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Star (Christchurch), Issue 735, 30 September 1870, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

London, Sept. 5. Ninety thousand French prisoners were taken at Sedan, including the Emperor. The Emperor was removed to the French Consulate at Berlin. Berlin was illuminated. There has been a peaceful revolution in Paris. The Emperor is deposed, and a Republic is proclaimed. A Provisional Government has been formed, consisting of Trochu, Gambetta, Jules Favre, and others. The provisional Government are determined to repel invasion. The troops are fraternising with the people. A political amnesty is declared. The Empress has left Paris. The German army is marching on Paris. The citizens are arming and preparing the fortifications, being determined to offer a strong resistance. Consols are at 92. The Germans are signing an address, protesting against foreign intervention in their peace negociations. Jerome David announced in the French Senate, on Sept. 3 — "Paris will be defended to the utmost, in the forts, in the streets, and from house to bouse, and rather than surrender we

will bury ourselves in its ashes." The determination was passionately applauded by both Houses, and by the public journals. The news of the Emperor's capture has not shaken the courage of the nation. A new army is forming under the walls of Paris, and another on the Loire. The Senate has been abolished. The Republic is to repel invasion, as in 1792. A Defence Commission has been constituted. The Emperor left everything to the Regency in Paris, while offering to surrender himself a prisoner. Baron Lesseps is gazetted an honorary Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Mr Frelinghuysen declines to become United States Minister in England, vice Mr Motley. A Carlist rising in Navarre and the Basque provinces soon collapsed.