It seems that General Chanzy is male Commander-in-Chief of one
of the Loire armies, that to the north of the Loire, and General Bourbaki of the other with its head-quarters at Bourges, not that he was sent back to the North. The Army of the Loire is now called by M. Gambetta the Army of the North only relatively to the army he is getting up at Toulouse, which has apparently assumed the name of the Army of the South. Mr. Russell (the Times' correspondent) asserts that General Bourbaki commanded in the splendid attack on Beaune-la-Rolande on the 28th November, where, according to a previous account, which we still suspect to be true, General Crouzot was in command. The Army of Lille, under General Faidherbe, has done a spirited thing this week in advancing southward, with about 25,000 men, towards General Manteuffel's lines of communication and recap- turing Ham, as well as a German convoy of provisions. He has passed La Fere (which is garrisoned by the Germans), and a Lombard telegram (never very reliable) states that a force from before Paris has already been despatched to look after him. In
any case, his bold movement must cause great anxiety to the German commanders.
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