The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-22 00:00:00

&PORTEN G INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST BETTING MANCHESTER.

CHESTER TRADE CUP.
9 to I agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley
12 to I agst Mr. Fairlie's Zolnab
15 to I agst Mr. Clarke's Magician
15 to 1 agst Mr. Alostyn's Birdlime
15 to 1 asst Mr. Fairlie's Abraham Newland
16 to 1 agst Mr. Houhlsworth's Combat
16 to I agst Mr. Kenyon's Ludford- • -
17 to I asst Mr. Fowler's Heron
17 to I agst Mr. Barrow's Catherina
18 to 1 agst Mr. Walters's Prime Warden
18 to I agst Mr. Price's Wentworth
20 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan
20 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler s-Mersey
20 to I agst Captain Lamb's Chit Chat
20 to 1 agst Mr. Buckley's Dick
25 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Galewood
25 to I agst Lord Derby's Parolles
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Lord Stafford
25 to I agst Mr. T. Walters's King Cole
:30 to 1 agst Sir E. Smyth's Master of the Rolls
30 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Conservative
30 to 1 agst Mr. G. Cooke's Rachel
100 to 3 agst Mr. Allan's Vesper
100 to 3 agst Sir T. Stanley's Violet
100 to 3 agst Lord Miltown's Fusileer
50 to 1 agst Mr. Meyrick's Drone

IRELAND,

RAORDINARY STATE OF THE
RIVER.

The Thames is now completely blockaded, the navigation
is stopped in lobo, and a spectacle which has not presented
itself for many years was observed yesterday. Several men
passed over the ice in safety from one shore to the other,
below bridge, and during the whole day there was a regular
communication between the vessels laying in the middle
of the river off the Tower and the shore, over the ice. It
was singular to witness the manner in which the thorough-
fare was opened ; one bold fellow first began by cauiously
walking over blocks of ice, stumbling almost at every step ;
he reached the shore in safety ; another followed at a
somewhat quicker pace, and the success, of these men in-
duced others to follow at a more rapid rate, till at last
persons walked backward and forward without betraying
any apprehension, carrying provisions with them. Several
masters who had been confined to their vessels for two or
three days got ashore over the ice, and hastened into the City
to transact their usual business. At four o'clock part of the
ice in the middle of the River, exactly off Irongate-stairs, and
near a tier of Newcastle traders, was cleared by a number of
boys, who began sliding, They were soon followed by a
great many unemployed labourers and watermen, and an ani-
mated scene ensued. The stairs and the Tower-wharf wero
soon covered with people, who looked on with much sur-
prise at the sight of so many persons amusing themselves in
the very middle of the river. As the tide rose and pressed on
the ice it began to crack, and the sliders took the warning in
due time, and got ashore in safety. A regular communication
was opened between the north shore and the Perseus guard-
ship (tender) off the Tower, over the ice.
On Saturday morning when the tide fell both shores were
covered with ice, a narrow stream of water only being visible,
along which enormous icebergs floated, adding to the mass on
each side, and every minute rendering the channel more
narrow. There was a block on both sides, with few intervals,
between London-bridg,-e and the eastern entrance of the Lon-
don Dock at Shadwell. Opposite the Thames Police Office
people were passing right across from one shore to the other
nearly all day; but, strange to say, from that point to the
lower entrance of the London Dock, the middle of the stream
was free from ice, both sides being covered. From the Lon-
don Dock Pier, however immense fields of ice were seen as
far below as the eye could reach, and embedded in them were
several barges and boats ; three sham-ves=sels were locked in
the ice at the entrance of the dock. It was not quite safe to
go to the vessels across the ice, and no communication could
be kept up between them and the shore. The situation of
many poor fellows was pitiable in the extreme, exposed as
they were to the piercing frost. Several ba-ges, on which
large fires were kindled near to the unfrozen water, were en-
deavouring to get out of the ice, but at a late hour their ef-
forts were not attended with success. A report was prevalent
at Shadwell Dock Stairs that four men had perished, and a
great number were collected on the spot, among whom there
was the most painful anxiety. At every stairs along shore be-
tween London Bridge and Greenwich the same rumour pre-
vailed, but no accurate tidings of the painful event could bo
obtained ; there is, however, too much reason to believe, that
the four men have lost their lives.
The old watermen and lightermen all state that the quantity
of ice on the River is as great as it was during the memorable
frost of 1814, and they have no doubt that the Thames would
have been frozen over from Blackfriars Bridge to London
Bridge, and that a fair would ere this have been held upon it,
but for the removal of the old bridge and the starlings, which.
kept the ice above. Some idea of the intensity of the frost
may be conceived from the fact that the thermometer at
Fletcher's wharf, Wapping, was at eight o'clock yesterday
morning at 63- Fahrenheit. In the countinghouse of Messrs.
Mangles and Co. the thermometer was at 121 Fahrenheit,
Above Vauxhall Bridge to beyond Battersea Bridge, there,
was scarcely any motion perceptible in the ice in the centre ef
the River, and towards the banks the ice was of considerable
thickness. Above Hammersmith Bridge the River is com-
pletely frozen over; and near the waterworks of the West
Middlesex Company, on the Middlesex shore, several persons
ventured across. Near the shores on either side, between
that spot and Kew Bridge, numbers of persons wero skating.
and sliding. Above Kew Bridge, on account of the islands
by which the River is intersected, the ice is already pretty se-
cure; and at Richmond as early as Thursday last, persons
were skating, &c., close to the centre of the stream. From
Windsor and uptvards the Thames was frozen over on Sun-
day week; and eastward of that town, at Eghain, Sunbury,
Shepperton, &c., it was also completely frozen on the follow,
ing. day.
The River yesterday continued in the same state as on 41.
turday, the ice, if possible, presenting a more formidalde
barrier to the navigation than it has hitherto done. Late on
Saturday night, and early yesterday morning, several lighter-
men who had been confined to their barges locked in among
the blocks of ice for twelve, sixteen, or eighteen hours, were
brought ashore on hurdles dragged over the
communication was kept up between the shor,
in many parts of the River over the ice, any
were frequently passing from one shore to the
zag direction.

