The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-29 00:00:00

THE SNOW STORM. The snow storm still continues with no abatement, and our intercourse with the provinces has consequently been but very partially renewed. Very little additional snow, however, has fallen in the metropolis and its neighbourhood within the last twenty-four hours ; and as we hear that thz roads in some parts of the country are partially may hope the groat inconvenience to wh;.', 4 '. ;of classes have been subjected by this unusual vi'llAtion will be speedily abated. Many of the mails from the interior, especially from the south and west of England, where the storm appears to have raged most violently, are still missing, but l'Atm the :north several have arrived. From the continent four mails are due, but whether they are stopped by the snow , :en this side of the channel or in France we have not heard. The guards who have arrived in London matte the fol lowing statement of the roads which are impeded by the snow : On the Bath Toad the guard was obliged to leave the coach at Devizr.s, and proceed on horsA•ackrto Marlborough across the fields ; the road from Marlborough to London was passable, only by a light chaise ; a coach cannot travel. The Liverpool road from Hinckley is very bad. The guard - was obliged to employ six horses and men to cut through the drift. Yarmouth the mail-guard took the bags to Lowes toff on horseback, and from thence on foot to Wandford, where be procured a chaise, and came up through Ipswich ani Colchester. The snow was very deep, and the gale at sea was tremendous. The Exeter guard reports that the snow was very deep at Yarcombe. The coach was obliged to be dug out of the drift at Chard, and again at Wllinwhistle, when they left the high road, and crossed the fields to Andover ; between that place and Basingstoke they were again dug out twice. The Worcester gulard left his coach at Morton in Marsh, and took a horse across the fields to Woodstock, with a guide ; from thence he procured a chaise and four horses to Londe,n. The snow very deep and freezing. The. Norwich guard left the coach behind, and came up to London in a chaise and four. He reports that the snow was very deep about Newmarket. The Manchester guard brought his coach through from Leicester with six horses. All the way the snow was very The Stroud road was very deep with snow ; but with the assistance of six extra horses the coach was brought through. The Edinburgh guards found the snow very deep throughout the whole way, but the greatest obstruction is at Grantham. The coach was several times cut out of the drifts near that place : but by getting the assistance of the neighbouring farmers' horses, and by crossing the fields for some distance, they were enabled to get on, though fre quently obliged to leave the road during the journey. The snow on the Falmouth road, and also on the Ply. mouth road, is very deep, but not so bad as on this side of Exeter. The Gloucester road was very much obstructed, but by the assistance of the contracter, Mr. Day, of Northleach, who took the coach across the fields, with the aid of several other persons, they contrived to force the coach through, although the regular road was impassable. The journey from Oxford to Bensington, only eleven miles and a half, with every possible exertion, occupied two hours and a half. The guard considers it impossible for a coach to get to Gloucester. The Brighton mail was forwarded on horseback to Craw ley, it being impossible to get the coach on a fresh drift, since the guard left on Sunday night, near Patcham ; but from Crawley a chaise can travel. The postmaster of Rochester brought up the bags from that place himself, and he states that troops to the number of two or three hundred men are employed on the road to Dover : it cannot be opengd before Friday next, the snow is •sovery deep. The Halifax guard states that he was obliged to leave the coach at Heath, and take the bags on horseback. He met the guard going down, also on horseback, between Mansfield and Nottingham, and exchanged horses with him, with which he got to Nottingham. From thence he pro cured a coach, which stuck in the drift four miles from Mar ket Harborough. He took one of the horses on to that town, and, having procured assistance, brought the coach on to London all the way with six horses. The Glasgow guard was obliged to leave his coach at 011erton, from whence he took three horses, and with the bags on them he made his way to Kemsall, where he was stopped for six. hours, the snow drifting so as completely to block up the road ; and, it being midnight, could not pro cure a guide before six o'clock in the morning, when he pro cured a chaise and four, which brought him to Grantham, where the London guard took the mail, and conveyed it to Wan'asford, where the coach had been left, which he brought on to London with six horses all the n ay. The Devonport mail due yesterday morning arrived at 'Five P.M. The guard states that the road is very deep ; in many places they were obliged to leave it ; but be suc ceeded in bringing up the coach, bavinc , a pair of leaders all the way from Exeter. This is the only coach that has make its way up the road. The horsekeepers, not expect ing that any coach would attempt it, were not ready with 'the horses, and this delayed him very much. The Manchester mail due yesterday morning, arrived at fifty minutes past 5 P.M., bringing the coach through from Manchester with six horses most of the way. The snow was very deep, and the road badly cleared from below Leicester. In several instances they were compelled to de viate from the main road between Manchester and Lon d-on. No other coach had passed. The Halifax mail due this morning arrived 20 minutes past 5, P.M., with saddle horses and a gig, below Notting ham, and a chaise and four from Nottingham to Leicester, and on horseback from Leicester to Market Harborough, and from thence in a chaise and four. The Hull mail due yesterday morning arrived at 30 mi nutes past 5. P.M. Snow very deep on Lincoln-hill. No thing had passed Slr..aford since Sunday night. Th e guard took a horse and chaise to Peterborough, from whence the London guard_ brought the coach up to London. Stroud.--The mail due this day arrived at 40 minutes past five, p.m. The snow-drift was so bad between Abing don aD Bensington that the coach was obliged to leave the road. and go across the fields ; the coachman refused to go on, and the guard took a chaise and four, and brought the mil up to London. Two mails arrived from Brighton yesterday morning : the report of the guard is much the same as before. Eight o'clock, p.m.—ln order to obviate the inconve nience which might be experienced by the detention of the foreign snails, the Dover road being now the only one through which a passage has not yet been effected, a steam vessel bas been specially hired by the Postmaster-general to convey the bags to Ramsgate, Margate, and Dover. FURTHER PARTICULARS. The only roads that have been clear throughout the storm arc the Portsmout and the Poole ; along these the difficulties hay's: been comparatively trifling ,and have princi pally existedl within the last twenty miles of the approach to the metropolis. The depth of snow in drifts in the hollows of most of the roads is reported to be from 12 to 20 feet. In the high open roads there is no snow lying, it being blown away by the wind as fast as it falls. Inspectors were on Tuesday and yesterday sent out in all directions by the Post-office, and it is hoped, by the ex ovations that have been and are now making, an end will be put to the obstacles that have caused this sudden and disastrous suspension of all communication with the provinces. - The effect commercially it described as very embarrass ing. Bills previously in London have been dishonoured in many instances, from the remittances depended upon from the country not ha‘Jing come