The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

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'TEOROLOGr.
The frost, which colnineheed at the beginning of last
week, continued ■early se the close of this with remark•
able severity. Independent of the degree of cold as last
dicated by thellsonnorneter, the rigour of the weather
Ives highly 'granted by the keenness of the wind,
which blew violently the thief part of this week as well
as the preceding. As an evidence of the intenseness of
the frost, it may be proper to notice, that the canal in
St. James's Park was skalted on so early as Priday scen-
ts' gh t, the river, “ where Theme* lirst ittry I grows," was
frozen over the beginning of this week, and the naviga•
don of the wider pans msteriaily impeded by the are
mulations of ice. It is also descrying notice, that the .
south-western districts of the island sdifered sooner and.
more severely in this tray than the metropolis or its
neighbourhood, and that on Wednesthty maroing last,
they were visited by a fall of snow of ma"y hours dun-
tion, which rendered the roads in 'various places, frsi
the drift, almost impassable. Thoegh the appearance ot
the barometer as well as of the aurrosphere s...dicated a
similar stjno about the same time in London, it did not
actually orctir till yesterd,ty of noon, when a heavy
shower commenced, which continued till after sit 9'elogls.
Subsequent to the snow, a sharp shower of sleet feit •ft
the evening, soon followed by a gentle Moth% with the
wind about S. B.—The lowest de.4ree at which the they.
mometer was observed during the late frost in the day-
time was on Tuesday last, between seven and eight
o'clock iu the ereiiing. The mercury tea. then for a
while at 22 deg., but it rose with great rapidity soon
after.

Among theleculisrities by which this frost was dis-
tinguished, is the circumstance that it ,r3S much earlier
anti wore rigorous in the soothers than in the north-
ern portions of the island. While we in London
were wafering all last week from the inclemency at
Use weather, the thermometer at Edinburgh, thongb
the wind blow there, as with us, from E. or
E. N. E. was never lower than 33 dog. On the first
day of the year, however, the frost at length costa
menced there. This circumstance, apparently 'strays-
dinary, admits an easy and satisfactory solution. At
Edinburgh, it must first be ob!ervell, the Geffen Ocean
is live or six hundred miles wide, and in that part of
England moth of Lonilcri, the ses, on an average, is
not more than forty. The neat point to be noticed is
the properly possessed by muses of water geners!ly df
communicatiog, as well as receiving, heat more readily
than land. In water above 43 degrees, it ha bees ob-
served by Sir Humphrey Davy, as soon as the tipper
stratum is cooled, whether by evaporations, or with %Lc
action of the wind, it sinits in the mass of fluid, and its
place is supplied by warmer water from below ; and till
the temperature of the whole mass is reduced newly to
40 degrees, the surface cannat he the coolest part. It
follows, therefore, that wherever water exists in consi-
derable masses, during the early periods of a frost, i!s
surface will be warmer than that of the contiguous
land, and that, according to the breadth of the water I r
sea, over which the frerzinx air is wafted, its sharpies%
must be proportionally mitigated by the abstraction tit
heat from tl'e aqueous and everchanging surface.
Strand, Jan. 6.

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Jan, I hi. 30 30 10 .91 Closigy
2, Tu.... 23 27 93 ,71.1 Cloudy
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DIARY FOR THE ENSUING WEEK,
WITH TMt THUS OF RICK MATSU AT 1.1),molt-111111
Jan.

7, S.--Finst 9177,113• T arias EsttwaNy.
High water—morn. 19 a. after 6; ever. SS a. sifts. J.
8. M.—kuriaa. Ploa Aloaday.
High water—morn. 67 in. atter4; attn. le te• after 3
9, T.—Night 13 hours 68 min. long.
High water—morn. ai rn. arta 8; sm.* 111. after&
10, W.—Moon sets at Midnight.
High water—morn. 21 a. after 8; 6106. 48 a. Oaf F.
11, 7'h.—Moon's First Quarter .11 worn.
High water—morn. 21 a. attar 7; even. 49 a. after'.
11, P. Jupiter sets ?el ruin. after 9.
High water—sworn. 9n. after 8; even. 44 altt. aftet ff.
111, 8. lin Cam. 'Perm begins.
High water—morn. 90 a. after 9; *wen .18 a. after 9.