The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-09 00:00:00

THR WEATIIBIL

Yesterday, London, so far as the state of its main
Wwwwthfares was coacerned, bore little resambluiee to
the Landes of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last,
when its streets were piled with a mixture of snow sad
mad, through which omnibus e, cabs, and foot passengers
Amide way with difficulty. The rain, whiek commenced
to till ea Friday evening, and continued at intervals
tbrevibest the night, with a total absence of frost, return-
fag "pia about tea o'clock oit Saturday morning, and,
pessfaidiewa wittiest lateendesiest luta about three o'clock,
eesepietely damp& the omega et the metropolis. The
and Weems Ilmdd, while site seem et the rain, united
with the Miliwess of the tempseatum, speedily converted I
bugs samosa of mew into water. The regular action of the
dmlaap wen thus restored, end our streets have put on
semadiag et the appearance to which we are accustomed
ohm sa ordinary prolonged rats.

MANCHESTER, SUNDAY MCiawixo.
The 'now is disappearing rapidly. A thaw eommenced
early on Saturday morning ; towards noes rain began to
fall. The temperature was sensibly milder, and eontinues
nto the present moment. The fears which had resulted
from the blockade of snow, and which pictured homesteads
without fire ((or coal had already gone up 30 per cent.),
and railways which had been set free by cutting throve'
snow-drilla again fast for want of coke, have given place to
a dread of floods. The riven an already much swollen,
and the roads in some places almost impassable. On
the hall sides some fears are also entertained of
avalanches. Between Macclesfield and Buxton a
snow•dritt against one of the bill sides was re-
ported as 03 feet Jeep, and in many other places eor
tages were literally burled, or had little more than their
roofs visible. The drifts were also very deep in the clefts
of the bills between Cheshire and Derbyshire and Yorkshire
and Derbyshire, near Woodhe* Some of the passenger,
embedded in the snow for a ticn,g p V-.• sh, (Held line, near
seitieel much from exposure, by rang out
of the train and wallOng down the line. Oat gentleman
describes the operation of the snow plough, which, standing
on the margin of a cutting, ho had the opportunity of
seeing at work. He says it was propelled by five engines,
linked together, and attaining such a speed that the wheels
were literally glowing with fire from excessive friction.
On entering the snow drifts, the machine thus
urged appeared irresistible for a time, and the
snow flew in millions of particles—till engines, tenders,
drivers, and everything seemed to disappear. in clouds of
fleecy whiteness, and were utterly int to sight. When at
last the train was brought to a stand by the resistance of
the snow, it was taken back and the attack thus renewed
again and again. The gentleman who saw this operation
says it was the most startling spectacle he ever witnessed in
his life, and so vivid is the recollection of the scene that it
has haunted him day and night ever since, whether waking
or sleeping.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

We have had a heavy fall of rain following the snow
storm of the week—the wind being fresh from the south-
eut. Tke thaw having set in, the roads in all parts of the
town arc in an almost impassable state, from the dissolving

snow. The movements of the trains, and, is fact,
every conveyance, remain uncertain, and much irregularity
in still observable in the ' ale and departures of the
trains, mail and otherwise.

OF THE FROST.

AN OXFORD PRIACREZ SNOWED-BP.—The Rev. G.
W. Brameld, MA., of Lincoln College, Vicar of Eut
Markham with West Drayton, Nottinghamshire, was ap-
pointed to preach before the University yesterday, being
Epiphany, but he telegraphed to apprise the Vice-Chancel-
lor that he could not come, in coasequence of the railway
being blocked up with the snow. In oossequence of this,
the Rev. W. Thomson, of Queen's College, officiated for
him.—Oxford Journal.

A CULOUS AND LAIICHWILD INCIDENT ii described
by the Leicester Chronicle as having occurred at the rail.
way-station of that town. The arrival of a train was
announced, and the station-muter went out to receive it,
and collect the tickets from the passengers. Four or five
engines came puffing and panting into the station, as
though they had a mighty load behind. The station-
muter observed only the engines and no carriages, which
led him to ask where the passengers were. The drivers
now for the first time discovered that they had not brought
say paseengege or carriages, but assured the station-muter
that the train was all right when they left Syston. The train
had been due 12 hours, and the great number of engines

