The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-17 00:00:00

.1 heavy fall of snow has taken place since yester-
day morning between Ashford and Dover—the effects of
which have linen most f.•lt near Shorncliffe. At the hit-
place tb' snow lies more than a foot deep, and
the railway traffic Isgweet: that point and Dover is
There have been no trains from London to hover
since ycsti•rday morning .isliford being the farthest sta-
tion to which the South Eastern Company could
di TA, h the trains. The railway authorities have
tim.l..)el a II It mber of soldiers from the camp
at slim nvl.ire, others to clear the snow from the lines,
but :t removed than the wind drifts it back.
A tult.grapit received at the Cannon-street terminus this
(tom the company's engineer, states that it is
Out liko ly the traffic will be resumed to-day.

;kERIf,I rm ILWAY COLLISI(N AT GUILDFORD.
(THIS DAY.)

IFA. very serimis collishin is reported to have
c.cciirr,d this ne.rning near the Guildford railway station,
which h., ic•illted in injury to a number of pusengers.
Acconhiut to the brief particulars that as yet have been
receive.' in town, it appears that a South Eastern train.
dur. to I,,iidon, Mal ru❑ into by a train of the South
Wt,tcrn rompany. The shock is described to have been
very mover,. mol sever4l injured passengers were left be-
hind at

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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Leith
Ardroinan 29 30 23 N : 3 3 N.E.
Greencastle 23 24 W.S. W. 1 2 3 K N.E.
Cape Clear 23 3S 27 N.E. :414 I N.E.
Liverpool 29 N. N.B. ; 1 1 N.N.E.
Holyhead
01.74 30 N.N W. 2 4 : N.E
Brest
Loe,,at ; ; :3 27. N. 1 3 3 N.W.
Baebetoti . 2.1
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Plymouth
Weymouth 23.71 27 N. 3 4 N. N.E.
Portsmouth 2l, G 4 .27 N. N. E. 4 0 N. E.
Landon 27 N. 4 7 N.
Yarmouth 2l 11 N.N. E. 110 EN. E.
Scarborough 29.6.; 32 N. F:. 7 e E. N.E.
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REMARKS.
Barometric pressure has MA:hauled considerably over the
British Isles. Teiola•ratures generally have changed hut little.
Yesterday it st gale from the eastward on the east C0a1.4. of
England. and the winds are still very strong there and the sea
high. on Maur northern coasts the winds are light and variable,
and .ot our west coasts chiefly northerly, light to
rinslenite. A large amount of snow nag again fallen at
Yarmouth.

AIVI !PENT To LORD LEIGH.—Last Thursday
afternoon Lord Leigh, the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwick-
shire, met with an accident whilst hunting with the South
Warwickshire bounds on the Stoneleigh estate. In leaping
a high and broad ,Itiickset hedge, his lordship was thrown
from his borne and fell heavily to the ground. The horse
entangled its feet in the reins, and in struggling placed
one of his hoofs upon the back of his lordship's head, but
fortunately he escaped without sustaining any serious
injury, although he was severely shaken by the fall.
Winvvatcrsh.r, Chronick.

THE itEf ;IINTs:I:A. CALAMITY.-110W A
FATHMt Axo Two CmiLlittEx WENS SAVEtt.—Mr. J.
Bunton, of Frederick-street, Hampstead-road, writes to
a contemporary :—" As some wonder has been expressed
at my two little ones being saved from the shocking
calamity in Regent's-park, perhaps my account of the
accident may interest your readers. I was just making
my way to shore, holding them by the hand, when the
lee broke. One of them was a little girl 7 years of age,
and the other to boy of 11. We were then about 70
yards from the hank. Without a second's warning, the ice
seemed to glide from under us, leaving us in water quite
b feet deep. The two little ones sank to the bottom,
but rose again directly. I made a grasp at each of them,
and was tattle to seize them by the shoulders, at the same
time holding on to the ico with my left hand. When I
lad them thus far safe I had time to look round.
Such a sight I hope never to see again. Quite 110 per-
sons were struggling for life. Heads and arms were to
he seen all around amongst the broken masses of ice.
Two yards from me a little boy was drowning, and I
could not render him any help ; presently nothing but
his cap was visible above water. He floated in this way
for some time.. I stood in this position for nearly half an
hour, tanking down in the mud deeper every minute, until
the water re ached my chin. I held my children as high
as possible above water until I felt my legs being cramped
with the cold. I said to the eldest, "Is there any help
coming, Feet? Wave my walking-stick, for lam sinking
down in the loud." Presently the boy said, " Father, a
man is swimming to us, and we shall be saved." On
looking round I taw a brave young fellow lunging
ro thugh the toward me. The youngest chill would
not let go her hold of me at first ; but ultimately I got
her on thin young Man's bee:. Ho swam off with her to
• boat that was now making its way towards us. When
the boat came near enough I helped the boy in, and
seized the side of the skiff, fearing if I got in that it
might go over with me. I hell on in this manner till we
got to the han'n. Numbers of them had sunk out of
eight long before. In tendering my grateful thanks to
those per.ons who rendered ire assistance, I do not in-
clude that one of the Royal Humane Society's men who,
although provided with a rope and corks, refused to
attempt our resale, declaring. in answer to the appeals
that were ends to him, that 'he could do no good for its.'"
FROM TtIF: Tor tip THE COL Dr CZANT.—Under
an unclouded sky of deep Italian blue, in range over range,
an Alpine world of snowy peaks, precipices, and glaciers
Close beside us was Mont Blanc, still tower-
ing four thousand six hundred feet above us, anal with
hattresses of .latk, bare rock ou the south—altogether
different hoe the northern snowy aspect, from which he
derives hi. 1131111 e. Here, as seen from the Col, he rises
precipitously from the valley. and seems especially de-
sering of bin title of " monarch." On the south we have
the finest :I,most perpendicular view of the alpine world,
ORCepting—a4 SUIIIIIOIOO we must—that one fearful look
down from the summit of the Wetterhorn to the green
stores of the Grindetwalit, so well described by Mr.
Wilk Here we gaze from the snow-field of the Col, eight
thoeund feet down to green slopes and the hamlets about
Coantive:,r. and so steep in the declivity that we see
nothing of the ridges and precipices by which we must
descend int,, the valley. It seems. exactly as other Alpine
climbers have observed here, as if you might cast a stone
'loan upon the church at Courmayeur. At this filet look
down I had some misgivings respecting the practicability
of a tale descent, especially as I remembered that it was
owl thin declivity of the Courmayeur side that three
ba;lish travellers, with one of their guides, went down
is an avalattelle of the snow to which they trusted them-
mken. " Reel; to the rocks !" is the one safe rule in de-
fecating on this side, though you may be tempted by
fatigue to take a shorter and more rapid passage by way
mf glissade on the snow. If it elide away, remember,
litre is no re.t for you till you reach the green slopes so
f•r below, on the rooks, though fearfully steep, there
" 1,0 real danger while we were tied together ; but so
P, it wan the necessity of caution, that the descent passed
in these few lines occupied, in fact, five hours.—
etre,ne fur January.