... THE FKBSMWWI'an S tlol ■ liorl a Diiblic meeting which took place at the Guildhall, at twelve o'clock on Monday, the object being to form a local committee to receive subscrip- tions for the relief of the widow and orphans left by the late sad calamity. The meeting was but thinly attended, owing to the unpropitious state of the morning, there being a considerable depih of snow oil the ground. ...

... On Monday, at the Salford Borough police-court, a young woman of Irish parentage, named Mary Ann Quirk, was charged with shooting at, with a pistol, Police-constable Sowerhy, with intent to murder him. Police-constable Sowerby said he was on duty on the previous (Sunday) evening, about eight o'clock, and was in the direction of the Pendleton-street police-office, when the prisoner overtook him ...

... PASSING EVENTS, RUM OURS, i The evacuation of Rome by the French troops has gre mortified the French officers, who rather hoped to into collision with the Italian army and it is fearci many that all remembrance of the brotherhood of the '• paign of 1859 has evaporated on both sides. Cert the French speak as bitterly of the Italians as of Prussians, and consider that their Emperor has acted ...

... The Cork correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing on Sunday evening, says To day there was witnessed in this city one of the most remarkable demonstrations that has ever taken place in Ireland. Immense and impressive as was that which took place in your city a few years since, when the remains of Terence Bellew M'Manus were laid in the cemetery at Glasnevin, to-day's demonstration was ...

... A rather painful case was heard the other day before the Tribunal of Correctional Police. A woman named Guyot, keeper of a small greengrocer's shop in the Rue des Poissonniers, was tried for illusing her niece, a girl of fourteen, who, to escape such treatment, had drowned herself in the Seine. The deceased had gone to live with the aunt in consequence of her father, a widower, having ...

... JlARK-LAJi K, MONPAY The arrivals of wheat from Essex and Kent fresh un to day were moderately good and in fair average condition A* the attendance of millers was limited, the df>mnnH oil kinds was heavy, and the quotations were nominallv 9s quarter lower than on Monday last. The show wheat was good. All descriptions „ j foreig.i prices had a drooping tendency ye, ^'niqtury, anil were heavy, ...

... LONDON, TULTRSDAY. It is curious to note how animals and men act and M-aot on each other. Mr. Hutton has recently pointed out with elaborate humour how much the cat and the dog are influenced by human companionship. The dog's nature is made high, his social qualities are de- veloped, and his interest in affairs stimulated by companionship with man. The cat, on the other hand, is made to feel ...

... REDUCTION OF WAGES.—On Saturday the wor men at these works received notice of a. gener a. reduction in wages. Notice is issued to men in all branches of the Nantyglo and Beaufort Iron Works to cease working at the same rate of wages at the expiration of one month. No specified sum is stated as to the per centage to be deducted. CONCBRT OP SACRED MusIC. — 011 Monday evening last, the lovers of ...

... The rights of capital and labour are not to be violated with impunity. The trades unions may succeed for a while in maintaining or partially raising the rate of wages and limiting the number of those employed, but they do so at the risk of destroying the permanent prosperity of their respective trades. Theirs is protection in its most selfish and tyrannical form. Under the plea of protecting ...

... TWO THOUSAND POUNDS DAMAGES. In London the cause of Thorpe v. the South- eastern Railway Company has been tried, and was an action for compensation in damages for a serious injury sustained by the plaintiff in a carriage of the defendants' railway £8,000 was the amount claimed in the declaration. Ir Iluddleston, in opening the case, stated that the plaintiff, Mr. Thorpe, is a gentleman who ...

... An important will case, in which the name of the Right Rev. Lawrence Gillooly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, is mixed up, hlwbeen before the Irish Court of Probate. The will was that of the late Rev. Dr. O'Connor, parish priest of Loughglynn, Roscommon, who bequeathed lands and houses in the county of Mayo and in Dublin to Dr. Gillooly and his successors in the bishopric for the education ...

... INQUEST ON A CIIILI). An inquest was held on Saturday at the Ha- fodyrynis iun, before E. D. Batt, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury, on the body of a child named George Thomas, two years and a half old, Jiving iu his mother's house at Ilafodyry- nis, who died under circumstances of so pe- culiar a nature as to warrant the withholding of the usual certificate until an official ...