The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND TIE PARKS.

The (root having again set in with gnat erverit ,
the we epos the melw. onamested waters in the
hen again eheMed, sot 'sly the gelidity it hid
week, het s myth Ins" and sinsellem aortae. am it me-
witiedy peesemed. The ismesgmesse was that many thousand
✓enom, imindisg ladies and gentlemen. niembeis of the
=oh dedieportod themselves alining last evening. The
lateetion was to have load a zreinl monster fair
span the Smpestine in Hyde-park. This to some extent
wee alamdaned, in cussomeme of the rapid thaw that
bated far Imo day. ; neverthelem no immense number of
emeasement lista and maimeam were pitched opus the ise,
which were seed fur dancing. There were likewise a great
number of refreshment tank, for the 4eCUll.ermlation of the
sliders sod !dieters The spirit of the fair, however, did
sot fairly coninwince untd 9 o'clock at night, when at that
time an extraordinary spostecle took place. Upwards of
41.300 persons, zany with lighted links end on skate., took
up thew positions at the out mad, and formed themselves
into processionti being headed by a heir. bud. After
vier through several feats skatim, they turned hock to
about midway of the bridge Leading to the Albert-gate and
Y.e Royal Humane Society's receivinghouse, when
pomp 'military mameuvres were gone through in
tie- shape of attack and defence. The first per-
formance wee a ilia-barge of twenty one MAME&
after which a regular cannonading commenced from the
smith side of the Serientioe, which wee carried out by
chessmen. being thrown alight across the river towards
the north shore ; the.e weee followed by a continuous
shower of rockets, Homan candles, and other smaller de-
erription of fireworks, which heated for *mend hours. The
dcfewove party kept up a similar fire. Shortly after the
atfir commenced a man named William bores, of No. fitt,
Charlwissliarert, Pimlico, was shot in the eye by one of
fireworks, awl was so seriously burned that after being
tas•,, to the roc, vim h,u.se he was removed to St. George
fi'.1441, but ha- remains in a state of greet suffering.
Several femoke were al.o injured whilst skating sal sliding
im the ice, by the fireworks exploding as they pared over
the ice; and, acs .niort., elm Mr. Deputy Superinteadent
Marphy saw, ascend female. had lighter( fireworks pieced
aster their cloth.og as tliev slid along the i.e. A
women wee brought t., the receieio_ choose with a dislocated
wrist mil oth... iejnries from faille' on the ice, but she
we. in loch agony that she was usable to answer any quo •
terser to tell bee same or where she resided. She wee ale.
Meets to M. George's Hospiml. Not (met than eleven
l.rs.a were Whir to the receivinglioure with rerMus
ent heeds, by telling upon the irk or by being tripped lap
by the skaters.
The thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's Receiv.
i,g-beans is Ibis park during Sunday night steedat •-ti deg.,
be rig 6 deg. al foot At nine o'clock vestenlay morning
the mercury rose to IS, being 4 Mg. below freesina Pont
Ac 2000 the glom stood ea therms pont, as waa the came
at 4 o'clock lart sight. The barometer indicated D. 76.
T'ae wind was mats the weather rather hazy, and the ire
win clorribed at slater hour as being very dangerous where
the tinworks were bang discharged.
The other parks were well &deeded, and no accidents of
a serious nature baptism&

Ss 74, 111 esallBtrp tATILD. —The Bimsi,.gMtrePost
reposes eerio.o. valaiss astaitrophs. It appears that on
'Yamada) ni.rht the wan eningsd at the Bles Pit. Wyriev-
IMOISSICW. in the pari.h Vey Hay, went down to work,
eel .monge the number were four, named JAMB Cooper.
•4141 2.; ; Th.mw i.r.41.15.1i. 37 ; John Cooper, 30 ; sod
Charlet Coledr.lte. 41 ; together with two hori. named
F.m.inuel Millington. 14 ; and Levi Chaddick. 11. From
acme cause at present nem planed • qmatity of smoke from
.51joinias pit /o.3nd tut way into that rart of th.- pit in
which the poor fellows were workin. sod on the bullies
• ,lows lb. )4 a.. tee a clock co 'redoeoLii morning.
fousd th, whole of the trivet mite tlanJ, eri.
Jentls h,,,iag hi en eamel h. • -Notation us tonaftvence
dr make from the adjeau4