and exclaimed in a loud voice, "Es lebe seine Majestat der deutsche Kaiser Wilhelm, hoch!" The cheer was taken up with wild energy; the band playing "Heil Dir im Sieger Kranz" and "God Save the Queen.' The Emperor and Crown Prince embraced thrice, and the German princes paid homage to the former as "deutsche Kaiser." This concluded the ceremony. The new Emperor then received the deputations of officers from distant corps, and withdrew, accompanied by the princes, generals, and other illustrious personages. The deputations, with other guests, were entertained by the Emperor in the afternoon, previous to their leaving Versailles, at the Hôtel de France. An order of the day addressed to the army made mention that on this day, "memorable for me and my house, I take, with the consent of the German princes and the adhesion of all the German people, in addition to my_rank as King of Prussia, that of German Emperor. Your bravery and endurance, which I again recognise to the fullest extent, have hastened the work of the unification of Germany-a result which you have achieved by the expenditure of blood and lives. Let it always be remembered that the feeling of mutual friendship, bravery, and obedience rendered the army great and victorious. Maintain this feeling: then will the Fatherland always regard you with pride as to-day, and you will always remain its strong

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In giving formal notice of his elevation to the Spanish throne, King Amadeus writes to Queen Victoria that he had only decided to accept the honour "in the firm and unalterable resolution to employ all our efforts and to concentrate all our existence to the good and prosperity of this great people." To the Pope he wrote: "It will be our principal care, by our respect and adhesion to your Holiness, to procure that the constant relations between your Holiness and this generous nation may be those which the Spiritual Father of the Faithful ought to sustain with his true sons."

21.-Thanks voted in the Italian Parliament to the engineers of the Mont Cenis Tunnel.

Marshal M'Mahon protests against Count Bismarck's allegation in a recent circular, that French soldiers had used explosive bullets at the battle of Woerth.

The siege batteries on the northern line of investment open fire against St. Denis and its forts.

In consequence of dissatisfaction expressed at a meeting of the Council of Defence, General Trochu resigns the leadership of the forces in Paris, and is succeeded by General Vinoy.

Commencement of serious riots in Paris, the "Reds" this evening breaking into the prison of Mazas and liberating Major Flourens, of the Belleville Artillery, disbanded some time since. Immediately afterwards M. Flourens and his fellow-rioters made a descent upon the Mairie of the 20th Arrondissement, but finding they were few in numbers and scantily provided with muskets, they evacuated the Mairie, after appropriating 2,000 rations of bread. At noon on Sunday, 100 of the rioters, chiefly soldiers belonging to the National Guard, repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and about one o'clock fired upon the few Mobiles to whom the Hotel was entrusted, severely wounding the adjutant of a Breton regiment in the hands and arms. On seeing their adjutant fall, the Mobiles returned the fire, five persons being killed and eighteen wounded. Simultaneously, a ketry fire was poured into the windows of the Hotel from the houses opposite, occupied by the rioters; but several regiments of National Guards arrived, and order was restored after twenty minutes of anarchy. In consequence of these proceedings, the clubs were ordered to be suppressed during the remainder of the siege.

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M. Jules Favre arrives at Versailles with proposals for a capitulation, on condition of the garrison being permitted to march out with the honours of war. He returned to Paris in the evening. A rumour was industriously circulated that M. Favre had arrived in England, with the view, it was presumed, of taking part in the Conference, and a deputation of Republican admirers assembled to meet him at Charing Cross in the name of the Reception Committee.

