NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 839, 20 July 1871, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

FALL OF THE COMMUNE.

After five days' bloody struggle, the Commune of Paris was crushed, but half of Paris destroyed. The Versailles troops on the 21st surprised the gates of St Cloud and Montrouge. 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 Mara, the Place Vendome, the Place de la Concorde, and the Palais de l'lndustrie. 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 petroleum. 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 were choked with dead and 15,000 prisoners were taken. There was a protracted resistance at Belville. Petroleum bombs were dia* charged from buts at Chaumont. The women acted like fiends. Kochefort, Assy, Euds, Cluseret, Delescluze, Mezy, and General Cecilia, were captured. General Dombrowski is wounded, and imprisoned at, St. Denis by the Prussians, who prevent the escape of fugitives. Pyat, Grousset, and other leaders escaped by baU loon, but Grousset was subsequently captured. Belgium refused shelter to the Pa* risian incendaries. On June sth order reigned in Paris under Marshall M'Mahon's military rule. The final struggle was desperate at Belleville and Pere la Chaise. No quarter Was given. The insurgents killed and wounded exceeded 30,000. A similar number of prisoners were taken. The insurgents killed the Archbishop of Paris, the Cure of the Madeleine, President Bougeane, and 64 hostages. The soldiers were ex* asperated. The insurgents were sum. marily shot, including women who were caught firing buildings. The fourth part of Paris is devastated. The conflagrations have beeu arrested, but the ruins are still smouldering. The library of the Louvre has been burnt. The Museum was saved. General Dombrowski is dead.

The Messrs Rothschilds' hank &t Frankfort was lately broken into by some burglars by meana of nitro. glycerine bombs. The explosion wounded a clerk and a broker who happened to be in the bank at the time, broke the doors and windows, and cracked the walls. One of the burglars was apprehended. At the annual '1 inner of the Insti* tution of Civil Engineers, Mr Lowe spoke in favour of education in practical matters as opposed to the claasical education too common in schools. The " Neue Freie Press," of Vienna, publishes a telegram from Rome asserting that the health of the Pope is causing much apprehension. The same telegram states that a crisis in the affairs of the Eoman Church seemed imminent, and that the Roman .Conclave would probably meet at some place outside Rome. The United States navy, as shown by a return just published, consists of 170 ships, of which 51 are classed aa ironclads, and 29 as tugs. Of the total number on the Navy List, only 40 are in commission. Upwards . of £SOOO has been subscribed in Britain for a national memorial to the late Sir James Y. Simpson, and large sums, are also being collected in America. It is proposed that the memorial shall consist of a great hospital, a monument in Edinburgh, and a bust in Westminster Abbey. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, held on the 27th April, it was stated that there were now upwards of 4000 congregations under the pastoral care of the Society, of whom 48, besides a large number of catechisfe and teachers, are maintained whollyor I in part by the Society. J: The well-known Mr Bradlaugh was ■ arrested at Calais under " urgent and I imperative orders " from M. Thiers'! ■ Government, and was subsequent!/ ■ ordered out of France. 1 An attendant at the Surrey Counfr i Lunatic Asylum has been aentencw I to one month's imprisonment for fa r * II ing caused the death of a patient, who 11 was scalded to death. J At St. Louis a man who commits 1 suicide arranged the noose so that it would do its work while he was unto the influence of cloroform. Mr Bass, the famous brewer, is reported to have said that Mr Brucej new Licensing Bill will cost hfs firm about half a million a year. A petition from Manchester against the Bill was 264 feet in length. The annual meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society was held in London on April 27th. The report showed the income to be £42,878, and the expenditure to he £31,621. The national celebration of the, Scotch Centenary will take place in the Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, onj the 9th August, under the presidency, of the Duke of Buccleuch. The " Worcester Journal" states; that a mulatto woman, named Madame Angelo, has accomplished the feat oij

walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours on ■a bowling green at Tything. During • the presentation of some hundreds of official personages to the Prince of Wales on opening the London International Exhibition, •gome amusement was created by a worthy mayor scumbling and falling on lub face. A new process of grinding corn has ■been invented by which millstones are dispensed with. It is said to be both •cleaner and more rapid than the old process. The largest magnet ever produced is in course of construction at Westminster. When completed, it will weigh nearly two tons, and be worth £SOO. "The English Churchman " declares authoritatively'that the Imperial family have no intention of leaving Chiselhurst as had been reported. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has dee Wed itself in favour of t'ie abolition of the 'days of grace on bills of exchange and promissory ttotes. The Prague gun manufacturer, Kruka, has invented a mitrailleuse which can be carried m the hand, and fires from 28 to 32 'discharges a ininute. The vestries of old and Weftv Greyfriars churches, Edinburgh, have been •destroyed by fire, but the churches themselves sustained but little damage. Instructions have been issued from Versailles that if either Garibaldi or his sons enter France they are to be immediately arrested. While the match-tax Was being discussed, a single firm in G-lasgow sent out 8 tons of matches, their orders amounting to 10 tons. The Rev. Dr Nathaniel Paterson of Glasgow, son of Sir Walter Sedtt's "Old Mortality," died at Helensburgh on the 25th April, in his 84th year. He has a son in this Colony.