NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 451, 9 December 1870, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The following ad Utional items are from the Otago Daily Times. The exportation of arms to France goes on. Chassepot rifles are being bought at ■ Birmingham. Public feeling is much opposed to tins complicity. The Home Secretary, in a speech delivered at Glasgow, said he thought the defeat of France would remove the most pressing danger to Britain. Lord Carnarvon thinks we ought to he prepared for invasion. The great question of the next session wilt bo »nr military forces. Mrs. Waters, tho Brixtonbaby farmer, has been executed. Since the proclamation of the French republic the sympathies nf the English work, ing-men have veered round to the French. Larne meetings of sympathisers have been held, at which tho Irish national element was largely represented. The subscriptions to the national fund for the relief of the sick and wounded amount 'o £2fio,o"o. The Daily News has opened aspeoial fund for the starving French peasantry. Funds have been also opened for the relief of the refugees in London. The war terms first proposed by Bismarck to Jules Favre were everywhere nut of France thought to be reasonable. As conditions for an armistice, the surrender of three fortresses was demanded. Two out of the three surrendered a week after. General Burnside is mediating between Paris and Versailles. A balloon brines a c'venlar from Jules Favre, dated the 18th, declaring that France prefers the present sufferings to yielding to Prussian ambition. It is rumored that negotiations are taking place for the restoration of tho Empress, the object being to conclude peace with a legally formed Government. It is slated that the Empress refuses to become a party to the negotiations Advices from Versailles state that the French drove the Prussian outposts on the 28th to St. Denis, occupying the position with a great force. Th' Prussians retook it on the 30th, after a bril iant fight, in which they capture' thirty officers and one thousand two hundred prisoners The losses on both sides were heavy. Severe fiuliling occurred before Paris on September the l!Phe, 23rd. and 30th. The Prussians were almost universally successful The French, panic-stricken, ran away from the shot. At Paris the Germans are preparing Krunp’s monster siege guns, to throw one hundred and fifty pound balls. General Trocbu rules Paris vigorously, and drilling is actively going on. French mil Jury men on foreign service are ordered home. Tho approaches to Paris and the fortifications are illuminated night'y by tho electric light The Parisians are actively aiding in the defence. Paris narrowly escape 1 being blown up bv petroleum. The ex-E unress Eugenie and her son have removed From Hastings to Chislehurst, Kent. The health of both is improved They are vHted by many persons of distinction. The Emperor’s horses have been su’d at Tattevsall’s The reported great wealth of the Imperial family is emphati_ rally d-nied The Emnern-, although mac], dejeetek is in better health. Tiie French Loan at London was quoted at three premium. The \moric.an General Lee is cle.vl. Australian preserved meats are sent for the suffering French peasantry.