The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1871, Page 6

‘ 4 , } RANGE, Latest Mail Accounts of the Horald Correspondents. THE ATTACK ON VERSAILLES. Particulars of tho Batiles Beiween the Revo- Tutionary and Goverument Armics, THE ROUGHS OF PARIS DEMORALIZED, Confidence in the Communal Lead- ers on the Wane. PARIS The Soldiers of France True to the Republic. THERY NEGOTIATION WITH THE GERMANS. AS IT Is. The Provinces Coming to Order--- Paris Alone Riotous. BONAPARTIS® Li LRIGUBS. Another Outrage om an Ameri- ae can Citizen. THIELS ON ROVER AND BONAPARTISH. Panis, Apri! 2, 1871, Nothing less than collapse threatens the Com. mune at the present moment, and in every moa- erate elenient the revolution is a complete failure, On the side of decency and order among the people ‘of Paris—on the side of the bourgeoiste—it has no friends. The vourgeoisie shuts up its shop win- dows, puts its cash carefully out of sight and looks On with apathetic mdiiference; and this attitude, this mertia of a whole peopio, the Commune cannot deal with. People who simply leave you alone can- | not be proceeded against; sud that is all the people Of Paris do to the Commune, and that 1s enough when the salaéCommune is in such a position that Only the most earnest support of tiie whole peopiec could keep it alive; and on the o:her side than that Of decency what nashasit? Thorois PLENTY OF FORCE there; on that side tt may sucoced, but tt is a force @nd & success that the men in the Hotel de Ville fear. itis aforce that they know could only come into action to sweep them from scene. Already they complain that the Jacobin element threatens to overwhelm them. They are simple, ignorant, vain, pitiful sori of people, the men in the Hotel de Ville. There is not among them a man of positive force— even in viliany—aud when tiey began the afuir they had no conception what 11 would lead te. They are FRIGHTENED BY THEIR SUCCESS and by the abyss tothe edge of which it has sud- Genly brought them; startled out of all prepricty and the ure of their reason by suddenly discover- ing themselves to be a supreme power in this great city. It ts certain that hhoboay in France is half so much aston- Ished as themselves at tie turn affairs have taken; for it was simply inconceivable that the | Gre of one platoon offnfantry should put Paris com- pletely into the han4s of twenty professional agi- tatorsand timid rai It was not to be counted Upon that the goyverurgeat of a great nation should be so utierly without fesources of courage or capa- ity as to abandon itytapltal under go slight a pres- Bure os the defiant attitude of a few thousand wretches, whoj Within two or three months, had Over aud over igain proved themselves arrant cow- ards. It has been considered in most times that a startling act of terror puts down opposition—as the firing on the people did in December, 1851, @na as the recent firing in the Place Ven- @ome has really dove; but the government of the insurreciion 18 not entitled to the reputation of even sucii a villanous piece of saga- city. It did not contempiatve that act, and its officers in the Flace Vendome did what they could to pre- Vent it. It was the spontaneous act of their armed Gesperadoes, provoked by the attitude of the crowd. It was another piece of the same swaggery that Killed the two generals on Montmartre, A BARREN POWER. here is no dount but the surprise with which the men of the insurrection find tuemselves triumphant is very great; but this does not make any the less aiMoult the diiemma with which their triumph brings them face to face. Their triumph has a de- Gnite limit. They hoid the capital aud a barren power. They may sit in the Hotel de Ville for ages and make laws; but their laws are unheeded by the people, For instance, they have just decreed that nobody need pay his rent. Tulsis aiaw that might be Bupposed to be well aimed for tue affections of the masses; but my barber, who 1s a rent payer, assured woe this morning that the law was ‘unjust’ and that “everybody thought so.” Some men, however, ‘are disposed to profit by tue decree, and they are moving at once, determined to get out of the premises, in which they owe rent, before the rule of the comimutice comes to au end. piece of agrar.anisia falis dead In the face of we Wawra! judgment of a whoie people, and the only otwer relation that the cowznt' seems abe to ¢s- tablish with the people is one \hat bodes it no good; for it simply leads to the confiscation of all property, end not only properiy, bat t condscation also Of indusiry, the desiraction of whatever value there aay be in the labor of the hunbilest individual. | Proprietors, therefore, are its eucmies; for it con- fiscates their reat and seizes by SIMPLE ROBBERY keg ined valuables ils agents require; workmen are ay becoming its enemies, fur capital 1s driven away, anc ail laborers lose the only honest means of supporting their families, Indeed, the robbery of ‘the Commune, though it does not hesitate to make Visits on a grand scale to the ofices of baukers, does not disdain ettuer the pirt'ul plunder of the Gmail dealers in little grocery shops; aud Lie ower Gay there was a dist ance caused by a Nationa: Guard buying five c worth of Cheese of an old joman and paying ler with an order on the repub- Ite. He gave her the alternative of taking that or ‘the conteiuts of lis revolver. Indeed, this practical application of the doctrines of Communism is quite vogue with these armed piunderers. Vistis to jteher shops are common, aad there beginto be ptibly ewer buicuer shops open than formerly, Bue branch of PARIS TRADE geems to be “Kilied entiely. ‘his ts the trade In Charcuteric. ‘Ihe shops of these dealers in cooked provisions Were at al! Limes quite a feature on the stroeta, but their giory is in eclipse. Thoy exactly met the uecessitics of the hungry National Guard— ‘which wanted something to eat at o: without the trouble of cooking tt, and also without the de- lay—so they have exhausted ihe stocks of the great umber of tiese dealers, paying in ‘‘bons,” and as the charcutier did not feei encouraged by this sort Of custom they have neglected to renew their sup- plies, and tnstead have put up ter shutters, THE MOVEMENT OF THE REBELS. But if the Commane can make no bid that will ve it the voices of the fair-minded people, at least can have as Clamorously us 1 likes Lie voice of ] acts that ‘Titts extravagant | 0 | General (sie) Flourens Ww the sans culottes. Shall ii cali up that powers [i it joes not {ls movement is an absointe faliure joes 1b may be w success, but at b ‘other men than those that no short, of tie guiiloune, with tie men now in the jotel Ge Ville tor its early victims—ior there 1s no man in thelr numer with the force to control a | Movewent o: the cutthroat population Of Paris. Con- | sequently thoy fear Vie possivic uprising of that mass MOre than they feor the revurn of the regular gov- ernment, Events are hourly Jaye ry | the Com- mune to the scum of the population as its only re- wee, Ibis CoNtemptuousiy rejected by the whole Tanase of seeionpie above and the more viojent organs begin to assai) people with the Ditverness of bartiied rage for this disappointment of their hopes. Withont s party venlud ft THE COMMUNE MUST DIR, Raised to wer by the murders of the despera- it hes hoped to eeparate jell from them and by ene ihe government of @ party of the people 5 but tis peovie has ouLY avuorrence Of the