The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-28 00:00:00

THE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS.

The special correspondent of the Daily News at the
Headquarters of the Crown Prince of Prussia sends the
following by special despatch, January 26th :—During
last night and to-day the German batteries kept up a
steady fire on the St. Denis forts, which increased in
violence, when the French fire was renewed at irregular
intervals. In the course of last night the two batteries
on Montmorency were advanced 2,000 paces nearer St.
Denis to positions near Villanteneuse. To-night the
batteries at Ormeson and Enghien are to be pushed
forward an equal distance. This approach will materially
strengthen the German fire. There are now no French
outposts to the north of the forts ; the glacis marks the
edge of the French position ; nor is there any posibility
of any further sortie. Since last night the French engineers
have cut up and barricaded the outlets, to prevent them
from serving as inlets. This has been done with great la-
bour and substantiality. They have, at least, effectually
blocked themselves in. The German losses in the bat-
teries are trifling. Mont Avron has not been occupied
by the Saxons, but they yesterday established one bat-
tery a good way in front of Villiers on the horse-
shoe, at shorter range, of Nogent, and another in
front of Champigny, to deal with the redoubts of
Faisanderie and Gravelle. The eastern fire on
neither side has been hard for the last three days.
There are faint rumours of negotiations, but
nothing reliable. The following I have heard creditably
named as the boundary of the territorial demands agreed
, on by the German authorities :—A line starting from the
corner of Luxemburg frontier at Longwy, coming south
by Brie, passing between Mars-la-Tour and the plateau of
St. Hubert, thus bisecting the battle-field of G-ravelotte,
and making Fort St. Quentin overlook the frontier
line ; passing down the ravine to the gorge
crossing the Moselle below the Nogent, leaving Port-a-
Mousson some three miles inside France ; passing through
Chateau-Salins and Marsinvillier, then striking due south
to the Meurthe below Lune ville, thus sparing to France
that town and Nancy; then running due south from St.
Di 4 to Belfort and Montbgliard, both of which would be
the frontier fortresses ; and finally striking Switzerland at
Delle.

From the special correspondent at the headquarters of
the Crown Prince of Saxony the following is despatched,
January 24 :—The great event of the day is the coming
of M. Jules Favre to Versailles. He passed the position
held by Bavarian corps south of Paris yesterday evening,
and arrived here at midnight. He proceeded immediately
to the residence of Count Bismarck. It is said that M.
Favre comes to treat of surrender, and there can be no
doubt that this mission has reference to the state of affairs
in and before Paris rather than to any project of travel-
ling to England. Very brisk cannonade took place
yesterday, not only from the French batteries at Point du
Jour and from the enceinte of Paris, but also from
the outlying forts. Issy and Montrouge found voice
again, and hammered fiercely at their assailant.
The conjecture ventured by several observers that the
orts, though silenced awhile, were preparing for future
work, is seen to be correct, and the German wisdom in
attempting nothing rash against them is fully proved.
To-day there is a thick fog. Little can be done
in the way of bombarding. But the presence
of Favre does not imply,. I understand, any
suspension of arms. General Vinoy has relieved
General Trochu of command. Trochu's cautious strategy
is unpopular, despite the wholesale slaughter tbat the
last sortie entailed. Pushing bravely into the German
positions before Valerien, the French lost thousands in
the vain attempt to force back the besiegers. It is almost
certain that 5,000 French were put hors de combat, and
nearly 500 were captured. The German loss was 600.

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