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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. Tin: nikuk of runs. Closing in on the City. MOR K I) IISI' UK AT H ri(jHTij;. Embezzlement by a Prominent Promi-nent Swiss Official. Successes Claimed by the Communists. A Hint from Uismarck to the Ionium no. GENERAL NEWS. Conclusion of t lie Joint High Commission' Labors. Trouble in the Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker Insurance Company. j I Secretary Fih to Retire from the Cabinet. j i Postponement of Mrs. Fair's! Sentence. Tragic; Collision with one of I Jarnum's Circus Wagons. FOREIG. Paris, 26, .evenine, via London, 1 j a.m., 7. The Versailles batteries i commenced liring vigorously to-day along tho whole line, and especially against tha southern forts which replied re-plied feebly. The eioge works are actively ac-tively prosecuted aod the second parallel par-allel has been commenced. The Com-muDists Com-muDists have made several sallies to interrupt the work, and desperate encounters en-counters liave taken place at Bagneaux, Ciamart aud Chatillon. A geoeral attack at-tack on the forts is expected to-night. The Commune has sent its best battalion, battal-ion, to the south. The defence, nevertheless, never-theless, appears to be insufficient. London, 26. A deficit of half a million of francs has been discovered in the Swiss treasury, and a prominent official has confessed embezzlement. Versailles, 20 th, evening. Fort Issy ceased replying at noon to-day, but the outer batteries continued firing. fir-ing. The first parallel of the siege works was opened to-day. In the Assembly As-sembly M. Duf'ame said the government govern-ment was in a condition to restore confidence con-fidence as soon as order was restored. New York, 27. A special correspondent corres-pondent telegraphed from Versailles ; last night: there has been a bombardment bombard-ment of Fort Issy all day and the j breach is distinctly visible. The Prussians Prus-sians permit the Versaillists to erect i batteries between them, but if the in-I in-I surgents approach they will fire. An ! attack upon Issy has been arranged. ! London, 27. The Daily Nicies' I special says sis thousand Versaillists lhave executed an important movement i to the north. The situation of t lie in-i in-i surgents in the south is good. Thiers' I active operations commenced yester-I yester-I day. Vanvres and Issy were fired ui;on, and it is presumed Issy will I soon" be silenced. The battery at Tro-Icadero Tro-Icadero is removed. There was fighting fight-ing at Asnieres, but the Versaillists failed to cross the bridge. The Telegraph's special sajs the Prtissians have ordered the arrest of the cures of St. Denis; cause unknown. un-known. By the severe cannonade Issy has been dismounted, and Port Montrouge is an ntter wreck. Dieppe, 27. Barnockow and staff have arrived; Goeben is expected. Paris, 27. The southern forts are badly damaged by the Versaillists' projectiles, pro-jectiles, which fall inside causing great slaughter. The Mot d' Odre says the Communists will blow up the forts if necessary. The Commune claims to have silenced the battery at Jleudon, captured the barricades at JNeuilly and dismounted fiye guns at Courbevoie. The Commune sits secretly. London , 27 . The Standard's special dispatch says the Commune j suffers for want of union, money and imen. The nationals openly disobey, j It is believed the Commune will make a last stand in the Kue Castiglione. (The sentence disbanding the 105th I battalion for cowardice has been quashed. Valerien is silent. It is ' now admitted the government cannot ! pay the Germans the installment of the 1 indemnity. Fort Montrouge will I probably be stormed to-day. The Commune has impressed the porters of the Lyons Railway. Berlin, 27. The Larenz Zeitung j says, Bismarck has instructed Fabrice ( to represent to the Commune that in i cise of a mishap to the Archbishop of i Paris the Prussians might probably lirrierfere. |