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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Additional successes hie tvp'.i'f.d for tne French at Paris. A French victory near Paris on Tuesday last is reported. A Prus-iau repulse by the French I near iS antes is reported. The Southern Commercial Convention Conven-tion meets at Cincinnati on the 4th. A correspondent tuya the "Reds" of Lyons are in the pay of Bismarck. A fur her reduction in the rate of interest in-terest by the bank of Kngland is expected. ex-pected. The victorious llalians in Rome "how strong sympathy with the republican French. General Billard escaped from Stras-burg Stras-burg in disguise, and has reached Lyons in safety. Republican sentiments are gaining eround in Germany, and causing alaim. The national Schutzcnfest began tit Cincinnati yesterday, the 1st, and wiil continue ten days. The Czar has consented to receive Thiers only as a private individual at private meeting". Three Russian counterfeiters Were arrested in New York on Fridav, hard at work on fifty cent stamps. By pi fire-damp explosiou in an Fngh-di collii-i ", i,u Friday, fifty persons were killed. The place i not jivcn in the di-pnieh I he I rcucii rivers ure so low, in cou-scpjence cou-scpjence of the long drouth and warm weather, thai the Prussians can wade ai'in-,-'. It i n pui te I that UeauregHid is in the f rone 1 1 service as general, and is orcamaing an army in the unuth of fiance. All the men in Franco, telccraph employs except.:.! a,e to be (nrollcd for scrvK'c when called up.,u. The companies of the Fninccs-lirour.i are to be subject to military discipline in common with llie ni'.hilizfd giiav.l oflVanc". It is iid if Kiuy William luocinims himscil J.iiipcror, there will bu airman air-man Republic in live yours. The New York Il-rnhl g B,( .', (,., St. Petersburg says Thiers' mission to ! Russia has entirely failed. Boutwell has issued instructions to ! the chiefs of his department, that in j making their estimates for the next fiscal year they do not exceed the ' amount appropriated by Congress. Three thousand firemen, including ; companies from Rhode Island, Maine, i New Hampshire and Massachusetts, were in procession at Haverhill, Mass., I ou Friday. ' The convention of raiiroad general ticket agents is in ression at the Tre-mont Tre-mont House, Chicago. More popular demonstrations in favor fa-vor of France are expected in Kngland. Kng-land. The Frussian ambassador at London has twice formally complained ol the shipment of arms from Birmingham to France. The majority of the British cabinet hold that no government exists in France which they can recognize ; and consequently nothing more can be done for peace under existing circumstances. ' LeBouf, it is said, declared he knew France was not prep ired for war, and confessed he did not dare tell tho Emperor Em-peror what the state of the army was : before the war commenced. Several private documents belonging to .Napoleon have beeu published at Tours, and implicate many noted persons per-sons under the old regime in scandalous scanda-lous trausacfions. A letter has beeu published at Tours, said to have been written by the Queen of Holland to Napoleon, immediately after the battle of Sadowa, warning him of the events now occurring. The James river freshet at Ly nch-burg, nch-burg, Ya. , did great damage, washing away bridges, buildings, telegraph lines, and canal banks, and destroying a large amount of property. Houses aud cattle were carried a long distance down stream, with heavy loss. Bazaine is said, from Prussiau sources, to have thirty-three cavalry regiments, 30,000 horses, and sixty-two sixty-two field batteries. He is not expected by the Germans tOToluntarily surrender. surren-der. The ticket ugent contention in Chicago Chi-cago propose to take steps to have a bill brought belbre Congress for the establishment of a first-clans steamer hue between Australia and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, to bring all the eastern traffic over the Pacific railroad and connecting connect-ing lines. |