The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-04-04 00:00:00

THZ CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE.

BOUT OF NATIONAL 0UA.8133 OUTSIDE
PARIS.

.0 On Sunday morning, about 8,000 National Guards
lad some out of Peri. and occupied Gourbevoie, end
10,000 of the Vernalize troops converged on that pilule •
• fight was begun by • National Guard shooting a
Vermilion parkrunrairc, • doctor, whom he thought
was going to draw a revolver. The Communists were
boned back on Courbevoie, which for • short time they
held, by keeping up firing from the windows, but they
were shelled out by field pieces from Mont Valerie°,
when they fell hack on Pont Neullly, and there long
kept up • hot fusillade, bet were again foroed
to retire. They withdrew into Paris and
.bat the gates,followed in their retreat by sholl. It
.811 said their lose was 200 killed and wounded, but
this is believed to be an exaggeration. Prisoners
• taken by the Versailles troops were shot as rebels. It
Is estimated that about 2,001 National Guards and 3,000
Versailles troops were engaged.
The Revolutionary Government is said to be at It,
wits' end for money. The Bank of Pianos has yielded
to • demand for • further loan of a half million francs .
There are 35,000 CAWS waiting for trial In the Paris
law courts. which are closed. The polies force has been

'oppressed.
The confiscation of Crown property to pay the war
Indemnity lath. proposal of the Communists.
The Prefect of the Loire has been murdered.
M. Lather, the Revolutionare Comander-in-Chid,
has been dismiesed for throwing a chair at the bead of
O* of the members of the Central Committe, in the
beat of a debettsaioa.
The Republisen National Guards are to have 21
per man, without counting food ?lid Moiling, which
will be given into the bargain.
In Paris there line longer any business, any work,
any eommerce. Men eat and drink—drink especially
—and that is all.
Three per centi French Rentes are quoted lower than
during the worst days of the siege.
Manufactories are nearly all it a standstill. The
shops are nearly all shut, or open wiVi no result.
The Roe de Is Pain is like the road to cemetery,
and the Boulevards like the streets of Pompeii without
the picturesque ruins. Still the population is large ;
it circulates, goes backwards and forwaris:
A writer in the Jeerers/ 10,641 of Parisi openly ad.
vocates tbe assassination of princes in geaeral, and of
tile Duke d'Aumale in particular, as an act of publis
duty. He says "Society has but .me duty towards
these prince.—Death! But one formality is r, quired
—the proof of identity. The D'Orle,ais are in Fran•-e ;
the Bonaparte* desire to return; let good citi. in
think of it !"
The Revolutionare government bee also decreed debts
of rent abolished, and scams disposed to carry out to
the full Communist principle/.
Every person whole not heartily with the revolution
must be eliminated-
All orders issued by the Government at Versailles
are declared to be null and void.
Seetineh guard the streets in Paris and the approaches
thereto.
People who can leave the city art doing so as fast Ai
posable, Industry, eseept in revolutionary work, is
an unknown thing- The capital is out off from all
communication with the provinces and a terroriena

prevails.
Meanwhile, M• Thiers continues to issue circulars
to the prefects in which he assures them th•t there
has been unlaterrupted program' made towards the res.
toration of order.