25.-Rumoured capitulation of Paris, the Times announcing in a leader that the capital had fallen, and the proud city become a captive. Discussing the probability of M. Favre being asked to surrender not in the name of Paris only, but of France, the Times wrote: "M. Favre will, of course, refuse, protesting that he and his colleagues in Paris, having failed in defending the city, have no more authority to bind France than the commandant at Belfort or at Longwy; but Count Bismarck will thereupon produce another weapon from his armoury. He will tell M. Favre that he yesterday obtained from the exiled Empress, with the full consent of the captive of Wilhelmshöhe, a complete acceptance of his terms, and that M. Favre and his associates have no choice but to yield and save the chance of maintaining a Republican organization, or refuse and admit an Imperialist restoration. If M. Favre still refuses, Count Bismarck must in the end give way. A capitulation of Paris absolutely unconditional must to-day or to-morrow close their negotiations." This statement regarding the Empress was afterwards authoritatively pronounced to be "inexact" in its details. The money market opened buoyantly to-day, but hardly maintained the slight advance quoted.

The report from Paris to-day is that the forts can scarcely reply to the enemy's bombardment. The death-rate in the capital this week showed a total of 4,465, being 483 in advance of last week. The civilians killed within the city since the commencement of the bombardment amounted to 107-31 children, 23 women, and 53 men; the wounded to 276– 36 children, 92 women, and 148 men.

26.-The first welcome result of the negotia tions now going on at Versailles was exper enced by the Parisians to-night in the cessation of the bombardment, carried on with destructive effect since the 5th inst. People, it was said, stole cautiously up from cellars unable to e plain the sudden change from the tempest of shell which had been falling on the town, and several were even preparing for flight, when they were informed by military authorities the they had three weeks' grace. In the course the day several shells fell on the Church of Sulpice and the hospital of Val-de-Grâce.

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The Times publishes a letter addresse by M. Guizot to Mr. Gladstone, urging up the Prime Minister the duty of interference stop what has now become (he holds) a war aggression and aggrandizement. M. Gart admitted that France was wrong at the outse and that Prussia at first showed great mole tion and good sense. But he maintained thr after Woerth and Sedan Prussia might have made a magnanimous peace, and secured er ceptionally favourable conditions and guar tees for their performance. It was one of th opportunities which Napoleon I., if he ha obtained a great victory, would have take advantage of immediately. The real earnest desire of France, M. Guizot concluded "is for peace and the development of fruitful industry. France is a country of siduous agricultural, industrial, and commer work; a country in which we find practi and scientific civilization, a strong vitality, yet love of peace. She now wants time to re the fruit of her past experience, and to lea the value of that political freedom for w she has not ceased to sigh for three-fourths a century, although she has never known how to use it or to keep it. In such a path Eng is her most natural and valuable ally."

Count Andrassy intimates, in the Love House of the Diet at Pesth, that the re struction of the German Empire had beer accomplished with the full consent of Hungarian Government.

The Delegate Minister for Foreign Af Count Chaudordy, replies to Count Bismana

circular of the 9th, concerning war atrocities, and charging him with refusing M. Jules Favre a safe-conduct because he feared exposure at the Conference. "The presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs coming from this great capital, the centre of European civilization, where all Germany-the King of Prussia and Count Bismarck in particular-enjoyed such a brilliant hospitality, and which city they to-day strive to lay in ruins and to reduce by fire and famine, would, by the authority alone which would attach to his statements, have caused the Chancellor of the North German Confederation lively anxiety. Count Bismarck is fully aware that the mere recital of facts brought before the tribunal of Europe would strike a mortal blow at that astute and cruel policy which draws its inspirations from the sad recollections of past ages."

26.-General Bourbaki, after passing in review the 18th Corps at Besançon, attempts to commit suicide by shooting himself. A retreat

of his disorderly followers was thereafter made towards Pontarlier, but they were intercepted by the German forces stationed at Mouchard and Salins, and driven into Swiss territory. Here a formal surrender was made, and the troops disarmed in terms of the Convention of Les Verrières.

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Sir Edward Thornton, in a letter to Mr. Fish, proposes, on behalf of her Majesty's Government, the appointment of a joint commission for settling the different questions which had arisen out of the fisheries, as well as those which affect the relations of the United States towards her Majesty's possessions in North America. In conformity with a desire expressed by Mr. Secretary Fish on behalf of President Grant, the design of the commission was extended so as to embrace an adjustment of the differences known as the Alabama claims, the President on his side concurring in the propriety of referring to the commission such other claims as grew out of acts committed during the civil war.

