17 DECEMBER 1870, page 3

The English Press Has Been Indulging In A Long Controversy

lately as to the truthfulness of the German war telegrams. For the most part, we believe the official ones have been tolerably faithful, though always suppressing all that was......

The Standard's military critic suggests that General Bourbaki may be able to spare a force from Bourges to march across to- wards Chalons, and there effect a junction with......

Lord Derby Addressed The 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers...

at Liverpool, on the defences of the country. After some words in praise of the Volunteer movement, he observed that England differed from every other country in this, "she had......

It Is Scarcely Necessary To Attack Mr. Cardwell By...

statements like the one which appears in the Pall Mall Gazette about our supply of powder. It is entirely without foundation. There may not be enough pebble powder, but there is......

The Austrian Minister Of War, General Benedek, Has...

Delegates who manage the joint affairs of the Empire that the Austrian Army, with its Reserves, now numbers 864,000 men, all of whom have received two years' training, and are......

The German Occupation Of Dieppe Seems To Have Been Dictated

'mainly by a sentimental desire to reach the sea, and thus be able 'to say that Prussians had crossed France from the Rhine to the British Channel. The invaders stopped but one......

" W. R. G." Evidently Begins To Think That Germany

may, after all, have to retire without having conquered France. In one letter he complains that France is so obstinate, that Germany may have to retire without her rightful......

Lieutenant G. C. Musters, R.n., Has Performed A Moat...

feat. Landing in April, 1869, in the Chilian penal settlement in the Straits of Magellan, he made friends with a Patagonian cacique, named Orkeke, studied his people, learned......

The Right Hon. S. Cave Made Two Speeches On Wednesday

at an agricultural show at Horsham, noteworthy because they em- body so clearly some popular fallacies. He was entirely opposed, he said, to the Prussian system of raising an......

Consols Were On Friday 91/ To 92i.

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