WAR NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 259, 7 November 1870, Page 2

WAR NEWS.

The London, correspondent of the Argu* writes:— THE IMPERIAL OAPTITB. This Palace of Wilhelmshoe was ouce tliff residence of King Jerome, of Westphalia, an* haa bera called the Gorman Teraaillea, fromi | its costly fountains andi luxurious adorning*. Tho Emperor ;he next day (September 3) a* out on Ilia journey. He haa been aafie&m' greatly in, health, and to his lack of plip»'f strength aiay bo ascribed at. lea-t a-part of to* misfortunes. Accompanied, by a few officers of his boa ehold',,and. by G-eneral Boi'gen,°L the ■Prnaaian army, and Prince Synar, I»'|, ; Prussian secretary of the embassy in appomterl to attend him, he traversed m village streets of Doncherry—" p"^e a^f anxious looldng,' r says out? who saw ain^ "with his face firm ?er, bob with no. o«^) whelming depression upon it- He giancfi* from the carriage window, and bow* ' return to the stranger (an EngtelMW'. who Las raiaed Ivli hat to tlle,*S Emperor. Application was made-tatn*?^ gi.m Goverainent, both in hi» name-an* that of the King of Prussia, that, he migM °« allowed to pas 3 through Belgium Op s"^** to Germany? and, permission being g?j*^ tha journey was pursued by ordinary railiw^ From almost every point hia progress was

-artel ! Thus; having, passed *ho Saturday St atißonillon, ho'went ueit day by r..ilSS toTerviers. by way of Libramont and Li/ec TAt Libramont, where there was a Lav of/an hour, lie walked for some time up Z, ldn*n the platform, coversing with Count Vontliolnn and other persons, and also with one 'of the enuitfnera of the ■ railway.-At WlUvPrino.e Pierre Bonaparte had a brief f n S4ie<7 t>irh iiim. At Liege it was not generally known that ho was coming that war but, nevertheless, a large number of persons'were waiting to see him They tnaxutflined porfoot silence. He did not seem to ho at all embarrased, but drew aside tho curtain of the carriage so as to show hnusoit 5 ho was smoking a cigarette, and "his calmne9B B nd self-possession were much rem tVis said that at otic hour of the battle the EBtevot did charge- with, the troqps; amidst B h -wer of shell and shot, and was? with difficulty persuad-d to retire. . But at present we have no direct testimony on thw point. Tho Prince Imperial, who had been sent northward before the battle of Sedan has arrived in England this week; ,o also has the Due de Oramont, whoso rnernomble words in the Corps Legislatif precipitated tho war.