The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-03 00:00:00

THE REVOLUTION IN PARIS.

VERSAILLES, Sunday.
The late °lithe most dlethigaisled of the hostages held by
the ruffians milling themoolyee the Contemne is unfortu-
nately beyond doubt. The amiable Monseigneur D'Arboy,
Archblahop of Parte ; the Venerable Abbe Degueny, Cure of
the Madeleine ; Preeldent Boolean, V,re °death, and fit
other hostages were shot by the Inaurgenta.

A number of priest.. Including six belonging to the Content
de Plopm, kg gaudarnies, and many solders whotu the
sammins had found In the convalescent wards of the hos-
pitals were among the number of them victims leb ho-
tag.. In La Roquette wen lIITO4 by the arrival of the troops.
They were to have been shot at one o'clock this afternoon
The troop. of (loners! Ladmirattit and those of General
Vittoy, surrounded bellettlle and Joined forces. When
thus completely encircled by the military the Insurgents
surrendered by thousands, and the trooper seized euormou.
quaudtlee ef arms, powder, shells, cartridges, and Incendiary
materials.
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The Millie of the 11th Arrondinsenient was the [lead-
Quarters of the Communist. ,d Belleville, and there was
much lighting about this and other pants before the rebels
were hemmed in on all sides. It is remarkable. however,
that though there were very many barricades in the neigh-
bourhood the greater number of them were not defended.
To the Metals of the Ilth Arroudiasement the murderer.
had, according to their own account, brought the remains of
the Archbishop, the Abbe Deguerry, President Boolean. and
nee Oliveto, but when the military took the building tmlay
they did not find the bodies. At two o'clock the struggle was
regarded as at an end.
The Dm/remit. occupying the Fort of Vincennes having
applied to the commanding officer of the Bavarians at
Champigny to be allowed • free passage, without acme,
through the German the Bavarian General transmitted
to the French military authorities the names of the In-
surgent officers, and asked that they might receive passport.
to Switzerland, and that the men of the garrtson might
receive, guarantee that their lives should be spared.
General Vinoy has sent a superior officer to the Bavarnin
General with an order to direct the attention of the letter to
the teat of the Convention by which the Fort of Vincennes
belong. to the French Government, who have the right to
maintain lull • garrison of ..!Oo men, even during the German
occupation of French territory is the neighbourhood of the
Fort

In the taking of the Place dole Bastille the loss of life on
the side of the troops wits considerable. The Place bad been
converted into a citadel by the insurgents during the siege.
Little doubt exists that the insurgents had arranged plans
for burning down the Ch.tteau and the other buildings of
Versailles.

SIJIVRESSION OF THE REVOLI'TION.
Pauli+, May 0.
Paris is perfectly tranquil. Shops are opening. The streets
are crowded with people examining the amount of damage
done. Prisoners in group. of • hundred are being marched
under escort down the Boulevards. Fighting cured about
three yesterday afternoon. A few shota were fired from
the windows at Belleville, where frightful scenes
are said to have been enacted. The more desperate
characters, felons and escaped forcat4 of the went
description, turned at the last moment on their own comrades
because they refused to continue the light. Some women
murdered with knives two young men for the same reason. In
consequence of the bring from the window., an Immense
number of executions occurred. The park of the Butte. Chau-
mont was etrewn with corpse& The soldiers were sof allow. that
the efficers found It necessary to warn strangers of the danger
of lrcorrthg suspicion. A few of the inhabitants of Belle-
ville were declaring openly to passers by that the fatale we,
not yet over, and that terrible reprisals would be wreaked
upon the soldiers. These boasts have not yet been fuMiled,
Got general apprehensions are, neverthelers, entertained that
those of the insurgents who have escaped justice will try to
Inaugurate a secret system of anon and assassination. Con-
stant discoveries of petroleum are still being made. The
danger is increased by the fact that women, who,
on account of their sex, are more likely to escape
notice, are really the most desperate. Great precau-
tions are taken at night. The streets are full of sentries
and all circulation le strictly forbidden. Any one who
ventures out without the password runs the risk of being
locked up all night.

Fears are entertained of an epidemic consequent upon
the hurried burial of so many dead under the pavement of
the streets.

VEILSAILLF`4, Monday.
The order for setting tire to the Hotel de Ville has been
found on a National Guard of the Commune, now a prisoner
at Versailles. It is eivered with stamps, some of them blue
and the others red.

