Rouen was entered by General Manteuffel on Monday, the Mobiles
who attempted to protect it having been defeated in two engage- ments on the 4th and 5th. The city, which appears not to have expected the enemy, made no resistance, but the General imme- diately levied a contribution of £600,000, of which £280,000 was -ordered to be paid at once. The fall of the capital throws nearly all Normandy open to requisitions, and, according to the latest accounts, German columns were advancing towards Havre, whose -citizens proclaim their resolution to resist. Situated as Havre is, between the sea and the hills, it ought to be defensible, but the French Navy has done nothing in this war, and the Mobiles fight, er decline to fight, on some principle still undiscovered. We shall not be surprised to hear that Havre has fallen, and in that case, as the Germans could obtain new supplies by sea, the French fleet must blockade one of their own ports. There are rumours also of -danger to Cherbourg, but General Manteuffel will hardly advance ao far into the Breton peninsula with the Breton army directly in his rear.
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