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sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we
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even had books. With the force of this prejudice on our
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authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing
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GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
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Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham.
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I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
28th Aug. 1841. ANNIE ZENIA MASSENIA.
P. S.—Sir,—l should not do you justice without stating my
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TO THEL U 11: LPC . PILLS.

No sooner is a Medicine well established in public favour
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These facts have had the effect of producing a very large sale
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therein, and forms part of the stamp ; also that the name of
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eWnarhoalev-.
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Ask for 4, Parr's Life Pills," and inquire for the little book
ahfflicted, for the iast
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ing Extraordinary Cure of Confirmed Asthma selected from
hundreds of a similar nature :
Simpson ha'
cough and difficult
thirty years, ejanrsse,pwith a violent . - Y
The affliction has been so severe that she cotlld not fulfil her
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years old, and the cough never left her till she took Parr's Life
Pills. She had tried almost every kind of medicine,
and had
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She heard of Parr's Pills about last Christmas, and as soon
as she had taken about half a box she found herself completely
cured, and was never afflicted in the slightest manner during
the severe weather that followed, and is now bow in
health
than she has ever been in her life.
This cure does indeed appeal' miraculous I but for the satis-
faction of the most incredulous, she has kindly consented to an-
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addressed to Mrs. Joseph Simpson, Church-hill Close, Old
Lenton, near Nottingham.
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2s. 9d., and I ls. eaek.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—" The Dublin election is over satis-
factorily," -is the form in which the Times '
of
this morning announces the fact "big with
the fate " of its party, that Mr. Gregory has
been declared by the partisan Sheriffs of
Dublin duly elected to serve in Parliament
as one of the representatives of that city. The
" satisfaction" which the Times professes to de-
rive from this result,will, we apprehend, be of very
short duration. The pleasing error will not be
allowed to cheat the minds of the Tories many
days after the meeting of Parliathent. The in-
quiry which must be instituted by the House of
Commons into the unfair and illegal practices by
which this mere colourable majority
.and prede-
terniined return of the Tory candidate' have, been
achieved; itilllaY.,baretheffoul tonspitacrAtelr
his-been :formed against the electOralaiglttA4tite
people: The agents Ofthat consiSiOey w lsearpelyl
escape the just vengeance -pf, the law ;
,the Go-
vernment vern mei; tor ;Which;' under whose special
patrthirige,"ibeir operations 'were will
conducted,certainly be subjeetedlio'ihe condemnation and
consequent diminution of public respect and
confidence, divested of which no GovernMent
can long exist in this country. We have in
