The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-14 00:00:00

TEE WEATHER.

Notwithstanding the weather yesterday was
rather unfavourable, the Londoners, and especially
the Sunday going-out portion, were determined not
to be deprived of the pleasure of visiting the frozen
waters in the Royal Parks, for upwards of 10,000
persons of all classes availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity. The thaw which commenced on Friday-
night and continued part of Saturday and yester-
day has scarcely made any impression upon the ice
in the Serpentine.
There were a great number of skaters also on the
Long Water, and on the waters of the Regent's
Park and St. James's Park.
In consequence of the change in the weather
which took place on Saturday, the river Medway,
which had been gradually becoming blocked up with
ice, was so far clear as to enable communication to
be again opened betvSeen the Newstairs and Chat-
ham dockyard and the Wellesley, 74, and the other
vessels of war in harbour. Owing, however, to
the intense frost there is still a peat deal of ice in
the river, and it will be some days before it has
entirely disappeared. The vessels in harbour which
were icebound have been enabled to leave, and im-
mediately the communication was made at the
dockyard by the harbourmaster that the river w.s
becoming clear the paddlewheel steamer Adder,
Mr. Minchin, second master, in charge, took the
Admiralty transport Aid, and the victualling trans-
port Ant, in tow as far as the Nore, to enable them
to proceed on their voyage to the westward.
On Saturday the weather underwent a change
for the better in Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire,
and Norfolk. A thaw commenced on Friday night,
and the thermometer having risen 10 degrees, the
snow continued to waste, although not very rapidly,
throughout Saturday. If the comparatively mild
weather should continue, the next difficulty will be
a great accumulation of water in the low lands.
The wind at Portsmouth was southerly all
Saturday and Sunday, and there were indications
of the frost giving way. On Sunday there were
slight falls of snow and sleet, and the air very cold.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A painful suicide has
been committed in a village near Warminster, in the family
of one of the wealthy farmers of the district, whose name
we suppress. The daughter, a young lady of 22 years of
age, had formed an attachment to a railway policeman, the
line running not far from the house, which acquaintance her
father and mother very strongly disapproved. It appears
that she was in the habit of meeting this person in a cottage
in the village. This transpired at home, and on the 24th
ultimo, on her having dressed for walking, she was very
strictly ordered by her father and mother not to enter any
house at all during her walk. She disobeyed this command
and went to the cottage as usual, where she had not been
long when her mother, who had been on the watch, rushed
in, and hurried her home. Arrived there, her father horse-
whipped hor, and ordered her to her bed-chamber. The
next morning she did not appear at breakfast as usual, and
all attempts at obtaining an answer from her room were
unavailing. At last the door was forced open, and the un-
happy girl was discovered lying on the floor, having taken
poison. The Bristol Post, which reports the case, states
that the nature of the coroner's verdict was not then known,
every attempt having been made to suppress the facts of
this melancholy case.