THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2626, 18 July 1871, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, May 26. After five days’ bloody struggle, the Commune of Paris was cashed ; but half of Paris was destroyed. The Versailles troops, on the 2Ut, surprised the gates of St Cloud and Moutrouge. The Communists fled, seized by a general panic. On Monday, 80,000 troops occupied several strong central positions. On Tuesday, Montmartre was wrested from the insurgents ; also the Champs de Mars, the Place VendOrae, the Place de la Concorde, and the Palais de ITndustrie. On Wednesday the news was astounding. The insurgents had fired the Tuileries, the Louvre, the Palais Royal, the Hotel de Ville, and numerous other public buildings were speedily destroyed by i etroleum. The Louvre was partially saved. The Luxembourg was partly blown up. Firemen were arriving from the provinces. Intense indignation was felt. The slaughter of the insurgents was immense. The streets yfe re choked with dead and wounded, 15,006 prisoners were taken. There was a protracted resistance at Belleville. Petroleum bombs were discharged from butts at Ohaumont, The women acted as fiends. Rochefort, Assy, Ends, Cluseret, Delaclnze, Mezy, and General Cecilia, were captured. Gene al Dombrowski is wounded, and imprisoned at St. Denis by the Prussians, who prevent the escape of fugitives. PyatGrouset, and other leaders escaped by balloon. Mazas is burning, and it is feared that the hostages, including the Archbishops of Paris, are killed. Belgium refuses shelter to the Parisian in* cendiaries. The Ti - w of the 6th announces the new French loan of a hundred millions sterling. It is belie red that the majority of the Assembly will adopt M. Thiers’ position. The Journal Officiel announces the appointment of Lambrecht as Minister of the Interior, Lefrauc of Agriculture, ami Cissey of War, Cencral Leflo has been appointed ambassador to St. Petersburg, and Leon Say prefect of the Seine. Tiie discussion in the Assembly on the reconstruction of the column of the Place Veudome was adjourned to the 9th. The St. Petersburg journal says the ceremony of presenting the Order of the Qsmanli to the Czar confirms the good relations between Russia and Turkey. The Czar is expected at Berlin shortly. The American Senate has ratified ttje treaty by 150 votes against 12 votes! General Schenck, the new' Minister, arrived in London on the Gth. The Atlantic cablejof 1866 is fepaired. Cable telegrams state that New Orleans was partially flooded by the rc-opening of the bank of the Missippi. The Washington treaty has been ratified without amendment. Mr Sumner objected to ihe English apology as inadequate, but accepted the treaty. The purchasers of the wreck of the Queen of the Thames have recovered a portion of the cargo. Hopes are entertained of getting her off with line weather. The report of the Cape inquiry is against Captain Macdonald. The log-book has been lost, Mr Goyder has written to the Times, implying official uegligence during the voyage. J une 5, Order reigns in Paris under Marshal M‘Mahon’s rule. The final struggle was desperate at Belleville ppul Pure la Clpiisc, No quarter was given. The insurgents killed and wounded exceed 30,000. A similar number of prisoners wore taken. The insurgents killed the Archbishop of Paris, the cur<i of the Madeline, President Bongeanc, and 64 hostages. The soldiers were exasperated. The insurgents were summarily shot, including women who were caught firing building*.. Tho fourth part of Paris is devastated. The contt igraiions have been arrested, but the ruins are still smouldering. The library of the Louvre( has been burnt. The Museum was saved. General Dombrowski is dead. Assy and Rochefort are under trial. Grouset has been arrested. Victor Hugo, who apologised for the Commune, has been expelled from Belgium. A. Legitimist restoration is probable. The National Guards have been dissolved and the population is disarmed. The shops are reopening. A pestilence is feared. The Tichborne baronetcy claimant’s examination lias commenced. J Che evidence as to his identity is increasing in strength. LATEST TELEGRAM. London, June 10. The Czar arrived at Berlin on the Bth. The Russian campaign is reported from St Petersburg!! as terminated. Fires have broken out at four points in Constantinople. In tlic National Assembly at Versailles on the Stir, Thiers stated that the safety of the Repulilifi was placed inTiis hands as a s’aprQcl depos t, which will not he betrayed The abrogation oi the law of exile was adopted by 484 votes against 103. The elections of the Due d’Aumale and the Prince de Joinvide are validated by 448 votes against 113. Arrangements have been made for despatching the mails for New Zealand, via San Francisco, once in every four weeks in future. The next despatch will take place from London on the evening of Thursday, the Ist June, and, thenceforward, mails will be sent from Lon-lon on every fourth Thursday. On each occasion mails will also be made up in Liverpool on the same day as in London, and in Dublin on the following day. Miss Burdelt Coutts has been created Baroness Coutts. The portion of the treaty referring to the Alabama claims has been received by cable, and was published in The Times of the I2tb. The provisions provoke opposition. Earl Russell has given notice of an adverse motion in the House pf Lords rppudiaripg the conditions. The Canadian papers condemn the fishery clauses of the treaty. CONVENT SCANDALS. In the raids inside upon the religious houses of Paris, several scandals have come to light, which will not help the priests to recover vheir influence. For example, “the curiosity of the many-headed mob in Paris led them to knock at the doors of the Jesuit establishment and the Convent of White

Nuns, which lay conveniently adjacent, ami surrounded by high walls winch have hitherto effectually preserved the privacy S the inmates. At the cm of the nuns garden were found three old women,, vho seemed to be old, hopelessly idiotic, and caged in little pens like coops The lady superior admitted that they had been confined in this frightful manne?for nine years her excuse being that thev were idiots when admitted, nut wnj Sght there at all, and why so bnnsl.ly 3 ’ In an isolated budding were also a species of rack and other instruments, apparently used for punishment or torture. J.hc mms have been taken to prnon to undergo judicial examination. All r ’ e , V.wfi explanation, but the nuns will find it d.fhcidt to dislodge from the public inmd the inference which the existence of such objects instinctively suggests.