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Show i LIGHTNING FLASHES. The London Times advocates the reelection re-election ol' President Grant. Mayor Hall has not yet acttd upon the request for bis resignation. Twenty-two lives were probably lost by tho Oily of London disaster. A now Austrian ministry has been formed with priueo Adolph Auersperg at ifs head. Charles O' Conor was yesterday . before the grand jury of the criminal court of New V'ork. Tho grand duke Alexis left Washington Wash-ington lor Annapolis yesterday morn- The prevalence ofsmall-pox in New York is said to be owing to the general r neglect of vaccination. 3 The first national labor convention ? will meet at Cleveland, O., on the i- Wednesday of February next. 5 The bondsmen of KIdcr Deck, a do-. do-. faulting Stale treasurer of Maine, have had a judgment of :i0,000 rendered against them. The owner of the steamer Fforuh S has asked tho secretary of the navy foi :- protection in taking bis vessel out ol j the harbor of St. Thomas. . I Many of (ho houses in the vicinity j I of the sunken mines in the Serauton ; coal district have been twisted out ol c j shape by the foundations cracking. Mho depositors of the Bowling Clreeu .. saving's bank have appointed a com-: com-: mitteo to look after their interests. v The bank officers hope to pay up fully. The owner of "Harry iiissett" wil oiiy accept a race to take place in thif 1 count iy, and refuses the challenge r against " Sterling" in Entland foi t 10,000. c 'J hero are great apprehensions ii; , Mns land in regard to the illness of the J'rinee of Wales. Humors are that he ! is, worse. Uis father died of a similai t complaint. Professors Darkness & Dale, of the . Washington naval observatory, have Q diseovered tiie spectrum of Mncke'j cornel. Prof liatik's comet is siir.jily -1 cloud-glowing gas. i It Is reported that Tweed has eu-t eu-t saged a pas.-age for five of his family . tor Kuropo on the steamer City oj Hriisxcfs, and sent a large quantify ol hi-i baggage on bard; but it is not e known whether he intends to leave 01 not. j Thiers received the Chinese embassy . yesterday, and told them explicitly that the Chinese government rau-t give c proofs that the French mis;ionaric.c i and consuls are respected before peace c can prevail between (he two govern-j govern-j mcnis. |