Up to Thursday night neither of these three corps had
reached Versailles, but neither had been definitely beaten. Bergeret's corps, it is true, suffered severely from an unexpected fire opened by Mont Valerie; which caused half its excitable nervous Nationals to retreat in haste towards Paris ; but the remainder reached Sevres, and appear to have withstood there repeated attacks from the Versailles troops without retreating. They did not win: nything, but they did not go away. In the same way, Gustave Flourens' corps, though its leader was killed and itself forced to give up one position, still held on without a general retreat on Paris ; and Henri's corps, though driven out of Chatillon by a furious charge, still held Clamart and the neigh- bouring villages. The battle, or rather the campaign of three days, ended in fact in a compromise,—a languid truce, marked by rifle and artillery duels, enabling both parties to claim the victory. M. Thiers is, or says he is, sanguine of victory ; but on Thursday afternoon the Times' correspondent at Versailles, who is most hostile to the Reds, telegraphs that the situation is " moat grave," and that to subdue Paris it would be necessary to besiege it. The " successes of the Government have not been attended with the hoped-for results."
