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Show TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. The House of Commons by a vote of i 258 to 127lastnightrejectedMr. Heaton's i motion urging that negotiations be entered en-tered into with other countries with the object of the establishment of a universal penny postage. After Dr. Lincoln's visit to Secretary Manning last night, he said that the patient's pa-tient's condition was "just the same," which, he added, "is as much as we can expect." He hoped for the Secretary's ultimate recovery. The fire at Key West, Florida, mentioned men-tioned in the Democrat's dispatches yesterday, yes-terday, subsided at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. after-noon. The principal part of the town has been burned. Six wharves and five brick warehouses were destroyed. ' The loss will reach nearly $1,500,000, with an insurance of about $100,000. Fifteen persons per-sons were injured, of whom six were taken to the Marine Hospital and others on board the men-of-war. No lives were lost. Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Trevelyan are preparing a plan of open hostility to Gladstone. They are arranging to make a statement to the country through the House of Commons of their reason for leaving the Cabinet, and will accompany this statement with a proposal of a measure meas-ure for the government of Ireland, which they will jointly prepare. They will endeavor en-deavor to consolidate all the opponents of Mr. Gladstone in support of their scheme. Yesterday Mr. Piatt addressed the Senate on the Washington Territory bill, which he characterized as an enabling act. He gave the statistics of the population popu-lation and the resources of the Territory, and asserted that on this showing it was entitled to admission as a State. Mr. Piatt would not discuss the matters that had occurred there in regard to the Chinese. Chi-nese. Whatever had been done the people peo-ple had dealt with themselves, and they were as well qualified to deal with matters mat-ters affecting themselves and to be a State as the people of California, Oregon and other States having similar questions to deal with. |