The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

(To be continued.)

• ...MUM/ of all the Public loans. by J. J. °relies ; with an
Appendix, by E. W. Wads.—Tbinl Edition, 1812." Mr. Oreille, was
cashier of the Mora Exchange AIBUTSROC ; and. as he died In 1803,
he was e eceteloporary of the earlier lament the war.

THE FROST.

The long continuance of severe weather threatens
M essasion great inconvenience to the commerce of the
inateepolis. The Thames is now rendered entirely unnavi-
gable from Richmond to below London-brisge ; and lithe
frost continues another twenty-four hours, the supply of
lish for the metropolitan market, which for a week put has
Men mat up by railway from Gravesend, will no loner be
able to reach the latter place.
At sight o'clock last night, a slight fall at mow teak
Oise; mei as this is generally coneidered to prodisets
Waist wither, it is to be hoped a chastising mar. TM
Thames has cat, in the memory of the "oldest inhabitant,"
been se Onimpletely blocked up since the memorable winter
of 1814, wed there can be no doubt that if the channel of the
dyer mole now, as then, impeded by the narrow &rebel of
Old Leaden-bridge, the whole surface would have been
frozen over some time sines. Above Battersea-bridge, at
amain periods of the tide, it is even now pomible to cross
the river upon the ice by aid of a pole, and some adven-
turous wighie are owning a goodly sum by acting as
guides to the curious in attempting the same feat. The
litotes on either side the river present a very curious end
picturesque app from the accumulation of large
ataros of frozen snow and ice, in many plasm from 10 to
12 feet high, and having the appearance, troughs fantastical
forms they assume, of small icebergs. At oldie periods of
the tide below Westminster-bridge the winkle/4MB of the
river is covered with ice, and has all the* of a
frozen lake Great du:ego has been meta bp ye
craft at the wharves on both sides of the rinse Bea sow
tinned collision with the floating ice ; and should the
weather change at ono, it mast be many days before any
attempt at navigation eat be made, even by the coal barges.
The price of this mineral is rising rapidly, notwithstanding
the largely-increasing quantity brought into London by
railway.
The Woolwich steamboats have now stopped running one
week, and the above-bridge boats more than a fortnight, to
the extreme inconvenience of the residents at Chelsea and
the riverside suburbs. The pier and whaefege dues—the
great source of
pany, is thus entirely stopped.
The parks were yesterday very much crowded, and the
devotees of skating base not had so favourable an opportu-
nity of enjoying their favourite amassment for many years
as during the present season.
The distress that at present exists at the East end of
London (arising from the severe frost and the detention of
the shipping by the easterly winds) has been equalled.
In Whitechapelt St. George's Stepney, and Poplar, the po-
sition of affairs is frightful in the extreme. The work-
houses are besieged all day by determined and violent ap-
plicants. Those applying at the Stepney workhouse are
principal) y coal-whippers porters, and dock labourers, re-
siding in Itateliff. Shadwell, Mile-end, and Wapping. About
5,000 persons have been relieved at Stepney alone during
the last threes days, the greater portion of whom were Irish.
On Saturday the pressure was so great that the workhouse
gates were burst in, and had it not been for the good ma
insolent of the police—a body of near 30 being in daily
attendance to keep order—life might have been ascrillosd.
TM following interesting report on the weather of the
mak ending Saturday last, is from the Registrar-General's
fetus :—" At the Royal Obarrvatory, Ovenwiek, the
mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 518 in.
The reading of the barometer increased to 29.85 by 9 h. a.m.
en Friday, and after decreasing, rose to nearly the same
value by the end of the week. The mean temperature was
26.4 deg., which is 13.3 deg. below the average of the mime
week in 34 years. The mean daily temperature was 12.7 deg.
below the average on Sunday, and on the following days the
extent of depression was as follows :-9.4 deg. on Monday,
13.2 deg. on Tuesday, 14.2 deg. on Wednesday, 12.3 deg. on
Thursday, 14 4 dog. on Friday, and 17.2 deg. on Saturday.
The highest temperature in the week occurred on Sunday,
and war 36.5 deg.; the lowest on Wednesday, and was
13 8 deg. The hideeet on Wednesday was 34 deg. Early
on the morning of Sunday, the 11th, the temperature we.
s low as 7 deg. in the neighb iurhond of Greenwich. Th,
mean dew-point temperature was 21.8 deg. ; sod the dif-
ference betnecn this nod mete, sir temperature w 3.6 d. g.
The mean temjerature of illy water of the Thames was
34 deg. for the first five days; afterwards the instruments
could not be raised on account of thick ice. The wind blew
from the north, except on Friday."

DUBLIN, FIB. 21.—The cold still continues intense, and
after a partial thaw yesterday afternoon, the frost appears
as severs as ever this morning. A man WAS tonna frozen to
death on the road side, Myna four maks from Belfast, on
Sunday even.ng.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS. - A
special court ut this cownistion was held on 2 uraday, at
th• offiee, Greek-street, Seho, Mr. Jebb, chairman, pre-
' riding, tar the audit of the accounts for U.e year ending tte
31.4 December, 18-54, and fur general basin. a.. The secre-
tary preseuted ' is Buanrial report, by which it appeared
that the balance in the hands of the treasurer on the 16:h
February was 47.8491.0 c. 101., a-ding to which the amount
of cheques dra .1. nut not yet presented, 1.4531. 7s. 6d.,
gave an available balance of 46,3951, 13e. ed. The amruot
of decnoit account, 80,0001., increased that blionce to
126,3961 13a 41. Mr Andoe, the governmett auditor, in
reply to Mr. Paseo', said he had gone carefully through
the aceurants, *umpired them with the vouchers, and found
them sunset Re acknowledged the facilities for procuring
information that ►ad been sffurded him in every depart-
ment, and expressed his approval of the accurate and satis-
factory manner in which the various accounts had bees
I kept. The besirass-paper for t►e day prevented, beyond
this. mott.rs of mere routine, having disposed of wlsols the
court adjourned.