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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 753, 15 November 1870, Page 4

The following additional items were published by the West Coast Times yesterday : — London, Oct. 12, 6 p.m. j Prince Napoleon, who recently arrived in this city/ is actively intriguing for the restoration of the Buonapartes. Tours, October 12. A telegram from Orleans states that a j battle is now raging so close to the city that shells fall into the outskirts. Severe fighting has also been renewed before St. Quentin. Berlin, Oct. 12. Official accounts of the surrender of Strasbourg have jnst been published. j Carpenters and masons have been iu> j pressed to repair the city. ! The latest advices from the army before Metz show that the Prussians had burnt twenty villages and executed 150 peasants for carrying on illicit warfare. i Soldiers are greatly dissatisfied with the situation, and counselled surrender, which is hourly expected. The Times has an article to-day, in which it says that Bismarck's obvious policy is to render France powerless of offence or defence hereafter. The Ministry has just received the following from a courier who was enabled to pass the Prussian lines : — "A battle occurred on the 7th between Fort Valerian and Mont St. Cloud. The French, under General Dncrot made a terrible sortie in force. The Prussians were compelled to retire to Versailles, entirely surrendering the position which they had previously occupied." New York, Oct. 12. A special cable despatch, just received, announces the final surrender of Metz, with all its garrison.