to hand. Where the bill and the remittance had both to be sent from the country, the storm has from its universality worked a remedy for the evil it caused, by ;,like delaying the arrival of the bill and of the remittance, Thus, to mention one transaction :—A bill was sent prom Halifax, which ought to have arrived for pre scntnte•.it and payment on lionday—the money to meet it was duly posted at Manchester—neither came to hand till yesterday. The mail contractors yesterday were ready generally to book passengers, but with a stipulation that they should bring no luggage. N o pac k ages b eyon d parce l s were re ceived to be forwarded by the mails. The guard of the Edinburgh due on Monday, which ar rived on Tuesday nisnt, states the great difficulties to be overcome were at Waltham-cross and Puckeridge. At both places several up and down mails and coaches were left fixed. Tuesday one hundred and fifty men were em ploy/,d in clearing the road between Puckeridge and Bunt in'Ard, a distance of only four miles. Between Slough and Salt-hill, on the Western-road, sixteen mails are said to be stopping, being unable to get up or down. A. St. Alban's many are reported in like manner to be fixed. The inconvenience to passengers, guards, and coachmen, beyond detention, and consequ en t h eav y expense, is beli e v e d i not to be great, as n most instances the passengers are known to have been got to some adjacent inn or public house. The bags have been removed, and the horses extricated, and the mail coach then abandoned till a change of weather commences. _ Fourteen mail coaches are said to be abandoned on the various roads. The Brighton mail due on Tuesday was brought to its destination with great difficulty. The guard, James Wake field, was obliged to be left at an inn on the road, being ex tremely ill from the severity of the weather. The coachman Newman, arrived in a state of much exhaustion. About a mile from St. Alban's, on the London side, a chariot without horses was seen on Tuesday nearly buried in snow. There were two ladies inside, who made an earnest appeal to a mail guard, whose coach had gttt in a drift nearly at the same spot. The ladle* !laid tlio post-boy had left them for St. Alban's, to get fresh cattle, and had been gone two hours. The t tAlfe to assist them ; and his nipil l• • his , ev - k-cl)te , 1r pat suetjourne), for L , - ' pony Ica\'ikiVr the Oiafiut antt ladies in the situation wt...0`,46 they *ere seen. The following notice :yeSleMay afternoon exhibited at the Post-eMeei-=:- . . , " 'There tbill l,w t second delivery of the city leiter§ kjo , the kiAtil'-carriers at three o'clock. All leo;ets Which ar rive by the late mails that lime will be delivered by the tivopiMS--Pi.: 4 ,q. All the mails will be dispatched to nigh4- ut Inc usual hour." 'The following arrivals wet.* in the course of the evening . Glakti.l,\`•! - . 07 7- Tuesday, at 15 minutes past twelve pan: i Bristol of yesterday, at 25 minutes past three 0:111. ; Ugh of yesterday, at 46 minutes Mee p.m. The following ellu arrired in the course of the evening : The ifatirax bags were brought in about half-past five o'clock in a post-chaise and four. The Devonport came it's at half-past rout o'clock. All the mail guatals rettiveck Otters to be in attendance at the Post-ofitce at sik o'clock last night, to receive in- structions. The Bath and Bristol mails doe j ,'7fOster(lay morning were abandoned eighty miles froni London, and the mail-bags brought up in a past- - -Ofte and four by the two guards, who reached London at six o'clock yesterday morning. ror 17 miles of the distance they had come atoms the fields. The Exeter, by Yeovil, due on Monday evening, arrived at one o'clock. a.m., yesterday, and the mail from the same parts due et! Tuesday evening came in at ten o'clock, a.m. The guard of the Monday's mail states that they left on Monday night, and were at five different places buried in snow, and had to be dug out. In one place a kind-hearted farmer after lending his team and men to rele ase th e m a il, intivtod that its coachman, passengers, and guard should partake of refreshment at his farm close by. He placed before them cold fowls and bacon, with good home-brewed ale, and added a glass of brandy and water each, by way of a digester, as he called it. All the mails went out last night. At the Foreign-office the following notice was affixed : " General Post-office, Dec. 28.—The French mail will be forwarded by a steam-boat to Dover at the usual hour to-night." Tie Manchester mail came in at five o'clock last night. The Bath at ten minutes to eight o'clock. The Gloucester at five minutes past eight. Taber, guard of the Devonport, who left London with the mail on Sunday night s and returned with it yesterday afternoon, says, that on going down they experienced very little impediment on this side Amesbury. At a mile and a half beyond they got completely blocked. The leaders dropped down, but rose again ; the near-wheel horse fell and could not be got up. The coachman went back on one of the leaders and returned with a pair of post-horses. The only good they could do was drawing the wheel-horsa out of the snow ; they could not get him on his legs. The post-boy was sent back, and returned with four more post horses, and four fine waggon horses were gratuitously fur nished by Mr. Long, an extensive farmer, residing close by. With these combined assistance the mail, after being de layed three hours, was got loose by day-light. Leaving their own jaded horses behind, they travelled onwards with the six post-horses across the Downs, and stopped to break fast at Deptford Inn, Wilts. The near-wheel horse left behind could not be got on his legs for two hours afterwards. From Deptford Inn they went on with four mail horses, and two post leaders, towards Mere, and were again blocked at Willoughby turnpike-gate. About 100 men were at this time employed a little below in digging out the Subscription and Defiance coaches. The guard left the mail in care of a fellow -servant, and walked to a farm-house, whence he got two labouring men, who assisted in releasing the mail, and, by crossing the downs, and, at places, fields, they reached Mere, whence they renewed their progress with four fresh mail-horses and two posters. They got to Win canton without meeting with any particular difficulty. They there obtained fresh horses, and went on as before to ll chester, and here again changing their cattle, at last reached Ilminster, where the guard resigned his arduous trust to another. Between Ilchester and Ilminster the post horse leaders fell in a snow-drift, and were run upon by the mail leaders. The Solicitor-General was inside the mail, and gave his card to the guard, expressing at the time his readiness to come forward, if necessary, to prove the great exertions made to carry on the mail through so many diffi culties. On the return, the same guard received the mail at Ilminster at half-past nine o'clock on'Tuesday night, being about four hours behind time. The difficulties in reaching London were comparatively light. They experienced fre quent impediments from snow-drifts, but nothing serious, and were also delayed by not finding the changes of horses in readiness. The Liverpool mail guard arrived with the bags at half past three o'clock yesterday morning, having left the mail coach a little on this side of Dunchurch. It there got buried in the snow, but it was dug out, and, with the pas sengers, returned to Dunchurch. The guard came thence in a post-chaise and six horses, and in addition to his own bags brought those of the Holyhead mail. The Norwich up mail coach of Tuesday night made no attempt to perform the journey, but Marshall, the guard, started with the bags in a chaise and four. Two miles on the London side of Barnham he got into a drift, and was obliged to leave the chaise. With the assistance of the post-boy he unharnessed the horses, and putting the bags