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Show PARIS. The Wovlc ol' Drsli iulion (ICS 4)11. M Prospect of the Struggle Terminating. Gradual Investment of the City. roiiFj(j. J'aris, 22. Tliu Porto Maillot lias been knocked into pit cch. The printing print-ing olUce oftlio Opinion Nutionnlc has been invaded and the type scattered. Five hundred million francs worth ol property has been destroyed within the last lew (lays. The avenues are tilled with wagons containing wounded. Paris, Saturday evening. It is rumored ru-mored tho Versailles government has paid the first installment of tho war indemnity, in-demnity, fivo hundred millions of francs, and tha.t the German troops, in consequence, are evacuating the forts north and eat of the city. It is also reported a detachment of gens d'armes has passed through Ut. Denis, and live of them are on guard duty at the railway station there. The Commune Com-mune denies tho truth of theso reports, re-ports, and gives out that the gens d'armes who wero seen marching northward, north-ward, went no further than Genne-villiers. Genne-villiers. It is supposed the Versailles government intends to complete the investment of the city and cut off communication with the interior. The batteries on both sides are in active operation. At Neuilly and Sablon-ville Sablon-ville to-day musketry tiring was heard at intervals, and fighting is reported within a huudrod yards of the ramparts. ram-parts. The Communist ibrces hold their ground with great tenacity. They complain of the maladministration of their officeis, and begin to accuse Cluseret of aiming at military dictatorship. dictator-ship. The Commune made a requisition requisi-tion on the gas company, and enforced it by seizing (wo millions of francs at the office of the company. A er.-aiiles, 22, evening. It rained without cessation all day, and no military mili-tary event of importance reported. In the Assembly to-day, Minister Picard expressed his willingness to agree to a suspension of hostilities for the burial of the dead. London, 23, 11, a.m. Another attempt at-tempt has been made at Marseilles to overthrow the government and intro-duce intro-duce the Commune, but it has failed. The insurgents have been arrested and a large quantity of ammunition, which they had concealed, has been seized. Paris, 23. Tho situation of the belligerents bel-ligerents is unchanged. The Versailles troops are building formidable barricades barri-cades in Xeuilly and constructing pontoon pon-toon bridges at Sareoms and Polioux. Chateau Bacon, the pivot of their operations, op-erations, is strongly fortified. Cluseret has sanctioned a truce to enable the inhabitants in-habitants to leave Xeuilly. The Ver sailles troops have appeared in force at Charenton Pyatt has resigned his seat in the Commune. The republican league has appointed delegates to make a last effort at conciliation. Versailles, Sunday. The connonade from Fort Valerien on Saturday was mainly directed against the gates Antrucil and Pont du Jour, where the insurgents have established batteries. To-day the guns of the fortress are again turned on the Porte Maillot, which has been partially repaired. The rumor that the first installment nf the war indemnity has been paid, and that the northern forts have been occupied by the Versailles troops, is contradicted. Paris, Sunday afternoon, April 23. Official reports to the Commune state that the nationals silenced several batteries bat-teries of the enemy on Saturday, and repulsed t'ne attacks on Forts Issy and Vanvres last Thursday night. The Prussians have ordered stran'-gers stran'-gers to leave St. Denis. Xo detachment detach-ment of French troops was there yesterday yes-terday as rumored. The republican league has published the details of its proposal for the autonomy auto-nomy of Paris; if President Thiers consents to it, the league will force the Commune to accept it. General Cecillia has been appointed commandant of Paris. General Ber-geret Ber-geret has been released from arrest. The firing to-day is not heavy. London, 23. The Tribune's correspondent corres-pondent at Paris, on Sunday evening, writes that heavy firing was kept up all day, but the practice is bad, and , the shelis are flying wild. There was 1 a fusidade at uilly at close quarters. I An Englishman was shot at Ternes a i hundred yards within the gates. The: Versailles gens d' arms at St. Denis 1 have procured permiesion from the Prussians to sea: eh the trains en, route to Paris for suspicious foreigners. The medical students held a meeting yester-. day to appoint delegates to confer with 1 the Commune. j Yesterday it was reported at Vin-cennes Vin-cennes that the Prussians had evacu- ' ated Fort Xogent, and the inhabitants j left in hundreds for fear of bombardment. bombard-ment. It is expected that the Mont Martre battalions are mutinous. They ; complain of hard work and the bad ar- i mament, and declare they marched recently only because they were forced I by the chassepots of the Belleville bat- talions. Two battalions last night1 abandoned their post unattaeked, and1 the commandant of the fourth battalion refused to march to the ramparts, j Similar acts of disaffection have occur-red. occur-red. i Pyatt resigned because the Commune '; declared the elections vaJid, and the ! membere proposed to arrest him. A delegation of Free Masons have gone to Versailles to propose an armis-! tice, to allow the inhabitants of the ! bombarded villages to leave. The firing ' of Courbevoie, Besancon and Asnieres is without results. 1 |