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Show ICoKahoa and EazimaTJnited tTIi3 D3cisi73 Struggle Approaching. Ap-proaching. Parii has ConSdsncs in TrochiL Stsinnetz and Frederick Charles have lost Gver 100.000 Men, and have only 150,000 to hold th-sir entire line, A Feeling of Horror and Depression De-pression in Eerlin. Sword of Honor to McBIahon. The Crown Prince's March cn Paris Stopped He has gone to assist the Army west of Metz. EEcHahon Driven to Leave Paris open to the Crown Prince or Sacrifice Bazaine. Details of the Prussian Armies in France. FOREIGN. By Cable. Pari-:, "3, midnight. -Le IVcs-?. in an extra, makes t he following statement state-ment : AVe are now at liberty to make public the fact that McMahon hai joined 15;iz:iine with a great number of iioojis. Bazaine has not abandoned his strong position near jMotz. McMahon McMa-hon moved north, by vray of Iiheims, Mezieres and Montmedy, and has reached a position where he can enter upon tin- decisive strugele. c Public says : I'ull confirmation of ilii good news from the aimy was received re-ceived to-day. The inhabitants of Paris have ad-drei-sed a letter to Tr chu, and expressed ex-pressed the utmost confidence and hopes in his energy for the defence of ihe city. iNewYork, Aug. 23.-The Worlds cable, London, 23. All I lie news from Paris to-day confirms the statement that Bazaine has succeeded in withdrawn!;: with-drawn!;: the bulk of his army from .Meiz. It seems still uncertain whether he is moving to St.Monhold lo join McMahon, Mc-Mahon, or awaiting co-operaton from there of McMal.ou. In c;ise of the latter he is suppo-ed to intend lading in force on the Crown Prince, or to attack at-tack Steiimieiz and Fuderii k Charles ac Metz. Creditable authority assuies me these two have lost over 110.000 men. leaving them no more than 15th-uUU 15th-uUU to hold the line from the frontier to Metz. The feeling in Berlin is of undeniable horror and depression. The war threatens to last, and already the flower of North Germany is decimated. The railways are taken up with the wounded, and so delay the movement of reinforcements. A boats service is organizing on the lihine for the wounded, wound-ed, and three steamers are already con- A speeial messenger from St. Petersburg Peters-burg has arrived with important in-stiuctiuiis in-stiuctiuiis to the legation hero. Ilus--ia ms.-t-i that Prn.-sia shall he held to her origii.al pretext in the ar, and tiift iio territorial aggrandi-emeiit will be permitted by either power. 'Ihe iais.-iau Baltic fleet is under s til'.ng orders. A Paris spee'al reports that the proeureur imperial, who commanded a company of sharp-shooter-, was cap tuied by he Pru.-.-ian an I shot be-rau be-rau e be d d no; belong to the army. Ganl'Li 1 rotests against s.ieh outrages. T.ie Mib-eription for a swurd of In. n .r to t e present, d to I.i:shal Mo-Mah..n Mo-Mah..n ba- e'.'Sed. A bfL-e sum of money was ra -e.l, an 1 nsany jewels w re t;v. ii for lb'' purpe-e L.nel.n. L".. Tl..- l'.ei- eO'l-.-J Cf.J- .v.- ,n,h d i. p':- t! at Ii ;'i:m',is -u ee: .;e 1 ri c'":;;!i; t!ii V;",:;'-;.r :.' " . .V' a".':".; !Lb.;':'': 'i. i. i;:;- ', : ' . . . .. l ; x' t- s - : Mill II III "'""Wi!" said the committee was nuTEerous enor.;h, and in the rame of tbe whole cabinet, he repelled Kerarrr's proposed question cf eor.fijeuce thus raised. The deputies r.-lied on the detats on the matter, which will be decided tomorrow. to-morrow. The .V'w'r s-.ys the dispatch alluded to was brc-'U'bt by a raessertcer from Bazaine to 1'aliiao.and contained much important and faverabie news which has been wr Ivld from t'.ie public pub-lic by Pa'.ikao. Certaia deputies will sustain hii position. Piouher went to Chalons to eenil-r with the Em per r an d accompt-.niei him to Pheiais. A number of Pro&tan spies were arrested ar-rested t'day. The Loudon Timet to-day exhorts the French to consider what the defense of Paris must cost, and urges them to seek almost any alternative. The defense de-fense of Paris cannot seriom-ly defer its capture. The fortifications of Luxemburg hare been razed. Seven hundred and Cl.y millions of francs of the loan have already been taken. It is certain that a project has becu brought before the great powers, having hav-ing for its object the prevention of the dismemberment of Prance. The French government assures the Pope that Italy has no intention of attacking at-tacking Borne. London, 23. It is reported the Crown Prince of Prussia has withdrawn his army from the advance on Paris and has gone to support the Prussian armies west of Metz, whose position is SJriously threatened with a formidable attack i'rom Bazaine, who is said to be reinforced by McMahon. Mew York, 23. A special telegram, dated London. 