on them, got safe to Bury. He got there at three o'clock in the morning, and horses were refused him to proceed with till daylight. He left Bury in the morning by stage coach, but had only proceeded one mile and a half before they were stuck fast. He took off the leaders, and putting the bags on them rode to Newmarket, and from there came to London in a chaise and four. - - The old Exeter mail came in after nine o'clock last night. There then remained seventeen mails due, exclusive of the Leeds, the Liverpool, and the Exeter by Yeovil, which became due at six o'clock yesterday evening. His Grace the Duke of Wellington arrived at Marl borough on Monday evening, in his travelling carriage and four, with out-riders. It was understood his Grace was journeying to the mansion of the Duke of Beaufort, where he was at the marriage ceremony to give away the daughter of the late Duke of Beaufort to Mr. Cod rington, son of Sir Bethel. His Grace was anxious to pass onward from Marlborough directly, but learning the roads were impassable, he stoppod for the night at thc Castle Inn. The next morning his Grace started, but the car riage got fixed in a wheat-field between Marlborough and Babbington. Fortunately the surveyor of that line of roads. Mr. Merrifield, was not far distant, being instructing a body of labonrers ; and on one of the outriders coming to him, he readily came to the assistance of the Noble Duke, whom he piloted across the country till they came to sound-bot tomed road. To Mr. Merrifield the mails also on the same road have been much indebted. He is an elderly gentle man, but fears nothing. He rode before the Bath mail for two hours without his hat, which had been blown off by a gust of wind. No other mails had arrived up to midnight. During Monday and Tuesday not one half of the omni buses and coaches from Kensington, Hammersmith, Brent ford, Islcworth, Hounslow, Twickenham, R:chmond, and other places about the same distance from town, were able to travel, and those which did were drawn by one or two extra horses, and were double their usual time in performing the distance. On several parts of the great western road, between Hounslow and London, a number of men were on Tuesday employed in clearing a sufficient space for two vehicles to pass abreast, and in scraping the snow off the footpath, it being in many parts from 18 inches to two feet deep. Brent ford market, which is held every Tuesday, presented a more sorry appearance than it has for the last thirty-one years, the occupiers of only four stalls being able to reach the spot with their produce. The lanes between Chelsea and Bromp ton, and between Brompton, Earl's Court, and Kensington, are totally impassable, the snow having drifted in some places to the height of four or five feet, and in no part is it lower than knee-deep. Along the high road from Kensing ton to London the walking is extremely dangerous, the park side being upwards of three feet deep in snow, while the south side is like a polished mirror. About twelve o'clock o❑ Tuesday a serious accident befell Mr. Moore, soli citor, of Sloane -street, who, while walking on the park side near the Halfway-house, slipped, and fell with such force on the frozen snow as to break his right arm. He was imme diately assisted by police-constable Fuller, T 149, and other persons, to the shop of Mr. Monah, surgeon, in Sloane street, who set it ; after which he was conveyed to his resi dence. The Retaliator, Gloucester, and Cheltenham day coach, on Tuesday, after proceeding as far as Gerrard's cross, was compelled to return, the road being impassable. The Oxford coaches only went as far as Uxbridge ; and the Erin-go-Bragh, Birmingham and Liverpool coach, after pro ceeding as far as Henley, was compelled to return. Between one and two o'clock yesterday morning a very gentle thaw commenced, which continued during the morning. About ten o'clock the Exeter mail coach, which ought to have arrived on Tuesday morning, reached the Gloucester Cof fee-house, Piccadilly, at which office the Bristol mail also arrived shortly before five o'clock in the afternoon. The bags of the former were brought by the guard in a post chaise and four to the General Post-office, about half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday evening. During the day, with the exception of the Exeter, none of the long coaches left London, and the omnibusses were compelled to travel with additional horses, as on the previous days. In the afternoon a sharp frost set in, which confirmed during the evening, the wind blowing very keen from N.N.E., accompanied by a slight fall of snow. The North of England and Scotch papers give no de tails of the storm, but the Scotsman mentions that the snow had commenced in Edinburgh on Saturday morning, THE SUN, LONDON', THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1836. and continued. Withont intermission the whole of that day: It adds, that at two o'clock on Saturday, the time at which it is published, " Owing to the violent storm of wind, snow, and hail, last night and this morninga the mail has not yet arrived.," rl iioni(Esi.oNDENT.) The partial thaw of yesterday rendered travelling in the metropolis and its environs more troublesome, if possible, than 'oh citht e,r thirst The omnibuses and Sh(k Staa!,i, Vare in general drawn by tutee Of fanf hones, and the jaded condition of the poor atilt - brag tarts quite pi tiable., At PenkoOtiliq Old liiitEltfit'ath additional 1) .6 Mi 4 WO'ti w a in in o l'e4ttisition tti fltatrt the catiyeyetices up the acclivity, which was then only effected with consi derable difficulty and danger; So idedflterfiOlt is travelling in Kcntt that for tilt ptegent the propritiitifs of the Wes terhaiii and aottie other stageS have reaelted upon running theth titilX dii gittitilate date. §c deep Was the snow in the environs of MaicistOne on glifftiti, and Monday; that it is stated that only two persons found dick entrance into that lbik'n On the toil-tier day; tint' ()vet the fields !Yoh) Chatham ; and the other from The effects of the storm appear to have been less felt in Essex than any other part of the vicinity of . the metropolis, less diffi culty haVilia- been dkpei'ieheeit in the tftiVelling of the stages. in the neighbourhood of Enfield, Mims, rotteta Bar, and Barnet it is apprehended that considerable loss will be felt by the farmers in the destruction of pigs and sheep which were buried in the snow. The traffic in the city was yesterday considerably diminished, and whilst the Royal Exchange was almost comparatively deserted, crowds of anxious parties Were to be seen at the Post-office, watch ing or inquiring after the arrival of the mails, the delay in the arrival of which has been productive of very serious in convenience to the commercial interests, Within the last few days in several parts of the country, and the western districts in particular, the present weather has been preceded by those harbingers of an inclement season, the northern lights, and other electric exhalations. (From the Brighton Guardian of yesterday.) When the heavy fall of snow occurred in October, it was generally anticipated that a hard winter would follow ; but the thaw has been succeeded by many fine and beautiful days, so that winter seemed to have passed away. During the last week, however, the frost began to be felt again, and about four o'clock on Saturday morning there was a heavy fall of snow, so that by daylight it averaged a depth of six inches. This was not thought much of, and was hailed rather as a proof that Christmas had arrived at last, en suring additional pleasure from carousals round a warm and comfortable hearth. The snow fell pretty thick at certain times of the day ; but when the sun shone, the snow in shel tered situation facing the south partly melted, but soon covered the pavements with a sheet of ice, and rendered them very slippery and dangerous to pedestrians. About