former articles .•on:this contest. laid before: our
readers the shameless manner in Which Lord De
Grey has identified the Crown with theToryparty.
The haste—indicative ofthe anxiety with which his
Excellency looked for the arrival of a Tory candi-
date---with which, immediately on his arrival,
Mr. Gregory proceeded to the Castle--the enter-
tainment prepared for him- and his chief support-
' ers at the Vice-Regal table—the association of
Lord Jocelyn, the High Steward of the Household,
with the canvassing parties—these, and numerous
other modes ofexpressing the deep interest which
" the highest functionary in the land" took in the
contest, tended to confirm the announcement
of the Government Journals, that Lord De Grey
had " ratified" the choice of the Tories ; and
that, brought forward under such high auspices,
Mr. Gregory's return was secure! Lord De Grey
must be called upon to answer in the House of
Commons, through his Secretary, Lord
Eliot, for what appears to us, and must
appear to all who respect the Constitu-
tion, and call to mind the jealousy with
which it has provided against the interposition of
the Crown in the choice of representatives of the
people—as nothing short of a bold and daring
attempt to bias and control the proceedings of
an election; and thus to stifle the public voice,
when that voice was likely to express an opinion
unfavourable to the party with which the Lord
Lieutenant, the representative of the Sovereign,
thought proper, personally and officially, to
identify himself.
STANDARD.—It has been complained that
the Lord Lieutenant ostentatiously interested
himself for the Conservative candidate. This is
not true; and it is not even pretended that Lord
De Grey carried his favour towards Mr. Gregory
to any illegal or unconstitutional extent. But be
this as it may, however Lord De Grey may have
acted, the best judges of his Lordship's conduct,
the parties on the spot, the electors and the mass
of the people approved it. The first have returned
Lord De Grey's favourite, the others have rested
satisfied with the conduct of the Government
in the election. We do not wish to underrate
the value, of the victory as a Conservative
triumph, or to detract from the merit of the ad-
, inirable Conservatives of Dublin; but it would
be unjust to the cause of good government in
Ireland not to acknowledge the event of the late
contest as something much more and much
better than a party triumph ; it is a testimony to
the facility with which Ireland may be go-
verned, if only governed as she is now go-
verned, but as she has never been, save at brief
intervals, within the last fifty years. Here is in-
contestable proof that if the Irish people are suf-
fered by their rulers to rest, if they are not tor-
mented by officious conciliations and promises
of change never to be effected, or to be effected
at some remote period—if, in short, they are de-
fended from incendiaries and projectors, they will
not be insensible to the blessings of repose, and of a
firm and impartial administration of the law, with.
out which repose is impossible to any people. Dub-
lin surely may be taken as a fair sample of the
island ; or, if not a fair sample, the city, presided
over by Mr. Daniel O'Connell, must be regarded
as less than favourable to the Conservative side.
Yet we see with how much ease and how tran-
s Dublin has been won. The organised
Conservative bodies did their work nobly, no
doubt ; but the effect of Lord De Grey's Govern-
ment had greatly lightened their task; lightened
it so greatly, as to hold out a hope, almost
amounting to certainty, that future Conservative
victories will be ahnoscuniversal in Ireland, and
what is a prospect infinitely more gratifying, that
they will be obtained over almost unwilling op-
ponents.

