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pelted to diverge from the high road snd pass
fallow land, and ploughed fields, which they ef-

fected with lea's difficulty than might be imagined, from the load

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the drift, and which sopert .tly changed theaspect of the coun-
try, that the mail was obliged to work from farmhouse to farm-
house, as the only marks to direct it, for a space of three hours,
during which it only progressed six miles. The Exeter De-
fiance coach was also detained from similar causes, and, in-
stead of arriving in London at 3 o'clock on Sunday after-
noon, only reached the metropolis at 12 o'clock on Monday.
To such an extraordinary depth had the drift taken place at
the White Hart, Andover, that two gentlemen who only
wanted to proceed the distance of three miles were detained
two days. Upon the first essay which they made they en-
gaged a postchaise, but had not proceed above a mile when
it was found necessary to cut the vehicle out. On the se-
cond attempt which they made they had to take the horses
out of the chaise and return on their backs; and in another
instance a party engaged a gig, but met with a similar dis-
aster. _ _

On the south-eastern part of the country similar serious
effects were felt from the drift, particularly in the neighbour-
hood of Ashford, which prevented the mails, both up and
down, from reaching their respective destinations on Satur-
day night and Sunday morning, as the road was completely
blocked up between Dover and Ashford.
The cross mails and coaches to and from the Great Wes-
tern stations met with a similar obstruction, amongst which
may be enumerated the different branches, particularly the
Exeter and Taunton, which could reach no further than
Honiton, although it made repeated attempts. The Maid-
mstoonrneinegoaact 9 h,
o'clock,whe with great difficulty (the snow several
times the Bull and Mouth on Saturday
times being as high as the backs of the horses) reached as
snow
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far as Farningham, when it was obliged to return to Lon-
don seugers. The coach started again on Mon-
also visited the neighbourhood of Chat-
day morning, and was entitled to get through its journey.
The wit
no stormas
ham on Friday night and Saturday. During the whole of
' " arday the weather was extremely boisterous, the wind
hurricane from the east, drifting the
In some places the public streets
During Friday and Saturday the

blowing a .complete
snow several feet in

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ugmented the tide that it Over-
lowed several hundred acres of land, and in Strood the
water flowed up the high roads, overflowing cellars, par-
lours, and shops, causing considerable injury to much pro-
perty. Any communication for foot-passengers was stopped
between Rochester and Strood until the tide returned. The
same circumstance occurred at Gillingham, travellers were
there conveyed in carts to and fro for some distance. Be-
tween Sheerness and Chatham the river overflowed the sea
walls, and bursting into the marches presented one sheet of
water for several miles in extent and breadth. The Dock-
yard wall, the gun-wharf, and other places, the waters
rushed fearfully over, On Saturday morning the stage-
coach, on its road to Maidstone, near to Fort Clarence,
became so imbedded in snow that considerable labuor was
required to dig it out. The coach was obliged to return
again to Rochester. The mail cart from Maidstone to Ro-
chester was also obliged to he dug out of snow six feet in
depth.

On Monday 150 men were employectto clear the road from
Foot's Cray to Farningbam, &c., which was completely
choked up by the heavy fall on Friday and Saturday. The
Favourite coach, from Maidstone to London, was obliged to
stop at Farningham on Saturday afternoon, and remained
all night. At Farnborough the snow was 16 feet deep in the
vicinity of the police-station. All the hilly part of the dis-
trict of West Kent was nearly in the same condition. Since
the thaw the lirnekilns at Lewisham have been inundated ;
and on Monday the waters were so high from the drains hav-
ing been choked, that for some time many people could not

get in or out of their house

FACTORY PROSECUTION .—CAUTION TO MILLOWNERS.—
At the Justice of Peace Court, held in Glasgow, on the 15111
curt., Mr. John Houston of Claythorn•street Weaving Fac-
tory, was charged at the instance of Charles Balfour, Super-
intendent of Factories, for infringing the Factories' Regula-
tion Act, by employing a child under thirteen years of age,
and keeping or allowing him to remain in the factory for
more than forty-eight hours a-week, or nine hours a-day,

without a surgeon's certificate of age, schoolmaster's voucher,
or registration of the child's name in the register of workers
and time register, as required by the rules of said statute ;
and as these charge were established to the satisfaction of
the Court, the defender was convicted accordingly, and found
liable in £3 of penalties, besides £5 4s. Gd. of costs.

