The Military Situation

Londen, Aagust 24. A Paris dispatch Btiys: It ia reported that ]}azaiie ísbúII at Metz and Motz inveateil ; iLat McMahon is Mili at Chalona, and haa Dat gime to reinforc Ba zaine. The Frencli themselïes asserl that the Prussiana are n htrong foroe on the west tsulu of Metz. The aitiuitioa is not materially chaoged since 1 .st Saturdny, txcept that the Crown Prince Iihb halted at St. Dizier for the purpose of reiufuroigg the Jfrusgiaa center ud right. A Pai is d'spatch to the Telegram declart-8 that Metz is certainly sola'ed ; that the Prus8Íans have uut off oooimuuications bet woon Tbionville, Montioedy aud Meiz; tliat MuMhIiOii r.:id BZiu re in daily communication, aud that no mediutiüii s lik'-ly to tike pluce unluee Nupoleon takrg the iuitintive. Auotlicr Paris special sajs La Patrie reiterutos that McMahon's furces are wilh or uear Baioiae iu the Ardeones mountains, but another aulhoriiy repons tliat it in only the aruiy of ChtIon8 - the regularly located army the-e - that lus j'ined Kazainc, an 1 tiiut tlit) lattur atill keupsall dia lineH intact.