Dombrowski died in the bedroom of the Hotel de Ville
formerly occupied by lidlle ilaussmann The day after his
escape from La &Welke he received three utla shots
while at • barrteade in the Rue d'Orusno. Ile was transferred
from there to the Ildiel de Ville. where he died of his
wound. Deleschire was killed on Tuesday at the barricade
of the et l'eati d'Ean. Ills face was much disfigured
fallen

by a portion of a burning wall which had
on it. Ills identity is amply proved by papers found In his
pocket. The Insurgent General Blazon, who was captured,
WAS shot yesterday, as well as Tavernier, a member of the
Commune. Mllliere, a Deputy of the National Assembly,
was arrested on Thunday in the PalCe Luxembourg. Be
was thence led to the Place du Pantheon, and there shot.
When the soldiers wore raising their rifles to despatch him,
he cried. Vice la Commune !" " Vice tinrnanite I" " Vice
le Pettyle r
The Archbishop of Paris died with the serene courage of a
martyr. In answer to the Inuits Cl his executioners he
sahl, Da MA pr t title the word liberty ;itisto us alone it
belongs, for we shall dle for therty and faith." On "Veetclay
the Archbishop and his fellow captli es were transferred
from the prison of Mans to that of Ls ge.inette.
The following Is the despatch of I; neral Boni, acquaint-
Is g the Government with the particulars as far as they
have been ascertained—

Aeccunt of the persons of mark shot by the Commune on
Wednesday evening, the 21th of May, and details respecting
.asnmslon

their

" 'Monseigneur Darkly, Archbishop of Paris; M. Donjean,
President In the Cour de Cessation; the Abt6 de Ouerry, Cure
of the Madeleine ; Ducoudray, a Jesuit father; Clary, a
Jesuit father; Allard, also a Jesuit father to all, six victims
shot on Wednesday evening. On the night between
Friday and Saturday 16 other persons appear te have been
shot. They were M. henry, a Jesuit tether; Gaubert,
a Jesuit father ; Alivaint, a Jesult tether, Under-Seeretaey
to the Archbishop; Gard, a seminarnt ; Folanohlu, a priest;
Seigneray, a seminarist; Houillen, a missionary ; Ferny,
a mi,sinnary ; Sabatier, curate of Notre Demo de Loretta ;
and Jecker, an American (eie.. (Another despatch calls the
latter the hanker Jacytter.) A. for l'Abbe Surat, Grand
Vicalre de Paris, It Is doubtful whether or not he hat, as one
version says, escaped. There are, besides those named,
three persons whose names are unknown.
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" The trot two persona of distinction were shot In prison,
and their bodies carried to the Metre of the 9.l)th Arrondisse-
ment. The 16 others, with. group of 34 gendarmes, were taken
to Pere La Cinder at night, under the pretext of being trans-
ferred to another place of confinement, and were then shot.
Four others, whose names are unknown, were shot on Satur-
day They formed part of the list of 2 usmes. The total thus
known amperes 04 victims. On Saturday the surviving
prisonen were about to be shot by the Commune which had
established Its ilead-flusrters at the prison, when at the
instigation of one of the old Stiff, who had been retained In
his office by the Commune, they rebelled and withdrew
into one portion of the pr'son, where they barricaded
themselves, and where the Insurgents tried to burn
them alive. The mattresses, however, being of wool,
preserved them, so that they were not much burnt.
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" A hundred soldiers who hul remained In the hand, of the
Commune when the barrack* of Prince Eugene were captured,
formed among themselves a very solid nucleus of resistance,
and at live o'clock on Ssturday evening the Commune, seized
with a positive panic, fled, carrying off with them the money
chest. and directing their flight to the Maine of the 20th
arrondissement.

" There still at this moment must be remaining in this
whoa—first, 100 s Idlers from the hospitals, ,t,T, who had
refused to tale up arms at the command of the commune;
secondly, 15 ecclesiastics ; thirdly, 51 argent. de
Signed Le General de Division. Chef d'Etat,
Major-General Ek.II,EL."
The assnsilnation of the Dominicans was on Thursday after-
noon After having heen taken to some burteades which the
Insurgents had abandoned in consequence of the heavy fire,
they were conducted back to the pri,on eteciphflaire There
they were ordered to pass one by one Into the street. As
they did so 12 of them were shot. Some escaped.

BRUSSRIA Wednesday.
The Echo du Plrientent of Monday evening publishes a
despatch from Berlin which state. that the Germans have
obtained possession of letters written by the leaders of the
Paris Commune, whereto details are given of a compiracy
against Belgium. After escaping from Parts and crossing the
Prussian lines, the Insurgents were to proceed to Brussels
and continue the Communist movement there. The public
monuments in the Belgian capital were to have been set on
fire.