A very unaccountable noise or explosion, like as if a vast
quantity of gunpowder had been fired under water, was heard
in Lisburn and the surrounding neighbourhood, on Sunday
last, about ten minutes before three o'clock in the afternoon.
I have made inquiry from several persons, some of whom live
and were upwards of seven miles distant, and yet heard it as
distinctly as it was heard here by many ; all of whom agreed
with me that it was not like thunder, as it was one astound-
ing sound; nor was it like the noise of cannon, except one
hundred cannon fired at one simultaneous discharge, and it
being on Sunday it could not have been that in all proba-
bility. A gentleman who dined with me on Sundsy also re-
marked it, and he said it was very much like what preceded
an earthquake he had felt when in the West Indies.—Ulster
Times.

FATAL AVALANCHES.—The neighbourhood of Chamouni
has suffered exceedingly this year from the fall of avalanches.
On the 15th of January, in particular, a great number came
down, and considerable damage was effected. At Ouches,
between the baths of St. Gervais and Cbamouny, the dead
bodies of a father and his three daughters have been dug out.
The mother and another daughter were found alive. At St.
Nicholas a young girl was killed by the fall of a mass of snow
from Mont Joly, and, by another fall, the steeple of the
church of Valorsine was thrown down, and the roofs were
stripped from the church and the house of the cure. This
fall was followed by several others, so that from Argentieres
and Vallorsine, a three hours' journey, nothing can be seen
but masses of snow, the bridges, houses, and trees having
totally disappeared. A village not far from Megere was
totally overwhelmed, and fourteen persons were killed.

COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF AIANUFACTURES AND RAW
MATERIAL.—The decrease of our exports in manufactured
goods on the one hand, and the increase which, on the other,
has of late years taken place in the amount of raw materials
sent out of the country to be manufactured in other lands,
may be taken as one way of accounting for the distress and
suflering:which exist throughout the country, and more par-
ticularly in the manufacturing districts. It appears from
Burn's Commercial Glance, that the amount of cotton yarn
exported from this country in 1841 was 115,665,4881 b., and
in 1842, 136,537,1621 b., showing a progressive increase in the
exports of raw material. In 1842 the total quantity of prin-
ted and dyed calicoes exported from England was 278,748,275
yardr, and in 1842, 236,012,641 yards ; showing the decreas
in the manufactured exports. The exports of cambrics show
a falling off of full 50 per cent. upon a comparison between
the same two years.

REFUSAL OF CERTIFICATE TO MR. JOHN WRIGHT, THE
LATE BANKER, OF LONDON.--In this case we are happy to
state, that the certificate was absolutely refused ; and we hope
this precedent will be invariably followed, for no banker can
possibly become a bankrupt if he adheres to his legitimate
business, and does not absorb the funds intrusted to his safe
custody by personal extravagance. The banker stands in a
position distinct from every other trader; deposits form no
part of his own proper capital, and nothing can justify him
in speculating with the property of his constituents. We
must also look to the injury inflicted by the failure of a bank-
ing house, involving as much ruin, in many cases, as the
siege of a town, rendering families as desolate as when de-
prived of husbands and fathers by the extermination of war.
The judgment we have noticed has done honour to our
judges, and given unmixed satisfactiorr to the commercial
world.—Sentinel.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—During the late heavy gales
a vessel, supposed to be the Salus, of Greenock, was wrecked
on the island of Innistrahull; part of the stern-post 'of a
small boat, having that name cut on it, was washed ashore
with other pieces of the wreck. It was thought that she
must have been disabled, and had lost her sails and rigging
long before she was driven on the rocks of Innistrahull, as,
with the exception of a part of one mast, none of the masts
or any parts of the sails or rigging could be seen along the
coast. So complete was the wreck, that the coast-guards of
the different stations who went to see her did not consider it
worth their pains to stop by her. A few barrels of ale or
porter, from 20 to 30 webs of striped calico, which was much
damaged by being tossed on the rocks, some new blue Scotch
bonnets, and a considerable number of spools of thread, were
washed ashore, but as yet no intelligence respecting the crew
has been procured. They are supposed to have perished.—
Ballyskannon Herald.

