NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 845, 3 August 1871, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

THE STRUGGLE IN PAEIS.

Versailles, May 26. Prisoners are arriving by thousands, by rail as well as road. In the rear of one convoy I saw in a dung cart one dead man, one dying, and two wounded. The crowd was laughing, and there was an exclamation, " There is one at any rate who won't troubles confessor !" An attempt to revolt occurred at Satory Camp. The troops fired anion* the inass9s of prisoners, killed fifty, and wounded one hundred. Courbet, the great painter, a prisoner in Versailles, found means to poison himself. The tone of the Versailles press is very bloodthirsty. Every case of summary execution is ap*j plauded without inquiry. They pro* test against shooting as too mercifol and too honourable, and gall for the guillotine. Gaillard, the barricade maker, was shot in Versailles streets while attempting to run away. It is reported that the central pawnbroking establishment (the Mont de Piete) in the Rue Blancs Mantaaw is burning. This would be sad-in-deed. There is a great fear of pestilence in Paris from the unbuned dead bodies. The General Post-office removes to Paris to-morrow. MacMahon will not allow a single newspaper to be published in Pans until the last spark of insurrection has been put out. The famous Great Book, the name given to some three thousand volumes, in which are inscribed the names of the holders of the French Funds, waa removed by M. Colmont and M. Bray, from the Finance Ministry, the day before the Also all thw securities of value. The papors burnedß are principally old records. M Many false reports of the ravages I'M fire have been circulated by the jour« nals on guess work. It is difficulty know the exajCt truth oven yet. ThJ| Registers of the Etat Civil in «« Hotel de Villc, about which gre»« anxiety was entertained, are safe. AM the best pictures and statutes in tnj| Louvre wore removed to Brest by tn«B Empress beforo the war. There <9 little but rubbish, artistically spcatangH in the Louvre now. I M. Thiers was at the Ministry Jj Marine in Paris yesterday cveniDM General Pat nail 'has been broujM wounded to Versailles. MadanWJ Milliere, the wife of the ex-Deputy « Paris, is among the prisoners. ■

I have received a striking letter from a friend in Paris. Among the features figuring in it are the military execution of women taken in arms ■ a nd the blowing up of Fort Ivry, whicbi fr°m the peculiar sharpness of the report, is thought to have been done with dynamite. The infernal aspect of that vast charnel-house, Paris, is dwelt upon in striking terms. The writer also refers to the humanity and respect of the Bailors for the captivee, and their heroic courage before the barricades, and in doing firemen's duty; the utter impossibility of getting rid of the corpses except by cremation ; the wild insanity pervading the working classes, who have too literally, as ignorant people will, acted on the reckless articles and speeches •of boastful Chauvins a&d reckless or ambitious self-seeking tribunes, who before and during the •siege preached * better Moscow than capitulation." As I write I see the horizon lurid with the flames arising from the East- j em Eailway terminus. It seems as if ■we were never to see the end of these apocalyptic woes.