FRANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5760, 4 May 1880, Page 5

FRANCE.

Father ik, General of the Jesuits, is not in Paris, Reported. He remains at Home.

TheFrencr v j e3U itg are making preparations with a view action against thea by the Government, have purchased several buildiog in Monaco n d Jersey, whither they will withdraw in case u expulsion. Some are in favour of resisting the order of-xpulsion, contesting it on the ground of ci'il rights. The decree of banishment will \j> extended to the colonies. I The Chinese Ambassador at Paris had feted the Dijlomatic representatives in grand style. f ' Grape v/ies throughout France hacl been injured hi the exceptionally old weather. Burgund/ and the Cbampagni district had suffered Auch. Gene/1 Chanzy had been »rdered home from s/ Petersburg. He will only return to hispo3t when the Russian Ambassador Bloffiwho left in a huff withcut paying the usua farewell visits, resume his place at Par/. The misunderstanding grows out of thyiartmann case. I maratime canal is proposed between Bfdeaux and Narbonne, ihus connecting ts Atlantic and tho Mediterranean. /The Scandinavians in Paris had honoured jVordenskjold with a grand banquet, at <vhich Prince Oscar and Christine tveilssen were present. The Municipal Council had given him a gold medal. Three hundred amnestied Communists from New Caledonia had arrived at Brest. The Ordre advieea Dr. Cassagnac to find another batch of Bonapartists or to transfer his allegiance to the Due de Chambord, as there is nothing in common between Dr. C.'s Imperialism and that of the party of Prinee Jerome Napoleon. Slosson had been defeated by Vignaux in the champion billiard match at Paris. The winner's scoro stood at 1600 against Slosson's 798. Gambetta denounces Jesuits, Jeromeists, Bonapartists, unauthorised religious bodies, and even the Church itself, as sworn enemies to the Republic.