As yet, the work of the French has consisted in turning what was at first a defence against the Saxons into a direct attack upon them, but " Fritz's" columns are approaching in" ominous determined silence. Meantime, at Bazeilles, ft black smoke is still rising ; the Bavarians Are pushing their way there. Now, towards. the plateau of Floing, the French are seen to be moving column after column ; but the Prussian artillery encircles them with a belt of flame and smoke. The Prussian King stands motionless on his knoll of Wadelin court. The Crown Pxinco commands his army from a different point, near the Chateau of Frenoia, where, telescope in band, and with BlumenthoJ and others of his staff by his aide, he watches the movements of the troops. Boon after ten o'clock the required junction of the two German armies has been effected. The French retreat into Sedan by one o'clock in the afternoon. ' At four o'clock Sedan is •fsailed on all sides by the German artillery ; the French are steadily pressed back within "the circle of investment, and find themselves held in the iron grip of their enemy, without any hope of escape. Marshal MacMahon, early in the morning, had received a wound, and the command devolved on General Wimpffen, by virtue of a sealed order which he possessed. Wimpffen had arrived from Algeria two days before, and knew nothing at all of MacMahon's plans, except through others. But there was no hope for the Frenoh after the Bavarians had got os far as Balau and the Saxons bad reached round to the north of Sedan. Among the officers of the German army there remained a question as to whether Sedan itself might yet be capable of any defence, till suddenly amid the smoke a flag of truce was seen. The Crown Prince rode off alone to join the King at Wadelincourt. Soon the word was passed along, " Der Kaiser oaptirt ; die Armee oapitnlirt ! " An officer, t eneral gteille, bad come out of Sedan, with a letter from Napoleon 111. offering to surrender. Thie King, after a brief con sultation with Bismarck and Moltke, seated himself on a ohair, and, using another as a desk, he addressed Napoleon 111. 