ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Southland Times, Issue 1062, 25 November 1868, Page 3

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

» (Translated for the • Sydney Morning Merald ' from the * Gazette dv Midi,' the 'Courier de Marseilles,' and the ' f Nouvelliste' of the 13th of September.) The • Courrier ' of the 13th of September states that Col. Vassart, one of the military attaches to the French embassy at Vienna, had been summoned by the Emperor Napoleon to the camp at Chalons. There it is stated that he made a foil report upon the state of the organisation of the Austrian army, and that his report was favorable. Colonel Vassart is to go to Italy before he returns to [ Vienna. The ' Gazette de France ' has published >■ the text of a Prussian note of the Bth September, addressed to the Prussian embassy at Paris. This note announces the. disbanding of the reserve, and the immediate discontinuance of the annual Lj^gfcnents. It adds also that the GoHflHnient has desired, by this important which effects a reduction upon of not less than 120,000 men, to proof of moderation and love of Prussia has also desired thus to her confidence in the maintenThe note ends with a reH^^^^^L'at the representative of the IHMJ^^K^overnment a t Paris will make subject of a confidential comto M. de Moustier, without H^^^^^^Ky comment thereon. close of several conferences, has obtained the "official HHHHHpf tht federal Government of (Prussia?) to the interflfl^BHßbminission for the judicial reform W^BBB&±e& out in Egypt. M^iK^Gazette dv Midi ' does not exwhy this adhesion on the part of \ Prussia has thus been thought desirable MfctEgyptian affairs. Prince of Belgium was reH^^Hftp the 12th September to be im- j fl^Hj^^Bb health. I^H^HKelieved at Z?aris that negotiaBBH^^hL^ taking place between the Berlin relative to the Bhine, and the rej^^^|B offered by the Dutch GovernPrussia. The affairs of the East H^H^al3o thought to be engaging the of the Cabinet at the Tuilleries. Neil and Canrobert were under ■Hollers not to leave Paris. General had been sent from Chalons on a mission — as some people thought HHBOonstantinople. telegraphic despatch from Paris, the 12th September, reports that troubles were telegraphed as occurred in the north of the BHTrkansas. The Courts of Justice had closed by armed men; and fights taken place between the rebels and HPthe "Unionists. I . It is reported that the Austrian ar- [ tillery has become the best of any in I Europe. The whole Austrian army is I now furnished with the needle-guns. The I field pieces are all rifled (royes) ; and r the cannon cartridges are made up with L metallic covers, which are more exactly ft fitted to grooves inside the guns, and B cause the pieces to carry the shot to a greater distance. The Emperor BBPrancis Joseph and the Archduke Albert HI are burning with a desire to take revenge JW for Sadowa. They are convinced that E . they will be able to keep the Prussian W army in check, if France makes a joint move with them. But the situation is not yet clearly brought out and they have to wait for the signal from the Cabinet of the Tuilleries.

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