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of the debts of our gover nment to the people, excepting the national debt. So far, too, is the Supreme Court from injustice or violence An this decision that it has given confidence to our people in all their business and financial affairs, and ig thus proving itself a stroke of good fortune instead of “misfortune to the country.” “None But Gentlemen Need Apply.” Evidently women are de trop, and the rubicund gentleman who, having put an enemy into his mouth, recently proclaimed throughout the length and breadth of a Sixth avenue horse car that ‘‘women were & muisance,” merely echoed the sentiments of all the lodging house keepers inthe land. “Is there no way for men to be, but women must be half workers?” exclaims the Shakspearian pcoupant of a gentcel dwelling house who advertises ‘‘rooms to let” inthe New York fHeratp. We take it upon ourselves te Weuswer no, most unfortunately no. Far better would it be for the peace of the world re women abolished ; but even in the millen- jnium we cannot bope for this boon, and must go on enduring the sex through time and through eternity. . Perhaps women are well enough when they Bre born with silver spoons in their mouths, ‘when they have well-to-do husbands or Fathers and live in houses of their own; but ‘when they sink so low in the scale of human- ity as to be widows or orphans, or single wo- ‘men on small incomes, or teachers, or follow- ra of some trade or profession, then do they come most obnoxious. When, added to Mthese sins, they actually object to boarding—a etatus in which one is allowed the privilege of expending the largest amount of money for Bhe smallest amount of comfort—and go in pursuit of lodgings, ‘‘just like a man,” then do ‘women add insult to injury and receive a just eward when front doors are slammed in their faces by amiable handmaidens of foreign ex- fst, with the information that they “don’t ¢ no women folks.” Of course not. The bese parties who preside over the destinies ‘of lodging houses are themselves of the femi- pine gender, and are too well versed in the arts of their kind to dream of giving them a focal habitation, Women are a nuisance and men ain't. "Why? Wewill teil you. Because a woman fs a woman anda man isa man. Because a ‘woman pays her rent regularly and half the time young men havo better uses for their ynoney. Because women don’t make presents to the landlady’s daughter and the young men Wo. Because women are always.saving their money to pay for the board or education of | gome brother or sister, and don’t leave it labout for the handmaidens to appropriate, whereas young men know how to be generous, and never ask any questions when ‘‘change’”’ ‘bannot be found. Because women will stay wthome and have visitors, whereas men are away allday. Because women lock their Woors, aud, what is worse, lock their frawers and trunks. Young men rarely flo anything of the sort, consequently whatever is theirs is the landlady’s—letters articularly, Women are dreadiully fussy— lnsist upon having clean bed linen and a thorough sweeping once a week. Men don’t know when anything is untidy and when it Isn’t, consequently they are much nicer to hhave in a house. Women don't play on the fiddle or the flute. Young men very fre- quently do. Women don’t have hilarious card parties and dance breakdowns or beat the devil's tattoo or experience a difficulty in find- §ng the keyhole or indulge in the pathetic Witty of “Pretty Polly Perkins” at two o'clock Ya the morning. It is asserted that many young men do all these things—when the Bpirit moves. Women have abominably good memories and refuse to pay bills more than once. Men have so much to think about that they will pay the same bill twice, and even thrice, if the landlady is only good enough to ask them in her sweetest manner. Women—but why pur- sue the matter further, when we have proved beyond a doubt that they are indeed a Muisance and are entitled to no consideration from landladies? What difference does it make if in the great city of New York there are times when respectable women know not where to lay their heads? They have no busi- ness to be women, but being so must take the consequences, and the consequences are good enough for them. Verily, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than fora woman to enter the kingdom of ‘‘lodg- fngs.” Amen. In heaven it may be different. Though sven there men are archangels and women simply angels. As mansions are many and not made with hands it is natural to suppose that ample provision will be made for both. Damp clonds at least will be free to all; but until women become angels ‘‘none but gentle- men need apply.” Tor Maton Tax in ENeLANp, by occasion- ing