The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

THE WEATHER TABLE.

FuIDAY, DECEMBNII 30, 1853.
The state of the weather at each of the following place:
at nine o'clock on yesterday morning. The stations are
arranged in order of latitude.
Tumintrion—N.W.; Calm ; Cloudless.
OnEnswicK—N.; Gentle Breeze; Cloudless.
STROOD—N.E.; Gentle Breeze ; Partially Cloudy.
SWINDON—N.; Light Airs ; Cloudless.
YARMOUTH—E.; Strong B ; Overcast.
The returns from the following places did not reach this
office in time for publication yesterday ; they, therefore,
indicate the state of the weather on Wednesday morning
at nine o'clock.
LIMERICK—S.E.; Hard Wind; Partially Cloudy—with
Heavy Showers.
binwtront—E.; Hard Wind ; Rain•
HOLYHEAD—N.N.E.; Hard Wind ; Prod..
WHITBY—N.; Storm; Frost—Snow.
DABLINOTON—N.N.E.; Strong Breeze; Overcast—Snow
—About 9 inches of snow on the ground.
Slur —N. ; Calm ; Snow.

A GOVERNMENTEMIGRANT'S STORY.—The Eastern
Counties Herald prints a letter received last week from an
emigrant, who loft Hull in the beginning of April, and,
sailing from Southampton on the flch, was landed in Mel-
bourne on the 21st of July-99 days from England. lie
says :—'• After crossing the line I was made constable on
board, for which I got 21. after landing, and very useful it
was, for I had only 6a., and that I had to pay for my boxes
carrying from the depot to our lodgings. We landed on
Thursday, and took a room on Friday, for which we pay
21. Ss. per week. I got wink the Monday after we landed,
and I have been working for the same man ever since.
I had 284. per day for the first week, but he has given
me 30s. per day since, so we can do very well. I have•
worked five weeks since I came, and we are sending 201.
by this mail to my father, at Huddersfield, to pay our
debts with." The writer went out as a government emi-
grant, and he says: " When we land here we can do as we
like and go were we like ; several of my shipmates are off
to the diggings, but lam not. I think we can save about
4/. 10s. per week when I work full time. Masons and brick-
layers earn from 28s. to 325. per day; labourers, 16r.; car-
penters from 20s. to 255. ; tailors and shoemakers cannot
live here. I should advise any person coming here to bring
as little luggage as possible. We can get wearing apparel
as cheap as at home, but provisions are very dear. Bread
is ls. 6d. the 41h. leaf, butter 3s. 6d. per lb., milk 2s. per
quart, and all other things in proportion. The room that
we have is a chamber bedroom, and we have got a few
things since we came over. My big box is our table ; my
tool box uiy arm chair, and I have made a stool for my wile.
IWe have had no hardships to contend with yet."
POWERFUL EFFECTS OF FRIGIIT.—A few days
since a person at Bordeaux, finding one of his chimneys out
•of order, sent for a sweep to remedy the evil. A boy Rent
I up and as vitt it, but it still smoked, and his master then de-1
termined to ascend himself as he had formerly done. Un-
fortunately he forgot that since he had become • master
sweep he had acquired a degree of corpulency which ren-
dered him rather unfit for such a work, and the result was
ithat on arriving at an elbow in the chimney be became
jammed in, and could neither advance nor recede. After
making ineffectual struggles for some time he became much
alarmed, and cried loudly for assistance. The people of the
house hearing him, ascended to the roof, and letting down
rope succeeded after some difficulty in releasing him from
his unpleasant position. As may be supposed, he was black
from head to foot from the soot, but strange to say his
hair, which before had been rather dark, was turned per-
fectly white from the extreme fright be had undergone.