New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
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We have o few additional details Of tho
abortive sortie from Paris on Tuesday. On
Monday and Tuesday the chain of forts to
the south of the city maintained n vigorous
cannonadc, which was properly regarded MS
preparation for q sOrtie in force. The attack
was made on Tuesday upon tho Sixth Prusslan
Corps Mt L'Hay, the Parisians being supported
by their gunboats in the Seine. Felnts were
made in several other directions TO prevent
the Sixth Corps from receiving reenforcemeh'S'
but they proved unnecessary. Inc ffussials
easily maintained their position, ana the frehch
we're soon driven behind their works, leaving
it is reported, 600 prisoners.
The battle of the 29th at Beaune resulted In
n more serious defeat of the French than was
at first reported. 1t seems IA if the intention
of Gen. D'Aurelles de Paladines was 10 break
through the Prussian left centeri and push on
to Fontainebleau. With nearly his whole avail
able force including the Twentieth, Eighteenth,
and portions of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Corps, be attacked tho Tenth Prussian Corps
at the village of Beaune, which lies midway
between Fontanebeau and Orleans, about 2G
miles northeast Of the latter. The Tenth
Corps held the French army in check until
and Fifth of infantry when the French
were repulsed with great loss, amounting as
the King reports, TO 1,0O0kllcd, 4OJO wounded,
and LOO prisoners. The Prussians do not
seem to have pursued their advantage, eyl-
IDENTIFY carrying out the plan to which we
have before referred, of delaying operations
upon their left wing until the extreme hight,
under the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, has
fulfilled its errand in the west.
These desperate efforts of the Army of the
Loire to burst through the living wall that
stretches from Chateaudun to Montargis, and
the equally fruitless endeavors of the garrison
of Paris to beat their way out through the
bars that cage them, demonstrate plainly
enough the straits TO which the Army of the
Republic is reduced. In spite of the resDlute
proclamations OF the Provisional Government
and the heroic courage and energy Of Gen.
DAurelles, it is evident that the end of re-
sistance is drawing nigh. 1t is a problem rs
yet whether the capital or the metropolis win
fall first. The army of Fare has proved in
capable Of a serious struggle with Manteuilel in
the north. The half-Organized camps of Bre-
tons and Normands in the Department of the
Sarthe are far from being prepared to oppose
any substantial obstacles to the march OF the
Duke of Mecklenburg's army. The Army oi
the Loire can no longer fight nor fly in the
presence of the inyincible veterans of Prince
Frederick Charles. The fixed impression i'll
Europe of tho probability Of a speedy catas-
trophe is seen in the ready credgnce obtained
in the Stock Exchange of London by a spurious
dispatch announcing the capitplatiOn Of Paris.
The capture of Paris and of Tours will be, 1t
would seem, almost simultaneous, and Prussia
viii be left to make peace on her own terms
and in her own way.
1t is doubtless this near prospect Of ap-
preaching peace which has made the interyen-
tion of Prussia so powerful in bringing about
the arrangement of Conference in London
to settle the Eastern Question. Germany is
| already considered as virtually victorious and
unembarrassed by war. The public men of
Europe are already busted with the cOmbina-
tions which are to follow the furling of flags
and the silence Of drums.