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Paris, January 9. The police at Marseilles searched the houses of several financiers, and inspected the books of various credit companies, in search of evidence in the South of France Railway case. Many incriminating documents are alleged to have been seized. French financiers are freely supporting Mr Higginson’s scheme to ship New Caledonian iron ore to Sydney. Paris, January 12. News has been received that the French gunboats bombarded and silenced the forts in the vicinity of Tamatave. The guns of the Ilovas were badly served. Paris, January 14. The resignation of M. Barthou, Minister of Public Works, caused an animated scene in the Chamber of Deputies. By a majority of twenty-two the Chamber carried a motion of censure on M. Dupuy, President and Minister of the Interior, for not protecting the State against the aggression of railway companies. The Governmenthas resigned. A member of the Chamber of Deputies who holds Socialistic views has been suspended on the grounds of insulting behaviour. A section of the press continue to make insulting remarks regarding the President and his treatment of the Chamber. M. Blowitz, Paris correspondent of tho London Times, declares France to be in a revolutionary state. A biscuit tin filled with gunpowder was placed on a windowsill in the Rue Monceau, near the house of Judge Atthalin, who tried'the Anarchist Kavacliol.

A porter threw the tin into the street, where it exploded, doing immense damage to the fronts of the houses along the whole street, but fortunately without hurting anyone. Owing to the refusal of the Chamber to vote M. Richards’ release, the Socialist deputies have issued a manifesto violently attacking the President and the Ministry. They accuse the Government of obtaining votes unlawfully. M. Rouet, a Socialist deputy, was expelled from the Chamber for asserting that honest voting was no longer possible. London, January 14. The Timas’ Paris correspondent, M. de Blowitz, says there is a mystery surroundmg the actions of the Socialists which may only be dispelled by an unforeseen conflagration. Berlin, January 11. During a debate in the Reichstag on the Anti-Revolutionary Bill, General Bronsart, in a slashing speech, declared that the army was little touched by Socialism, and was likely to prove a sharp weapon whenever its services were required. It would, he declared, make short work with those who instigated it to mutiny. Berlin, January 14. Princo Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, proposes to expend the sum of 18,000,000 marks almost immediately in increasing the German navy. '■> Vienna, January 14. Baron Banify, who was President of the House of Representatives in 1893, has formed a Ministry which is virtually the same as Dr Wekerle’s, except that the latter has no place in the new Cabinet $

and at the same time the Emperor agrees to sanction the Bills required to give effect to the marriage laws. St. Petersburg, January 14.

The Russian Government is forming

I seven mortar regiments for the purpose of I firing heavy shrapnel shells by means of very powerful explosives. The regiments will be stationed at Odessa, ICielf, St. Petersburg, Warsaw and three other centres. Brussels, January 14. The trial of Madame Jounaix has created a great sensation. The attitude of the Judge has aroused much sympathy for the accused, whose self-possession has been wonderful. An autopsy en the body of Alfred Ablay shows that he was poisoned, but no traces of poison have been found in the bodies of the sister and uncle of accused. It has been shown, however, that death did not result from the catise certified to.