23, p.m., says: Private advices assert that the Chalons army has gone in the direction of Thionviile, in a desperate enort to ertect a junction with Bazaine, escaping the Crown Prince and passing the main German army to the north of Verdun. McMahon McMa-hon is driven to a choice of two cvilf, either to leave the road to Paris open to the Crown Prince, or by holding it to sacrifice Bazaine's army. Paris, Aug, 23. The journals to-day say the dispatch received here from Bazaine, in which he declares his intention in-tention of remaining near Metz without with-out fighting, is full of explanation. The dispatch admits that Bazaine's communications were at one time en dangered, but are now secure. All is I quiet at Iiheims. It is reported that Brest, the leader of the Yillette outbreak, who was condemned con-demned to death, wishes to make a confession and promises some startling revelations. Three more men impliea ted in the a flair were tried and sentenced sen-tenced to-day by the council of war. A decree is officially promuleated, declaring the depaitments of 2sierry and Cherr in a state of siege. The Constitutionntl, on semi-official authority, contradicts in the most positive posi-tive terms the report in the London Times that the Empress Eugenie sued for the mediation of Queen Victoria. All the journals here indignantly deny the truth of the report, also printed in the London J('me., that the metrail-leurs metrail-leurs are loaded with explosive bullets. Paris, Aug. 23. Gavlais a-serts that Prussia has applied throueh Lord Granville for the consent of the French Commanders to allow her wounded to the number ol ft5,000 to be sent home through Belgium and Luxembourg, and Bazaine positively refu-es. London, Aug. 23, 9 p m The general gen-eral headquarters of the Fri neh army on Sunday night were a few mil s west of Bheims. Edmund Loxior writes thence to the Si'vlc that the deepest depression prevailed, and the Empiror receives nobody. The extraordinary fore-j ca''ed out by the Swiss government is retumiiiL' home, the regular army Lei in: con-id cied sufficient to protect the neutrality of the country. The following statement, from a fcmi-official source, lorosha lows the demands likelv to bo made by Prus.-ia in case of ni'-eess : At the fill termination of tie! war, the time will have a-iivvd wlien Ger many must lie Irecd 1'ri-ln F:eie li interference inter-ference an 1 men ices, and h ive a long period of uiibr ken p aee. A -bailee ol'dyna-ty iu France would be iu-ulhc-i,-nt t insure thi-, for the n -xt v.vir-eL'n v.vir-eL'n would K'ck as soon a o-.-ible to reeovrr the loss (if ini.iU'V pre-t go of France, and the burthen of jo urine 1 peace would f. perpe! uatod. Snppo-c Erinee ehouM is-ue from tli s'r gj with her strength unimparel, a .l w.th her strr.n: bol i- wii.-n.- .-!.' 1 infirai '.-s the valiey of tbe IPune an 1 I the Pahtanate int..e :!, ii en iwhi.-h th- in-.pa-ity oi Fr-i. h i- -r-!al- and t'e- 1 r.i: '.v . f ' :.i ti a: HIV Lav.' ile'iieo I u.. . v- 1 c 1. Th"re .a I no t .-: w . by ' 1 ' f' " !:l - ' ' '- ' tie.- ten... a..' . ' ' . ' -" ...17 il'IL- Wle : el- -o . 7 . . e, 1 '. t and 12;h Prussia sraards. the tot.; j "! Sas--a c-r-rt-?, and th Jir-Isios cf the) Gratia l'uehy cf Ce?.e. Thts is the j" strongest, of the three arnnts. It cn-j tains fortT-cijht recimet'.s ot in.'-ctry with three batteries to each tour regiments, regi-ments, of infantry ; thirty-ibur rcgi-ments rcgi-ments of eav.vty. The segregate, in round numbers, is 220. ("-0 u:ea and 600 cans. The third army corp. under un-der the Crown Prince, is formed oi two . Bavarian arn-.y corp?, under Uctvnfs Towr and Uerman. containing eu.-h ci;ht regiments of ir.fin.ry, five battalions batta-lions of riflemen and Ave regiments of eavalrv ; one mixed corp? of Baden nd "Wurteniburgtroops. commanded by General Von W order, consisting of e'eht regiments of infantrv, two battal- 1 ions of riflemen, four reciments of cavalry, cav-alry, fiv. batteries of the army belong- ing to Wurtcmburc; six regiments of infantry, three of cavalry and eitrht batteries of artillery belonging t Baden Ba-den : also the fifth and fifteenth Prussian Prus-sian army corps, containing sixteen infantry and sixteen cavalry regiments, and thirty batteries of artillery. The trend total of the German forces in France is 520,000, divided into sixteen army corps. Up to this time 300.000 of the landwehr have entered Alsace and Lorraine, and infest and occupy places in the rear, and relieve the regular reg-ular soldiers of '.hose duties. so that they may join their own regiments in the' front. ' Orders are issued to dis-bmd dis-bmd the veteran reserves called out at the commencement of the war. |
