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Show LAST WIGHT'S FLASHES. There are more quarantine difficulties in New York and BrookKu. The French will only treat for peace beyond the Rhine. The garrison at Toul made a sortie ou Wednesday, killing and wounding TuO Piussians. The French are looking for great things from their fleet. Ncy, Due d'Erlchinger, got three sword cuts on the ISth, and was promoted pro-moted on the field of battle. ice admiral Potter is appointed admiral. (ieorge Woods, a prominent New Yorker, died at Saratoga on Wednesday. Wednes-day. ien. Wimpen, lately opposed to the rebels in Algeria, is appointed to the command of a French army corps. Berlin has received a dispatch that Chalons is evacuated, and the Prussian army is west of it, advancing rapidly. London news says Strasburg is well defended, and the French garrison is strong and amply provided. The condition of the Brooklyn Central Cen-tral bank is turning out much worse than anticipated. Depositors will not realize more than 70 per cent., and the stockholders will lose their stock. The yacht squadron disbanded at Newport on Wednesday. Some private pri-vate matches arc to come off. Sixty heirs of Sir Francis Drake are taking measures to recover an e-tate of a hundred and twenty-five millions in England. The Russian government is said to lie .-eriously alarmed at the slate of affairs af-fairs iu Poland. There is great agitation agita-tion in favor of Fiance and numbers of Poles are leaving to offer their services to the French army. The Washington treasury has six millions of bonds, bought (br the special spe-cial and sinking fund, which will be destroyed immediately. The Messrs. Jnmans sue B. (I. Jenkins, Jen-kins, in the English court of common pleas, for a libel with regard to the ill-fated ill-fated C'ili of J'tistnu, the libel casting the blame on the J nutans. The steamer Florida was seized at New York on Saturday, and some excitement ex-citement prevails because no just cause ii shown tor her detention. London papers say the Crown Prince and Frederick Charles are both advancing advan-cing on Paris ; Paris papers; say the siege of the city is improbable; while the New York J braid' London special spe-cial says the Crown Prineo will join the other Prussian armies before .Metz. They are all well posted. |