EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2380, 17 November 1870, Page 2

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.

(SrCf.'lAL TO grkvit.i.k’.s TF.r.KCIUM company, i'KOM NEpson’s AMERICAN AGENCY.) London, October 12. There is not the slightest present prospect of peace. Though the political horizon is not without threatening aspects, it is not believed that other Powers will become involved. The genera! determination appears to he to let France ami Prussia light it out to the bitter end. Paiis is completely invested. A special from Tours, where the French seat of Government now is, amils word that all the Southern part of France is under

arms. Great numbers of troops Invc arrived at Tours within the last week from Bordeaux and Marseilles. 'Hie towns on the Loire, Angers, Sunenr, and Nantes, are cvrm-tlo-l with soldiers, and <1 ni lin lc goes on ince=sa tly. The towns on the Rhine, from Lyons to Avignon and Ariey. have the aspect of camps. Bourses is in the same condition. No thought of peace scorns to he anywhere entertain'd. Troops are being massed and drilled in the hone of being able successfully to attack the besiege: s of Paris in the rear. October 10. .May and I’evnolds, the 7 'rihinvi ,v correspondents, repo-.'t that the Parisians are determined on the defence of the city, which was quiet and onl ily. 'Hie voyager; add that it is impossible for the Prussians to capture Paris, exempt through famine. It appt ars that Paris is much as usual ; the shops open d dly, but are closed earlier than before the siege, as are also the cafes. The Garde National <• are constantly patrolling. There is a full desire to tight to the last. General Bel'emoro Ins just caused the occupation, in sufficient number’. of the semicircular entrenched camp, rendering that sid' of the city impregnable. The dipt in.Mists slid remaining in Paris ask the Papal Nuncio to examine the conditions they are placed in by the refusal of Bismarck to permit, them t • be sent out as cour era unless their despatches arc opened, to which the diplomatists unanimously refuse to assent. This is to he signified to Bismarck, and if he persists the diplomatists will be forced to suspend all communication wit!) their respective governments.