such a popular demonstration against it as caused its withdrawal, suggests some curious reflections in connection with the fact that a similar tax has-been impused in this country and collected with facility. The capacity of a country to be taxed is an evidence of public integrity, just as much as an individual’s prompiness to pay interest on his note isa sign of his honesty or wish to be honest. In fact, the whole system of taxation as at pre- sent existing is never complained of, except when the amount Imposed is evidently more than required, as when Mr. Boutwell desires to rush ahead with his debt-paying-before-it- is-due policy, or when the tax has peculiarly odious features, such as that upon incomes, which invades a man’s private affairs with a policeman’s ruthlessness, With such materials to draw upon the Secretary of the Treasury and the Finance Committees in Congress ought never to lack the means for providing promptly and pleasantly all their wants for the carrying on of the government. A Nationat Pottoz Coxvention.—A cit- cular has been issued from the Police Depart- ment of St. Louis recommending a convention in that city of the chiefs of detectives from all cities in the country, This is not a bad idea; but we are iaclined to think that when the convention meets there will be more or less scramble among the different detective organizations to know who is at the head or who is at the tail of the different combinations, The detective system is open to revision, Let it be revised. The Utah Plague of Locuste—An Important Question to the “Saints” and the Far West. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers tor multitude; jor both they and their camels were without num- ber, and they eutered into the land to destroy 1t.— (Judges vi, 5.) Ty crowned are as the locusts and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away and their place is not known where they are.—(Nahow iil., 17.) A HERALp correspondent at Great Salt Lake City calls our attention again to the ravages of the grasshoppers (which is only another name for the locust) in Utah. He tells us that for five years this terrible insect has destroyed almost the entire crops in many portions of the Territory; that they are again showing their presence in countless millions ; that when this fearful acourge first made its appearance in the fields of the Mormons the prophet Brig- ham Young designated the grasshoppers as “the army of the Lord,” sent among the saints to teach them what He could do in destroying the Gentiles from off the face of the Earth, and that hundreds of sermons of this superstitious twaddle were inflicted upon his credu- lous disciples. He had no _ idea then that their visits were to be continued from year to year among his peo- ple, but prophesied that they would wing their way eastward and eat up every green thing, ‘‘till the Gentiles would come bending and supplicating to eat bread from the Mor- mons.” The saints, filled with this idea, would go into their gardens and say to the in- sects, “The Lord has sent you; take your fill and travel on when you are ready.” But now, inthis the fifth year of this plague, many of the farmers are fearful of utter ruin, In many places no land is put under cultiva- tion, for the people have not the seed to sew, and they have about as little faith as they have seed. In short, itis said that but for the rich discoveries of silver, lead and other minerals recently made in the Territory, and but for the labor they furnish and the hopes they inspire, Uiah this year would have lost thousands of her most industrious people. Now this is a gloomy picture; and there is more in it than will appear to the general reader in the simple facts presented. Some years ago we gave an article or two on this interesting subject, which had a wide extra circulation through our exchanges ; but as the facts, views and suggestions then presented have doubtless passed away from the public mind, from the pressure of the tremendous intervening events in both hemispheres, we seize upon this fitting occasion again to con- sider this Utah plague of grasshoppers as a question of great importance in reference to the Mormons and Mormon polygamy, and also in regard to the settlement and develop- ment of our Pacific States and Territories, and especially of that vast intermediate region be- tween the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada range known as Fremont’s Great We shall have, first, to go into graphical details in order to compass our de- signs upon these Utah grasshoppers. The grand central portion of the North American Continent occupied by the United States it will serve our present purpose to divide into two distinct geographical