The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-21 00:00:00

GREAT SNOW STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE.

The recent severe weather, which has continued
for nearly a week with all the intensity of an extremely
cold winter, has not been equalled, at least in this country,
for many years. The wind still prevails from the piercing
quarter of N.N.E., and there is every indication of the
frost continuing with increased severity. In the course of
Saturday seaman were received at the General Post-efice,
St. Mertiree-10-firand, of a very heavy fall of snow having
taken place on Thursday evening and Friday naming in
almost all parts of the country, which rendered assay of the
important lines of railway perfectly impassable. The mail
trains were blocked up, and in several instances they were
sot extricated for 12 or more hours, and even then the
bags had to be conveyed by cross-roads to their dead-
! nation. Scarcely a county seems to have escaped the storm,
and in places where the snow has drifted its depth
is enormous, such as cuttings and crass-roads,
to the extent of some twenty feet. In the nor-
thern distrien the storm was accompanied b,
thunder and lightning, while the aurora borealis
shone luminously in the heavens, all prognosticating more
severs weather. The fall on Thursday visited the counties
bordering on the eastern anti northern coast to such an
extent as to any au obstruction to all traffic. Stretching
from Essex through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, York-
shire, Durham, Nerthuniberland, tin, the snow came down
in a general mass. Communications with villages were cut
off, and much mischief arose. In the vicinity of Nor inch,
the fall was very considerable ; and snow lay in the streets
several feet in depth, sod the mail train, which should
have reached that city from London at hiff-past two on
Friday wining, did not arrive until late in the afternoon,
more than twelve hems behind its time. It appears that
the snow drifted en the Itestern Counties line, in the neigh-
b,nrhmed et Itteidell. to • great depth. After numer-
ous earls to met drag the engine was brought to a ems-
ellte Niel.ln athe fraliseso being embedded almost half their
eight drift. la this position the train could not
pressed for many hours. Gangs of navigators were pro-
cured se mos as possible to cut a paring and it was only
after tits above detention that the mail coshd_psosevo. The
inhabited. of ha eesatsy sare is s most dimemiss Nu-
clides. The le several midi swag lest of mow,
which chesstho trades to dr Isola sae, nadirs an
attempt ht Smut very clansman& A respectable baker,
named Gawp Lamb, living at Whittlesey, lost his life in
that way. Me mime& his rood, and fell into • river with
his horse and met, and was drowsed. Several vessels were
lat off Wisteme daring she snow storm. They were
unable to distinguish the lessigs, and went ashore and
were wrecked.

Throughout Lincolnshire awl flu extending into the
Midland Counties, the snow appears to have fallen heavily,
and as in other parts, the railways and cross roads were for
• time impassable. Further taeerwaai the fall mans to
lave best more severe, and ell semesaniestion with York
by swans of its various railways was discovered on Friday
morning to be blocked up by hap drifting' of snow. The
mail train, which should leave that oily for London at two,
did net get away until eight o'clock, and even then could
stake but small progress. Numerous gangs of men were
employed is dewing the lines, and much inconvenience
was occeekased to the trains.

The Hull and Scarborough line and the Market Weigh.
tea line were rendered impassable. Towards Durbin the
weather was, if anything, woree, and iaosevenience
has been esperiented in Ibis neigh /wet the
trains new Newesstle required four or Ivo eosins to get
then along. Should the frost continue the assinevens fleet
of colliers in the Lyne will be frozen in. From all parts of
the country 'atrailar accounts have been received. The in-
telligence from the French coast announces the snow to be
falling fast, and the line of railway from Calais to Boulogne
to be math obstructed.

NAVAL.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 19. APPOINTMECE.—Snr-
geon Thomas H. Keowin, to Winchester.
PORTSMOUTH, Fin. 20.—The Monkey steam-
vessel arrived yesterday from the River Thames with the
luggage, &e., of Vice-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, woman-
der-in-thief at this poet. The gallant admiral is not ex-
pected to permanently take the command here before the
13th proximo, although he will in the meantime pay a visit
for aft w days to the dockyetd. The Monkey having dis-
charged her cargo, returned to the eastward again in the
afternoon. The Sprightly steam-vessel, Master G. Allen,
returned to this port from Plymouth to-day.
DEVESPORT, Ftn. 20.—The Sampareil, 84, screw-
steamer, is expected here daily from Lisbon, to have her
masts taken out and replaced by those of a first-class. She
is considered overquasted at present. The Argus, COM-
mender R. Purvis, which returned from Qeenstown on
Thursday, has come into harbour to replenish fuel. The
Sybelle, convict-ship, is under orders fur Western Australia
with convicts. Forty convicts from the Dartmoor prisons,
were put on board of her on Thursday. The Sprightly,
steam-tender at Portsmouth, Master Commander Q. Allan,
arrived here yesterday with supernumeraries from Ports.
mouth. The Queen, Capt. F. T. Michell, now in the
Sound, will be paid wages on Thursday next, when the
crew will be allowed the usual leave. The preparations for
the launch of the St. Jean d'Acre are in a very forward
state, and will be all complete long before the 23rd of March
—the day named for the 'Attach.

LOSS OF LIFE ON THE NORTH WESTERN BAlL-
way.—On Saturday morning, at an early hour, an acci-
dent of a moat frightful character took place on the line of
the London and North Western Railway. About eight
o'clock two labouring men were proceeding to work, and
while passing through the Kilburn tunnel they heard the
noise of an engine approaching them, but could nut tell
I which way or en which line. They both accordingly laid
down between the rails, thinking the engines would pass
over them ; but the fender under the engine, which was
very low, struck both of them, end dragged one of them a
considerable di-tance. The driver stopped the engine with
all possible speed and dragged one of the poor fellows in •
shocking condition from nutlet the tender. One leg was cum
pletely cut otf, and other parts of his body were dread-
fully mutilated. A search was then made, when the other
man was discovered some distance down the line in en in
sensible state, with the scalp torn from his head, which was
dreadfully mutilated. Both the injured men were con-
veyed to the nearest surgeon's, but one was found to tie
quite dead, and the otherwise in such a condition that nu
hopes were entertained of his recovery. It was reported
yesterday evening that the other poor fellow had expired.
ROYAL COLLEGE Ot• SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
fir the diploma were admitted members of the college,
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the Itith inst.
—Meters. David Jones Roberts, Ulantowy, Carmarthen-
shire ; Alfred Jiaeph Ilumbley Banks, Australia ; Boehm%
Joseph Burke, Dublin; Thomas Sheehy, Limeriek ;
Thomas Fernandez Claim. Canard-street, Soho ; Thomas
Matthy, Shelton, Notts; Charles Moore Jessup, Berton,
York ; Wiliam Ponsonby Jane Llewellyn, Neagnay.
Cornwall; William Hewitt, Liverpool ; Henry Atkin,,
Southampton; George son Lich*, lion. East India COW'
pany's service; Samuel Jacob, Australia; sod John I%iel-
- Barnes, Bath.