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Show Brief Tclesrams. The bishop of Calcutta is dead. All the rivers in France have overflowed over-flowed their banks. The difficulties Detween Japan and Corca have been settled. M. Rickard has been elected a life senator iu ihe French assembly. S. G. Fry, a prominent democratic politician of Philadelphia, is dead. The storms have interrupted the mails between Boulogne and Folkestone. Folke-stone. In London on Wednesday silver advanced to 54, with an active demand. de-mand. Gen. Saigo has arrived on the City of 1'fhin'i Irom Japan with a Urge number' of articles for the Centennial. Centen-nial. The French chamber of deputies has elected Duku d'Harcourt, of tiie right ceulre, to the vacant secretaryship. secretary-ship. I In the recent battle between the I Abvssiniam and Egvutiam, the former for-mer numbered C0.000, the latter 20,000. Park Placo hotel, near Denver, totally destroyed by fire Wedneaday night. Lots. $25,000; insurance, 5 U,OU0. The prime minister of Italy will demand a vote of confidence lor the cabinet, which will resign if the vote is refused. Gambetta is reconstructing the party of the republican union, which will bodislinct from the lelt and left centre. It nw has eighty members. mem-bers. ' Tho Chinese official responsible for the murder of English resident Margery Mar-gery h is been stripped of His rank by tho Chinese tribunal and is to be tried. Governor Tilden has commuted the sentence of death of Michael .Murphy, convicted of tho murder of Mrs. Hujasat Nanette, April 19th, 1S74, to imprisonment for life. Judge Pratt, in tho supreme court of Broolilvn. has denied the application applica-tion for a'writ of error in ttiecasoof Pesach M. Ituboustcin, convicted of the murder of Sarah Alexander. The investigation ot tho Alack u Commercial company is noarly concluded. con-cluded. Thus far the evideneo du-closes du-closes no wrongful act on the part of the company or any of its agents. Tho Berlin police hope in recover a considerable amount of the money Kindt, the defaulting necrelary of tlie Bantpe de Belginue, hud in his pnrt. session when capftircd at Qucencowj, The French papeis say th miuiB. jterial statement has made lV d-.vorable i niprcsHon on tho public. Tin i Fninr.-iiic, Ganibelta' a wn, docs nol 1 wholly approve n't the document, bul is content to '-,f(lit and judge the ministry min-istry by its dCLs. In tl second trial of G ranee, at Frop(io, Cal., for killing Madden, in-! in-! t'.icted for manslaughter, a higher ! crime than wits charged having been ' proven, the indictment has been d is- missed and the ease remanded to the grand jury of Merced. . , |