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Show TELECRAMS. NIGHT REPORT. The Treaty of Washington Denounced in the British Brit-ish Commons. Discussion in the French GENERAL NEWS. .Palisades on the CP. R. R. i on Fire Last Night. Phoebe Cary Dead. Mayor Hall Offers an Investigation Inves-tigation of the New York Public Accounts. Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. LondoD, 4. In tho Commons this evening, Sir Chailes Bowyer Adderly, member for North Stafi'ord shire, made a speech of somo lenpth in denunciation denuncia-tion of the Treaty of Washington. He said in that instrument England had made a vast concession in favor of peace upon the question of the fisheries and the Alabama claims. England was clearly in the right in the attitude she formerly held upon those subjects, and yet that position had been conceded and America idemntifiod. Sir Chailes continued by vigorously condemning the form of arbitration provided ibr in the treaty. Sir Uoundell Palmer, member for Richmond, followed in defence of the treaty. Havana, 4. Fort Principe has been struck by lightning. Two officers and tno eoldiera wero killed. Versailles, 4. To-day thecouimittee on the subject in the Assembly made a report recommending that iho slate assnmo the debt of tho pruviuccs invaded in-vaded by the Germans. Thiers, to the surprise of many deputies, amid much excitement, spoke in terms of vigorous opposition to tho report. He said tho amount of claims which it would impose on the publio could not possibly be leas than one milliard of francs, a sum which tho government was quite unable to pay. .He could not givo his assent to the plan of the committee, though he was willing to, affoid relief to the people of the inva-, ded departments who wero actually in need. i |