dronght it into power, and exceedingly little sympathy with @ rincipl Dp and will have nothing to do with it. Shall it then cali np the latent, horrible power that is in the fury of tho ignorant, drunken masses of Montmartre? This is bow the doubt and question of the hour. Upon such @ possible earthquake Paris stands, ‘To this has the foily, weakness, cowardice of the national govern- ment brought the great city. It1s A SAD CONSIDERATION that the only hope of the Paris people to be spared & return of the republic of 1793 1s in the timidity of the Commune, and a sadder one still that even this timidity may not save her, for the violent elyments below are seething and they presently may see their opportunity and seize it, Not a straw stands to-day between them and the complete glut of the bloodiest fury of class revenges that history ever saw. Tae Reds Disappoiuted—Extraerdinary Vigl- Iance—Who Are the Spice=Incompetency of the Revolutionary Lenders—Uonfidence Unsettled in Them—A View of Paris, Pants, April 4, 1871. The conduct of a portion of the Thirteenth rogi- ment of tho ltne—having deserted when under orders on a reconnoltring expedition from Ver sailles—has led the commanders of the rebel forces fato a fatal error, and, with its commission, doomed all hopes in sustaining the Commune, The Guards, on turning out yesterday, were informed by their leaders that Mont Valérien had joined their cause; that the guns of that fortress would remain silent, and, finally, that the Paristans had only tc march on Versatiles, where they would be received with cpen arms by the troops of the line, Oruel decep- tion! Whether gronnded on mere fiction, or based on real hopes, justified by vague promises of & nucleus of subaltern officers, remains a question, the truth of which 1s never to be revealed. It is cer- tain that the story, current among che ranks, was implicitly relied on. THE PROSPECT that all would go off quiet?y—that they had only to march in and win—brenght out a much larger number of armed men than could otherwise have been expected. In full confidence that the road to- wards Mont Val¢rien was free, the whole mass appeared fearlessly almost under the very walls of the fort, when suddenly fire was opened upon tho rebels, Surprised again! The usual stampede, so often witnessed durtng the last flye or six months, Was the inevitable consequence. If, indeed, there appeared any appreciable difference between this rout and others formerly described, I should say that this was the greatest discomiture ever wit- nessed. The war—and, it 13 to be hoped, the final act of this drama—will probably find a narration in my letter to-morrow ora day later, and with it, I doubt not, we shall be enabled to report the disap- pearance of the red flag and the terrorism connected tuerewith, DECEIVED. In the meantime the men sitting at the Hotet de Ville are busily engaged in the spread of false news. The day opened yesterday with a confident assertion that the National Assembly, at Versailles, had resigned in a@ body. The day closed witha rumor that the chatean of Louls XIV. had been taken by storm, and they even went so far to assert that the torch had been applied to the edifice. All these rumors and others of a like nature found will- ing ears among various groups along the boulevards and the Champs Elysées, Few shops were open— having closed the shutters you are aware that most proprietors have no resource leit but to retire to a sSinall back room orto adark hole in the entresol. From the appearance of the principal streets no one would beileve that within a mile or two from the boulevard a@ fratricidal war is being waged, And yet so it 18; fighting still continues. Between one and two o'clock, from the top of a house in tne Avenue de la Grande Armée, we have THZ “3ATTLE GROUND OF THIS MORNING spread before us. The road to Neuilly ts clear, but towara the left, at the eutry of the Bois de Bou- logne, nitalion of National Guards is drawn up. Having thrown out skirmishers, who are beating the road, we hear occasional shots, but there is no actual fightiag goimg on. The drawbridge opens every tea or tiveive miautes, when hordea.of Na- Uonais return from their unsuccessful errand. All are in the most wretcned demoralized condition-a Worse condition even than witnessed afver the vari- ous defeats of the Army of the Loire. Our convice tion that no further “sport”? can be expected at this point ts confirmed by the return of various ambu- lance wagons returning empty. One of the medical men, in reply to our inquiry says, “Rien de sérieuz.” Another, tweuty minutes later, says, “Nothing im- portant gomg on.” The ga’ asstated above, are opened and shut to let in or out, alternately, small detachments of Nationals, Presently, how- ever, matters become more interesting. wo tele- grapn clerks are brought in under a strong esco: @ sumuiary execution of these “traitors” is ¢: pected; tle humane intercession of a superior Ovlicer, however, prevails, and the “criminals” are jorwarded to the prefecture to be dealt with as tiie law dtrects. Tnis episode is speedily followed py the appearance of another “spy.” Nothing escapes THE VIGILANCE OF THESE PATRIOTS; their own leaders may Cheat them a3 much @s they nave a mind; but thé idea that the Versailles gov- ernment should permit gensdarmes and policemen to scour the country 1s an inroad ou the liberties of the peopie which merits condign punishment. The oor lellow is pretty roughly handled by tne S escrs lace, humbering 600 or 000), Men, Wornea And chil- dren of all classes. Eight or nine Nationals Lave duliculty in provecting the poor wretch from tue violence of the infuriated mob. A captain with a Chassepot slung over his shoulder, two revolvers in his belt and drawn sword in ‘hana, heads the processiou- His face 13 beaming with delight, aud he marches in rapid strides towards the next guard house, hurriedly replying to luquiries of anyous patriots, that he has caught UNE OF THE GREATEST CRIMINALS IN CHRISTENDOM. duties toward the governmeut at Versailles, crime is horrible. You can't see it; but there it is, No matier; the ofticer ls highly gratified at the fact ol veing spared the humiliation to return from an unsuccessful errand, [f his regiinent has not reached Versailles he has caught the very man who by rea-on oi his espionage Was instrumental to the Iaure of the day's enterprise. Since the month of kebruary, When [ leit the nelguborhood of Tours aud Le Mans, the tuen popular cry failed to reach my ears, “Ah, Monsieur, nous sommes trahis;” “Nous sommes vendis." It suddenly revived. 1 eculd not suppr asmile. Isaw men coming in, dushlag their muskets to the ground—nom des noms, noi Wune pipe: With tese and other exclamations INCAPACITY OF THE LEADERS was denounced 1mmeasurably. If you ieel disposed @ listener to these matins, they are least for a time, But here are typed phrases, They have not uce tue battle: of Wissembourg, Gravelove hose on the Loire, kc. Every defeat—no matter whetwer Haxaine, Paladines, or who else was in com- mand—has beea ted to Lue acts of @ traitor, Could 1 be etherw to-day? Woe to him who atiempts an argume: subject !