MONACO'S CONSTITUTION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 5

MONACO'S CONSTITUTION.

" MALCONTENTS IN; PARIS. ' , Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, v ..Paris, January 10. ' XThough; the Principality of Monaco, has fourteen thousand natiyo citizens, I'fißCi) Albert has granted a Constitution. There-will be a National Council, fleeted by universal-:suffrage.; "" Young Monaco iParty, . with . headqiia'rjprs lilt Pari?, is and' threatons violence. ■ ii« — , . ~ The diminutive Principality of Monaco, (wrote- the Paris correspondent of "The . Times'- on, October 17) has just passed .' though , a constitutional crisis. The Municipal Council, presided over by the .octogenarian Mayor. ;M. do Loth, yester--1 dajr. v niinouncfid that Prince Albert of Monaco, who'is at present qjia'visit to France, has granted a Constitution in rer ■ .the u'rgeiit. appeal of •tho: , - ia.•habitants.'.,Tlie agitation first •' arose on tHe-'(iuestion.of the. Civil T.ist. The'grjJirt of a Constitution was • intimated, to' 1 the Mayor; through'tbo, agency iof the 'Heir Apparent, Pfine'e Louis; and the'chief of Prince,-Albert's, Cabinet, :.M. "Jaloustre,. . who had been" to Paris to confer with the absent. Sovereign.. A popular procession ■ was formed 'after the announcement, and , •'the croivd'marqhed through the streets . fihduting. "Vivo-la-liberie" and cheering Pnncfe: Louis." -Tho-whole town was decorated with flags.-.. A committee has been • (appointed to study the reorganisation of Government.- , Monaco' has .hitherto •pWn'ftn'absolute Monarchy—almost. the" last ip Europe. .