Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-20
FROM EUROPE.


PARIS, May 19-The committee of safety
have decrced the suppression of the Revue DIES
DeuX Mondes, Avenir, National, Patrie Com
mune, Justice, and five other Journals No new
journals are to be established until the civil war
is over. Writers must sign their articles, and
are liable TO trial by court martial and punish
ment for attacks on the government. Officers
who hesitate to obey orders are warned that
they will be considered guilty of treason. A
requisition has been made for the silver candle
sticks in the cathedral of Notre Dame. Persons
without passports are prevented from leaving
the city. The committee of safety is determined
to raze Paris to the ground rather than surren-
der. There is heavy cannonade on the south
west side of the enceinte this morning.
LONDON, May 19.-All dispatches to London
Journals concur in representing that reign of
terror prevails in Paris. Many eminent citizens
are daily imprisoned, and the lives of those held
as hostages are despaired of. -Four hundred
Yersaillists are said to have deserted yesterday.
Batteries have been established at the Dauphlne
gate, which has been strongly fortified with
earthworks and new barricades.
The commune claims that its forces recap
tured part of Issy yesterday, and that the Yer
sailEsts have been driven from Vanvres
THE BEsIEGERS.
VERSAILLES, May 1.-Two battalions of
government troops, on Thursday, carried, at
the point of the bayonet, two positions near
Montrouge, killing and wounding four hundred
insurgents. The places occupied were after
wards evacuated, because too exposed to the
fire of the enemy's heavy guns.
MacMahon, in the general orders read TO the
army to-day, tells the soldiers that the rebels
have destroyed the monument in the Place
Vendome, which foreign enemies had left un-
disturbed, and eXhOrts them to redouble their
efforts to preserve the country and its glorious
memories.
PARIS, May 10, via LoNDoN-M idnight.-It
is said that the Germans demand that an arm
istice he arranged between the two opposing
forces around Paris, to enable the taking of
ptebtscitum throughout France. to decide the
future form of the government and bring the
civil struggle to close. Officers of the com
mune have seized the valuable sacred articles
in the church of the Trinity. All the churches
i'll the city will be similarly dealt with and then
closed.
A court of impeachment was opened to-day,
to select hostages upon whom to execute retail
atory measures determined upon by the com
mune. The communists claim that they re-
pulsed yesterday and to-day the attack of the
government forces at Neuy, Chiefly, Issy and
Vanvres.
Great Britain.
CREW OF A sHIPwREcKED VESSEL RESCUED
DISCUSSION ON THE TREATY OF WASHING
TON PosTPoNED--ENGLAND' POLICY tow
ARD IRELAND, ETC.
LONDON, Nav 19.-The crew of the bark
Gothen, from Philadelphia, wrecked off the
American coast were rescued by q British
ship and landed at Penzance.
In the house of lords to-day, Earl Russell con-
sentcd to postponement of discussion of the
American treaty until the Goth of june to await
the arrival of official papers.
In the commons, this evening, Mr.. Martin re-
sumed his speech against the governments Irish
policy. He condemned the suspension of the
habeas corpus, and argued that there was more
crime in Lancashire than in WeStmeath yet the
suspension Of the writ in England was not
dreamed Of
MIR. Dowse pointed to the increase in the num-
Der OF acts of violence in Westmeath since the
passage OF the peace preservation act, and urged
a suspension of the habeas corpus as the only
remedy.
An amendment, designed to kill the govern
ment bill, was rejected by a majority Of 1928, and
second reading ordered by 2s2 majority.
Turkey.
MILITARY.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, MAY 14-Fifty thousand
Turkish troops have recently been consolidated
at Shumla, on the main route between Walla-
CHA and ConStantinople.
Switzerland.
THE RINDERPEsT.
BERNE, May 1S.-Austria and Switzerland
have agreed to a conference, to take measures
to prevent the spread of the rinderpest.
Germany.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.
BERLIN, May 19.-The German parliament
has agreed to additional clauses to the postal
treaties of 1867 and 1870 between Germany and
the United States.