—especially if jis beard, or may be th e of fils hat or the cut of uis coat, betrays the slightest indication of a foreign orig, You are in that case piaced under Paris and Versailles are filled with mouchards, The chasse aux russiens belug out of season they are now hunting up ro, ists cr Bonapartisis. The slightest move, a query or agesture, o/ton suffices to make @ man suspected, Ey: SP ATROVIOUS STORIES re hawked about: especially the men in power are prosainent is dissemiuating the broadest faisehood. belore taking my departure from the Porte Maillot the gates oven once more; a set of stau oficers eifect their eutry and gallop up to the telegraph oice, a few doors up the avenue, They dismount and entrust to the wires the starlling news that the National Guards have been victori- ous on all poinis—Mont Valcrian surrendered; marching on Versailles, Fighting, the despatch added, Was now transterred to the Park of Meudon and the neighbornood of Chatilion and Clamart. Later in the day 1 was credibly informed these sensations Were transmitted by wire all over the provinces. With regard to General Fiourens, it'is provably true that he reachea the neighborhood of Versailles; If 80 it would be as @ prisoner, and the whole of te corps may be in the same fix. Your Versailles correspondent will pro- bably, ere this reaches you, confirm this view, or he may be enabled, before this goes to post, to report by Wire on the iate of M. Flourens and bis army, Going the rouud of the forts we found every post well guarded by detachments varying from 100 to sv0 nen. Few guns, however, were piaced in post- tion. Every bastion and every gate, till we reacned the Point du Jour, was jealousiy quai no stran- ‘3 allowed on the parapet, aud ingress or egress ies ouly under special permits and laisser mauling frou the authorities of the Hotel THE REDS PRARYUL, Before we came to the Point de Jour. opportunity of surveying the position on the leit bank of the Seine, and, so far, Lam of optuion that the Versailles ops had not advanced upon the revels, but contented themseives to sead siell mto tueir ranks wherever a cluster of Nattonal Guards had collected, Consequently, their advance on Ver- sailles ig nothing than an aburd invention, Send then a few shel.s and they will rau a3 fast as their legs will carry thew; that has been the experience of the Praselan wary and these ¢li!zen seldiers are less calculated to stand dre, Nevertheless large resh guards were coming up {ror various Tn and about Passy and Autenis, more- over, 1 was struck with the superior bearing, clean- liness and watchfainess of the guards on duty, On the lower road leading from Passy towards the Troc- adery, we found sevésal battalions waiting orders, LARGE DODABS OF SIGHT-SBERS were assembied on the ‘Jrocadero, where the whole pauorama, extending from Clamart to Viroflay, ta spread before you ihe le trees ana the open space of ground which méw unfortunavly Bur we had an a rounds Paris in every direction tunity to watch the distant ve! riors, The glittering of bayonets distinctly spotted their whereabouts and an occasional! issue of white smoke, seen all along the wooded hilis, as well a3 trom Fort Issy, would tend to indicate ’ the und where artillery had been Hcg ‘The le of Paris, a3 already menitoned, had out en masse and seemed highly gratified at the spectacle before them. ‘The line of contrast to be drawn be- tween this display of flreworks—and I may be per- muittea to call 11 80, since the jority of the inhabi- tants view it in that light—however, is not of cheerful character. Turning down the Avenue Jose- nag the Rue d'Albe, cross: toward the Rue de rri and throughout the quarter of the Fau- bourg St. Honore, you are transposed, as it were, in the midst’ oi Sahara. Everythin seemed deserted desolate; the impression exceedli mpared with the ap- parent ma a miod aisph ed in the lar a in crear Sad at auntie Maa ater appreciation of what passing under their very nose PALATIAL BESIDBNOES shut up; no vate rriages thronging the thoroughfares, B; 4 fe out way of Variety you m: here and there the emblem of tte Ted Gross, eve dently Cae by a thoughtiul concierge, and designed tp provent the Prussians from soiling the pre r certainly he will not permit the Am- bulance to be occupied by ia National Guards— dete,” as one of these worthics sald the Pled by several watherwonteny Mio nee drping to ral washerwomen, who are drying the Finen on lines drawn between the trees. M. THIERS' HOUSE. The residence of M. Thiers and those of some of his colleagues have been sequestered and are con- Sequently occupied by rebel forces, Fanaticism is carried so far that the church dedicated to tne Holy Trinity—which, of course, is considered national Beeperty—vearer 1m addition to the words “sancia ‘inuatas,"” the inscription of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraterntté.” ae church narrowly escaped bein; Backed, Acts of extreme violence have been of Tare occurrence so far; they are confined to indi- vidual and isolated cases, Rumor has it that seve- ral houses in the Champs Elysées were sacked, but these rumors require confirmation, Another Outrage Upon an Amorican Citizen in Parls—Hlis Narrow Escape from Being Shot—Liberated by the Intercession of Min- ister Washbarne. Since the Paris mob has taken to the Commune it seems to have a singular fancy tor shooting and drowning people who are suspected of being Assem- blists, The Gaulois of March 81 relates the follow- ing adventure which happened to a young poet, who, owing only to vhe conaideration of his being an American citizen, escaped a summary execution:— “To-day the young poet Albert Delpit called on us, bringing also along with him his head, which has run, however, a very serious risk. He is a brave and talented young fellow, and loves Paris and France in spite of his American nationality. He gave us an account of the adventure that befeil him, which is very curious, It was in the Rue Drouot, The emtssaries of those banditit who have teken possession of the capital arrested @ student of the Ecole Polytechnic who refused to fraternize with them, and talked of shooting him. Delpit threw himself between the mob and the victim, drew a revolver and threatened to shoot the first man who would lay hand upon the student. Taking advantage of the Cece attention which was now centred upon Delpit the student made his escape. The mob now threw itself upon our young friend, took away his revolver, which he had, however, not used, nor had the intention of using, and made him a prisoner. “Kull him! kiil him!’ shouzed the wretches; and several meu in blouses yelied out, “Let him be shot!’ «Well shoot him!’ He wastaken from one post of the National Guard to the other. On the way a bideous- looking biackguard, in the uniform of an officer, caine up to him and spat in his face, exclaiming at the same time in a hoarse voice, “An, scoundrel! I shall settle your affair.” ‘An icy peer crept over me,” said Deipit. “i never had in all my life such an itching to strangle a man. Then came another, some captain, commander or colonel of their Na- tional Guard, who advised the crowd to execute me, From all sides insuits were heaped upon me, The gamns shouted, ‘He bas fired on the people; he has killed a woman and two children, ‘fo death with the assassin!’ Fortunately one of my countrymen, who kuew me by sight, was in the Rue Drouot whea Iwas seized. He at once proceeded to Versailles, calied on Mr. Wasnburne, the American Minister, gave an account of the facts, and obtained a threat- ening letier, addressed to the Central Committee, returned to Paris and obtained my liberation, it he had come one hour later [siould Dave been shot,” An “Equitubie Arraugement” to Raise Fands for the Commuane—The Rich Men to be Forced to Pay the German Indomnity. A letter printed in large type is published in the official journal of the Commune, in which the writer points out the equity and possibility of compelling the ewners of property in France to bear exclusively the burden of meeting the German indemnity. He divides the population into five classes, ranging from extreme opulence to the lowest poverty, and sets forth thelr possessions in due arithmetical pro- gression, The total value of the entire real and pe sonal property in France he estimates at 310 mil Mards, In the possession of the frst class, com- prising 7,200,000 households, and inciuding workmen’s clothes and tools, he reckons ten milliards, or 400 miilions sterling. The second class of 3,600,000 househoids, comprising workmen on their own account and laborers with small possessions of land, 18 credited with twenty milliards, or 800 millions sterling. The third clasa, the smaller shopkeepers and retail traders, taken as representing 1,800,000 families, ‘with a total property of forty milliards, or 1,600 mi- lions sterling. The fourth class—the wholesale traders and upper middie classes—are assumed to possess property worth Mies ee or 8,200 millions sterling, while the iifth class, including the great landuwners and capitalists, ana comprising 450,000 lamilies, is represented as possessing pro- perty of the aggregate value of 160 milliards, or ¢,400 Mulions stcriing. The writer concludes, from thts statement, that the proper course to pursue. is “to im) @ tax of three or four per cent upon ihe f¢ tunes of the last mentioned class, which 13 co) prised in great part of the organizers or the favo- Tites of tie imperial bandit, and by that means the amount required to satisfy German rapacity will be easily raised.” General Lullier’s Letter to Rochefort After His Escape from Prison. General Luilier, one of the leaders of the Paris Central Committee, who, in a moment of frenzy, ‘was reported to have thrown a chair at the head o one of his colleagues, was soon afterwards impris oned, but managed to escape, and 18 now in com- mand of the government gunboats on the Seine, He has writien the following letter to his friend Rochetort:— Mx Dran Roonrrorr:—You know of what infamous tn- trigues I have been the yictim, Arrested without any motive whatever by the order of the Gentra! Committee I was thrown into the prison of the Prefecture and kept in solitary confine- ment at the very time when Paris stands #0. mtch in need of men of action and professional soldiers. The Prefecture has boon transformed into a prison of and the greatest precautions are taken against tue pris In spite of that my secretary and I found an opportunt leave the celi where I was closely watched, to pass two cor- ridors guarded by a number of officers, to got three doors un- Jocked and to have all the sentinels prescnt arma on passin 200 determined ‘men, who will ood revolvers, loaded, in my pockets, 1 have been too long simple enough to travel with- out arms and friends. Now I am resolved to break the head of the first man who comes to arrest me, Tam not bid- Jag, but, on the coutrats, move freely in the Roulevards, CHARLES LULLIER, Letter of the Paris Deputies Resigning Their in tho National Assembly—They Join the Commune. MM. Fioquet and Lockroy, the Deputies of Paris who have passed over to the Commune, have ad- dressed the following letter to the President of the Assembly :— PRESIDENT—We are jastiSed by our consciences in having done all we co! to prevent the present civil war in the presence of the Prussious, still holding by force of arma our foil, We swear before the nation that we have no responsi. bility for the blood which 1s being shed at tals moment. But ce in spite of our p ‘orts, in spite of our attempts at concillation, the directed against Paris, we, the representatives of Paris, be- eve that our proper piace ia no longer at Versailles. It is arid our fellow ciuizeas, with whom we desire to share, as during the siege, the sufferings and perils thet are in store for them. We have now no other duty than to defend as cfti- zens, and according to the dictates of our conscience, the re- pubile, which is menace). We return into the hands of our electors the mandates confided to as, of which we are ready to reader account. CHARLES FLOQUET, BE. LOCK ROY, The representatives of the people in Paris, VERSAILLES, Tho Attack on Versailles—What the Insur- gents Expected and What They Obtained— A General Fight Brought On—The Nationals Retire in Confusion—The Army True to the Government. VERSAILLES, April 2—Midnight. Civil war 18 actually on foot, and tne first en- counter between the hostile forces of the National Assembly and the Commune took place to-day at Courbveoie, on the Seine, not more than four miles west of the Are de Triomphe, aud almost at the foot of Mont Valérien, On the side of the government some six thousand soldiers, of all arms, were on the field, and the National Guards are variously estimated at from ten to fif- teen thousand men. These numopers will recall rather the battles of the League and the civil wars of the time of Louis XIIL, than any contest of modern tnes among civilized peopie, But the battle was noteven up tothe dignity of these numbers; for with the exception of a stand made belind one bar- ricade the action on the par tof the National Guard ‘was a stampede, for the most parta wild ran for life, and the most destructive fire they delivered was j Aumply ip the compusaion of ope more muxer, For, them it was a day altogether un! the recent day in the Piace Vendome, and they proved themselves as great adepts at showing their heeis to armed men as at murdering unarmed ones. ON TO VERSAILLES, For some time the National Guard has been trying to screw up its courage for a trip to Versailles. Per- haps there was some tradition in the Central Com- mittee of the success of a trip to Versailles in a former revolution, and it promised itself a repetition of that success. It hoped that the appearance of the National Guard would induce some regiment to Patthe butts of its guns in the alr, and thot the contagious example would in a moment sirlp the government here of every soldier and that this fact would make the Commune supreme in France. With this end in view the National Guards were pushed out on different roads, but they were constantly sent to the right about by the fire of the gendarmes and by little rushes of the cavalry. Small affaira of that sort have eccurred several times during the week, and there was a lively one at Nanterre on Friday. But in that direction they pushed out @ considerable force, and it became obvious to the authorities here that something more decisive must be done, for they were commg too close to Versailles, and thoy were SURROUNDING MONT VALERIEN. On Saturday night the insurgents had eighteen battalions on the same side of the river with Ver- sailles, They were posted in Puteaux, Courbevole, Surespes, Nanterre and Rueil. Their only communi- cation with Paris was by the Bridgo of Courbevole, which is on the Avenue de Neuilly. an extension of the Avenue des Champs Elysees; Courbevoie 1s on the bank of the Seine to the north of the bridge; Puteaux on the bank of the Seine to the south of the bridge, and Suresnes also on the bank of the Seine, sti!l further south than Puteaux, Nanterre and Ruell are three or four miles