The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-10-04 00:00:00

WAR. NOMA.

Count do Palikao hos arrived at Wilbelmshehe to
see t e Emperor Naaoleon.
A Berlin telegram re-affirms the rumour that to a
Prussian official who went to Metz under • flag of truce
to atop packet shooting, Marshal Martine frankly
declared that be wig striving to save the army and the
fortress for the Emperor, and that he knew nothing of
the Republic.
Nothing is known before Mots of any offer to capita.
late on the part of Marshal BarilllP.
The Minister- of the F•ench Provisional Government
who r. anaM in Paris hove declared, in • new proolam,
lion, that hot no inch of territory nor • stone of the
fortres•es :hall be given up to Germany.
General Troche has issued a proclamation, to which
he decr, es the punishrueut of death on all soldiers who
abandon their posts in presence of the enemy, who re-
fuse to obey orders to march against the enemy, or who
pollsgo or destroy munitions of war. This proclamation
his been canoed by the conduct of the Z mares who tied
in the combat at the heights of Chatallon, to the south
of Paris, on the 20th inst. Gre.,t havoc is said to have
been on that ace sin caused irt the enemy's .ranks by
the fire from the forts.

The he:id-quarters of the Crown Prince of Saxony
and the 4th Army Carps are at Granti-Trerublay. ten
sillies north ~f Pori.

The Prns‘ian Government, it is said,intends to estab-
lish at al initria administration in those Freneh
department, which are occupied by the German armies,
hut Iva not to bet. rinanently held by Germany. The
Grant Unko a Mecklenburg will probably preside over
this administration.

No Frenchman between 20 ond 35 years of age is now
allowed to leave France.

.tchniral Tegethnif is ill beyoni hope of recovery with
cancer ef the tongue..

its. said that che inhabitants of alaaoe are signing
an address deolanuory of their fidelity to France.
Four women have been discovered among the armed
Turoos ; they were taken away from their oomrades.
The Emperor Napoleon is aaid to have attempted
sttioule, but it appare to have been an attackof syncope.
Itisinark has made a rather cruel joke at the eost of
the illustrious prisoner of Prussia. "Napoleon is •
most polite gentleman," he is supposed to have cud;
" he wee anthills to return the King's visit of '67."
Paul de Cusagnao enlisted as • Zouave, fought well
and was taken prisoner at Sedan. He is now employed
by his captors in making bread. It is hoped that his
bread will be better than his articles.

Siooe the commencement of the war 35,000 foreigners
have sought refuge in Brands.

The Emperor Napoleon (says a telegram from Wit.
holuashohe) rode on horseback on Tuesday afternoon.
A largo number of ballonis are being constructed
at Paris, and there will be one sent off daily.

blarshal M'Btation, accompanied by hiS who, has
artired at Wiesbaden.

An amositm anecdote of M. Durnol'a aerial voyage is
that he responded to the Pcuuiau gunners who fired at
him by dropping his visiting card upon their heada lie
proposes, it is said, ta returnto Paris in his balloon,
to carry back the answers of the G ',remnant of
Tours to the despatches sent by the Government of
Paris.

A French officer, on wins( the Crown Prince of
PI 11111 in St Versailles, saiil—" Ah I C'est hien le Prince
dons. II est hien howl:ice, if fent Avenel.. Mais, moo
Dieu, je *alai tres content si son Alta° await reste L
Berlin." ("Ai I That is the Pillion o.ien. Ho is •
handsome man, ono must admit. But, my God, I
should be very well pleased if his lii4huess had re.
mained at B2rlitt.")

A British coachinan in Park who offers to carry
letters through, does not think much of the citizen
soldiers in Paris. •• bleu' you, sir, I'd rather
have 10.0)0 Englishmen than the lot of them.
In my stable I make my men obey me, but
these chaps they don't seem to care what their
hotlioers say to them. I seed them drill this
morning; • pretty green lot they was. Why. Sr.
giving them fellers Chassetats is much like giving
watches to naked savagea."

Ii Flanoser it has been determined to employ 2,100
French prisoners in the oonatruation of a canal so connect
the Ems and the Veahte, 300 in usakioF • dam in an
atiating renal, and 1,000 in the sidemen et • third
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