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......

News Of The Week.

T HE week has been a bad one for France. The Crown Prince, whose Adlatus, General von Blumenthal, is said to be only inferior as a strategist to Baron von Moltke, has been......

The Germans Further Affirm, And In This They Are Backed

also by English correspondents, that General von Falkenstein with 50,000 men has been ordered to the front ; that the reserve battalions of the regiments crushed at Worth,......

The German Government Has Not As Yet Published Any Estimate

of its actual losses, though it has given lists of officers killed ; but the Berlin correspondents estimate them at about 50,000 men for the battles alone, that is, not counting......

The Conduct Of The French Chamber During The Week Has

been remarkable. The spirit of the Imperialists is evidently giving way, and three successive motions have been carried having for their object to add members of the Chamber to......

On The Other Hand, The Story Of Marshal Macmahon's Hurried

retreat from Chalons is, we believe, erroneous. After a careful collation of the official telegrams, the statements of the Minister of War about good news in his possession, the......

It Is Necessary To Recur To These German Accounts Of

their own numbers. The German papers affirm with one voice that when the King entered France there were 250,000 troops with the Red Prince, 250,000 with the Crown Prince, and......