... 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 ...

... TO THE ELECTORS AXD RATEPAYERS OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW. GEsNTaEn,;-The Town Council is to meet to-day to decide upon what extent the City Improvements Act is to be carried out, and to dispose of the ques. tion of the rate of assessment. Had the same con- sideration been bestowed upon this Bill when passing through Parliament, as, has been bestowed of late by the community, it is very obvious ...

... FIFE, KN-ROSS, AND CLACOXMANNAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY. The twenty-ninth annual meeting of this society was held inthe Waverley Hotel, Sauchiehall Street, yesterday evening. The treasurer's report showed that the ordinary income of the society during last year amonntedto 2118, 5s Gd, and that there had been added to the stock account, by the subscriptions of new members, 26, 2s. The amount ...

... DISORIDERLY SCENE IN ST. JA~IIESS PARK. In London the frost which again set in with great severity on Friday night, has continued since with more or less intensity. On Saturday morning the thermometer registered 26 degs., or 6 degs. below freezing point; but after the heavy fall of snow it rose to 30 degs. again, falling at night to 16 degs. Sunday morning opened clear and fine, and con- ...

... (Free) the DaiUy NeIMs.) I It cannot but be satisfactory to .1 true friends of Italy, to all wellwishers to the cause ( of religious fireedom in that country. to all, d indeed, whether Catholic or Protestant, who have studied the peculiar difficulties of the a Roman question, as it concerns the mutual ]j relations of the Papal Government and Italy, r and the relations of both with the outer ...

... LATEST NEVTS. H -ERALD OFFICE, ?? ?? gilliy. TELEGRAMS BY SPECIAL WIRE. TEE TORY GOVERNM-NrENT AND rEForM.I (Froei oar own CosTLsonetdent.) London, Sunday 2Night. Nearly a weel: ago I intimated to your readers that the Tories were shrinking the question of Re. foins, anld that I had credibly been informed no allu- sion would he made to the subject in the Speech frt t, the Thronae. I further ...

... THE STOtRY OF THE NlATION NENVSPAP lbR, (From the Correspondent of the Daily m N ew. Ye who listen with credulity to the indignant protests of writers who cry out Do you mean me? and insist that no Paris journal was ever sold to a foreign Government, hear the story of the Y',tina as unfolded yesterday before the tribunal of comn merce. The Notion, was purchased in 1863 by 31. Leonce ...

... S ?? i(I TY OF WATER. To ?? Oribi (qf tmh M'aujoow Herald. January 17, IS67. S1R,-Tn your laper of yetstcrday there appeared a letter from A Plnumber detailing the incon- vene7ce which the inhabitants of this city are at present slffering from scarcity of water, on account of so many pilces in houses and at wells being frozen np. As a temporly remedy, I qpjite concur with Plunnber ' that ...

... THE BLOCKAADE OF THE SJCOTTIS If ORTH-EASTERN LINE. (roron tihe Dunide Advertiser.) Aberdeen, Tuesday (Midniglitr. The trais which stuck in the drift yesterdav was dugr out to-dayby a force of men front Aberdeen and Stonehacen. It was then taken to Stonehaven. A train, drawn by five engines, left there for the south about five o'clock in the afternoo This train, I learn. has reached Perth. ...

... AMERICAN EXTPUVA-GANCE AND IMMORALITY. The New York correspondent of the Siand&) ...

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