LATE TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 781, 25 February 1871, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

January 12-19

General Manteuffol was appointed to command the Army in the East, operating against Generals Bourbaki and Garibaldi. Tho latter was reported captured, with three thousand prisoners. Bourbaki attacked Werder on Jan. 13. Severe fighting ensued, each side claiming the advantage. Bourbaki renewed the attack oq the 17th, occupying Moot Bellard, but was subsequently repulsed with great loss, and retreated southwards. The country people near Orleans are reported starving, and are*fed from the German Commissariat. The French troops near Havre are falling back. General Chaneey explains his defeat on the 11th and 12th as,, having been caused by the panic of the Mobiles. He expects to re-form with two hundred thousand men, and to assume the offensive. The French camp at Bondy, outside Paris, has been broken up, and the batteries silenced. Reports from Versailles say that the sufferings of tho Parisians are excessive. A large fire occurred in North Paris on the 12th. General Trochu declares that he will never capitulate. Two thousand shells fell during one night in Paris, some reaching the Pantheon, Sorbonnc, and St. Sulplice. The conduct of the population is adnvrable, and they say that they are determined to resist to the end. A protest has been issued against the bombardment having commenced without notice, to enable women aud children to quit the city. On the 13th vigorous sorties took place from Bourges, Dranchy, Meudon, and Claiuart, which were everywhere repulsed. A fog, on the 15th, interfered with the bombardment of Paris.

The Diplomatic Corps at Paris, in protesting on the lGtli, reported that 10,000 incendiary shells bad been fired into the city. Fire was again opeued on the 19th, and the Germans advanced tbeir batteries within 800 yards of the forts, the fire then reaching the bridge of St. Michael across the Seine.

Galle, January 25. The cable from Madras to Penang was opened on January 4. A plot lias been discovered in Java. The Swiss soldiers intended to murder the Governor and seize tbe island. Fourteen couspirators were arrested.

The China cables have delayed operating until after the monsoons. The Bishop of Colombo has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of London.

INDIA. Admiral Cockburn is planning a system of naval protection. In shipping freights are high and vessels scarce. Sir 11. Durand has been killed by a fall from an elephant. Lord Napier retains office at Madras one year longer. The steamer General Outrain foundered in a cyclone off Bombay, with the loss of sixty lives, twenty were saved. The French are fortifying Pondicherry. Seasonable rains in Persia have averted famine. CHINA. All is quiet in the North, The British Consulate at Shanghai has been burned.

Mr Seward has been given recep. tions at Hong Kong and Shanghai. LATE EUKOPEAN ITEMS. The European Conference on the JRussian question met on the 12th, and adjourned for a week. France was not represented, but Jules Favre was expected to arrive. Austria is likely to propose conditions of peace between Germany and France. The King of Prussia was proclaimed Emperor of Germany at Berlin, and at Versailles on the 18th. Bright and Childei-s have resigned, in consequence of failing health. Fortescue succeeds Bright. The Marquis of Harrington takes the place of Sir William Mansfield, who is sum-

tnoned from Ireland to advise ou the military reorganisation of Britain.

He recommends compulsory universal servico in the militia. Jules Favro has declined Bismarck's safe conduct to the Conference. It met on the 17th for one hour. There were present—Earl Granville, Counts Apponyi, Cordova and Bernstoif, Baron Brunow and Meerour Pasha. The Conference adjourned until the 21th.

It is reported that a perfect agreement is expected concerning the points to be discussed at the adjourned meeting.