The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

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every further. appearance of being prolonged still Lasi
night a very heavy place, fall of snow took and I
throughout the night, and, with intervals, durinagstT".
greater part of to day, of course deranging all th;
ordinary means of communication. Yesterday morn•
ing's papers, which should have been delivered here a;
six P.M., did not reach until two this morning ; and tb.
mails have been quite as much beyond their time. Letter:
usually delivered early in the forenoon were not in the
postman's bands until about four o'clock, and the del ..(3
has necessarily occasioned much annoyance to busines
men. On the North Shields Railway no train run thi.
morning until eleven o'clock ; and d serious delay agai;
occurred on the Carlisle line. On the Newcastle an(
Darlington no trains have run, except the mail and one
or two expresses, so that we are nearly completely cut
off from neighbouring towns. The frost continuesintense,
have lls seriously on the ntrqgation. Altogether, w(
aot suffered so severely in these respects for man)

years.
curred on board
the
morning, but was detained in the
that place on Thusday. eyr or
,but
theste weather
e r .
shhaes
loecf
le that was blowing for several
Loch by the strong g
d here, after a very severe pas'
hours,
en and eight
hours, and only
between seven ne md
oe ne de
rage passenger,
t number o ee •. .
o'clock. She had a gr.ea
o. achedwre condition, ano
A sad result of the inclemency
on ,board, all of them in a m
i hunger and cold. Among
these suffered very much from
man,
apparently about
them was a tolerably well-dressed
sage, on Saturday morning,
A little
sixty or seventy years of age,
the weather.
died on deck from the severity of
died the passage.
also on
child, two or three years of age,
ashore here, and the
The body of the latter was brought .
nce of
A circumstance .
former was carried on to Glasgow.
than strange 1,
this kind is very rare, and not more rare
who was discovered to have
it that such a fearful affair should happen
on board a largeroomy vessel, where means might have been taken to
prevent it. The authorities will, of course, inquire into
o the matter, to see that all proper means were ado adopted t s
to prevent the fatal result. The passage across wa
tremendously severe, and very likely all the crew were
required to look after the vessel.—Greenock Advertiser.
The frost continues with unabated rigour, our ther-
mometer having indicated for the last few nights a point
varying from 12 to 16 degrees below freezing point.
The canal being frozen over, and large masses of ice on
the Severn, render the navigation very dangerous. The
condition of the abject poor must now indeed be wretched.
while that of many artizans, IN ho are obliged to suspend
their work in consequence of the cold, is scarcely any
better. The relief committee, it will be seen, have come
to a resolution for the distribution of soup at a penny
per quart in the first week of January, and also for the
sale of rice and coal at greatly reduced prices. These
measures will prove most beneficial, and the subscription
list will undoubtedly be soon crowded with liberal sums;
but we think it is a pity that these humane operations
had not commenced with the present week, when hun-
dreds of the poor are' shivering under all the horrors of
fireless grates, empty cupboards, and uncovered b. ds.—
Worcester Chronicle.

DELAY OF NEWS.—The frosty weather continues to
cause all the railway trains to be late. On Tuesday the
morning mail train from London was about an hour late,
from the slippery state of the rails; and, owing to the
same cause, the train which leaves London at a quarter_
past six A.M. freighted, amongst other things, with the
morning papers, was an hour beyond its time in reaching
Birmingham; consequently the train, usually leaving that
town for Manchester about twenty minutes after its ar.
rival, proceeded without waiting for it, and the news.
papers were brought on by the mail-train, which reached