The complete way in which the English Press has defeated
both French and German Generals is a sign of the times. The Daily News in particular had a complete account of the battle of Rezonville, a column long, telegraphed from the field, and its correspondent witnessed the action standing near the King. We may add he was worthy of his good fortune. No more effective birds'-eye view of a great battle was probably ever written by a civilian, as we take the correspondent to be. The same journal's correspondent with MacMahon gives us the only intelligible account of the Marshal's position, and both contrive to get their letters forwarded in tolerable time. The Times' principal corre- spondent is with the Crown Prince, and his letters, therefore, will nob be interesting till that leader advances nearer Paris. Two facts come out very strongly in all these letters,—that the Prussians commit no outrages, but that they mulct the people in a regular
and civilized but most merciless manner, taking all horses, carts, edibles, cigars, and above all, maps, and pay for them only in cheques "payable by the conqueror after the war."
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