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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 45, 21 September 1870, Page 5

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Auckland, .Sept. 13. The special San Francisco telegraphic message for the New Zealand Press Telegraphic Association ariived by tlis s.s. Wouga Wonga to-day from Honolulu. THE WAR IN EUROPE. On August sth, the Prussians gained a bat tie, and captured Weisseulmrg. On the sth, they advanced on Hagenau, and on that and the following day a great battle took place, in which M'Malion was defeated. The Prussians suddenly advanced through a forest which Marshal* M'Malion wished to bum as a precautionary measure, but was overruled by Napoleon, and was forced to fall back in consequence. Frossard's corps was also defeated, and compelled to retreat on Metz. Midnight, August .10. A great battle is considered imminent. Strasburg is surrounded by 50,000 troops, chiefly South Germans. The Prussians are advancing from Saarlouis and Treves, and are expected to make an immediate attack on the French at I Metz. The French losses amount to I 30,000 men. Paris is iii a state of tumult, the people calling for anus, and for all the soldiers to Jbe sent to the front. They also call upon | Napoleon to resign the command, and for ! the Assembly to rule in his stead. This he refuses to do ; suppresses the Republican journals ; and forms a new Ministry of a reactionary character. Paris is declared to be in a state of siege, and cries for the Emperor to return thither. He replies that lie will not return except as dead or victorious. The Assembly is in a state of great disorder, and scenes of violence are frequent. The Bill providing for the national defence has been adopted, and the payment of all commercial contracts has been postponed by decree for one month, " to leave all minds free to defend the country." Unless a victory is speedily gained, a revolution is imminent. The Emperor is reported to be ill, and the Empress and the Prince Imperial are to be sent to a safer place of refuge. A subsequent telegram states that the Prince Imperial has arrived at the French Legation in 1 ondon with the Empress's jewels. (?) Hie Prussians are said to have 800,000 | men in the field, and the needle gun has i proved superior to the Chassepot. The French Assembly is displeased with the new Ministry. It proposes to displace it, and substitute for it a new one of their own under De Trochin. France has evacuated Rome. The Emperor Napoleon's first despatch to the Empress, dated August 2, says : j '■ General Frossard with one division de- | feated three divisions of the enemv. Louis j lias received his baptism of lire. He was j admirably cool, and a little impressed. . j . . . Louis and I wore in front when j the bullets fell about us. Louis is ka ping | a bullet which he [licked up ,/n the field; ! Tub soldiers are delighted at his trani quility. We lost one officer and 10 men." When reverses e.ime the Fruich Minis I t, y suppressed the n •«% but at last t'a i Enperor's despatches -id nifcted that, s-rioms I defeats had been sustained, t'lrvivh lie d • Iclired all was nit lm\ and cdled u;>>;i I Fivnc'imm to rise as one mm, an I save their country. The English Parli'i'inut is ivo rpVivd. The Qiveu's si>o>e'i referral t> a new treatv, in which Franc, Pr iss : >". and ill the other great powers nroinis •<] to support the neutrality of Bdgum. Tiie [Litis.] Government, therilbre, did tut think it necessary to arm. I AT EH' TELEGRAMS. TVnm i-k <a m'iois t'ie ur- if rlelsinore as i Fi'Tch b-i',i<; of op-t'a';o'V<, ed L expected to jiin Frme\ :ici ils<> i f >'v, Oiientiivior (?) his the "> ipoleoa's stiff.