ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

Dunstan Times, Issue 457, 20 January 1871, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

VIA SAN FRANCISCO. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (from OUR own cor iesponuent. yjplß PRANCO-PRU3SIAN WAR. GENERAL EURDPR \N WAR IMMINENT. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. ATTEMPTED RESTORATION OF NAPOLEON. Tbi flowing is a summary of news brought mail: Dcvf.otn. Jan. 16. The Wnnnra Wonga, with the English Mail, arrived at Auckland at 8 a. in, on the 1-Ph insl. Russia is firm, and is massing troops on the Turkish frontier. Russian feeling is warlike. England is arming, so as not to be taken by surprise. . Paris refuses to surrender- It is said that food is deficient, and that meat is quite exhausted. The Prussians elect'ed to commence the bombardment on the 15th, but it is believed it will not take nlaee as only thirty German ecus are mounted. A battle wis fought at Versailles on the 50th November, continuing till the 2nd December. B >th shies cl iin the vj'ct- ry. The French state that thev cantured fifteen thousand prisoners. Von Rotter claims to have captured eleven thousand French. Prussia declares its intention to occupy Luxembourg as a military necessity. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Dae. 12. AU war vessels on foreign stations excent those actually needed are recalled. Th' rc is Croat activity in Portsmouth. No nanic has occurred on the Stock exchance. Garabettaderionnces the action of Russia. A se—ere battle took place at * Beauncv, ' thousand French were captured. From V'Tsaillfta it is renorted that the German ocennation of Franco will continne fo’- two years. The bVen 1, ar nv outride P-.ris is estimated at five him 'red and forty thousand Ganbal li has resigned his command and rctm-nod to 1 t.alv, in coosegnence of unfrien llin n ss with the F • -nch nonn’aoe. j Tim French seat of Government has been remove 1 to Bordeaux. The war feeling in St. Petersburg!! is strung. | Russia has called nn f her strongest re- : ser'-es an 1 has raise 1 forty mil’ion roubles for war PTir’ioses, At the baftle of Mennv the Germans cant,,cel eleven thousand prisoners. The French w’rs victorious the second engageTnc T ’t, Kincr Wil'i mi has accepted the title o Rmneser of Germany. Th’ “ Times ” snneesf-s the immediate callin'? together pUParb,ament to consider Prussian comnlicM^w^' The French army of the Loire was complot d" routed. " The French evac.natpU Orleans. The Frisians captured one thousand French at St. Jean. The feeling in Ru ' i is intensely w’r. like. Prenararions for war are being made on a gran ' scale, Austria denounces Russian action, and determines to repress Us insolence. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAM General Trochn is reported to have cut bis way through the Prussian lines. Bismavk is making strong efforts to r# store Nanolcon. Gnrtsch.akoff is firm, and demands *he abrogation of the Treaty of Paris. He says Russia is committed to a line of policy, and is determined to carry it out. Phaisbourg has surrendered. The French re-captured Pere, with eight \ Inquir’d and fifty prisoners mob at Rome attempted to sack the The Prussian troops are Siffering from A cold. The Germans continue alvaoc'ng to the south of France. Pi-e-id’nt Grant recommends the occupation of St Domingo. The A'ah ima cbvpps are referred to the Government; alio the St. Lawrence navigation question, wlroh will cause fresh complications with England. In f «mse feeling against Ru's’a, prevails in England. Stuart Mill protests against it. Th» general impression is that the prospects of the restoration of Napoleon are improving. ’