10 DECEMBER 1870, page 1

The Accounts Of The Paris Sorties Of Last Week Have

been, on the whole, scrappy and unsatisfactory ; but all correspondents agree in the tenacity of the fighting, the heavy losses on both sides, and in the general result, which......

Two Corps (general Bourbaki's And Crouzot's) Crossed The...

to the south of Orleans, at Sully and Jargeau ; one (General Pallieres) at Orleans, and two more, the 16th (General Chanzy's) and the 17th, seem not to have crossed at all, but......

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The Latest Despatches Are Rather Unfavourable To General...

The Duke of Mecklenburg reports from his head- quarters at Meung, dating the despatch on Thursday, December 8 :—" A severe but victorious battle was fought to-day by the Duke of......

The Battles Of The 2nd, And 3rd, And 4th December

on the Loire, which resulted in the recapture of Orleans by the Germans, and the retirement of the greater part of the French army across the river, have not as yet been really......

News Of The Week.

T IM text of General Butler's speech of the 23rd of November, which has reached England, was even franker than we imagined. He stated openly that he would compel England to......

The Grand Point Now Is, How Far General Grant Agrees

with his former adversary. The telegraphic summaries of\ his annual Message on the 4th give probably an undue impression of hostility ; but still it is clear that he is heaping......