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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 18.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Brussels, Oct. 3.—The Echo de Parlement says it has private information from Paris that the monarchy will certainly be proclaimed on the proposition of the majority of the Assembly.
London, Oct. 5.—A special despatch from Paris to the London Observer states that 350 Deputies of the French Assembly have pledged themselves to support a motion for the restoration of the monarchy.
Paris, Oct. 5.—The Deputies of the Right at a meeting to-day appointed Gen. Changarnier, the Duke d’Audiffret-Pasquier, the Baron de Larcy, M. Combier, and Count Baru, a committee to draw up a platform on which all sections of the Right can unite.
Versailles, Oct. 6.—The trial of Marshal Bazaine by court-martial opened at noon to-day in the palace of the Trianon. The Duke d’Aumale presided.
Among the witnesses present were Marshals Canrobert and Lebœuf, and Generals Frossard, Bourbaki, and Changarnier.
When the formalities attending the opening of the court had been completed, a brief recess was taken; after which, by order of the President, a statement of the public services of Marshal Bazaine was read. It comprised a history of his military career from the beginning, and recounted the distinctions which had been conferred upon him and the wounds he had received.
The report of the Committee of Inquiry on the Capitulation of Metz was next presented and read.
This was followed by the reading of the indictment, to which the Marshal listened attentively, but without emotion.
M. Riviere then submitted his report. It reviews the plans of the campaign proposed by the defendant, and gives a sketch of the battle of Forbach, in which great stress is laid on Bazaine’s responsibility for the result because he neglected to go to Gen. Frossard’s assistance. In regard to Bazaine’s conduct at Metz, M. Riviere takes the ground that the Marshal was at no time really desirous of leaving the place.