The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-15 00:00:00

THE FOG.

Yesterday morning the metropolis and its environs
were enveloped with a dense fog,and between eleven
and twelve o'clock it was hardly possible to walk
through the streets without danger. The shops
were lighted the same as at night, and the horses of
the stages coming into town were led by their
drivers, the lumps not proving of the slightest use.
At Hyde-park-corner one of the Brentford coaches
drove over the pathway close to the iron rails of the
Duke of Wellington's mansion. A gig, in which a
lady and gentleman were driving, came in violent
contact with the railing which surrounds the new
St. George's Hospital; they narrowly escaped with
their lives. Two young females, while crossing
from Coventry-street to Sidney's-alley,were knocked
down by the leaders of a stage-couch and were
much injured. The fog was not half so dense at
the east as at the west end of the town.

Although the fog in London yesterday morning
was heavy and disagreeable it was not so remark-
ably dense as between Hounslow and Piccadilly.
As the coaches approached Brentford the fog be-
came remarkably thick. In Brentford persons in
the middle of the street could not see the houses on
either side. The coachmen driving four horses
generally, between Kew-bridge and Hyde-park,
could not see their leaders. At Turnham-green the
driver of the Cranford coach had his lamps lighted
soon after ten o'clock, and between this latter place
and London the whole road was one scene of dark-
ness, the coachmen generally dismounting and lead-
ing their horses, or employing men to do so.; con-
sequently, there was a continual hallooing all along
the road, and it was only on approaching within six
yards of the turnpikes that they could be discovered.
At eleven o'clock severalof the usual stages stopped
at Hammersmith, or returned to Hammersmith, the
passengers or the, coachmen thinking it dangerous to
proceed. At Kensington, and Hyde-park, the fog
was equally remarkable, but it gradually abated near
Piccadilly. In Piccadilly it was not more remark-
able than usual on foggy days, Last night the fog
was more dense and heavy than it has yet been since
the commencement of winter. Men and boys, with
links, thronged the streets, and it was scarcely safe
for a foot-passenger to cross from one side of the
street to the other. To carriages the danger was
extreme. The stage-coaches were accompanied
some distance out of town by several persons with
lights; but, even thus assisted, could scarcely ven-
ture to proceed at the rate of two miles an hour.—
At an early hour of the morning we had not re-
ceived informatices of any accident, but we have no '
doubt that some must have occurred.

The new Police will, it is said, be immediately
extended to the eastern parts of the metropolis.
A Bank of England Branch Bank was opened
at Norwich on Tuesday.
STATE OF BARNSLEY.—No improvement
has recently taken place i❑ the trade of this town ; on the
contrary, a linen manufacturer there, who has lately been
doing a good deal of business, has suspended payments,
and consequently a great number of weavers have been
thrown out of employment, in addition to the number
which was before daily increasing, owing to most of the
manufacturers limiting their make,—Halifax Chroniek.