LATEST ACCOUNTS.
The latest advices give Prussian accounts of a brilliant but bloody victory. The Crown army of the Prince of Prussia had crossed the Rhine, and stormed Wissembourg, They repulsed and dispersed the French, and took 500 unwounded prisoners. The French General Douay was killed. The Prussian loss was severe ; the effect of the new French cannon, the mitrailleur, was very murderous.§
A Prussian squadron of four ironclads left Plymouth on July Uth, followed by a despatch '■ boat. I A French fleet of seven ironclads passed Dover northwards, on the 25th July, and arrived at Fredericksberg on 3rd August. The Pope is advised of the withdrawal of the troops from Rome. Italy promises to guard the Papal frontier. The Austrian Government has notified the abrogation of the Concordat, in consequence of the infallibility dogma.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 213, 9 September 1870, Page 2
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