The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN.. lii.

In consequence of the severity of the weather this morning,
there was scarcely any person at theabove market, and no busi-
ness doing; therefore the different prices of Wheat may be
quoted as per last market-clay.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
SnuTnwARK. JAN.. I3.—We have not any alteration in
our Ilop trade, either as to demand or prices.

WINTER IN ICELAND.--The present winter is
gliding away imperceptibly without frost or snow,
In fact, the temperature of our 'climate seems,
within the lust ,f() years, to have undergone an
astonishing change. Formerly a continuance of
six or seven weeks' frost, commencing about
Christmas, was not deemed an uncommon occur-
rence—and our fields and highways were, ut this
season, buried its snow. Robin red-breasts sought
shelter in the habitations of mats—other birds pe-
rished in thousands—our cattle were housed
field labour suspended—and the youth of. the
country sought amusement in snipe-shooting,
skaitiug, and other rural sports. At present the
fields are green—our cattle are turned out to
pasturage—the atmosphere is mild, and uniform
in temperature, but loaded with moisture, and
pregnant with showers. Compare this with the
state of England. At Liverpool, the rivers are
hound with frost. At London, the skaiters find
an ample field of exercise on the Serpentine
River in Hyde Park. To what causes can so
remarkable a change in our climate he ascribed'?
—( Belfast News Letter.)
MEANS OF EXTRICATING PESSONS rALLING THUM/aft
TILE ICE ,IVHILE SEATING.—TiIe following notice was
inserted in January, 1820, in all the Edinburgh News-
papers, for the benefit of the public ; and the author thinks
it may not be unacceptable to repeat it at the
.present sea-
son, when the public prints are teeming with Instances of
loss of lives, which might very easily have been saved.--
" Dr. Balfour has inventel a I cry simple apparatus for pre-
venting persons drowning, when the ice bruin; under them is
skating. It consists of an iron ring, elongated on one side into a
perforator of about two inches in length. with a very slight curve.
This may be permanently fixed on a pole or stafrot any length or
adapted to the head of a walking cane. If the latter is preferred,
a person may carry it in his pocket, with the part stuck into
cork, and screw it on and off at the ice. It is very evident tine
when a person feels himself going down, he will instinctively
strike the perforator into the solid ice nearest him; and, as the
specific gravity of the human body is not much greater than that
of water, the alightest hold will suspend him till assistance is pro-
cured ; nay, itisquite possible for a person so armed to extrita
himself. The instillment cannot fail in any case to preserve liff,
except when the ice gives way to a great extent, and even tire„
it will answer the purpose of suspension, if stuck into a large
piece of floating ice."—(Edinburgh Courant.)
ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.—It having beets
lately attempted, by a Manchester Benefit Society, to ea.
elude one of its members on the ground that he belonged to
the above order, and had received donations from the order,'
at the time he was receiving the allowance of the Benefit So-
ctiety for sickness; the question was brought before the Jus-
tices, at the New Bailey. Court Rouse, in Salford, when they
decided that the matter in question should (agreeably to a
of the Benefit Society), be left to the arbitration of six Mqlll-
- of different benefit societies or sick clubs. These mem-
bers unanimously decided, that a person belonging to 4:t:
Order of Odd Fellows, was thereby in no way rendered incoei-
petent to be a member of any benefit-society or sick-club."---
t Chester Courant, Jan. 14.)
A very singular incident .occurred at Crais:is?
Mill, in this neighbourhood, on Friday last. The water at tte4
place naturally dashes over at rugged precipice upwarcha
forty feet in height. At the top there is an artificial reserni!
flar collecting water at dry periods of the semen, with a bye.
sluice for giving egress to the superabundant accumulatte,,
in the case of tuaws and heavy rams. During the frost
the early part of hilt w
:week the ice had attained consitterta,,-
thickness, and it was thought necessary to break it and
oft' by the bye-sluice. As William Blath, tatkaman ri
mills, and Andrew Morris, his servant, were thus emPle:,..!
the punch which Morria used got in between twopiece•i
ice, Instead of striking the solid body at which he earl
He lost his balance, and, to prevent falling headlong,
sprung forward and leaped in. Ming near the sluice be was
caught by the current, and thrown fairly over the precipice
into an eddy at the bottom I Strange to say, before the toosters-
on could gain the spot, he had extrieated hiinacit; and Was
sitting on the green sward opposite the roaring cataract., un-
injured, but stupified by the accident, from the dangerous eo,-
sequences of which he had been almost Miraculously preserv.A.
-4 Perth Courier.)
Tilt LEWI3HADI MUD.DER.—JaiIIi Coleman,
who has been fully committed for the murder of
James Smith, Esq. at Lewisham, arrived at our
County Prison late on the evening of the Cats
instant. lle.was accompanied by.
a nephew of the deceaSed, who stands remanded
for further examination, on sucpiciors of being ars
aCCOMpIiCe. On Thursday night Robert Smith,
• • •
James Smith, and James Webster) were also
brought to the county goal, charged on suspicion of
murder ; site four last
rgo another earnin-
Ibuteniilsegdciveonerseoritilseda
tiers theusanidde
ation at the Mitre Tavern, at Greerswicit, 'en
Tuesday the `2lst instant.—(Maitisfortc Journal,
.Jws. 14.)