15 OCTOBER 1870, page 1

Al! This Is Favourable. On The Other Hand, The Reports

from Paris as to provisions are not so satisfactory. M. Gambetta says the city has enough "for long months," but the best estimates show beef and mutton only for five weeks at......

Yet Another Disaster For France ! Will The List Never

end ? The Provisional Government seated at Tours had with infinite trouble and difficulty enrolled, armed, and in some sort drilled about 90,000 men, whom they called the Army......

The Incessant Defeats Have Emboldened M. Gambetta To Take...

first really revolutionary step taken in the war. He has issued, as Minister of War, a decree suspending the laws about promotion and service, and enabling the Ministry to......

M. Gambetta Has At Once Assumed The Ministry Of War

and a virtual Dictatorship. After declaring that 400,000 men are armed in Paris ; that the fortifications are provided with splendid guns, taken from the fleet, and that Paris......

M. Gambetta Left Paris By Balloon This Day Week, And

arrived, after a very perilous journey, at Amiens. At first, when he, his secretary M. Spuller, and his aeronaut M. Trichet, rose above the Prussian lines, many bullets whistled......

On The 11th, Von Der Tann Continued His March To

Orleans, and encountered the French, who though largely reinforced—for their General says they "were on their march to Paris "—did not hold their ground. They fell back on......

News Of Vie Week.

Q OCIETY " is greatly excited by the news that the Queen, 13 following the precedents of the Stuarts, the Tudors, and the Plantagenets, butbreaking the traditions of the House......

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