Over a hundred firemen were injured at a fire in Havana on Sunday night.

Mr. Gladstone has been threatened with death if he again returns to Ireland.

The floods in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana are subsiding. Many lives are reported lost.

The Emperor of Germany has thanked those Germans in America who have contributed to aid the sufferers by the late floods in Germany.

The clerks in the government department at Washington vigorously denounce the proposition to compel them to do eight hours work a day, as is done by other clerks in government employ.

A petition signed by twelve hundred people was presented to the Columbia College trustees yesterday by the Hon. Hamilton Fish, asking that the privilege of the college be extended to ladies.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather, westerly winds, stationary or lower barometer, slight changes in temperature.

Last night a communication was sent to the city government of Fall River by Mrs. Mary Young, in which she offers the city an estate valued at $60,000 and $50,000 in cash, for the purpose of endowing a scientific high school, as a memorial to her deceased son.

Superintendent Ramsay of the Annapolis Naval Academy yesterday issued a general order substituting cadets of the lower classes in the offices heretofore filled by the recalcitrant cadets. The new appointees, it is understood, will have to accept, as to refuse now under the circumstances would be open mutiny.