THE MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

Dunstan Times, Issue 443, 14 October 1870, Page 2

THE MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

1 The following is a condensed snm- > mary of the Suez Mail, taken from ‘ Sydney papers ; 1 ) Loudon, Aug. 12 1 Mr Gladstone has himself f in favor of the ballot. J The Prince and Princess of Wales • have returned to Eng'and. r The Irish Nationalists are much de- ’ pressed on account of the French losses. r f The TTonora'de Francis Charteris, 1 Lord 1 Icho’.s heir, has died from the 3 effects of a pistol-shot wound. The Admiral y have accepted tenders for the supply 1 f beef and mutton from the Australian Meat Preserving Company. Five thousand emigrants have left , this year for Canada, and only one . hundred and thirteen for Australia. r General approval has been expressed ■ that the resolutemediative efforts made i by Kn land c msi d some delay in the 1 declaration of war. he declaration of was is assigned ' to the Plug of Prussia’s refusal to ' give a pledge against Prince Hohen- ’ so 1 rn’s future candid itnre,and to his ; declining to receive the French Ambassador, or even to confer with him 1 Thiers declared that if the national 1 honor demanded that France should go to war she would do so. but not on a mere question of form. The declara- . tion of war was received in Paris with ,• enthusiasm. The publication in Tim Times of ! the secret treaty destrox ed all faith in j French or G tiiuiii honesty. There T were five articles : — l, Recognises t Prussian conquests ; 2 Prussia to facilitate the French annexation of ? Luxembourg; 3 Union of .south Ger- ’ many wiih the North Confederation ; 4. Prussia promises armed assistance t to seize Reigium ; n. An offensive and defensive alliance The appearance of this document Contributed much to - the hatred between the belligerents, ’ and relieds no credit, to either Power , though the greater blow falls upon ; France. A -correspondent states that the - Emperor admitted that negociations had taken place, during which Bis mark asked what France would require should Prussia abandon Holland The principal Prussian rivers are blocuded. The rule that no correspondents ‘ should 1 e allowed with the French army lias been relaxed. | Russia, although professedly neu- ’ tral, is gradually arming, and cun- ' centrating her force-, j Poland is \u■ check ' Turkey has called out the whole of her reserves. , Russian official organs are antiPrussian. Toe Scandinavian States have declared neutrality, though Denmark is powerful y tempted. The Belgians have lost all confi- ; donee in France, and the country is comp etc lx armed. In Spain republican agitation has 1 revived Amnesty granted to .political offenders. ; The absence of the Queen at Bal--1 moral is much disapproved of. Twenty thousand people are employed on the fortifications ef Paris. 1 wo millions have been Voted or the British Army and Navy. Txventy thousand men have been ad led to tae latter, and recruiting is brisk The Belgian army on the fron ier a.tmy on : lie frontier have refused to permit the passageof Prussian wounded, as France objected. Fever prevails among the wounded at Metz The Prussian press accuses France of a breach of the Convention, which is indignantly denied. Two English collets have been fired at by French ironclads at Heligoland The following items refer to India and the East;— Galle, Septembe? The laying of the cible f mu Shiga pore to Madras will begin at the end ot the year. B ml my, August 30 Six thousand prop e perished in an earthquake at Thibet in April last. The Furxpem co upl c tins are e - citing the deepest interest ; should Prussia advance, Turkey gropos. s to England to throw an enormous .on e ■ I Indian troops into I gypt, The removal of the British troops from Indi 1 is protested against. Ma-h-as, September 2 A petition has been signed by natives for Lord Napier to be allowed Telegrams in Sydney papers state that M'Mahon has been wounded and taken prisoner. Another ti legrain states that M’Mahon, wiih a new army, abandoned Chalons, and that after a succession of terrible battles, retired wounded to Sedan. There his I army, one hundred thousand str uig, capitulated to the Prussians. If these telegrams of the Sydney journal are correct, the defeat of the French has been even more crushing than was \ supposed— Daily Times. j

two yeais more rule. Calcutta, August 27. Fifteen convicts escaped in an open boat from the Aklaman Islands. The European emp oyds on the rail* way are formed into a volunteer corps. China. The French Charge d’ A ffaires, Roche Conast, nn arriving at Tein Tsin, do. manded the release of certain native convicts which was c >mp'ied with 5 and the second demand, that Tsengkevofan would visit him on hoard ship, was also complied with . On the next, that, the heads of three of the c hi< f Mandarins of Tnrifern should be dp. livered, tbe vieerov was willing to give two. lint not Chonkwofen, bis Lieu-tenant-General ; further instructions trom home aae waited for. The imprisoned na*ives present! d a • hast'v sight ; horrible mutiViona and at rock ties on the s’sters of Me-cv took nlace before death by sawing them asunder. The Chinese are cd'ecMng troops; great inseeuvity is felt at the pots, and hade is paralysed. On the news of the war in Fin-one a great number of German and French vessels were thrown out of the trade.