ARRIVAL OF THE 'CITY OF MELBOURNE' WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2254, 17 April 1871, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'CITY OF MELBOURNE' WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

ENGLISH DATES TO MA.ECII 17. * . ! THE FIIENCH JOURNALS ATTACK ENGLAND. HORRORS OFIHE BATTLEFIELDS IN THE iN'ORTH OF PARIS. THE EVACUA':TON OF PAXIS. AFFAIRS IN THE CITV. THE GF.RMAN FJKCES TO RETIRE j BEHIND TIIE LINE OF THE I SKIN.B. | 11UMOUKS OF A. RKYOLUTIONIN PAWS. THE WAR INDEMNITY TO BE PAID IN THREE INSTALMENTS. EMPEROR WILLIAM ON HIS WAY TO BKHLIN. DEPUTATION FROM THE CZAR TO SALUTE THE EMPEROR. THE TERMS OF PEAC K. THE NEW ZEALAND STEAM SERVICE.

A portion- of the following appeared in a second edition published by us on Saturday list. Versailles, March I.—A Herald correspondent, just returned from Paris, gives the following account of the Emperor's review of tlie German troops at Lonychainps : —Exactly at half-past ten o'clock, the Emperor drove up to the back of ihe Grand Stand in an open carriage, attended by Dragoons and the great officers of his household ; alighting on the steps of the grand entrance, he took a horse and cantered across the field toward the General Staff, which had followed along the Hue. As the Emperor appeared, the bands played " Kill Der," and all the troops saluted him. The Emperor looked exceedingly well, aud rode dashing by, despite his lingering indisposition. As he rodo down the front of the line, flags were dropped and the men gave three ringing cheers. The emperor kept his hand on his helmet and smile.! upon the soldiers in passing Bismarck w.-ivert his hand in a friendly manner twice. Having passed up and down the lines, the Emperor galloped across the field to a point two hundred yards to the right of tlie grand stand, facing Ihe tr.iops, where | he took up his position in front of the Crown : Prince, sitting erect on his charger and survovi ing the troops fur a moment with deep emotion. | The order was given to march ; tho hands j struck up, aud, with splendid step, 30,000 J men marched past in so perfect a manner that ! each battery presented a profile as only one ! S""Paris, March 2.—Tho Herald Cable de- ' spatuh says the troops in seme cases ou enter- ] ing the city were mobbed and narrowly escaped injury. Some persons near tho Arc do I Triomphe congratulated the visitors on the | dilliculty experienced by the Prussian cavalry • in getting over the heaps of sand and stones ; j they pointed to the Arc and said, " Wait till i we "enter Berlin." The Germans took no notice of the insults. "When tho Prussian infantry passed under the Arc de Triomphe they were received by the crowd with whistling, screams, and deri.-ive shouts. Squadrons of hussars came next. .Bismarck did not enter the Arc de Triomphe, but turned round and rode biick to Neuilly. The grand part of the military spectacle was the march along the Champs t.lysees, the troops with their bayonets and helmets glittering in the sun, and the dag* torn by battle (hit tt-rinsr in the breeze. A crowd of men aud boys blocking the way were dispersed by \\\e. Uhlans. The Uhlans and Bavarians are specially haled. Vkksaillks, >ts;rc!i %&~\Tlerald Cable] - Tho preliminaries of pence arranged by Bismarck and other Plenipotentiaries with I Thiers aud Favre, are as follows : j Article first specifies the line ol demarcation, j Article second provides that France will pay Germany five milliards of francs; one n.iiliard, at least, in 1871, and all the rest in the apace of three years from the time of the ratification. Article third provides that the evacuation is to commence on the ratification of the treaty by the Assembly; that the German troops will then immediately quit Paris and Ihe left bunk of the Seine, also the departments of Cher, Jndre-et Loire and Seine luferieure. The French troops will romain behind the Loire till the signing of a definitive treaty of peace, except those in Paris, wlure the Government is not to have exceeding forty thousand troops. The Germans evacuate the right bank of the Seine gradually, after signing a definitive treaty, and the payment of half a milliard francs. After the payment of two milliards the Germans will only hold the Departments of Marno, Ardennes, Mouse. Vosges, Meurtho and Belfort. After the payment of three milliards tho Germans will only keep 50,000 troops in France, but. if sufficient money guarantee be given, the Germans will evacuate completely at once, otherwise three milliards will carry interest at. five per cent, from tho ratification of the treaty. Article four.h provides that the Germr.n troops make no further requisitions ; that the French Government will find food for the Army of Occupation in tho ceded Departments ; that fiiTornblo arrangements will be made with the inhabitants and time given to them to move, if they please, and that no obstacle will bo placed in the way of emigration. [Article fifth is not mentioned.—Eds. Alta.~\ Article sixth pvovides that the prisoners be immediately liberated on the ratification of the treaty, and the French railroads will lend carriages and engines at the same price as to the French Government. Article seventh provides that the treaty be definitely signed at Brussels immediately after tho ratification ot ttie treaty. Article eighth provides tha*; after the ratification the management of all tho Departments occupied will be handed over to the French ollicers, subject to tho German commanders, and in the interest of the German troops. Article ninth provides that it will be understood that the. Germans have no authority ■■ over the Departments not occupied by them. A Versailles special to the Times says the Germans evacuated Paris to-day, and Prince Frederick Charles retires immediately behind the Seine. The Crown Prince leaves in a few days for Ferrieres, or some other point near Paris on Ihe right bank of the Seine. The Parisian populace wreaked their vengeance on several men and woman who were seen communicating with the German soldiers.

