New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
dissatisfied with the conduct of the English Govern
mmt especially in it's publishing instantly con6den-
tial memoranda communicated by Count BernstOrf.
THE BELEAGUERED CITIES.

PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE OF PARIs-sKIRMIsH-
ING IN THE sUBURBs-A PRUssIAN RECON
H0IssANCE AT JOINvILLE.
LONDON, Tuesday, Sept 20, 1870.
The following news has been made public by the
Ministry at Tours:
All teegraphic communication with Paris ceased
yesterday. The Pussians have crossed the Seine at
ChOissy, near the confluence of the Marne and ad-
vanced toward Forts Ivry and Chatilon, where
skirmishes took place without serious loss either
side. The Prussians now occupy Clamart
Mendon, Villeneuve, and Fontenay. The Crown
Prince is Fontainebleau. The French have con-
structed earthwOrks near st. Denis and Clamart.
Advices from Paris to the evening of the 18th have
the following:
The PrusSians made reconnaissance near Joinville
to-day. An engagement occurred with the French
sharpshooters posted on the opposite bank OF the
Marne, in which the Prussians were defeated and
driven off. At midnight sharp firing had been heard
near COurget for two hours Versailles has been
occupied by the German Uhlans 1t is understood
that the Prussians viii make their headquarters at
Versailles permanently. The Gardes Mobiles around
Paris are killing great numbers of Prussian scouts
The Government has decided ion the immediate
construction of a complete system of barricades in
Paris. Henri Rochefort has been charged with the
superintendency of this work.
MECKLENBURG- sCHwERIN's CoRPs TO STORM
TOUL-GEN. UHRICH NOT JEALOUS FOR THE
REPUBLIC-RAILRoADs AVOIDING METZ.
TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNBl
LONDON, Tuesday Sept 20, 1870.
The special correspondent of THE TRIBUNE at Ber-
lin, writes on the 18th: "All the reserves have
reached their regiments The corps gone to storm
Toul is the Duke of Meckenburg- -Schwerin's. The
heavy siege guns needed at Paris cannot be carried
forward until Toul is reduced"
"Gen. Uhrich, at Strasbourg, being BOnapartist,
has greatly relaxed his zeal since the Republic
proclaimed.
"There are no signs of the capitulation of Metz
There viii soon be uninterrupted communications
by rail from HOmburg, in the Palatinate to Nancy,
the branch road now in process of construction
around Metz, connecting Saarbruck, Pont-a Mousson
and Nancy, being nearly completed"
THE GUNS OF sTRAsBOURG NEARLY sILENCED-
GEN. ULRICH BADLY wOUNDED-THE GAR
RIsoN STILL DETERMINED on RESISTANCE
AFFAIRS AT METZ.
LONDON, Tuesday, Sept 2o 1870.
Advices have been received from Strasbourg mp to
yesterday Monday) The cannon of the garrison were
almost silenced. Uhrich, the commander had been
badly wounded. His Office headquarters had been re-
moved to the cellar of the Prefecture of Police
vote had been taken by the people of the city on the
subject of surrender 1t was decided by large
majority to continue the defense to the last
The Times correspondent writing on Monday from
Saartruck, says; :" On Monday sortie from Metz
was ordered, but was subsequently cOuntermanded.
The French peasants in that neighborhood continue
to murder German officers by picking them off with
their rifles They have also cut the telegraph wires
and inflicted other damage Epernay"
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