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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Von Moltke expects Paris to hold out four weeks longer. Sickness is increasing among the German armies around Paris. The German forces in the northeast of France are on the retreat. The reported peremptory recall of Motley is authoritatively denied. It is again repeated that the Prussians Prus-sians intend to restore Napoleon. The French churches are offering their bells to be cast into cannon. The Austrian Cabinet is disappointed disappoint-ed at Gladstone's dispatch to Russia. Cork, Ireland, has had a great demonstration dem-onstration sympathizing with the Pope. The Bavarian troops under Von der Taun are reported deserting in large numbers. General do Paladines is appointed Commander-in-chief of the army of the Loire. Thi reply of the British government to Russia's demands was weak and deprecatory. The rear of the armies investing Paris, is protected by the arrival of fresh troops. Prince Frederick Chatles is moving forward to strengthen Von der Taun with 100,000 men. Four new entrenched camps are to be formed in France where 500,000 more men can be drilled. Dijon was recaptured by the French after a brilliant engagement, in which they drove the Prussians from the city. The Prussians have discovered and broken up a French rocruting office in Strasburg. It had sent out 280 Franc-tireurs. Franc-tireurs. The besiegers of Paris occupy private pri-vate houses and wooden barracks, and can concentrate 60,000 to 70,000 men in two hours. The Quirinal palace at Rome has been forcibly entered by the Italians, and an immense collection of Papal archives oeized. The army lately uuder Bazaine is expected to be brought back to Fiance to strengthen the new government to be established if the Germans take Paris. Prussia having complained of the tone of the Belgian journals, the government gov-ernment of BeUiuin replies that the press is constitutionally free in that country. In view of the possible movement of Russia southward a British fleet of observation will be established in the Mediterranean, with Malta as a rendezvous. ren-dezvous. Fifty thousand Germans are investing invest-ing Belfort. The place is strong, is said to have 30,000 men inside, and the Germans expect to be a month reducing re-ducing it. The conductor, baggage-man and two little girls on a Rensellear k Saratoga Sara-toga railroad train, were injured in a collision on Tuesday. Two passenger cars were smashed. The army of the Crown Prince of Prussia at Paris, occupies a double-entrenched double-entrenched line forty-five miles in length. That of the Crown Prince of Saxony a line twenty miles in length. German officers, speculating on the downfall of Paris, expect the greater portion of their troops will be quartered quar-tered in the city all winter, superintending superin-tending a Constituent Assembly and keeping a wide circle of country uuder subjugation. |