Mr. Charles Kean's sixth perforinan
on Friday last brought the largest receipt sine
and we understand nearly every box is engai
sent week. The " juvenile night" at Drury.;
Thursday last, we have heard, was so producti
will be given to-morrow. It is said there we'
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DUBLIN, JAN. 20.
MR. O'CONNELL—MEETING OF PARISH DEPU-
TIES AND THE TRADES' UNION.
Yesterday a very numerous meeting, consisting of the depu-
ties of the several parochial Liberal Clubs in this city, and
the Committee of the Trades' Political Union, took place at
the Corn Exchange, for the purpose of considering and adopt-
ing the most effectual means of sustaining the Liberal registry.
Before noticing the immediate objects of the meeting, Mr.
O'Connell strongly censured the course of observations
adopted by the Evening Packet and the Evening Mail on the
subject of combination ; asking if the editor of the Mail was
not " the most depraved of the human race, in doing all he
can to render his exertions nugatory, in putting an end to this
horrible system of murder which has disgracedour city ?" Mr.
O'Connell continued—The depraved writers of the Mail have
within the last few days retraced their footsteps, and given the
best proofs of their turpitude. But I scorn their political apo-
logy—l hare them marked ; and, Sir, the human mind revolts
at the course pursued by them with regard to me, while strug-
gling to put down this mischievous combination. The Mail
and Packet are the only Orange papers, either in the north or
south of Ireland, who have differed from me on this subject—
with their peculiar depravity, they have stigmatised themselves
as the Welters' gazetecrs.
Resolutions in conronance with the object of the meeting
were passed, and after the following compliment, carried by
acclamation, the meeting separated :
" Resolved—That our warmest thanks be offered to our
distinguished representative, Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P.,
for the anxious solicitude for the independence of this city evinced
by him in summoning this meeting, and for the judicious ad-
♦ice and suggestions he has submitted to us this day."
DRAWING-ROOM AT THE CASTLE.--His Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Mulgrave, held their
first Drawing-room, at the Castle, last Thursday, which was
numerously and respectably attended. The company began
to arrive at about nine o'clock.
Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Mulgrave en-
tertained a large party at dinner at the Castle yesterday.
TernEs.—From several communications which we have re-
ceived from Michelstown, it appears that that town and neigh-
bourhood have been thrown into a most unexpected state of
commotion, from the circumstance of a respectable and in-
dustrious inhabitant being arrested and thrown into prison for
the large sum (to him) of 286/. 9s. Bd., his original debt
amounting only to 14 3s. 4id. It appears that to save large
costs he was entered in the defence with several others, and
in consequence of this, and by an obsolete statute, he is im-
mured within the walls of a dungeon, not alone for his own but
for the debts (?) of all the other recusants. Thus, for refus-
ing to pay money for himself and others for which no earthly
value was given, he is forced from his family at this inclement
season of the year, and confined in a cold and dreary prison.
Limerick Star.
COVNTT OF LIMERICK PETITION.—we understand the
Speaker's warrant has arrived in town, on behalf of Patrick
Boyle and John Humphreys, electors, requiring the attendance
of Darby O'Grady, the Rev. William Waller, William Gab..
bett, and Crosbie Moore,,Esqrs., before the Committee of the
House of Commons, on the 3d of April next. This is as it
should be—the case must be probed to the bottom.—lbid.
CATHOLIC METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL.—On Sunday eve-
ning, the 14th, there was a meeting to complete the front
portico of this magnificent edifice. Resolutions were adopted
to effect this object. Our correspondent who has furnished
us with a report, to the reception of which our columns aro
unequal, concludes his account of the proceedings in the fol-
lowing terms :—" From the spirit which was manifested at
the meeting, ardent and enthusiastic to an extreme, there can
he no doubt of the energetic and speedy consummation of the
object for which it was convened. I have never, in any point
of view, enthusiasm, numbers, grandeur, intelligence, or ora-
tory, witnessed anything superior."
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