beyond Puteaux, on the Imperial road to Ver- sailles, In the two latter places were outposts, and the main force was at and behind Courbevoic, At Courbevole it had fortified itself with barricades covering the approaches to the caserne, on the place recently occupied by a statue of Napoleon. Here were posted three battalions, The caserne was occu- pled by the Ninety-seventh National Guards. It ‘was the resistance made by this regiment here and the battalions in the place that constituted, the action of the day, TROOPS OF THE LINE, ARTILLERY, SAILORS AND MARINES had been moved on Saturday night from their can- tonments at Versailles to Rueil, on the Imperial road, and to Montretout, just south of Val¢rein, on the Seine; and this force was moved forward at day- lght on Sunday morning, and concentrated at the Round Point of Bergeres. The force in advance was composed of the brigade of D.udel, of tne division Foron, and of the brigade Bernard, of division Bruat. Another brigade of this latter division was in reserve. On the leit was the brigade of chasseurs of General Gallifet, and on the right two squadrons of the Republican Guard. All were under the immé- diate command of General Vinoy. GENERAL GALLIFET, with his cavalry and a battery of artillery, occupied the heights that overlook Courbevoie, aud under cover of his artillery the line was formed and ad- vanced upon Courbevoie. lt was formed of the marines and the armed sailors, the blue jackets— the best soldiers of France—being the greater num- ber. This line advanced handsomely, and in sight of its advance the insurgent force formed outside the caserne and advanced in turn. At the same moment the line of sailors and marines was rein- forced by three regiments of the line. Immediately a skirmish fire began from the line of the National Guard, which was vigorously returned, and in the midst of this fire a company of the Nationa! Guard, depending mainly on the old manouvre, raised the butts of their guns in the air and called upon the soldiers to do the same, but they refused, A WRONG PROCEEDING. With affairs in this position, however, there oc- curred a parley, and Dr. Pasquier, surgeon-in-chief of the Republican Guard, went forward to endeavor to prevent bloodshed and call upon the National Guard to retire. It seems inconceivable that the authorities should have permitted this, and should have endeavored to secure the retirement of the National Guard, except by force, when once it had it fairly under fire outside of Paris, It is said, in- deed, that the insurgonts raised a flag of truce; but this Was not generally seen. However this may be, the paced was killed--murdered by men who fired at him within arm’s length, unable to restrain their murderous instincts even m respect to the most humane | oy eo This murder greatly excited the soldiers. Under the influence of this excitement @ regiment of the line, the Seventy-fourth, was sent forward to STORM THE BARRICADE. Itadvanced with good will, but aid not keep its wil, and under a lively, put not very effective, fire from the barricade and the windows it became shaky, and, inspite of the best exertions of its ofl- cers, broke. It was mostly composed of new troops. But this error was soon corrected, for the sailors were putin behind it, went forward handsomely, and as if they rather preferred a skirmish fire to no fre at all. The mere sight of the wiil of these lads ended the resistance of the Nationals, ana the barri- cade and the Caserne were carried in the good old measure o1 time that is stated in the sailor’s song— Before you could say Jack Robinson. It 1s but just to say that the Seventy-fourth, seein; Une good example of the blue jackets, rallied an jomed hands with them handsomely, A PANIO AMONG THE NATIONALS, So soon as the National Guards turned away their faces their movement, of course, became a panic, and a panic of the wildest sort. They threw away everything and ran as the wild mustangs run before the prairie fire, crowding, hla re crushing one another down the descending road and over the bridge and far up the Avenue de Neuiliy; and into the rear of the fying mass the soldiers fired, and General Gallifet’s artillery sent them some remem- brances that followed as lar as the gate of Paris. MANY PRISONERS were taken, and among them were found six soldiers of the linc, who had been fighting among the insurgents. They were Killed as soon as taken, im accoraance with an order previously given. Among the government troops no man was killed on the place but the surgeon. About twenty-five were wounded, five severely. On the other band, the number of killed ana seriously wounded among the National Guards is Decal, sixty. Perhaps the principal importance of this affair ts in its moral effect. I¢ is now certain that the French government has soldiers that will obey the orders of their commanders and fire upon the insur- gents, and this point determined there is of course Dot the stigutest doubt of its ability to put down the insurrection with little Cele To-day the troops be- haved well, the Chasseurs d’Afrique, the sailors and the artillery making good use of their arms and tn- dicating not the least disposition to spare when once they were in. This fact seems already to re- store the morale of the whole military force, and the day has been a very important one simply in virtue of its proving that all the force in the hands of the government 13 not corrupted by the spirit that dis- graced the Eighty-eignth regiment of the line, The Battle of the 3d of April—What Might Have Been Accomplisued — Determined Fighting on Both Sides—The Revels Driven Back--The Killing of Flourens. VERSAILLES, April 3 —Midnight. This has been a day of scarcoly interrupted fight- ing between the insurgents and the national forces; a day of battte tolcrably well sustained, stubborn even at some points, and bloody; and at its close, although the regular troops have beaten those of Paris, and have puntshed them severely—tt must be conceded that they have not crushed them—nhave not given them such a veritavle coup de grace aa a numerous, well trained and well armed military force might be expected to have givento an armed mob trusting itself to une chances of warfare outside of the city walls. And this ts simply due, on the part of the government forces, to blundering and the want of prevision of inevitable occurrences, THE SITUATION OF THE CONTENDING FORCES. Bougival, about five miles due north of Versailles, was the left of the forces defending this chy, and their right was at Meudon, giving a front of not less than twelve miles, The operation of tie in- surgents was a grand attack with 30,000 men on the government right at Meudon and @ diversion with a column of 6,000 on the left by Neuilly, Courbevole and Reuil, driving it to Bougival. By both move- ments tney opened themselves completely to a crashing return if they had been opposed with en- ergy, but the return blows never fvent completely home, because they were sent too late. PREPARING FOR BATTLE. Both the columns from Paris moved apparently at about three A. M. ‘There was a good perception of the circumstances in making the main attack by the insurgent left, It was clear that General Vinoy’s attention was mainly directed to his own left, and that if he did not neglect his right he attached little importance to what might be done against it, In M. Thiers’ oMctal despatches of yesterday it was stated that