Star.
London, England, 1826-01-19 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

HANOVER, Damara 30.

At length winter is come: till two days ago, we had
such mild autumnal weather, that violets were in blos-
som in the gardens, and daisies in the meadows. In the
yanks or. the other side of the Weser, the cattle have
remained in the fields.
STOCKHOLM, Dzczagnea 27.

For three weeks past we have had a constant fog, and
the barometer WA: three or four degrees of Reaumur
above the freezing point. The fields are green, and
the violets growing in abundance ; and on Christma•
Eve we ate souse au houblon, gathered fresh, which is
considered a dainty, and not generally ate till towards
Easter. Rut seven miles from this capital, and that too
towards the South, they are travelling on sledges. The
lakes are covered with ice, and, in fact, the climate is
altogether different.
GLASGOW, JAN. 17.—Since Saturday the frost has
been exceedingly severe. The navigation of the river
is stopped, and above the bridges the ice is firm and
strong from bank to hank. The thermometer yester•
day forenoon, at ten o'clock, stood, in the neighbour-
hood of this city, at ten degrees above zero. About
mid-day yesterday it began to be more mill, and
during the afternoon the atmosphere became overcast,
indicating a fall of snow, of which a small quantity fell
during the evening. Yesterday, the Herrane Society
unanimously voted- a gold medal to Lieutenant JOHN
IHPICTT, of the 71st Regiment, for the humanity and
intrepidity displayed by him, on Wednesday, the 1 lth
instant, in saving the lives of three persons fr orn drown-'
ing in the Clyde, nearly opposite to Nelson's monu-
ment, in the Green.
FUNERAL UPON THB sailor having died 011'
board the Tender laying in the middle of the River,off the
Tower, for the reception of volunteers, it was of course
necessary to remove the body on shore for interment,,
but which it was wholly impossible to do with a boat,the
river being one sheet of ice from the ship to the Tower
Stairs ; and for several days past all persons going on
board the ship, or returning on shore, have been com-
pelled to de so by walking over the ice, and on Monday
afternoon, the body of the deceased sailor was passed
over the side of the ship and lowered down by ropes
upon the ice ; the coffin was placed on the shoulders of
four of his shipmates, who had taken their stations on
the ice at the ship's side, headed by an Officer of the
ship, who immediately spread over the coffin the Union
Jack flag. When he had done so he placed himself at
the head of the coffin, and walked before the bicly at a
slow pace, followed by the four sailors, bearing the
coffin on their shoulders, until they reached the shore;
when it was conveyed in like manner into the Tower.
Many of the old inhabitants of the Tower, and other
persons, assembled on the Tower wharf to witness this
novel and interesting ceremony, which had a very
solemn ar.d imposing effect ; and it was remarked by
oie•of the Officers of the Tower, who had resided there
for more than fifty years, that he had never even
heard of or witnessed a funeral procession upon the ice
before. The liver is so completely frozen in front of
the Tower, that the sailors are constantly walking to
and from their ships lying in the different tiers.