LATE FRENCH NEWS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 278, 3 July 1874, Page 3

LATE FRENCH NEWS.

• ■ June 12. There is growing excitement and party irritation in Paris and Versailles owing to Gambetta's denunciation of the Bonapartists. Yesterday afternoon a great crowd assembled at the Paris station of the Versailles railway, which was strongly guarded by the police, when Count St. Croix struck Gambetta with a stick. The Count was immediately arrested. June 13. The scenes at the Paris railway station have been repeated,, but the police vigorously repressed all disorder. • In the Assembly, the Left moved a want of confidence .motion in Fourton, the Minister of the Interior, for laxity in dealing with Boriapartists, ■ but the motion was rejected > by 377 t0.326. The Government suspended for a fortnight, and intend to prosecute, thej Bonapartist papers for publishing- seditious articles. 'Le Eappel,' ' Le Dixneuvieme,' and the ' Siecle ' were also suspended for a fortnight. \ June 15. The -Left Centre introduced a bill to day proclaiming a republic, and confirming the septennate upon terms of receiving a Constitution. The issue of the motion is most anxiously- awaited. The Bight Centre approved the movement, but hesitated to break with the Bight; and the Badicals, though objecting to the constituent power of the Assembly, supported the Bill, wishing thereby to crush the Bonapartists. When the question came on for discussion, the Assembly, amid great excitement, voted .the' Left Centre's Bill by 345 against 341. The Radicals voted with the majority, , and the Deputies of the. Right Centre went chiefly with the minority, while Ministers'voted for the'minority. The Assembly rejected a motion ; favoring; the restoration of Chambord to the "th rone. ■ , ; • Count St;'Croix-hias been sentenced to pay. a, fine,- and to two months' imp r j son _ ment: - -- ■. .' ■ •

■ ■ ] June 16. : The vote arrived atjin the Assembly on. Monday for the proclaimation of the Republic will not affect iuie Ministry. C"iistitutional motions been referred to a Committee of thirty /for consideration and

to report upon. Republican journals say that the Republic will not be proclaimed, but that Monarchy has now become impossible. The Orleanist organs say the position-is unchanged, only that MacMahon's power is consolidated.