LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 139, 6 October 1870, Page 6

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, September sth.

Ninety thousand French prisoners were taken at Sedan. The Emperor was removed to the Consulate at Berlin. The city vg-as illuminated. A- peaceful revolution has taken place at Paris The Emperor was deposed, and a republic proclaimed. A Provisional Government was formed, consisting of Trochu, Gambetti, Jules Favre, and others. The Provisional Government deter, mined to repel invasion. The troops are fraternising with the people, and a political amnesty is declared. The Empress has left Paris. The citizens are arming and preparing fortifications, and are determined to offer strong resistance. Consols are at 92. The German people are signing an address, protesting against foreign intervention in their peace negotiations. Jerome David announced in the Senate on the 3rd September that " Paris will be defended to the utmost, in the forts, in the streets, and from house to house, and rather than surrender we will bury ourselves in its ashes." The determination was passionately applauded by both Houses and by the public journals. The news of the Emperor's capture has not shaken the courage of the nation. A new army is forming under the walls of Paris, and another on the Loire. The Senate has been abolished. The Eepublic is to repel invasions as in 1792. A Defence Commission has been constituted. The Emperor left everything to the

regency in Paris, while offering to

surrender himself a prisoner. Baron Lesseps is gazetted Honorary Knight Commander of the Star of India. Mr. Freelinghuysen declines to be-

come the United States Minister in England, vice Mr. Motley. The Carlist rising in Navarre and Basque provinces soon collapsed. Obituary. — -Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord "Willoughby De Eresby, Sir Alexander Woodford, Marquis of Hertford, General Glencairne Campbell. The reserve of notes in the Bank of England on the 25th was £10,875,000. The bullion was £20,000,000.

Oriental Bank shares were at £41 on the 27th. The New Zealand Guarantee Bill was ineffectually opposed in the Lords by Earl Grey. Earl Granville justified it on the ground of the exceptional circumstanqes of the colony. Earl Carnarvon contended that tfoe previous policy of the Colonial Oflßice had nearly pi'oduced a great colonial catastrophe. The exports to all the Australasian Colonies, except New Zealand, have this year diminished.

A French scientific journal states that the ordinary rate is, per second, ©f a man walking, 4 feet ; of a good horse in harness, 12 ; of a reindeer in a sledge on the ice, 26 ; of an English racehorse, 43 ; of a hare, 88 ; of a good saiiisg ship, 14 ; of the wind, 82 ; of sound, 1038; of a twenty-four-pounder cannon-ball, 1300 ; of the air which,, so divided, returns into space, 1300.

A crab has been oaught in Yokohama Bay which weighed adout 401bs, had legs over five feet in length, and its mouth contained two lai'ge teeth. When in the water its strength was such that it could have quite overpowered a man.

Mr. M'Carthy intends giving a prise of £5 for the best Yearling Filly Foal, and a similar prize for the best Yearling Colt, the progeny of his entire horse Boistiale, to be shown at the Teviot on the 19th November, 1870. The judges to- be James Holmes, John Low, and George Bidgood, Esquires.

A curious bore learning that a youny lady was going by railway to the city, asked " What motive is taking you thither, my dear?" " I believe they it a locorao-* tive, sir," was the innocent reply. The intrusive stranger was extinguished.

" Mother, what did father pray- to General Grant so much in chuich for* yesterday V asked the bright little daughter, of a ministerial friend, lately.. " I donH t?now that he did, dear.'* " Why, yes } don't you know? He waa always saying ' Grant, we beseech th^e''*