The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

IRELAND.

GREAT SNOW-STORM.
DUBLIN, Feb. 10.—For the last two days we seem to
be living over again the old fashion time before railways
acid steam-packets were in vogue, so completely blocked
up have we been by the snow. Since midday yesterday
the telegraph lines have indeed been our_ sole medium
' of communication with England, and with some por-
tions of Ireland also ; the ordinary express from Holy-
head, due last night, not having arrived up to the pre-
sent hour (half past 11 a.m.), nor of course the English
mail due here this morning ; while we are fully twenty-
four hours in arrears of letters and papers from the west
and south of Ireland. The snow-storm commenced on
Thursday night,
yesterday warning,
and continued to an advanced hour
attended by a terrific gale from the
east, which drifted the snow in some localities to such a
height that in several places the highways were almost
impassable. In the suburbs the drifts were found so
deep as five or six feet. The intense cold prevented
the snow from melting, and thus rendered its removal
by carts and the cleating of the pathways the more
easy ; but this seemed to be almost the only occupa-
tion which c could be pt ri,ued out of doe's during the day,
the a ppearAtice of the city was lifeless and inisei able
in the extreme. The trains on the Northern Railway have
continued ti run, thourzli of course considerably impeded
—but on the Grat Southern and Western line there has
been an abmolute su,perision of tratlic ; and the mails
front Cork and Limerick, due yesterday morning, have
not yet been received, the down tuals, which were sent
out from Dublin yesterday morning, having, after a
fruitless attempt to proceed along the Hue, been brought
I t the
post-office. The traffic on the Midland
Rail,Aay eulfere i but little, owi.ig to the arrangements
made to clear the line.

The principal anxiety felt was for the fate of the ship-
ping, which, owing to the fury of the storm from the
east, were exposed to imminent danger on this coast.
Several painful rumours about the Dublin and Liver-
pool steamers have turned out to have been entirely un-
founded.

The weather still continues extremely severe. There
was a hard frost last night, with a continuance of the
eastern gale, but no more snow.
SATURDAY EVENING.—The news of a fatal and very
melancholy shipwreck off this coast was received in
Dublin to-day. The Will-o'-the-Wisp, a steamer, 400
tons burden, employed in the coal trade, and chartered
by an Irish railway company to convoy coals from
Maryport to Dublin, went on shore at Lambay Island
in the gale of last night, and was discovered this morn-
ing a total wreck, the accounts which reached town
stating that the captain and all hands were lost. It is
added that the masters of some coal vessels now dis-
charging cargoes in Dublin were on board, and perished
with the others.
The London morning papers of yesterday, due by the
ordinary express at 10 o'clock last night, did not reach
Dublin till a few minutes before 12 to-day, when they
were received by mail, and delivered at the same time
with last evening's London papers. The frost still con-
tinues, and the wind blows pretty freshly from the east,
but we have had no fall of snow since yesterday morning.
It is stated that every arrangement was made for Mr.
Keogh, the Solicitor-General, to go as judge on the
western circuit at the approaching assizes, and that the
commission wai actually made out for the purpose, when
it was discovered that by accepting even the temporary
trust he would vacate his seat in Parliament, and have
to stand a new election for A.thlone. The same difficulty
will exist for Mr. Serjeant O'Brien, the new member for
Limerick, who has hitherto gone circuit for one of the
absent judges.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee anti Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING. Fan. 12,

Will he preseated the new Comedietta, called TIT FOR TAT, hi
Which 3/peers. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will appear.
Followed by A LUCKY FAIRY._
After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza. entitled THE TELLOW
DWARF AND THE KING OF TIIE GOLD MINES. Characters
by Mr. F. Robooi, Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormonde, Miss
Marston, Mies Bromley, and Mrs. Fltaallan.