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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 189, 11 August 1871, Page 2

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. FRANCE. • '■I The health of Paris is g00d. . , 10;00Q men are cleansing the streets and public edifices; only} 100 houses, have been • des-, .troyed out of 60)000, but many are mutilated. • , Tktf Gendarmerie 1 te to be "increased to 100,000, and it is probable the National Guards will be universally disarmed. '.Military service will be made compulsory. P'/ The Vendome column is to be. restored. Strong forts are being erected to overawe Belville and Valletta.

Grousset was taken in the disguise of a female, Kousset as a railway guardj Dombrouski died in a room in the Hotel de Ville, and De Lecture behind the barricades. Prince Napoleon's manifesto, admitting Imperial defeats, but throwing the blame of all subsequent disasters on the movement of September 4, has provoked injurious comments. The property destroyed in Paris is estimated to amount to 800,000,000 ot francs. The anti-German feeling is dying out. The French Government have resolved to discourage the employment of foreign workmen iv the arsenals and ports. Jules Favre attributes tbe insurrection to the intrigues of tbe Internationals. 300,000 workmen in Paris are led by designing agitators. The trial of the prisoners at Versailles has been deferred in order to prepare the evidence. All the prominent communists are in custody, except Pyatt who eludes pursuit. ITALY. The transfer of the capital to Home takes place on the Ist July. Foreign Ministers have been instructed to follow the Government there. The Pope has published an encyclical letter protesting against the violation of the rights of tbe Papal power, and the freedom of the church. A mass has been ordered for the priests who were shot in Paris.