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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 14, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 9.

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
VERSAILLES, Feb. 3.—Crowds of French peasantry attend daily on the bridge at Neuilly, in the hope of being able to pass the Prussian outposts, but without success. The Parisians are under the impression that the Prussian troops will not enter Paris. They are still ignorant of the full terms of the capitulation.
It is believed that the guns in the forts will not be taken away by the enemy.
The price of provisions has not been lowered. Of 100,000 horses originally in Paris, 66,000 have been killed for food, but 3,000 horses, requisitioned by the government, have been given back to the omnibus company, but cabs have entirely disappeared.
PARIS, Feb. 3.—Flour will be exhausted by Saturday, and on Sunday Paris will be without bread.
BERNE, Feb. 4, via LONDON, Feb. 5.—There are now 66,000 French soldiers in Switzerland, very badly clad, and the Swiss government has asked the French authorities to send clothing. The Germans continued hostilities on the 2d and 3d insts., and there are 200 wounded French soldiers in the hospital at Nuremburg, Baden.
LONDON, Feb. 5.—A complete rupture has taken place between the Paris government and Gambetta, and a restoration of the empire is most probable. It is reported that the Pope has undertaken to assist the restoration. In the clubs it is reported that Bismarck is laboring under severe mental excitement, his mind being so unbalanced as to render him virtually insane.
LONDON, Feb. 6.—The Scheme for the restoration of the empire develops great strength in unexpected high quarters.
LONDON, Feb. 6.—Twenty-four government ovens at Deptford are engaged night and day in baking biscuits for Paris, and immense quantities of provisions are being sent. Four government store-ships are loading to-day, and 16 others are ready to load.
The government has been informed of danger of the Queen being insulted in going from Buckingham Palace to open Parliament, and are making extraordinary arrangements to keep the populace back from the line of the procession. The Queen’s unpopularity has never reached such an alarming point as at present.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—A long conference took place to-day at the Prussian Embassy, between Eugenie and Count Bernstorff. The resignation of Gambetta, it is believed, indicates the abandonment of all hopes of the republic, and makes the restoration of the Empire certain.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The war office has ordered inquiries to be made in the Island of Jersey as to what accommodations there are for quartering additional troops. It is proposed to send a reinforcement of 700 men there at an early day, and it is contemplated to strengthen the fortifications.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Morning Post publishes a special despatch from Calais of the 6th, which says that the Prussians show a determination to retard the revictualing of Paris. Nine trains loaded with provisions for that city have been detained by them at Amiens, though the line is entirely clear. The Post says that the British War Office and Admiralty are actively assisting in the efforts to revictual Paris.
VERSAILLES, Feb. 8.—Yesterday 80 field guns and 140,000 rifles were delivered at Ivry.
M. Favre is in great favor at headquarters. He has won the esteem and confidence of all there.
Paris may be entered before the 19th. Preparations are making for a heavy bombardment should possible complications occur. The attitude of the city is apathetic, and a reaction is expected. Arrangements for supplying food are working tolerably. The mines at the gates have been destroyed.
Bismarck is again quite ill, and his condition causes grave uneasiness.
PARIS, Feb. 9.—Many respectable people are making an effort to leave before a renewal of the war, which will bring on worse horrors than ever. The actual condition is little changed. The Champs Elysees is little damaged. The Bois de Boulogne is destroyed. The shops are slowly commencing to re-open. There is no gas in the city, yet the order is good. The popular sentiment is intensely excited at the idea of the entry of the Prussians, but the feeling is growing gradually more lenient toward the enemy. There is a report that a Prussian army corps was sent south on Tuesday, resolved to carry Belfort by storm.
FLORENCE, Feb. 10.—The newspapers announce that a Catholic league is formed in Belgium to prepare an armed expedition against Italy, with branches established in Austria and Spain, and in some provinces of France, and the meeting place is to be on some island in the Mediterranean Sea. The Italian government has received information of the formation of a conspiracy.
LE HAVRE, Feb. 11.—The Prussians have imposed a contribution of 4,000,000 francs on Rouen, which must be made to-day, and another of 20,000,000 francs, payable to-morrow. They have also exacted 640,000 francs from the people of Fecamps.
There is a prevailing wish in the capital for submission to the fate of war, and Paris is willing to make any sacrifice in preference to a resumption of hostilities. Accounts from the north indicate the same feeling. The conditions of peace are likely to be relaxed in severity if the Assembly shows a spirit of resignation, dignity of temper, and conciliation.
The elections were quiet, and not the slightest interference was made by the Germans. There is no motion or excitement.
The Norden Wochenschrift confidently predicts a Turkish war in the spring, and another between England and the United States next autumn.
The Prussians have captured a letter from the King of Sweden, expressing the warmest sympathy for France.
A COUNCIL of war is to be held by the chief generals of France.
THE Germans have drawn closely to Paris.