HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1076, 24 July 1871, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1871.

ARRIVAL OF THE :P.S. NEBRASKA, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO. NEWS TO THE 24th JUNE. The U.S., N.Z., and A. p.s. Nebraska, Captain J. Harding, having on board the European Mails via California, arrived in Ahuriri roadstead about 4,30 this morning, and steamed hence an hour later for Southern Ports. She left Honolulu on the evening of the 3rd July, ant), arrived at Auckland at 5 p.m. on the 20th, leaving for this port on the mprning of the 22nd. Below we append some important items to hand by this oppoitunity. St. Denis, May 24—Evening—This had been a most terrible day for Paris. The city is burning in many places, and the destruction of a great part of the central and eastern districts seems inevitable. The Communists still hold all the district between the Vendome, the Tuileries, and Belleville. The troops are mowed down by a fire from the windows, the barricades, and mitrailleuses, but steadily gain ground. The slaughter is awful. Versailles, May 24 —The Fire Brigade has gone to Paris; Thiers has gone to superintend the operations. There is is every symptom that the lire was caused by petroleum. There are reasons to fear that the Palais Koyale, Hotel de Ville, and other State edifices, have been pre* pared by the Communists for destruction by fire. Outside Paris, May 24—Evening— The dead remain unburied, and the wounded lie unattended in the streets. Versailles, May 24 —In the Assembly to-day, Thiers announced that the de Ville was in flames. He expressed hi 3 horror at these acts of Vandalism, and declared that it was the de» termination of the Government to punish the perpetrators without mercy. London, May 25.—The latest despatches from Paris say the Palace of Luxembourg has been partially blown up. The Palais Royple is still burning, and only one-third of the Louvre has been saved. New York, May 25.—A special despatch gives details of the fearful scenes enacted in Paris yesterday. The tribune's correspondent says :—The fighting in the Boulevard Haussemann and Faubourg St. Honore was very severe. Many houses are filled with the dead and wounded of both sides. The Hotel of the Ministry of Finance is burning fiercely. The north side of the Louvre is completely gutted. Four walls only of the Palais Ptoyale are standing. The fighting was very severe around the Hotel de Ville, which is still blazing with petroleum. The British Embassy building is much damaged, and its office of archives burned. The Place de la Concorde is terribly injured. No quarter was given. The Versaillists behave well to the inhabitants. The fire is raging in nearly every street. The Northern Railroad Station is in the hands of the Versaillists. The capture of the Place Vendome made the Tuileries untenable, and the Insurgents saturated it with petroleum and set it on fire. The Insurgents are still fighting like fiends in the eastern faubourg. The population of Paris seem mad with joy, and the tricolor now floats everywhere. The hunt for Commune leaders has begun, and the police are searching houses, rooms, and cellars. Departure from Paris is impossible, passage through the city difficult and dangerous. The loss of the Versaillists is small.

