The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-19 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

In order to supply the deficiency created in the
Royal Regiment of Artillery by the late removal
of the ith brigade Garrison Artillery to Que-
bec, the 11th and 14th brigades Field Artil-
lery to Bengal, the 12th brigade Garrison Artillery
to the Mauritius, and the 13th brigade Field Artil-
lery to Bombay, and•with a view of re-establishing
the home strength of the- corps according to its
original proportions, it is stated that the Horse
Guards have decided on appointing an equal number
of new brigades with the greatest possible expedi-
tion. Additional recruiting parties will accordingly
be despatched throughout the various districts
already established for the service, with instructions
to apply themselves 'with the most persevering
energy to raise the requisite number of competent
men ,and forward them to head-quarters ,Woolwich,to
be enrolled. 54 first-class cadets have passed satis-
factory. examinations at the Military Academy,
Woolwich, and immediately after the half-yearly
exhibition on Wedvesday next they will be gazetted
to commissions in the corps of Artillery and the
Engineers.

SNOW STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE.

The village of Crooke, near Durham, was visited
on Wednesday afternoon with a storm of snow and
wind of unusual violence. About five o'clock, J. F.
Adamson, a farmer, proceeded on his return jour-
ney to his home, a distance of between seven and
eight miles, to Quebec, near Esh Loud. A quarter
of an hour afterwards, he was killed by a train of
eighteen empty coal waggons, engine, and tender
passing over his neck, severing the head from the
body, except as it hung by the skin. It is supposed
that deceased was blinded by the falling damp
snow, and the wind blowing in hisface ; that whilst
walking along the line he trod on two loose rails,
when his feet slipped, and he fell with his body
across the railway, his headinside the rails. In con-
sequence of the engine jerking, the engine man's
fears were excited, andhe attempted by signals, &c.,
to call the gatekeeper's attention,but unsacessfully.
On his return with another train, search was
made, and the body was found. In the breast coat
pocket a broken medicine bottle, labelled, was dis-
covered, which was taken by the policeman to the
different shops, by which means he was identified.
Dece'ased was 42 years of age, and leaves a wife and
adopted son to naGurn his loss,
Our Shields correspondent writes on Thursday
forenoon:—" The counties of Durham and Northum-
berland have been visited, since daylight yesterday
morning, by one of the heaviest snowstorms expe-
rienced in these parts for some time. It is now lying
very deep in the hill districts and down on the
coast, and in some parts it has drifted up several
feet. Several of the colliery waggon ways have been
partially blocked up by snow, and difficulty has
been felt in passing from town to town. The wea-
ther has been very cold, the wind blowing from the
north-east, and yesterday the thermometer in this
town indicated four degrees below the freezing point.
Yesterday afternoon the view seaward from Tyne-
mouth Point was very grand and impressive. The
entire seaboard was covered with a mantle of snow,
and the distant Cheviots were also wrapped in their
winter's mantle ; the North Sea was breaking with
great fury on the North Pier and across Shields
Bar, the sky seaward being almost of an indigo
colour, the north-east gale bringing up blinding
showers of snow, which made it exceedingly diffi-
cult for the pilots to keep their look-out. So dark
and stormy was the afternoon at three o'clock that
the lights on the coast had to be put up, to assist
vessels making for the harbours. The Shields life-
boats were ready for any emergency, but the few
vessels that attempted to run for port were got in
in ssfety by clever seamanship. Some light vessels
- that had got down as far as Shields Bar were ob-
,. liged to put about and run for Bridlington. Bay.
~The weather is a little milder this morning."

The Journal du Loiret announces the setting at
liberty of Capt. Doineau from
the prison of Tours. It may
be remembered that he T,as condemned taking part in
the death of an Arabian chief.
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