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Show TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. - John Bright, member of Parliament elect for the Birmingham central division, will resign because he is opposed to the advanced views of the Radicals. It is said at the White House that there is no truth in, nor any foundation for, the story published that a number of detectives are coming to Washington to look after the personal safety of the President. The pupils of the American School of Opera m New York are working night and day to make the initial performance successful. success-ful. For three weeks nightly rehearsals have been held at which the full chorus has been required to be present. The subscription subscrip-tion sale is already quite large. John W. Mackay, the Californip millionaire, million-aire, Captain Conner, of New York, and William F. Johnson and Matthew Canning, of Philadelphia, will have a conference in New York to-day (Tuesday) in reference to the monument for John McCullouch. Mackav has subscribed $5,C3J for the monument and $20,000 additional will be raised bv the friends of the dead actor. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger confirms the Washington Washing-ton Republican's canvass of the House of Representatives on the silver coinage question, ques-tion, The figures given indicate 197 Representatives Repre-sentatives opposed to the suspension of the Bland Dollar Act, with only 128 Representatives Representa-tives in favor of the suspension. ' The situation situa-tion in the Senate is not much better, for, according to our correspondent's mquiries, there seem now to be but 32 Senators in favor of the suspension, while 44 Senators are believed to be against it. |