Twelve hundred prisoners. have been taken to Versailles. It is reported that Billory was shot immediately after he was taken. Versailles, May 25.—Thiers has issued the following circular :—" We are masters of Paris, except a small portion, which will be occupied to-day. The Louvre is saved; the Finance building partially. The Tuileries and Palace d'Orsay Court, from accounts, are wholly burnt. Already we have twelve thousand prisoners, and shall have twenty thousand soon. Paris is strewn with In surgent corpses. Our loss is small. The army behaved admirably. Justice will soon be satisfied. "We are happy amidst our misfortunes." Baone and Eigault, two prominent leaders of the Commune, have been shot. Archbishop Darboy and ten hostages, and nearly fifty priests, were murdered in cold blood, at Mazas prison, on Tuesday night. Advices from Paris state that the Rue Royale has been destroyed by mines. The Insurgents have been driven into Pere Le Chaise Cemetery, where they are surrounded. Versailles, May 26.—The insurrection is quelled in the Quartier Moufflard, and 6,000 prisoners taken. The Insurgents are still confined to Belleville and Chaumont, whence petroleum shells are fired all over Paris. The following insurgents have been shot: —Valies, Amoreaux, Brunei, Rigault, Dorabrowski, and Bousquet. The following buildings have been destroyed ; —The Tuileries, the Ministry of Finance, the Prefecture of Police, the Court of Accounts, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the barracks on the Quay Dorsay, the Hotel de Ville and Monte de . Piete. The following are saved :—Mi- ] nistry of the Marine, Interior, Foreign, and of Agriculture, the Pantheon, Recole, Beauxie, Park Moncier, and the churches. The Louvre collections are saved, except the Library. Many valuable books are destroyed, but the National Library and Grand Livre are saved. New York, May 27, —A despatch dated St. Denis, Thursday night, says : Terrible conflagrations are seen rising to a great height and illuminating the couutry. Human aid is valueless, and the only hope is that the night may remain caln. The troops continue to arrest numbers of women carrying petroleum bottles. Pantin, May 20, noon. —It is calculated that there are 50,000 corpses in the houses and cellars. Many are women and children. It is said that the people are perfectly furious at the constant executions. Aubervilliers, May 27. — The tricolor floats over La Viilette. The insurrection is expiring. London, May 27. —The London Fire Brigade has entered Paris. Versailles, May 26. —Rochefort and Assy are to be tried by the Civil Court as criminals. The Belgians have arrested several, and telegraphed to the Government here that they will hold them at its disposal. Whenever the troops catch the Insurgents the slaughter is frightful. 6000 Insurgents surrendered in a body. Versailles, May 28. —The Insurgents yesterday shot the Archbishop of Paris, the Abbe Daguerre, and 62 other hostages remaining in their possession. The troops had previously captured La Roguette, and saved 169 hostages detained there. President Thiers, in a circular, gives the details of the capture of the heights of Belleville, and states that the Insurgents are now compressed within a space of a few hundred yards, between the French and Prussian armies. The remaining insurgents must now die or surrender. Later. —The insurrection is completely suppressed ; not one band of insurgents is left, the greater number being prisoners. There are rumors of awful cruelties by the VersaiJlists, who are reported to have shot men, women, and children found with arms in their hands. Provision trains are entering the city. There is great rejoicing within and without the city oyer the termination of the struggle. Versailles, May 28.—The remaining Insurgents surrendered unconditionally, at 9 o'clock this morning. The slaughter on Saturday night wa,s awful.

Altogether the suppression of the Com, mune has cost over 60.000 lives, and tag destruction of a third of Paris. London, May 29. —Vinoy is appointed Governor of Paris. Among the hostages shot were Sura, Deguerry, the Jesuit Fathers Ducondray, Clair, Oiivain, Caubert, Baugy, Abba Allare, banker Jecker, and twenty five gendarmes. The last band of Insurgents was crushed yesterday in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise. Executions are progressing in the Champs de Mars, Park au Monceaux and Hotel de Ville. Fifty to a hundred at. one time are shot. To stop incendiaries, cellar gratings and other openings are hermetically sealed. Nearly every member of the Commune is shot or executed as taken. Brussels, May 29.—The Echo dis ParliameDt reports the discovery of letters from leading members of the Paris Commune, disclosing a conspiracy against the Government of Belgium. The plot was formed for the Insurgents escaping from Paris to proceed to Brussels, where the radical movement will be continued, an, insurrection incited, buildings set on fire 4 and the horrors of Paris repeated. Vienna, May. 29.—The Paris journals demand the cessation of summary executions, Several attempts were made yesterday to assassinate officers of the army. The bodies of the murdered priests will lie in state for a week. With the exception of Pyatt and Grousset, all the Commune chiefs were killed or taken prisoners. The saddest feature is the conduct of the women, female Insurgents having in many cases been detected in firing houses of innocent persons with petroleum. Versailles, June 6..~=- Wires were discovered in the sewers destined to blow up Paris. The Debats praises the English course during the war. Berlin, June 6—The commercial relations between Germany and France have been restored to the same footing as, before the war. Paris, June Postal service has. been completely restored. It is announced that 20,000 Commun-. ist prisoners will be transported to New Caledonia. The discovery of important rendering new indictments necessary, has delayed the trials by the court-martial at. Versailles, All the pieces found of the Column Vendome will be exactly restored. La Verite estimates the damage to, Paris at eight millions of merchandise burned, excluding docks and warehouses, Paris, June 7. —The obsequies of the late Archbishop Darboy took place to-day at the Cathedral of Notre Dame with great pomp. They were attended by a large number of political, military, and literary celebrities, and a deputation from the National Assembly. The church was crowded, and the throng of spectators on the line of the funeral procession was immense. London, June B.—A despatch from Constantinople, dated yesterday, says fires broke out that morning simultaneously in four places. At one time 100 houses were in flames. Fortunately the wind was light, and there was a prospect of getting the conflagration under control The fires are supposed to have been the work of incendiaries, New "¥qrk, June advices received by the steamer Darien state that the Archbishop of Paris died with the serene courage of a martyr. In answer to the insults of his executioners he said —" E>o not profane the word 'Liberty, 1 It is to us alone it belongs, for we die for liberty aud faith." The restoration of the public buildings has commenced, All the sacred vessels and valuable ornaments taken from the churches by the Communists have, with a few exceptions, been discovered. The French prisoners are rapidly re< turning from Germany. London, June 12.—The harvest pros*, pects in France and Prussia are discour* aging. The seed has perished, Further east the prospects are more favorable, Versailles, June 12.—The Communists who are to be transported to NeW Caledonia wiU he allowed to take thei? families with them and form colonics,