five o'clock it set in for a regular fall, which continued throughout the night. On Sunday the air was not so keen. Nevertheless snow continued falling throughout the day, and the roads were so slippery that the drivers of such few carriages as were seen about were obliged to lead their horses. Towards night the snow came on with such violence that when the last coach, The Times, started for town, the coachman fully expected to be obliged to stop on the road. However, it is imagined they arrived safe, as The Times down, which ought to have been here by half-past nine, got in by twenty minutes after eleven. He had no difficulty in making his way till he got this side of Holley, when the coach began " to drag its slow length along," and when they reached this side of Pie combe, near the Plough, they were obliged to drive on the off side of the road, as the snow had drifted on the other— the road being cut in the declivity of a hill—to a depth of 12 or 13 feet ; but even on the off-side it was two feet deep. From this spot to Patcham was the worst part of the jour ney, and one of the passengers, a brother of Mr. Gibbs, of Saint James's -street, was so fatigued by his exertions in helping to get the coach along, that when they arrived at Patcham he was taken very ill, and was obliged to be put to bed. Ford's coach, which left Lewes at seven o'clock on Sunday night, did not get here till half-past ten ; but the late coaches did not attempt to return to Lewes. The Worthing coach was also more than two hours behind its time. The London mail started at usual at half-past ten : when it reached Patcham the snow was so deep upon the road they were obliged to return. A King's messenger, who was proceeding to town with dispatches from the Pa lace, cut the traces of the leaders, and, accompanied by a postboy, continued his route on horseback. Whe ther he reached his destination we have not heard, as the communication between this place and the metro polis is at present stopped. The Gloucester mail did not arrive at the accustomed hour (which is seven o'clock), but about half-past one in the morning the guard and coachman reached the Post-office half dead with cold, bringing with them the bags only with which they had managed to get along the beach in a cart, leaving the mail coach blocked up in the snow at Southwick. The guard, we regret to say, lies very seriously ill from the ef fects of the excessive cold. The coachman was also se riously affected by the cold, and we understand that but the kind attention of the Coast-guardmen both must have perished. The Worthing mail -cart, when it reached this side of Shoreham, was obliged to be led along the beach by a flyman, whose carriage had unfortunately been buried in snow between this place and Shoreham. The snow, which had fallen incessantly all day Sunday, continued with increased violence during the night, accom panied by a cold and very high northerly wind ; so that when we awoke on Monday morning we almost imagined ourselves among the Esquimaux, so completely were the houses buried in snow. All business was out of the question ; nearly every shop was closed, and those people who took down their shutters very soon had their windows blocked up with snow, which was knee-deep on the pavements, and lay in every spot where it could accumulate in heaps five and six feet high. The only business which seemed to engage the universal attention of those abroad—excepting snow bailing and cleaning the snow away—was to ascertain what mischief had been done. This of course was our chief em ploy, and we regretted to learn that about five o'clock that morning a young man, apparently about twenty-three years of age, was found by a lamp-lighter frozen to death near the Cricketters public-house, in Black Lion-street. The body was immediately conveyed to the Town-hall, where it still lies, and has been recognised as that of a stranger who had been lately helping in the yard of Mr. Bird, the stable keeper. About nine o'clock the same morning, a poor old man, named Freeman, droped dead on the Grand Parade, while carrying round milk ; but whether from the effects of the cold, or a fit of apoplexy, is not ascertained, there hav ing been no inquest ; nor do we know when an inquest will be held, as the coroner lives at Lewes, and the road is im passable. Not a coach left the town all Monday, nor did any one arrive. Crunden, the mailman, attempted to make his way to Lewes with the bags, on horseback, but could not get farther than Fulmer, and was obliged come back. No pri soners could be fetched from or taken to Lewes on Mon day, so that our magistrates could not proceed with part of their usual business. As the mail could not go to town on Sunday night, the bags were on Monday put into a post chaise with the guard and a King's messenger. A number of people assembled to see them start, which was at a quarter after one ; but the post-chaise, although it had four horses, could not get further than the Dairy. The King's messenger returned into Brighton, but the guard - proceeded on horseback with the mail bags, accompanied by one of the post-bays, also on horseback, and two nien on foot, with ropes and poles to guide and assist them along the first post ; and so they intended working their way. A few minutes before this guard started, the guard of the mail down, which ought to have been here at half-past three in the morning, arrived on horseback, having been obliged to leave the mail coach at Piecombe, only eight miles distant. He was so benumbed by the cold that he was obliged to be led home. He got into Brighton by a circuitous route over the hills, with the assistance of guides furnished by the sur veyor of the road. There has been no fall equal to the present since 1806, when the unfortunate Neville was frozen to death ; but the atmosphere has not been particularly cold. The barometer has not been more than two degrees below the freezing point since Saturday. A labouring man named Baker, living in Gardener street, slipped down on Saturday night, and we regret to state, broke one of his legs ; and on Monday, another poor old fellow named Turner, a wheelwright living in Suffolk place, fell and broke several of his ribs. To-day a lad about sixteen years of age, returning with his master, Mr. Lloyd, from Shoreham, sunk under the in fluence of the weather at Southwick, but was carried by Mr. Nightingale to Copperas Gap, where, by the assistance of Robert Cole and William Gale, he was restored, after the application, for an hour and a halt; of the proper remedies. YESTERDAY (TUESDAY.)—No mail started last night for London, nor has any come to-day ; but intelligence has arrived that the guard, who set out yesterday afternoon, only got as far as the Plough (about six miles distant), having been five hours on the road. He started from that place this morning at eight o'clock, the surveyor of the road having set fifty men to work to cut a horse track through the snow, and sent orders forward for the same to be done farther on. No communication has arrived from London, even at the Palace, since the guard came in yesterday afternoon, and brought a small parcel of letters for the King, which were immediately forwarded to his Majesty. The mail bags from Lewes, which should have left that place at six o'clock on Monday morning, did not start till five o'clock in the afternoon, when they were brought by two men on foot, who arrived here at ten o'clock at night. Mr. Fergusson, the post-master, who has evinced a most anxious desire to prevent the public suffering inconvenience from the stoppage of communication with other parts of the country, yesterday morning forwarded the mail bags for the eastern part of the county to Lewes, by the same Hit n who brOttglit the Lewes hags, Crunden and his son bleed algid dievateted with the bags for tile Western division, end set out on hormbaelt, with the intention of reaching Worthing; if poSsible. strOw held #phetWeen five and six yesterday evening, hilt ft:li tittain dating iii 6 right ; though not heavily. No coaches have attempted to leave 66 foOn today, nor can it be said with certainty when they will be able W do so. Some coachmen think they may make the trial this week others consider the roads will not be passable for carriages, unless there is a sudden thaw, for at least a fortnight. The snow has evidently melted away considerably to-day, and the roads are becoming more thronged with passengers, though very few shops have ventured to take down any shutters except those of their doors. A few men are em ployed here and there clearing the gutters ; and then will set to work at the roads themselves, which are so clogged that the few flies seen about are obliged to be dragged at a walking pace by two horses. The town almost resembles the silence of a tomb, so little noise is made by those stir ring) Cron the approach of horses cannot be heard. tc; hatts . tor Loudon and towns on the road were dit,00404 to-day n.