... HEAVY SNOWSTORMS IN ITALY. | Railways Blocked. ) [CKNTRAL NEWS TKLEGRAil ] HOME, Wednesday niorning.-Tile iieavy snow I has interrupted the coach traffic in the neighbour- hood of Turin. The Piedmontese Railways aro also blocked in some places. ...

... A SAILon AMONG LANDSHARKS AT CAPiQirF. At the C-r-lit fpoiice-courr. to-d;.y, George Crisp' was charged' on remand with stealing a purse containing £ 4, two railway tickets, and a cioak ticket for two seamen's bags from the pors >n ()f Bernard Berrenseo, at the Glastonbury Arms, Bute-street.-Thc prosecutor, who was now called, said he was paid off from tiie ss, ltisca on the 21st inst., and ...

... ALLEGED SHOCKING OUTRAGE BY ENGLISHMEN. A Reuter's telegram from Pietermaritzburg, dated February 8, states that four Englishmen at Estcourt, Natal, have been charged with arson under revolting circumstances. A quarrel with natives led, it isstated, to the accused surrounding and setting fire to a hut, forcing out tiirce natives, one of whom was nearly roasie i. Another they tied up and ...

... PROFESSOR ROBERTS ON DEMOSTHENES. On Tuesday evening Professor Roberts, pro- fessor of Greek at the South Wales University College, Cardiff, gave the first of two lectures on Demosthenes at the Lecture Theatre of the college. Eloquence amongst the Greeks, observed the lecturer, was a fine art. Their training, their sculpture, and their flowing g-arb alike contributed to a studied and forcible ...

... THE MYSTEIilOUS DEATH OF A GIRL. The body of a girl, named Sarah Aim SamsoBj has been discovered at Newton St. Cyrep, near Exeter, under circumstances leaving little doubt tha.t she lias been murdered. Deceased was an illegitimate child, and her mother is now mar- ried to a labourer named Miller, who is not the father of the girl. She left home on January 25th, and nothing was seen of her ...

... THE SHOOKItiG FAI-ALI FY ATa PON I YPRIDD. An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Butchers'Arms, Pontypridd, before Mr Rhys, coroner, touching the death of Mabel C. Herdson, aged six years, who was run over on Saturday by a trap in Taff-street, and killed. The evidence showed that the vehicle was being driven at a very moderate speed, and that it was impossible for the driver to have seen the ...

... Mr Wilfrid Biunt's friends have reason to believe that his treatment in prison is now I barsher than it was before his recent trial. ...

... FEAht 10, DENT AT CWMBiiAN WORKS, ii Yesterday afternoon a youth named William Ryan (16), residing at Fothergill-street, Newport, who is employed in the fitting shop at the Patent Nut and Bolt Works, Cwmbran, by s:lme means got his right hand in the machinery, and before he was nUe to release his hand the whole of the fingers were cut off. Tile injured lad was con- veyed to the Newport and ...

... C'.ROiFF LIBERAL ASSOCIATION The Late Alderman Duncan. A spccial meeting of the general committee (500) of the association was held in Quean- street Arcade Public-hail on Tuesday evening, Mr Rees Jones (president) occupied the chair, and there was a very good attendance. The PUKSIDKNT explained that the meeting had been convened for the special purpose of consider- ing a proposed change in the ...

... RAILWAY ROBBERIES MEKTHYR. I [SPECIAL TELIèGRAM TO THE ECHO.] Thomas Parry, groom, and Robert Glendcuning, fish hawker, were sent to gaol for two months by the Merthyr magistrates (Alessrs Smith and Harris), this morning, for stealing two bags of potatoes at the Taff Vala jard on Monday afternoon. They were in the act of removing the bags when Air Price Jones, potato dealer, arrived. Then ...

... A GREAT PREACHER ON THE NEWSPAPER P n E S S. The Rtv Stopford A. Brooke, of Bloomsbury Chap■ 1, the eloquent and celebrated divine, has been preaching a noteworthy sermon on The English Ne wspaper Press. Mr Brooke began by saying that he was not going to abuse the press that had been sufEoientiy done already. If newspapers in these days were scaudalous, sensa- tional, and frivolous, it was ...

... STRIKE OF COLLIERS AT FEHNDALE. On Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, about 60 colliers employed in the Bute Vein, No. 2 Pit, Ferudale, the property of Messrs D. Davis and S ins, struck work and brought out their tools. It appears that the colliers have been working this seam at 1, 5d per ton, but, in consequence of a thick clod iu the coal, an allowance of 7,1 per tnll was added to this sum. ...