krIONEY MARKET Enid CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

HERALI).—On the subject of the Almaden mines it
'would be unjust not to notice with commendation the
Sentiments expressed in the Spanish Cortes by Senores
,larliani and Gonsalez, by the latter more especially as
the Prime Minister of Spain. There is a prospect at
length that the scandalous monopoly by which Spanish
tmerica has been oppressed, by which the Spanish trea-
ury has been impoverished, and by which the iightful
property of the bondholders of Spain has been fraudu-
lently conveyed away from them, will be abolished. And
if the Spanish Government be true to the national inte-
rests it will be abolished for ever. For by what means
so sure can the ancient intercourse between Spain and
her former colonies be renewed, and a commereial pre-
nonderancy then secured, as by the exclusive possession
ind supply of an article of prime necessity, which those
zolonial but now independent states can only obtain di•
rect or indirectly from the mother country ? The mines
of Spanish America are perishing under the withering
effects of the monopoly prices now exacted, of which not
one suello enters the Spanish treasury, because the
grinding terms of contract, against moneys advanced in
time of need, cover for Spain the prime cost of extraction
only from these quicksilver mines. With these initiihs in
hand Spain may almost dictate her own terms of com-
mercial treaty with her old colonies,
TIMES,—The failure of Messrs. Hunter, Gouger, and
Co., was mentioned to-day in the City, and was a suktioct
of general regret, from the known respectability of the
house . The engagements, it is said, do not exceed
70,000/., and from the statement of the parties them-
selves, there is some reason to hope they will all be met.
Their difficulties have not arisen from any want of pru-
dence or mismanagement, as, on the contrary, they
were generally known for their steadiness and caution,
but arose out of the affairs of some of their correspond-
ents in India. Two other smaller suspensions are men-
tioned, the first of which is an absolute stoppage by
Messrs. Arnold and Woollett, stjabrokers, while it is
thought that the difficulties of illb other may yet be
surmounted.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the
Australian Trust Company which was held to-day, the
question was asked whether there was any negotiation
going on between that Company and another?—to which
the Chairman replied, that •although a proposition had
been made from the British Colonial liank and Loan
Company to the Directors, to the effect that the Trust
Company should release them both of their business and
respon4ibilities, such proposition was not entertained for
a moment, nor was there an intention of entering into
any negotiation with any other Company. The propo-
sition referred to was noticed in these cohunna in a para-
graph on the meeting of the Briti4 Colonial Bank and
Loan Company,
CIIRONICIA—Pew people, if any, now dispute the
rig,lit of the bona fide holders of the spurious Exchequer
bills to relief and compensation. The precedents fur-
nished by the opinions of our highest legal authorities,
by the decisions of our Courts of Law, and by the House
of Commons in the case of the registrar of Madras, are
conclusive in their favour, The opinion of Mr. G oul-
burn on the latter ease, then, as he now is, Chancellor
of the Exchequer, is certainly as strong and as much in
point as it is possible for language to express. We
shall not repeat the grounds on which it is clear as sun-
light that the frauds of Mr. Beaumont Smith were
facilitated by the negligence of the superior officers
of his department, It is indisputable . that, if
he had not been allowed to do much as he liked
~,-if lie had not been permitted to have the free
and unbridled use of the official seal and Go-
vernment paper, his crime could not have been
committed. That fact, indeed, is not denied. It is ac-
knowledged that a traitor within was little expected, and
was " inadequately guarded against," and that "blank
forms were accessible to Mr. Smith at his convenience,
and the stamp was by him in the office." So far from
any suspicion being entertained of fraud out of doors, it
is not too much to say, in the words of the author of the
" Case " lately published, that "during the six years
Smith's fraud was carried on, almost every banker and
money-broker in London and the East India Company must
have held some of the bills he issued ; that the Bank of
England could not have passed through its hands in the
varisus deposits and redemption, less than half a million
of these bills ; and that in th Very month of October it
held 70,0001., of which 8,0004 now remains in its hands
unrcdeftned." Government itself, in the recent fund-
ing, has, it appears, taken a considerable amount of
them ,in payment for scrip, without detecting any
difference in them. The Government, it is true, has
since demanded other bills in their stead but this is a
claim which, under,
the ---,:4;llls4oice, every lawyer says,
min9,t 11().111a114 040(11' The bona fide holders have been
OrgliAWthUke sPuriottil bills entirely through the ne-

PRICE 5d

gligence of the officers of the Crown ; and the opinion of
Mr. Goulburn, in such circumstances, is—
That upon every principle of, ustice, and in refer-
ence to former precedents to which allusion has 'been
made, the Government is bound to make good the loss of
the claimants. I hold this opinion upon principle, be-
cause I feel that a Government which shrinks from sa-
tisfying even the doubtful claims of persons who have
sustained a loss by the negligence of a public officer,
does not sustain its character tir justice and liberality,
if it relies on any technical objection, in opposition to the
claims of the parties."—Mirror of Parliament, Vol. 111.

