The newspapers contain extracts from the English journals which came in the day before yesterday.

By a process, in which we are adepts at believing everything which tells for us, and regarding everything which tells against us as a fabrication of perfidious Albion, we have consoled ourselves with the idea that "the situation is far better than we supposed." As for Bazaine, we cannot make up our minds whether we ought to call him a traitor or a hero.

We therefore say as little about him as possible.
I have just come back from the southern outposts.

The redoubts of Moulin Saqui and Hautes Bruyeres were firing heavily, and the Prussians were replying from Chatillon.

Their shrapnell, however, fell short, just within our advanced line.