The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

A rapid thaw, with a sonth-westerly wind, was hailed
by thousands of the industrious classes in the metropolis
last Saturday morning. Labourers were at once set to
work to demolish the ice in the basins of the several
docks in the Thames in order, if possible, to get the
ships clear. The break up of the ice in the river, where
it is fast above bridge, and in the various creeks, is much
dreaded along the shores. All the shipping have ladled
in from the centre of the river, close in to shore, and
will in a great measure avoid the masses that will be
carried down. A considttrable quantity of the snow and
ice which had acountulated in the thoroughfares has dis-
appeared within' the last forty-eight hours. On Satur-
day night rain fell for two or three hours, and again last
night, about nine o'clock. The subjoined correspondence
shows that the, thaw is gerveral, and the relief which it
will give to hundreds of thousands of labourers and arti-
sans, upon whom the frost .had enforced idleness, may be
regarded as a national benefit.
MANCHESTER, SIINDAI.- —The long frost began to
break up at Manchester on Friday night under the influ-
ence of a westerly wind, Which continued the whole of
Saturday. On Saturday evening there was a fall of
snow, followed by moder ately heavy rain for some hours,
but this morning the wind had veered round to the east,
with a heavy fog.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The severe weather has
been entirely broken up ;s:t Southampton. Large quan-
tities of rain fell here on ,iatartlay night. All the snow
and a great portion of tote ice hare disappeared. To-day
the wind is south-west.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. - --The unusually severe weather
with which we have bet ni visited during the last fort-
night, in some degree m• o derated yesterday. The wind
suddenly shifted to the noutb, and a rapid thaw of the
large masses of snow f allowed, which continued until
about five o'clock in the, afternoon, when a heavy fall of
sleet and rain took place,. Later there was another fall
of snow, covering the ground to the depth of several
inches ; but in a brief p, ;ri od the influence of the atmos-
phere, which acted mildly„ soon reduced it. The weather
here may now be said to be broken.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY EVENING.—A de-
cided thaw has set in, N.. rith rain, and the snow is gradu-
ally disappearing. The mayor has issued a notice pro-
hibiting persona from c rot .sing the Tyno on the ice—a
practice which has beco me dangerous.
LEEDS, FEB. 24.—A change of wind to south-west
took place this morning. :accompanied by a mild breeze
and a rapid thaw, which: in a few hours carried away
the snow.

DUBLIN, FEB. 24.—Ti v ) thaw has returned this morn-
ing, with a prospect of finally predominating. As an
instance of the late sevc ity of the weather, it is stated
that the famished sea-bi Is accepted food from persons
standing at the Liffey tall, in the same way as the
tame water-fowl in the p ind of St. James's-park.

PARIS, SATURDAY.—T h e thaw has continued all day
yesterday at Paris and in the neighbourhood. The
roads all round the cap i tal are in a dreadful state,
and the communicatioi u ; will be for some days
very difficult. Most of the principal thoroughfares
of Paris have seen tolerabl y well cleared of the snow,
but the state of the striall. er streets is terrible, from the
mixture of melted snow aat d mud. The thermometer re-
mains several degrees ab oye freezing point. For three
days, previous to the corn in encement of the thaw, the port
of Calais presented a curiio us spectacle, such as has not
been seen for the last 8 0 years. The severe cold had
frozen the entrance of tit( port, and the north-easterly
winds which have pre- r .ilcd since the frost set in
drove an immense quant it yof ice on the beach. The
force of the waves each y carried up and left at high
water mark large masses 43 f ice, some of them weighing
at least 6,000 kilog. A ir umber of persons have come
in from the country to Calais on purpose to see this
curious phenomenon.

ELECTION I .NTELLIGENCE.

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CARDIGANSI I IRE BOROUGHS.
Tho nomination came ioff very quiet on Thursday ;
indeed, the appointment e 0 the day was only known to a
few, there being no noticts given of it in any of the local
newspapers. The candid: rtes were Mr. John Lloyd
Davies, on the Conserv3l Ave side, and Mr. J. EV:1114,
Q.C., and late member for Haverfordwest, in the Libeial
interest. The election tc,c k place at Cardigan.
The show of hands ova s in favour of Mr. Davies, and
a poll was demanded for k tr. Evans.

CLOSE OF This POLL.—FRIDAY.
Lloyd Davies
Evans

Majority 14 )1 Davies
By this election avo )is gained to the Conservative
party, Mr. Pryse Lovt Iclen, the late member, having
been a Liberal.