ARREST OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1011, 19 March 1883, Page 4

ARREST OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.

The manifesto signed by Prince Napoleon, and posted about Paris on Jan. 16, dwelt on the impotency and incapacity of the Government,': dissensions in Parliamentary parties, and other great ills-to " the country. The Prince claimed for himself the inherir tance of Napoleon, and appealed to the French people as the representative of their ; cause. A . Cabinet Council was hurriedly assembled, and directed the arrest - of Prince Napoleon. He was returning from a drive in the afternoon, when he found the police authorities waiting for him outside the door of his house. They accompanied him to his drawing-room, as lie;admitted the authorship of the document, a warrant was at once drawn up for his arrest on a charge of high treason, and he was conveyed to the Oonciergerie. At the Chamber, in the evening, the Minister of iJustice, in answer to questions, defended the course taken by the Government, and the Government was sustained upon a division by 417 to 89. M. Floqnet introduced a. Bill to ' exclude from French territory the members of all families that had reigned in France ; and urgency having been declared for it, it was carried by a majority of 328 to 112.. Upon this the ex-Empress Engenie at once hurried over to Paris, when her coining created no little excitement. The number of persons who left their cards or inscribed their names on the hotel register was over 2000.