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Show LiGHTKiNGJIASHES. j General J. T. Boyle of Kentucky i J lead. An income lax expevt'i, iu France. Tattenall, of Loudon, h: Liu-ht : six horses to New Ynrk. i The new Spanish Minis: ij vil coii-1 tiime the war with Cuoi. 1 Felix It. Hmnot i. appointed Ooin-I mi.-hioner of ludiun AU'aii.i. Sir Itutherti.id AlcteL, IJrui.-h Min- ister to China, haa resigned. Six steamers sailed ou Saturday from New York ibr Europe. The restoration of th-j Parisian fortifications is rapidly goiuj; ou, Count do Paris thinks Chawhuid will bo the future King uf France. Annexation to the United States is again discussed by tho Mexican journals. The .French Amba.;jdur 10 Loudon has given a dinner to the Count de Paris, with royal honois. Some Nova Scotia aud New Bruin-wick Bruin-wick papers talk htrungly uf annexation annexa-tion to the United Slate-. Tho Priuee of Wales ia oiug to Ireland, and will review the troops iu Phoenix Park, Dublin, on Friday. A great drouth last year and mi.-ov-erumeut are the alleged causes of the terrible famine that is ragiug in Persia. Canada is in a ferment over the pro-nosed pro-nosed ratification of tho treaty of Washington by the Dominion parliament. parlia-ment. Dollingei hab been elated rector ol Munich University, liliy-t'our of tho professors voting tor him and six again?t. Americana, especially naturalized citizens, gointf to Europo mu-it take passports with them if they mean to visit France. President Grant does not coiuj west this Ecason. Generals Sherman and Sheridan havo told him it is too late in the season. The lynchers uf Martin Meaia, in Illinois, are to bo brought before a Peoria Pe-oria Judgo for examination or. a writ , of habeas corpus. The assistant treasurer of the United States, at New York, will buy five I millions in bonds during August, and sell seven millions in gold. ' A hundred bales of Japanese silk, received io New York on Saturday, have been shipped to Europe,forty-two days from Japan by San Francisco. Bazaine, Canrobert and VVimpfen have boon summoned to give evidence before tho committee oi the trench Assembly to investigate into the late war. The French government has given a qualified assent to a scheme for the emigration of Communist prisoners to Arizona, furnishing them arms, tools and provisions for six months. A German Amorican Society is being be-ing Ibrmed for promoting the political interests of the Germans throughout America, and diffusing German intelligence intelli-gence and social characteristics. There is a political fuss in New York over the charge that the Republicans Repub-licans of tho legislature were subsidized subsid-ized to pass improper measures; and it is claimed tho allegations f?ill be proved. Commissioner Pleasanton decides that the term "capital," in the revenue laws of '64 and '66, should not be construed con-strued to impose tax on the borrowed capital of bankers which may be used by them. The executive committee of the Texas Pacitic railroad has reported favorably on tho propositions of the Southern Transcontinental and the Southern Pacific Companies for the sale of their roads. A. Lovett, a French Canadian, and Edward Bogardus, of Chippewa, got carried over Niagara Falls on Thursday night, while attempting to cross to Navy Island, where Lovett resided with a wile aijd three children. Strong combinations are being formed in New Y'ork to resist Tammany Tamma-ny by refusing to pay taxes until the books of the city and county are opened for public inspection. Capitalists and property owners arejoining forces. Gambetta has submitted to Thiers plans for the reorganization of the army and the civil service; the former supposed sup-posed to bo the wok of Faidherbe, ' Chauzy, d'Aumale and Joinville. Thiers and MoMahon approve the plans. August Pischler,captainof the German Ger-man ship Europdy has been arrested, and will be examined before the U. S. Commissioners, on the charge of iti-humaa iti-humaa conduct towards his steerage passengers on the last voyage. Two of them died from starvation- At a Republican mass meeting in WilmiDgton, N. C, on Saturday, the police arrested a drunken negro, of whom there were about five thousand present, when his fellows attempted a rescue, and in the riot which ensued one negro and one policeman were lulled and many wounded. |