sections—the European section, extending from the Atlantic coast to the great plains beyond the Mississippi, and the Asiatic section, extending from those plains to the Pacific Ocean. In the one sec- tion we have the varied seasons, rains, abounding rivers, lakes, .forests, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, &c., of Europe, and the same general characteristics in vegetable, animal and insect life. The other section, in its plains and deserts, in its general naked- ness and sterility, in its bold, rocky and desolate mountains, in its deep river chasms, and particularly in ils prevailing aridity, and in that interior system of drainage into lakes, from which the surplus waters discharged into them are evaporated by the sun, bears a most striking general resemblance to that grand historical section of Asia, “the cradle of the human race,” extending from Toorkis- tan and Persia to the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The delightful and productive coast section of Palestine or Syria has its counterpart in the beautiful and fertile coast section of Cali- fornia; and the sea or fresh water lake of Galilee, the river Jordan and the Dead Sea, into which it is diseharged, are wonderfully reproduced in the fresh water Utah Lake, the river Jordan and the Great Salt Lake, into which it is emptied. And as the city of Zion, of the former day saints, is flanked by moun- tains, rocks, chasms and deserts, so is the New Jerusalem of our Latter Day Saints. But what has all this to do with these Utah grasshoppers? Mark the connection. Under the laws of the Great Creator we find that in those sections of both hemispheres, which, in their climate and in thir geographical and geological features, resemble each other ; there is also, more or less, a resemblance to each other in their vegetable and animal life, including insects. The camel, from experiment, introduced into Nevada, is as much at home there as in the desert near Damascus, and the destructive grasshopper of Nevada, Arizona and Utab, if not the same insect, is the American congener of the locust (locusta migratoria) of Asia Minor. A learned missionary, who has given us his observations and experience ef many years in the Holy Land, in a charming work entitled “The Land and the Book,” says that ene morning in Philistia he saw an immense cloud of locusts descend and settle upon the sandy sides of a range of bills, and that in the even- ing the cloud ascended again and passed away. This strange proceeding, he soon learned from the natives, was the warning of a heavy misfortune. The locusts had been depositing their eggs In the sandy soil, and when hatched by the warm sun of the retarn- ing spring the hillsides with the minute in- sects at first appeared to be moving, but ina few days the young locusts began ‘their march, hopping at first, all in the same general direc- tion, but rapidly growing, and as they grew they went on, eating up every green thing over a breadth of several miles, till they were full grown, full fledged and strong, and then— The darkening cloud arose and swept away; Bus left a waste vehind of blasted fields, As from a withering and consuming fire, Those Utah grasshoppers, the American younger brothers of the Syrian locust, go through the same processes. The arid climate and sandy soil of the Asiatic section of this counire of the Great Basin are adant-? ‘> the Me brates | S - a NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, insect, and he is there. We suppose that he came up at first into Utah over the deserts from Mexico, and if he has not advanced much beyond the Rio Grande on this side of the Rocky Mountains it is because the wintry snows of the elevated plains of Texas (El Llano Estacado) and the autumnal fires of the prairies have kept him back. In Arizona, Southern California, Nevada and Utsh, and in the western parts of Colorado and New Mexico we fear he is @ fixture, and will for- ever render the cultivation of the soil in those regions subject to the chances of famine, more or less, from his visitations, There is hardly an image of destructiveness more expressive of desolating power than an army of locusts. The Bible has its grapbic allusions to them, from the plague of locusts called down upon Egypt, when “they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened,” down to the coming of the herald of the new dispensation, John the Baptist, whose “meat was locusts and wild honey.” And this reminds us that in the first recorded visit of the white man to Great Salt Lake, that of the explorer Captain Fremont, in 1844, his short supplies there were eked out by grasshopper cakes procured from the Indians, He had the locusts, though not the wild honey. In addi- tion