By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 124, 14 July 1871, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

ARRIVAL of the ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ. THE INSURRECTION IN PARIS. DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENTS. 20,000 PRISONERS TAKEN. FRIGHTFUL SCENES. STREETS STREWED WITH DEAD. DESTRUCTION of the HOTEL DE VILLE, THE TUILERIES, THE PALACE ROYAL AND LOUVRE. DEATH OF DOMBROWSEX ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS SHOT. DEATH OF DE CLUSERET. Adelaide, July 2. The branch mail steamer Alexandra arrived at Glenelg at 11 p.m. yesterday. Left King George's Sound at 4 p.m. on the 28th June.

The U.M.S. Geelong sailed for G-alle early on the morning of the 25th June. The E.M.S. Avoca sailed irom Gralle at 11 p.m. on 27th June. Severe engagements took place at Auteuil and Passy on the 20th. The Versailles troops made several attempts to scale the ramparts with ladders. On the 2Lst the Federalists began to return to Paris in numbers through the gates ot Orleans and Chatillon.

Severe engagements have occurred in the Place de la Concorde and Place Yendome, where Dombrowski was wounded. M. Thiers announced on the 26th that the Government troops were mas-

ters of Paris, except Berey, which has since been occupied.

During the tight for Paris great numbers of insurgents were killed—the streets strewed with the dead.

2 »,000 prisoners hare been secured. A furious cannonade lasted throughout the uinht of the 25th —t e batteries of the insurgents on Buttes Chautemont keeping up a heavy fire. The G-overnment troops captured the Hotel de Ville and Port Mont rouge, witli 12,000 prisoners on the 2lsth.

i lie troops captured the Lyons ]and Orleans railway stations, and "the barriere Di Etale, making 6000 prisoners. The insurgents still occupy La Villiette, Belleville and Buttes Chaumonf, whence they threw petroleum shells, causing serious conflagrations. Women assisted iu firm : the houses, and acted in the most demoniacal manner.

()n the 2th the insurgents evacuated and blew up Port Ivry. The Government troops captured Buttes Chaumont. and Belleville,taking great numbers prisoners. Prom this time no insurgent hands remained, and the insurrection was entirely suppressed. The Tuileries, the Hotel de Ville, the Council d'Ktat of Ministry of Pinance, the Palace Royal, and other public buildings, were entirely destroyed by fire which the insurgents ignited by petroleum. The Palace of the Luxembourg was partly blown up. The Louvre is almost entirely burnt, although all the collections of paintings and antiquities, but not the library, were saved

The National Library was also saved from the wreck.

The Insurgents*, before being finally routed, took revenge upon the-hostages they held. Of those they shot sixtytour, including the Archbishop of Paris and fifteen of the chief members of the clergy. De Cluseret has been killed, and General Dombrovvski was shot. Thiers proposed to move in the Chamber the right to pardon insurgents. May 30. Paris is quite quiet, and the inhabitants are resuming their ordinary operations. Measures are being taken to prevent a pestilence in Paris. The triumphant entry of the German troops into Berlin is fixed for the 18th of June. Mr. Gladstone has announced his intention to pass the Army Reorganisation and Ballot Bills this session. The Duke of Edinburgh is visiting the Queen at Balmoral. He has had the freedom of the City of London offered to him. Sir Henry Rawlinson has succeeded Sir Hoderick Murchison as President of the Koyal Geographical Society. The examination of the claimant of the Tichborne baronetcy has commenced. Evidence as to his identity is increasingly strong. The French journals ask for the trial of prisoners, and cessation of summary executions. Attention has been called in the House of Commons to the report of the capture of Herat, and the Russian movements in Central Asia. The Indian Finance Committee is sitting at Westminster daily, and is making elaborate examinations, which are likely to last two years. .