31 DECEMBER 1870, page 2

General Chanzy Evidently Believes In Himself, And Has Had...

power to make his troops believe in him. He has sent a spirited protest to the German commander at Vendame against the forced contributions and plunder authorized at St. Calais,......

We Have No News Either Of Bourbaki's Advance From Bourges,

or of Chanzy's from Le Mans, where the great difficulty of the latter is the want of shoes for his troops. One pair of shoes a week for troops on the march is almost......

The Russian Conference Is To Meet, It Is Said, In

London on the 3rd January. Report says that France will not send an ambas- sador unless England first recognizes the Republic, and a remon- strance presented to Mr. Gladstone on......

General Trochu Is Building Such Works Below Mont Val6rien...

the German leaders are unable to account for them, and the favourite theory in Versailles and Berlin is that he intends to abandon Paris, and retire with his army to the......

Mr. Luby, One Of The Fenian Prisoners Who Has Just

enjoyed the severe clemency of the Crown, by exchanging what he himself and most of the Irish members believed to be the promise of a free pardon within the year, for a certain......

A Lamentable Accident Occurred On Saturday At Bearwood,...

of Mr. Walter, M.P. for Berkshire, and proprietor of the- Times. Four sons of Mr. Walter were skating on the lake, and one of them, Thomas Walter, was pushing a cousin on a......

There Was A "scare" At Versailles On The 20th December.

The- Commissioner of Police had received information that a "plot" had been laid to kill or carry off the King, his Staff, and the Princes, and took very summary methods of......

The Secret As To Mr. Bright's Successor Is Well Kept,

if there is at present any secret to keep. But a change in the subor- dinate offices has been made public. Mr. Otway has resigned the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs,......