LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2390, 29 November 1870, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE RANGITOTO AT HOKITIKA. VERY LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS BY THE RANGITOTO. Hokitika, November 28. The following important telegram was sent by the Agent-General to the Treasurer of Victoria : London, November 2. Lord Granville considers that there is no present possibility that England will lie involved in the war. The Admiralty cannot undertake to keep a steamer at Galle. The Imperial Government thinks that your agent should determine if a special steamer should be sent, but says that the Colony may rest assured that, if war occurs or is threatened, no effort will be spared to give warning and protection. The fortress of Metz surrendered unconditionally on the 29th October ; 173,000 prisoners, including 10,000 wounded, _ were taken ; 40,000,000 francs were found in the military chests, and 2,000 guns were also captured by the Prussians. The armistice negotiations have been broken off. The bombardment of Paris commenced on the Ist November, at noon, October 28. The Parisians continue an impracticable resistence, vainly expecting deliverance from without. Provisions are becoming scarce. An unsuccessful sortie was made from Mont Valerian on the 21st October. Soissons, St. Quentin, and Shelstadt have capitulated.

Garibaldi is inactive. The new French loan of ten millions sterling is being subscribed in England. The British Government supported by the other neutral powers have recommended an armistice between the belligerents. Thiers is appointed negotiator to visit Paris and Versailles. His success is very doubtful. The German batteries are ready to bombard Paris. Metz having been starved out capitulated yesterday. Marshals Bazaine, Canrobert, and Lebceuf, Mazzini and Jacoby, were among the prisoners at Metz. Mazzini and Jacoby arc released. The' (Ecumenical Council is dissolved. The Duke of Aosta, second son to the King of Italy is a recognised candidate for the Spanish throne. Mr Morton declines the American embassy. Parliament is prorogued till 13th Dec. The New South Wales Loan is successfully negotiated. The tenders accepted yield an average of LOS 13s 6d. The wool sales opened yesterday with a large attendance of home buyers. The Continent was poorly represented. A fair competitor! took place. Last closing rates were realised ; fine wools are lower. The copper trade is depressed; Australian, L7O. Tallow, L4l to L 43. The steamer Cambria was wrecked on the Irish coast, and only one passenger saved. The mails via San Francisco were delivered on the 25th inst. The Brindisi route is substituted for the Marseilles route, inwards and , outwards, this month. The postage for letters is 13d per half-ounce ; newspapers, 4d. The Oriental Bank has declared a dividend of 12 per cent. Colonial securities are firm. Victoria, 111 to 112; Sydney, 103 ; Consolidated, 9S.J. London, (ictober 30. No further news has been received regarding the negotiations. Metz capitulated on the 27th unconditionally, with one hundred and seventy-three thousand prisoners. Gambetta has issued a circular, in which ho denounces the capitulation of Metz as a crime, and unauthorised. Whatever happens, they will not permit themselves to be overcome, A proclamation of the Government at Tours announces that the capitulat on qf Metz was obtained through the treachery of Bazaine. It expresses its determination to resist while an inch of French soil remains. When the capitulation of Melz became known, the inhabitants were furious. The Nakonal Guard at first refused to deliver up their arms. Bazaine has gone to Wilhohushoo, but the populace hooted him on his leaving, arid attacked his carriage. The Germans with a strong force occupy Orleans, and they arc now beseigiug Longroy. The English press counsel France to the necessity of submission as involving no dishonor. The French are determined not to subscribe to any condition involving a cession of territory. The Berlin ministerial journals anticipate no reason why the Germans should abandon their territorial demand, stating that the military position renders it strategetically necessary to retain Metz as a defensive bulwark anainst France. A decree from tbe French Government orders the mayors of all towns to organise a complete system of observation of thr enemy’s movements.

The Garde Mobile repulsed 1200 Prussians who were attempting to cut up the Amiens and Pouon railway. Prince Frederick Charles and the other Royal Princes have been made marshals. General Von Moltke has been created a Count, Advices from Versailless state that the French drove in the Prussian outposts on the 28 th of October on the east of Fort Denis. They occupied a position in considerable force, but the Prussians recaptured it after a brilliant light, taking thirty officers and 1,200 prisoners. The losses were heavy on both sides. Prussia, Russia, and Austria have agreed to the candidature of Prince Amadeus of ‘Savoy to the throne of Spain. The reported fighting in the streets of Paris is denied. The Cambridgeshire Stakes were won by Adonis first, Syrian second, Bonnie Swell third. The new French loan is quoted at 3 per cent, premium on Oct. 31st. The Germans hold of the French 320,000 men and sixty-six generals, 3,000 guns, and the forty million francs which were taken in the city of Metz, The 'fours Government have issued a proclamation charging Marshal Bazaino with treason. They declare that the republic would never agree to the cession of any territory or to capitulation.