The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

THE WEATHER,

The weather continues so exceedingly and un-
naturally mill that we begin to fear thereis almost
no hope of any more winter. Indeed, for some days,
if not for some weeks, we appear to have been living
and breathing in the atmosphere of May or June.
Nothing but a sustained high wind indicates the ex-
istence around us of any atmosphere at all. It
neither bites, nor freezes, nor sleets, nor even rains
much. Saturday was a day of most brilliant sun-
shine—not cold, and icy, and ungenial, as the gleams
of a wintry sun ought to be, but sensibly warm, and,
therefore, delighfully unseasonable in the middle of
January. The inference is that if we have sum-
mer in January we shall have winter in July. Mon-
day was another breezy day of unclouded brilliance,
and of too pleasant a temperature. Yesterday
ditto. The snow drop is peeping up, and the
general appearance of the fields is that of the latter
end of February, or the beginning of March. While
gossiping on the weather, we may remark that the
terrible storm of wind and rain on Sunday se'nnight
was not unaccompanied with more terrific elements
in some adjacent districts. Even in this neighbour-
hood we believe that thunder was distinctly
heard. It appears that at Norwich and
Yarmouth the lightning was vivid, the thunder
loud, and the hail of a ponderous and ener-
getic character. At Sandon, Essex, on the farm of
Mr. William Ratcliffe, a shed was blown down upon
six horses, one of which was crushed to death. At
Halstead, in the same county, an alarm was given'
that the spire of the church was falling, which pro-
duced the most horrible excitement and terror in the
j congregation, who rushed pell-mell to the door. It
was found that the vane had been twisted a little out
of the perpendicular, but the spire had sustained no
injury. At Ipswich the hailstones were of consider-
able size. At Great Effingham the sails of a wind-
mill were blown sheer off; and in the same parish a tree
was struck by lightning. In many of the districts
through which the tempest passed large trees were
torn up and windows broken. A contemporary states
that at Yarmouth " attention was excited by a
portentous cloud of unusual blackness, scudding up
with an alarming rapidity from the west or west-
north-west, hurrying towards the sea, as if anxious
to forbear its discharge till the upper might mingle
with the nether waters. Suddenly the cloud burst,
and it seemed for a few moments as if its entire con-

tents were being literally hurled at everything that
obstructed its furious progress. The wind, which
hail been blowing in fitful gusts during the night and
morning, seemed now lashed to the fury of a hurri-
cane. The rain, which fell in torrents, was accom-
panied with large pieces of ice, while the terrific
peals of thunder that followed in rapid succession, and
the vivid flashes of the electric fluid, conspired to
produce sensations very far from agreeable, even to
those who wore warmly and snugly housed, while
some, who were unfortunate enough to be caught in
it, were literally obliged to make a dead stand, and

turn their backs to— its merciless peltings." This
appears to have been the same storm which lately
produced so much havoc in the northern and eastern
coasts of Scotland, consigning numerous fishing
crews to a watery and premature grave.—Cambridge
Advertiser.

[ADTBRTISEMENT.]—CARRIAGE FREE.—EITHIIieS
and economists residing in the country will derive con-
siderable advantages by purchasing their Teas and
Coffees at the wholesale warehouse of Mansell and Co.,
2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside, an establishment expressly
devoted to the interests of large consumers, who are
supplied at the lowest wholesale prices. Six pounds and
ups ards delivered free of expense to any part of Eng-
land. Lists of prices and samples forwarded freo on
app • lication Where parties are unknown to the firm, a
relerence expected.
A charge of attempting to poison a wife was
heard yesterday before the magistrates at Bristol. The
accused, Henry Evans, is a carpenter by trade, but with
his wife and a policeman and his wife had been latterly
taking charge of the new poor-house in Clifton Wood.
About six weeks ago the wife was confined, since which
time she has been repeatedly seisedwith attacks of vomiting
and purging. She was confined to her bed, and her hus-
band usually took her her food. On Sunday he cut her
some slices of roast pork, but on looking at them she
perceived that they were sprinkled over with a white
powder. Upon tasting the meat, she did not like the
flavour, and left it, and afterwards hearing from a little
girl that the husband had taken the meat to a cupboard,
where he appeared to be sprinkling something over it,
she mentioned the fact to the policeman's wife, who in-
formed her husband, and the remains of the slices were
taken for examination to Mr. Herapath, the analytical-
chemist, who, on applying the proper tests, found that
the white powder was a corrosive salt of mercury, com-
monly sold as white precipitate. On searching the pri-
soner's room some sugar of lead was found, and he has
been remanded for further examination.
SLIGHT SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE.—We learn from
a correspondent that a slight shock of earthquake was
felt in the centre of the Stewartry on Monday last. He
was travelling from Laurieston, and when about a mile
and a half from Glenlochar-bridge, at a quarter to eight
, heard a rumbling sound, and felt a slight 'nation of
the earth, as if a heavy carriage had been rolling past.
Thi, noise apparently came from the west, and gradually
died away towards the north. It continued, as nearly as
could be calculated, for about the fifth part of a minute.
Het a gentleman on the road who stated that ho ob-
served the same phenomenon. He must have been two
miles from our informant when the shock was felt.
Several persons in the neighbourhood felt the same sen-
sation at the same hour.—Dumfries Courier.
EDINBURGH, JAN. 2.3.—An awkward blunder has
been discovered in the Removal of NUiSalleei Aet,t.wlhiacnh
*sill in some degree retard sanitaral*.,?rogre
ainandinent be obtained. By the
fEronign h Act sis)uisances
la' decision by tho
on all highways are illegal,. but,
sheriff substitute of I'ortnh,riotaadpsrseuaprpsorttleidat.vin Scotland
1 rates; on
they are illegal only f
offend sight and smell with impa-I
turnpikes they may
nity. The silent, of Edinburgh has also decided that a
manure depot,
containing 800 cubic yards,
sance because it is 280 yards from the nearest dwelling-
house—the occupiers of tenements being thus assumed to
be as destitute of locomotion as their domiciles.