New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-27

Cabinet-The Jamaica Massacre Again
The Cattle Plague.
from Our Special Correspondent
LONDON Jan. 10. 1866.
Like our nOvelists, the weather has become
decidedly sensational More than once of late, have
had occasion to speak Of its in the shape Of
storms BY land and sea- and now all London 10 talking
Of the great snow storm OF the dag before yesterday
IT never remember anything like It'll" is the popular
exaggeraton in the mouth Of everybodyexcepte oil the
old folk who always trump such remarks with the at
mospherio "reminiscences Of their youth "Real old
fashioned weather" "Seasonabler Something like
Winter, this were our coloquia interchanges. (By
the way how Is 1t that only apply the second adec-
tive TO dissgreeabe to ne daysD The state Of
things metropolitan was this; AL Wednesday nshs
the wind blew bitingly, while the leaaen sky fore
warned US Of o heavy downfall Of some kind or
other, and accordingly made good its menace In
tho shape of magnificent storm. We gos
up to find the streets and houseops covered to depth
OF six and eight inches and where IL had drilled 90
much as two or three ieet Inc were next 70
houses with shovel and beso the roadTays bloc ksded
and Alpine and still 1t showed and spowed, and kept
on showing" till far into the afternoon. when traffic and
th.v had reduced things their normal Winters
diton of horrible slushn this instance enormously in
creased. Cabs were scarce, then at g premium. then
upatainable omniJases crowded pedestrians misera-
bic bows exutant mails delayed aeci ents feqpent.
The commonest form Of the latter was occGioned BY
the accommodating on the telegraph wires 70 such
an extent TO tear down tue POETS % the damage OF
whatever happened TO DO beneath At the Elephant
and Castle lend Of tho road In which ve) these do
lodged means of electric communication. descending
nom the houss.tops nearly garro:ed an unueky omn
nibus driver. Others dragged man Into the Surrey
Canal; others tore off the rOof Of bnding and part Of
ws-as neatly as If cut asunder by machinery. Hard
" telegraph wire in London remained entries they lay
seross the roofs Of the houses stretching from tene
ment to tenement In great festoons Of snow. When
they reached the ground, the poce-Or hours en-
ployed 90 that duty-twised them around larDpposts
70 get them out Of the wsyfancy the Joy OF the street.
boys Oh that Leecn were alive TO 90 Justice to u IN
clock Of the Victoria Tower Westminster into that
Of the Horseguards into that at the Royal Exchange
moment 81 o'clock On tho different lines Of railway
leading into the metropolis they could hardy discern
the sgnal.posts. and had TO blow fog slgnals. The
guards the south and lines assert that
they never encountered such a sDow.storm. II will
take some days 20 repair damages Those " the tele
graph.w Tres are really uuexADped; We arc virtually
cot off from communication with the country. am
told by an adventurous friend who chose Thursday Of
all days 10 visit the Crystal atSydenham that its
appearance. during the storm was magnihcental ofa
brilliant blaze with iDnumerabe gas jets within, and
the saVlges Arctic Winter without. lie snow lay ~
inches deep the groundstbree and four feet where
it had drifted-the plants aud shrubs were hieden BY
mmepse MASSES every twig and branch being loaded,
and many broken by the supersbundant weight; the
palace was covered with snow-and over thousand
persons snjoying themselves Ti.6in T. An Arabian
a Norseinan T. gGoih my informant One would have
liked 10 have been there.
Yes erday the thermometer so low that we might
have quoted the old ballad beginning;
80 This Winter weather II wsxsth cold,
Aud frost doth freeze every hin.
And BorrGs blows bsblasts go bold,
that all our cat 70 are like 10 spill"
The last line would have been appropriate not ae d
logical deduction from the weather but run the Rim.
derpes-of which more hereafter. But to-day we have
got back TO tbaw slop AMI puddle and the streets arc
In such dstestable condition as renders being in.
DOORS with good days scrbbling before me. matter
Blu. Tor the great snow storm might have been
tempted to treat you nitally to disual supplement-
10 the accounts Of shpwreck and mercantile disaster
alluded TO in my last Our papers fairly TEEN with
them. To days journals contain report Of the eating
away ola whole feet Of fishing vessels the Devon.
shre coast with more than 100 lives lost But have
supped full Of salt water horrors and tired Of their
uo5otonous misery. Take. however. a GROWING sug-
gestion from yesterdays Tsk1raphi
The number Of wrecks which have taken place between
The Tyne and the Wear during these New Year gales a been
great and uaceSan.be that ID. ,sn,on OF chipping cir
the mttter was examined, 4 was found that slmes al the
hsy had been decsivsd b. st or lights exactly RESEMBLING
tho.s which are shown from Tyneouth Point The haIbor'
:I. for ths moath q tho Tyne flashing hight. and sI
which sursd them ruin Or Death ArsI time the Londos
Es ssa md. s.S Sy ss T.
to confirm the previous suspeion. From the evidence Of
70 The sabibitIcn Of false ishts upon the shore.
Masters Of los, vessels descrbs this sppcssncs g. bright
aAh shown regular intervals and high tho shore
the Tynsmoutb light would be- q. to bs feared there
FORE that there has been this v cad cruel Of foul play
upon the Durham coast during the four
and ernss,y indoe the demand OF tbs shipping interest,"
that the closes, inquiry should be instituted
lsndsmsn who should bear hand In the dirty tick Of
putting lighted Tar barrel at the top Of sps with board
before u 70 be Withdrawn ct regular ntetvshwhch would
be the kind OF sirssgem smpoyed-might perhaps be
Of tho dsvish dimensions Of his act But his ihng
has been dons on the Durham coast q M Il has been done
those who well acquainted With aud its daugsrs
By who could exactly picture for ali the hspdsa
ness 81 their hearts tho extent Of ne outrage they
planning They kbovfo Heaven has often spared them
sssh nshtssow sdm end shasty the black heavins
See Seventh Paae.