FRANCE. •
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, JAN. 29.—The debate in the Chamber of De-
puties on the Address is unusually long this year, and
without being characterised by any struggle of parties
on great or fundamental principles has been marked by
much petty, anlinOsity -and 'ittittabbling. The Ministers
eve, however, cairriW'Uterititoittial by strong nuierities,
and vedl4lo dclibt, _remain !At- 9ffiee till the end. of ;01;
Session, if not longer.. Their opponents are a,ll,divided,
'and' are too much ovequpied,With theit own rivahies to
be able to unite Wiiiirivelkombjned plan for pier-
throwintr,the Cahltiet.r otheisiise there is no doubt
sufficient dislike afloat • to dislocate the Geturninent,
though the country would gain little in honesty or ability
by a change. It is reported to-day that Ministers have
already made up their minds to have a general election
next summer : the Chamber has only one year more to
run before it is dissolved de facto, and it is supposed that
a certain degree of additional strength may be obtained
by going before the electors in July, if by that period
the Prefects have arranged and doctored the electoral
lists acording to their instructions from Court.
The financial measures of the Session will turn prin-
cipally upon railroads • but it is not expected that more
than two or three of the long lines will be actually voted.
That from Paris to Lille and the Belgian frontier . the
small line from Marseilles to the Rhone, near Beaucaire;:
and the Strasburgh line ; these are all which are likely
to be definitively proposed by Ministers as lines to be
undertaken by Government. There will be a branch to
Boulogne-sur-Mer from the first line, so that communi-
cations between Paris and London will certainly be much
expedited within the next three or four years. We may
add that the Paris and Rouen railroad is going on ac-
tively, and will be opened nextyear.lts shares have risen
considerably in the Paris market within the last two or
three days. There is a push making among the Deputies
of the south-western departments to get a Government
grant for prolonging the Paris and Orleans railroad in
two directions—one to Bordeaux, and the other to
Nantes. A meeting has been held of the Directors of
the latter line, and an interview with the King has been
the consequence. His Majesty, we have reason to know,
has expressed himself strongly in favour of the immediate
prosecution of the undertaking, but has not committed
himself, nor given any specific promise, beyond
that of offering to urge the point on the Mi-
nister of Public Works and the Cabinet. If France
gives herself up seriously to these great undertakings,
and if she would be persuaded to put her false pride in
her pocket, and abandon the ridiculous plan of fortifying
Paris, she would do more to promote her internal pros-
perity, and to give fresh vigour to the nation, than by
anything else effected since 1815.
The great scandal of the day is the affair of M. Le-
hon, which: is only another of the many proofs afforded
since 1830 of the low state of morality in the middling
and upper classes of French society. M. Lehon was
one of the most respectable men in Paris only a few
months ago ; hand and glove with Montalivet and all
Louis Philippe's people, and whose credit was as good as
the Bank of France. One of his unfortunate creditors
acknowledged the other day on the trial that he had
suspected affairs to be going badly with M. Lehon for
some time before the blow-up took place, but that he
dared not say anything about it, since an action for
libel would have been immediately brought against him,
and the damages, which a complaisant and packed Jury,
such as is always to be found in Paris, would, no doubt,
have awarded, would have ruined him. The Journal des
Debuts is remarked to have hardly made any report of
this infamous affair, though all the other Journals have
given the proceedings at full length. The reason is,
that the editor is an intimate friend of Lehon. This
man will undergo his five years' imprisonment, and that
will be all ; for his friends will compromise the matter
with the four creditors, on whose suit he has been con-
demned, and he will get off with what is a ver.y inade-
quate penalty. Meantime his brother and his sister-in-
law affect grand airs, and show themselves even at Court,
and where by the way one, if not both, of them have
more titles than one to appear, and bid defiance to the
world. This condemnation of Lehon to such a slight
penalty for one of the most serious crimes that can
affect a civilized society, and the sentencing of Dupoty ,
for an imaginary crime, not even proved, and not even in-
cluded in his original indietment,—these two cir-
cumstances, coining one after the other, have pro-
duced a profound effect on the thinking part of the
people, and have revealed the existence of a degree
of political baseness and more weakness, which perhaps
was not before suspected. The affair of Madame La-
farge—though she was as unjustly condemned as Dupoty
has been— and the previous affair of Peytel, the notary,
who murdered his wife and servants—to say nothing of
the trial of General the Marquis de Brossard, or the
we are
affair of General Bugeaud, and the " boudjous " re-
ceived fromAbd-el-Kader—all these trials are such inns-
sptuFt, the
trations of the manners and morals of the middling a
upper classes in France as cannot be witriTEssu::::,:.;;
nd
inclined to believe, in any other nation
Louis Philippe
...Tarter° I He prefers pas-
as quietly as his conscience will
singwlAl . theS nota
ifirvgeaht Or sh affairi
evens
daga;iirs
let him, and he Ifaves all future troubles to his next heir.
We repeat our prediction that the Duke of Orleans, on
coming to the throne, will be found to adopt a war policy,
and, as a young man, he will not hesitate to run the risk
of foreign aggressions as the only means
.of preserving
his throne. The Members of the Spanish Cortes, it
will be perceived, speak out pretty boldly against France,
because they on their side know that that there is no
danger of a French army marching to Madrid to demand
reparation. In one respect the Spanish and the French
Deputies show themselves quite of the same mind, and
muoh to their disgrace. Thus both vituperate Great
Britain to the best of their abilities for her endeavours
to suppress the slave trade, and declare that she is grasp-
ing thereby at additional power on the sea. How in-
consistent is this on the part of Assemblies professing
to call themselves Liberal I The only persons who have
spoken boldly in defence of England are Marshal Se-
bastiani and M. Mendizabal.