In the Belgian Senate, yesterday, Berm d'Anethan, in
reply to a queetlon, said the Government considered that
Vl:tor Hugo's recent letter to the Indepentlatut Belo was
cal.miated to compromise the interests of the collie's.), and
that the writer had accordingly been requested to leave
Belgium. As he refused to go, a decree had been signed by
the King, In virtue of which M. Hugo would at once be
expelled.

PeklB, May 30.
The Figaro announces that a ft/public has been sufficiently
tried In FrallC(l. The mustered; of 1793, the Insurrection of
1848 and the Commune of 1871 will disgust people wtth any
but Monarchial sentiments.

Paris resumes Its former appearance. The shops are open-
ing, and carriages beginidLg to appear In the streets, which
are crowded with officer. hi gay uniforms. The danger to
foreigners has been great. A Mr Percival, walking at the
Buttes Chaumont, found himself caught in the ranks of a
detachment of prisoners, and was led down the Boulevards
to the Arc de Triomphe. lie was only saved from being shot
by being recognised as a respectable stranger by an Attach,
of the Belgian Legation.

The odour of putrefying bodies ii so strong in what were
the fashionable Quarters of the city a. to suggest great team
of an epidemic. Many bodies hail calcined .1111 11. under the
rains in the Rue Royale.
Summary nulitary executions continue to be inflicted on a
large wale. A great many prawns... were executed yester-
day In the Cemetery of Pere Is Chaise and in the courtyard
of Ls Roquette prison. All soldiers who Joined the Commune
have been shot.

M. Valentin, the Prefect of Police, and M. Dufaure, the
Minister of Jnattce, have arrived In Parte.

In conaequence of the great heat which prevails many
newspaper. propose the burning of the corpse. In order to
avert the danger of an epidemic at some future time.

Several attempt@ at sasaasinatlon of °Mears were mad.
yesterday by mini, women, and young girls.

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The bodiee of Monseigneur Darboy and the Abbe de
Guerry have been embalmed, and will Ile in State at the
Archiepiscopal Residence for a week.
The Lflicial reporte state that the National Archives have
been saved, also the National Library and the Arsenal The
Museum is uninjured. At the Gooelins all the tapestry and
frames in the great workshop have been burnt, the Onser-
vatoire has .offered but slightly. There are abundant proofs
that the destruction f the public buildings was a premedi-
tated deed concertol by the Insurgents.
With the exception of l'yat and °muscat, all the chiefs of
the insurrection are either killed or prisoners.
An article in the Vvro expresass the conviction that
France will not be dennitively saved until the c 'ant de
Chambord and the Orleans Mb con, reunited by a fusion, shall
aid the country with their patriotism and devotion.
The losses of the insurgente before the 22nd of May are
estimated at 12,000 killed and wounded, and 25,000 prisoners.
More than 10,000 have been killed in the fighting between the
22nd and the 29th of May. More than 20,000 prisoners have
been sent to Versailles.

The losses of the army are not yet known, but the corps of
General Lousy has lost 40 officers, and 000 killed and
wounded.

A SCENE IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.
ViRSAILLES, May 30.
At the morning sitting of the Chamber, Trochu made a
remarkable speech, In which h. announced his Intention of
going Into the whole question of the MUSS of the French
disasters at a future day. lie exhorted the nation to humble
itself before him who carts down the victor and raises up
the vanquished. He declared that a great many more re-
forms are needed. The French nation had believed it must
be everywhere and always Invincible. Its misfortunes were
prepared by its abandoning the oontrol of Ile own affairs.
kelt sacrifice and devotedness had been abandoned for mere
personal considerations. There had been introduced Into
public habits English lunar, and Italian corruption. Duero%
asked Ptcard for a reply to hi, LIASTpeIIMIOn concerning
the Prefect of the Department of the Stem. He said
the news from the departments of the /Havre and the Cher
were bed. The last Municipal ElectlOn returned Com-
munists. ~Great excitement on the Left of the Chamber,
Picard, he said, when he applied to him to remove FMIADY.
said It was not easy to remove Republican Prefects. [Yemen-
dons applause on the right) Dnerot continued his speech
In terms which the monarchial party interpreted is favour-
able to them. They all put the flag of Fran.% above every
oast. All riooralwal a mignon law, the sallonal

freely expreued Re reproached the Left with the civil
war and inceadiariam, stimulated by its former esteemed
colleigues and excellent Mende. Tremendous row on
the left : • Deputy rushed towards the tribune.
Langlois raved like • madman ) After the terrible events they
hasUggilireed, ccutioned Ducrot, only two wiles remained,
thole" of Order and EZE•dcerir. On the former lig were
In icribed "Liberty 3t ! Order." For the Woody rag of
the latter the only et ption was "Impotence " and
" Annihilation." All who 410 not reoosolze well of the nation
must be considered factions. Picard defended Saliguy us au
excellent Prefect, nod mid he would pri mote him. file
Imprudent declaration raised n tremendous storm on the
Right, and was applanded by the Lein

