PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND PRUSSIA CONCLUDED.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 402, 25 April 1871, Page 3

PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND PRUSSIA CONCLUDED.

PBUSSTAN TROOPS WITHDRAWN

FROM PAKIS

POLITICAL DISTURBANCES Tl

PARIS

MUTINY of the MOBILE GUARD

SMALL POX IN LONDON

CONFIRMATION of the DEPRIVATION or the REV. MR. VOYSEY.

EIQTARIANS EXCLUDED FROM

THE BIBLE REVISION

MILITARY RE-GRGANISATION

BILL

REUTERS LATEST EXPRESS TO GREVILLE'S TELEGRAM COMPANY. London, March 21, evening. All the regular troops have gone to Ver- , sailles. The National Guard is now the only force in Paris. Barricading continues in all quarters. General Chanzy was arrested and ill-treated. He has been released by order of the central .committee of the insurgents, and sent to hospital. A deputation was sent from Paris to Versailles to request the recall of Vinoy, D'Aurelles Paladines, Valentin, and Ferry, and that they be succeeded by Billichuli, Langlois, Adam, and Douan. The Government agreed to some of the recommendations, and appointed Langlois Com- ! inander-in-Chief of the National Guard. Langlois arrived at the Hotel de Ville, •where he intimated that he would not; recognise the authority of the central committee of *** the insurgents. The committee in turn refused to recognise Langlois as Commander of the National Guard. The Paris journals strongly condemn the assassination of Generals 1. Cornpte, Thomas, and Clemea. The National Assembly is about to remove to Orleans. General Faidesherbd bas been appointed Generalissimo. If the insurrection continues the Prussians will return and reoccupy their former positions in Paris. The National Guards are occupying the forts. M. Rouher has been arrested at Boulogne. March 19. Paris adrices state that General Faron, with 3,000 men, blockaded the heights of Montinartre. Several officers were made prisoners. Thiers's proclamation declares the Government to be vigorously progressing. The army of Paris is being reorganised. The project of a five per cent, loan will be submitted to the Assembly on the 21st. Rochfort is dead. Trochu is reported to be insane. Forty thousand of the army of the Loire entered Paris on the 12th, as garrison. Disturbances took place on the German peace celebrations at Zurich ; the German flag was torn down ; the troops fired in the mob, including officers.

There was great agitation in Paris on the lVfch and 18th March. Quontantre, Belleville and the Faubourg Sfc. Antoine were barricaded. General Clewe was shot by the insurgents, who captured 40 cannon, 5 were recaptured, •without conflict. Vinoy's army retired to the left bank of the Seine, leaving National Guards to restore order. Government appealed to the Guards to save Paris from pillage and France from ruin. The Purchase iudgment provokes the ritualists. There is threatened secession from the London School Board unles3 they admit the reading of the Bible under certain restrictions. The wool sales are fixed for April 15th, stocks are cleared out and prospects are favourable. The wheat market is quiet; Adelaide sorts are worth 61s. Burra copper 755. Maurice O'Connell, of Queensland, has been knighted The Bank of Australasia's dividend is 10 per cent.; North British, 2i; Bank of Van Dieman's Land, 4 and 6. Consols, 91£. London, March 20, 1 p.m. The Conference has concluded, and France has signed the treaty. There is another revolution in* Paris. The Montmarfcre guns were seized by the troops, and recaptured by the National Guards. . General Clement and Thomas, after a sum- * *fary trial, were shot by the insurgents, who jupy Paris. Barricades are erected, and I* o shops are closed. VChanzy is a prisoner. Vinoy's army has been withdrawn to the left bank of the Seine. The Ministers are at Versailles, and a proclamation has been issued by the Government. It is expected the troops will fraternise with the insurgents, and the further departure of German troops is countermanded by the Emperor, who reached Berlin on the 17th. Special Russian and Austrian envoys were sent with congratulations. The public ovation to the troops is fixed for the Ist of May. The first United German Parliament meets 21st March. '

'' Moitke, Werder, and Manteuffel were rejected by tho Berlin Liberals. The Prussian loan fully subscribed for chiefly at Berlin. ' The impending French loan will probably be £124,000,000 steriiag. An Army Reorganisation Bill, after five nights' debate, passed a second reading. The University Tests Bill passed a second reading in the House of Lords. r" the 11th a, letter appeared in the Times, from Sir Daniel Cooper, on the wool trade ; Mr. Hamilton's circular advocated six sales. Tallow is steady; hides firm ; sperm oil 84 ; Sydney cocoanut, 38. Victoria debentures, 112 i; fives 102 x • Sydney, 100 i ; Adelaide, 107-110 ; New Zea' land, 99|; Queensland, 108; Tasmanian, 107 k.

Saiied.—lnvincible, Mary Shepherd, Punjaub, Khandeish, Austrian, Scythia. > Londok, March 24th, forenoon. The insurrection in Paris continues without pillage. A central committee was installed at the Hotel de Ville. The communal elections are decided. The insurgent movement is attributed to Bonapartist agency. Eouher was arrested at Boulogne. 40,000 troops are concentrated at Versailles.

A Prussian occupation of Paris is feared with restoration of Napoleon. Consols, 92. French scrip fell 3. The Emperor Napoleon is at Chiselhuivt. A slight earthquake was felt in Lancashire on Sunday. The Royal marriage has just been celebrated The Queen gave away the bride, who wore a bracelet, the gift of the Windsor people. Wheat has advanced Is

March 21, 3 p.m. The National Assembly met at Versailles yesterday to consider the state of France, and declared the departments of Seine and Vizy in a state of siege. The bridges and swers are guarded by the National Guards, who occupy the forts of Issy, Vaurres, and Bicetre. The central committee have respected the preliminaries of peace, and will levy after the communal elections to-morrow.

Prussians occcupy St. Denis. Aeeived.—Great Britain. The Grerman and French loans are in active demand.

Australian Bank stock dull. Dividends : English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, 7 per cent, per annum. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, 10 per cent. ; Australian Agricultural, 10s. 6d. Numerous mercantile failures. The Faltnouth Company's Atlantic cable is repaired.

The earnings of the British and Australasian Telegraph Company's Indian section, for a week, equalled 7 per cent, on the capital embarked already.