The Paris papers and the Parisian salons have been
universally devoid of news for the last few days,
public attention being much turned to the ceremonies of
the christening of the Prince of Wales. The good people
on this side of the water have no idea of what a good side-
board of plate is, and therefore the accounts of the banquet
at Windsor have filled them with astonishment. Musical
parties are all the rage in the French capital at the present
moment, and the musical work\ is all on the gui vive in
consequence. The grandest parties in Paris are
those of the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Duke de
Serra Capriole, who has got the fine Hotel Beauveau in
the Faubourg St. Honore, and who admits only the
height of fashion among his guests. The Prussian and
Austrian Ambassadors being absent, and Lord Cowley
being one of the quiet species, there is hardly any gaiety
in the diplomatic world ; and as Paris always takes the
tone from the Ambassadors, this has had a damping
effect on the Capital in general.
We never saw Paris dirtier than at the present mo-
ment ; alternations of snow and frost and thaw and rain
have accumulated such a mass of snow and mud in the
streets, that to walk is almost impossible. The only clean
bit of pavement in the Capital is that which is laid down
in wood on the English fashion in the Rue Neuve des
Petits Champs, and this is tolerably decent.

THE HURRICANE IN IRELAND.

LOSS OF LIFE.

aboo
St sh
a f ,
the fatalk
of The
idfaoyl Thdei s
rt roeosis. ino gf cire.o()u
effects
of the late storm, are copied from the Limerick Reporter
:
buried his daughter Hannah in its fall ; she has been ex-
tricated, but life was extinct, and the inquest on her
dreadfully mutilated body returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death." In the adjoining house Mrs. Sarah Jane
Dunne, the wife of one of the day police, had both her
legs badly fractured, and the abdomen and back severely
contused. She was convoyed in a pitiable state to Bar-
rington hospital, where she lies in a very precarious con-
dition, though some hopes are entertained ofher recovery.
In one house in John-street five persons were buried
beneath the mine, all of whom escaped with some imma-
terial bruises. In John-street, Francis Peaford had his
thigh badly fractured. In the same street Mary Pea-
ford received a severe contusion of the back. In Corn-
wallis-street, Bridget Fallaher was severely wounded in
the leg above the ancle. All these were removed to
Barrington's Hospital, where they remain under the care
of the attending surgeons and physicians. In Mary-
street, Mary Smith, the wife of a shoemaker, was killed.
An inquest was held during the day, and a verdict of
" Accidental Death" returned.

The chimney of a house in the English Town fell in,
carrying away the roof to the first floor, and killing a
woman of the name of Smyth.
It is said that the village of Murroe was nearly demo-
lished ; and at Askeaton a house fell, killed one man,
and severely fractured another.
At Cork four poor women were buried by the fall of a
wall in their dwelling. Judith Cunningham had her
right leg literally smashed in two, while the right temple
was opened, which must have caused her death ; she
was borne to the shop of Mr. Jones, apothecary, where
she expired in a few moments. The others, Mary and
Ellen Sullivan, and Mary Collins, were each frightfully
bruised and mangled. They were conveyed as soon as
possible to the South Infirmary ; the second of the suf-
ferers has since died. Another poor creature, Ellen Sul-
livan, of St. Barry's, lies in a most precarious state,
having both her legs fractured, a severe injury of the
head, and many contusions of the body ; but little hopes
are entertained of her recovery.

