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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NiCHT. 120.000 Prussians Engaged on Tuesday. Their Repulse Confirmed. Another Version of the Battle which Claims a French Defeat. Contrary Statements on both Sides. Bismarck's Cuirrasiers Totally To-tally Destroyed. French Peasantry Capturing- Prussian Dragoons. The Main French Army said to be Forced Back on Metz. iVineteen Spies Shot by the French. The French Official Statement State-ment of their Victory. Prince Albert of Prussia Killed, and several Generals Killed and Wounded. Platform of the Cincinnati Labor Convention. FOREIGN. By Cable. London, Aug. 18. An efficial dispatch dis-patch from Marshal Bazaine, dated 4 o'clock, Wednesday p.m., says : Yesterday, Yes-terday, late in the afternoon we gave battle between Deoncourt and Brion-ville. Brion-ville. The enemy were driven back. I will bivouac on the position we have taken. I halted my movement for several sev-eral hours in order to bring up a full supply of munitions. W3 had befoje us Prince Frederick Charles and Gen. Steinmetz. The following dispatch is not official, but is given to the public by the ministry min-istry : Verdun, Wednesday. The bittle still continues on this side of Mars la Tour, and it seems to be going on in our favor. A number of wounded wound-ed French and Prussian soldiers have been brought in to Brie'. A force of 1200 Prussians is encamped between Briey and St. Jean. They send out couriers who have entered Briey. Trustworthy parties arrived here from La Tour, who speak of a heavy engagement en-gagement there yesterday with a large portion of the Prussian arm-, which they sa- was charged with great vigor by our cavalry and garde imperial, and was thrown back on the Moselle. It is rumored that Gens. Frossard and Batlall are badly wounded. Thion-ville Thion-ville still remains in our hands. A Prussian column recently approached too near the town, and was saluted with a discharge of artillery. The enemy fell back with precipitation, and has since kept at a respectful distance. dis-tance. Paris, IS. The following additional details of Tuesday's battle near .ion-court .ion-court and Brionville is obtained from official sources : Prince Frederick Charles attacked our right and was firmly met. The corps of General Areard, at Rcson-viile, Rcson-viile, hastened into the action, which ceased only with night. The FrusMans repeatedly attacked, and were as often repulsed. Toward night a fresh corps sought to turn our position, but it was beaten off. Our losses are serious. General Battall is wounded. By S o'clock in the evening, the enemy was repulsed along the entire line. He had 12U.W0 men engaced. l'aris, Aug. IS. Algeria proposes to send fixe thousand volunteers to Fiance. Genera! Sarras tiles the la:e of Major-General Le Bouf, who h t resigned. re-signed. The Jjurnal J'f Drl-i't print- an ab.-urd story that the Kin: of Pni"'a. desirinc to be crowned KtLi-'-r"r r: Germany by the P01 e. has oftt-red Li-holiness Li-holiness an ayiuai in Gerinar.y. Cable special to the Til,,r.,f London. Lon-don. Aug. Is. Tue- i iv's ratt'.e i- t!i-crow:r,::g t!i-crow:r,::g yrx-fof the i ronch isiWL'i and c uhii nis. In the rf d; i-:-.-'.-!...- ' th '-. 1 :!.-', :; -1 ocis'.atif that the i'ni-.-:un l.-.i h. ; forced to abanuen their atterr.r: tj :n-tereert :n-tereert the French, and that H.'-rair.-; wa- v ur-'hnj hi- road ut.3; -: 1 I :o 'er.lun and Chalon-. Whhe hew.- -ie'Kr-". h rk 'r.:! ' rLl::J.u': I portion o!':he ja-t lh;.ao; arir.v to " erdnn. and were again stu: ur in Mea. It L? more than ever plain that no considerable part of the French army Cas ever succeeded in getrine far on the road from Metz to Verdun. Their delay, to whatever cause due. gave the Prussians time to come up, and they were able on Tuesday to attack at-tack with a front guard strong enough to arrest the French retreat, and brins tour French corps into action. When Bazaine found he could not shake off the Prussians' pursuit, he clearly resolved re-solved to crush the single corps before its support could arrive. For hours, the third Prussian corps, while supported sup-ported only by a cavalry division, was