27 AUGUST 1870, Page 1

The papers are publishing, Friday, 6 p.m., accounts of a

battle near Montmedy, ending in the closing of the gates of that town. The Prussians have cut the railway between that and Sedan. The news, which comes to the Standard from Virton, in Belgium, is not yet intelligible, but shows that the Prussians are in some force across MacMahon's path.