`, noon, carried by six men, who deter mined to maid iffigi way through the first stage, and then hoped to send diem dri by s post. of the We are glad to report that 10 1 1Of i the g 60.7-1 alotiecgtet m„;1, is nearly recovered. He speaks 111 tern;.! of unbounded praise and gratitude of the admirable conduct of the coast guard, but for MAW timely, humane, and per severing aid and attention he feels 11t3 must have fallen a victim to the inclemency of the weather. The mail bags have just arrived (half -past 3 o'clock, p.m.) from town, The mail coach, left London last night, and reached Crawley at 12 o'clock ;: but it being impossible to proceed further in the dark, they petit up for the night. This morning the bags were brought it/ a post-chaise to Hicksted, where it was found absolutely necet , Sary to aban don the chaise, and the bags were consequently brought in by a guard on horseback. A person who came with ti: °m states that a horse tract has been cut through the snow (which was lova:4 with his horses ears), from Hicksted, and that any perkiti choosing to ride through it td that place will then be able to get on post to London. He states that Mr. Luton (son-in-law of Mr. Perkins the great brewer) the gentleman who set out for town on Sunday night in a post-chaise, was obliged to abandon the carriage near Clayton, and proceed with the post boy on horseback, and that he has arrived safe. The carriage was dug out of the snow this morning. 'The Sovereign coach down from town got to Hicksted yes terday, and there it sticks. Our informant describes the road as being very bad indeed this side of Hicksted, and says that it can be passed only on foot or horseback ; but that it would be impossible for any person to find his way without the assistance of guides well acquainted with the country. We have received no intelligence from the country since Saturday, as a stop has been put to every means of com munication. Even between this and Shoreham, a distance of only six miles, no road has yet been cut; and should this weather continue much longer, fuel may become very scarce. Several attempts have been made, but without success, to get carts to the harbour to fetch coals ; the sea will there. fore be the best channel of communication. One of the King's messengers arrived here at four o'clock this afternoon. He left London yesterday morning by coach, and states that with great difficulty they got to Cuckfield by five in the evening, and just before reaching that town they were obliged to obtain the assistance of twenty-five men to help them in. Two other coaches were also stopped there, the snow lying across the road ten feet deep. The messenger came on at one o'clock to-day on horseback, and describes the snow through which a track has been cut, as resembling in some places a wall of six feet on each side. Such a sudden influx of unwilling visi tors into Cuckfield, made lodgings so scarce that many were obliged to sleep two in a bed. Several coaches were also locked up on the Cuckfield road. We hear that thirteen miles of the road have been cleared as far as Piecombe, and that the Sovereign coach has been got thus far, and several of the passengers have since walked into Brighton. If no more snow falls, one of the coach-masters says he expects to run a coach to-mor row (Wednesday). This, however, other coachmen very much doubt. DREADFUL EFFECTS OF THE SNOW AT LEWES. FIVE o'CLock.—We have just received an express from Lewes, dragged through the snow in a chaise and four, con taining intelligence of a most dreadful and melancholy cala mity in that town. About noon to-day an immense ava lanche of snow glided from the Cliffe Hills at the back of Mr. Hillman's lime-kilns, and falling over the precipice which towers above this part of the town, dashed in the roofs and entirely destroyed five houses, burying the unfor tunate inmates under a mountain of snow. The scene which followed was terrific and distressing in the extreme. The report of the falling mass drew thousands of people to the spot ; and so great was the excitement which prevailed, that a quarter of an hour expired before silence could be established. Every hand that could lift a spade set to work :vithout delay to extricate the unhappy creatures perishing beneath the ruins. A Mrs. Robinson was dug out with a child at the breast, the mother dead. The unfortunate woman on the first alarm had escaped ; but, rendered desperate by the strong affection of a mother, rushed back to her house to save her other children, when shocking to relate, the avalanche poured down upon the whole fa mily, and buried them alive. A Mrs. Taylor was dug out alive, but with very slight hopes of her surviving, as she was all but dead. Her eldest daughter and five other chil dren have also been taken out of the snow ; but how many more people are buried, bow many have been extricated, and who are saved alive, it was impossible, in the confusion which prevailed, to ascertain with correctness. Men were still digging when our messenger left. It is ascertained that upwards of fourteen human beings were involved in the destructive fall. At Landport twenty-six sheep, belonging to Mr. Tourle, have been frozen to death ; and Mr. Verrall, of Swanbar, has lost nineteen sheep and horse by the same misfortune. The Ditchling mail-man is missing, supposed to have lost his life in the snow. The lad who brings the mail from Seaford to Lewes was almost buried ; but succeeded in extricating himself, and crawling to Northcase, where, having recovered a little, he got two men to return with him to where he had left his horse, which they succeeded in digging out of the snow. The mail-man to Uckfield and Tunbridge-wells' was abliged to return to Lewes, as he found the snow on Mal ling-hill 12 feet deep. A fly belonging to Mr. Stevens went out of Lewes on Monday with a fare ; but when the empty vehicle reached Ringmer-gate, on its return, the snow was over the palings ; the driver, therefore, got home as best he could on foot, but has not yet recovered from the ill effects of his walk. Mr. Stevens went, with assistance, to extricate his horse ; but finding that could not be done, he mercifully spared the poor animal the misery of dying from cold, by shooting him outright. Boxall, the Tunbridge Wells coachman, arrived at eight o'clock this evening, having left Tunbridge Wells on horse back at ten o'clock in the morning. He says there has been no mischief done at the Wells, but that the snow lies much deeper there than in this neighbourhood. All communication was shut out, and the roads were quite impassable for car riages ; but he expects, from the number of men employed in clearing them, that coaches would resume running between Brighton and the Wells by the latter end of the week. The post-master informs us that the party on foot which he dispatched with the London bags this morning were seen all well