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Show ' UGHTNINGJLASHES. j Lyons asks Thiers to raise the pres-: pres-: cut stale of siege existing in that city. ; The Count do Kemuset has forwarded forward-ed to Berlin a reply to the late dispatch dis-patch from Bismarck. A lire in lSth street, New York, on Thursday night, destroyed property to the amount oi" $-,000. A lire iu maiden Lane, 2s ew 1'ork on Thursday night damaged a building occupied by Wm. Ester, lor inspection, to the amount of l,SO0. The firms of Derby, Snow & Pren-tieo Pren-tieo aud llommcll & Letch, brewers, both of Jersey city, have failed, the liabiiities of the latter reported over S-1U0,UU0. Another fraud in the lax commissioner commis-sioner s oiiice, Now York, has been discovered. Tho taxes of the Messrs. Idcn, amounting to $70,000, were marked dismissed, on false affidavits, the amount paid to tho city being $4,0U0. The Bight Hon. Mr. Childers a member of the British parliament in an address to his constituents on Thursday evening said, that the present cordial union between England and America was due to the careful and a determined policy of lords Berby, Clarendon and Granville. |