The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-19 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC WEATHER INFORMATION.

The following communication has been for-
warded to us for publication :
Board of Trade, Nov. 30.
Sir,—l am directed by the Board of Trade to acquaint
you, that they have been informed by the Meteorological
Committee appointed by the Royal Society, that that
commitee are now prepared to issue, free of cat, to porta
or fishing stations which are accessible by telegraph
notice of serious atmospherical disturbance on the coasts
or in the vicinity of the British Island.. The conditions
on which these notices will be issued are as follows, '
viz. :—They will be forwarded in each case as soon as
information of the atmospherical disturbance shall
have been received at the Meteorological-office, and the
ports or fishing stations to which they are to
be sent will be determined by the Board of Trade. When
the list of places to which notices may be sent has been
determined by the Board of Trade, it will rest with the
Meteorological Committee, in each case of atmospheric dia.
to:banes, to send notices to all or any of those places as
the circumstances of the particular case may appear to the
Meteorological-office to be advisable. When a telegraphic
notice of atmospherical disturbance is received at one of
the places named on the Board of Trade list, its receipt is
to be made public by hoisting one of the late Admiral
Fitzroy's drums, and the dram is to remain hoisted for 36
hours after the receipt of the telegraph message containing
the notion. Os* tolatraphio notice implies that the drum
is to remain hoisted for 36 hours, and no longer.
Should the Meteorological Committee think it necessary
that a drum should remain hoisted for more than 36 hours
in any case, they will send messages to that effect, and
continue them iron, day to day so long es it appears dash.•
able, or until the storm shall have abated. If the autho-
rities at any port or fishing station wish to receive intel-
ligence of atuiapherical disturbances, and will undertake
to hoist the drum, subject to the conditions named, and
subject to such regulations or directions as may from time
to time be issued by the Meteorological-offiee, an applica-
tion should be addressed to the secretary to the Me-
teorological Comm ittee,2, Parliament-street, Westminster,
S.W.. in order that the necessary steps may be taken
to place the name of the station on the Board
of Trade list, and to provide the flagstaff and drum.
It is to be understood that where the place or station ran
pay for a flagstaff and drum they will be expected to do so,
if a staff and drum are not already provided ; and that
whefe it is made to appear to the Board of Trade that no
eta cod drum are provided, and that the place is too poor
to bear the expense, then the coat will be defrayed by the
Meteorological-office, with the sanction of the Board of
Trade. But in all cases, whether the first cost of the flag-
staff and drum are or are not borne by the local authoii.
ties, the local authorities most undertake to bear all sub-
sequent charges connected with the hoisting of the signal,
and the maintenance of the signal apparatus. The only
subsequent expense that will be defrayed by the Meteor°.
logical-office will be the charge for transmission of the
notices of atmospherical disturbances. —I am, sir, your
obedient servant, T. H. FAHBAJI.

THE ALLEGED MURDER BY GAROTYING. —The
Inquiry relative to the death of Mr. Thomas Ohrun, lied 48
years, the chief oil 000 per of the St. Katharine's docks,
who died from serious injuries received in the streets on
the 3rd instant, was resumed last evening by Mr. Richards,
deputy coroner, at the Fountain tavern,Stacey-etreet, Mile-
end, and lasted several hours. The jury returned a verdict
" That the deceased died from the mortal effects of frac-
ture of the ribs, but how the mid ribs were fractured there
was mot soSoisat 'videos* to prove."