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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Burglaries are common in Japan. Germany is suffering from scarcity of coal. The general amnesty bill was debated in the House, in Yashiugtou, on Tuesday. Tues-day. The Italiau goverumeut finds the Pope's position a knotty question at present. The Prussians on Monday threatened Chateau-revoult, fifteen miles from Tours. Nillson has created a furore in Chicago equalling that she created in Im.-w ork. A piece of strategy by ihe French is reported to have again brought fighting fight-ing much nearer Paris. The J apanese government is getting American steam engines for a fire-brigade fire-brigade organized at Yeddo. The Georgia election returns are meagre and incomplete, but it is believed be-lieved the Democrats have carried it. De Rodas has left Cuba for Spain ; and Yalmazeda has sent j00 more soldiers sol-diers into the field against the insurgents. insur-gents. John Bright has resigned his position posi-tion in the English cabinet, with the pennon due to a minister for two year's service. The bombardment of Versailles by the French is daily expected. They are said to have guns capable of throwing throw-ing shells into the palace. There was heavy fighting on the banks of the Loire on the 14th, loth, 10th and 17th, the Germans gaining the advactaaie. Chauzy retired slowly and in good order. Pomeroy introduced into the Senate, on Tuesday, a bill for the incorporation incorpora-tion of the "Great Salt Lake and Colorado Col-orado river railroad company," which was referred. The impeachment of Governor Hol-den Hol-den was formally commenced on Tuesday, Tues-day, at the bar of the iSorth Carolina Senate, the Lieut. Governor in the chair. The first district of Pennsylvania has had another election for Congressman, and gave a Democratic majority of 1343. The same district gave a He-publican He-publican majority iu October of over a thousand. A correspondent, who has' made the tour of the German lines says that it is impossible to bombard Paris, that the German troops are ou the point of mutiny, and that rats are only eaten in Paris on wagers for pastime. Another correspondent, writing from Paris, announces that the city has now reached the starvation point; and that in the event of the failure of another great sortie, Ducrot, Favre aud others will leave by balloon, and Trochu vd remain until the surreudei. The immense stores accumulated by the French at Blois and Orleans, lor the revictuailinu' of Pari.-, were all saved in the late fiirhtitiir. The Germans Ger-mans did not capture a siii'.'ie wagon. This is held to be proof that the German victory was not so great as reported. The Japan steamer fir San Fran-I'i-co, three days overdue, arriving on Tuesday niitht, ran into a vessel anchored an-chored in the stream, and then drifted and came into cobi-ion with another vessel, doing and rec iving considerable damage. |