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Show World's speoial, London, Sep. 30. Your special at Bologne telegraphs that exciting news was received from Rouen of a crowning defeat of the German forces on the south and west of Paris, by the anuy of Generals Ducrat and Meudon, on the 27th. The French were reinforced on Monday by Gen. Trochu, aud advanced ou the German position at Moutreueil and Versailles. Early on Tuesday morning the battle began at Viceroy and Velisy, the Germans contesting the French advance with desperate energy, until they were assisted by fresh columns ad-vancing ad-vancing from beneath the guns of Mont Valerien, at St. Cloud, through the Bois de Frausses, Reveres and Vouressou, where a number of regi-merjs regi-merjs of the Baden troops mutinied in the battle-field, and refused to go under fire. Nearly a hundred of these troops were shot by order of the Ger man commander, but the rest still held back, and uianv, throwing down their arms, dispersed through the foiests. if he Crown Prince was finally compelled com-pelled to order a retreat upon Ban-guival, Ban-guival, abandoning Versailles to the victorious French. The German columns col-umns which attempted the passage of the Seine at Bonguival, were kept under un-der a terrible fire from Mont Valerien, which converted the retreat into a route, and they were driven beyond St. Germain. Night alone stopped the pursuit. The Germans lost 5 UJO prisoners, among whom were many officers of the staff of the Crown Prince of Prussia, and fifty cannon and mct-railleures. mct-railleures. The road to Orleans and Tours is re-opened and cleared of the enemy. Reports from Paris are tiiat ihv general state of feeling is excellent, perfect order is prevailing aud the morale of the people an I troops is much improved by tho . successes of Trochu and the army of defense. World cable, London, Sept. 20. V our special at Ostcnd contradicts the reports of the bad state of the army comniissiarat at Metz. The army of Bazaino h is sufiicient provisions for six months, with abundance of bread and fresh vegetables. The German armies nro inactive, nothing but skirmishes skir-mishes of slight importance having occurred for -mine time pa-'!. Cible special to the l-mhl : Stras-burg, Stras-burg, Sept. '2'). On Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, the joyful sight of the white Hag was beheld living from the cathedral. cath-edral. This was followed by the same welcome token of surrender fro u the citadel. The firing instantly ceased, and the universal cheer which rose from one portion of the besieging lines, was soon caught up ?nd echoed throughout through-out the army. The scene which followed fol-lowed was indescribable. Excited officers offi-cers embraced each other, clasping hands. The men followed this ex-1 ample, aud some actually cried with joy. Yesterday I was fortunately enabled en-abled to enter with a Baden regiment. The sight was impressive and sad. At the same time it was relieved by the evident joy of the citizens, at their release from their terrible condition of suffering. The commanders of the two forces, Generals Werder and Ul-rich, Ul-rich, met for tho tirit time yesterday, after the terms of the capitulation had been arranged. The meeting took place just inside the gate ou the cast i side. General Cinch advanced to I General eider, and with a voice much I agitated, said : "I have yielded to an ' irresisaule lbree, when further resist- j auce was only a reckless sacrifice of the lives of brave men. I have the consolation conso-lation of knowing I have yielded to an honorable enemy. " General Werder, much affected, placed both bands 0u Orick's shoulders and said : "You ! fought bravely. You wi.l have as ! much honor from the enemy as you am hare from your own countrymen." Ail arms were surrendered except the officers' side arms. A hasty eiauiiea don of a oortion of the c-iiy, shows it has not sutlered as nin-' i as was I supposed. I he exterior of ;!tc ealhe-' dral ar-p.;;rs much in.iar-.-i. but not sutliei-'utiy to pr.vua it ; -tor.uien in its original shape. New York. Oct. . A ,-ial iVoaj London says General fijurt',-.i has escaped es-caped from Mot.7. He le.t the fortress for-tress and city in the garb of a peasant. I and in this disguisr cot si',--ly thronch I the Pru.-sian lines. He arrived in ; En-land yesferd iv and immediately took train to Ila-tinc-. on a vi-it to the Empre-s. Ic is believed that the c-n-'-ral is lh"i bearer of di-p at :he-s from Bazune. ani it is cur'nin lie will, now that he is outside of the iur;re-s, try ' ! have tho-e notions di-pe'Vl as to the present condition of tie- Emperor. T"ii's. Oct. I- Lis-ati K-r. the ser-natit, ser-natit, htjs arrived here frotu Par!