LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 718, 1 October 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, September 5. Ninety thousand French prisoners have been taken at Sedan. The Emperor has been taken prisoner, and removed to Consulate, at Berlin. That city has been illuminated. A peaceful revolution has taken place at Paris. The Emperor has been deposed, and Prance is proclaimed a Republic. A Provisional Government has been formed, consisting of Trochu, Gambette, Jules Favre, and others. The Provisional Government have determined to repel the invasiou. The troops are fraternising with the people. A political amnesty has been declared. The Empress has left Paris. The German Army is marching on the capital, and the citizens are arming. Fortifications are being prepared and it is determined to oiler a strong resistance. Consols, 92. September 2 to 5. The German people are signing an address protesting against Foreign intervention in their peace negotiations. Jerome David, announced in the Senate on September 3rd " 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 bnry 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 invasion 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 Grand Commander of the Star of India. Mr Treilinghuysen declines to become United States Minister in England, vice Motley. Carlists are rising in Navarre and the Basque Provinces, but the insurrection soon collapsed. Obituaky.—Sir Frederick Pollock, Lord Willoughby D'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 August the New Zealand Guarantee Bill was ineffectually opposed in the Lords by Earl Grey. Earl Granville justified it on the ground of the exceptional circumstances of the Colony. Earl Carnarvon contended that the previous policy of the Colonial Office had nearly produced a great colonial catastrophe. Exports to all the Australian Colonies, except New Zealand, have this year diminished.