ten or eleven miles on their journey, and he hoped would soon arrive in the main road, to get a post-chaise. The bags for Shoreham and Worthing reached their desti nation in safety this afternoon, and the Arundel and Chi chester bags were left with the Worthing post-master to he forwarded. Bags have been brought back from Worthing this evening. TEN O'CLOCC—A mail-man started on horseback for Lewes, at seven o'clock, but was obliged to give up the attempt. Two mails arc now due from Gloucester. We can have no further communication by coach from London till Thursday, as half the London coaches are in Brighton, and the rest detained at Crawley and Cuckfield. Monk and Ford, the Lewes coachmen, started at one o'clock this afternoon to walk over to Lewes, which place they reached at four, and left again at half-past six and got back by ten. They state that six of the unfortunate crea tures buried beneath the snow in Bowler-row in the Cliffe, have been extricated alive, but that an old man named Gear, and six other individuals, have been dug out quite dead. A woman named Haywood was still missing at six o'clock, but some persons imagined they could hear he vo ice. Every search was made for her. The Sovereign coach is to start this morning at ten from Mr. Blaker's barn at Pangdean. Every place is booked. The passengers will have to walk or ride on horseback to the starting point, which is about four miles distant. NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY EVENING,H ALF-PAST TWELVE. —The down Halifax mail, at Nottingham, this day, Mon day, came in at seven in the evening. The coach and passengers could not proceed further than Nottingham. The bags were forwarded by saddle-horscs The up-mail could not get further than the Heath. The bags were forwarded by saddle-horses, and arrived at Nottingham at half-past eleven o'clock. The up-coaches from the north are all fast at the Heath. The Royal Hope, which left Halifax on Sunday morning, arrived at Mansfield in the evening, and was dispatched from thence on the morning of Monday with ten horses, but could get no further than Nottingham. No Leeds mail had arrived at Nottingham at half-past twelve at night. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, DEC. 26.— MONDAY NIGHT. —During the whole of last week we Were visited by a slight fall of snow, which partially covered the earth,, but on Christmas-day (Sunday) the wind rose from N.N.E. and blew a complete hurricane, the snow at the same time falling very heavy, and continued all the day, night, and Monday, without- intermission. The mail from London, which generally arrives at St. Nichol's-square, at the Post office, at 1 o'clock, did not arrive in town till noon, when we were informed by the guard, that the road from London in some places was totally impassable from. the drifted snow, and they were compelled with the assistance of some persons to cut a passage through the snow to allow the mail to pass. Numerous other coaches from the Turk's Head and the Turf Hotel, Collingwood-street, which had started since to Edinburgh, London, Durham, Alnwick, Sunderland, Ber wick; Shields, and numeroe other places, have returned with their horses. nearly exhausted, in consequence of,the state of the roads from the snow. About three o'clock this afternoon a coach from London arrived, five hours and three quarters behind the usual time ; and the passengers, owing to the severity of the weather, left the coach at Dur ham for the Sunday night. There was only one of the passengers who accompanied the coachman and sat on the seat behind the coachman, and was so numbed with cold that he could not move a limb, and was obliged to be re moved from the coach and placed in bed, where he soon re covered. No intelligence as to what has happened with the Edinburgh mail, neither had it been heard of. The snow still continues to fall, and the ground is covered in some places even in town 12 feet in depth. HARWICH.—This part of the country has been covered s:ow since Friday last, and on Sunday the snow fell very heavy-, end to 10 and 12 feet in thickness, in the pro gress of the differel;: coaches from London and other towns. On the Sunday night tnn~ wind blew for sc,:veral hours a violent hurricane from north-east., and has occasioned dread ful injuries at sea. On Sunday night Monde; upwards of 50 vessels have taken shelter in our harbour. Th 6 brig Lively, Captain Smith, of Sandwich, from Stockton, wa; struck by so heavy a sea on Sunday night, during the violent hurricane, that she filled and sunk in the Rolling Ground ; and such was the fury of the element, that for three hours no boat could venture near her, during the 'whole of which time the crew were clinging to the topmast, which ;7U just out of water ; they were all saved except one boy, whd was along with the rest, got exhausted, let go his hs44, and p'rished. There was also another vessel, named the Dorothy Cook, Captain Grey, of Newcastle, from Hamburg, tvhich struck on the Cork Sands and became a total wreck ; fortunate ii the crew saved themselves. The wind still continues violent. The devastating effect of the wind was never remembered to have been so visible. The snow still continues to fall, and fr_om the appearance of the atmosphere will last several days. ROCHESTER, Tuesday Night, Dec. 27.—Dreadful ef fects have been occasioned at this port and the surround ing town by the tremendous snow storm, which seems at the present moment to increase, and the oldest inhabitants do not remember so heavy a fall of snow as we have bad ; it has been blowing a hurricane from N.N.E., which has drifted the snow in some places at least 40 feet. During the night, a number of vessels has been driven into har bour with loss of anchors, masts, bulwarks, &c. Last night the mail, which was proceeding to London, was regu larly blocked up by the snow, and 300 men were immedi ately sent to make a passage through the snow, prin cipally sappers and miners, and after some hours they succeeded in reaching the mail, when the letter-bags were taken out and forwarded to London by express ; the coach cannot at present proceed further ; it is feared that this weather will last for some time. STROUD.—The snow storm on Sunday night will be re membered as one of the heaviest on record. It began to snow heavily at seven p. m., and encreased until midnight, when it was accompanied by a tremendous- hurricane from the S.W., which in a short time drifted the snow to the depth of ten or twelve feet ; the Stroud mail, the horsing of which does the proprietors the greatest credit, stuck fast several times after it had passed Maidenhead, but the high courage of the horses always brought it through when the depth was not more than the height of the fore wheels, but after the mail had passed Benson, the sDow triumphed, for the mail and horses were literally bu ried in it. Tomkins, the guard, immediately hastened to the nearest 'village and farm-houses, and in about an hour returned with six cart horses, and a force of labourers with spades, who soon dug the mail out . of the snow, but with little benefit to its progress, as it was found that for a long distance the snow was ten to fifteen fact deep on the road. Tomkins and Ricketts, the coach men, now resolved to make their way through the fields, and over hedge, ditch, and wall they went as merrily as if it had been a fox chase , the labourers running with their spades should the game take earth ; at length the road appeared clear, and they got on again, but were again obliged to quit it near Polton, and they took to the fields again with the same success. They soon after met the Stroud day coach going up, and advised it to return, as it was impossible to get on ; it tried, however, but failed, and returned to Cirencester. The mail ar rived at Stroud before twelve, suffering only a delay of about four hours, owing to the very great exertions of the mail guard and coachman, who deserve the highest praise, and the cheerful co-operation of the peasantry, who at four, A.m., did not scruple to leave their warm beds to aid . the poor travellers, who were not unmindful of it before they parted. In consequence of the deep snow drifts of Sunday night last, the roads between us and the Metropolis have been rendered impassable in several places, and no London pa pers have arrived. We are therefore, without auy Foreign Intelligence later than Monday's date.