to the locusts the Mormons are troubled by swarms of a destructive cricket, a fearful monster. In the first year after their settle- ment at Great Salt Lake the saints were threatened with a famine from the destruction of their growing crops by these crickets, when a cloud of little sea gulls from the Salt Lake descended upon them and returned from the lake every morning and kept at their good work all day until the crickets were destroyed. This saving interposition of the sea gulls was regarded by the saints as a direct intervention of Providence, and it surely was a Godsend. Between this annual plague of the grass- hoppers, however, and the Pacific Railroad, and the newly discovered silver mines of Utah, we foresee a settlement of the question of Mormon polygamy without the further intervention of Congress. It will be crowded out or absorbed by the Gentiles. ‘‘The grass- hopper is a burden” of himself too heavy to be borne by an agricultural people whose fields are limited to the little green patches in the Utah desert, and who depend upon their fields for their subsistence. In conclu- sion, having shown the Asiatic character of the great western section of the United States, even in the locust, we can only conclude that there he is bouad fo be @ tiutsaice, and only hope that the great chain of the Rocky Moun- tains and the great Plains, with their frosts and fires, will prove an enduring barrier of protection against him to the European sec- tion of our country. In any event, the Utah grasshopper or locust begins to loom up as an important question touching the manifest destiny of the Mormons and Mormon poly- gamy, and also in re:ard to the future pros- pecis not Silly gf Utah, but likewise of Nevada, New Mexlcs, Were falerege, Arizona and Southern California, for We see that in Utah the locust has increased with the cultivation of the soil. The Break and the Outbreak on the Erie Canal. The eight hundred workmen who have been repairing the break in the Erie Canal at Fair- port struck for higher wages yesterday, demanding three dollars a day in place of their present wages. They ceased work at once, although the break is atill so far from being fully repaired that every hour of its continuance is full of loss to the people and to the State. The increased wages was refused and then the strikers commenced an onslaught upon a number of workmen who consented to resume work at the old rates, and a riot ensued. The contractors took prompt measures and telegraphed at once for the aid of National Guardsmen at Rochester. They were sent at once, and arrived on the scene last evening. It is to be presumed now that quiet will prevail. The break in the Erie Canal is a very serious matter, and {ft needs to be attended to faith- fully and at once to prevent immense damage ensuing. The laborers at work seized a moment quite favorable to the successful issue of their strike, but their doing so will lead all honest people to the belief that they were taking undue advantage of their employer's needs to oppress him. And the fact that this employer is the State, and that many thrifty, hardworking canal men are waiting in idleness until this Erie break is repaired, will not induce honest people to think any less hardly of them for it. The prompt measures of the contractors has evidently disconcerted the strikers; and the presence of our hardy rural militia will teach them probably that, although they may shirk work themselves, they will not be allowed to frighten other people from it. Jay Gouty iv Covurt.—There was another field day into Erie mysteries yesterday, held in the presence of the Master. Books and papers, and clerks and bookkeepers to explain the entries as to shares and bonds, conversible and unconvertible stock, &c,, appeared in Court. Mr. Gould himself also put in an ap- pearance, and was relieved from the order of arrest on giving bonds in $10,000 that himself, the required books of the office, and whatever officials of the company may be summoned to give testimony during the continuance of the examination, shall be in attendance when called on, The examination yesterday was altogether with regard to entries appearing on the books, and had extremely little interest to the large audience that filled the court room, and that anticipated developments of a more interest- ing and exciting character. The case will be resumed to-day. . ALGERIA. TELEGRAM TO THE REW YORK HERALO, The Insurrection Spreading—The Government Heedleas. Lonpos, May 4—Midnight. Rumorsare circulating that the insurrection in Algeria is extending, and that the government at Versailles is heedicss of the growing danger. VIEWS 0# THE PAS‘. MAY 5, 1864—Battlo of the Wilderness, Va., commenced, 1862—Battle of Willlamsburg, Va.; McClellan's forces defeated the rebels. 