The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

On Tuesday night the thermometer at the Royal Humane
Society's receiving-house fell to 20 deg. The barometer
stood at 29.51 in., and the wind was N.N.E. At 9 yester-
day morning the thermometer stood at 21 deg., and the baro-
meter was then at 2932 in., the wind being in the same
quarter as on the preceding day. As might have been cx-

petted, the lakes in the Royal parks were completely frozen
over, but the ice was exceedingly unsafe, and will remain
so unless the frost continues for a day or two longer.
Yesterday St. James's-park was visited at an early hour
by many thousands. In spite of the exertions of Deputy-
Superintendent Perry and the men under him, about 2,000
men, women, and children went upon the ice. About noon
some persons who were on the bridge began to throw half-
pence on the ice, which caused a great number to rush to
the spot in the hopes of picking up some of the coin; 12
men and boys, who had scrambled together, broke the ice
and were immersed, They were rescued by Deputy• Supe-
rintendent Perry and his assistants, and removed to the so-
ciety's marquee, where they were attended to. Fortunately
they all recovered. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon three
girls and a boy fell through the ice, and the former became
so alarmed that when the lines were thrown to them they
were unable to lay hold of them. Iceman Smith and a
park constable rushed in after them,and succeeded in saving
them, but the men got their hands badly cut by the sharp
edges of the ice. At the Long Water, Kensington-gardens,
Mr. Young having represented that the ice was very inse-
cure, the members of the club, with only one exception, re-
paired to Battersea-park,where the ice is exceedingly strong,
and there sliding and skating were well kept up. In spite
of the exertions of the police and the Royal Humane
Society's men, men, women, and children rushed upon
the ice in crowds. The result was that at about a quarter-
past three o'clock four men and a woman fell into deep
water. They were, however, all rescued by the icemen.
About five o'clock four boys and a young woman also
fell through the ice, but they were also rescued. A Mr. Joy,
who was trying to save a Mr. Shute, of Albert-gate, and
some others, also had a narrow escape from being drowned.
In Regent's Park there were, owing to the exertions of the
Royal Humane Society's men and the park constables, only
six immersions out of 6,000 sliders and skaters.

On Monday Admiral Fitzroy telegraphed to the north as

to other parts of the coast that dangerous winds might be
expected, and, though the wind has been mild upon the
coasts of Northumberland and Durham, it was quite clear
from the heavy sea that rolled in upon the shore on Monday
night and Tuesday that rough weather had been experienced
further out in the German Ocean. On Monday night after
dark, as the Norwegian bark San Francisco was towing into
the Tyne, she struck upon the Hard Sand, having attempted
to take the harbour after the harbour lights were extin-
guished. The crew of this vessel were rescued by the
Tyne pilots with their lifeboat. The heavy sea has com-
pletely broken the vessel up, and portions of her wreck
drove into Shields harbour on Tuesday. The snow is lying
several inches thick upon the Northumberland coast, bu
there appears to have been not quite so severe a fall of sn,
in the hill districts. The weather was very cold on Tues
day, and on that evening there was not much appearance o
a thaw in the country.

At Nottingham the weather has been very winterly
during the past five days. A keen frost set in on Frilay
evening last, which continued up to yesterday. On Tues-
day evening, however, the frost was less severe, and the
barometer lowering. There was a slight fall of snow on
Sunday and again on Tuesday, with the wind E. by N.E.

With reference to the weather in Scotland the Scotsman
says :—" Although the frost yesterday was hardly so keen
as it has been for the past few days, all the lochs near
Edinburgh were visited by large numbers of skaters. The
ice was no stronger than it was on Monday, and the
number of immersions in Duddingaton was much larger,
no fewer than 16 persons, including four women and a
policeman, having gone down. The unfortunate skaters
were rescued by means of ropes and ladders, but seve-
ral of them had a very narrow escape, going down in
places of considerable depth. The policeman who went
down was very gallantly endeavouring to rescue a young
woman when the ice gave way with him. He was soon after
rescued, and escaped with no more serious mishap that the
loss of his hat. A young lady was skating in the centre and
deepest part of Lochend, in company with two gentlemen,
when the ice broke and all three went down. The gentle-
men managed to scramble out, and the lady, who was left
in the hole, was buoyed up by her crinoline. She was ulti-
mately rescued from her perilous position by means of ropes.
The thermometer rose considerably last evening, but about
midnight it showed about four degrees of frost."

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