—Cheltenham Chron. IRELAND.—SATURDA Y.—We do not remember two days more intensely and bitterly cold than this and yesterday. At two o'clock yesterday the sky darkened almost to light—shortly after there were heavy showers of hail, ran, and snow. The night turned to frost, and with the mor row came the darkness, cold, and inclemency of yesterday. SUNDAY.—It is now, we believe, a lustrum since the ground was covered with snow on Christmas-day ;we have at last, however, a " White Christman"—there was a se vere frost last night, and the falls of snow are heavy, but intermitting.—Freeman's Journal. FRANCE. CALAIS, MONDAY, DEC. 26.—0 n Saturday it blew with the greatest violence from the N.N.W. and W.N. W., ac companied by a heavy fall of snow during the night, and yesterday it blew like a whirlwind, with large flakes of snow, driving the sand up in every direction for three or four hours, so that it was impossible to distinguish any object beyond the pier -head, and the douaniers on duty were un able to continue on the jetty, as the waves washed over it with the greatest fury, shaking the whole foundation. At one time it was feared that Fort Rouge would have been blown down, as the roofing of the Corps do Garde, which is bomb proof, was completely loosened, and in many parts gave way. The sentries on guard round the ramparts and in the citadel had the greatest difficulty to continue in their sentry boxes. Considerable damage has been done to the shipping in the port, and to many of the houses in the town, and the Basse Ville. The country around here presents the most desolate appearance ; a tree is scarcely to be seen or a cot tage that is not buried in snow several feet deep, keeping the poor inmates as prisoners, not daring to venture out of their humble dwellings. The communication with Paris, Dunkirk, and St. Omer was entirely intercepted on Satur day night and yesterday from the heavy fell of snow, and the Paris diligence, which ought to have arrived at 11 o'clock yesterday, is still en route. Two of then ouriers with the horse estafette from the capital, and the ptillions were stopped by the snow. so that the peasantry were obliged to get them out, and the letters taken by met on stilts to the Maitre des Postes, to be sent forward with as little delay as possible. The diligence to Paris was upset near Montreuil, and several of the passengers swTely injured ; also the diligence from Valenciennes, Cambrai, and Lille, which was drifted from the road side coming up Mount Cassel, and with 'difficulty extricated out of the snow by horses and the country people. The mail cart to Saint Omer, besides the driver and two passen gers, it is feared have fallen into one of the numerous canals that abound in this quarter, as no tidings have been beard of them, as the country for nearly thirty miles is under water from the overflowing of the canals. Great praise is due to the police and military authorities of this town, Gravelines, Dunkirk, Bernie, and St. Omer, as a number of soldiers,and pioneers of each of those garrisons are employed in clearing the roads and cottages, well pro vided with spades, pickaxes, barrows, &c., so as to open a communication with the respective towns, for which they are to receive extra pay and rations from the municipal authorities. For the last two days not a packet has been able to put to sea, although there are several Government messengers here, with important despatches for London. If the steam-packet can leave to-day she will, but it is very doubtful, as the wind is blowing hard in the harbour. Seve ral vessels are reported to hate been wrecked on the coast yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, as a police constable of the T division was on duty near the Pineapple Gate, Edgeware-road, his attention was attracted towards an unfinished house, - in which he saw at a distance some thing lying on the ground at the bottom part of the ; he directly approached the spot, and there beheld, tied up at the top, a full-sized sack, which he lifted up, and found to be of considerable weight. Without loss of time he untied the fastenings, and, to his great horror and con sternation, ascertained that the said sack contained the dead trunk and arms of a female, whose head and legs, which had, to all appearance, recently been cut off, were missing. The constable then conveyed the mutilated body to the nearest station house, and subsequently, by direction of the inspector, to Paddington Workhouse, where it will remain until the holding of a Coroner's inquest. The horrid affair is involved at present in the greatest mystery, and much excitement, as may be imagined, prevails in Paddington and its neighbourhood. The police are already engaged in in stituting such inquiries as niay have a tendency to elucidpte the facts of the case. ---->) ;‘,:,..r., THE LONDON . . MERCHANT S .. - , A 0 tt4".." 1, ' SHIP—SERIOUS ACCIDENT. i, The General Steam Navigation Companies fifig -fq ship, London Merchant, of the London and Leith met with a serious accident on Saturday night last. - n a9„) off the north end of Holy Island, about ten miles froni Berwick, being by some unaccountable miscalculation too near in, the vessel struck upon the reef called Emanuel Head. The passengers, we understand, had just supped in the cabin, and were enjoying themselires over a glass of wine, when a slight shock was felt—so sight, one of the passengers assured us, as to make no more noise than the scraping of a chair across the floor. The greatest alarm, how ever, was excited, for it was w ell known to most on board that a sudden collision of that kind was likely to occasion very serious injury to 3 steam-ship of the magnitude of the London Merchan,'. .It was soon put beyond all doubt that the vessel had struck, and great consternation prevailed on board. The 5,. bi p became fixed on the rock almost immediately, the mach.'nery being de ranged in such a manner as to be inoperative, and she began to leak considerably. Assistance from the islantl was after wards sought for ; and a great many seamen, fishe:men, and others were engaged to assist in getting the vessel oh - ; but as the leak was becoming very alarming all hands were in the first place put to the pumps. Most of the passengers went ashore to the inns in the village. In the course of the morning an express was sent for the Berwick steam-tug, the Majestic, which was promptly in attendance, and un der the skilful management of her commander, Mr. Wil son, of Spittal, was able to render the most etlimtual ser vice. As well as the hands on board the steam,ship, up wards of 50 men were employed in endeavottrino• to get her off, which was not effected till about eleven o : (, - Yock in the forenoon, when she was towed into the bay and see:..!rely moored. As soon as she was got off the melt, the leak mOerated greatly, and after she had lain a while it was so much stopped as to require only occasional pumping. Most of the passengers remained, but others went across the counti7 to meet the coaches from Berwick to London, by which they proceeded on their journey. Among the latter was Capta.;:t Milne, R.N., (son of Vice Admiral Sir D. Milne,) who had been of infinite service in directing the efforts of the seamen to get the vessel off the rock. On Tuesday morning the company's steam-ship Soho arrived at Holy Island from Leith, to _convey the pas sengers and cargo of the disabled vessel to London. That- So/7o took her station at