About 8,000 soldiers are encamped in the open air on the race-course and in the Bois.

Near Suresnes there is a redoubt which throws shell and shot into St.Cloud.We are under the impression that the firing from this redoubt, from Valerien, Issy, and the gunboat Farcy, which took place on Thursday morning, between 2 a.m.and 8 a.m., has destroyed the batteries and earthworks which the Prussians were erecting on the heights of St.
Cloud and Meudon-Clamart.

You, however, are better informed respecting the damage which was done than we are.

When I was in the Bois the redoubt was not firing, and the sailors who man it were lounging about, exactly as though they had been on board ship.

Occasionally Mont-Valerien fired a shot, but it was only a sort of visiting card to the Prussians, for with the best glasses we could see nothing of them.
Indeed, the way they keep under cover is something wonderful.