27.-M. Jules Favre again leaves Paris for Versailles, in company with General Beaufort and others, to discuss with Count Bismarck the details of an armistice intended to include the whole of France. General Trochu also assembled the chiefs of the army and explained the circumstances which had compelled the defenders to negotiate for an armistice. from Bordeaux mention that capitulation is there looked on with great disfavour.

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Decree authorized at Berlin for increasing the new loan to 105,000,000 thalers.

28.-The Italian Parliament, by a majority of 94 votes to 39, pass a bill for transferring the capital from Florence to Rome.

Mr. Monsell, the new Postmaster-General, re-elected for Limerick County without opposi

Eighty lives lost by the explosion of the steamer Arthur on the Mississippi.

28. Surrender of Paris after a siege carried on for 131 days. The result of the recent negotiations was forwarded in a message by the Emperor-King to Queen Augusta :-" The troops

of the line and the Mobiles will be interned in Paris as prisoners of war. The Garde Nationale Sédentaire undertakes the preservation of order. We occupy all forts. Paris remains invested. It will be allowed to revictual as soon as the armistice has been delivered up. The National Assembly will be summoned to meet at Bordeaux in a fortnight. The armies in the field retain possession of the respective tracts of country occupied by them, with neutrality zones intervening. This is the blessed reward of patriotism, heroism, and heavy sacrifices. I thank God for this fresh mercy. May peace soon follow." On his part M. Jules Favre instructed the Delegation at Bordeaux :-"Today we sign a treaty with Count Bismarck. An armistice of twenty-one days is agreed to, and an Assembly is convoked at Bordeaux for February 15. Make this known to all France. Let the armistice be carried out, and summon the elections for February 8th. A member of the Government is leaving for Bordeaux." Districts specially exempted from the benefit of the armistice were Belfort, the siege of which was to be continued, and the Côte d'Or, Doubs, and Jura, the scene of the operations of Bourbaki's army. French troops were to retire from the fortifications unarmed, the guns in the enceinte to be dismounted, and the carriages given up to the conquerors. The miserable condition to which the inhabitants of Paris had been reduced before resorting to capitulation was ob served by a correspondent of the Daily News, who succeeded in entering the capital on the 31st and got out two days afterwards. The city he found orderly and decent, with a certain narrow self-restraint mastering the tendency to demonstrate, and an utter absence of crime. The pinch for food was worse than ever pending the result of negotiations for its supply, and future history may well concern itself with a theme so common as market rates: Two francs for a small shrivelled cabbage, I franc for a leek, 45 francs for a fowl, 45 francs for a rabbit (which might be taken for granted as cat), 25 francs for a pigeon, 22 francs for a 2lb. chub, 14 francs a pound for stickleback, 2 francs a pound for potatoes, 40 fiancs a pound for butter, cheese 25 francs a pound when procurable. Meat other than horseflesh absolutely not to be procured. "I was assured that if I offered 50%. down in bright shining gold for veritable beefsteak, I should have no claimant for the money! The last cow that changed hands 'for an ambulance' fetched Sol. Those left cannot now be bought for money. Owing to a miscalculation as to the supply of food 2,000,000 rations were at once sent in by Other authority of the Emperor William. supplies hastened by facilities placed at the disposal of shippers by the British Government commenced to pour into the starved city within a few days.

28.-Versailles reports make mention to-day that at Blois Colonel Belew burnt the bridge, as the enemy on the left bank of the Loire was pressing forward against the town. On the following day the enemy withdrew again in a southerly direction. On the same day the Second Corps captured, at Nozeroy, a transport waggon. The 4th Reserve Division, on the 26th, advanced as far as Passavant, capturing 200 more prisoners. Reports from Arbois state that the advance guard of the 14th Division of the Army of the South having come up with the retreating French army a mile west of Pontarlier, on the Swiss frontier, Sombacourt and Chaffois were taken by storm, and about 3,000 prisoners and six guns captured. The news about General Bourbaki was still contradictory.

