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Show TELEGRAMS. NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. Depopulating Aline mud Lorrlii Paris, 2, The departures from Alsace and Lorraine of the inhabitants who , decline to aiiurne German citizenship, is upon an immense scale. It is estimated estima-ted that &S.U0U Alsatians will take up their residence in .Nancy alone, while larre numbers will polo other place?, 1S,UJ0 have left Metz in the last fortnight, fort-night, and the population of the city is now only 10,000. Destructive Fire. Madrid, 2. A dispatch from the town of curial, twenty-four mi lei northwest north-west of ihii city, announces that the celebrated monastery of Lscurial waa struck by lightning this evening. Tho building quickly caught fire, and so rapid waa its progress that the dome and tower of the edifice have already fallen. The royal palace, with its splendid books and paintings and rare and costly manuscripts, is now in flames, and at the date of this dispatch there is apparently little prospect of saving it from destruction. destruc-tion. It was the summer residence of the Spanish kings. A brigade of engineers, engin-eers, fully . equipped with material for use in such emergencies, has left Madrid Mad-rid for E;curiaL. Miscellaneous, London, 2. A dispatch from Melbourne, Mel-bourne, of September lllh, says tho overland telegraph line is completed. London, 2. A later despatch from Carlisle siivi eleven persons were killed by the railway collision this morning; tho number injured is not stated. During the past thrco months 5,400 emigrants soiled from Liverpool for America, |