(Froth ueriont, Correepondents )
Cluseret was executed at the Prince Eugene Barracks.
'the Parts Insurgents set lire to Immense stone 01 eptrtte

T. V. 1113 of Milo was hurled In • cellar of the Prefecture
of Police, cud It is hoped le saha
Almost all the members of the Commune have been cap-
tured and shot. They were esec utedem the spot, as taken
Viten), ono of the Contemn e, wan d'scove red In the Rue de
Mauberge, he was executed at the Ecole MUltalre.
A balloon was aeon or-? Ancient on Monday, and another
high over Boulogne, In the direction of England.
The Sides Government has decided that no refugee shall
be given up unless guilty of ordinary crimes.
beraltier and Pottier, members of the Commune, were shot
near the Bank
'

Jourde, the Finance Delegate, was caught and shot, with
his secretary, to the ditch of the Rue Royale barricade.
Gaillard Pre, the barricade manager, tried to escape while
being taken prisoner to Satory. Ile was killed I/ a bayonet
&brut through the heart.
The authorities are on the track of Batcbal Grousset, the
Foreign Dalegate of the Commuur.
Lullier was caught in • cellar on the Boulevard Magenta.
and shot on the spot.
A woman tried to net the Valentino on lire on Sunday, but
sbe was caught and shot In a yard ,lose by.
ailment,
shot'
lumber r

insurgents In all sort of disguises have been caught. 800
were shot at the Ecole hillltatre on Sunday, among them
women.

The Noniteur says that Mix Pyat and Paschal Grousset
lett Parbion Monday In a balloon, which passed oVdr :Slott
towards the sea.

Nine hundred Belleville Insurgent' attempted to escape
through the Prussian lines. The Prussians shot 100, and gave
up the rest to Versailles.
General Trochu demanded In the National Amenably) that
the proposal to impeach the members of the Government of
the National Defence should be considered.
Among the lOU hostages rescuod from imminent execution
at Is Roquette were Father Basin, the Jesuit Lamas.%
the Vicar of the Madeleine, and the Secretary of the Arch-
bishop.
The dead body of 'Meseins, was found nn maturday after-
noon behind • barricade in the Boulevard Voltaire, in front
of the house No 6, among twenty-eight other corpses.
Troubles are expected in Rome on the 16th June, the anni-
versary of the Fope's accession Great apprehensions of
French Intervention prevails in Italy.

In the National Asaembly, e proposal to erect a mono-
malt commemorative of the hostages shot by the Commove,
was referred to the Committee of initiative.

It Is estimated that the total losses of the Paris insurgents
during the cm IPct v hints has now terminated, have hteu
22,000 killed and wounded, and 45,000 taken prisoners.

The body of Delwin:a. the War Delegate of the Con mile,
I. new eald to here been found behind the barricade of the
Boulevard Prince Eugene. lie la supposed to have been
killed lighting.
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Cavalier sites Pipe en Bois, has been arrested, and Is
comlng to Versailles Ile Is charged with having been the
chief agent ha executing the decree for the demolition of the
column.. . . . . . .

Provision. had become extremely scarce in Paris on account
of the Interruption of all communication. The markets were
completely empty on Monday.
Inc Orleans princes are said to have asked 11. Thiess for
the verification of their election. Tee &dolma anions that
the 0 .vernment ham resolved-So allow the Orleans Prances to
live In France as ordinary citizens.
The devastation In Parts la deurlbed as fearful to behold,
and can hardly be exaggerated, though many misstatements
are made. Now the smoke of battle has rolled off we can
arrive at facts with greater precision.
It Is stated that all the leading insurgents who have been
taken had in their posseastm large aums of money. Roche-
fort had on his panne 60,000 francs (X.24,0t 0). Some of the
poorest lot king prisoners tried to bribe the soldiers to let
them go with 500 and 1,000 francs.
Billioray, of the Public arJety Committee, was not shot at
the E 31310 Militalre, as many papers announce, Ile was
caught and eleouted at Point-du-Jour. He waa coward to the
last, and hod to 1.3 tied on a chair to be shot; 300,000 francs
were found on him.