a short distance from the .Los-- don Merchant, in deeper water, and the cargo was taken to her in boats. Mr. Hamilton, the company's manager at Leith also arrived, and was most active in superintend ing the removal of the goods. Nothing was found to be damaged saved some paper, and that not seriously. i FURTHER PARTICULARS. It is difficult to account for the mistake in keeping so near the shore, as the evening was calm and beautiful, with clear moonlight, and almost no sea. After the acci dont, however, the sea increased from the north, which catu:ed the vessel to strike heavily, and it was found neces sary t o have assistance from the shore. The passengers have mush reason to be thankful to Captain Milne for his exertions oil :be occasion, and have expressed themselves to that effect in note, of which the following is a copy : " We, the passengers on board the London Merchant steam-ship, have mob pleasure in acknowledging our gra titude to Commander Milne, R.N., for his skill, intrepidity, and manly exertions in extricating the said ship and cargo on the occasion of her striking on a reef off Holy Island, on the evening of Saturday, the 17t1 inst., under circumstances which, but for his exertions, must have been attended with great peril, and for seeinr , the vessel moored, and ourselves safely lauded in the harbour of Holy Islaad. (Signed) "W. R. M'CAD, J. H. EsTeN, Tnos. DEANS, C. G. GREY, Lieut.-Col. GEO. KIRICHILL,, R. DAVIS, JOHN CAMPBELL, JAS. STEWART. " Holy Island, Dec. 18, 1836." Their best thanks are also due to the captain of the v essel, who was indefatigable in his endeavours to repair the disaster. It is gratifying that no personal injury was sustained by aoy one on board.—Berwick Warder of Sa turday. CENSORSHIP AT FRANKFORT ON TOE MAIN. (From the PortjNio.) The following address dated the 6. l st of March, 1832, received numerous signatures at Frankfet : • ILLUSTRIOUS SENATE,—Convinced that our small state, agreeably to Sec. 46 of the act of the Congress of Vienna, cannot be regarded as a less independent one than any other, even than the greatest state of Germany, certain that our sovereignty is not the gift of princes, but an ancient, im prescriptit;le right, which we reconquered in 1814, in can cert with the German nation ; we cannot have been other wise than grieved to see that the High Senate, in its official edict of the 13th of this month, has followed up the deci sion of the most serene Diet of the 2d of March, a. c. ; by which the Deutsche Tribun, the 11 7 estt;0te, and the Nene Zeitschwin._aen are forbidden, and that it has thus violated the rights of the free press, and of the freedom of publica tion, secured to all Germans by Sec. 18 of the federal Act, and guaranteed to us in particular by the 4th article of the additional act of our constitution. No prince or govern ment, no one, unless it be the German people, has a right to change the institutions of the act of the Congress of Vienna. For it is the people who have conquered, an with out their will, and without the strength inherent in them, neither king nor emperor could have dictated this act. We pretest, then, not only against this decree of the most serene Diet of the 2d of this month, in general, but we reserve our individual and solemn protest against the prohibition of the High Senate against the said journals. We protest can the first point : 1. Because the act of the Congress of Vienna, secures to all Germans a free press, and a free publishing trade, a free commerce in general, and because Sec. 46 of this act formally recognises the rights of sovereignty of our citi zens. 2. Because the Federal Act of Germany, of the Bth of June; - 1815, repeats and confirms these stipulations. 3. Because the most serene Diet, by rejecting more than a hundred times demands addressed to it, and especially by ' forbidding, on the 27th of October in the preceding year, addresses and petitions, has declared itself incompetent to interfere in the affairs of government cf the different German states ; and 4, Because the High German Diet guaranteed the fundamental law of the constitution of states, in the Gyand Duchy of Weimar, of the sth of May, 1826, in which the right of a free press is admitted ; and that it has thus proved that the promises of Vienna were, at that period at least, s.,rious. We reserve our protest on the other point : 1. Because she ordonuance above cited, of the 13th of this month, would a,`ack our rights and liberties as citizens, and bcctuse it is contcary to our fundamental organic laws, which, according to LO of the additional act of our con stitution, can ot7ly be modit7std with the consent of the citi zens. 2. Because the High ::enate, agreeably to the con stitution of our town, articles 4 at; d 17, cannot make laws, and consequently prohibitions affecti, ‘ , 4 our rights, without the consent of the legislative body. 3. Because we do not see bow three journalists can endanger a stage protected by its good rights and by the contentment of its citizens ; nor, above all, if the High Diet, by faithfully observing its pro mises, it secures the attachment of all the honest citizens of the state. 4. While we blame some very unbecoming arti cles in the said journals, we have never read in them any culpable excitement to violence against the rights of persons or of property. 5. We do not regard as dangerous to the state, but as laudable, an association whose aim is to pro ceed on the right road to good, and to preserve to us a reit ,,;,c,eable and just freedom, which has been solemnly guaran teed to as under oath. 6. Because we believe the German people to be :fto loyal, too wise, and too noble, for agitators, if there be any, journalists or others, to have the power of leading them anarchy and injustice ; and he cause we are firmly persuade,:'• that no prince ca:' be happier or more tranquil than a German pi7nee, who does ,:.ot forget that he holds his high functions of (..;i.e.f of the Stoic, in trust for the interests of his people, an d % On) dispenses the law and justice with equal anxiety for all. 7. Because we think that a revival cf• the law of the confederation, attained by a struggle purely intellectual, would be very desirable, in so far as such a revival would aim at procuring for the country calm, happiness, and content, in the interior, and a higher estimation abroad. We hope that these points, which are undoubtedly important enough to form a legal basis for our protest, are sufficient to support the respectful prayer that the high Senate will be pleas'sid to retract the prohibition published the 1 3th of March, against the three journals, the Deutsche Tribun, the Irestbot:7 , a nd the Kerte Zeitschwingen, a prohibition contrary to our constitu tian, and the.decistons'against the three editors of these pa pc s, and that it will be pleased to declare to the most serene Diet, that it does not consider the decree of the 2nd of this month to be in harmony with our stipulations, and that the high Diet, agreeably to the precise stipulations of the federal act, cannot be competent to intervene in the internal le&s latien of a federal German sovereign town. We remain the illustrious Senate's most humble and obe dient servante. , - - A WEDDING.—Lady Rochford was the daughter of Edward Young, Esq., and had been Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales. She was a beauty, and to the end of her days an exceedingly fine woman. Lord Rochford had paid her attention for a considerable time without com ing to a declaration, till one night that he was with her at Vauxhall some of the ladies belonging to the household of the Princess, as they passed Miss Young, sneered, and made remarks so wounding to her feelings that she burst into tears ; and Lord Roehford, indignant at this illiberal and unmerited treatment, made her an immediate offer of his hand, and the next morning she became Countess of Rochford.—Horace Walpule's Letters.