1863—Prince Menschikof? demanded from Turkey, for the Emperor of Russia, a protectorate over the Greek Christians in her territory, japoleou Bopavarte died at Sh Helena, | THE ROUGE REVOLT. A Government Victory South of Forts Bicetre and Ivry. TEN CANNONS CAPTURED. The Garrison of Fort Issy Com- pletely Shut Up. FAVRE GONE TO BRUSSELS. Thiers Expels the Orleans Princes from France. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Favre Gone to Brussela—Capture and Evacua- don of a Mill—Issy Surrounded—Minor Eu- gagements—Magistrates Removed by Gam- betta—Orlenns Princes Expelled by Thiers. VERSAILLES, May 4, 1871. M. Favre has gone to Brussels to participate in the peace negotiations, CAPTURE AND EVACUATION OF A MILL. The Versailles forces have carried by assault the insurgent position at Saguet Mill. One hundred and fifty of the Communisia were killed and ten cannon and 300 prisoners captured. The mill has, however, been evacuated by the Versailles troops, as it is exposed to a destructive fre from the insur- gent fortifications. The, Saguet Mill reported captured by the Ver- sallles forces 1s south of and about one mile from Forts Bicetre and Ivry. FORT ISSY¥ SURROUNDED, The approaches of the Versailles army to Fort Issy are being rapidly completed, and it 1s now re- garded as impossiblé for the Communist garrison ‘to escape. MINOR ENGAGEMENTS. The cannonading and musketry fire continue, and several engagem: nts of an unimportant nature have occurred. As aresult of these affrays sixty prisoners have been brought in from the front. GAMBETTA’S APPOINTMENTS. The Assembly yesterday debated the removal of Magistrates on account of their political antece- dents by Gambetta during the administration of the government of National Defence. M. Dafaure, the Procureur Général, said some of these officials had been reinstated; but on the whole he preterred Gambetta’s magistrates to those ap- polated by Napoleon. ORLEANS PRINCES EXPELLED. Itwas President Thiers and not the Paris Com- mune who issued the recent orders for the expal, sion of the Orleans Prin Ne Commercial Treaty with Germany—A Military Movement Not Carried Out. Lonpon, May 4, 1871. Itis positively stated that M. Thiers refuses to enter into a coinmercial treaty with Germany, and that Prince Bismarck has protested against the un- just discrimination made by France agaiust German commerce. , A MILITARY MOVEMENT NOT CONSUMMATED. ‘The Times’ special despatch from Versailles says that on Tuesday night three divisions of the army of the Assembly, under the immediate command of Marshal MacMahon, advanced towards the encetnte of Paris through the Bois de Boulogne. An entire corps was erdered to follow. Owing to circum. stances which it is imprudent to explain the move- ment was not consummated, The Pence Negotiations. Brvsses, May 4, 1871. Baron Von Arnim has gone to Berlin and the French plenipotentiaries to Versailles for fresh in- structions, TORNADO AT BATON ROUGE, Terrific Storm at Baton Rouge—Great De- straction of Property—A Pertion of the Penitentiary Blown Down—Escape ot Con- victs—Injury to Public Buildings—Planta- tions Ruined—Several Lives Lost. NEW URLBANS, May 4, 1871. A tornado swept over Baton Rouge and vicinity on Tuesday, causing great destruction of property. ‘Trees were uprooted, and bricks and planks were whirled In the alr. The north and south walls of the Penttentiary, the roof of the shoe factory and the cells in the south wing of the building were blown away. The whole second story and roof of the storehouse of the United States Arsenal, witn 306 feet of the laborazory (a frame builiiing) and the root of one of the powder magazines, were rent in frag- ments. ‘The roof was torn irom the Catholic church and the cemeiery fence was demolished. A large number of frame houses were unroofed and received other damage. ‘The sugar house and a number of cabins on the plantation of Joseph Bernard were blown down, and one negro was Kilied and several were drowned, The sugar house, gin house and cabins on the plantation of James McCoilen were all destroyed, and many colored persons were severely injured. The sugar house and the cabins on tue plantation of W. S. Pike were blown down and two colored men were killed and @ number were wounded, Many boats and flats laden with coal were sunk. The loss will reach $400,000, Daring the storm some of the convicts escaped froin the prison, but they were speedily recaptured. SEE EERE RS EES ———— THE PACIFIC COAST. The American Medical Associntion Wrangling About Women Practitioners—Election of Off_icers—Manificent Donation to the Pres- byterlan Memorial Fund. SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 