12 NOVEMBER 1870, page 2

The First Election Which Has Occurred In Germany Since The

war is that of the Provincial Parliament of Hanover. An address was proposed to the King, exulting in the victories over the foreigner and the "near prospect of a durable peace,......

The Useless Negotiations For Armistice Have Prevented Any...

sortie during the week ; but perhaps we shall hear to-morrow or Monday of another as having taken place yesterday, as Friday sorties have been so long the fashion. According to......

General Trochu Has Generally Been Thought An Orleanist....

present, however, he is certainly strongly Republican. At least he said to the National Guard on Thursday week, when they congratulated him on the Paris vote, "The Republic......

M. Jules Fevre Announces To French Agents Abroad That "

Prussia " has refused the armistice, in a despatch through which there runs a slight tone of depression. Though energetically exposing the impossibility of accepting an......

An Ingenious Plan Is Said To Have Been Laid Before

the Academy of Sciences at Paris for floating an aerial telegraph by balloons. A captive balloon would be sent up with another (free) balloon, to which it would pay out wire,......

Immediately After The Release Of The Provisional...

National Guards and Mobiles, General Trochu ordered a mass vote of confidence or no confidence to be taken in Paris. This was accordingly done on the 5th November, and all Paris......

Paris Has Begun To Eat The Poor Beasts In The

Jardin des Plantes (Zoological Gardens). Several buffaloes have been sold to the butchers, but the butchers ask enormous prices for buffalo beef.. We have not yet heard that the......

The Rumours That General Trochu Intends To Make His Grand

sortie this week increase, but appear to be based mainly on a decree dividing the armed force in Paris into three parts ; one to act as an army, one to serve as garrison, and......

Verdun Has Capitulated. Moreover, Affairs Do Not...

well for France in the Vosges. The surrender of Scheleatadt has been followed by the surrender, first, of the outlying fort of Neu Breisach (Fort Mortier), and last, by the......

The American Elections To Congress Have Resulted In A...

triumph for the Democratic party. Their alliance with the Free- traders has brought them many votes, and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives will, it is......

Garibaldi Has Issued One Of His Lyrical Appeals To His

followers,. whom he calls "the cosmopolitan nucleus that the French Re- public is rallying in her midst," and of whom he asks "coolness and discipline,—indispensable in war." He......