FRENCH AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1889, 9 May 1889, Page 1

FRENCH AFFAIRS.

London, May 5. It is rumored .that General Boulanger intends to return to Paris and rely on the protection of bis" friends. He com-i plains that he is boycotted, in London'. May 7. * General, Boulanger denies the rumor that be intends Ip return to Paris. Paris, May 5. M. Heotsch, formerly chairman of the Comptoir d’Esoompte, has been arrested and admitted to bail in 1,000,000 francs; President Carnot yesterday marched to Versailles, attended by an imposing procession, and inaugurated the Fountain of Neptune with a memorial tablet in honor of the centenary of the French Revolution. The President delivered an oration suitable to the occasion in the Hall of Mirrors. The weather was splendid, and largo crowds took part in the fete. At the beginning of the proceedings. an ex-soldier, named Perrin; fired a blank cartridge at the President while he was leaving the Elysee, He was promptly arrested, and stated that he merely fired his rifle in order to at T tract public police to a grievance, He alleged he had been unjustly punished, and his wife and children were starving; An excited crowd tried to lynch the man. but did not succeed, May 6. A witness examined by the committee of the Senate engaged in procuring evidence against testified to the latter’s . intimacy with Denfert Roohean, manager of the Comptoir d’Escompte, who committed suicide in March. The ex-soldier, Perrin, who fired a blank cartridge at the President yesterday, ie apparently insane. The police are making domiciliary visits to the houses of Bonlangist partisans. At Nenlly, a mile and a half out of Paris, five arrests have been made.