... *«• 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... COURSING MATCH.—A coursing match was held yes- terday (Thursday) in a field near the Mason's Aims, Caerphilly. Several rabbits were let loose, and some capital runs made. ...

... The Courier de la Roc/telle contains some interesting de- tails of the wreck of the Germania. On Sunday evening. at half-past eight, the patron Joseph Tristan, a fisher of the Isle of Croix, entered La Rochelle with about 100 people on board his vessel. The report of a wreck spread rapidly, and a great crowd assembled to see them disem- bark. It was a sad sight. Their clothes in shreds, and ...

... SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.—The usual quarterly meeting of this Union was held on Sunday, at the Wesleyan Chapel, when Professor Oliver, M.A., of the Congrega- tionat college, questioned the children on the History of Joseph. Two prizes had been offered by Professor Oliver for the best written answers to the questions the first of which was awarded to Master Tom James (Watton School), and the ...

... A heavy gale was blowing in the English Bristol Channels yesterday, first from S.E., and then from S.S.W. A telegram from Scilly at sundown reported that the gale was increasing, and terrific seas were rolling off that part of the Atlantic. The only casualty yet reported is to the Caroline Phillips of Swansea, Meelstone mister, the crew of which had yesterday afternoon been taken off from a ...

... MR. HALLIDAY'S ADDRESS TO THE MEN. THE ALLEGED POSTPONEMENT OF THE NOTICES AT DOW-LAIS WORKS. A large meeting of the colliers of this district took' place in the Athemeum, on Saturday evening. There must have been from five to six hundred present, and some forty or fifty of the general public besides. Messrs Halliday, Pickard, and Abrahams, the agent for the district, addressed the men, who ...

... LOSS OF THE STEAMER ST. LOUIS. News from Key West, on the 12th, saysThe steamei St. Louis. Captain Whitehead, left New Orleans for New York on the 7th inst., and sprung a leak on the evening of the 8th inst. at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, when! about one hundred and seventy miles distant from th« South-west Ear, and sunk the next morning at half-past five oclock. At two a.m. on the ...