Star.
London, England, 1826-01-18 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

The coachmen on the several roads, particularly on
the western and northern roads, say, that they do nut
remember a severer frog than they experienced on
Sunday night and Monday morning. Those who re-
member that of 1814, when the Thames was frozen
over, and booths raised on the ice, declare that they did
not feel it so severely, it not having come on so sud-
denly. The houses and trees in the country had a
singular appearance on Monday, owing to the combi-
nation of frost and fog, the trees, and fronts of houses,
and even the glass being covered with thick white frost,
and the glass being no more transparent than ground
glass. Half the shops in many of the country villages
were partially opened; shops that depended on 'hew-
ing their goods, found it useless to remove all the
shutters, as the thick frost on the glass rendered it
impossible for them to be seen.. The frost has also had
a serious effect on many articles of food. Oysters are
not to be obtained; at least. though a barrel may be
wanted to mid into the country, the dealers will not
warrant them. Many of the butchers, particularly in
the suburbs, where the frost of course is felt more

severely than in the metropolis, are obliged to keep
their shops shut, in order to keep out the frost ; but
many of them also carried the meat into their parlours,
I and kept it folded up in cloths round the fire, and un-
folded it as their customers might come, in and require
it. The market 'gardeners have also felt the severity of
the weather—it has stopped their labours; many of the
men, attended by their wives, are going about in
parties, with frosted greens fixed at the tops of rakes
' aid hoes, and uttering the ancient cry of—" Remember
the poor frozen slut gardeneek."
The daily extremes of Sees thermometer observed,
Seymour-place, Euston-squale, since the setting in o f
the present severe frost r—Jannary 8, from 31 to 33;
9, from 23 to SI ; 10, from 21.5 to 30.5 ; 11, from
28 to 34 ; 12, from 18.5 to SO; 13, from 17 to 29 ;
14, from 16-5 to 26-5 ; 15, from 17 to 27 ; 16, from
15 to 26. '[he density of the atmosphere on Monday,
whether for duration or intensity, has been seldom ex-
ceeded; and, united to the prevailing frost, and the
unusual state Untie streets, leas, as might be expected,
produced manic severe accidents ; but the wonder is,
, that so few comparatively occurred. Carriages, in
many places,were absolutely immoveable,simply by the
horses not being able to feel the ground; while the
darkness was so great, that no part of St. Paul's
Cathedral was visible from the western railing. Cheap
side, and the City generally, presented a scene of real
desolation; and all the msnistactories and workshops.
were obliged to use their full complement of night
lights. 'ibis can hardly be repeated without bringing
with it its natural remedy, and an abundant snow is
hourly expected by the- weather-wise. Tne weather
has since assumed every appearance of a change.
Saturday, Mr. Henry Hunt, jun. betted one hundred
guineas with a Noble Lord of sporting celebrity, that
he would drive his father's blacking van and tour blood
horses, yesterday at two o'clock, across the Serpentine,
accompanied by his two servants. At an early hoar in
the morning an unusual crowd was assembled in the
Park, and Mr. Hunt was seen in his stanhope, trying
the strength of the ice in, various places; but although
it was rumoured. that some extraordinary performance
was to take place, the particulars were known only to
the friends of the parties, and a few of the scientific. A
few minutes before two o'clock the van entered the
Park. Young Mr. Hunt was dressed suitably to the
occasion, with a white upper tog and cord kickseys ; be
wore a regular four-in-hand tile, and had all the air of
a swell slregsrears of the first water. He is a hand-
some young man; his countenance appeared flushed
with confidence, and reminded us of his father
'mac years since, when engaged in enterprises
-.ally dangerous, though of a deerent description.
few minutes before the appointed time, he drove
leo or three times up and down the grand drive, and
upon the signal being given, he boldly pushed for the
river ; his father, accompanied by some friends, had
obtained an open space about the centre of the north
bank, and Mr. Hunt preceded the van to point out the
direction his son was to take. Young Mr. Hunt sheaved
the greatest coolness; he kept the prods well together,
and tooled them over the river in a style that would
have done Sir John Lade no dishonour in his best of
days, and left behind him many a patrician aspii ant to •
foapin-isand celebrity. The two servants played Rule, AVVAIR os HONOWIL—We learn that a misunder-
Britannia, and other popular tunes, on the key bugle •
l stDaradGing of a serious
oritssuFsenature Tot race between hir.J7li—e ais4
cr.onriquelen.ceima hostilet message
and when Mr. Hunt reached the opposite bank, and was delivered to Dr. G— by
turned round to come back again, the concout se of Dr. lodged information before WILLIAM GARBUTTi Esq. who
people, skaters and others, drawn to the spot, was so , had Mr. J— 11—at arrested by the Police, and obliged him to give
great, that the most sesious apprehensions were excited, lams:writ), to keep the peace.
Wednesday,- a little boy, son of Mr. Stone, mason, of
lest, the ice should give
.way under the pressure of so
many hundreds of pers'lns. The fears of the spectators E smooth, drank from the r pout of a kettle of boiling
were, however, happily disappointed, and yi tang Jehu water, and died of the injury the tame evening.
returned to the starting-place •amid the acclamations CORN EXCHANGE, MARS-LANE, Jmniaav la. ••
of the multitude. The bank was crowded with elegant "he arrivals of Corn are but mall, and the frost contineing, no-
Ladies, in carriages and on toot, always ready to re- thing can be done ib the market. Prices may therefore he amis.
d red nominal at last quotatjoos.— Arrivals : English Wheat, -6:50
ward the courageous with their smiles. Here,• how- Boary,2.loo,fro. oaikarsoo rs. Flour, 4,500 mu? Foreign
ver, the deafening shouts of the multitude startled the Is rutty, 1,575 qrs. Oats, SIO qrs. Irish Oats, LTO qrs.

GLASGOW, ItxuAar 14.
Yesterday a number of the liegrs here amusing
themselves with skaiting on the Clyde above the timber
bridge. Between three and tout o'clock in the after.
neon, a crowd of sp. ctators were assembled on the
sides of the river, who seemed highly delighted weth
the sport that was going on, and they frequently set up
loud bursts of laughter at the amusing manseuvres. of
tie dexterous, or the halls of the awkward or incautious
sk.iters. The keeper of the Humane Society House
has ran ropes across the Clyde in different places, to be
ready in an instant in case of the ice acc:dentally giving
way.—The frost is getting mere severe than it was
at first. On Friday minting, at six o'clock, the therms.
meter in Nelson-street indicated 24 degrees; but it was
as low as 16 in the suburbs.
ABERDEEN, JAMAS! 14,
gnee our last, we have experienced the most rigorous
part of the winter, which has set in with great severity.
Thursday and Friday the snow, which lay previously
to some depth on the ground, fell in thick showers,
accompanied with a strong northerly wind, and drifted
into such deep wreaths on some parts of the roads, as
to impede travelling considerably, so that_ the mail
coaches got forward with difficulty. To the westward.
the roads are so much blocked up, that the Deeside
mail has been forwarded on horseback for these two
days, and should the weather continue so stormy as it
at present threatens, the communication in all directions
must soon be still farther interrupted, if not altoge.
ther stopped.

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