ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH NEWS AT HOKITIKA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 281, 29 November 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH NEWS AT HOKITIKA.

w SURRENDER OE METZ WITH 170,000 MEN CONFIRMED ; 40,000,000 FRANCS FOUND IN MILITARY CHEST. BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS COMMENCED ON NOVEMBER I. LeBCEUF, BAZAINE, AND CANROBERT PRISONERS. SOISSONS, St. QUENTIN. AND SCHELSTADT HAVE CAPITULATED. The following important telegram was sent by the Agent-General to the Treasurer of Victoria. London, Nov. 2. Lord Granville considers that there is not at present a possibility that England will be involved in the war. The Admiralty cannot undertake to keep a steamer at Galle; the Imperial Government think that your Agent should determine if a special steamer should be sent, hut say the Colony may rest assured that if war occurs or threatens, no effort will bespared to give warning and protection. The fortress of Metz surrendered unconditionally on the 29th Oct. 173,000 prisoners, including 16,000 wounded, were taken. 40,000.000 of francs were found in the military chest 2000 guns were also captured by the Prussians. The armistice negotiations have been broken off. Tho bombardment of Paris was commenced on the IstNovember. Oct. 28, noon. — -The Parisiaus continue an impracticable resistance, vainly expecting deliverance. Provisions are becoming scarce. An unsuccessful sortie was made from Mount Valerian on 21st October. Soissons, St. Quentin, and Schelstadt have capitulated. Garibaldi is inactive. The new French loan of ten millions sterling, is being subscribed iu England. The British Government, supported by other neutral Powers, have recommended au 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, capitulalated yesterday , one hundred and fifty thousand prisouers were takeu, including 20,000 sick, also Marshal Bazaine, Canrobert, and Lebceuf. Mazzini and Jacoby nre released,, London, Oct. 30. Further news has been received regard- , ing the negotiations at Metz, which capitulated on the 27th unconditionally. ; when 173,000 prisoners, including 6000 officers, three Marshal?, 16,000 sick and wounded, and forty millions of francs were captured. Gambetta has issued a circular, in which ■ he denounces the capitulation of Metz as a crime and unauthorised. Whatever happens, they will uot permit themselves to be overcome. A proclamation of the Government at Tours announces that the capitulation of Metz wus obtaiued through the treachery of Bazaine. It expresses its determina- ' tion to resist while an inch of French soil ' remains. When the capitulation became known the inhabitants were furious, and the Na- ; tioual Guard refused to deliver up threi 1 arms. i Bazaine has gone to WilheJmshoe but the populace hooted hira on his leaving, [ and attacked his carriage. f The Germans, with a strong force, occur py Orleans, and they are now besieging D Lon groy. Tlie English Press counsels France to the necessity of submission as involving [ no dishonor, but the French are determined not to subscribe to any condition involving a cession of territory. The Berlin ministerial journals anl ticipate no reason why the Germans should abandon their territorial demand, stating that the military position renders ■j it strategetically necessary to retain Metz * as a defensive bulwark against France. A decree from the French Government » orders the Mayors of all towns to organise '». a complete system of observation of the " enemy's movements. ' The Garde Mobile repulsed 1200 Prussians, who were attempting to cut the Amiens and Rouen Railway.-

Princß Frederic Charles and the Crown Prinoe have been made Marshals-Gener. 1, and Von Moltke has been created a Count. Advices from Versailles state that the Prussian outposts on the 28thOctober were on the east of Fort Denis. They occupied a position in considerable force; but the Prussians (?) recaptured it after a brilliant fight, taking 30 officers and 1200 prisoners. The losse3 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. October 31. The Germans hold 320,000 prisoners, Metz is occupied by the Prussians — sixty-six Generals, three thousand guns, and forty million francs were taken in the captured city. The Tours Government have issued a proclamation charging Marshal Bazaine with treason. They declare that the Republic would never have agreed to the accession of any territory, or to capitulation.