The grand attack began, as recorded last week, at Weissem-
burg. After the destruction of General A. Douay's division, the Crown Prince pushed on towards Saverne, on his road to Nancy ; but was encountered on the 6th inst., at Worth, by Marshal Macmahon, who on receipt of the intelligence from Weissemburg, had hurried up with his own corps and some divisions from that of De Failly, probably in all 40,000. The battle raged all day at Worth and Reichshofen and the neighbouring villages, and every- where the process and its results were the same. The French attacked furiously, often literally cleaving the German regiments ; but new regiments after regiments appeared, the steady German fire withered the French divisions, and at last the French fled, leaving ten thousand killed and wounded—the number is official on both sides, as explained elsewhere-5,000 prisoners, thirty pieces of artillery, six mitrailleuses, and all baggage behind. So terrible was the demoralization produced that Marshal Macmahon abandoned the passes of the Vosges, and threw himself into Nancy, where De Failly joined him with the remainder of his troops, where he received reinforcements, extent unknown, from the Garde Mobile at Chalons, and where he still remains. The Crown Prince pursued to Saverne, which he occupied on the 7th inst., and there the latest intelligence leaves him.
