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Show LATEST NEWS! BYTELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. Decrees by the Paris Commune. Com-mune. Disorder and Madness Keisnins. The Flight from the City. 160,000 Departures in Ten Days. Talk of Selliii:? Versailles, St. Cloiul ami Fontaiiie-bleau Fontaiiie-bleau to Foreigners. A DESPERATE STRUO GLE APPROACH INU. Bismarck on the Situation at Paris, Germany will only Iteeog-nize Iteeog-nize the Regular Government. Gov-ernment. TheGermans will Occupy Paris on the Downfall of Thiers. Congressional Intelligence iicncral .cws. Grand German Peace Celebration Cel-ebration iu the United States. Etc., Etc., Etc. ... FOREIGN. London, 31, Berlin, 30. The state of siege in the districts occupied by the first, second, eighth, tenth and eleventh corps is raised from March 27, but prisoners are sti'l subject to court-martial. Brussels, 30. The Echo Parliament Parlia-ment says the convention modiGed the preliminaries, and granted a delay in the payment of the five hundred millions mil-lions due April 1st. The Independence Beige says Ulrich Fauville is organizing three hundred thousand nationals at St. Germains, to support order. London, Feb. 31, Shanghae 30.-Seri-ous disturbances are expected in Japan. One of the Mikado's counsellors has been assassinated. The act was purely political. Paris, 30 noon The Official Jour-i Jour-i nal says the Committee has remitted jits powers to the Commune, and a 1 proclamation announcing the fact to the citizens is issued. A. decree has I abolished the conscription, and no ; force, except the nationals, will be in- troduced into Paris. All able-bodied men belong to the nationals. Another decree remits lodgers' rents from October 1870 until April 10th, 1871. The sale of pawned articles is also suspended. Another decree orders public officials on pain of dismissal, to disregard orders or-ders emanating from ersailles. Changes in military duty are an-I an-I nounced daily. A proclamation of the federation of nationals urges the citizens to prove the value of liberty, and says they will surely arrive at a universal republic. Paris is increasing in sadness. There have been 160,000 departures in ten days. The chaplains are ordered to cease mass in the prisons. The Commune Com-mune has searched the insurance offices for Eugenie's deposits. The troops in the southwest and the marines and infantry at Versailles are expected to be reviewed on Sunday in the Champ de Mars. London, 31. The Times' specials anticipate an approaching desperate struggle. Rengeur threatens forcibly to eject the Assembly from Versailles. The insurgents are confident the troops will not fight. The Commune deliberates on a proposal pro-posal to pay the Prussians by selling Versailles for a milliard to an Anglo-American Anglo-American company, Saint Cloud for eight hundred millions for a German gambling house, and Fontainebleaufor five hundred millions. The News' special says the Versailles government stops cattle and horses from entering Paris. The mails are greatly delayed, and it is expected they will stop. The Commune is active and disarming the loyal nationals. Havana, 27. General Modesta Diaz, an insurgent chief and native of San Dominga, surprised, in the vicinity of Bayamo, a body of seventy men of a Havana regiment. The attack was so sudden and well conducted, that the Spaniards, after a slight resistance, fled, but excepting their chief all were captured and killed. Diaz also sur- prised a eavalry force and killed twelve of their number. The rebel loss in these engagements was insignificant. This continued activity in the eastern department, tends to confirm the Cuban association statement that a part of the Hornet's cargo was landed after the ; unfortunate attempt at Puerto Rayre. I These successes 'following the great victory at Myart, inspire fresh hopes in insurgent circles. London, 30. A newspaper's correspondent corres-pondent has had an interview with Bismarck, in which the state of affairs in Paris was discussed. After a courteous cour-teous reception, and 6ome preliminary conversation, during which the Prince expressed his appreciation of the good sense and consistency displayed by the people and Government of the United States during the war, he proceeded fully to state his views on the situation, and to define the position Germany I takes in the domestic difficulties of France; which was in substance, that he denied Germany had sent a message to the rebels declaring she would not interfere but would maintain friendly relations; and adds there is a mistaken idea prevailing in England with regard to the position of Germany towards j the rioters in Paris, in consequence of I a wroDg translation of the letter of General Schlotein. The Journal Official Offi-cial said that so long as the Germans were not interfered with a passive attitude atti-tude would be observed. This was made to read