200 



FRANCE. 



XII. Officers of the Government, 314 ; com- 

 position of the National Assembly, 314, 315 ; 

 detailed statement of receipts and expenditures, 

 315 ; public debt, 315 ; area and population, 

 315 ; movement of the population, 315, 316 ; 

 territorial losses sustained, 316 ; area and pop- 

 ulation of colonies and dependencies, 316 ; new 

 army law, 316 ; strength of the army, 316 ; 

 of the navy, 316 ; total and special commerce 

 for a series of years, 316 ; movement of ship- 

 ping from 1867 to 1869, 317 ; commercial 

 navy, 317; commerce of Algeria, 317; rail- 

 ways and telegraphs, 3.17; savings-banks, 317; 

 moneyed institutions, 317; the National As- 

 sembly, 317; election of members, 317; con- 

 test of parties, 317 ; difference between Presi- 

 dent Thiers and the Assembly, 318 ; resignation 

 of President Thiers tendered, 318 ; the Assem- 

 bly refuses to receive it, 318 ; resignation 

 withdrawn, 318; congratulations by foreign 

 governments, 318; bills passed, 318; resigna- 

 tion of Pouyer-Quartier, 319 ; payment of the 

 war indemnity, 319; special penalties enacted 

 against the International, 319 ; speech in favor 

 of the bill by Minister Dufaure, 319 ; debate 

 on the restoration of the temporal power of 

 the Pope, 319 ; committee report on contracts 

 for arms and ammunition, 319, 320 ; treaty for 

 the evacuation of French territory by German 

 troops, 320 ; bill for the reorganization of the 

 army, 320 ; session of the German councils of 

 the French departments, 320 ; moderate repub- 

 licanism gaining ground, 320 ; Prince Napoleon 

 ordered to quit French territory, 321 ; protest 

 of the prince, 321 ; views of the Legitimists 

 expressed in a letter of Count de Chambord, 



321 ; appointment of a Supreme Council of 

 War, 321 ; educational reforms recommended, 

 321, 322 ; reopening of the National Assembly, 

 322 ; finances, 322 ; imports for nine months, 



322 ; M. Thiers gives details of the Anglo- 

 French treaty of commerce, 322 ; M. Thiers's 

 views on the maintenance of public order, 323 ; 

 on the necessity of every government to be 

 conservative, 323 ; on republicanism, 323 ; ap- 

 proval of the President's message, 323 ; efforts 

 to effect fusion between the Right and the 

 Right Centre, 324 ; exciting debate in the As- 

 sembly, 324 ; the President demands a vote of 

 confidence, 324; new jury law, 324; report of 

 the committee on an address in reply to the 

 presidential message, 824; adoption of the 

 amendment of Dufaure, 324; reverse of the 



Government, 324; modification of the minis- 

 try, 325 ; dissolution of the National Assembly- 

 demanded, 325 ; adjournment of the Assembly, 

 325 ; parties in the National Assembly, 286 ; 

 area, population, and density of population, 

 287; ecclesiastical statistics, 287; nationali- 

 ties, 287 ; literature of the year, 455 ; relations 

 with Greece and Italy on the Laurium mines, 

 363, 364 ; Lutheran Church in, 490. 



XIII. President and officers of the Govern- 

 ment, 296 ; National Assembly, 296 ; political 

 divisions, 296 ; area, 296 ; population, 296 ; re- 

 ligious denominations, 296 ; revenue and ex- 

 penditures, 297; public debt, 298; new army 

 law, 298; navy, 298; table of commercial 

 movements, 298 ; movements of shipping, 299 ; 

 railroads, 299 ; post-office statistics, 299 ; tele- 

 graph-lines, 299 ; rights of the President, 299 ; 

 duties of the Assembly, 299 ; debate on the re- 

 port of the Committee of Thirty, 299 ; treaty 

 with the German Government concerning the 

 evacuation of French territory, 300 ; debate on 

 the protest of Prince Napoleon, 300 ; debate 

 on municipal administration of Lyons, 300 ; 

 changes in the ministry, 300; fusion of tho 

 two branches of the Bourbon family, 300 ; po- 

 sition of the Count de Chambprd, 302 ; pro- 

 posed extension of the powers of the Presi- 

 dent, 302 ; new ministry, 302 ; successes of the 

 Republican party, 303; trial of Marshal Ba- 

 zaine, 303 ; legitimacy of Count de Chambord, 

 303 ; Count de Paris, 303 ; genealogical table 

 of the house of Bourbon, 304 ; details of Mac- 

 Mahon's career, 805 ; the President of the As- 

 sembly, Buffet, 306 ; the Duke de Broglie, 306 ; 

 his career, 306 ; influence of the Church, 306 ; 

 Reformed Church, 306 ; Synod of Evangeli- 

 cal Churches, 306 ; Protestant religious socie- 

 ties, 307 ; literature, 427. 



XIV. Government, 312 ; movement of popu- 

 lation, 312 ; excess of deaths over births, 312 ; 

 increase of suicide, 312 ; boys' and girls' com- 

 parative births, 312 ; area and population, 313 ; 

 proportion of marriages, 314 ; decrease of popu- 

 lation in towns, 314; foreign residents, 314; 

 voters at elections, 315 ; area of cultivation, 

 315 ; religions, 315 ; educational statistics, 315 ; 

 illiteracy 316; budget, 316; public debt, 316; 

 army and navy, 816 ; commerce, 817; shipping, 

 317 ; area and population of Algeria, 317 ; colo- 

 nies and dependencies, 317, 318 ; pastoral let- 

 ters of French bishops, 318; displeasure of 

 Germany and Italy, 318 ; remonstrance of 



