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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1870,

WATCHING a chess-board in the very crisis of a
battle royal in that peerless game—the board is
jogged. Everything is in confusion. Kings and
queens, knights, and bishops, and castles, and pawns,
all are jumbled together. Most of them are standing,
but nearly every piece is transposed. A. confusion
worse confounded even than this is precisely what
we have all been witnessing very recently while
watching the map of the seat of war and lis-
tening to the telegrams as they arrived
intermittently. Alsace and Lorraine having been
traversed by the German armies, Champagne has
been entered, and suddenly all the corps d'arm6e are
at cross purposes. Unlike contending players at
chess, however, the competing principals at the
deadlier game of war, are constrained to carry on the
play, under these circumstances, uninterruptedly.
The CROWN PRINCE and his army are between
MACMAHON and the capital. MACMAHON is marcli-
ing in hot haste from Paris towards the frontier,
the CROWN PRINCE pursuing him by forced marches.
Roughly putting it, that is the altered situation.

Precisely at this turning point in the campaign,
when everything is opened to conjecture, a writer,
whose name breathes of the revolutionary atmos-
phere, just as the hands of an artilleryman in the
midst of a fight are grimed with gunpowder, thrusts
himself forward among those who are discussing
the course of events, and from his neutral stand-
point, here in England, draws the most sinister
conclusions, throws out hints of the most
malign tendency, adventures upon statements of the
most unjustifiable character. M. Louis BLANC has
been living here in London in the midst of us for
years. He has enjoyed the protection of our laws
as an exile, almost uninterruptedly since the date of
the Republic of February. For his abilities he has
been respected, during this protracted interval of his
expatriation. With his Republican principles we have
nothing whatever to do. But now, after all these
years of his peaceful sojourning among Englishmen,
it must surely be apparent to every one, even to
himself, that he should act with fairness, that he
should act with honour, in regard to the land in
which he has been so long living without molestation.
Instead of so acting, he has gone directly
counter to the law. He has most unjustifiably
written from this neutral country that we are not
neutrals, that we are exulting over the agonies of pne
of the two great belligerents, that we are all wish-
ing success heart and soul to the other. Let M.
LOUIS BLANC express his own opinions as freely
as he pleases, but let him not undertake to interpret
ours. In doing so, he is certainly making a
very despicable return to the country in which he
has found both rest and respect—by traducing, that
is to say, the national character, and, more even
than that, by doing everything he possibly can
to sow seeds of ill-will between his native country
and the land of his exile—between France and
England.

VARIOUS Prussian official despatches, alike confi-
dent and decisive, intelligence from different neutral
sources, and a remarkable lack of pertinent news
from Paris, all go to prove that the Germans have
gained two more victories, and that the second great
army of France has suffered two serious disasters.
The telegrams hitherto received are not all that
could be desired, either in point of fullness or
clearness, especially of date; but they suffice
to establish the news of another French reverse
—one of so dangerous a character that the whole
army of MACMAIION is in jeopardy. At least two
battles have occurred, the most precise news

being given of an engagement at Beaumont,

which is situated on the west bank of the Meuse,
half way between Stenay and Mouzon. Here, ac-
cording to a telegram from the KING to the QUEEN
Of Pnuest4, the troops of MACMAHON were attacked
by the Saxon and Bavarian corps and signally
beaten, leaving " thousands of prisoner.? v and twelve
cannon in the hands of the Germans. The fight seems
to have ended in a complete rout. Disastrous for
the French also was another battle which took place
at Carignan, which is on the eastern side of the
Meuse, between Sedan and Montmedy. These re-
ports from localities on opposite sides of the river

lead to the obvious conclusion that MACMAIION was
attacked whilst crossing the Meuse, in the endeavour

to reach Metz. Part of his army had reached Carig-
nan, and wore there defeated; the remainder met with
a complete reverse whilst waiting to follow their
comrades. More it would be premature to say in

the absence of more complete information. There
can, however, be no such hesitation in pronouncing
upon the manoeuvres which have led up to these
defeats. The generalship of the French leader has
again proved of the most wretched description.
As at Metz, vacillation, waste of time, and
the absence of a fixed plan, have thrown away the
fine force which, by great exertions, had been
gathered under MACMARON'S standard. It is impos-
sible to conceive anything worse. MAcMAiforr
had been eight days on the march, and had yet per-
formed not one half the journey which might have
been accomplished. Eight clays should suffice
for the whole distance between Rheims And
Metz. The French Marshal had the start
of the Germans by two or three days, for it is
now an ascertained fact that the CROWN PRINCE
was not aware of his adversary's movements until
two full days after they had commenced. The march
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—to retire at once upon Paris, and harass the
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a neutral State close at hand. It is, indeed, highly
probable, as one telegram states, that MAcMAHoN is
hemmed in. Having to march in a semi-circular
direction, north-east and south-east, for the straight
line between Chalons and Metz was occupied by the
Germans, the most northerly point of the route im-
mediately adjoined the Belgian territory. With his
back to neutral soil, which is only a few
miles distant, MAcMAHoN has suffered two defeats
from an enemy which interposed between him and
the rest of France. If his army escape, it will be by
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