The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-04 00:00:00

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TILE SEVERE .FROST OF DECEMBER, 1860.

(From the Aberdeen Journal.)

The severity of the past week has been so gene-
ral over Scotland, aria even its warmer sister, Eng-
land, that there is more than ordinary notice taken
of that topic in every person's mouth—" the
weather."

We may note that the mean average tempera-
ture of the corresponding period of the year during
the last 27 years (the period from which we have
any data in this part of the country) was 37.89
deg. As will be seen in the record of the same for
said period this season it was only 16.43 deg., con-
sequently it has been 21.46 deg. below the average !
We often consider even 8 or 10 deg. on such a period
either below or above quite startling. It will be
observed, the temperature on the night of Tuesday,
25th, was 12 deg. below zero ! Now we had the
same intensity of frost in February, 1838. J. P.
Grant, Esq., of Rothiemurchus, in the winter of
1823, records that the minimum or lowest tem-
perature was 15 deg. below zero (of Fahrenheit's
scale.)
We had one of Casella's (London) thermometers
placed on a board on the surface of the ground,
in open park, in the policies of Castle Newe, on the
night of the 25th of December, which indicated a
minimum temperature of 19 deg: under zero, or,
adding 19 to 32 of the scale indicated, a tempera-
ture of 51 deg. under the point at which water
freezes! Such, perhaps, has not occurred for sixty
years, at least.

LETTERS AND LEITER WRITING.

(From the _Home Journal.)

The art of writing a really good letter ranks unquestion-
ably amongst the most valuable accomplishments of woman,
and next to that of conversing well. In both cases the first
thing to be avoided is common-place, because whatever
partakes of the nature of common-place is not only vulgar
but ineffective. I know not how I can better define this
term, so frequently used, and so little understood, than by
saying that cemmon-place consists chiefly in speaking of
things by their little qualities, rather than %heir great ones.
Thus it is common-place to speak of religious persons as
using cant, to speak of distinguished characters as well or
ill dressed, and to speak of the works of Shakspeare as being
peculiar in their style. It is also common-place to use
those expressions of kindness, or sympathy, which custom
has led ul to expect as a matter of course. And we never
feel this more than in cases of affliction or death; because
there is a kind of set phraseology made use of on such
occasions, which those who really feel would often be glad
to vary, if they only knew how. It is common-place to
speak of some fact as recently discovered, to those who have
long known it. But above all that is genuine in common-
place, the kind of flattery generally adopted by men, when
they mean to address themselves pleasantly to women,
deserves the credit of pre• eminence. Indeed, so deficient,
for the most part, is this flattery, in point, originality, and
adaptation, that I have known sensible women who felt
more really flattered by the Most humiliating truths, even
plainly spoken; because such treatment implied a confi-
dence in their strength of mind and good sense, in being
able to bear it. Common-place letters are such as, but for
the direction, would have done as well for any other indi-
vidual as the one to whom they are addressed. In descrip-
tion especially, it is desirable to avoid common-place. A
correspondent making the tour of the Lakes, tells you that,
on such a day, she set off to the summit of Helvellyn; that
the first part of the ascent was steep and difficult, the
'latter more easy; that the view from the summit was
mag-
nificent, extending over so many lakes, and so many other
mountains ; and there ends the story ; and well for you if
it ends there. But such writers unfortunately often go on
through a whole catalogue of beauties and solemnities, no
single one of which they set before you in such a manner as
to render it one whit more attractive, or indeed more pecu-
liar in any of its features, than the king's highway. In the
vain hope of avoiding common-place, some young writers
have recourse to extravagant expressions when describing
little things; a mode of writing which, besides being the
medium of falsehood, leaves them in the uncomfortable pre-
dicament of having no language adequate to what is great.
It is difficult to say what is the opposite of common-place,
without giving lengthened quotations from the best style
of epistolary correspondence, with which the literature of
our country during the last century abounds. There is a
quality both in writing and conversation to which I can
give no other name than freshness, which is not only oppo-
site in its nature and effect to common-place, but on which
I believe depends more than half the pleasure and amuse-
ment we derive from the intercourse of mind with mind.
Few persons possess this charm, because few are humble
enough to suppose that it would be any advantage to them;
and those who do are always in danger of losing it by writ-
ing toe much. The letters of a woman of moderate abilities
and limited sphere of observation may possess thisegreat
beauty; while those of a more highly. gifted or accomplished
writer may want it; because it must ever depend upon a
capability of receiving vivid impressions, combined with a
certain degree of simplicity of heart.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Since Monday very little fresh English wheat has come
to hand coastwise, or by land carriage, and the show of
samples of both red and white here, to-day, was trifling.
Although the attendance of buyers was limited the de-
mand ruled steady, at ls. per quarter above Monday's
quotations.