1871. The members o1 the American Medical Association are having a lively fight over @ resolution on the admission of female delegates, though no applicants are in attendance. The second prize has been awarded to Dr. Benja- min Howard, of New York, for an essay on the direct method of artificial respiration for the treat- ment of persons apparently dead from sutfocauon, from drowning or from other causes, The first has been awarded to Dr. E. R. Taylor, of Sacramento, for am essay on the chemical cousutution of the bile. Dr. Henry A. Martin, of Boston, chairman of the Committee on Vaccination, was removed for using insulting language towards the association tn an article on vaccivauion Which he had pudiished in the Homuroprthie Journal, ‘The following otlicers were elected for the year:— Kentucky; Vice Presi- . Lives, Ala- sortiett, Wis- President, D. W. Yandeil, dents, Thomas M. Logan, Caliiornia; M. Mitchell, Alabama; J. K. Ashford, Phil easurer, Liprat F, ‘The association Will meet next year in rian, C, Weston. Philadelphia, St John Presbyterian churcn of this city, of which the Rev. Dr. Scott is pastor, has raised $59,000 to apply to the five million memortal fund, This is double the entire apportionmeat for California, and the church having only 162 members 1t is claimed as the banner church of the Union, WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, 1 OPPICE OF THE Cite SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHinaton, D. C., May 6—1:20 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer is rising slowly on the Pacific coast, with cioudy weather. The lowest pressure Is now in Upper Canada, with a minor depression in the Southern States, The barometer remains high, but is slowly falling on Lake Superior and in Maine. The northeast winds and heavy rams have cou- tinued on Lake Michigan and the Rast and South- east to the Atlantic, Clearing up weather is now very generally prevalent tn the Intertor, but heavy rains still continue on the entire Atiantic coast, with brisk nortueast winds in the Eastern States Probabtities, Itta probable that on Friday northwest winds, with cloudy and clearing weatner will prevail from ' Lake Erie soushward and wedtward. Eeasterly winds, followed »y southwest winds and abating rans in the Middle and Restarn States, LATEST FROM FRANCE Herald Special Reports trom Paris and Versailles. Disastrous Defeats of the Insurgents on Wednesday Night. A New Battery Unmasked at Montretout. The Column Vendome to be Des- troyed on Monday. Details of the Government Victory at Moulineceaux. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Our special correspondent in Paris sends us the following interesting resumé of events which have transpired in and around the French capital since his last report :— Paris, Thursday Evening, May 4, via Boutogne, May 5—Morning. The mitrailleuses are greatly used, almost super- seding the chassepots, LOSSES OF THE INSURGENTS. Thus far the losses sustained by the insur- gent National Guards has been heavy. Fort Issy has been terribly battered and is now little better than a mass of ruins, OLUSERET DEFENDED. General Rossel, the Communal Secretary of War, defends his predecessor, General Cluseret, and denies that the latter at- tempted to make the battalions rise against the Commune. He was the first to enter Fort d'Issy after the advanced works had been captured by the Versailles troops, and the panic-stricken garrison had deserted the fort. TWE COLUMN VENDOME TO BE DESTROYED. The fighting around Paris continues. The Column Vendome will be destroyed on Monday next. It will be made to fall in one piece, Large the National Guards and all the members of the Commune will be present to witness the destruction of the column. MORE VANDALISM PRONOSED, assis _Tb ig pow jptdpbsed to destroy the statue of Henri Quatre at Port Neuf, and also the statue of Louis the Fifteenth in the Place numbers of Victoire. “GOobD NEWS” PROMISED, A government placard has been posted on the walls of Pateaux declaring that there will be good news for the people before Sunday next, A COMMUNIST DISASTER, Last night's operations were most disastrous | tothe Commune. The insurgents at Neuilly, Amiens, Bagneaux and Villejuif assumed the offensive, but, advancing too far beyond the forts, they were almost surrounded by great numbers of the Versailles troops and driven back with heavy loss, A TERRIBLE BATTERY. Opposite Levallais the Versailles forces are preparing to make an attack. They have un- masked a terrible battery at Montretout, com- | posed of marine heavy artillery and command- ing the Point du Jour, Auteuil and Passey. Auteuil is riddled with shells, and the unfor- tunate inhabitants of the place are flying, terror-stricken