Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-24
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PARLIAMENT-cANADA DIscUssED-ACKNowL-
EDGEMENT OF INDEMNITY RECEIVED FROM
PRUSSIA, ETC.
LONDON, May 23-In the lords, this evening,
bill enabling the Dominion of Canada to ere
ate provinces from its newly acquired territory
reached its second reading unoppOsed.
Earl Granville acknowledged the receipt of
the indemnity for the GOLFERS sunk by the Prus-
slams in the Seine.
In the commons, this evening, Mr. Gladstone
denounced the university test bill as received
from the lords.
Walpole spoke in support of the BILL which
became the theme of general discussion.
The commons last night rejected by thirty
nine majority an amendment to the army reg
ulation bill proposing exceptions TO the restric-
tons upon the sale of commissions.
The hop crop in England is damaged by the
blight.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE CAPTURE OF
PARIS BY THE GOVERNMENT TRooPs-sUR-
RENDER OF FORT MoNTRoUGE, ETC,
VERSAILLES, May -AfteTnOOn.-Gener
Clnchamp having last evening occupied Batig-
nolles, attacked Montmartre to-day on the
west and south from avenue du Clichy and the
boulevard of the same name. General PAdmi-
rault simultaneously moving his forces alongjthe
line of the Seine and the boulevards leading to
the Northern railway, attacked the station of
that railway and carried it by assault. He
thence moved upon Montmartre, which he
captured at one o'clock;this afternoon.
Gen. CisSeys forces carried the barricade in
the Chaussee du Maine, in the southern part of
Paris. The operations of the government troops
are progressing satisfactorily everywhere, and
complete suppression of the instruction is eX-
pected to-day or tomorrow. The losses of the
Versaillists in to-day's engagements were small.
ST. DENIS, May 23-IueSddy Night-Fight-
ing in Paris has ceased. Gen. Mcmahon and NJ.
losses
communists are fearful. The troops gave no
quarter, and many leaders of the commune were
captured and Immediately shot.
LONDON, May pa special correspondent of
the Tribune, at Paris, Monday, teegraphs;
Sunday afternoon the insurgents were driven
from Chateau de Ia Muette.
They subsequently rallied and held the en-
ciente with considerable tenacity, but were f.
nally driven back with heavy loss by the fire of
the Versailles batteries. At nine O'Clock, DOM
browski, under cover of couple of guns,
charged the cemetery DIES Paupres. He was met
by firm and whitening fire, and the insurgent
lines became broken and disorganized. Howev-
err they again attempted to storm the cemetery,
and hand TO hand fighting followed; but a re-
port that Dombrowski was killed caused the in
surgents to become panic-strcken.
pause of a few hours succeeded when sud-
denly the batteries on the hill opened on the
enciente railway, and showers of shell and hail
of musketry poured on it. The insurgents es-
sayed feeble reply. Suddenly heavy firing
from the north was heard. A mad panic en-
sued, arms and packs were thrown away, and
all bolted, the officers leading They surged
and struggled and blasphemed up the quay in
great confusion, shot and shell chasing them.
They were in the extremity of panic, and blazed
away Unfortunately, and struck each other
with dubbed rides.
As the tide of fugitives swept along, the re-
lieving battalions came up with them, impart-
ing fresh panic. The fire of the Versaiiists
reached Trocadero avenue between the Arc de
Triomphe and Rond Point, packed densely with
fugitives. The communists showed themselves
behind big barricade in the Place de Ia Con-
corde, but did not fire. The Versaillist battery
below the Arc swept the Champs Elysees. The
Versaillists pressed on the Fredland avenue
to the open space at the top of the Haussmann
boulevard. Thence they could sweep the Males
herbes boulevards to Madeline, and open the
way to the rue Royale.
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