I Pauis, March 4.—Fo a Gvrmnu soldier rej mains here. The Saxons passed out afc ten I o'clock yesterday morning, m irching in front of Ihe Arc de Triomphe, amid the profonnd •dlcnce of a few rpectatora. By noon (he evacuation of the city was comphte. Tlie German Emperor afterwards reviewed 100,000 , men in the Bois de Boulogne. | Bkp.lin, March -itH.— The Emperor will • return to Berlin in eight days. | Prince Frederick Charles lias been appointed i command' r-iuChief of the army of oeeupaI tion in France. His head-quarters will be at ) Rhcims. | Thiers declines to mike a treaty of eomi merce with Germany, on the ground that it is J necessary for France to imitate the United '. States and restore the equilibrium by a hi.di tariff. Berlin is brilliantly illuminated to-night. The Kmprrss a 'd Princess drove through the streets and were received with great enthusiasm. London, March 9.—Napoleon lias addressed a_ communication to the President of the French Assembly, protesting against the vote by which that bo iy declared his dynasty had forfeited the Throne, as unjust and illegal. The Assembly, he says, was crca'cd only to make peace, and has exceeded its powers ; the foundation of all public right is ple/jU-dle, and to that alone he is ready to submit. Pakis, March o.— [World cable.]— The National Guards are strongly entrenched with thirty-one puns on the heights of Moutmartre, awaiting the signal of their leaders to proclaim an open revo'ution in favor of the Commune. Ducrot, Chanzy and Faidherbe aro working for the .Empire. Bonapnrlists meetings in. the provinces are numerous. Changarnier is seriously ill. The navy has been greatly reduced, and the dockyards at .t.orent and Roehefort have been rented by private companies. The foreign squadrons have been recalled. Paris, March 13.—Versailles has been evacuated and a French garrison installed. The convention for the return of French prisoners has been signed at Ferrieres, some were returned via Bremen and Hamburg, and others overland. Loxd-in, March 15.—A Telegraph's special anticipates disturbances in Paris in mid-Lent. A Times' special from Cassel says, the departure of Napoleon for Chiselhurst, in a fe.v days is certain. He has written to the Emperor William. The Montmatro Nationales are threatening, and the authorities expect a crisis. London, March 15.—The Manchester Guardian says possibly Alsace and Lorraine may be re-annexed to France for a consideration. Unofficial negotiations are pending. Bismarck demands; that Roumania shall acknowledge" that she is bound to guarantee the Strasbourg Railway bonds. Pakis, March 15.—Bismarck has informed Thiers that, being embarrassed in organising politically and commercially the ceded provinces, owing t > the, determined resistance of the inhabitants, and the representations that 1 German commerce will be dam >ged by competition with Mulhouse manufactures, be will abandon Alsace and Lorraine if the indemnity is increased one and a half milliards. London, March 16. -The Tfews special from Lille says the battlefields of the North threaten to become the focus of pestilence by floating bodies in the dykes. Active measures for interment aro taken. London, March 16. —It is rumored the Princess Beatrice marries the Marquis of Ely. London, March 16. —A dispatch from Havre to-day says the evacuation of Dieppe and surrounding country by the Germans is completed. A number of Germans have purchased a piece of ground at Bougiva, in the arrondissement of Versailles, for the purpose of burying their dead countrymen who have been temporarily buried in the vicinity. Precautionary mea-mres are adopted by the French authorities against communication of infection to the people and soldiers from unburied corpses, and also against the spread of the rinderpest among cattle. Lon'do.v, March 1G. — I he Journal dei Debate, commenting on the result of the Conference on the Eastern question, makes a bitter attack on England, and declares that she lost every advantage gained by the Crimean, war. Franco is now helpless, her sword broken, but when it is unsheathed again, its aim will not be so distant as Turkey. Other Paris journals speak of England in a similar spirit. THE TROOPS ENTER PARIS. BohokauX, February 23. —fn the Ass-mbly to-day the Committee of Consultation which accompanied 51. Thiers to Versailles ma le a report unanimously recommending the ratification by the Assembly of the preliminaries of peace agreed to and submitted by the Presi- j dent, I Bamberger, deputy from the Department I of the Moselle, adjured the Assembly to re- ! ject any terms involving the cession of French territory. He strongly denounced Napoleon i the Third. j A moment of agitation arose in the Cham- I ber in the attempt made by M, Conte, for- I merly Secretary of the Emperor, to speak in justification of the Empire. . The Assembly enthusiastically and unanimously voted by acclamation a resolution : offered decreeing the fall of the Empire, and , stigmatizing the Kmperor Napoleon as the j author of the misfortunes of France. j The Assembly voted the ratifmtion of the | preliminary conditions of peaco by 5-lb" ayes i against 107 nays. t Pakis, March I—Noon.