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Show NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. French "tw. Paris, H. in the assembly to-day Duval asserted thai the petitions which were being brought forward for the dissolution dis-solution of the aeiembly were irregularly irregular-ly signed and evidently the wurk of agitator. Gum belli denied the assertion, asser-tion, and said the country had given manifestations of its di:;ent from the puiicy of the assembly by returning republican re-publican candidates at the recent elections. elec-tions. ThecrisU jut passed rendered tae people's desire for the dissolution of the assembly universal and inevitable. He would refute these calumnies upon his party. He defied the monarchists to establish a monarchy, declaring that neither would a king accept, nor the people ratify. Here G&mbettawos passionately pas-sionately interrupted from the right. D' Aubiffret and Posquir followed with speeches vio ently attacking the radicals. radi-cals. Tbey declared that the horrors of tne rule of lue Commune in Paris were tbn fruits of the application ot their prucij 1 a of governmenL London, 14. A die patch from Nantes reports that the river Loire overflowed and the adjacent country is flooded. Tho quays m the lower quarters of Nantes are entirely under watur presents ing a fearful spectacle. Tho custom house aud all the business houses in the flooded section are closed. Great destruction de-struction of property apprehended. Railways covered with water. Travel interrupted, Bismarck's Bcilgnatlou. Berlin, 14. Humors of Bismarck's resignation re-signation of the presidency ef the Prussian Prus-sian council excites much newspaper comment, the tenor, of opinion Deing that the leadership of Prussia in the affairs af-fairs of the German Confederacy is essential es-sential to the leadership of Germany in the ttdairs of Europet and tnat Bismarck's Bis-marck's retirement is likely to create an important crisis. Miscellaneous, Vienna, 14 Herr Depretis, minister of finance, to-day submitted to the reichsralh the budget for 1873. The minister staled that it was estimated that the receipt would exceed the expenditures expendi-tures by one million five hundred thou sand florins, mainly in consequence of the increase ofrevenuo taxes. Madrid, 14 The "Gaceta," official, to-day publishes a royal decree, establishing estab-lishing a municipal organization for ihe colouy of Porto Rico. The same journal jour-nal protests against this action of the crown. |
