EXPULSION OF THE FRENCH PRINCES. Paris, June 27.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2202, 19 August 1886, Page 3

EXPULSION OF THE FRENCH PRINCES. Paris, June 27.

The UoT«nmient lost no time in verifying the prediction that the expulsion of pretenders would be only a first step, to be Speedily followed up by others. In the Chamber, yesterday, M. Demolo, Minister t%i Justice, stated that judicial difficulties having arisen as to the placarding of hedttioun manifestos, the Cabinet submitted the following Bill : — "The posting or public exhibition of seditious wiitings shall be punished by an imprisonment of from six day* to one month, and by a fine of from Kit. to oOOf., or by one of those penalties solely. The offences indicated by the present law are assigned to the Assize Court." In vindicating this proposal against the sarcasms of M. de Cassagnac and the reser- j rations of M. Cle'menceau, M. Demote tauil :—" The Bill is certainly due to the publication of the manifesto of the Cornte de Paris." (M. Cunee d'Ornano— "Had that been placarded '/"') M. Dcmole— '' We have witnessed the act> of a pretender, who made his friends in both Chambers maintain that he wished to jive under the nhelter of the Republican laws." (Cheers from the Left, and "You would not let him from the Right.) JVC de Larochefoucald, Due de Bassaccia — -" It i« the Government which proclaimed him King — not his friends." M. Deinole— " When all danger was at an end, when the Prince has placed the Channel between the Government and himself " The Vicomte de Belizal, interrupting, — " It was the Government that compelled him to leave France." M. de Clerq— " Those who have acted as the Government has should not dare to use such language." AI. Demote—'* The Prince has now told us, 'Itis I who am the King. 1 attack the Republic— l mean to destroy it. It is my duty, and when the decisive hour comes re^t assured that I shall be ready.' Gentlemen, this language does not exactly display the frankness of the man who uses it. Perhaps it would have been better if at the time when the Expulsion Bill was under discussion, this pretender had told us distinctly and frankly, in the presence of the Chambers and the country, who he was and what he wanted." (Uproar and cheers.)