NEW YORK, April 13.—Special dispatches confirm the foreign news already sent, and give the following additional intelligence from Bologna, Wednesday night: Yesterday morning the garrisons of St. Omer and Arras left for Versailles. PARIS, April 12—7 P. M.—There was an artillery duel, lasting through the day. The nationals, refusing to fight, have been disarmed. The insurgents are in high spirits over the results of last night's fighting. An attack is expected to-night. Dombrowski telegraphs that he is in possession of three-quarters of Neuilly, and hopes to get the bridge to-night. Shells are falling in the rue Chaillot. The firing continues. VERSAILLES, April 12—7 P. M.—The coup de main arranged for last night is deferred until to-night. Thiers is so anxious to avoid bloodshed that it is doubtful if it will take place. The Assembly are enraged at the inactivity of the troops at Valerien. There was excellent practice last night. Two new guns have been erected at Chatillon to bombard Issy. At the last moment I learn that the attack inside and outside of Paris will take place certainly to-night. PARIS, Wednesday Evening.—Porte Maillot has been shattered by the guns of Fort Valerien. The cannonade previous lasted all day, numerous shells reaching the Arc de Triomphe. It was intended to disperse the bodies of Communist troops. The latter were advancing from Choissy le Roi. The condition of Paris is unchanged. The Commune grants passports liberally. The Archbishop has written to Thiers begging gentle treatment for prisoners. A Tribune special, from Versailles, Wednesday, says there was tremendous firing from the direction of Vanvres and Issy heard last night and this morning, but no important news has reached Versailles. Cathelineau is forming a Cretan legion at Compiègne. The Crown Prince of Saxony, at the same place, declares that district to be in a state of siege. Communication thence with Paris continues to St. Denis. LONDON, April 13.—The Times's special at Versailles, says that a column of the insurgents advanced to Clamart without meeting opposition. Thiers is opposed to bringing on any decisive action until 50,000 additional troops shall have reinforced the Versailles army. A letter from Guizot, on the state of affairs in France, was published to-day. He approves of the conduct of the Assembly, trusts that the struggle will be short, and expresses confidence that the result is both certain and decisive. VERSAILLES, April 13.—Thiers, in a circular bearing date of the evening of the 12th, describes the situation as in the main unchanged, and says the government will act at the proper time. The Commune accounts of a victory at Paris are as false as they are unprincipled. Our victory will come bloodlessly. The Paris delegates have arrived, and were received, not because they are Communists, but because they are Republicans. The answer to them was that no one menaces the Republic but assassins. The lives of the insurgents will be spared, but the workmen temporarily subsidized in Paris must return to their labor, and secession will be suppressed as it has been in America. A dispatch from Marseilles says the city is quiet, and that the police force is being reorganized. The delegates from the party of conciliation have returned to Paris. The condition of peace proposed to them by President Thiers were that Paris shall first lay down arms, and then that the municipal franchise shall be granted to the city. It is officially announced that the alleged Communist victories are entirely without foundation. No engagement took place Tuesday, and on Wednesday there was merely an insurgent fusillade, followed by a cannonade. There has been no engagement this forenoon. All the roads leading to Paris are occupied by the Versailles troops. PARIS, April 13.—The plate seized in the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is being converted into specie. The Commune, considering the column in the Place de Vendome a barbarous monument, a symbol of brute force and false glory, and a negation of the people, have ordered its demolition. Shells from Fort Mont Valerien are falling in the Champs Elysees. Cannonading is heard south of the city. LONDON, April 14.—It is the intention to make a supreme effort for the capture of Paris. The Maillot gate is an utter wreck. A dispatch from Paris, dated to-day, states that 12 shells have been fired into Paris and caused great damage. The shells are continuing to fall, and it is supposed that house property valued at 2,000,000 francs has been destroyed already. The government is endeavoring to obtain the use of Prussian guns against Belleville and Montmartre. VERSAILLES, April 13.—Immense quantities of gunpowder, connected by a wire with torpedoes, have been laid down in many streets. LONDON, April 15.—2:30 A. M.—BEFORE PARIS, April 14—Evening.—There was fighting last night and this morning at Neuilly and Asnières, but it did not result in appreciably modifying the relative positions of the belligerents. The Versailles forces still occupy the vicinity of the bridge of Neuilly, and a detachment which the insurgents are endeavoring to force to recross the Seine remain on the Island of Grande Jatte and wait reinforcements. The buildings in the neighborhood of the ramparts are badly damaged, and nearly all the inhabitants have moved away. The situation on the south side of the city is unsettled. All are waiting for the grand attack by Marshal MacMahon, who is reported to be at Rueil. LONDON, April 12.—Napoleon is ill at Chiselhurst, and has been confined to his room for several days. A young preacher in Tennessee several years ago believed in slavery; preached it as Biblical doctrine, and saw a divine plan in the whipping of men, the selling of women, and the separation of families. When the war broke out, he was honest enough to fight for what he believed to be the truth. He felt so deeply the wickedness of the final triumph of freedom that he could not remain in this country, and went to Brazil with other Southern malcontents. He soon became a naturalized citizen, and then a bankrupt. According to the Brazilian law the children of a bankrupt citizen may be sold in payment of his debts. This man's two children, one of them nearly grown to womanhood, were sold for twelve hundred dollars. He does not now believe in the divine origin of slavery.