THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2487, 4 February 1871, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The following unpublished items are taken from the Ary us :—

London, December 2.

The excitement respecting the Cape diamond discoveries increases. Two companies have been formed. A recent steamer brought L 40.000 worth of diamonds. The Daily News fund on behalf of the starving French peasantry amounts to LIO,OOO. The Society of Friends have raised LIO.OOO, and the International Society for the Sick and Wounded L 300.000.

Great activity exists in Woolwich Arsenal, the dockyards, and throughout'all the naval and military departments. The War Office re-organisation is rapidly proceeding. Mr Childers is indefatigable in the Admiralty. The issue of Snider rifles to the 170,000 volunteers has commenced. Reinforcements are sent to India and ships and stores are sent to Malta. The October Australian mail, via Brindisi, was delivered ou November 28 ; and that via San Francisco ou the same day. THE WAR. Count Bismarck is really anxious to see a legitimate Freneh Government installed. All parties in France are still strongly opposed to the cession of territory. During the revolution of the Reds in Paris, Flourens wiote orders for the execution of Jules Favre and General Trochu but before the order was executed be found himself in prison. The provisions in Paris are getting exhausted ; dogs, cats, rats, and donkeys are egular articles of food, and highly prived. Monkeys, bears, and other wild animals have been shot and sold by the butchers. Vegetables have disappeared. Sickness is very common, and the mortality is double the normal average. Bodies of French soldiers solicit foed at the Prussian outposts. Troops of men, women, and children, are grubbing potatoes. Gas is only allowed in the thoroughfares.

The first great sortie from Paris was made on the side occupied by the Saxods and Wurtemburgers.

The Garibaldiaus have signalised themselves ; 400 attacked 750 Germans in Chatillon. Another party surprised the Prus sians in Auxoune, but their attacks on Dijon were punished by General Werder, who defeated them near Plombieres. Three hundred were killed or wounded.