— [Hcra'd Cable.] — Last night a rumour prevailed that tho • enemy had given up the intended occupation, :■ and it. found credit in many quarters ; the preparations and activity of the authorities, , however, forbade the hope of truth in the ' rumour. The scenes in the purlieus of tho city beggar description. Excited crowds had gathered at Montmartro and Belleville, nearly all night, listo: ing to incendiary speeches, and shouting defiance at the Prussians. Since Viuoy's proclamation, the best part of tho National Guard have been active in perfecting barricades, as safeguards aga.nst the approach ol armed crowds on the lino marked out by the Germans. j At an early hour in tho morning the preparations were complete; the streets presented a singular appearance from the absence of p -ople, which were almo.-t entirely deserted on the line of march, except by strong bodies of regulars, French troops, who occupied the trianglo during the night, with the intention of fafling back on the advance of the Prussians, and taking a position commanding the approaches to ihe line. Tho Paris Press, which are beginning to fear the consequences of their rash utterances, are making a last appeal to tho people to abstain from any act likely to bring terrible disasters upon France without the position or uttering the result. At the appointed hour (ten o'clock), the first representative of the corps of the victorious army entered within tho Encicnte under the eye of his Imperial 51ajes'y in accordance with the programme, and favored by splendid weather. The eleventh Corps, numbering thirty thousand, with ninety-six pieces of field artillery, and the usual proportion of cavalry, under the command of General Von Bose, advanced by two columns, one at Port [ Neuilly, and the other at Pont du Jour. The former advanced at a rapid pace up the avenue Grand Armeo directly for the Arc de Triomphe. The Erench troops vacated tho streets as I the Germans approached. I The other column, entering at Pont du I Jour, below Auteuil, commenced to march along the way on the north side of the Seine, ! directly for tho Place de la Concorde, which had been fixed as the place of rendezvous for the two columns. As the troups proceeded along the line, the artillery took positions from the Porte de Neuilly to tiie Place de Concorde, and from Pont du Jour to the same point, as a precautionary measure. Nothing could exceed the splendid appearance of the troops, despite the hard service they had seen. At 9 a.m. the head of tho Prussian advance was eeen rounding the Arc de Triomphe. To t

I the surprise of the few who were present, I both men and women were seen hurrying ! away in tears, and only boys and a few worki men were left. The German Ilussars gal--1 loped down every avenue leading to the I Champs Elysees, to search the streets branching therefrom. Not the slightest attempt at disturbance occurred, the couduct of the people was admirable. About four thousand infantry and cavalry only advanced. There was no'music, but a drum was beat and a trumpet sounded. At a quarter to nine the Staff arrived, -with General Von Kalicke in front, followed bv fifty officers with all arms and in all sorts of uniforms ; they did not stop, but rode down the Champs ISlysces to the house of Queen Christina, where their headquarters were ' established. Three hundred yards behind the Staff ciims a battalion of she Eighty-eighth. i with drums and fifes; then came the troops ;of the Blue Dragoons, and after these : marched a detachment of Bavarians, composed !of infantry and cavalry, followed by two ; hundred men of every variety of the Prussian I line. j A corps consisting of about a dozen officers j of artillery at the head of a little column, ■which was closed by some thirty red horses, and containing altogether probably two thousand men, brought up the rear. By a quarter past nine the whole body had passed the Arc d 3 Triomphc, aud was descending the Champs Ulysees. Several hundreds had now assembled, but no real crowd ; all seemed tranquil, aud the people present showed little ill-temper. At a quarter past ton, the Patrol Ilussars came bach from the Arc de Triomphc and trotted to the Porte Neuilly. At the same moment half a dozen infantry soldiers turned the corner of the Avenue Cloud, and posted a sentry on the Place near the Avenue de l'lmperatvicc, then entered the Rue de Preabourgo, and began billeting in the houses surrounding the Place de I'Etoile, wh"=e doors all o]>en on thr.t, street. The moment a solitary sentry was observed, the mob surrounded him, gazing and gaping like astonished children. At this time the crowd be.ran to increase in the rear of the Pubis d'lndustrie. The r.roops were halted at Point du Jour ; only a few dragoons had entered. Up to ten o'clock no advance guard had been pushed forward. The Bois de Boulogne is entirely deserted, except here and there on the corners of the main avenue, an Hussar sat like a statue on his horse. Small patrols of cavalry passed occasionally along the lake ; troops were passing in small numbers from eight o'clock through the Bois de Boulogne, and marching towards the Port Neuilly. These had crossed the Seine on pontoon bridges laid last night, near the Pout du Jour. The inhabitants of the Bois de Boulogne are perfectly good humored.