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Southland Times, Issue 1546, 5 March 1872, Page 3

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The Bonapartist agents are actively distributing pamphlets urging the restoration of the Empire. A proposal to confiscate the Napoleon family's property was received with shouts of derision by the Assembly. The French Government are entertaining the idea of ceding a monopoly of- the sale of tobacco to the Botbschilds and other bankers for forty years, on condition that they furnish funds immediately to pay -the German war indemnity. The Emperor of Germany has knighted *nd|conferred the order of merit on Sir Edwin Landseer. . ineyEaaical party in Madrid denounce theSfifcrdges perpetrated by the Spanish authorities in Cuba. The French Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, has authorised the Government to terminate the commercial treaties with England and Belgium. Spanish gunboats have captured an English schooner for landing contraband of war in Cuba. There is a. strong religious excitement in Europe between the old and new Catholics. Bavaria is greatly agitated, and the old Catholic movement is spreading in Germany under the leadership of Dr Dollinger. A plan for a republican revolutionary uprising was organised over the whole of the south of France. The Pope has granted an audience to the Grand Duke Michael, the brother of the Czar of Eusaia, being indicative of reconciliation. Investigation shows that the disturbances in Barcelona were fomented by the International Society. Many members of the organisation are now under arrest. The Captain- General of Cuba sends a reassuring dispatch to the Government. He has just made a journey through the disaffected districts, and declares from personal observation he is certain the insurrection will be ended by March or April. He makes a requisition for 2000 fresh troops from Spain, with which he promises to bring the war to a conclusion.

Calcutta, Eeb. 5. Deputy-Commissioner Cowan has ordered fifty Kooka mountaineers to be blown from the cannon's mouth.