ADDITIONAL SUMMARY BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 170, 11 May 1871, Page 5

ADDITIONAL SUMMARY BY SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

]STELSox,May 7th. Los DON, April 6th. In the small engagements between the Paris Communists and the Government troops, the prisoners taken were generally shot at once. On .April sth 15,000 insurgents were taken prisoners. Paris was in a state of consternation, and the people and the Grovernneut at Versailles were greatly incensed against the insurgents. At Marseilles the insurgents, who were mainly Grarihaldi.tns, wee nearly all arrested. Garibaldi refuses to fit^lit, except against a foreign i'oe. An insurrectieii broke out in Algeria in March. Direct telegraphic communication between London aud Paris has ceased, the insurgents having cv: thy wires. M. Thiers's offer to iv gofciafco with the insurgents after the Government victory is strongly censured, as giving strength and hope to t-.o insurgents, when ho should have followed up the victory. This mismanagement led Bismarck to warn him thafc th.> indecisive policy must end, and that ihe insurrection must be suppressed, ot.ierwisij the Germans would march into Paris in force, put down the insurgen's. and hold the city until a stable Government was established. Iv his address to the German Parliament, the Emperor William thanks the army, and poiuts to the visible guidance of God throughout the war. fie say a that the present condition of franco is owinu; to the revoluiious of the last 80 years, and adds that the German nationality in xilsace and Lorraine, although defaced, is not destroyed. He conduiles thu=s : — '" Being an old man, I merely la^ the foundation!} ol" an Empire, which my successors may complete." Tho ratification by the Turkish Government of the .Russian Convention, abrogating the limitation of the Blick Sea, has been published at St. Petersburg. Matters in the Principalities are still in an unsettled state. Ameeica. An address to the Queen has been moved in tho Cauadian House of Commons by the leader of the Opposition a^aiubt the withdrawal of ihe Imperial troops iVom the Dominion. The Premier said that the address expressed generally the wishes of the Government.