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FRENCH CHANGE OF A CORPS COM
MANDER.
PARIS, August 25.-At council of the min
listers held yesterday, General Wimpfen, who
has recently been operating against the rebels
In Algeria, was appointed to the command of
the - corps, vice General Failly. The council is
now composed Of the ministers and Rouher
Schneider, Persigney, Baroche and Trochu.
PRUSSIAN COLUMN WEST OF CHA
Ions.
LONDON, August 25.-The following official
dispatch from Berlin has just been received
'The goveI nment has received dispatch dated
BaI-le-puc last evening, to the effect that
Chalons has just been evacuated by the French
and that a Prussian column is west of Chalons
adya ancing rapidly"
THE PRUSSIANS WITHIN SIXTY FIVE
MILES OF PARIS.
PARIS, Aug. "a, midnight-It is reported that
the Prussians are at Sezanne to-day. lNote.-
Sezanne is town of 5000 people, Twenty-Five
miles southwest of Epernay, and about sixty
five miles from Paris.
The Prince Royal Of Prussia is reported at
Nancy.
Nothing has been received from Metz, or from
the armies of Mcmahon and Bazaine to-day.
MCMAHON MARCHING TO PROTECT
PARIS.
LONDON. Aug. %, noon.-The entire command
OF McMahon left Rheims Monday, hopinp to
protect Paris.
Prussian scouting parties are near Chalons
and Troyes.
Montmedy advices to the 23d Tuesday, men,
ton nothing whatever Of Bazaine's junction
Prussian detachments are reported at Chau-
mont and Brienne.
THE CROPS TO BE BURNED AS THE
PkUSSIANS ADVANCE.
The Paris committee of defense have given an
order for the destruction of crops and food in the
departments of Marne and Seine, as the Prus-
slams approach.
THE EMPRESS DETECTED.
The Empress is still at the Tuilleries, hopeless
and detected. 1t is said that she has become
very unpopular on account of her bigotry.
VIOLATION OF BELGIAN NEUTRALITY.
PARIS, Aug. 25.-The journals Of last night
demand to know what action will be taken by
the French government, now that Belgium has
permitted the violation OF her neutrality by the
Prussians.
THE SEIGE OF METZ.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-Preparations for the seige
of Metz seems formidable. Entertainments
proceed with great activity.
The Paris papers are persuading themselves
that Bazaine is realizing deep laid strategy.
THINGS HAVE TAKEN A TURN.
NRw YORK, August 25.-The following is q
special to the Courier des Etats Unis:
"PARIs, August "a, evening.-A decided
change Is apparent in our military situation
los fort oh yVo loNly r.oo
upon ourselves after three months Of disappoint-
ment and defeat, and tomorrow perhaps we
shall take the offensive. Such at least is the
opinion which prevails at the War Department
and throughout Official circles.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
"This is the intelligence which L have OBJ
tanned: After the defeat Of Froschweiller, the
debris of the corps engaged retreated in pretty
good order upon Saverne and Nancy, whence
they were transported to Chalons by the Straus-
burg railway, as rapidly as the disorganized
service Of that line would permit. On the other
hand, part OF the troops encamped in Cen
trebad, south of Alsace, as well as
the large garrison Of Kelfort, were sent
forward to Chal0ns by the Paris and
Mulhouse railway. At the same time an exps-
ditionary force concentrated at Cherbourg in
order to operate the shores Of the Baltic, and
nearly 4O,OV0 troops OF the line were also 0eS-
patched to Chalons, where they all arrived In
i've days. These forces, added to Is, 600 regu-
lars from Paris and the frontier towns near
Belgium, made up an effective army Of 100 900
men. Thirty-fve thousand OF the forces Mo-
biles were also added to them, and under the
able direction OF Gen. Trochu these forces
lately entirely distinct, have not been slow to
consolidate into An army, homogeneous and
Injured, and provided with all the necessary ma
terials for q campaign. After completing the
formation of this army, Gen. Trochu went to
Paris to organize and create another new
army. After having rallied with considerable
loss the last detachmeuts Of the CORDS beaten
in the battle Of the 9Th Of August, McMahon ar
rived at Chalons, and has been placed at the
head Of the army raised by Trochu. His first
care was to secure his communications with
Bazaine, who had been almost hemmed in
around Metz by the Prussians. He succeeded,
am assured. and his advanced posts extend as
far as Mezeres and Montmedy, and cover the
Ardennes railroad and the line parallel with the
frontier. A fact that communications with
Metz are intact Is the arrival yesterday at Sois-
sons Of great number of Prussians, made pri-
soners at Gravelotte, another convoy being also
on its way. This proves that this day. 80 fercely
disputed, was not without glory for rs, since We
have leisure to make and guard prisoners. As
to the plans of Mcmahon nothing b perfectly
known here, bat will take care that you shall
be promptly informed. The Ministry u inaexi-