The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1860.

POLICE INIELLIGENCE—(This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

INTIMIDATING A PTtOSECUTRIX.—Francis Jones, 6,
Cooper's-court, Conduit-street, was charged with assault-
ing Marie Delille, the keeper of a tobacconist's shop in
Francis-street, and who it may be remembered appeared at
this court a short time since, charging a man named Pierre
Maison, with stabbing her, the man now undergoing a
twelvemonth's imprisonment for the offence.

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The complainant said the prisoner called on her yester-
day, and told her servant he wanted to see her, but being
engaged she told her servant not to give him some rum he
asked for, but to give him a cigar. The prisoner then left,
but afterwards returned and said, " You must not go
against Alice," that being the name of a female he had a
summons against, and which was to be heard that day. He
then seized her by her garments, tearing them off, and
flinging her into the road. She did not care for the
damage, but wanted protection.
The prisoner said it was all made up, so that he should
not appear for the Scotchwoman (Alice).
The case having been proved, Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the
prisoner 10s. for the assault, and said if he wished to appear
he should not be disappointed, for if he did not pay the fine
he should not be sent away till the latter part of the day.

SHOP ROBBERY.—John James, a young man, was
charged with stealing a portmanteau of the value of £3los,
from the shop of Mr. Barrett, trunk-maker, 184, Oxford-
street.

The case was proved by a young man named Taylor, the
prosecutor's fOreman, and Sergeant White, D division, and
the prisoner, who pleaded hunger, was committed for three
months, with hard labour. '

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUE.

TUE WE IN THE PRO VINE'S.

The severity of the weather during the last day
or two has been even greater in the provinces than
in London, and the railway traffic of the country
has been much impeded by the heavy falls of snow
which have almost generally taken place.
Yesterday Mr. Bokenham, the controller of the
circulation department of the Post-office service,
reported, for the special information of the public,
that 68 of the mail bags from the neighbourhood
of Gloucester, Leominster,
.Worcester, had
not arrived up to 11 o'clock at the offices in St.
Martin's-le-Grand, though due in the ordinary
course at 5 a.m. The severity of the snowstorm
appears to have been chiefly felt in the West of
England, but in the northern and eastern counties
the mail guards report it to have been heavy, and
several of them were delayed yesterday morning
in consequence.
On the various railway. lines throughout the
kingdom, the frost, and, in many places, heavy
fogs in addition, have caused serious inconvenience '
to railway passengers in the way of detention of
several hours beyond the accustomed periods of
arrival and departure. In some quarters, in the
neighbourhood of Manchester, the snow storm
raged with such severity, accompanied with such
a sharp frost, that the wheels of the engines would
not " bite," and very slow progress was made,
even aided by the process of s ,
an lug./While
the latter work would be in operation, the feed
pipes of the engine would suddenly freeze, and
no supply of water would be obtainable until
they 'were thawed. This occurred on Christmas..
day to many of the engines working on the
lines which run into Manchester. The gag_
pipes at the Victoria, Salford, and other stations
froze on Christmas evening, and several hours
elapsed before the lamps could be lighted. To add
to the discomforts experienced at the Salford (New
Bailey) station, the water pipes belonging to the
closets burst on Wdenesday afternoon, flooded the
waiting rooms, and percolated through the ceiling
into the booking-office. On the Lancaster and
Carlisle line an accident, not of a very serious
nature, occurred in the course of Wednesday
afternoon. Two of the wheels belonging to one
of the carriages came off, and this caused the
delay of all the trains arriving from the north
for more than two hours. The passengers, as
might be expected', were severely shaken, but
we believe no bones were broken. An ac-
cident of a more serious nature, attended with
fatal results, occurred on Wednesday evening, on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Windsor-
bridge. Every Wednesday additional assistance
is required at this station to manage the loading
and unloading of the cattle. One of the porters so
engaged was a man named Joseph Barber, who was
stationed at the New Bailey station, and who
had been in the habit of assisting at the Wind-
sor-bridge station on the Wednesday for more
than ten years. Just as the deceased was finishing
work for the day, he was knocked down and run
over by several carriages belonging to the Black-
burn express. The poor fellow was brought
to Manchester and taken to the infirmary,
where he died half an hour after his arrival. He
was found to have suffered a compound fracture
of the left leg; his left hand was also crushed, and
he was very much bruised about the body. He was
a valued servant of the company, and leaves a wife
and two children to mourn his untimely end. In
Manchester and its neighbourhood the greatest
inconvenience has been experienced in consequence
of the freezing of the water in the meters, and the
freezing also of the water pipes.
The fall of snow in the neighbourhood of Salis-
bury and throughout South Wilts, and parts of
Hampshire, has been very heavy. It commenced
about six o'clock on Wednesday evening and con-
tinued during the whole of yesterday almost with-
out intermission, the wind blowing sharply all the
time. Many of the roads are utterly impassable,
and the only open railway communication with
London, by the South Western, is via Bishopstoke.
The Basingstoke and Andover line is completely
blocked up in a cutting about a mile and a half to
the west of Grately, and at the time our parcel was
despatched a luggage train and a passenger train
were embedded in the snow, which was upwards of
10 feet deep.
From Southampton we learn that a heavy snow
storm came on on Wednesday night, and with a few
hours' intermission, continued yesterday.
Early yesterday morning Chatham and the sur-
rounding country was visited by one of the heaviest
falls of snow which has been experienced for several
years past. The air during the whole of yesterday
was exceedingly cold, the thermometer standing at
28 degrees, giving 4 degrees of frost.

