The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

SNOW STORMS IN SCOTLAND.

Every week now seems to bring a new snow
storm. The one prevailing, when we published.
last Tuesday, disappeared for most part daring Fri-
day and Saturday, but on Sunday forenoon snow
commenced to fall again very thickly, and con-
tinued till about noon. There were showers during
the rest of the day, which towards evening became
much heavier and more frequent. The wind was
high and the drift at times blinding. By day-
light yesterday morning there was a heavy
snow lying ; a good deal of it melted in the
forenoon along the coast, but, instead of a perma-
nent thaw, there is every probability at present
that the snow will be greatly increase. A gusty
stormy wind blows from the north-east, and the
clouds arc heavy and very unsettled. The roads, by
last snowstorm, were not entirely blocked up, but
in many places they were rendered all but impass-
able. The Peterhead coach did not reach Banff on
Tuesday nor on Friday. The mails, too, came in
pretty regularly, though sometimes a couple of
hours or so late, caused for most part by lateness of
trains on the railway: The morning train from
Aberdeen stuck for some two hours between Ward-
house and Kinnethmont on Wednesday morning.
The storm is very heavy in that quarter. The
Grampian range and its outliers seem to be in its
centre. Benrinnes, the Tap O'Noth, Buck of Ca-
brach, and hills along the Don and Dee are deeply
covered with snow, and in many places the autumn
snows still lie there to a considerable extent. an
that part of the country the opinion prevails, and
it is now almost general, that there has been no
such severe winter since 1838. Writing yesterday,
our correspondent in Enzie, a coastside district,
says, "We were beginning in the end of last week
to have a sort of fresh weather, and yesterday_
morning the snow had all disappeared. A new fall
had commenced, however, about 9 o'clock, and it has
been occasionally drifting, and that severely, ever
since. The snow has not accumulated to a great
depth, owing to the ground being soft and wet, but
it must be pretty deep in the upper district.' In
the centre of the country, in Rothiemay and Grange
there was a good deal of the old snow remaining
yesterday morning, so that with what has since
fallen, it is now heavy in that quarter, and it is
heavier still further inland. From Inveravon we
learn that on Friday and Saturday there wasni!
thaw there with a fine breeze from the soduth,ad
the snow disappearing rapidly. Sunday annow
snow
yester-
day were very bad days, and the depth of
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the trains there were regular. There was inter-
ruption on the Alford line, however, and on the
Turriff Junction the
ofitle 11 a.m. To-day, however, the
first train did not reach Turriff
cleared, the trains will make the
journeys in about the usual time. On the Strath-
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isla there was a good deal of difficulty with the first
train, but it was got through in time. In the even-
ing the train stuck about Knock, but about two
score of navvies who were with the train soon
cleared away the obstacles, and a delay of only a
few minutes occurred. The Banff and Iluntly mail-
gig driver was yesterday morning obliged to aban-
don his vehicle at Aberchirder, and, getting another
horse and companion, convey the mail on horseback
from Aberchirder to Iluntly. The mail came in
last night on horseback. This morning's mail leaves
at 4 p.m., with four men and four horses. The roads
are in many places drifted.3ft. to 4ft. deep.—Banff-
shire Journal of Tuesday.

Two BOATS CAPSIZED, THREE MEN DROWNED
IN TIIE MERSEY.—On Tuesday afternoon a boat (No. 11)
was out in the Rock channel on " speculation," and in an
endeavour to hook on to a Bremen it capsized, and three
boatmen who were in it at the time were thrown out into
the water. The New Brighton ferry steamer rescued two,
but the third, a fine young man, was drowned. In the early
part of the day another boat, while crossing from the ship-
building yard of Mr. John Laird, at Birkenhead, came into
contact with the hawser of the ship Vocalist, lying in the
Mersey, and capsized. Two men who were sailing the boat
at the time, after a vain attempt to right it, were swept down
the river with the tide and drOWiled, None of the bodiee
/aye as yet been recovered.