29.-Rumours circulated of the suicide of Generals Ducrot and Bourbaki.

German occupation of the Paris forts completed without resistance or disturbance. The German Emperor forwarded to Brussels the welcome intelligence that he had seen the Prussian colours on Fort Issy from his siege batteries.

At a political gathering held this afternoon in the great theatre, Bordeaux, a unanimous protest against the armistice was passed, and a resolution voted, demanding, firstly, the maintenance of power in the hands of Gambetta; secondly, war à outrance; and, thirdly, the assembling at Bordeaux of a committee, the members of which should be elected by Republican associations in the principal towns of France.

30. In the American House of Representatives to-day a resolution offered by General Butler was passed by 172 to 21, that the Congress of the United States, in the name and on behalf of the people thereof, do give O'Donovan Rossa and the Irish exiles and patriots a cordial welcome to the capital and the country.

Lyons journals publish the programme of a new Ultra-republican Society formed in Paris, under the auspices of MM. LedruRollin, Delescluze, and Peyronton. They advocated the establishment of an indivisible Republic, the constitution of a sole assembly empowered to elect a revocable Executive Power, the suppression of the permanent army, the creation of a national militia comprising all citizens, a reduction in the budget, the suppression of all aristocratic titles, and the annulment of privileges. It also repudiated wars of conquest, and urged that no negotiations could be entered into with the enemy as long as he remained in the country.

31.-Another adjournment of the Black Sea Conference, owing to the indisposition of Earl Granville.

The Spanish troops in the capital to the number of 40,000 take the oath of allegiance to the new king.

31.-The City of London Relief Committee despatch their first consignment of provisions for Paris.

Uneasy feeling in the money market, caused by a report from Berlin that the German conditions of peace included the cession of Alsace and Lorraine, with Belfort and Metz, the payment of a pecuniary indemnity of ter milliards of francs, the cession of Pondicherry in the East Indies, and the transfer of twenty first-class men of war.

At several meetings of electors held to wards the close of this month, the members present were interrogated regarding the contemplated vote for a dowry to the Princess Louise, and in most instances expressed intention of giving it their support. The most prominent exceptions were Mr. Fawcett, & Brighton, and Mr. P. A. Taylor, at Notting ham.

From Bordeaux M. Gambetta issues 1 proclamation urging war à outrance, and re sistance even to complete exhaustion. The period of the armistice would be well employe "in reinforcing our three armies with me, ammunition, and provisions." What Frant wanted, he said, was an Assembly which desire. war, and was determined to carry it on at a

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M. Jules Favre intimates to the Sab prefect of Havre :-"Paris has negotiat because it had no more bread. It is urgent necessary that it should be revictualled. EveT facility will be given in this respect. Re your railway immediately. As soon as clear, you will send all disposable prov and fuel by way of Rouen and Amiens. A immediately."

M. Gambetta issues another proclamatio from Bordeaux, followed by a decree in of the Delegate Government, enacting that 6 who from the 2nd of December, 1851, the 4th of September, 1870, accepted functions of Minister, Senator, Councillor State, or Prefect, were disqualified as res sentatives of the people in the National Asser bly. The decree also declared ineligible a persons who between the same dates accepted official nominations, and whose nas appeared in the lists of candidates re mended by Prefects to the suffrages of ** electors, and who were described in the of Moniteur either as candidates of the Gove ment or Administration, or as official candidates A third decree prescribed the electoral arran ments. Count Bismarck protested agains decree as arbitrary and oppressive, and sta that only freely-elected deputies as stipulate the Convention would be recognised by Germans as representatives of France. I decree was also repudiated by M. Jules Fare and his colleagues in Paris, but the contention between the two authorities led to the elect being adjourned from the 5th to the Sth

Clerical demonstration at Brussels in favour of the Pope's temporal power.

