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Show TELEGRAMS. Rr'Ti-'i '' i;i'ly for th S LT Laki IIeRaU by L1GHTM1WB FLASHES. The Prus-i in papers aie tilert on the fpaui.-h mbiug io. Some .Madrid papers join the outcry out-cry again.-l a Piu.-.-iau aiuance. The leading French papers are clamoring clam-oring for w,ir. I'.u'lion is inoiea-ing in the banks of Kntlatid and France. It is ruuion-d that Spain lias concluded con-cluded an alliance with Prussia. The I'r-iich tnilhary contingent is to be raised to lOU.OuH men. An extension of the Erie and Atlantic At-lantic k (ireat Western roads to Chi cago is reported agreed upon. St ranee to say, another revo'ution is declared imminent in Mexico! Akermann's commission was signed on Thursday. A Mexican pirate called the Forward has betn de.-troyed by the lo!iicati. A favo able route is reported to have been found for the Tehuantepec rail road. A French fleet is exnected to leive Bre.-t immediately for the Meditena-nean. A conference of the groat powers over the Ilubeuzollern affair, is talked of. The appropriation and fortification bills have rassed. The senate has passed the apportionment appor-tionment bill, fiximr the number of repiesentatives at 300. The house has yet to co? cur. The report of the committee of con-feronee con-feronee on the curreuey biil is adopted by the house. The naive of the new minister to England is expected to gj to the senate next week. The Spanish troops at Santiago, Cuba, are on the defensive and want reiulorceuients. The Spaniards have been defeated lately in several engagemeutd by the Cuban insurgents. Cuban planters refuse to obey the emancipation law. A memorial from California impnrt-1 impnrt-1 ers again.-t the in ome tax was presented present-ed to the senate and tabled. The senate adopted a resolution to inquiie into the means for tie exten sion of our commercial relations with South America Two Philadelphia fire engines colli d d in a race, and the result was one man killed and another bad.y injured The directors of the Wells J?irgo rypress have resolved to call a stock-ho stock-ho ders' meeting on Sept. lsr, to vote on the proposed reduction of capital from fifteen to five millions. David A Wells says the amount of American obligations ot all kinds held in Europe is not less than fifteen hun dred millions. An a tempt was made on Thursday to pass a certificate ot d posit at the Elizabethport. Jersey, bank, altered from S30 to $13 525, but failed. B mds to the mount of three millions mil-lions at seventy cents on the dollar, are offeied lor sale at New Orleans. Trumbell reported back several petitions for an amendment to the constitution allowing women to vote, and requested to De discharged from their consideration. The request re-quest was granted. The French government has received 'n'bnnatinn of the massacre at Pekiu, and instiuctions will be immediately sent to the French fleet in the Chinese Chi-nese waters. The London Pst says the great powers will sanction any enetgetic action ac-tion of France for the punishment of the Chine.-e. Prim holds to Hoh' nzollern, but the Spanish ininistir at Pari has telegraphed tele-graphed to Madiid that the project must be abandoned or theie will be War. Prus-ia has broken silence, and in for ns France that I lohenz iilei li is not a uiemoer of the royal lajiily, but if the Spanish tortus elect hiiu Piussia wul susuiu hiui. LAST NIGHT'S FLASHES. A bill for the revision of the lessons in the bo k of common ptayer has passed the English loids. A nrx-'d eommis ion has been appointed ap-pointed to investigate the claims of British subjects in Hayti. The processions bill, directed especially espe-cially agaii st the di-orderly conduct of Orangemen, has been read the second time by the British commons. The Fenians in England are greatly i icensed against the government for refusing the body of a Kenian convict who died at Portland, to whom tb-y were going to give a great funeral in Ireiaud. There was a railway collision on Tbur-day. neir South Shields Eng-j Eng-j land. Many cars were wrecked but uo lives lost. The hopes of the earlists en the Franco-Spanish frontier -re reviving in consequence of the complica'ions. The German tailors itnf, orted 'O ( 'oi k I have struck and joined the Irish ta.il-ot ta.il-ot s on strike. It is reported in Paris that if the reply re-ply of "pain to the French dispatch is not satisfactory the punish, tuiuistet will reitive his passports. A spark from s lo-.-omotive caueht an oil wor s in Pittsburg, on Thursday, Thurs-day, and a $25,000 fire was the result. There has been a Ere at Sangeny, Can- da. which lasted eii ht days. The government has been a-ked tor $25,-OtXI $25,-OtXI to aid the suffer, rs Prince Arthur has gone te England. The Kiowas.Comanches. Ara pahoes, and part of the Cheyennes are ou the war path in the Indian terrirorv. The Quaker agent h. d to arm his employes and call tor troops to protect the agencc. Two convicts at Kingston, Ontario, murdered one of their guards ou Thursday Thurs-day and e-caped Lingard, manager of the Bowerp, N. Y . the: tre, is supposed to have committed suicide by drowning. There is a warm political and senatorial sena-torial fight over the collectorship of the port of New York. The freight house of the Jt. Loui- Vandal ta & Illinois Central railroad, in St. Louis, was burned yesterday, with a large quantity of flour, hemp and other produce. Infal ilnlity will be proclaimed on the 17-h, with a great celebration. The house will agiee to the senste proposition to continue the income tax two years at two and a half per cent. |