INDISPOSITION OF M. BLAKE, ESQ., M.P.
--Our youthful Representative, Mark Blake, Esq., of
Ballinafad, lies dangerously indisposed from the serious
effects of influenza and inflammation of the lungs. The
most distinguished physicians are in daily attendance on
Mr. Blake, and we believe they are inclined to think his
ease not altogether hopeless.—Mayo Telegraph.

_
CLOSE„ of the DUBLIN ELECTION.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY NIGHT.—At five O'clock the
Assessor ordered the booths to be closed and the polling
books 'to be carried in. As the books were being com-,:t
pared, Mr. Smith (agent for Lord Morpeth), addressing
the Assessor, announced that there were 400 voters'
ready to be polled for Lord Morpeth.
Mr. KELLER (the Assessor) reminded Mr. Smith that
after five o'clock no votea could be recaired.
Mr. SMITE—WeII, Sir, I tender them.
Mr. KEATING, oil the part of the Conseil atire can-
didate, having protested against the interruption, and
Mr. PIGOTT (late Attorney-General) having stated, with
some warmth, that this course had not been pursued
at the last el‘ttion, a conversation ensued, which was
ended by
The ASSESSOR, who decided that, according to the
Act of Parliament, he could receive no votes after fir.
o'clock on the fifth day. At half-past six o'clock ki.
announced the day's poll to be as follows :
Mr. Gregory 302
Lord Morpeth
43

Majority
The HIGH SHERIFF then entered tha Court-house,
anti proclaimed the state of the gross poll to be—
Mr. Gregory
Lord Morpeth 1,435

Gross majority for Gregory ...... :190
Mr. Gregory having been in the usual form- declared
the successful candidate, the Hon. Mr. Howard and Mr.
ex-Attorney-General Pigott addressed the assembly,
who shortly after quietly dispersed.
PUSEYISIVI AND POPERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ,WUN.
Sin—ln an article in your paper of the 25th on Mr.
Wackerbarth and his pamphlet; you very shrewdly con-
jecture that he has not made his laSt recantation. As I
was a student at Cambridge ;at the same time as. Mr.
Wackerbarth, and as his career there was not less sin-
gular than it has been since he left it, perhaps it may be
of use to your readers to know something more about him.
He had the unusual notoriety of belonging to three
colleges, being first at Trinity, then migrating to
Corpus, and then to Queen's.
He was a young man of fink-Isle in languages, music,
&c., but_ always intemperate in the expression of his
opinions—very Tory, and very High Church. For a
short interval he was bitten with the Evangelical or Low
Church doctrines, but this did not last long. He soon
returned to his first 10ve,,, to the Saxon Chronicles and
the Roman Missal.

The Bishop of Lichfield, whose censure he fell under,
was his College tutor, and is doubtless alluded to in the
passage you quote as the person who got into the apos-
tolic order " as the pay of simonious electioneering
service." Manet alta mente repostum, Judicium Paridis,
spretavue injuria forma.
But peace to the ashes of his Anglican Priesthood. ne
is at all events an honester man than Dr. Pusey, who
holds his own Church in the same contempt 'as the " civil
engineer," but has not the courage to fling a shell into
its batteries.—Your obedient servant,
Jan. 29, 1842. A UNIVERSITY MAN.

THE STORM IN THE NORTH.
ABERDEEN.—On Saturday last, the wind having gone
round to S.S.E., with snow, we had a dreadful storm,
which continued, without abatement, till Sabbath,
when the gale moderated a little ; but, on Mon-
day evening, it increased, and all night raged with
great violence. The snow had now fallen so severely,
that all the roads were more or less blocked up, and
communication much impeded. The Edinburgh mail of
Tuesday morning did not reach the Post• office .here till
about four, P.M.—about nine hours out of course ; the
evening mail arrived about half-past seven.
HUNTLEY, JAN. 27.—We have had a most tremen-
dous storm of snow here. The roads are now partly
cleared, but the mails are far behind their time. Yes-
terday was intended for a cattle market here, but so
dreadful was the drift, that not an animal appeared on
the ground. Towards night, rain fell in torrents, and
the streets were almost impassable.