The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-27 00:00:00

P,ocREFORT TAKEN PRISONER.

he .I,4es' epetlel Cort.poudent, writing from Versailles
the '2lst tnatant, has tent the following he telegraph
Never hove I witnessed • scene of gees' or excitement
than the entry o: It ichefort Into Versailles as a prisoner to-
day Ile was brought to by the et. Germain road, and was
ended In a family untollius drawn p two horses. F let moue
▪ ininialron of gendarmes, then the omnibus, surrounded by
theaseurs 1 i'Afrique, and lastly, a squadron of the same
corps In the vehicle with Rochefort were Ma secretary,
Mouri•it, anti four police agents drained hi viol
°stable the on:lines were an 4 Meer of the gentartnerie In
uniform and two Of three beep 'vs de-mile not In uniform.
lt,ehelorti moustache had disappeared. Us had himself
shaved closely before setting out from Parts to order to
dhow'a himself, but there was no mistakieg flies. It was
half-piist one o'clock In she al known when the cor Vge,
arriving at the end of the Boulevard do Rol, entered toe
Rue des litservoire. Every one ran into the street, and
stunts of execration tiara raised on all shies, it wet no
mere demonstration of a mob. The cleans of all classes
pined in it. One man ventured to cry Vine Roche fort ! '
Ile was kicked by several perre;is whit happened to be neur
1ii,.,, sad was saved from further violence only by arrest at
the baude of the sr rr.nts-de-ville. Along tee Rues doe
Ft3ol, ult., the Rue t.:e to Pomp°, the Placa Hectic,
the Rita de Hoch., and the Avenue St. Cloud, Rochefort wit
greeted with Incessant shouts of A ho tc.iseesm ;II pLell
le br ; " lire people wanted t have hint orate!
the omnibus, and it ens with diftignity the clvalry prevented
them from drugging him out mot Milk:thin summary t seem
thin The cavalcade MRS obliged to go at a flow psce, but
dually he was safely lodged in gaol. I believe that but for
the precauti ins taken by the Government he would have
hint, killed before he had got near it, The ilemand to have
an example muse of him, and the dissatisfaction at ;melee
him brought to prison in • carriage, were loud and general."

SCEN ES IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
VELSAILLES, May 42, 5 p.m.
In the National Assembly this afternoon M. ThitrB
adoiressed the Chamber, and said :

" The cause of right, liberty, order, end civilisation Is
triumphant. Our admirable army I. shedding I:• generous
blood and exhibiting Its valor. By the ald of the powerful
artillery brought Into play the approaches have been puihOd
forward with great raoldity. I was no difficult an under-
taking to drive a sap over no extruded a spae that we did
not co-deder that the assault call be made yet for
three or four days. Gensral Douai, having observed that
the Porte to Mt. Vlowi had beets abandoned, sent forward
his troops. its the left General Ledmirault took the
gates of Patsy and Auteuil, and then turning to the left
seizsi the Arc de Triomphe. Genera/ %limy, entering by
the Point du Jour, paned the Mene and opened the gate of
bilvres to General Chitty. By tw.i o'clock dent rat des; was
master of the Faubourg St Germain as far as Mont Parnasee,
and General Cllncharups was at the New Opera House. The
MLitt resistance we h sire ns:t with warrants us ln hoping
that Pasta will LOon be restored to its true sovereigu—to
France. We are bonnet men. We will visit with the rigour
of the law those .n.ed who have been polity of crime against
France, and have not abrunk from assassination or the de.
&traction of national monuments. The laws will be tiger-
ously enforced. The expiation shall be complete." (Loud
applause )
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al. .1 ales Simon proposed a bill having for its ol ject the
reconstruction of the Colonne Vendome, with a sratue of
France on the summit, and the restoration of the Expletory
Chapel erected to the memory of King Louis XVI. , Loud
applause ) lie proposed that the new Column should be
crowned with a statue of France. acclamations.)

M. Cochery proposed to vote the thanks of the Asaembly
to the Army and to the Chief of the Executive Power.
the vote woe agreed to unanimously.
M Thiera thanker% the Assembly, and expressed his
gratitude for this the highest reward that he could have
desired. The oonedence of the Assembly would enable him
to continue the work of feat ,ration, to which he sto,uld devote
all his powers. (Prolonged applause.)
hi. Jules Simon embraced M. Tigers.

ATTACK ON TILE AMERICAN EMBASSY
AT PARIS.

BEI:LIN, May 24.
The journals. explaining the circumstances following the
attack on the hotel of Mr. Washburn/ in Path, state that
General Fahelce. on the lst inst , addressed a summons to
the Commune, demanding thatthe Satiwial Guards Implicated
hi the outrage should ha handed over to him within taunt).
four home. Paschal Grouseet replied that be had ordered
the Embassy to he reit:ailed as sacred, and ou hearlog that
It bad been attatk,d heel directed that the perpetrators of
the action should be tried be court martial. They, however,
bad dad, and It was Impoisible to Identify them punish-
ment, therefore, was Impossible, and he could only express
strPlug hie !sorrow and Indignation that the outrage
Should have occulted.