FRANCE.
The Figaro of April 30th states that the Government have decided on a measure for the expulsion of the Orleans and Bonapartist princes. The Cabinet has decided to ask the Chamber of Deputies to vote an urgent extra credit of 1,200,000 francs, as requested by M. Ferry, for the expedition to Madagascar. Advices from St. Vincent received at Paris on May 7, report that while the Messageries Francaise steamer Vitte de Marseilles was on her way to Buenos Ayers the emigrants on board mutinied owing to the bad food furnished to them. They were finally overpowered after a desperate fight, in which the captain and several of the crew were badly wounded. Ten of the passengers were killed or wounded. The vessel put into St. Vincent under guard of a French cruiser. The subject of the proposed international control of the Suez Canal was discussed by a Commission in Paris on May 7th. The German, Austrian, and Russian delegates were in favor of an international control, but the English and Italian delegates opposed it. The Chamber of Deputies voted a credit of 120,000 francs on May 7th to ' defray the expenses of laying a sub- ! marine cable to Tonquin. The Chamber also adopted the treaty of 1883 ( between France and Aram. '
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7179, 3 June 1885, Page 3
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