TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER AT CLAMART.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 433, 31 May 1871, Page 2

TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER AT CLAMART.

THREE HUNDRED INSURGENTS

BAYONETED,

THE VERSAILLISTS REPULSED BE-

FORE FORT ISSY.

THE WHITE FLAG HOISTED AND

TAKEN DOWN.

THE COMMANDER TO BE COURT-

MARTIALLED,

Londoji, May 3.—A Times special says efforts at conciliation continue. Seven societies propose a monster peace-meeting next Sunday.

In the affair at Clamart the slaughter was terrible. Three hundred insurgents were bayoneted.

The Daily News' special reports the resignation of McMahon.

Merode presented Thiers a petition from Belgian Catholics requesting French intervention for the maintenance of the temporal power of the Pope.

Versailles, May 3.—The batteries are breaching Issy to-aight. AU is quiet. Paeis, May 3.—The Column Vendome will be demolished on the Bth, and on the same day all the statues and vestiges of monarchial regimes will bo destroyed.

The rumour of the resignation of McMahon is false.

In the infantry engagement before Fort Issy the Versailiists were repulsed with considerable losses on both sides. There were engagements also at Neuilly. Both sfdes hold their old places.

The Commune are silent regarding the Clamart battle. Pottmm sends the' Commune a despatch, but the contents are unknown.

New Yoee, May 3.—A despatch, dated Versailles, Tuesday evening, says that after hoisting the white flagon Issy, the insurgents hauled it down. They will soon surrender. The same fate will soon bel'al forts Montrouge and Vauvres.

Eossel is much more dreaded by the Versailiists cotnmandei'3 than was Cluseret, and he is regarded as a much better officer.

< At Pont dv Jour the Insurgents tried to erect a citadel; but Fort Valerien threw six forty-pound sheik a, minute, and totally" destroyed the work.

Spies reports 30,000 Nationals ready to supportjjthe VersaiDist troops, bub only when they enter Paris.

The anger of the troops against Insurgents is inconceivable. Our troops refuse quarter, and it is useless to officers, to urge mercy. Pabis, Mbj 2.—G-eneral Megy is to be tried by court martial for abandoning Fort Issy.

The Versailles batteries at Chatillon, Meudon, and Breteuil have been shelling Issy all day.

Madeid, May 2. - The Council of Ministers unanimously approved Moret's financial scheme.

Fiobenee, May 2.—The Italian Senate adopted Ghiarayantis' bill, slightly amended, by a vote of 105 to 2d.

BtroHABEST, May 3.—The Roumanian elections have resulted in favor' of the Government. There were few disturbance's.- A conspiracy to kill and plunder the Jews was nipped. ■•'; •: ■ ■••< : ' Constaxtinople, May 3.—lt is thought the Khedive of Egypt comes to visit theiSultan and to send a representative to congratulate King Amadeus.

_ Vienna, May 3.—The Minister of Insfcruc-1 tion has declared the Government's position* on the abolition of the Concordat, aud woutdj consider the practical consequences of the 1 dogma of infallibility. •, Bombay, May 3.—Advice3 from Zanzibar! state that Dr. Livingstone is alive and well, but destitute.. . ' > r* .< ■

London, May 3.—ln the House of cjmj mons to-day Jacob Bright moved the second reading of the bill, enfranchising women, altding the usual arguments." Souverie repeated the veteran objections. Gladstone was unprepared to sustain the measure, and disinclined to involve womanhood in oleotiou turbulence.. He preferred the idea of feinajo Buffrage founded on property, but exercised by proxy.