(From the Scotsman.)
EDINBURGH.—The intense cold continues, with
but slight symptoms of abatement. the ice on
the lochs around Arthur's Seat is, on the average,

between five and six inches thick, and is covered

day after day with multitudes of skaters, curlers,
and promenaders. The streets continue as mush
blocked up as ever, and the intensity of the cold is
manifested in the circumstance that the cart tracks
in the middle of the streets are filled with pul-
verised snow and ice, as dry and incohesive as fine
sand. A good deal of inconvenience and annoyance
has been felt in various quarters of the city from
the freezing of the water.pipes or cisterns, and still
more from the freezing of gas-meters or of water
lodged in the gas-pipes. In the house of a gen-
tleman in Inverleith-row the thermometer stood
yesterday morning at 4 deg. above zero. In
another house at Granton, with a northern ex-
posure, the mercury during Tuesday night, or
early yesterday morning reached 3 deg. below zero
and a number of sodawater bottles in the house
were broken by the freezing of their contents. The
Admiralty thermometer, placed in an exposed
situation at Newhaven for the use of the fishermen,
and which reads to 10 deg below zero, is reported
to have on several occasions within the last three
days reached its minimum point. On Monday last,
which was the coldest day we have had for many
years, a thermometer belonging to Messrs. Cowan,
at Penicuik, marked the extraordinary depth of 14
deg below zero • and at a gentleman's house a few
miles west of Linlithgow the mercury fell during
the same morning to 11 deg below zero. Generally
speaking, however, the temperature in the city has
been much milder. The lowest point registered
by Messrs. Adie and Son in an exposed situation
behind their premises in Princes-street during
Tuesday night was 8 deg above zero, and during
yesterday the mercury rose from 16 to 25 deg. The
following register, showing the daily maximum
and minimum reached by the thermometer since
the present snow storm and severe weather com-
menced has been kindly furnished to us by the
officers of the Ordnance Survey. The thermome-
ters are fixed outside windows having an eastern
exposure, but are protected by being placed in
wooden boxes; the observations were taken every
morning at half-past 9 o'clock, and embrace the
previous 24 hours :
December. Maximum: Minimum.
Tuesday, 18 .. 39 .. 31 2
Wednesday, 19 36 1 .. 28
Thursday, 20 .. 37 7 .. 30
Friday, 21 .. 35 0 .. 28 5
Saturday, 22 .. 35 7 .. 25 6
Sunday, 23 .. 32 5 .. 27 •
Monday, 24 .. 29 4 .. 11
Tuesday, 25 .. 21 2 .. 11 6
Wednesday, 26 .. .. 24 7 .. 13
Last night the air was considerably milder than,l
for some days previous, and though the dense fog)
which overhung the city during the day had almost
entirely disappeared, there were evident signs of a
relaxation of the temperature.
Writing on Tuesday, from Nenthorne-house, by
Kelso, Mr. F. Lewis Roy, younger, says :—" Your
paper of to-day mentions the thermometer being 4
deg below zero. Yesterday morning, at 6, it was
5,-1 deg below zero here. During the day it never
rose higher than 8 above zero, and that only for a
very short time, and soon fell to 2 deg below zero.
' To-night (11 p.m.) it stands at 3 deg above zero."
GLASGOW.—Yesterday morning was excessively
frosty, there being little, if any, abatement of the
cold. The fog, too, was for a considerable time
quite as dense as on the previous day, when it was
thicker than it had been experienced for many
years. Shortly after noon, however, an agreeable
change took place. In a few moments the fog dis-
appeared, and the thermometer rose considerably.
The snow on the ground has lost its crispness which
characterized it during the three' previous days,
and last night was a fine specimen of a good winter
evening—a clear atmosphere, beautiful moonlight,
and a moderate.degree of frost. .

Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) • • • • .• • • • • Jan. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds Jan.l4.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. Dec. —.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York)
Cuba and Mexico .. Dec. 29
Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. Dec. —.
Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Jan. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Jan. 2.
Do (via Marseilles) Dec. 27
Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. • .. Dec. 25
India(Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Jan. 2.
Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 27.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Dec. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 4.
Lisbon .. .. • • • • .. Dec. 21
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Dec. 25.
Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 4.
Vigo, and Oporto .. Overdue.
United States, California, &c. Dec. 26.
Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe Jan. 10.
Weet Indica and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, b. Dec, 29,