P. wc min close lon. assured an officer that there were no
Federate' In her house. Ile was a nice, condoll g.looub
boy of Ile sold, raising his kept—. I tAke your word.
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As he turned to g nosy she drew a revolver and shot him
dead. Ills moo rushed In, found three ,lommmists, and
shot them and the woman In the middle of the Boulevard
Ham mann.

Mara'el Mac-Mahon has declined the offer of a sword of
honour which It was proposed to prment to him alter the
baltle of iteichshoffen. He has expressed a wish that the
money collected for that purpose alsould be distributed for
charitable objects In Paris and the outskirtr.

Dr. Tong-Motlin, Delegate of the Commune to tho 6th
Arrondissement, was condemned to death on Sunday night
by the Court-mertial *Deng at the Lusernhorg. tile mistress
Is enceihte. Lie desired to man, her before he died (be
president of the Court martial consented. The mat rlage,
which was of coune a civil one, wee witnessed by the offi-
cers of the Lusumberg. At two o'clock the ceremony was
over; at Ave the doctor was deal.
An Incendiary conspiracy Is sett to have been discovered at
Marseille. Many arrest. have b 4,n made. Naquet, who
genres in the police reports as a pentium] conapiratoe, has
beau arrested. Ills Wile, armed to the teeth, tried to shoot
General ETD eat when he Came at the head of his detach.
ment to make the arrest. Nequet was a Prefect In Corsica
Under Gambettu

'An the position of the Insorgen.s became desperate, It
seemed to produce a greater ferocity on both ales. The
rebels neither asked nor gave quarter; they had made up
their minds that death, whether aacumbatasta or as rrlaonerc
woe their only alternative, and men and women were imbed
up to a feel xy, w Inch coTverted them into a set of will
beasts caught in strap, and rendering their extermination
necessity.'

t.te thousand corpses, partially burned with petroleum, to
prevent Infection, v.ore buried on Monday he the Champ de
Man. The LiberV describes petroleum as insniliclent and
suggests utter cremation by quicklime, not only a.. unitary
measure, but to reduce to dishonoured dust the remelt,, of
cigar nals, and leave to future revolutlenlits no pen/Ability of
giving an ovation to their ',nee.

- "On Monday dozens of omnibuses were to be [0,13 yro-
coedit:lg from toe Luxembourg, aU of them filled with dead
bodies The corps. had been flung pel'-mell Into the Impec-
vited hem sew and to judge from the terrible smell as they
passed they were already diromposed. They were taken to
the Cemetery of 31ont-Pitroasse, and burled In huge grant.
with quicklime on the top of them. The resistance In the

isub,;arg 81, Antoft.e Is Ltd to have been terrible, ar.d the
whole poi:m[l4lon to have taken part In the struggle."

"Now nil Is over It must be true, as alarahal McoMubon
nays, that work and security are about to revive, butt see
no signs of this. Scarcely • shop is open the setae of
security, It is true, was SO great yesterday that enormous
crowds took advantage of the bsautilul Sunday afternoon to
roam along the Boulevards and up and down the cross streets
to survey the devastation everywhere vTible, and, with the
light heart which Emile (Mistier among Frenchmen is by no
means singular in possessing, to Jut ou human alt air,"
The Inside of the Hotel de Ville presents a curious scene,
the solid masses of atone and lime of which the rubbish is
composed having fallen in in the form of a crater, which
Oils up the whole central place. Under this mound are said
lobe burled from 200 to 300 Insurgents who were unable to
escape at the last moment, and thus fall the victims of the
conflagration they had themselves originated. The mutila-
tion of the ornamental work of this magniflcent specimen
cf architecture is simply hideous ; there Is scarcely a square
loch of the facade untouched by shot or shell, and the huge
atone columns inside, splintered and defaced, support • mere
shell.

The Temps urges calmness and consideralion in dealing
with the defeated Communists, the exptistion must be com-
plete, It admits, and justice must be done. hut the punish.
meat," it says, MILL be carried out in due form of law, the
only judge and sovereign. and It must be inflicted upon the
criminal and the gull' y alone. This kamentable cataatrophe
must not serve u a pretext for a retrogiude step to mea-
sures of compression and reaction, which, by exceeding the
limits of repression, would render I berty responsible for out-
rages of welch it had been the chief victim. Under no pre-
ter must there be any reaction. The law, the whole law,
and nettling but the law."
It is estimated that upwards of 2,000 persons have been
shot already on the left bank of the radue alone, evidently a
small proporti. n of the total number. Wh women
and children are to be °burred leaning over the parapet of
the Seine intently retarding some object below, one may be
sure that the attraction is a group of hideously mutilated
corpses; of men who have been brought down to the river
side, and then with their backs to the wall have met their
doom. Oa the sloping roads leading down from the quai to
the river may also be seen inequalities where the road has
been recently disturbed and where the freshly turned earth
Indicates burial places.
" Four women in the Amazon uniform and the Reptiles;
excited special indignation. One prisoner, near the New
ra refused to march, and wee twice stabbed with
bayonets. lie was then tied ton horse's tail, and afterwards
placed on the horse, but he threw himself off, and 11411 ill
refused to march. H e was put into a cart and carried off to
the nearest place of execution to be shot Another prisoner,
who also refused to march was dragged by the hands and
hair of the head along the road. lime crowd called out to
the soldiers to shoot him, and dealared that but for the pre-
sence of the soldiers they would themselves execute sum-
mary justice on him. The troops, headed by the Marquis
de Gaidet, was loudly cheered as they paused!'

