NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 842, 27 July 1871, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

It is announced that 20,000 Communists will be transported to New Caledonia, and their families allowed to form colonies. An encyclical letter has been issued tailing on the Catholics to give thanks to God on the -occasion of the Pope's Jubilee. A great conflagration has occurred at One hundred houses Were "m 'names at one time. It is said 'to be the "result of incendiarism. The " Journal fle Paris " says that the Prince Imperial, and. not Prince Napoleon, will be put forward as a 'candidate for the Assembly. The "Cloche" thinks the result of the elections in the cities will check •monarchy being established. Wool firm, half-bred, Is to I 3d, The Grand Dtike Alexis of Rnssia, 'with the Governo* q'f Siberia, are expected at San Francisco in October. Apprehensions are felt that the walls •of the Tuilleries and the Hotel de Ville Will fall. Eochefort has been 'Condemned to •death by the Versailles Court Martial. Bishop Dupanlop succeeds the Archbishop of Paris. Victor Hugo has gone to Holland. The French loan is popular, and ar- : 'rangements -are made to take a large proportion. Thiers says the German war'costs 300,000,000 francs per annum. The deficit, for 1870 to 1871, reaehed 1,631,000,000 francs. One hundred and eighty thousand French prisoners are still in Germany. On Sunday, the 20th of June, -50,000 corpses were discovered in Paris. Sixty thousand' lives were lost in the suppression of the Commune. There was a grand funeral of clerical victims at Notre Dame. The Archbishop of Paris died with the courage of a martyr, and answered the insults •of his executioners with, "Do not profane the word liberty; it belongs to us alone—we die for liberty and faith."

The Italian Government instructs Prefects to capture escaping Parisians. The Pope issued an encyclical de■claring the Italian guarantees a tissue of lies and hypocrisy. There are abundant signs of a speedy coup 9, etat in France. The Assembly will depose Thiers and suminon the Compte de Chambord to the Throne. The " Journal des Debats " has reappeared, and nearly all newspapers have returned to Pans from Versailles. The National Guards are forbidden to wear uniforms, and the disarmament iproceeds. Pabis, May 25. The fighting was very severe around the Hotel de Ville, which is still blazing with petroleum. The British embassy buildings are much damaged, and its office of archives burnt. The Place de La Concorde is terribly injured. No quarter was given. The Ver-saulists behaved well to the inhabitants. Fire was waging in almost every street. The Northern railway station is in the hands of the Versaillists. The capture of the Place Vendome made the Tuilleries untenable, and the insurgents saturated it with petroleum, and set it on fire. The insurgents are still fighting like lends in the eastern faubourgs. The population of Paris seems mad With joy ; the tricolour floats everywhere. The streets are quiet, and the Versailles troops orderly. The hunt for Commune leaders has hegun. The police are searching houses, rooms, and cellars. Paris is enveloped in dense smoke, and is terribly damaged. The streets are smeared with blood, and littered With debris. Bismarck in the German Parliament says the task he undertook to establish the Empire was nearly accomplished. His health was bad, and it was his personal wish to retire from active duty. He remained only to advocate the complete restoration of the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Fatherland. London, June 8. Produce markets were interrupted t>y Whitsuntide. Wool in active dedemand, at rates up to and above last The arrivals for the next series are upwards of 25,000 bales. London, June 23. Passenger List. ~ Saloon For Auckland; Mr and Mrs Earl. For Sydney: Judge Eodgers, H. A. Bristowe, A. Douglass, Mrs Douglass, Miss Howe, Mr George, Mr B, Perkins, Mr W. H. Mosley, Mr C. T. Clive. Second cabin—For Auckland, Mr landergan; for Sydney, Mr Cowlifihaw. Steerage—For Melbourne, Mr Patrick Flynn.