-, and has pu! lis!. el in a i ju nal ati interesting interest-ing narrative i.t' h's balloon trip ana ; the situation of affairs in Paris at the i time he left. He started from the j cby at 2 o clock yesterday afternoon. I No Prussians were to be be seen near Pans. Complete silence reigned about the city. There were no people to be I -ecu on the roads leading to the city, I and no boats of any kind on the river, j On neanng crsailles. the Prussians i w-re obs -rved in great numbers iff icamp. Lissanier droppjd among t icm great numbers of proclamations of the givernuient officers, which had beeu printed iu the German language lan-guage tor that e-pecial purpose. The Germans opened a sharp tire on the balloon, but the range was too long and no damage was done. On arri ving over H ouden fifteen miles southwest south-west ot Nantes, the balloon began t full, and Lissander was obliged to throwout ba last. Fortunately he had several packages of newspapers, which answered the purpose, and he was not obliged to throw over his letters or sacrifice anything valuable. The bal loon then rose rap idly, and wa cairied along to a point u-ar I'rcux. in the department of Eur tt Loire, many miles west of the Prussian lin.'s. Lissander Lis-sander descended slowly until he came within hailing distance of a few peasants, peas-ants, whom he now saw for the first time. These assured him there was no danger of capture. No Prussians had yet been seen in that neighborhood. neighbor-hood. Lissauder therefore alighted on reaching an open space favorable to his project. The balloon was propely sccured and the letters, twenty-five thousand iu number, were placed in sacks and taken to the post office of Dreux, whence they will be forwarded in all directions, wherever lines of communication com-munication are not interrupted. A special locomotive was placed at the command of Lissander at D.-eux, in which he came forward to Tours, with a large number of dispatches to the irovernment,' relative tj -matters iu Paris. He s ivs the city of Paris Ls defended de-fended by more than five hundred thousand soldiers beh-nl the walls. These are all armed and disciplined. The firing from the forts has been so accurate the Prussians have been baffled in their attempts to erect batteries. The city is perfectly tran.mil. Nearly all the shops are open as usual, and the public squares are occupied by trooos, which are there drilled and equipped. Jours, 1. Advices from Paris on the 20th, say the Prussian oilic.-rs demanded de-manded the surrender of Fort d'lvey, on the south-east of th ; city. The commandaut promptly refused. A messenger mes-senger of the government from Tours succeeded in entering Paris. The Prussians Prus-sians seem disinclined to attack the eity. They still o :eupy tlu heights at a respectful distance from the FYencb forts. When they see convoys or re-counoisauees, re-counoisauees, they open lire with shot and shell. They have constructed an entrenched camp at ersail.es, and seem to have goue into winter quarters there. Pithiviers, oO.'via Tours, 1. Fifteen hundred Prussians now occupy the town. At Nonnes the citizens have barricaded the streets and will defend themselves. Rouen, 30, via Tours, 1. An engagement en-gagement occurred near here yesterday, between a body of French sharp-shoot-ters and Prussian scouts. The latter were driven of!'. Beauvise has been occupied by the Prussians. Evereuux, 30, v'a Tours, 1. Another Ano-ther balloon from Paris passed over this town to-day. London, Oct. J. The Prussians now surrounding Pa.-isare said to have received orders to keep outside the range of the French guns. The French are clamorous to be led on a sortie. New i'ork, Oco 1. A cable dispatch dis-patch says, Chaucellor Delbruck, iu his official report to the Prussian Government, Gov-ernment, announce that his negotiations negotia-tions with the government of South Germany, ihus far ate notably successful. success-ful. He has concluded satisfactory preliminary discussions for the establishment estab-lishment of the northern and southern German boundaries. He finds a cheerful cheer-ful willingness to treat upan a basis of terms honorable alike to all. London, Oct. 1. A Prussian otlicia' dispatch reasserts t but there was sharp fighting before 1'aris on tho 2ith and 25 th. Berlin, Oct. 1. King iViliiaua has forwarded the following dispatch to Oueen Augusta. from his headquarters, Ferreriers. ih.ted yestenity: Early this morning the French troops made a sortie against the troops of the sixth Prussian corps, while the Prussian fifth carps was attacked by three battalions. bat-talions. At the same time a brigade made a demonstration against the 11th corps. At the end of two hours, the French took shelter under the guns of the forts. The Crown Prince commanded the Prussians. London, 1 , A dispatch from Bombay, Bom-bay, dated September 20th, is just, received, re-ceived, and has the following. Tieut-zieu Tieut-zieu advices report that the Chinese have refused the ultimatum of the French aud are pre paring lor war. The French are waiting orders -from the home government, belbre proceeding to extremeties. L mdon. Oct. 1. A bulletin, signed by Gambetta, is published extensively this morning, announcing that the Prussians had b.en routed, th it Viu-cenncs Viu-cenncs and Versiilles had been retaken re-taken with six thousand t.rL-oners, ine'uJing the Prussian staff officers, and much artillery; and that eommun-icatiun eommun-icatiun between Paris and Rouen was restore I The di-patch is generally I thought to be spuriaUs. Tiie French have a rep art that on Wednesday the bridge s arming the O.se, at Crcil, cr. e wiy under the weight of the Prussian Canuun. which were being moved aero--, whereby st-v- I er.d of them were precipitated into tn-.- ' hvlt. I in re v,t-;u-"' sonte i-.ss ot' i uiiricuon has eot resit nc-i bis place J in the I'l'ciich piui-io:.al governnjeut. r.s has been roo -rL-a. j I he election lbr lnembeis of the C on- i ' stituviit As-ambly in iramv wiii r.-eur on the 2' t h imt. , |