... COURT OF EXCHEQUER-SATURDAY. LEACH AND OTHERS V. STRICK AND OTHERS. factors T Plaintiffs, who are tin-plate manu- facturers carrying on business at Neath Glamoraan- shire sued the defendants, iron manufacturers, of Car- contract to supply a quantity of iron. plaStiff^and^MeS G^?' Qh™pp)' for the ducted the defendants' case C°n efendan ts contracted to sell to the Plaintiffs 150 tons months' ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The usual weekly meeting of this Board was held on Saturday last. Present: Alr. W. -'E- Sevs in the chair, Revs. J. Price, W. T. Allen and G. P. Dew, Messrs. J. Taylor, D. Baker, J. Morrisl C. T. Chander, J. Holehouse, G. Smedley, F. Bullock J. Till, L. Pollard, A. Miller, A. Cadle. T. Griffiths, T. P. Williams, W. Baglin, C. Rymer, J. P. Rymer, and Geo. Roberts; H. Clay, ...

... *«• ID, Friday.—The Senate has approved T>rrTADIi fyl the al*>lition of slavery. posals ated to-day that the Government would shortl SV tllUce a 1^ f°r the abolition of slavery i^p I m^ico, but would propose no reform in Ciiko i' -^e a single insurgent remained. ...

... A SEWER ON FIRE.-At the last meeting of the Vestry of St. George's, Southwark, Mr. G. Wilson, the surveyor, reported that on the 16th inst. he sent a man named Gooch into the Cable-street sewer for 1he purpose of discovering the cause of the stoppage of a drain. The man had just entered the sewer when he was heard to cry out, and the surveyor, fearing something wrong, sent another man down. ...

... GENERAL NEW%„ The celebrated Danish author of fairy and othei tales, Herr E. C. Andersen, is seriously ill. The Earl of Leicester will be honoured by a visii of the Prince and Prinoess of Wales at Holkham Hall Norfolk, at the end of the month. The emigration returns from Liverpool foi November shew an increase of 2,000 over the correspond ing month of last year. If rents are now high in Rome ...

... BERLIN, Monday Evening.—The Emperor has addressed an Imperial rescript, to Prince Bismarck dated the 21st, relieving him from the presidency °f the State Ministry. ...

... PRAYERS FOR FIXE WEATHER.—In consequence of the long continuance of rainy and stormy weather, Archbishop Manning has addressed to the clergy 01 London and Westminster a pastoral letter, which was read at Mass in all the Roman Catholic churches and chapels of the metropolis on Sunday, desiring them that special prayers shall be said for the return of fine weather. He Let us ask our Heavenly ...

... An announcement in the Turkestan Gazette, says the Calcutta correspondent of the Times, that Russia has at last, after prolonged negotiations, succeeded in inducing Yakoob Beg, the Attaligh Gbaze; of Yarkund, to conclude a treaty for free commercial intercourse between Russia and Eastern Turkestan, has much greater importance than may at first be conceded to it in England. Mr. For- syth's ...

... EXPORT OF IHOX. The Board of Trade accounts show that in the month of November there were exported from tie c United Kingdom 257,849 tons of iron and s!eel, «-.f the .value of The quantity is less by tons than in November, 1871, but the value shows an increase amounting to £ 880,2G4._ The export of pig iron declined fro'Ji 104,132 tons in November, 1871, to 91,448 tons in November, 1872 bar, ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTERS' AD CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. PARIS, Sunday Niglit.—The Ministerial arrange- ments are considered as transitional. The Rfpub- lie Franc.'tisr, Gambetta's organ, says the consti- tution of the new Ministry will prepare the pub- remind for a dissolution. M. Guizot is said to have his infill eiios to effect a compromise. 'GERMANY. BERLIX, Mon lay. — The ...

... CLOUDS ON THE ALPs.-Professor Tyndal:, In his book on the Forms of Water in Clouds, Hivers, Ice, and Glaciers, describes a curious phenomenon of the Alps:— You frequently see streamer of clolid many hundred yards in letigtli drawn out fr>ro an Alpine peak. Its steadiness appears perfect, though a strong wind may be blowing at the same time over t!-e mountain head. Why is the cloud not blown ...

... An Arctic Officer, writing to the Times, in favour of Polar exploration, after mentioning the great commercial success likely to be derived from a thorough investigation into those ice-bound regions, says:— I forbear to put in any plea for the honour-and-glory view of the question in this matter-of-fact and utilitarian age; but there must be some among our rulers yet who believe that such ...