General Vinoy had determined on the move- ment against Courbevole arter he had “assured him- self that a demonstration made by the insurgents toward Chatilion was of no moment.” Doubtless this might have been proclaimed without General Vinoy believing it; but, in fact, he was found as lit tle prepared as he declared himscit to bo egainst an attempt on bis right, for the advance of the insurrection found there sim- ply one regiment of gendarmes-in fact, the movement toward Chatilion that burat Into considerable battle to-day was already in prepara tion wien General Vinoy deciared it “not serigus,” and on Sunday the attacaing force of w-Cay was ecaned betiind Forts Issy, Vanyres apd Montrouge It was formed in order of battle outside of there forts before daylight this morning, and advanced without dispute across the space under fire of the forts to Chatelion. At Chatifion a column was de- tached on the way to Plessis-Picquet, on the Impe- Tial road, between Sceaux and Versailles. On the Plateau of Chatillon a battery of flela pieces was established—12-pounders—and the first thing that saluted the eyes of the defenders of Meudon 48 THE DAYLIGUT CAME was an array of offensive battle that only needed their own spirit to have given it a terrible success. ‘These defenders, as I have satd, were few—one reg ment of gendarmes—but magnificent soldiers. For four hours they made head against the whole hos- tile force, and thus gave time for supports and artil- lery to come up. Well posted in Meudon, they de- livered fire on the advanoing lines of insurgents, and as early as six A. M. this fire was very warm, and I am sure it was also very effective, for I never saw soldiers handle their arms in cooler style. It was reported that the Colonel of this regiment was killed, but it was, { belicve, an error. He fell cer- tainly, and that perhaps gave rise to the report. He only fell, however, because his horse fell. His horse ‘Was hit fair in the forehead, This was IN THE HEAT OF THE BARLY FIGHT, and before the supports came up. Unleashe was hit later than that, he lives to receive the reward of as good a day’s service as ever soldier gave to his country, Butit must be remembered that these men in Meudon were unsupported to the right and left, ana the very courage with which they were holding their post in the faith that supports would come up seemed each moment to be sealing the cer- tain death of every man; for the insurgents were Suet. to the right and left, and threatened each moment to completely surround them. ‘Two com- panies that were sent to the rear for ammunition— every man had expended a hundred rounds—when they came up again had diMculty to out their way in. Butthe supports did finaily come up, and the National Guards lost the copartanliy to murder all these gallant fellows. Many were hit, howéver. At the time the supports came up the insurgents had swept around to the left of Meudoa, under cover of litle hills that slope down to the Seine, had seized and occupied the chateau, park and wood of Meudon, so that it was nearly surrounded; were de- livering fire on the gendarmes from their pieces on the plateau at Chatillon, and were bringing up fresh men on & line of battle whose right rested on Issy and left on the battery at Chatillon. TROOPS UOMING ON THE FIELD. But the arrival of plenty of good troops soon spoiled their array; lor though they had fought reso- lutely in front of Meudon, it was because there was evidently & small force there. They had, however, Jost the time that might have onabled them to ue- stroy that force and push into Versailles. THE REBELS REPULSED. General Faron led the force that advanced to ro- Meve the gendarmes, and atten A. M. opened fire with artillery on the battery at Cnatillon and on the columns of National Guards, wherever they were visible. The warm and weil sustained fire of the regular artillery soon silenced the badly served Ppteces on the plateau of Chatillon and drove to cover every semblance of a National Guard. Large num: bers of the panic-stricken wretches took cover in the wood. Two regiments of the line and some huzzars supported the gendarmes in dislodging the insurgents, who had established themselves in the Chateau, where they made use of all the devices contrived by the Prussiang to defend the position, ‘They held behind the walls with some obstinacy, but were driven out, and slaughtered in their escape, AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY ‘on this scene of action al! the National Guards were crouching in the shelter of Forts Issy and Vanvres and the redoubt at Chatillon, and the artillery on the Terrace at Meudon was shelling these points which did not respond. ON THE LEFT OF VERSAILLES the enemy moved a far smaller force; but the opera- tion was fot without importance. The column moved irom Neuilly by Courbevole, which had pneen taken the day before and evacuated, and thence by the Round Point des Bergéres toward Rueli and Bougival. Ou the way it was at certain points ex- pened tothe fire of Valérien, and from this fire the insurgents suffered somewhat. It forced its way, however to Ruell and Malmaison, where tt encoun- fered the cavalry of General Gailifet, Holding Rueil against the cavalry, the insurgents sent artillery, apparently under Flourens, across the river to Chaton and down the other bank of the river to Crotssy, where it opened & fire on Gallifet’s rear and com- elled him to retire. Jt then pushed on to Bousival. jougival is @ strong positien. It was fortified by the Prussians to make head against a sorue from Paria, and now proved of use to the Frenen for the same purpose, Amusing the Nattonai Guards IN FRONT of this position General Vinoy directed a column from Bugenval by Mont Valérien on the line of retreat toward Paris in the hope of capturing all ums force; but discovering that they could make no impres- sion on Bougtval, and pushed all the time by Galll- fet, they turned their faces toward Paris, and when they then ascertained that there were troops ahead ol them that way the whele body went to pleces— was compleiely dispersod in the neighborhood of Ruell—every man seeking his safety by individual flight. THE KILLING OF GUSTAVE FLOURENS. on this side is expecially worthy of mention. This 1s the killing of Gustave Flourens, one of the arch agitators of Paris. He was killed by a captain of gendarmes, Who split his skull with the blow of a sabre. This happened in the village of Chaton, where the artillery crossed from Rueil, at about four P. M. Flourens perhaps, uuaware of the precipitate retreat from Ruel, was still at Chaton, In a little au- berge, when the gendarmes came in and he fired at them in the street trom the window, They immedt- ately went in, mounted to the room from which the fire came, and as they entered it one of them re- ceived a ball in the shoulder from Flouren’s re- volver, Sees the other cut him down. His aide-de-camp, Pisani, a Italian, was with him and received a wound in the thigh. M. Thiers’ Answer to the Letter of M. Rou- her—The Latter’s Temporary Incarceration Was a Necessity—The Account of M. Rouher Stigmatized as False—The Present Government of Eranco Will Exile No One—Somethiug About Bonapartist In- trigues. During the sitting of the National Assembly, on March 31, M. Thiers made the following speech with regard tothe arrest of M. Rouher, upon whose letter and the Bonapartist intrigues in general he com- mented very severely: — M. THIERS sald—I have now the following remarks to make to the Chamber:—As a rule the members of @ government wait until they are asked for explana- tons upon facts that are susceptible of controversy. In anticipating interpetiation I am actuated by a sentiment which all of you, I hope, wili approve. ‘The best way of answering slanderous imputations is to expose them openly in the Chamber. Many foreign journals and also a few French papers have reproduced leiters emanating from persons who played important parts under the empire. They complained of the usage received at the hands of the government. I shall expose to you the facts with a moderation which you will appreciate, avoiding ya me! that might cause an excitement in this Assembly. But there is are- proach which we will not allow to be imputed to us, and thatis to. have condemned nehmen to exllé (Mavoir été des proscriptew have been exiled, but I shall exile no one /J’at été pro. sort. Je ne proscrirat pas), God forbid that I should want to insult personages who have filled positions of power, but possess them no longer. God Jorbid that I should gratuitously throw disgrace upon a government whica has ceased to exist; but God forbid also that L should allow imputations against me of arbitrary acts which are distant to my heart, and which during my whole life Lrepudlated. A cele- brated personage, the honorable M, Rouher, has writ- ten a letter to certain journals, which Phave the right to consider as lusultingto me, At any rate it gives an account which 1s wholly false. I shall prove it by facts, Ata moment when such grave events are taking place in I’rance several personages who have under the last rule ocoupied positions more or less. important have by ident—I grant it—(noise and protests.) Let me take the liberty, gentlemen, not to say any more about it than I want to say. (Movement.) Pardon me, I shall be frank and tell you that I can- not tell you any more, because I simply know no- thing more abou‘ it, What J can state is, that at this very time of our troubles several personages who were so nearly related to the empire are found tarrying on our fronuersa. In the time of agitations people become suspicious and even unjust, but it 1s impossible to prevent the spread of certain opinions. No one could, for instance, prevent the popu belief that a Bonapartist conspiracy 1s hatching, which I, by the way, do not believe at all. I have, therefore, not shared the fears of public opinion, This is, perhaps, on account of my long and varted experience of revolutions. Tlic goveri- ment was duly notified, and contented itself with asimple surveillance over those persons. When the people of Bouiogne heard of the arrival of M. Rouher a great tumult arose around the hotel where he took apartments, The Prefect hastened to the gcene, and without the courage which he (the Pre- fect) displayed M. Rouher would have bocn ex- josed to great danger and ti! treatment. The Pre. lect had to adopt the only measure which conld place M. Rouher beyond the reach of the effects of public indignation. In order to be protected he had to be taken to aprison, But M. Rouker was con- ducted there with @ strict regard to what was duo tolim. Facts of the same nature took place tn other parts of the country. 1 instructed one of the Secretarles of the Ministry to look into the matter and examine all the facts. Lordered him, if the result of the examination should not be implicating, vo set M. Rouhor at luerty. instructed him at the game time to assure M, Roaher that everybody was free to enter French territory; but also to tol) him that 1 beseech him not to expose himself to dangers which cannot Always be averted, M. Rouher gave his word that he was entirely foreign to the presen troubles of France, f Weill, then, Lask you, gentlemen, Is 1% after uch conduct that we ought to be calied “an aphitrar, power?” 1t 1s odious to me to be (aac # of arbi- trary acts even toward men who haye so Often bech quilly of such arbitrary acts that bistory musi judge them with severity, (Genoral approbation.) Never, believe me, shall we give you the demorritsing spectacie of men who Will practise when im power the principles which they matized When in the ranks of the oppositioa, hail not deny, even under the vreseut crila. the doctrines, Of my Whole these gentlemen, Tsay, have been looked upon with suspicion by the population, It was-believed that their presence had something to do with the ent events. Although the! were warne in. thne not to the fron- if there aro no sertous indi against them. Tell these gentlemen, at the same time, that it would be the greatest danger for th: 3 through French territory.” Me Cassa; > at it. er, understood it and made his son und j 1 repeat, French territory 13 not prohibited to a@ny one; that we are not @ power that condemns te exile (un pouvoir Bde eur), but confine: our- elves to the execution of the law. (Very good.) The government which represents order in cer epre- sents also the law and the respect of all parties, is now for you, geutiemen, to Judge the conduct men who, once write let! to complain jn the newspapers, after having, when under a: ad- dressed thanks and congratulations at the coul with which we treated them, This ts what I wish to submit to the judgment of the public and te yours. (Approbation.) M. Thiers’ Negotiations with the Germans, VERSAILLES, April 2—Noon. In my letter of yesterday I mentioned that M. de Bismarck nad intimated to M. Thiers that unless the disorder now reigning in Paris was put down befere the 15th inst, the German army now in France Would interfere, enter Paris, punish the insurgenw and occupy the capital of France until at least one half of the indemnity was paid. The manner ip which ‘THE GERMAN CHANOBLLOR DECLARED HIS DETERMI- NATION was as follows:—During the past week M. Pouyer- Quertier, the Minister of Finance, and General Val- don, chief of the staif of General Vinoy, were sent by M, Thiers to Rouen, tn order to obtain from General Fabrice, who, as you are no doubt aware, now represents M. de Bismarck in France, @ modifica tion of article 8 of the Treaty of Peace, by whieh the French government was bound not to eptertalm more than 40,000 troops in Paris. ‘With perfect rea- son the deputation argued that under present cir- cumstances it would be impossible to restore and maintain order in Paris with a force of such com- parative few numbers, when the armed human Ugers of Belleville aud Montmartre were at least 200,000 strong. M, Fabrice listened with great attes- tion to all they had to say, but said that before giving a definite answer he must consult his sa- pertors in Berlin, and that next morning he woule Ll oe to tell the French Minister and Gencrat ‘whether M. DE BISMAROK CONSENTED to their request, witch they had formalized into » demand, that until order was restored in Paris tae army employed in the capital might be raised te 80,000, All hight long telegraphic messages were exchanged between the Prussian representative as Rouen and his chief at Berlin, and by next morning thereply to the French request was ready. M. de Bis- marck made no difliculty whatever in the modificae tion asked for of article 8 of the tp fy the con- trary, he gave the French government full liberty to employ as many troops as 1¢ deemed requisite, with- out naming any limit whatever, in putting down the revolution of :aris, Bui he required a clause to be inserted 