The following statement of the strength and disposition of the
French army of the North appears in the papers of the week. The following statement of the strength and disposition of the French army of the North appears in the papers of the week.
Sum total of the infantry 49,000, cavalry 6,000. There are twelve companies of artillery and five of sappers and millers. The battering train consists of eighty pieces, of which forty are twenty-four pounders, and the rest sixteen-pounders and mortars. The Duke of Orleans commands the avant-guard. His head-quarters are
at Mena:hem. The head-quarters of the 1st division, under General Tiburce Sebastiani, are
at St. Nicholas, on the left bank of the Scheldt.
Those of the 2d division, under General Achard, at Schooten.
Those of the 3d division, under General Jamin, at Malines. Those of the 4th division, under General Faber, at lienigen. Those of the 5th division, under General Schraum, at Valenciennes.
To each division are attached two batteries of artillery.
There arc two divisions of cavalry.
The head-quarters of the 1st, under General De can, are at Alost ; those of the 2d, under General Gentil St. Alphonse, at Oudenar2de. To each division
is attached a battery of horse artillery. There are also two brigades of light cavalry, under Generals Lauristine and Simoneau.
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