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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 142, 27 October 1870, Page 7

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AT AUCKLAND, VrA SAN FRANCISCO. ARRIVAL OP SIR G. GREY IN NEW ZEALAND. THE WAR IN EUROPE. SURRENDERING OP 140,000 FRENCH SOLDIERS. PARI3 INVESTED BY THE PRUSSIANS PRANCE ASKS THE INTERVENTION OF ENGLAND. ABMING OF THE PRENCH TO A MAN BOMBARDMENT OP STRASBOURG. 2000 CITIZENS KILLED. HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF GERMAN PRISONERS BY THE PRENCH. GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON IN FAVOR OF FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE QUEEN AND THE PRINCE OP WALES HISSED. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). [We published the following as an Extra, on Thursday morning last. —] Dunedi^, Thursday, 20th Oct. Passengers by City of Melbourne include Sir George Grey, Chang the Chinese giant. Sir George gone to Kawau. The Nevada sails for Auckland next month in opposition to the present San Francisco service. Londox, September 12th. The French lost Sedan. 140,000 French surrendered to the Prussians. When inside the mine was exploded, killing a great number. The French expect to have 300,000 men in the field but imperfectly armed. The Strasbourg library burnt. Loss irreparable. The Empress Eugenic and son at Hastings. The Prussians are around Paris. September 13th. Jules Favre had an interview with Lord Lyons, and said that the Provisional Government would make peace on terms, if not dishonourable. Asked if English Government would interfere or suggest terms. Lord Lyons said that England would be glad to see peace, but he had no authority to suggest terms. M. Favre said that it was impossible for France to suggest terms. This closed the interview. France is arming to a man for a death struggle. The neutral powers likely to appeal to Prussia to make peace on the following terms, viz., France to pay expense of war, to disown and destroy the following forts : —Alsace and Lorraine. Austria and Prussia consented to negotiate for Germany, and they insist on an armistice being declared to allow terms of adjustment to be considered. Bismarck and Von Buest negotiating for Prussia. They insist that three corpa be encamped twenty miles from Paris as satisfaction to Germany. French gunboats ascending the Rhine. Gambetta says France will fight to the last. Streets in Paria barricade^. Great sewers mined. Ditches filled with water. Houses loopholed. Favre says Austria will assist France if Prussia insists on dismemberment. At Strasbourg 2000 citizens killed. 600 buried by falling walls. Hundreds of expelled Germans killed between the fires. The Germans captured had their heads cut off and stuck on poles. City on fire in twenty places. Garrison living on horseflesh. Great demonstration in London in favour of French Republic against Monarchists. At an open air meeting held in Hyde Park, Profess.or Besley denounced the imbicility of English Government, and charged the Queen with encouraging Prufi 3Ja in destroying the. Republic. - . Tl c Queen's .name received with hisses, and groans were given for the Prince of Wale's. Aspect of crowd appalling. Feeling against Government and Royal Family very bitter in all ranks. The " Times" says that the foreign paticyot" England is dictated by personal prejadage. _ The Queen for the interest of her family. The British "ironcland vessel Captain foundered in the channel; 200 lives lost.

The King of Prussia grieves a Republic, and will only treat with Napoleon's officiate. English leaving France. Seditious placards ported &t Buckingham Palace. Bishop Vedrun killed while carrying flags of truce. Feelings of vindictiveness prevails in France against Prussia for outrages in churches. The war is becoming a religious one. Great sympathy with France prevail* at Madrid. Wool prices low. Holders indisposed to meet market under favourable circamstances. Great accumulation expected in November sales. Depression caused by the war. Prolongation of hostilities will cause further depression. New Zealand, sd* to 9d. "Wheat is rising rapidly. M. Leroy-Beaulieu,inhißi«JecAercAe* sui' les Guerres Contemporaines,aup^liea some very curious statistics about the cost of war. It is really surprising to see how much money is spent for every man killed on the field, or sent away to die of his wounds or of some sickness of the camp. The thing was done with comparative cheapness in the Crimean war, where a vast number of men were got together at very close quarters. Between the Eussians and the Allies there were more than threequarters of a million men killed, each of them at the price of £443. On the other hand, the maximum of cost was reached iv the American civil war. Each one of the 281,000 deaths (though this is a small estimate, we should. imagine) was purchased by an expenditure of £3,345. The belligerents, in South America did the business more cheaply, not spending more than £900 per man. Small wars are generally costly. The Danish war extinguished 3,500 lives at an average cost of about £2,000. The campaijn which ended at Sadowa must be reckoned, considering its brief durations, to have been expensive. Every life cost nearly £1,500. It is a strange necessity which makes civilised societies expend what would be a comfortable maintenance to three or four men on the destruction of one. There was the other day on view at the Scandinavian Hotel, the model of an under current wheel, and appurtenances, invented by Mr Druinmy. It is intended to be used on the Molyneux, and similar rivers with auriferous banks, to work pumps for rising water for sluicing purposes. The wheel works between two punts anchored in midstream. A framework which extends from one of the punts to the bank, supports the rods by which the motive power is transmitted from the wheel to the pumps on the bank. This framework can. in time of floods, be disconnected, and the punts brought near shore ; and means are also provided by which it does not interfere with the punts rising and falling accordingly to the height of the river. There is a contrivance by which the flow of water to the wheel can be lessened in times of freshes, or altogether cut off if desired, thereby allowing of repairs to the wheel being made. Several gentlemen inspected the model yesterday, and those competent to form an opinion considered that it would be effective for the purpose for which it was designed. The model will be on view to-day, when Mr Drummy will be glad to show it to anyone interested in such matters. Mr Drummy, who, of late, has been employed in Marlborough, has had mining experience upon the Molyneux, and has spent all his spare time for 12 months in planning his invention. — " Daily Times." A. new explosive, which has been invented by Mr Noble, the inventor of nitro-glycerine and dymanite, and which he calls dutiline, consists principally ofnitrate of ammonia and very fine sawdust which has been acted on by nitro-sulphuric acid. It is said to be decomposed by accidental contact with acid, and will not congeal or lose any of its properties during cold weather. Its explosion does not produce any noxious gases, and it will burn in the open- air without explosion. A swimming match for £50 and the five miles championship, came off on the Thames, from London Bridge to Greenwhich Hospital, on the 18th of July, between White and Coulter. For half the distance Coulter had a good lead — at two miles, fully eight lengths, but from that point White steadily gained on his opponent, and at three miles he had nearly caught him. In another half mile White took the lead, which lie maintained to the end, and won by fifteen yards, Coulter's exertions to catch him being fruitless, and at the close the latter was so exhausted that he would have sunk had assistance not been given him. The match occupied 1 hour 4min. 35 sees., and t was one of the finesjb ever swum, Parsons are nearly unanimous in condemning theatres and races ;, they are o^uite or nearly a3 unanimous about balls and lotteries, but it was generally supposed that they looked with approbation upon tea-meetings. That mildest of all forms of dissipation ha 9at last fallen under the the ecclesiastical ban, the Rev. Mr Ser-. geant, of Sale, having gone so far as .to attribute " the fall of so many females from the path of virtue*' to attendance at them in common with the other snares above ftnumerated. We.ahxmld be sorry to think s<> lightly of the ladies of Gipps Land a* to suppose that the "rev. gentleman is not labouring under a delusion. If it is not safe to go to a tea meeting, where else can one go unless it bo out of the world ?