FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.
. The emperor and his bride lead a very active life. They were at the ball ct the Hotel do Ville on Saturday. Early on Sunday morning the emperor reviewed several regiments in the court of the Tuileries, the empress looking on from the central balcony ; and, as soon ss the review was over, their Majesties started in an open carriage to see the steeple chace at La , Marche. There they were coolly received. Kprojet de lot is at the present moment under consideration to grant a pension to the Princess de la Moskovra, widow of the unfortunate Marshal Ney ; but it not only grants her the pension for the future, but gives her all the arrears from the day of Marshal Ney's execution. The acconnt of the arrears is calculated at 333.C00 fr. — [A creditable proceeding ; the memory of " the bravest of the brave" will be honored in the act.] .Compte de Montalembert refused to subscribe to the ball given to the Emperor and Empress, and his letter of refusal having been published in a Belgian paper, the paper was stopped at the Post Office. The refusals of members of the council, mayors, &c, to take the oath of allegiance, increase, i The French Government has resolved to grant the concession of a railway from Bordeaux to Lyons to an English company, at the head of which the Compte de Moray had placed himself. It appears that the enterprise is much greater and more extensive than was at first known. It consists not simply of a railway from Bordeaux to Lyons, but of a series of railways, embracing a Urge portion of the middle of France, and in all exceeding 1000 kilometres (625 miles) in length. The Municipal Council of L'Orient has voted 40,000f. towards defraying the expenses of the Emperor's reception. The Minister of Marine has decided that all sailor* from twenty to forty years of age, who have not as yet served in the imperial navy, shall be liable to serve in that force. It is thought that these men will replace those sailors who lave been, or who are shortly to be, discharged. The Bishop of Orleans is about to publish a pamphlet in favor of the Archbishop of Paris ; and, in short, religious oivil war it raging fiercely.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 843, 31 August 1853, Page 4
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385FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 843, 31 August 1853, Page 4
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