1n the treaty, statang that shouid the legitl- Mate government of France, as named by the Ne tional Assembly, and as represented at present by M. Thiers and his colleagues, not succeed in restor- ing their authority In France before a given time, & would then be lawful for the German army to ent the capital and take the task upon themselves, this proposal M. Pouyer-Quertier and General Val- den, alter oxchanging messages through the wires with Versailles, Very naturally objected. It woul mever do, they Said, for the government France to be bound by treaty at the order of another Power to expend French lives and spill Frenca blood, even for the inuch desircd end of having a eace esablished in Paris, More messages were forwarded to Berlin, and 1m the end M, de Bismarck, hot wisuing to cause any needless dificulty with the Versai’les government, waived his demand, ale lowing at the same time that THE ARMY OF PARIS Might be augmented not only to 80,000, but te 160,000, men, At the same time he iutimated onicially, through bis representative at Rouen, te the Freuch government, in courceous but curt and determined terms, that the 16th instant was the lust day the Emperor of Germany would consent to look On at the present anomalous stato of affairs in France, and ihat if on that day the Freack government had not restored order in Parts, the German military authorities would have orders te do so forthwith, With this very positive declara- tion the negotiations ended, and the French depu- tation returned, on Thursday eveniug, to Ver- Sallles, Thus it is evident that THE GOVERNMENT OF THE MOTEL DE VILLE IS IN RATHER AN AWKWARD POSITION. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that if the army of Versallics attacks them they get the best of the figuc, and are even able to drive the government troops out of Paria, they will sull have to play out the part with their old frieads the Gere mans, who will be found rather harder to deal with than M. Thiers and General Vinoy, M. de Bismarok is perfectly logical in what he has sald. The didiculty of getting mm France a legitimate govern. ment with which he could treat was too great for him to have to go through the same difficulty over again. He has tne “man in possession” of premises, and he is not likely to allow a party whom he knows nothing to set himself up as the rightful owner of the estate, with the almost ce tainty of his dept being repudiated, M, THIERS OBJECTS TO AN APPEAL To ARMS. M. Thiers, as I heard a general officer say of him this forenoon, 1s extremely adverse to any appeal to arms; he 18, ina crisis like that through whieh we are passing, merciful even toa fault. But if our new masters expericnce the advent of tao Germans to their territory there will be a good deal of wee; ee! walling and cursing and swearing im the drinking dens of Belleville and Montmartre ere the spiked helmets take their leave of Paris, Proclamation of the Commune to the People. In spite of the reverses the Commune issued @ Proclamation to the people on the Sth inst., in which: it say: The monarchists who are sitting at Versailles do not Far azainat you like civilized men, but like Vendeans of Charrette, the agents of Tiel risoners and massa cre the wounded in ‘wenty times tho wretches who dishonor the uniform of line have turned their muskets butt end upwards and thew. traitorously tired upon our gallant men, ‘Then foliows tremendous praise of the insurgent Nattonad Guards, “Ihe eneray, the courage and the devolion to the republic of the National Guards,” the vroclamation, “their herolam and thelr constancy, admirable, Their artillerymen have taken am with an ‘accuracy and precision, that have been wonderfal. Their lire has repeatedly aile the fire of the enemy, who has been compelled to leave @ mitraitiewse in our hands. Citizens, the Commune entertains no doubt of victory, Energetic measures. have been taken, The public services, moment Giuorganized by defection and treason, are now reorgan ‘The time is usefully employed for your approach! ng triumph. The Commune counts upon you as you may count upon it, The rovalists of Versailles will soon have nothing left but the shame of their orfmes. With yon, citizens, will rest the eter+ nal honor of having saved France and the republic, Ne» tional Guards, the Commune congratulates you, und de clares that you haye deserved well e republic.” ret, Delescluze, Felix Pyat, G. Tridon, E. Vatilant. Panis, April 4, 1871, MARSEILLES Serlous Fighting and Succcrs of the Goverm mont Troops. There was some serious fighting at Marseillos.en Tuesday, the 4th; but the government troops seem to have triumphed. A despatch, dated Marseilles, on that day, says:— ‘This morning the msurgents were attacked a| the rallway station and put to filght by two companies of Infantry. The captain of the was wounded, ‘Three maure captured wero immediately 1 by 5,000 regular troops, whe have surrounded the Preteoture,’ Musketry aad cannom firing commenced at a quarter past nine this. morning and still continues, There are numerous dead and wounded. Large numbers of insurgents have been arrested. ‘The are crowded with Uliers. ‘The chassourshold the ban the aatiors the Rourse, ‘The bombardment of the Prefecture commenced from the hill of Notre Dame de la Garde and Fort Nicolas at one, At four a rebel parfementiire sout oub was detained prisoner. Tue bombardment was continued, At ten minutes past four the Prefecture still held out, ‘The musketry firing had ceased, but at nine the Prefecture had been taken by the troops; but it is said that. de leaders have not been capiured, BOULOGNE. Order. Boing Restored Throughout Francom Lyons, St. Etienne and Le Creuzot Quict= ‘Lue Situation in Marseilles. BouLoGNe, April 2, 1871. ‘Tne following preclamation was received by, the Sous-Prefect of Boulogne this morning, and posted upon the walls ot the Sous-Prefecture:— VengatstRs, April L—8 4 Tho President of the Government, Chia! of the teveris bes ge aes eaten paon three » Calm stant durl reigns at ao, ol han et restored at St Gileine and it without striking: a blow. aie ie nuratry hay entered Toulouse, Prosequtions hare been Institnted against the authors of the distuzhances. The, ridiculous authors of the Insurrection of Narbonue had tho Prosumytion to prolong their resistarice at Bayles with Geng PirYonde ne thohond ef 80 mon, They have laid down U farms, and taelr ehief bas becn surrendered tnto the hands o J Gerplenan the authority of the gorernment {a, come veyed. pletely Gracies the National Guard and the muniotpality, ni wishing to assume the responstbility of embarking in a civ War fatal to the republic ag well as to France, have made docliration whieh Impiles @ recognition of Cleeted nnd acknawledged by all France, {aken pritoner in the enevte, haw been Hberated. fs about er Marsoillea iu forea-and terminal aut yuu “France, Parla alone excopied, paclited, in Parts the Commune, already divided, éndenvora to rerywhere Lalae news, and pfilages the publie pu ! isn fdoubetul position an horror to tke Parislang a wait wilh Impatience the moment of their deliverance. | Assy bly, rallying round the government, is aitth posoeebiy at Versaiilen,wnero wt Teargnalnun one ol thetinest je prOgre: the government General Ollivier, ‘tho army © whole ‘eutirely arinies France has ever porsesaed, Good ell jeans, Laon, ri themselves and ho tho proaching en of Teta Whlol bas hoea vad, Dat aack, Tho mar be gevels