3. The Black Sea Conference meet at the Foreign Office, and remain in deliberation five hours.

Died at his residence, Eton-road, Haverstock-hill, T. W. Robertson, dramatist, aged 42.

The Duke d'Aumale, addressing the electors of France, writes, as to the question of war, "I had no share of responsibility, direct or indirect, in the events or the acts which have produced the war and the actual situation. I have a right to stipulate my entire liberty of appreciation or of reserve. I am further authorized in doing so by the inaction which has been imposed upon me, when I urgently claimed the right of fighting for my country. On the second point I will explain myself with complete sincerity. When I consider the situation of France, her history, her traditions, the events of the last years, I am struck with the advantage which a Constitutional Monarchy presents. I believe it can respond to the legitimate aspirations of a democratic society, and guarantee, with order and security, every kind of progress and of liberty. It is with a mixture of filial pride and of patriotic sorrow that I compare France in her actual state with what she was under the reign of my father. As to this opinion, I have a right to hold it as a man, and as a citizen I believe it my duty to express it; but I do not mingle with it any spirit of party, any exclusive tendency. In my sentiments, in my past, in the traditions of my family, I find nothing which separates me from the Republic. If it be under this form that France wishes freely and definitively to constitute her Government, I am ready to bow before her sovereignty, and I will remain her faithful servant. Whether it be a Constitutional Monarchy or Liberal Republic, it is by political probity, patience, a spirit of concord, abnegation, that we can save, reconstitute, regenerate France."

Acknowledging the offer of the English Government to aid in the relief of Paris, M. Jules Favre writes: "Permit me to see in it a proof of that precious sentiment of union which Ought to bind all nations together, and lead

them to help each other, instead of fighting and destroying one another. It was reserved to your intelligent country to give to the world this example of solicitude for misfortune. I beg you to be the interpreter of my gratitude towards your fellow-citizens, towards the inhabitants of London. The inhabitants of Paris have suffered cruelly; they still suffer much, but they console themselves with the thought of having done their duty, and of being reconpensed by proofs of esteem and sympathy such as those which you are good enough to afford them.'

3. The first provision trains arrive at Paris, four entering by the Orleans, and four by the Lyons railway, each composed of fifty carriages with 4,500 tons of beef and flour. Between this date and the 7th the provisions forwarded to the starving people were said to have included 1,057 bullocks, 3,093 sheep, 14 cows, 31 pigs, 856 tons of cereals, 8,050 tons of flour, 500 tons of biscuits, 285 tons of preserved beef, 162 tons of preserved mutton, 8 tons of salt, 80 tons of hams, 1,435 tons of salt pork, 26 tons of fresh fish, 210 tons of codfish, 140 tons of butter, nearly 1,000 tons of cheese, 74 tuns of oil, 1,270 tons of vegetables, 10 tons of fruit, 27 tons of forage, 70 tons of cakes, 144 tons of various provisions, 1,740 tons of coal, and 94 tons of oats.

4. For the twelve months preceding this date, 9,460,338 messages were forwarded from postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom, or on an average 181,929 each week; showing an increase on the previous year of about 50 per cent. The outlay on works and working was 720,000l., and the revenue 600,000/.

5.-Explosion of a powder waggon on the railway between Bandoz and St. Nazaire, causing the death of sixty people, and serious injury to about 100 others.

6. The Government of National Defence issue a decree, disbanding the regiments of the Mobilized National Guards of Paris.

Petroleum train fired on the Hudson River Railway, causing the death of thirty people.

M. Gambetta resigns his post of Minister of the Interior in the Delegate Government of Bordeaux, on the ground that he was no longer in agreement with it in "ideas or hopes. At the same time he advised the Prefect of Lille that his opinion was, after mature reflection, "on account of the shortness of time and the serious interests at stake, you would render to the Republic a supreme service in carrying out the elections of February 8, with the reservation to adopt whatever determination may seem fit to you.'