NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ENERAL CHANZY has evidently been too confident of his IX own strength. The bold enterprise of sending off General Bourbaki to attack General Werder in the East, raise the siege of Belfort, and move on the German communications at Nancy, must have been formed on the strength of General Chanzy's confidence in his power to cope with Prince Frederick Charles's Army, alone. That army has been vastly reinforced and refreshed during its three weeks' rest, and now evidently numbers at least 150,000 men. It has been divided into two, of which one, under the command of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, has advanced from Chartres by a slight circuit so as to descend on Le Mans from the Nort (by the Bellesme road), while Prince Frederick Charles him- self ushed westwards from Vendome by St. Calais on the same place. General engagements took place on the 10th and 11th, in which, according to the German accounts, 15,000 prisoners were taken, the engagement of the 10th being chiefly with Prince Frederick Charles's troops, and that on the 11th with the Duke of Mecklenburg's. As a result of these unsuccessful engagements, Genetal Chanzy was compelled, as the Germans say, to evacuate Le Mans on Thursday (12th), with the loss of at least seven guns and some mitrailteuses, and, according to the last German state- ment, the Germans were pursuing General Chanzy beyond Le Mans,—we conclude to the West. General Chanzy states that he could have held Le Mans but for the Bretons at La Tuilerie, who disbanded themselves, and thereby gave up the French positions en the right bank of the Huisne.