In clainiin.g the rst-ht!,.! Isylum.!o; the Communist. who

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may escape to Belgium,BC Victor Hugo says that the Belgian
Government will be against him ; but the Belgian people will
be with him rhe bidryrndanc• Beige expreues the opinion
that in IMAM. Victor Hugo is mistaatin. It maintains, that
If it should beeorne established that crimes such as "the men
of the Commune have committed, and are still committing,"
can be perpetrated with impunity under cover of political
motive, the right of asylum will disappear from the code of
nations with the consent of the people themselves. Another
Belgian paper, the Nord, espressos apprehension lest the
right of asylum shonid be accorded by England to the
Communists who may seek refuge here. It maintains
that the cosmopolitan revolution in Paris wax directed
not so much against any particuler Government as
against the doll and religious Institution• of all FalrOpe.
Were any attempt made to allow Metall '• usages, rivlieges,
and prejudice." to interfere with this course of untie., it
would be regarded by the world as ~f oral
complicity, the consequences Of Which Wolllit sooner 01 later
be felt by those who nad gained liir England the ationvlable
potation of being the receptacle of nil the " oestruetive and
anti-social elements." According to the Nord, the circum-
stances are ea grave, that 110 CIVII'L•ti Government can h•od.
tate to accomplish R. duties liiwArile Kerope, and it thinks
that the question will soon be settled In E igland in the same
manner as elsewhere.

"Thoth of the prisoners who were chained by the wrist
to their companionn marched with great difficulty, aid I
wondered how the weaker ones would get to Vernailles
that night. The soldier@ guarding them belonged to the
Common d'A Gigue, and seemed to feel more forth. cap.
Lives than did the relentlese people who lined the streete,
Ing every moment, 'A mort ! A mort !' Shoot the rascals !'
Perhaps the soldiers thought of the day, fresh In my own
memory a. if it had been yeeterday, when they themeelvee
marched through the village of B teethes, on tt olr way to Ger-
many from Sedan, as prisoners of war. They looked wretched
enough then beside the stout eoldiers of Kaleer William'.
Guards, who wooded them. There were many women in
the cortOge, and • few well-dreeeea men, one of them it was
said, an Englishman. Whoever he WU, the poor fellow was
• quiet-looking, well.dreathd man enough, and one left that
he might well be the victim of a cruel mbnadentandinr.
What must his feeling, have been during his ten mile.'
march to Vomit's' with the refuse Of the Paris prison. I"
"There in considerable irritation in Parts again et foreigners,
who are said to have suetalned the Commune. I have heard
the wildest report. am to the numbers of foreigners la Tech,
and In the ranks of the Insurgent force, of Engliehmen alone.
Now my testimony !sparely negative, but it there were many
Englishmen among either the civil or military rank, of the
Commune, I should have heard of IL People say there were
8,000 or 8,000. The only Englithmen I know of, or heard of,
who served the Commune were • very few who rendered
medical seretoe to the combatant, It would have been
better not to have tarred the Commune at all, but
there Is • good plea benevolence— to be urged
in favour of the medical service, and (with MIN ex-
exception, I believe), you may laugh to scorn all reporte you
hear of complicity of Engllahmen with the Commune. I said
to a friend the other day. I cannot undentand how the
report ham come to be believed that so many Englishmen
were In the ranki of the Commune fomenting rebellion.' lie
replied 'ill. because eo many men of the Commune speak
Engll.ll, They have spent their lives in exile, either In Eng-
land or in America. and learnt English.' I give thle as isle
explanation; but I have not myself observed any peculiar
ecqualntaaoe with laglfah among the me of Use Commune."
I 01 Daily

THA DAY HAS COME AT LAST!

