The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.

The frost which get in at Edinburgh on Tuesday
morning last. and attained such extreme severity at the
end of the week, continues with almost unabated intensity.
During the forenoon and afternoon of Tuesday the sky indi-
cated a change, as of a renewed snowfall, but towards even-
ing the symptoms wore off, the stars shone brightly, and
the air retained undiminished keens. On Tamar=
mg. at the Botanical Gorden', the thermometer of
Adie and Sons indicated 2i deg. above zero, while Mr. Bry-
son's marked; deg. below zero. Curling and skating are,
of course, in active operation.
A Galashiels correspondent, writing on Monday, aye:—
" The frost and snow have now obtained complete eassad-
ancy. Snow lies a foot deep on our forest hills, and in some
places sat is drifted much deeper. The intensest (pet set in
on Sunday afternoon, sod on Monday morning the ther-
mometer in the open air indicated the extraordinarily low
range of 28 dep. below (merles point. The prospect' of I
hill farmers are anything but ebsitsuag, as in several places
corn is still standing in the fields, red in some districts
further south the hay crop was never waned."
The Banfshire Journal gays :—m la the immediate dis-
trict, end all over the matey, indeed, we may my, it has
mowed more or less every day, sad the de* TWIN from
16 to 18 inches. In Baths; them was a heavy storm on
the ground so early as We&sediw, whoa these were Moat
eight inches of snow lying. It TM slate mennielated, gad
though there has not been mach driltiag„ the reads are
nearly imp/liable. The Banff red Peterhead mash did not
make its appearance on lthissigy. Frees Tariff a ewe-
mondani says :—Oar evening milk have lima "Min in
about 2 o'clock in the instead of seven at
night. Bye-roads are nearly blocked up, but as
yet there has been little blowinL else everything
would have been at a stand. In Formatting district,
the storm is nearly equally heavy. Is Bayne:, mon
snow fell on Tuesday than any at time ding the male
storm.' In some parts of Leochel-Oushein, thue is still
corn Mending in the stook. From Braga of Olenlivet we
learn, date the 21st, that it had mowed daily from Sunday,
the 16th. The sheep were beginning to be badly off. Spesal
cases of malignant sore throat had apposed, which was fast
. From Inverness, a merammidsnt, writing on
Tteallthf, says :--Snow is very deep hare. The mile from
the south have been late in arriving every day—sometimes
as late as 12 or 14 bourn after the usual time. The storm
forteth north has been less felt, and the mails from that
direction have not been later than half an hour beyond
their usual time all the week. As there has been
scarcely any drifting there has been lees obstruction,
and lees injury and loss than usual with storms of this kind.
A ease of death from exposure is reported at Nairnshire."
The Forth in the neighbourhood of Stirling hie been
frozen over with a thick covering of ice.
Writing on Monday a Perth correspondent says :—"Since
Thursday night last thefrost and rime have been very keen,
and incoming in severity op till this afternoon, with no
indications of a change. In the morning the thermometer
stood 3 deg. below zero, being nearly as low as on the 12th
and 13M hbuty list. To-day the sky was cloudless, with
bright sunshine, and the wind from the north west. The
Tay is almost completely frozen over at the tide harbour
and County-buildings. The various curling clubs in the
town and surrounding districts were engaged pas Saturday
and to-day in friendly matches on their ponds. Meanwhile,
every kind of out-door labour is suspended."
A eceripoodent, dating "Finish of Wemysa, Fifeshins,
Dee. 24," writes :—" The cold this morning has perhaps
been the moat intense ever known in this pert of the coun-
try. At 7 cm, the thermometer was at 5 deg. above zero,
but at 9 am. it was still further reduoed, being so low as
S deg. There is little wind, and the sky is clear, but the
air is very cutting. Yesterday the temperature did not
ries above 26 deg., or 6 deg under freezing point. The
"sew here last week was 16 inches deep, and not a green
loaf le ; crows and pigeon. are desperate for food.
and pay little heed to the gun. Stackyar& are infested
with them. There is a total cessation of field labour, and
thrashing and driving manure are the only means of em.
pion mg the forces of the farm."
In Kinghorn Tunnel (says a correspondent) it is calm-
Wad that the average length of the icicles will be ohs feet.
Many of them are of coandemble thickness. Oa Monday,
as the engineman of one of the trains, in its recap through
that tunnel, was leaning over the aide of his impias, he was
struck by one of the icicles, and sustained what is fared will
prove to be • very serious injury in dm head.

THE WEATHER,