Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-10
FOREIGN NEWS.

PARIS April q-Sunday Evening. III
bunc SpcciaI Cannonade all day. The champs
Elysees are completed $ deserted ~-
The National guards are hiding i'll the cross
streets seeking protection from the shells
which i;,ll in every dircclon many close to the
American legation.
The Versailles troops have crossed the Seine
and occupy Fablonvillc and Longchamps.
The lrfiwbriIgc aud floor Of Porte Maillot
are broken
\ Commune bulletin announces that they err
sles troops have been driven from Ncuilly
bridge, and that the National guards are eager to
advance but are forbidden The Cathedral OF
Nutm Dame has been sacked. Rochctort vain
~ cndcavorcd to save it from plllage. Nearly
all the vallablca were plundcrcd The Arch
bishop of Paris has been transferred from Con
cicrgrrie to Majors prison. General Henry has
not escaped. IIc was sent TO Belle Isle
The Commune is controlled by Il secret COM
mttec which arrests all the other mem bers.
1t has no know chief.
l'yat declares in to-days Vengeur that the
suppression of newspapers is an act of the com
mittcc of Public Safety and not OF the Exccu-
tive committee.
Your special correspondent at Rovcn tclc-
graphs on Sunday that Favrc arrived on Sarlr-
day and had an important conference with the
to-day.
VERSAILLES Sunday O. Tribune special. J
General Pcchot is dead from his wounds.
Siege guns arc coming in. The Government
is resolved to enter Paris by storm at any cost
rather than lombard the city. Ea!aricn fires
mainly to clear the ramparts and proven the
artillery being used to rcpcl attack y partial
breach has been effected in the Notifications.
yesterday sortc against Chation was IL.
pulsed with IA heavy loss. An inccssant fire Is
kept up from Forts lssy, Nanvrcs and MOntro-
pue. The damage done is slight. General Ninoy
will keen command until Tuesday The dcpu-
taton of Paris merchants to Theirs returned
without result Cancellation is believed TO be
impossible.
There was no sitting of the Assembly Sun
day. The majority have gone to mass.
LONDON, April ia London Times special
from Versailles says the Government troops
now occupy in strong force the towns OF Bou-
logne, Asuiercs and Sablonville aud have I'M
masked number Of new batteries between
Ncuilly and the ramparts Of Paris.
Many Of the newspapers Of Paris eXhort the
peoplc of Paris to abstau from voting at the
election Of Monday, to day, and thereby give
a death blow to the Commune
Barricldes have been erected by the Com
munists in the Rue de Rivoli. The Commune
has made an Indirect demand that foreign Am
bassadors take upon themselves the task OF ar
ranging the quarrel with the Versailles Gov
crnmcnt, but the representatives of the powers
are reluctant to accept the responsibility.
4 London Telegraph special from Versailles
says the BREACH at Porte Maillot will admit an
easy entrance by the assailing partythat the bat,
tcrics on the ramports have been silcnccd and
IN assault is expected to be made tomorrow.
VERSAILLES April lot has been report
cd that the PrussanS threaten intervention III
the affairs of Paris if the disturbances arc not
ended by the 9Th instant, but there is the best
authority for pronnuncing the statement III:
true. Favrc, contrary to general expectation,
did not 60 to the prussian headquarters yes
tcrday.
The Soir says more than 500 persons called
upon by the Communists to serve IN the MI
tional guards escaped from Paris by descend
ing the ramparts by means Of ropes, and reach
cd the lines of the Versailles army in safety.
VIENNA, April lO-The Emperor Francis
Joseph h,, ordered the entire force Of the Aus
trian army into mourning for the death of Adj
miral J eghctotf.
LIVERPOOL. April l0.--A fire at Hyde Park
Yesterday destroyed the extensive works OF the
Union Wise Company and the cnrrylng cstah-
mcnL of Ncssr$ Easton. The loss to the
Union Wise Company is $3j,n0n; insured for
S3u.Wu. The loss of McssrS EaSton s not yet