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Show j LATEST NEWS EY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. French Defeat near Orleans. The Clerical Parly of Brittany Brit-tany and La Vendee refn ;e to tight under Guribaldi. The French Reinforced and Fighting: continued near Orleans. Bismarck's PIicy is to render France Powerless for Offense or Defense. REPORTED SURRENDER OF METZ. A VUUSSIAI DEFEAT AT I'AUIS. Further Klection Return. FOREIU.. Tours. 11. The Prussians having threatened to execute the municipal authorities of Ablis, they hare decided that one Prussian prisoner will be shot for every person killed by the Pius sians. The journals publish news of the death of Prince Irederick Charles. A large number of prisoners of war, including some Uhlans, arrived to day. The crowds collected to get a glimpse appeared much exasperated, and it required strong efforts for the authorities authori-ties to prevent retaliation on the spot, for the late Prussian atrocities. London, 11. A dispatch from St. Quentin, yesterday afternoon, says the Prussians had not reappeared in that section. There wero six hundred French troops of all sorts in the town. London, 11. A detachment of the aruiv of the Crown Prince defeated a portion of the army of the Loire yesterday, yes-terday, near Orleans, taking 1,000 prisoners and three pieces of arti.lery Tne French fi'-'d in disorder. The Prussian-; were a second time-repulsed time-repulsed at Cherezy, but rallied, and taking possession of the place set tire to it, aud it is now in ruins. The French say the Prussians have burnt several vn a;es in ihe plains of Bjaue The cf-rical. party in France, e-pe cially in Brittany and La Nendee, have taken umbrage at the popularity of Garibaldi, and refuse to fight undei littn. The national guards, lu,000 strong, unJer Guetave Flourens, demanded of .the givernmeut that chassepot rifles te given them, and that a change h--i made in the piactice of opposing oppos-ing on every battle field one Frenchman French-man w three Prussians. C he answe; was unfavorable, aud Flourens re. igueei his command. - London, 11. At last accounts from the scene of yesterday's battle at Athe nay, near Orleans, the Prussian cv airy was in close pursuit of the French troops. Russia denies all reports that she is making unusual military preparations. The entire press declare the government govern-ment wants peace. Copenhagen, 11. During the debate de-bate on the budget in the Folkthing to-day, the minister declined to make any reduction in the army estimates until the result of the war between Prussia and France is better known. Tours, 12. The minister of war pub lishes the following from Orleans at a lato hour last evening: The scene of the battle to-day was so near this city that balls and shells fell on the outskirts. out-skirts. The Prussians are near Galcno. The troops sent from Tours to reinforce the fifteenth corps, formed a. junction with that body near Artenay. Severe fighting has been renewed before St. Quentin. London, 12. Prince Napoleon has recently arrived in this city and is actively ac-tively intriguing lor the restoration of the Bonapartists. The Emperor himself him-self declines to sanction the schemes of the Prince. Berlin, 1-. The official accounts of the surrender of Strasburg are just published pub-lished here. Eleven hundred guns twelve thousand chassepots. three tons of ammunition and fifty locomotives belonging to the Paris and Sira-burg railroad fell into Prussian hands. Carpenters, Car-penters, masons and other laborers of i the city have been impressed to repair ' the fortifications. Iate advices lrom i the army besieging Met, say that up ! to Thursday la.-t, the Prtissiaus have burned twenty small villages ill that i vicinity. The Prussians shot a hun-: died aud fifty peasants for carrying on ' illicit warfare. Bazuine's soldiers were said to be greatly dissatisfied with the ! situation, aud had counselled a stir- j render. London, JU. The Time a lias an ar tide going to prove that Bi-marcks obvious policy is to render France i powerless for offeuce or del nee here- i af.er. 1 Berlin, 1J. The steam-hip Her-j man has arrived at 6vm.-n hi safety, j No French cruis.-rs were encountered : on the voyage. Chicago, U A special from New i York to the Ectning J',st s: vs private I d spatches state that Metz has .-urren-1 d red. with all the garrison. I The enemies' teout- r. Mr Mont- j d dier, beat a ba-ty retreat to-day, on . t e approach o'the French tireurs- and I mob les. j Cologne, 12 A writer b. ihe Frank-1 fort On-flte has seen boiot's hnMing ' 140 pounds of powder gninu lot-ward to Paiis. Tours, (t. 12. The u. .utiy hare ; just rec lived the folio., inp. The courier who brought the intelligence WS prmitt-d to ps t.hroujh the Prus-ian line: A bat ie occurred on j tie- Till itiSt , between Fort Ment j Val.inen, and St. Cloud, on the we-t .' side of Paris, the French under Gen-1 Gen-1 eral Pucrat having made a sortie in I force. The Prussians were complete-j complete-j ly defeated and retreated to Yereailles, entirely surrounding the position they had recently occupied, and from which they might have shelled the western part of ParL. Advices from various pans of France repeat the statements that the Prussians Prus-sians are committing the greatest atrecities upon the help. ess towns where the Franco-tiereurs gain advantage. advan-tage. The Prussians have not only -eized the authorities of towns, and demanded restitution for the capture of Prussians on pain of death of the authorities and burning the towns, but have also asacted that the Franco-tier-eurs themselves be delivered up for execution. In view of this frightful state of affairs, the government is reported re-ported to have again brought the subject sub-ject under the attention of the Prussian Prus-sian military authorities as well as cf the foreign Ambassadors to France. |