Paris, June 13,-—There is a permanent protest against the annexation of Strasbourg to Germany. London, June 15. —Napoleon visited the Kent Crieketery, and was feted. He is surrounded by old adherents, and bold movements are rumoured. Paris, June 15.—The destruction of life and property vastly exceeds the Government newspaper accounts.-—The Paris workmen were almost unanimously Communists, and are bitter because defeated. They hate Thiers, and hate the Bonapartes, and many will emigrate to America. Versailles, June 3.—The Insurgent who commanded the shooting of the \ Archbishop Darboy has been discovered through his own boasting. Another notable Insurgent boasts that the burning of Paris will be considered insignificant when the London docks, with all their wealth, are consumed, as a grand lesson to the middle classes cf Europe. London, Liverpool, and Bristol will, it is said, be the next scenes of secret operations. Papers have been discovered which show that jthe operations of the Communists were directed from London. Berlin, June 3. —It has been ascertained that the chiefs of the International Clubs, and several Englishmen were among the Insurgents. Thiers promises that whatever sentence is imposed upon Assy and Rochefort will be faithfully executed. An order, signed and sealed by the Commune, to burn the Hotel de Ville, has been discovered. London, June 15.—A marriage is arranged between Princess Thyra, of Denmark, and the Duke of Edinburgh. London, June 16. —The Tramway from Islington to Moorgate is opened Others are building. There was an accident at Moray Firth, by which fourteen persons were drowned. London, June 23. —The mails to India and China will be re-established in July, leaving Marseilles every other Sunday. Rome, June 18.^-A plot for assassination of the Pope has been discovered. It was concocted in London, Florence, and Paris, by members of the International Society. The assassination was planned to take place yesterday,

The mails for New Zealand, from Honolulu, America, and Europe, brought by the Nebraska, in charge of Mr Kaye, mail agent, consisted of 216 bags, The following are the dates of despatch: From London, Ist June ; Liverpool, Ist June; Dublin, 2nd June ; San Francisco, 23rd June; and Honolulu, 3rd July. The cargo of the p.s. Nebraska from Honolulu to Auckland consisted of 214 tons sugar. By the mail it is gratifying to learn that wool continues in active demand, and that a fair business is doing at rates fully up to and above last sales' quotations. From Auckland we learn that the share market is more active. Caledonians were quoted at «£l3O \ Thames, <£2s ; Tookey, £22 10s.