compelled to bear the brunt of a vigorous vigor-ous onslaught, from twice or thrice its own numbers. Toward the close of the day, reinforced by the 10th and part of the Sth and 9th corps, the PrussiaBS resumed the offensive, and when night fell the French army was greatly divided, divi-ded, and it is doubtful whether either of the main roads from Metz to Verdun Ver-dun remains to Bazaine. Three French corps, heretofore unscathed, belonging to Irossard's and the imperial guard were brought into action, which, on the French side was a general engagement, engage-ment, while on the Prussian side the larger part of the two armies of Stein-meu Stein-meu and Prince Frederick Charles were not on the field, and apparently not a single battalion of the Crown Prince, who is believed to be advancing steadily for Chalons. London, August IS. The junction of the armies of Bazaine and McMa-hon McMa-hon is expected at Vitry le Francois, near Chalon's, where the French expect ex-pect to make a stand. The commandant command-ant at Metz, on account of the deficiency; deficien-cy; of food, drives away the fugitives who throng the city. Indiscreet Prussians have been mobbed mob-bed at Bordeaux. The firemen are enlisted as soldiers and throng the streets of Paris, Gau-his Gau-his says, to the amount of 100,ou0. They wear their brass helmets. New York, Aug. 10. A dispatch dated London, H', 11.30 a.m., says the Daily cics of this morning contains con-tains a dispatch from Brussels, which says that Napoleon is .suffering from febrile monomania. He cries out that he has been betrayed. London, Aug. 19. The Tine says a dispatch from Berlin states that the French armies were separated at Mas la Tour, and the main army at Metz was checked by the first and second armies of Prussia. The Crown Prince with two corps is now marching to attack at-tack Frossard at Chalons. The dispatch dis-patch adds, Bazaine must cut his way through the German army or be forced to capitulate. London, Aug. 19, 0.30 a.m. Part of the French army has been forced back to Metz. The position there is regarded as very critical. It is believed be-lieved that preliminary negotiations for peace are under discussion here. Paris, Aug. 19. In the Corps Legislatif last evening Count do Pali-kao, Pali-kao, minister of war, in response to inquiry, made an explanation in regard to the tact of Gen. Trochu being declared de-clared Governor of Paris. The government govern-ment regarded it as a wise movement, he said, to confide the defense of the city of Paris to a person eminently qualified to increase security of peace in the minds of the citizens. General Trochu will be replaced in command of his corps. The reserves were formerly form-erly under his command. The Count then informed the Corps that at Tours the Prussians had suffered much in the late engagement. Their centre had been especially crippled. They had tried to retreat to St. Michael, but were unable to effect a junction with the Prince Koyal. The entire regiment regi-ment of the white cuirassiers, under command of Count Von Bismarck, was totally destroyed. Near Schlestadt the French peasantry attacked a troop of Prussian dragoons and made them prisoners. The Count then dwelt upon the tact that the dispatches from Prussian sources made no mention 0! these French victories. The remarks of the mini-ter were received euthus-iusticaily by the deputies. depu-ties. The London Tiiais publishes a special spe-cial telegram fioin Beilin this niiini-ing, niiini-ing, which contains the following : The French army has been dcleaied by the victory of the I'm ians at Mo-die. The main body has been loicc 1 back on Metz and brought to a stand by the first an l second German under Prince Frederick Charles and General Stoin-metz. Stoin-metz. The mad is tow open to Chalons for the Crown Prince, who has only General Trachu and .some fragments of MacMahon's corps to encounter en-counter on the way. Paris, Aug. 1'j. The journa1- if this morning say that nineteen Prussian Prus-sian fpies have latc'y tiecn arrc-tt-d. and after trial and condemnation by a council of war, they were -hot ;,t l or: Pe Maltrouge. 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