At this moment the Prussians were reinforced, and a retreat took place in good order.

General Giulham was killed.

General d'Exea, while this combat was going on, marched with a brigade on Creteil, and inflicted a severe loss with his mitrailleuses on the enemy.

This report contrasts favourably with the florid, exaggerated accounts of the engagement which are published in this morning's papers.
I am glad to find that France possesses at least one man who tells the truth, and who can address his fellow-citizens in plain language.

The credulity of the Parisians, and their love of high-flown bombast, amount to a disease, which, if this city is not to sink into a species of Baden Baden, must be stamped out.