BIRTH IN THE SNOW.—A few days since a young woman
namedsides Janet
Farr,.
twas on her way to her father's, who
accompanied by her sister and a young man
ree Campbell,
named Agnus Gordon. When about two miles past Lead-
nogullem (it was then ten o'clock at night,) she felt the
pains of labmir, and Gordon immediately started off to pro-
cure assistance, leaving the woman, with her sister, behind.
The snow at this time was lying
deep in the roads, and it was
with the greatest difficulty a cart could travel over it. When
the man got back again with blankets, &c., and a bed to
place the woman upon in the carts he found her lying on the
snow in the middle of the road, having been delivered of a
fine boy about a quarter of an hour previously ! Her sister
stood by her in the greatest distress of mind, 4and nearly
perished with the cold, having`Stripued off almost the whole
of her own clothes to put about the young mother and her
infant son. The parties were carefully removed, and both
mother and child are doing remarkably well.—John o'Groal
Journal.

CUTTING BOTH WAYS.-Mr. M. Corbally, one of the
members for Meath, having been applied to for his sub-
scription to the funds of the Trim Repeal Association, the
hon. gentleman, being one of the " aristocratic whigs," and,
as such, opposed to separation, in the course of hs reply thus
very ingeniously screens himself from the consequences of a
refusal to contribute to Alderman O'Connell's plethoric mo-
ney bags :—" Had the object in view of that body," says Mr.
Corbally, " been merely ;o carry on the agitation for the re-
peal of the union, I frankly confess that, with the opinion
which I conscientiously hold on the subject, I could not have
complied with their request; but as the intention conveye d
in ybur letter is to appropriate the money to the purchase of
books, &c., which will tend to enlighten the minds of the
people on the great question of the repeal of the union, I
have great pleasure in sending the enclosed, being desirous,
as I hope I shall always be, to place in the hands of my con-
stituents the means of judging for themselves on a question
of such importance, on which there are such conflicting
opinions, but upon which all true Irishmen (and I trust I am
one) wish to come to a just conclusion." In responding to
the cry for " money," Mr. Corbally may rest assured that
he has come to the very wisest "conclusion " he could under
the circumstances.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING

SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OP GOOD HOPE, Sre.
Anglesea, Fl Rowland, 206 China, W & J Tyrer

-
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Frances, E R Sharp, 333 Port Phillip & Sydney, H Fox & Grice

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Triunfante, M dr Menchaca, 229 Havannah, J T Nickels
Mersey, J Houston, 327 Jamaica, C Lawrence & Son

SOUTH AMERICA.
Ann Best, J Maychell, 331 M Video & B Ayres, Rodger &Co

UNITED STATES,

Liebe, W B Wright, 450 New York, J& W Robinson
Jessie Miller, W Crowder, 332 Halifax, N S, Cannon, Miller &Ce

BRITISH AMERICA.
South Esk, B Wishart, 246 Montreal,
Prudence, J Barron, 281 St John, N B,
Sarah Ann W Fortune, 377 St John, N B,

Fielden Bra
Strong & Reid
J S Burrell

EUROPE.
Barnard Castle Packet, J Finlay, Stettin, Bahr, Behrend &Co

Emparts.

EUROPE,

William, (282) W Allen, from Alexandria, 510 bales cotton, order
—5OO do, R Zwilchenbart and co-250 do, Carne and Telo-37 do,
Gower, Nephew and co-300 qrs beans, 67 bales 1 parcel flax, 7
bales sen na, order—Q D

DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND
DISEASE OF THE HEART.

TVarren-street, corner of Russell-street

WEEKLY REPORT.—FFBUARY 18.
Received Advice and Medicine 316 cases. Cases.
Relieved Spasmk,dic Asthma 23

Spitting of Blood
Inflamation of the Lungs
Palpitation of the Heart
Incipient Phthisics
Confirmed Consumption

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