There was a fair show of foreign wheat. Good and fine
samples were hold at ls. per quarter more money, and other
kinds were steady. Floating cargoes were quite as dear as
last week.

Fine barley was scarce, and in request, at extreme cur-
rencies, but other kinds were a slow inquiry.
Fins malt was firm at 80s. per quarter. Other kinds
were a dull inquiry, at late rates. _ _

Oats commanded rather more money, with a good con-
iumptive demand.
We have no change to notice in the value of beans or

peas.
The flour trade was firm, at very full prices.
ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
Eng1i5h........ 920 640 1,010 210 I 850
Irish.. . . ... 120 f
F0reig0........ 6,040 2,710 1,610 1 1,570 sacks
3.600 brie.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ENTRIES FOR THE SPRING !HANDICAPS.
NOMINATIONS Pon THE CHESTER Cur.—Adam Bede,
Acco, Alderman, Apollyon, Arabia, Balham, Bally-edmond,
Belleisle, Bandsman, Ben Webster, Betts, Bevis, Birming-
ham, Black Prince, Black Diamond, Blue Stone, Bravo,
Bridegroom, Bumble Bee, Butterfly, Bushman, Bye-ways,
Canary, Cashio, Calpe, Chance Shot, Chore Arnie, c. by
Flying Dutchman—Priestess, c. by Wild Dayrell—lntimi-
dation, s. by West Australian—Lady Evelyn, Conscript,
Coroner, Crater, Croagh Patrick, Cromwell, Damascus,
Danae, Desraimd, Doefoot, Donner und Blitz, Dreadnought,
Duchess,Dulcibella,Eastsheen,EastStanley,EdmundKean,
Elcho, El Hakim, Emblem, Eskdale, Faultless, Feodo-
rowna, f by King Tom—Giraffe, f by Stockwell—Babette,
fby Stockwell—Selina, First Lord, Fftzavon, Flirtation,
Folkestone, Forager, General Hess, Gouvieux, Gridiron,
Guilder, Henham Lass, Herne, High Treason, Horace,
Horror, Industrious, Irish Emigrant, Isabella, Ivanhoff,
Jacintha, Jealousy, Joskin, Juno, Killigrew, King of
Diamonds, King of Kent, Lady Chesterfield, Lady
Ripon, La Reux, Light, Lovett, Maid of Chester-
field, Malpas, Man-at-Arms, Master Begot, Merrimac,
Meyerbeer, Millionsire, Mimic, Mistake (late Earl of
Essex), Monastery, Morella, M. Philippe, Mountain Nut,
Mowbray, Newcastle, Northern Light, North Lancashire,
Oliver, Optimist, Overton, Pagoda, Pancake, Parmesan,
Paul Clifford, Pebtle, Petra, Physician, Pitman, Pounce,
Precise, Predictor, Princess Royal, Professor Dick, Rajah
Brooke, Rapture, Rare Avis, Rattlebone, Reindeer, Robin-
son Crusoe, Rosamond, Russley, Rupee, Sailor, Satinstone,
Sate'lite, Sawcutter, Scent, Schism, Seclusion, Shepherdess,
Silverhair, Simple Simon, Sister to St. Albans, Skilful,
Slingsby, Snapdragon, Somersault, South Australian,
Spanish Fly, Sparrowhawk, Special License, Springwell,
Stanton, Starke, Starlight, Stockade, Stockton, Surprise,
Sweet Hawthorn, Sweetsauce, Sycophant, Syringe, Tame
Deer, The Brewer, The Lawyer, The Monk,
,The Rap,
The Rock, The Rover, Thormanby, T. P. Cooke, Umpire,
Upperhand, Vancouver, Venison, Volatile, Voltella,
