The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

SNOW STORM IN THE NORM

(Prom the Inverness Courier.)
pehnl experiencedplace, a heavy fall of
snow, until
low grounds slightly, and
The first decided brush of winter weather in this quarter
occasionalseno was
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Thursday Fros t
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whenth
winter set in with unusual severity. It snowed with very
or opsenioonvfa3e3lianiol covering
day week, when
little intermission. until Monday morning, and since then
we have had intense frost and cold in spite of a pretty
strong westerly breeze. A change has taken place to-day ;
the house-tops are now all dripping, and the roads so slip-
pers that walking on them is dangerous. Out-door work
has been stopped, and out-door recreations have been re-
sumed. The curling club havehed two days' capital sport
at their pond at Tomnahurich. In that neighbourhood
observations have ;been made as to the intensity of the
cold. On Monday, at 11 p.m., the thermometer stood
20 deg. of Fahrenheit; on Tuesday morning, at 8 a.m., it
rose to 27 deg., falling at night again to 20 deg. This
night it continued bitterly cold, aad at eight o'clock
morning the thermometer stood as low as 14 deg. Fahren-
heit.
The mails
have all been irregular. The Defiance brought
only the Aberdeen mail on Saturday, and there was no
mail from the south on Friday night till Tuesday morn-
ing. The stoppage was chiefly south of Aberdeen, but be-
tween Forres and Elgin the Inverness mail suffered serious
impediment on the night of Saturday. There was a high
wind, and the snow was driven in % very alarming manner.
On several occasions the guard anti passengers had to de-
scend and to push on the coach from behind. On the rail-
way
beyond Aberdeen a force of 31 men were employed
for 20 hours in cutting a passage for the railway, and the
train on Monday morning going south carried with it an
additional force of a score of men armed with spades to
clear the way. The snow was about six feet deep on the
line. The Deeside and Old Meldrum Railways expe-
rienced similar detentions.
Two deaths are reported. The first victim was a woman
named Janet Gould. She was overcome by the storm, and
had probably fallen into a ditch, near the farm of Balfich,
Aberdeenshire, where she was found on Sunday morning
dead. Her husband ;,s a poor invalid. Two men who passed
her on Saturday raaar the ditch declared themselves to have
been so much wa.hausted that they could do no more than
roll her shawl about her and put up her umbrella. They have
been exam;nd by the authorities on the point why they did
not give i aformation at the neighbouring farm-house, where
from '.he Breath?, Adrertiser, that a young man, named Ro-
bertson, an apprentice to a plumber in Montrose, was found
frcizen to death between Friday night and Saturday morning,
at the Bents near the shore. In this neighbourhood no casu-
alty has yet been reported. The Highland mail, between In-
verness and Perth, which commenced to run on the Ist
inst., has been wonderfully regular, and the North mail,
although experiencing great difficulty iu forcing its way
through
some places—the mails having been carried on
horseback from Thurso to Kintradwell—has managed to
keep pretty near its time. The latest arrival from the
north was only three hours and a half behind time.

A letter dated Naples Nov. 22,
says, Vesuvius last
night was blazing awayin
great force.
A new halfpenny has been issued by the Mint fer oar-
renoy in Nova Scotia, which strikes us as deserving n
word of commendation. It is,
we believe, the first coin
ever issued by this Government in bronze, which is not
Duly harder, and therefore capable of receiving a sharper
impression, but preserves its colour better than pure cop-
Qt h u. e e
reverse'seA n
is
aptlievaes i nflgo,w
er: after
grace t hef
uWI y
andon
characteristic
specimen has also been struck of the
medal which is intended to be conferred " For Arctic
Discoveries." Hero again we have something of novelty.
pme
or
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buth e
The medal is an octagon, and not an oval. It bears on
the obverse the head of her Majesty, with " Victoria
Regina," and on the reverse a ship stuck fast between
icebergs, with, on the foreground, a sledging party just
about to start, and "1818-1855."—Athenceuni.
ANOTHER ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY RGISRERY.—On Fri-
day evening, as a young gentleman of the name of Bate-
man, residing in Islington, was on his way home, whilst
passing along the New-road he was accosted by a rain
who demanded his purse ; but the gentleman, being per-
haps on his guard from having heard footsteps closely
behind him for some distance, replied to the fellow's de-
mand by dealing him a smart, unexpected blow from a
stout umbrella, which caused him to fall to the ground.
A scuffle then ensued, and the gentleman Succeeded
in wresting a formidable stick from the villain's hand,
but upon some persons approaching the fellow hastily
retreated, and unfortunately effected his escape. 7ye
police
are in possession of tae stick, which is heavily
:oaded with lead.