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Show LATEST .NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. 1 i Military Moveiueuts in Frauce. PRUSSIA'S DEMANDS. Journalistic Opposition in Madrid to Aota. A London Fog:. GENERA NEWS. ELECTION RETURNS. Hoffman Elected in ew York. General Democratic Gain. FOREIGN". New York, 9. The Tribunes special, headquarters of the army of the Loire, 6th, says, this army has increased in-creased rapidly and numbers 100,000 men. Artillery is abundant, but harness har-ness and saddles are deficient The men are well equipped and fed. The French generals can't make it out why they have been permitted to concentrate con-centrate so large a force unmolested. The French themselves, when changing front at Salbais, intended to attack but did not because the movement took six days instead of twenty-four hours. Their failure was due to the interference inter-ference of the Tours government, which insisted on directing every detail, de-tail, and had its own plan of battle: everything broke down from sheer ignorance and incompetency. Yet the generals are now blamed for delay. The correspondent of the World, writing i'rom Versailles, on the 7th inst., says, no truce is agreed upon, because tbe government insisted on re-provisioning re-provisioning the city, which the Prussian Prus-sian military authorities refused, although Bismarck was willing to concede con-cede it. Prussia stated her demands with considerable distinctness, excepting except-ing in regard to money. Her conditions con-ditions were the cession of Haute and Bas Rhine, the two departments containing con-taining the fortresses of Strasburg, Belfort and several lesser strong holds. As for money, she will not fail to reckon every groschen Prussia has spent in the war and demand its repayment. re-payment. I had a lengthy conversation with M. Thiers. He informed me of the diplomatic journey he had performed through Europe. He informed me it was not t:ue that England had taken the lead in the endeavor to obtain terms from Frauce, while Russia stood aloof. Tha reverse is true Thiers found Gladstone engrossed in the home office. He was indifferent as to the concerns of the rest of the world and was afraid to meddle with them. The Queen did not seem awake to the danger dan-ger arising for Engl.-nd from the formation for-mation of an all powerful monarchy in the centre of Europe. At St. Petersburg Thiers found friends. Who knows what Russia would have done had she been ready, but she was not armed. She could only givo the weight of her influence, and the action of her diplomacy. This was enough lo rouse England and make her take the lead. Then the four powers agreed to address Prussia collectively, and Austria was glad to do that little for -a power whose success would have delighted her. Italy, the least friendly of all the powers, hastily conceded her regret at tho fall of the Bonaparte dynasty. London, 4. The Tours government promises to issue a manifesto shortly, explaining the cause of the rupture of peace neeotiations at Versailles. The Gaxett dr France demands an immediate election to put an end to the arbitrary rule of the provisional government. The Moniteur mentions five military executions on Saturday last, through "Red" influences at Lyons and Marseilles. Mar-seilles. Advices from Lyons state that the Germans are advancing to occupy Co-ensot Co-ensot and the line to Nevers, There are twenty thousand German troops in D jon, with sixty pieces of field artillery. The citizens of the town have been forced to contribute half a million francs, as security tor the behavior of the inhabitants. A barricade committee has been formed at Lyons. The authorities there have recently received fifty thousand thous-and Remington rifles. Vast quantities quanti-ties of stores and a large number of cattle have been collected in anticipation anticipa-tion of a siege. Madrid, 'j. Twenty-nine editors of journals, issued in this city, have united in a manifesto opposing the candidacy of the Duke of Aosta for the Spanish throne. London, v, l:.'io p. ru. The city is enveloped in a fog- Lender) is as dark as midnight. A dispatch from Arlon -t:itcs that heavy cannonading was h-ard in the direction of Thionvi'Ie on Saturday and Sunday. It is supposed a battle took place. The Prussiaus in frODt of Paris have trained hawks to capture carrier tiij-eons tiij-eons sent out of Paris wiih dispatches. |