NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been a bad one for France. The Crown Prince, whose Adlatus, General von Blumenthal, is said to be only inferior as a strategist to Baron von Moltke, has been creeping slowly on, and on the 24th August had passed through the de- serted Camp of Chalons, and was passing on apparently, but not certainly, in pursuit of Marshal MacMahon. At Metz the invest- ment of the city and of Marshal Bazajne's camp had been com- pleted by the Prussians ; and the King, leaving a powerful force to retain the Marshal, bad with the remainder of his Army started for Paris, and on 25th August was at Bar-le-Duc ; while Uhlans had been seen as far west as Chateau Thierry, some fifty miles from the capital, whither, says an official telegram from Berlin, the German armies have "resolutely entered upon their march." The Government is evidently convinced that they will arrive, and General Trochu has ordered that all dan- gerous characters and persons without means of subsistence shall be expelled Paris. A threat has been issued of burning all crops whose owners do not bring them into the city ; and the General has endeavoured to console the Gardes Mobiles, who are irritated at the want of comforts in their barracks, by pointing out that their situation, with its moral trials, will make veterans of them, and "is a useful preparation for the sacrifices which the future may require from them,"—all clear indications that Paris is not too well supplied.