Wallace, Waterford, W aterwitch, Weatherbouid, Weather-
witch, Wildman, Wild Rose,. William the Conqueror,
Wombat, Yellow Rose, Yorkminster.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDl-
CAP.—Millionaire, Zodiac, Maggiore, Fitz-Avon, Overton,
First Lord, Sage, Strike, Sycophant, Wombat, Vancouver,
Parmesan, Guilder, Vinegar Hill, Cronstadt, The Pope,
Merrimac, Selina filly, Dover, Robinson Crusoe, Oxford,
Croagh Patrick, Chance Shot, Jeddah, Comforter, Snap-
shot, Her Highness, Allington, Ancient Briton, Mousetrap,
Flitch, Promotion, Apollyon, Folkestone, Starlight,
Sir William, Rapture, Mademoiselle de Chantilly,
Angelo, Gabrielle d'Estriies, Light, Rupert, Mutineer,
Furious, Balham, Avalanche, Chere Arnie, f by King Tom
—Giraffe, Tomyris, Physician, M. Philippe, Duchess, The
Brewer, Nessus, Oliver, Star of the West, Lady Clare,
Benbow, Danner und Blitz, Stockade, Edmund Kean, Sir
Edward, Ripon, Lady Trespass, Sporting Life, Warrior,
Jingling Johnny, Knightsbridge, Crater, Forager, Lisbon,
Cantine, b c by Wild Dayroll—lntimidation, Sister
to St. Albans, The Prophet, Lady Louisa, Weather •
bound, Sawcutter, Ellen, Miss Eleanor, Necromancer,
Sermo, Consolation, Siberia, Reindeer, Master Begot,
General Hess, Prince Imperial, Man at Arms, Gallus,
Rising Sun, Moorhen, Rouge Dragon, Thunderbolt,
Will o' the Wisp, Mountain Nut, Little Dick, The Monk,
Contadina, Meyerbeer, Camerino, Syringe, Belleisle,
Industrious, Nativity, Seclusion,: Dreadnought, Shop-
herdesi, The Drone, Lupellus, East Sheen, Rosalind,
Canary, Letty West, Monastery, Hilarity, Doefoot,
Miss Dunstable, Amsterdam, Atropia, Tight-fit, Winton,
Captain Fortibus, Spanish Fly, Pancake, Ivanhoff, Am-
bush, f by The Nob—Brawn, Skelton, Feodorowna, High
Treason, Ericthonius, Misty Morn, Royal Sovereign,
Rockley, Voltella, Ariadne, Henham Lass, Brown Hol-
land, Mantrap, Pixie, Interest, fby Stockwell—Babette,
Jacintha, Pounce, Cramend, Neighbour, Sweetbread, Lime-
flower, Imaus, Isthmian, Ellerton, Precise, Gridiron, Blue-
stone, Bravo, Cantab, Lifeboat, Annan.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE GREAT METROPOLITAN
STAKES.—Bridegroom, Millionaire, Zodiac, Starke, Sa-
tellite, Umpire, Overton, Conscript, Mouravieff, Juno,
Sycophant, Wombat, Vancouver, Parmesan, Guilder, Cape
Flyaway, Merrimac, Joskin, Robinson Crusoe, Oxford,
Croagh Patrick, Chance Shot, Danae, Thormanby,Russ-
ley. Sweet Hawthorn, Northern Light, Rapture, Borderer,
Black Prince, Gouvieux, Pretendant, Balham, La Reux
The Rock, Pierrefonds, Chore ramie, The Brewer, Physi-
cian, Bumble Bee, Bandsman, Petra, Lady Trespass, Rosa-
mond, Jingling Johnny, Paul Clifford, Wild Dayrell,
Sister to St. Albans, The Prophet, Simla, Wallace, Somer-
sault, Ben Webster, Blue Jacket, Styria, William the
Conqueror, Pitman, Higbflyer, Crater, Moorhen, Rouge
Dragon, Black Sultan, Philip the Falconer, Mountain Nut,
Bally Edmond, Meyerbeer, South Australian, Syringe,