for their lives. DEVASTATION. Shells have fallen in the Faubourg St. and tho Champs Elysées and Avenue des Ternes are deserted, As I write the Chateau of Issy is in flames. THE INSURGENTS TURNED OUT OF VINCENNES. Honore, To-day the Prussians made a requisition |* upon the Commune for Vincennes, which has been ocenpied by the insurgents for some weeks. They took all the ammunition and ejected the National Guards, conducting them nearly to the gates of the city. VERSAILLES REPORTS. Telegram to the New York Herald. A Brilliant Government Victory--Comii- tion of the Insurgents—More Prisoners Taken. We have received the following despatch from our special correspondent in Ver- sailles :— VERSAILLES, May 4—Evening, } Via Bovtoene, May 5—Morning. 5 ‘The engagements fought to-day at Monlinsa- quet (Monlineceaux?) was a glorious affair for the government forces. Three hundred communssts were taken prisoners, two hun- dred were killed and eight guns were cap- turee, Fort Issy is now completely cut off from Paris on all sides. TIRED OF FIGHTING. A parliamintaire (flag of truce) which came to the lines of the Versailles troops to-day re- fused to go back after the bearer delivered his message. He declared that be was tired of | fighting and gives a deplorable account of the insurgents, all of whom, excepting the de- serters, he says are foreign adventurers. : MORE PRISONERS. Botweon Forts Vanvres and Issy eight hun- dred more prisoners were taken to-day. 7 PEACE CONFERENCE. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Conference to Coutinue in Brussele Mi sen to Kemain German, The New York Heratp special corres pondent in Berlin sends us the following despatch :— THE Beruiy, May 4, 1871. There is no truth in the report that the Peace Conference between the Plenipoten- tiaries of France and Germany will be trans- ferred to Berlin. The representatives of the two Powers will remain in Brussels, MULHAUSEN TO REMAIN GERMAN, It is evident, from an announcement in the Strashourger Zeitung, that the city of Mul- hausen will remain in the possession of the Germans. ENGLAND. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. The Debate on tho Budget—The Proposed In ereace of the Income Tax Criticised—Mr. Gladstone’s Speech—A Small Majority for the Government--The London Times on the Legal Tender Act—Commo- dore Ashbury and the Thames Yacht Ciuhb—Statement of the Bank of England. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, May 4, 1871. In the House of Commona to-night the debate om the budget continued, Although the increase of the income tax has im principle been admitted by a majority of the House of Commons the mode and proportion of the mm crease was still an open question, It is evident that Parliament has great reluctance of meeting the demands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer aa proposed in the budget. ‘The increase of taxation require! by Mr. Lowe was considered exorbitant, and will fall heavity om the poorer classes, already taxed beyond reasonable proportion. Mr. Gladstone has adhered to his declaration ta make no more alterations m the budget. The majortty of the House woula undoubtedly have preferred a moderate increase of the income tax, but as a matter of policy the liberals were bound to support the Cabinet. As usual, Mr. Giadstone had to come to the rescue of lus colleagues, and but for his telling speech the government might have been defeated upon this question, The proceedings were as follows:— Mr. Torrens advocated s five penny Income tax and censured several points in the budget. Mr. Crawford, Governor of the Bank of England, severely criticised other features of the budget. General discussion followed. Mr. Goschen urged the House not to shirk taxw tion and increase the national debt. Mr, Gladsione argued that the House, having adopted Yarions nicasnres proposed by thé govern- ment for the benefit of the country, should not reject its plans for ralsing the mouey necessary to Carry them out, Mr. Disraeli retorted ana the debate closed. ‘The House divided finally on the budget, and It was agreed to, the government haying @ majority of forty-six votes, ‘The House then adjourned, The Times of to-day editorially says the decisiow of the United States Supreme Court tn favor of the constitutionality of the Legal Tender act is botm unjust and violent, and that it will prove a misfor+ tune to the country. A complimentary dinner was given last evening te Commodore Ashbury by the Thames Yacht Club, The weekly statement of the Bank of Englai published here to-day, shows an increase of £597,000, A.—Phalon’s New Pertume. I LOVE YOU. I Love you, I LOVE YOU. For sale by all druggists. 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