Never in history has any deed like this been done; never
has civil war or war of ruffians been consummated by •
crime so strange, which surpasses in extent all those of 103
(writes the Correspondent of The Times). it will not only be
the great crime of the century—it will be the greatest crime
In the history of civilized initiane. If those who conceived
and executed It envied the fame of Krostratus, they have
secured to themselves • greater and more odious fame. Nero
only set fire to the lowest quarters of Rome, he did not
attack the glory of Lime expressed in her great buildings.
Rostopchine burnt Hoscow to defend his country against the
foreign Invader. Paris burns her own heart, annihilates her
pest, her present, and her future; she lays herself on the
funeral pile for no reason but sheer madness and utter per-
versity she destroyii one of the richest shares of the In-
heritance of mankind—books, works of sit, public buildings,
all that made glories and riches of the city, . . That one
bid man can be found who does wrong for the pleasure of
wrong doing can be understood, but that thousand. of men
, should unite for so delegable • purpose is what mankind
has never seen, cud will hardly be able to understand In
I future. Some e Ire ago • French writer had sabl, • You will
see one day of what a society without a God Is capable.
Paris will burn herself down grit!' het own hands.'"

"A MORT LES AsSASSINS ! "

At Versailles there was great exasperation among the
emigrants, and perhaps still more In political circles (writes
a Correspondent) It tau easy to use that the Insurgents
had chosen their revenge well; each man felt himself con-
cerned u he liatomed to the heart breaking accounte of tto•se
who came out of Pals. Naciamations of horror resounded
In the crowd; as each column of prisoners passed the cry
was beard, 0.1 Innet les 01000.,,,. '""4 itmrt r•-
diar ! " ".1 moll it, brOrtrol. '" At the end of • long
convoy of National (guards, workmen and women, came •
waggon, on which some wounded men were lying. In front
oat a man with decided features aquiline nose, bold and
defiant eyes, a broad face with • black beard, the true type of
a handsome region. Ile was one of the chief, of the
hiourrection. Dreued In • block velvet jacket, with bushy
hair and square shoulders, be smiled at Insults and
Idled the infuriated crowd. A fair young gqi, with
the gentlest of faces, struck at him with her para-
llel. All of a sudden he drew himself up, and, replying to
the abuse which was heaped upon him, he returned Insult
for insult. ° l'ou are brave," he said, "because I am •
prisoner. Not one of you would dare to look me in the face
If I were free " I thought for an Instant that the prisoner
would have been dragged tut of the vehicle. The crowd had
broken through the line of the west, and were climbing up
on to the still moving waggon. Blows from the II it ,•It the
sword were necessary to mike them leave go. 11, Is only
one incident among a hundred of the same but it
shows to what a pitch the last alit of the dro oa played by
the insurgents has exasperated people's min 'a, and what de-
moralisation results from such spectacles.

HORRIBLE BENE NEAR THE PANTHEON.

As I entered the precincts of lite Pantheon elm, with
the troops I was the witness of what I must utli a horrible
asaminatlon, for It was done In cold blood. Among the
primmer. taken were five men who foolleXy, fanatically,
cried 'Vice la COMMUr e!' Perhaps they sought death. I
don't know. lint they certainly received it instantly A
score of tr.pr —mind you without any superior authority,
their own will entirel)--conducted four of the prisoners
elderly men, to the nearest wal, and just in the
same manner as Generals Theme and Lecomte were
butchered two months ago, so were thee miserable
wretches butcher, d a. the clocks chimed 914.4 p.m on
the 24th of May. The fifth, • young man, was told to
kneel down ou the e,lge of the pavement lie did so, meekly
and resignedly, and two bullets were Instantly fired into Ids
bread hi. bead dropped gently up.mn his bosom, and ice
slowly fell to the ground. Another bullet wao then sent
Into his brain. Ah this militarism is • terrible master!
hi. Triter., in • wonderful speech, which he delivered before
the corp. Legislatif on the 11th of January, 1te.,4 said—
The type of our character Is altegether military the type
of the English character's all municipal.' After what I have
seen in France, I Call only pray that G id may grant that the
English character shall always remain the same."—Corre-
spondent of the Deity News.