Belleisle, Clydesdale, Dreadnought, Yellow Rose, Timan-
dra, Betts, Canary, The Rap, Lucy, Yorkminster, Atropia,
Cross-stitch, Nicholas, Calpe, Artless, Pancake, Ivanhoff,
Simple Simon, King of Kent, High Treason, Viscount
Brignall, Rattlebone, Voltella, Henham Lass, Lovett, Man-
trap, Pixie, Interest, Pounce, Jacintha, Horror, Newcastle,
Pagoda, Rupee, Elcho, Precise, Bevis, Rollcall, Kildonan.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
STA/M.—Caps Flyaway, colt by Wild Dayrell—lntimida-
tion, Barb Pigeon, Doefoot, Scent, Industrious, Master
Begot, Highfiyer, Promotion, The Duchess, Donner und
Blitz, Pounce, .Benbow, Jacintha, Stockade, Mouravieff,
Butterfly, Rupee, Newcastle, Promised Land, Ipswich,
Croagh Patrick, Launcelot Gobbo, Rose, Henham Lass,
Bed Pole, Timandra, Moorhen, Ben Webster. Mistake,
Lovett, Horror, Lawyer, Pagoda, Dreadnought, Greta,
Yellow Rose, Miss Stewart, Parmesan, Maid of Chester-
field, Oxford, Astropia, Robinson Crusoe, Sherborne, Wild-
man, Lady Trespass, Dottorell, Weatherproof, Pedlar,
Little Dick, Tonio, Physician, Cambondo, Jeddah, Po-
darcee, Oliver, Sporting Life, Meyerbeer, Athos, Billy
Dwindles, Kildonan, Ballyedmond, Emblem, The Monk,
Simla, Eskdale, Avalanche, Siberia, by Autocrat—Elcoes
dam, Desmond, Moorcock, Black Sultan, Philip the Fal-
coner, Syringe, Belleisle, The Rap, Fisherman, Nativity,
Simple Simon, Ambush, Rover, Feodorowna, King of
Kent, Man-at-Arms, Rattlebone, Voltella, Bevis, Gridiron,
Dulcibella, Schism, Overton, Conscript, Black Diamond,
Millionaire, Bridegroom, Forager, Rapture, Guilder, Mer-
rimac, Joskin, Sycophant, Wombat, Vancover, Danae, Bor-
derer, Baliham, The Rock, Predictor, King of Diamonds,
filly by King Toni—Molly, Bumble Bee, Sister to St.
Alban's, Plumper, Paul Clifford, Wallace, Somersault,
The Brewer, Bandsman, Pitman, Cheesecake, Petra,
Springwell, El Hakim, and Rajah Brook.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDIC4P.—
Eheu, Gorsehill, Clovernook, Bayonet, Wombat, Ataman,
Vulture, Aneurin, Little Gerard, Oliver, Sweetbrier, Esk-
dale, Forager, Golden Pippen, Sheffield, Medusa, Lustre,
Jenny Longlegs, Jack Steadfast, Confidence, Rataplan colt,
Amsterdam, Estella, Libellous, Miss Emma, Misty Morn,
Mermaid, Woman in Red, Conundrum, Master Begot,
Gwellyan, Audrey, Parapet, Spicebox, Beethoven, Bab at
the Bowater, Isthmian, Cants, Annan, Walkington, Green-
wich Fair, North Lincolnshire, Foretop, Gaylad, Croagh
Patrick, Benbow, Donner- und Blitz, Corona, Steelpin,
Maid of Chesterfield, Eidolon, and Edmund Kean.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
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Lysiscote, Light, The Rock, La Reux, Merrimac, Physi-
cian, The Brewer, Crater, Sawcutter, Ben Webster, Moun-
tain Nut, Syringe, Belleisle, Betts, The Wizard, The
Rover, Feodorowna, Artless, Atropin, Weatherwitch, Vis-
