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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Bourbaki is marching ofi Nancy and Belfort. A Germau repulse near lloise is reported. re-ported. The Germans evacuated Baupaume on Friday. Uhlans have appeared under the walls of Lille. The British army is to be immediately immedi-ately increased. ' 1 The Germans report that fort. D'Issy has been scaled. f'hauzey has repulsed six small attacks at-tacks on his front. The casements of Issy aud Yanvers have been battered down. A House of Lords for the German Empire is being arranged for. The Germans are reported to have gained two successes on the 4th. No clue yet to the assassin who robbed rob-bed the train at Albany on Friday. The Germans are withdrawing from the northern departments of France. England has assured Turkey that she will stand by the treaty of Paris. A hundred Germans were surrounded surround-ed and captured at Gieu by Fraii-cir-eurs. Teu thousand Germans have been defeated by. the French under General Roy. The library of the military school at St. G'yr, France, has been sent to Germany. Ger-many. The conference at Loudon is postponed post-poned probably until after the fall of Paris. There has been another heavy shipment ship-ment of arms from England for France. Up to the ad twenty had been killed and 200 wounded by the bombardment of Paris. The Germans lost heavily, it is said, on the Oth aud 7th, at Yeudouie and Montoile. Judge Byrou Payne, Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court, of Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, is dead. An attempt to effect an alliance between be-tween Austria and France is reported and denied. Twenty car-loads of tea have reached New York in seven days from San Francisco. The King of Holland assures the Luxembourgers of tlis independence of the Duchy. French reports make the German losses at Baupaume . v,Gkj and the French 4.U00. The German lo.-ses iu the battles on the L'd and oil, with Faidherbe, are set down at ;; Jmi. It is said lun.uuu new French soldiers sol-diers have arrived at Cherbourg to equip for attire .-erri..',;. Plainlield. N. has had a seji ioy i'J tire, which has thrown over .Viil sewing women out of employment. The Germans are said to have re1 pulsed the two French irruiy corps advancing ad-vancing un the Loire valiev. ' v Chauz-jy, it is said, has 15u,'.ny men, in excellent condition, and is being joined by 77,Oui reserves. Lille is crowded with wounded : and Faidherbe bus been there to reorganize reorgan-ize his commissariat department. The Germans in the upper valley ol the Oise are retiring on Jleziere.i, having hav-ing evacuated a number of towns. ('Donovan Ko.-.-a and other Fenian prisoners have been released and have started for Liverpool to leave Britain. A Prussian detachment met. a repulse re-pulse and lost 2uu men, at Briare, in an encounter with French marine infantry. in-fantry. The German lire on the south-east of Paris is unintermitting, and it was expected that the forts would soon be silenced. Faidherbe's movement on the ud was strategical and tactical, designed to deceive the Germans. He is now advancing. It is believed that the U. S. House committee on foreign affairs will nut report favorably on the San Domingo resolutions. The formal notification that the Black sea clause of the Paris treaty has been abrogated by the Czar, cau-e s uneasiness in England. Bourbaki is believed to be planning either to raise the siege of Paris or invade in-vade Germany. He has a powerful army, with the Black Forc.-t as his base of operations. Three cadets have been arrested at Poughkcepsie, who tell a strange tale of having been dragged IVom their beds by the tirst class at West Point, taken to the mountains, aud ordered to .leave. Prussian batteries arc throwing twenty-four pound shot and sixty five pound shells against torts Js.-y, Van-vera Van-vera and Montrouge at Parii; the forts are replying with a hundred and fifty pound shells. The German residents of Marseilles have sent a letter to the King of Pi us sia, expressing indignation at the barbarous bar-barous character of the slru'.-glc, warn ing him against a spirit of conquest, and demanding a ci.-:ition of this infamous in-famous war. |