The useless negotiations for armistice have prevented any consider- able
sortie during the week ; but perhaps we shall hear to-morrow or Monday of another as having taken place yesterday, as Friday sorties have been so long the fashion. According to yesterday's telegram from Berlin, "deserters from Paris said that General Trochu was preparing a grand sortie ; " but then deserters seldom tell the truth, and perhaps seldomer know it. The only fighting round Paris of which we have had any fresh news this week, is the bloody affair at be Bourget, on the 30th ult., where both French and Germans lost so heavily. It would seem that General Bellemare ordered the occupation of Le Bourget on the 28th without orders from General Trochu, and that he received orders to evacuate Bourget after taking it without obeying. He has been superseded for his fault. The French prisoners were a de- tached body on the north of Le Bourget, who were cut off in the retreat. On the other hand, the discontent in the German camp at the heavy sacrifice of life in retaking Le Bourget has been very great. The place was of no strategical importance either to the Germans or the French, but the Crown Prince of Saxony thought it a matter of honour to retake Le Bourget, and ordered it to be done. When it was represented that it would cost the Guards dear, as the French had begun to entrench and fortify themselves, the remark was made that it would scarcely be credit- able to the Prussian Guard if they were to refrain from doing their duty from such considerations. And it was retaken, at the cost of 36 officers and 449 men. Both the French and German officers who were responsible for the affair have been bitterly cen- sured. Indeed, the French loss being almost wholly in Parisian volunteers, the mourning and resentment in Paris were passionate..
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