IRE CROWD SHOUTS "HURRAH

" The people in the crowd never ceased insulting the pri-
soners during the whole of the quarter of an hour or mare
that it took the wretched column to pass by the Madeleine
Church where I Mood. Fiend., wild bead., unworthy cf
the t uman I rub,' they cried ;• look at your Infernal deed. !
The smoking ruins of the line It Isle were close by, and
naturally excited the crowd. The men, at a rule, did not
look rip, but seemed utterly downcast and civeless as to
their fate. All turned to go away, I was witness of a moat
horrid mum. A big strong man, apparently in tiger, re-
futed to c mantis his route, and resisted the sol. tern who
atternAed to force him on with grett violence. There was
a tremendous wreaie for a minute or more, durii g which the
swords of the escorts were eeveral times raised as If to strike.
Finally, tour strong troopers took the poor wretch by
the anculders aria dragged him along the !mould
amid the hoots and tells Of the crowd. I followed
him for a few hundred yards to just In front d
the Madeleine. There the group suddenly stopped, and two
revolver shots rang out. All was over. The aoldfern were
tired of dragging their victim any further, and an nflicer had
shot him through the head. 'Hurrah! hurrah ! ' shrieked
the crowd The people were coming out of the Madeleine
with their missals to their hands. Involuntarily I glanced up
at the great Christ on the peristyle of the church, and thotgh
of Him who brought a message of peace on earth to mankind.
but whatever one might think, one could say nothing. A
ma it near gave vent tote exclamation of horror at what had
Just haptened. 'Another Communist !' mild the bystanders,
and taco Instant the Improolout speaker was dra:ged to the
te,diers a prisoner for having uttered a word of pity for •
fellow-cteature "—Correspondent of the Daily News.

THE SCUM OF THE BARTH GATHERED TOGETHER!
The only explanation which can be offered of the events of
which we are here broken-hearted spectators to that Paris,
already Ong since dernorallsad, became during the siege a
centre of action for every kind of uneholesome Ii licence.
There were 10,000 Francs-Tirturs In Peri., of whom at least
half were not the ll,wer of humanity. This conthgent had
swelled the permanent army of revolutionists and Socialists,
always large in the enburbs of Parts. After the arrehtice,
this army, on a signal Oven by • secret committee of manage-
ment. Woo increased by the ruffiana who had partly formed
the little Garlhaldian army. The refuse of the prisons, who
had kept al; of during the siege, had returned to fall upon
the prey promised to their evil desires. After the 18th of
March every nation sent its thieves and assaulnii to Paris;
Ike capital of France woe an adndrahle ground 010 which to
Mond the seat of the l'olversal Revolution; !twee thoroughly
well provisioned, had 5 0,00 muskets, 300 guns, inex-
haustible stores, impregnable walls, twmidable forts, a fl sst,
and millions of money; and, finally, it contained an imbecile
and warlike popedstith, volts, ready, through ignorance and
Vaulty, to be led to death for a word. Thls revolution, com-
posed of thieves and n ems, had oven found sc:omplices
among the Iron elected by universal miff rage, among the
mayors and dijoicts of the arrondissements I Paris, Among
those " concitiators" of every kind, who dared, even at the
last moment, in • publhhed document, to express openly
their sympathy for the Incendiaries of the Louvre. This un-
hoped-for chain of circumstances had allowed the army of
Crime to v., omit, to complete, and organize itself. EVOry na-
tion was th-re represented, and that the nu nher might be
con p'ete, there was one battalion of the Insurgent. n,mposed
exclusively of deserters from the German Army. When sur-
rounded by the French soldiers they had the ended,' to in-
voke their nationality, and to threaten reprisals from
Germany if they were not set tzar. They were all shot.
—CorreApondent of The Time&

FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS!

Paris has pined through one of those remarkable trans-
formations which are peculiar to her. She has once more
started to existence like a galvaid,d corpse tier &-
Betted Boulevards &warm with life, and her waste places
are the resort of curious, buzzing crowds, who, now
that the danger Is over, pour out like bees from
a hive, but with tui more useful plirpole than to
congregate wherever there is something painful to be seen
or an me unusual scene of destruction to contemplate....
It was a relief to gat back to the Boulevards, and see whole
families out for tine Sunday, sitting at the rapidly opening
and diaussing the events of the slay and the groups of
prisoners as they marched past, over on ffee and aUinthe. In
another day or two we shall have the ihestres opened, and
the taking of Belleville travestied, and the brave army, whose
honour is still untarnished, covering themselves with glory
by the taking of intricacies defended by women. It will be
a grim pleasure for the theatres which are not burnt to give
splendid sensation representations of the conflagration of
those that are ; to be followed by s ',rand ballet of
h" on their way to execution. We who know Paris know
that all these things are in store for us—that before the
trials are over which will be condemning hundreds to death
we shall hare the Mabille" open, and the imputation will
dmcend from their barricades to dance the cancan If there
is only one step from the sublime to the admit°as the ti,fil•
Cully here Is to know Wig& is Which.—Correspondent of The
Ti owe.