... A RARtu Wurm.-The following incident is related in the Shropshire black country, in connection with the recent snow storm. At Mount Pleasant, a little village between Shiffnal and Wellington, there live an aged couple named Shepherd, the husband being seventy-one years of age and the wife one year younger. Shepherd is engaged as a furnace-tender at the Old Park Com- pany's works, and on ...

... FRANCE, (FRaO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.} tA portion of the following appeared in our Evening Edition of yesterday : P TuEsDAY EVENING. The Gallican sentiments exchanged between the' Emperor and the Archbishop of Paris on New Year's-day were much remarked at the time. The public was not aware that there was a special reason for them. I am now informed that the Emperor immediately after Christmas ...

... CITY COMIMISSION OF SEWYERS. The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London held their first weeldy meeting after the Christmas holidays on Monday, at Guildhall. Sir. De Jersey, the chairman, presided, and the proceedings created some in- terest, on account, among other matters, of a number of the contractors for cleansing the City having been sum- moned for neglect of duty during the snow ...

... A DAY ON TffE ICE, AND THE INCIDENTS THEREOF, BY OUR RbEB'AULNG REPORTER. It was frost:-black, keen, cutting froat-sharp as the North Pole, and hard as the nether millstone. The curlers were busy at their roaring game on many a loch and artificial pond, to say nothing of the great national game at Carsebreck; skaters of both sexes were out in droves; horses were failing. untder heavy loads on ...

... ENIANIS.M. The Court-martial at the Royal Barracks, up- pointed to inquire into certain grave charges against Private O'Brien, of the 85th Regiment, resumed its labours on Thursday morning. The prisoner, who conducted his own defence throughout with remark- able ability, read a general denial of the charges pre- ferred against him. Several witnesses were called, but he failed to elicit from ...

... T lltsnc'S T ?? FRANCE. PI'rs, Jan, 14. The celebrated painters M. Ingres and M. Viotor Couwin are dead. The ltendardof this evening says that the Ottoman circular relating to Greece was prematurely announced, since it has only just now been presented to the pro- tecting Powers. ITALY. SPEECH OF THE KING. FLonRENc, Jan. 13, Evening. To-day ling Victor Emmanuel received the deputa- tion charged ...

... Agent-MR. T. PIO`rmXm. The general purposes committee of the Local Board bad several meetings last week for the purpose of inspecting the plans sent in for the drainage of the city. COUNTY COURT.-There will be a sitting of this court held to-da y (Wednesday), when one bankrupt, Edward D. Jeffries, v ill appear for his discharge; and there are about an average number of plaints for adjudication ...

... i, ;; 1TpE LICENSING SYSTEM. I TO TM HDITOB O TR T rH E iEA1 . DFAn Sm-In yourpaper of the other day there is a reply to a letter eigapd A Grower, on the licensing system, and the whole mos qfuit iB, what mre ai few parties to do who lihve unfortupate'y paid large I fines for licensed 'houseg' if a uniform license is ran~td, just as if the intrest of all'the young men who have served their ...

... THE proceedings at the annual meeting of the Car- diff Savings' Bank, elsewhere reported, present facts which suggest reflections especially appropriate at this season, when large numbers of out-door labourers are' prevented by the severity of the weather from pursuing their usual wage-earning avocations, and when the piercing cold renders it more difficult than usual for the poor to provide ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ticb' MONDAY. t. JSTE FORE 0. JONES and J. PRIDE, Esqrs.) A TURNOVER.—Mary Brown, a respectably Ionian, was charged with stealing' a turnover, worth iw oS- from the shop of Mr. Lewis Lewis, draper, Bute- forijji' he prisoner was in the .shop looking at various L 'W'hen prosecutor noticed she had something under She denied having anything, but on being ed turnover ...

... Joseph Whbean, a publican, ca.rying on business in 'Marlborough Street, Dublin, wa-s yesterday charged before Mr. O'Donnell, at Capel Street Police 0111cc, with having sought to administer the Fenian oath, and also with being in possession of arns in a proclaimed district. The prisoner was comnitt ted for trial. Judith BawneU, a woman aged about 70, and Mary Jane Bagnell, aged about 37, ...

... Last week's arrivals were good, especially'of foreign oats. Exports, 6,038 ql's. oats. A dense fog up to o'clock paralyzed business. English wheat up, 4,765 qrs. foreign, 20,415 qrs. The arrivals from Essex and Kent this morning were moderate, and but for the darkness would probably have sold well at some advance, and as it was fully former rates were obtained- After o'clock Some demand sprang ...