friendly attitude, a very different thing. There have only been three) tulcf-'rains mint from Germany relating re-lating to tlio riot, unil two of tlivui wiiio hi in ply of n military clmraotcr. Olio of tliiiM) was my own, addressed to Kuvi'i), which was uUo misinterpreted. misinter-preted. In short, Germany will never interfere with llm internal ullairs of Knuici), but till liartiuH must respect and observe the peace stipulations stipula-tions to the letter; and il', in order to do this, the legitimate Kreneh government appeals for aid, ( I ermany will probably extend to it a certain degree. Germany will also aid the government of Franco to enlbrce law and order, by relaxing tho strict regulations of tho peace preliminaries. Germany will afford facilities for the concentration of tho government troops, and, if necessary, givo Thiers assistance assis-tance in suppressing tho Commune in Paris, lie declared tho ri'guhr government gov-ernment in the only ono competent to a.isuro Germany of tho payment of the promised indemnity, and hence he means to maintain it, lie recognizes tho "reds" as simply rioters, aud says as soon as the insurgents transgress the terms of the convention concluded with the letitimato government of France, the Hermans will treat them as rioters and disperso them by force of arms, lint so long as they do not transgress the stipulations they will be let alone. Paris, 31. Tho Commune deliberates deliber-ates privately, but tho following B divulged: An executive committee of seven has been unpointed. The Commune Com-mune is divided into nine sections : finance, war, justice, safety, subsistence, subsist-ence, education, labor, foreign and municipal. The names are mostly obscure. St. Petersburg, 31. The Czar gives tho legion of honor to Gortschakofl and his heirs for settling the Kuxine question ques-tion with honor to Kussia. London, 31. Owing to tho tide, the raco between tho Oxford and Cambridge Cam-bridge men will not come off before ten to-morrow. The latest betting was six to four on Cambridge. London, 31. The Timet' letter says the situation in Paris is critical. There are apprehensions of secret prosecutions, prosecu-tions, and every body is whispering the guillotine. Tho Standard special from Burcha-re.st Burcha-re.st says, the people threaten to demolish de-molish the Hotel of the German Consul. Con-sul. Infantry are going to protect Charles' palace. It is sa;d the Germans will occupy Paris immediately on the downfall of! Thiers. The Commune's proclamation predicts a universal republic. In Marseilles Mar-seilles the insurrection is dying. Toronto, 31. A special meeting of the board of trade on the question of sending a deputation to co-operate with the western delegation, in pressing the claims of the Huron and Ontario canal on the high commission, and it was resolved re-solved that no deputation should be sent. The arguments for and against the work may be summed up as follows: For the work An expenditure of forty millions of dollars, its computed cost, a shortening of the sailing route west by 370 miles, the occupation and probable prob-able colonization of ten millions of acres of wild lands by English capitalists, capital-ists, the development of vast regions along the route of the projected Canadian Cana-dian Pacific It. R., the passage of vessels ves-sels of 1,000 tons burden direct from Chicago to Liverpool. The revenues of the canal are reckoned, supposing it to be in working order to-day, at $1,400,000 annually and in 1SS0 at $2,070,034; and the fact that the canal would be fed with business by seven hundred thousand square miles of territory, ter-ritory, between Lake Michigan and the Kocky Mountains, not counting the region in the valley of Bed Kiver I and' Saskatchewan, enough to form j fourteen States as large as Ohio. I Against the work: Its utter inutility j and absurdity; ten millions of acres of jland for tho construction of a work which would be worthless; the dishon-iesty dishon-iesty of inducing foreign capitalists to j invest forty millions of dollars in a 'project which would never pay; the fact that supposing the caual to be ser- viceable, foreign grain would be cheapened cheap-ened to the destruction of our own trade; and tho fact that experienced jlake captains s y they would not use : the canal for good and sound nautical reasons, even were they allowed to go through it free. Ottawa, Ont, 31. In the Senate, the Postmaster-General stated that I the claims of Canada for Fenian raid expenses, had been submitted to the 'joint high commission at Washington, and if they were not entertained the government would press them on the attention of the imperial government. ' In the House of Commons, after the rejection of several amendments, the government plan for the admission of British Columbia into the Domin-: Domin-: ion, and for the construction of a Pacific Pa-cific railroad, was adopted by a vote of 91 to 70. |