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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Specie withdrawn from the Bank ot England on Wednesday, $235,000. At the Liverpool races the autumn cup was won by "Footslip," ''Woodlands" ''Wood-lands" 2d, "Lord Gowran" 3d. A very large attendance at the Centennial Thursday. President and Mrs. Grant were among the guests. An arrival at New York on Thursday Thurs-day reports passing a large man-of-war vessel, apparently in distress, supposed to be the Franklin. The District of Backrunge, India, was ravaged by a cyclone on Tuesday last. One thousand native houses were destroyed. The town of Dow- IiuiiKan wassuomergeti Dy the waves, and 5,000 persons are believed to have perished. |