count Brignall, Ericthonius, Horror, Interest, General
Kess, Pitman, Pounce, Jacintha, Rupee, Pagoda, New-
castle, Bevis, Dulcibella, Schism, Casshio, Lifeboat, Donner
und Blitz.
NOMINATION FOR THE SOKERSETSHIRE STAKES,
Somersault, Eskdale, Highflyer, Medusa,
Black Sultan,
Mountain Nut, South Australian, giringe, Belleisle,
Lady Chesterfield, Nativity, The Little Drummer,
BirMingham, Tiraandria:, Atropia, Simple Simon,
Artless, East Sheen, Feodorowna, Monastery, Ca. 117,
Lovett, Weatherwitch, Master Bagoot, Mau-at-Arms,
Pitman, Prince Imperial, Rattlebone, Voltella, Henham
Lass, Jacintha, Rupee, Elcho, Gridiron, Schism, Dulci-'
belle, Bevis. Priestess c, Cashio, My Uncle, Overton, Shatp-
shooter, Black Diamond, Mouravieff, Gauntlet, Fitz-Avon,
Russley, colt by Surplice, out of Concertina, Vinegar Hill,
M. Philippe, Robinson Crusoe, Cape Flyaway, colt by
West Australian, out of Lady Evelyn, Parmesan,
Guilder, Avalanche, Ringbono, Oliver, Almeric, Weather-
prooof, Tonio, Aneurin, Conscript, Promotion, Bivouac,
Borderer, Pfedictor, Bumble Bee, Nessus, Plumper, b c by
Whd Dayrell, out of Intimidation, Sister to St. Albans,
Lisbon, Charles 11., Newcastle, Ipswich, Bandsman, Pan,
Pagoda, Tame Deer, Farmer from Kerry, Lady Trespass,
Zaretan, Yellow Rose, Scent, Maid of Chesterfield, Bally
Edmond, Optimist, Lawyer, Little Dick, Sporting Life,
Mimic, Moorcock, Siberia, The Rock, Heiress, Physician,
The Brewer.
NOMINATIONS POR THE LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
—Anatis, Bannockburn, Bantam, Bridegroom, Brother to
Lady's Maid, Brunette, Bucephalus, Chester, Cloughbally,
Cockatoo, Concluder, Confederate, Cosmopolite, Diamant,
Doctor Leete, Doubtful, Dunboyne, Evelyn, Fairy Saint,
Franc Picard, Ghika, Goldsmith, Half-Caste, Harry,
Huntsman, Irish Emigrant, Jealousy, Jean du Quesne,
Jerusalem, Johnny, Kibworth Lass, Klimek, Killigrew,
King William, Longford, Longrange, Lord Oswald,
Lovett, Medora, Margery Daw, Marmion, Master Begot,
Morgan Rattler, M. Philippe, Napoleon, New Broom,
Newcastle, Norma, Old Ben Roe, Penarth, Prince Charm-
ing, Ralph, Red Eagle, Redwing, Romeo, Sahib, Sepoy,
Sir Charles, Sir Robert, Summerhill, The Brewer, The
Dane, The Colonel, The Comet, The Curate, The Emperor,
The Freshman, The Friar of Apshalt, The Mi
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Nell, Westminster, Willoughby, Ranthus,

The appearance of winter has now entirely dis-
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appeared in Paris and its neighbourhood.T i
The first day of
the New Year and the night which ushered
marked by a violent gale of wind, which at times almost
prevented persons from advancing n the streets. Slates,
chimney-pots, and branches of trees, were scattered about
in abundance, and in some cases the wooden stalls on the
Boulevards suffered injury, Showers of rain fell occasion-
all Yclu,ring the day,