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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4058, 31 December 1881, Page 2

According to the new memoirs of Count Kisselef who ar^ed^s Eussian Ambassador at Paris after (.be Crimean swor, it was the Empress Eugenic who decided Napoleon 111. to make war against", Enssia. The story, as told by Count Xis N selef, is given on the authority of the Empress herself. Count Kisselef observed, " 'Ifben it is your Majesty who has been the /cause of the death of 200,000 men and of ,the loss of seven or eight milliards rof francs P" " Yes," she answered, " indirectly ; and I do not repent of it. Such perturbations are sometimes necessary in the existence of people. It was necessary for France to take her rightful place in Europe. She has done this by means of the alliance with England, and by that alliance she will maintain her influence at< home and abroad." ' It is reported that the Eoyal Freidburg mine at Avoca, Victoria, has been purchased by Herr Zrupp. the famous manufacturer of caaooo. At the mine in question are man/ thousands of tons of pyrites which it w tboughfcj from trials reported to have been made in Europe, will £ire splendid result*, i