Elsewhere the week has not been remarkable. General Jouffroy, one
of General Chanzy's subordinates, has gained some outpost successes near Vendome ; and General Roy, in Normandy,, on the left bank of the Seine, has been defeated, and lost two guns and some colours to the Germans. Everything seems to indicate that General Chanzy is at last really advancing from Le Mans. The German head-quarters assert it, and the Duke of Mecklenburg has gone to Chartres to be at the head of his army. M. Gambetta has gone to join General Chanzy. On the Loire there have been indications also of Bourbaki's advance from Bourges, in outpost affairs near Gien. Mezierea and Rocroi have been taken by the Germans on the Belgian border, and now everything depends on the gallantry of Paris and of the three relieving armies. Unless Chanzy and Bourbaki can do better than Faidherbe has done as yet, Paris will be starved out,—unless, which no longer seems probable, the Paris army can deliver itself.
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