AN ENGAGEMENT NEAR EVREUX. THE FRENC SUCCESSFUL SNOW IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF FRANCE. VON DER TANN REPORTS A LOSS OF 42 OFFICERS AND 867 MEN. BELGIUM PROTESTS AGAINST INUNDATION AT DUNKIRK. THIONVILLE BOMBARDED. ENTIRE TOWN ON FIRE. GENERALPALLADINES REINFORCED AT ORLEANS. RUSSIA TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WAR FOR HER EASTERN POLICY.

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AN ENGAGEMENT NEAR EVREUX. THE FRENC SUCCESSFUL SNOW IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF FRANCE. YON DER TANN REPORTS A LOSS OF 42 OFFICERS AND 867 MEN. BELGIUM PROTESTS AGAINST INUNDATION AT DUNKIRK. THIONVILLE BOMBARDED. ENTIRE TOWN ON FIRE. GENERAL PALLADINES REINFORCED AT ORLEANS. RUSSIA TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WAR FOR HER EASTERN POLICY.

Tours, November 14.— Advices from Lyons show that the Prussians are advancing steadily in the Eaat. They are now at Dole. Garibaldi is now at Chagny, where is also tho French General, with an effective force, It is supposed the tv,o armies will join and resist the further advance of the enemy. The work of fortifying Lyons continues. The heights about the city are greatly strengthened. The National Guards are mainly employed on the work. Despatches from Lille announce that the Prussians are near Lafer. An engagement occurred on Saturday between the Gardes Mobile and the enemy near Evreux. The French were successful, driving the enomy with loss. Elections were held at Marseilles yesterday. London, "November 14.— Much snow has fallen lately in the north-eastern part of France. The Prussians captured the towns of Isle Tier, Le Doubs, and Ckrval in the Dppartrnont of Aube. Aftei a brief skirmish, the Mobiles, who were in possession of tho towns, retired to the southward, Versailles, November 14.— General^Von Der Tann, in. his official report to headquarters here, announces that in the battle before Orleans on the 9fch he lost 42 officers and 867 men killed and wounded. Tho French admit that their loss was 2,000. Brussels, November 14 —The Belgian Government is negotiating with the authorities at Tours and Paris to prevent inundation of marsh lands around Dunkirk. The French military authorities had anticipated this step as a means of defence against the Prussians; but Dunkirk is so near the Belgian frontier that Belgium herself would be the greatest sufferer. It is thought the negotiations will be successful. Toubs, November 14. — The Bavarian prisoners recently brought into Tours have been sent to L'lsle-en-Daden, in the department of the Haute-Gaionne, by special trains. The French authorities have removed the buoys and lights from the entrance of Naboon river, in their colony, on the Western coast of Africa. London, November 14. — One of the tunnels of Strasbourg Railroad has fallen in, hopelessly interrupting communication by that line. Aklon, Belgium, November 13. — Thionville was bombarded by the Prussians. Fires broke out there in consequence on Saturday, and the entire town seemed burning. Vienna, November 14.— The Fi-cie Presse of this city publishes to-day the points of the late Russian circulai-, relative to the prohibition of frigates in the Black Sea. The note desires that equal liberty of action be accorded the Sultan, and that the remainder of the Paris treaty remain valid. Brussels, November 14. — The Indepcndance Beige says, while Russia has always felt that the neutrality of the Euxine was insupportable to her, she never suggested aversion to the territorial arrangements of the treaty of 1856. Tours, November 14. —A. battle is expected to-day at Toury. The Army of the Loire is advancing on the town from Orleans. The Times correspondent, writing from Tours, says, "The moral effect of the victory near Orleans is incalculable. Reinforcements have gone forward to General Daurelles and De Palladines, who now have a large and effective army." Herr Hutterback, a banker of Berlin, has been arrested for disloyalty. His offence consisted in subscribing for a portion of the new French loan. The Prussian Government has permitted Canrobert to reside at Stuttgart, in Wurtemburg, Marshal Le Bceuf at Bonn, in Rhenish Prussia, and Bazaine at Aix-la-Chapelle. Each is near the Belgian border. Gambetta has returned to Tours from the army. He has expressed his entire satisfaction with affairs at and around Orleans. Reports that Paris is distressingly short of provisions are confirmed by despatches from various quarters to-day. Bismarck has written a letter denying he had any negotiations whatever with the Empress Eugenic. German Liberals are opposing the proposition for a meeting of the Federal Parliament at Versailles. London, November 14. — A correspondent of the Independance Belge,\vribmg on October 21, says it is generally believed that Russia is about to take advantage of the war to promote her Eastern policy, and adds that the Sublime Porte formally denies any intention on the part of the Sultan to visit the Emperor Alexander at Odessa, as reported. Florence, November 14. — Riecasoli announces his retirement from public life. London, November 14. — Official contradiction is given to the report that General Buyer, when at Versailles, conferred with any other person than Bismarck. The Bavarian representatives are still a L Versailles. They are to leave on Thursday. The result of their mission is uncertain. At Becon a determined fight occurred, with, large losses on both sides. The Prussians were beaten and their entrenchments stormed, - They left 100 wagons, provisions, and forage.