The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-13 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The special correspondent of the 'Telegraph sends the
following from Versailles, dated January 10 :—During
Sunday night not only shells, but also rockets were fired
from the German batteries into Paris. The bombardment
of that city, as well as the circumjacent forts and out-
works, is now an officially recognised proceeding, and the
attack is ordered to be carried on without intermis-
sion. The active prosecution of the siege operations
has been placed absolutely under the direction of
the chief of artillery, who is virtually independent of the
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief the armies of in-

vestment. All the batteries, whether of siege guns, mor-
tars, or rockets, are supplied with ammunition for eighteen
days. All the scientific officers count upon the surrender
of the city before that supply shall have been
exhausted; but, at the present rate of firing, the
ammunition already provided in the batteries
would last for a month, and additional large
quantities are constantly being brought up. Yesterday
there was a heavy snowfall—the heaviest we have yet
had—which interfered with the prosecution of the bom-
bardment during daylight ; and consequently the firing
was slack. The forts are very slack in answering the
bombardment, but the enceinte and the emplacements
keep up a lively and continuous fire. Three
shells struck by a French obus exploded in No. 1
battery. The front actually under attack consists of
about a quarter of the enceinte, or twenty-three bastions,
mounting in all six hundred guns. The heaviest French
guns are mounted at Montmartre. There are few monster
pieces, except those on Mont Valerien, on this side
of the defences. Fort Issy has been much damaged
internally, and on Fort Montrouge the barracks
' and buildings within the ramparts have been burned
down. It is intended to destroy the Hotel de
Ville, the Invalides, and the Luxemburg Palace.
Next Sunday night, ten thousand incendiary shells
will be thrown into Paris. On the night of the Bth 86
Germans captured, by a coup de main, the French
battery Notre Dame de Clamart, situated on the left
bank of the railway line, about 1,700 yards in advance of
any position hitherto taken by the Prussians on this side
of Paris. The guns of the work were immediately
turned upon Fort Issy, and a smart fire was opened,
which did most of the damage sustained by that fort.
General Vinoy reviewed the French troops outside of
Paris yesterday. Whilst he was riding along the
line, the soldiers cried out, "La paix !" to which
he replied, "Au contraire, je vais vous conduire au feu ! '
The actual strength of the fighting armies now in France,
including the recent drafts, is about 630,000 men of all
arms. The Ist Bavarian Corps—that of Von der Tann—
which was so badly cut up in the battles to the west of
Orleans, has received reinforcements. Around Paris
there are eight full corps, besides cavalry and Landwehr.
Opposed to Chanzy there are four full corps and
two cavalry divisions, while Bourbaki is attended
to by three full corps, and some detachments besides. In
the North there are two full corps—the Ist and the Bth—
now transferred to the command of Von Goben, Man-
teuffel having been sent to assume the command-in-chief
of the Army in the East, which, I believe, will be called
the Fourth Army. Several changes of command have
also taken place in the German Army of the Loire,
and in the corps which compose the Army of the
East. Generals Werder and Zastrow, with the 14th
and 7th Corps, along with the 2nd Army Corps, are look-
ing out for Bourbaki. Werder's Corps is now accidentally
strongly than any other in the whole army. Many drafts
and reinforcements from Germany, Strasburg, and other
places in Alsace, which were originally intended
to march westward, and join the other corps,
have been sent over to the 14th. Zastrow's
Corps has also been fully reinforced. His
right wing rests on Auxerre. All the town garrisons

—not those of the fortress towns of course—and the
Etappen-commandos in Alsace have been dissolved and
despatched to strengthen the armies in the field, the
inhabitants in those regious being now fully submissive to
the German rule. A victory, won by Zastrow, has just
been reported. Rumours of mediation, offered by the

neutral Powers, is growing stronger 4nd stronger,

LAWYERS AGAINST EACH OTHER. —At the Court of
Queen's Bench, the Attorney-General moved, on behalf
of Mr.. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Harrington, members
of the bar at Oxford Circuit, for a rule nisi calling upon
Mr. George Walker, who was also a member of the bar,
to spew cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against him for libel, contained in letters written to
them containing most serious reflections on their profes-
sional character and conduct ; in fact, inputing to them
that they had deliberately conspired together for the
purpose of betraying their olient's interest in the case of
Walker v. Lord Valentia, in an action tried in the spring
of 1869, at Oxford, before Mr. Baron Pigott. The Lord
Chief Justice said the learned counsel ought to have a
rule.—Rule granted.

OUR, COTEMPORARTES—This is orning