out of the French territory, and as the Bank of Prussia is subject to the same conditions in respect to the German, an arrangement has been nearly concluded by which the three branches in question are to be transformed into as many independent firms, with the power of issuing notes. Sergeant A. Liston, laic of the 94th Regiment (Old Scotch Brigade), was recently interred in the Canongate Churchyard, Edinburgh. Sergeant Liston entered I the army as long ago as 1788. He was sent with his regiment to India, where, under Major-General Baird, he was present at the taking of Serin gapatam, when Tippoo Sahib was killed, in 1799. He afterwards fought in the battles of Asseghur, Argaum, and Gawilghur, On the return of the brigade to Europe he served in part of the Peninsular campaign, and among other engagements was present at the affair of Fuentesd'Onor. He received his discharge in 1816, and retired on a pension of 2s 2£d per day. The deceased was 94 years of age at his death. He was of herculean frame and constitution ; and this, along with his uniformly good moral conduct, enabled him to live to such an extreme old age, in spite of the hardships and length of his military service. He was one of the last survivors of General Baird's brigade.