was rendered necemary from the state of the rails, conse-
quent oa the heavy falls of snow. It passed Syston station
in proper order, but on its reaching the Thurmuton cut-
ting, the pusenger carriages became detached from the
engines, and were left behind. The engines went onward,
and strange to relate, the driven were unconscious of what
had taken place, until they steamed into Leicester station.
The engines went back to find the lost carriage., and
shortly returned with them in safety.
tarnitAl. PIIIBO/111 FitOZIX TO DIATIL—LItit week it

was our vault' duty to reeled the death from exposure of a
a poor sailor who, in a state of inebriation, lay down is
Orahaniston one night and was found next morning frozen to
death. Already we have to record another melancholy ease of
the same kind. Theviotim is a poor man, a stranger to the
district, name unknown. He had been lately employed in
a quarry at Armada's, between Bathgate and Avonbridge.
On the night of Friday last he wu seen staggering about
evidently intoxicated, in the vicinity of a stockyard at the
back of the house of Mr, Shaw, baker, Avonbridge. Next
morning be was found lying against a stack, quite dead.
He is thought to have been about 30 years of age.—Olargow
Daily bequest was held at Little Weldon, on
Thursday, Dec. TO, before W. Marshall, Roe., coroner, on
the body of George Loceday, aged 46, who, on the previous
mewl g, before daybreak, was found dead by the road side
a short distends from the place. His body was frcsen to the
ground, and was with difficulty removed. Verdict, "Died
he mesequesse of urea/0 to the inclemency of the weather."
—Northampton Morecry.—On Monday evening, Janet
Cothran, or Gardener, a widow reading in Halcraig-
street, was carried to the Airdrie Police•oelos in a
state of insensibility from strong drink and told. On being
tabula the office she was put into one of the coUs. Some
thew after, on her appearing in a dying coodition, she was
bre•ght from the cell to a fire, and a medical gentleman
seat for. Before the doctor arrived she bad breathed her
last. From appousszeo the medical attendant gave it as
his opinion that the poor woman had died born the effects
of drink sad cold. On the same day an old man named
William Russell, a puddler at Ofirtnees, had been enjoying
his cups freely at Clupelhall. Oa his way home be laid
himself down by the roadside to sleep. Being found some
time after lying exposed to the cold, he was carried to the
house of one O'Neal, where he died almost immediately
after being brought into the house.—North British Daily
Mau.

RASLWAT Brachia Adseresser states that
the snow covered the whole valley of Strathmore to
a nmaiderable depth. On the line of the Aberdeen Railway
it kyle such quantities ae effectually to interrupt all tater-
course to the north of Laarenceltirk, where successive
trains trees the south have been obliged to deposit their
pensegees, eatesly to the entire occupetion of all the avail-
able eaemmlatke, but to the consunipt of all the provi-
sions la thee twos ; se that the bekere of the place had, on
alseir lmt, to pet *de seem in requilitioa to provide
bead art Iltesleaapakdd elmeert._ Still farther to increase
the perplexity dee railway a monster-train from
earieliag of thirty liarriaxes, containing upwards
?flirg; parmagera arrived at Bridge of Dun Station on
Saturday sight, on ifs way to Aberdeen, not lees to the
consternation et the travellers themselves than to the
statics-master, who, aware of the obstruction to the north-
ward, and the impossibility of obtaining accommodation
further on the line, found himself thus unexpectedly called
upon to provide quarters for such a multitude. The whole
company, with the exception of about 160, who proceeded
to Beech* were seat on to Months'''. where they arrived
about nine o'clock. Seth as could sought accommodation
in the verities inns, while the lea fortunatelad to content
themselves with a bivouac in the Guildhall, which war
kindly appropriated to their use. Os Monday a large
meeting was held in the same place to consult as to future
proceedings, when it was resolved to despatch an explo-
ratory party of 300 or 400, with 'spade and pickaxe armed,'
to endeavour to effect a north-east passage to the Granite
City.
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TRI WIATRZZ AND )ms WoLvas.—The ',verity of
the weather ham rendered the wolves very daring in their
attacks, pardenlarly in the Moselle. On Tuesday morning
Instose a man au horwbsek war entering one of the gates
of Meta, he was assailed by one of these animals, which
:Caat the horses chest, bat fortunately the man war
w beat it of with the buttond of his whip. Os the
following day a cow, is field aloes to the Maar, of St.
Julien, was punned by three widen, bet escaped: As
inhabitaat of Lorry, while at work in a geld new the vil-
lage, saddest y saw three very large wolves adeand
towards him, bat he wee able to obtain dunes in a shed
Wien they Nubia his.

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