The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

THE WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT.

. The Seine at Paris is daily crowded with
ekaiters, among whom some females display their dexterity.
In the country parts of France The flocks and
herds are dying in great numbers, in consequence of the
extreme cold and the want of water. Largu trees split,
and birds fell dead in the fields.

At Florence the thermometer has fallen to five
degrees belew zero since the 21st of December. The
Arno has been choked frill of ice, and it is said that at
Bologna the river is entirely frozen over—an event which
has not happened within the memory of man.
Accounts received from various parts of Fratice
and Spain concur in representing the severity of the wea-
ther as intense. Many individuals have lost their lives;
communications are interrupted, and in some departments
the wolves have been driven from their fastnesses.
On the 29th ult. a heavy fall of snow took
place at Naples, and the
ground was covered to some depth.
I.Vith the exception of a' little which fell about the sametime last year, a similar occurrence has not taken place in
that city for twenty years.
The postillion of a diligence from Toulon to
Marseilles, was so severely frozen, that he died soon after
he reached his destination. Three soldiers, in a state of
intoxication, being unable to find their barracks, upon
quitting a wine-shep, were frozen to death in the street.
A peasant was found lifeless near the Botanical Gardens,
and a Cnstorn-house officer perished at his post in the night.
A letter front Montrejean, in the Department
of the Upper Garonne, announces that several persons in
that neighbourhood have died through cold, and others
have had their limbs frozen. In many places the mills
are unable to work. So furious are the wolves, that they
descend into the towns and villages to seek for prey. A
servant in the vicinity has been devoured by them, and
several persons, who escaped with their lives, are dread-
fully mangled.

The Pyrenees have been for some time
im-
passable by carriages of every kind, owing to the frost,
and the mails are conveyed by men on foot or on horse-
back. At Cadiz they have had three degrees of frost by
Reaustua's scale, equal to 25k of FAIMENIIIIT. Such
a circuinstance had not occurred within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant. Frost is so unusual at Cadiz, that
even ice has not been seen since the year 1793, a period of
37 years.
The severity of the cold in the southern parts
of• Europe is far greater than any which we experience in
this country. At Turin, on the 11th inst., REAuxua's
thermometer was at 14 degrees below zero (or about the
tern of FARAINIMIT), and many persons have perished.
The passes into Savoy are 40 feet deep in snow, and all
the rivers and lakes are frozen. At Florence and Milan
the cold is (to use the expression of a French Journal)
atroce. Even the rapid Rhone is frozen into " mountains
of ice," designated as uxe belle horreur. The Seine at
Rouen is so thickly covered with ice that a fair is daily
held vin it, and is attended by hundreds of people. The
setae is said to he one of great gaiety.

Mr. HusictssoN has left town, on a visit to
Earl COVF-PERj' at Pensanger, Herts.

The retirement of our Recorder. Mr. Baron
itoi.LArin, was formally announeed by our active and in-
telligent Chief Magistrate. In communicating the fact
to the Grand Jury, his Worship pained a feeling and well-
' delerved eulogy on the Valuable services which, for so many
years, the Learned Judge rendered to the Borough, as its
Chief Law Officer.—Reading Paper.

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DUBLIN, JAN. 20.—At last we have it
openly declared at this hitherto innocuous Association,
" the Society for the Improvement of Ireland," that the
repeal of the Union is the only measure to tranquillize
Ireland finally, and that it can be done by the old means of
agitation. The people are in a state of wretchedness from
" Carrickfergus to Cape Clear," both manufacturers and
agrictilturists, and they will gladly seize upon any measure
Of agitation that will afford them even a transiert hope of
'relief. -The fag-end of the faction congregate around
tYciitstsimr. aml his new Parliamentary Intelligence
Office,'"from whence henceforward all schemes and pro-
thimationsare to issue.—Morning Herald.
The smallpox, for three months past, has
prevailed in this town amongst admits as well as children,
and in several instances death has ensued from the virulent
nature of the disease.—Stockport Advertiser.
Demerara Papers to the 14th of November,
have been received at the North and South American
" Coffee-house. The only local circumstance worthy of any
notice to which they refer, relates to the establishment of
e• • new Court at Berbice for the protection of the slaves.
thts Court, The latter are allowed to sue white and black debtors in
is anal,
and the decision of the presiding Magistrate

N m!Plendid ball was given on the 26th of
of thew"e" at Tiflis, to celebrate the harpy termination
the with the Porte. It is worthy of remark that
pre-
sent; and liaughters of many of the citizens were pre-
; a circumstance which has not before taken place at
Tiflis during- the thirty years which it has been occupied
by the Russians.
PUBLIC MEETING OF FARMERS, I&C. AT
iu,}(CAsrEn.—On Saturday last, a very numerous and
"ighly respectable Meeting of Farmers and others in-
vested in the prosperity of agriculture, was held at the
Town Hall, in Doncaster, in order to consider the present
distressed state of the country, and to take such measures
thereon as may be deemed expedient. After some discus-
°i°n, a petition on the subject, imploring the assistance of
it%,"ernment• was ordered to be presented by the county
~,ernbers.—Doncaster Gazette.
CROMFOIID AND HIGH PEAK RAILWAY.
----This great work, which crosses the hills of Derbyshire,
td will make a communication between Manchester and
he districts of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, is 33
°lilac long, has 52 bridges and archway's, and two tunnels,
"d has been carried over an elevation of 1,270 feet above
qtile level of the sea. It has cost 180,000/., including en-
ces and machinery, and will be opened for general trade
it summer.—,Stockport Advertiser.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—A very able pros-
freettl, of the intended bridge is ready for circulation. We
• *""re it is intended that the bridge shall cross the river
ro
°ll' Clifton side, nearly in a direct line with Gloucester-
-„,_tn , to a point of a rock on the Sonaersetshire side, a little
jl7"e the flag-staff, at an altitude of 210 feet above
;0-water-mark. It is to be erected upon the principle
4,4peneion, and is after a design of Mr. TELFORD.
total expence of the work, including every incidental
......-"%tge3 is estimated not to exceed fifty thousand pounds.
--"ut/4 Herald.
10 addition to the new rord in progress of
b,Nation between 13ridport and Ilminster, and the im-
ip.'"ernents which have been made on the road leading
f'"l Dorchester to Crewkerne, a new road is now being
°rnied between Crewkerne and Langport, which will be
erred by Lady-day next, by which means an easy !torn-
will be opened between Dorset and the most
phioun district of Somersetshire. This road will lead
t,Pal Crewkerne, through Mrriutt, Lopez Head, Compton
arville, Kingsbury, Episcopi, slochelney, and across the
ier Parrett, over a handsome stone bridge, which is now
"
~ course of erection, to within a quarter of a mile of the
Polon, and trading town of Langport, where it will join
the
new road which has been completed front that place
'4ltidgewiOtbse,,Exetev Pose,