The Insurrection in Paris | Page 9

The Fort is evacuated.
There has been a general heavy firing to-day, and the Point du Jour has suffered severely.
Father Hogan, the cur�� of St. Sulpice, a British subject, was again arrested yesterday. Mr. Malet has with difficulty procured his release on condition that he leaves Paris.
The Government troops were compelled to evacuate the railway station at Clamart in consequence of the effluvia arising from the great number of unburied corpses in and about the station, which was then occupied by the Federalists, subsequently again evacuated by them upon the approach of the Versailles troops.
The Government have sent away to the Departments all the young soldiers who have parents or relations domiciled in Paris.
The statement that M. Schneider intented to remove his iron foundries from Creuzot to Stockton-on-Tees is incorrect. A large number of models and designs have been sent from Creuzot to foundries at Stockton-on-Tees, where it is intended to instruct a staff of workmen in the production of steel before commencing that branch of manufacture at the French establishment.
Fort Issy was captured and occupied by the Government troops this morning.
MAY 9th.--AND 10th.
Forts Montrouge and Vanves have been reduced to silence by a battery of mitrailleuses established on a parapet of Issy, which picks off Federal artillerymen when they show themselves. Seven guns on bastions 72, 73, and 74 have been dismounted by the new battery of Montretout and the bastions silenced. Many prisoners are said to have been taken at Issy yesterday.
The National Guards of Vaugirard and the Panth��on decline to march, barely a third of their numbers having answered the call.
The Vend?me Column is definitively to fall on Friday.
The Lyc��e, on the high ground behind Issy, is being hurriedly formed into a fortress mounted with guns, earthworks connecting it with Vanves.
Three shells per second are said to have fallen on Auteuil this morning.
Nineteen battalions were reviewed yesterday by Colonel Rossel in the Place de la Concorde. Rossel continues to command in spite of his resignation yesterday, which is attributed to a quarrel with the Central Committee. The Committee of Public Safety is still sitting. It is rumoured that should he decline to withdraw his resignation, the functions of the Ministry of War would be absorbed by the Committee of Public Safety, who would attach to themselves an Assistant Military Commission, headed by Dombrowski.
MAY 10th.
The Committee of Public Safety, in consequence of the proclamation of M. Thiers, which was placarded in Paris, has issued a decree ordering the furniture and property of M. Thiers to be seized, and his house in the Place St. Georges to be immediately demolished.
The Commune, in its sitting of yesterday, decided to bring Colonel Rossel before a court-martial.
Delescluze has been appointed Delegate of War.
Colonel Rossel was arrested yesterday and handed over to the custody of Citizen Gerardin. At 5 p.m. an announcement was made to the Commune that Rossel had left with Gerardin. The Commune accepted the offer of General Bergeret to re-arrest Rossel. Nevertheless, at 2 o'clock this morning this had not been effected.
F��lix Pyat, in the Vengeur, accuses Rossel of treason.
MAY 11th.
There is increasing discouragement among the National Guards, in spite of the retaking of Vanves. The Vengeur hints at a plot headed by Gerardin, and states that 400 National Guards, who exhibited no numbers of their battalions, were assembled for an unknown purpose at the Luxembourg; that at the same time officers who were making a domiciliary visit at Gerardin's house were attacked, and that in another quarter an attempt was made to assassinate Dombrowski.
A considerable portion of masonry from the Auteuil Viaduct has fallen into the water.
A search has been made at the Bank of France under the excuse of looking for arms. It is said that the employ��s of the Bank are armed and victualled, and will stand a siege rather than surrender the gold under their care.
In consequence of pressure from Delescluze the Central Committee abandon the direction of the War Administration, and Moreau resigns his office of Civil Delegate.
The furniture and pictures are being carted from M. Thiers' house, and sounds of hammering within suggest the commencement of its demolition.
Six newspapers have been suppressed--viz., the Univers, Spectateur, Moniteur, ��toile, Anonyme, and Observateur.
The batteries at Montretout continue a vigorous firing. Throughout last night they received only six shells from the Insurgents.
The shells thrown from the floating battery bridge at the Point du Jour and from the land batteries near that point generally drop short of the mark and fall either into the Seine or on the slopes of the railway by the right bank.
This afternoon I saw many projectiles from Montretout and Meudon explode among the houses at the Point du Jour and the enceinte near it. The wall screening the Ceinture Railway between Auteuil and Vaugirard has been dreadfully battered in various places.
The Bois de Boulogne, in