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Show " ByTelcsrai.b. 1XTEXSATIOXAL, AVAR IX PARIS. London, 28. Advices from Paris to the 23rd have been received. V ester-day, ester-day, 128 days since the commencement of the siege, witnessed for tho first time since the investment, a scene J which all have been dreading more or less every day during the dreary months. There has been oloodshed in the streets of Paris, not from tho shells of-the besiegers, be-siegers, but ,hy acts of reckless adventurers, adven-turers, who, from the commencement of the miseries aud misfortunes of the country, have all along sought to ad- , vance their own interests. On Saturday Satur-day night a crowd of citizens at Belleville Belle-ville and other quarters, who had been threatening mischief since the failure of tho sortie of tho 10th, gathered in numbers around the prison of Mazas, where Flourens, Millicres, aud other political prisoners were incarcerated, and after various riotous demonstrations, demonstra-tions, gathered courage, in the absence of opposition, and made a regular attack at-tack upon the prison1 beating down the gates with bludgeons, stones and iron bars. The jailor nnd turnkey fled for their lives, ieaving the jail l'roc to the rioters, who opened the cells, releasing the inmates, until they found Flourens, Millicres, and their companions, who were borne in triumph, amidst cries of "abas Favre 1 eibas Trochu 1" |