INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 732, 3 November 1870, Page 2

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

"We were told yesterday, says the "Pa trie," that Marshal Ivjacma'hon—at the end of that noble struggle made by 35,000 soldiers against the 140,000 of tho Crown Prince of Prussia—seeing that he was not reinforced, seeing that his ammunition had run short, and seeing that he must inevitably abandon the field of battle, so covered with our dead and with the corpses of the enemy, that the survivors shot at each other behind ramparts of the mangled bodies—wo are told, we say, that the brave and illustrious conqueror of the Malakoff, of Magenta, and Solf'erino, in despair summoned before him the five colonels of his cavalry regiments, Girard, of the Second Lancers; Tiipard, whose name we do not know, of the Tenth ; of the Sixth of the same arm, a colonel of dragoons ; De la Roche, of the eighth Cuirassiers; and Watermann, of the Ninth—and, throwing himself into their arms, besought them to sacrifice themselves that they might save the shatt?red remains of his army. God knows whether these modern Lconidase3 knew how to fulfil the "mandate of honor" confided to thorn. Elsewhere, on the day before, at Wissembonrg, another colonel of cavalry, the Marquis d'Esrenilies, recently promoted to the command of the Third Regiment of Hussars, left a place in the Prince's household to take command on active service. This Colonel d'Espeniilcs, scarcely forty years of age, in order to afford breathing time to tho beleaguered Douay Division, charged the Prussian columns seventeen times successively without stopping. At the seventeenth time the regiment was reduced to 50 horsemen, and the heroic colonel, covered with wounds, still rode forward, sword in hand, in front of his men."

The " Standard's " Paris eoi respondent writes he has conversed with an English engineer now in that city, who affirms that the defences of Paris are perfect, and that Paris is filled with soldiers of MacMahon'B army.