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considered as open, as we learn 

 that the mail-coach passed through 

 Huntingdon on Monday. The 

 snow is still very deep between 

 Fuckeridge and Airington, but 

 much of the latter part of that 

 road has been cleared by the ex- 

 ertions of Lord Hardwicke, who 

 has had a new constructed plough 

 for clearing the road at work since 

 Friday, with very great effect. 



About two o'clock this morning 

 an alarming fire was discovered in 

 Denmark-street, St. Giles's, which 

 threatened destruction to the ad- 

 jacent neighbourhood, in conse- 

 quence of the difficulty of procur- 

 ing water, the plugs being so com- 

 pletely frozen that the firemen 

 were scarcely able to produce any 

 impression upon the obdurate ice. 

 One unfortunate female, through 

 extreme anxiety for some property 

 which she had left in her apart- 

 ments, imprudently lost her life in 

 attempting to recover it, the roof 

 falling in at the moment of the 

 attempt. Five houses were com- 

 pletely destroyed. 



20. The brig Venus, of Yar- 

 mouth, was driven on shore in a 

 tremendous gale, half a mile to 

 the southward of that pier ; her 

 large draught of water prevented 

 her approaching nearer the land 

 than two hundred yards. Every 

 effort to rescue the crew, by the 

 ordinary methods, was attempted 

 without success. At last the naval 

 officer of the signal station brought 

 the apparatus invented by Captain 

 Manby down to the beach. At 

 the second fire, the shot with the 

 line attached to it was thrown 

 from the mortar over the vessel. 

 The facility with which the crew 

 were then disengaged from their 

 danger was admirable, and de- 

 served d«tail. By the line, with 



which communication had been 

 gained, a hawser was drawn from 

 the ship (in which it was made 

 fast) to the shore, and distended 

 by the efforts of the numerous 

 spectators ; the crew were then 

 brought to land, one by one, in « 

 sling that passed from the ship to 

 the shore, by lines reaching to 

 either ; and ran, with ease, along 

 the hawser by a ring, made of 

 rope, called a grommet. The 

 storm was of such extreme severity, 

 that if the crew had not been thus 

 saved, the poor wretches, suppos- 

 ing them to have escaped drown- 

 ing, must have been frozen to 

 death. 



Liverpool. — During the last 

 three weeks there has been a more 

 rigorous and continued frost, ac- 

 companied by occasional falls of 

 snow, than has been experienced 

 for a considerable period in this 

 part of the country. The quan- 

 tit)' of ice, which has been accu- 

 mulating in the river Mersey, has 

 given it a most novel and curious 

 appearance, but rendered the pas- 

 sage extremely hazardous. The 

 market-place on Saturday pre- 

 sented a very uncommon appear- 

 ance, being entirely destitute of 

 poultry and vegetables, and fur- 

 nishing but an extremely scanty 

 supply of any other kind of pro- 

 visions. Nearly every kind of 

 labour without doors is at a stand, 

 and a considerable degree of dis- 

 tress has been created amongst the 

 lower orders of society. 



21. Shrewsbury — The severity 

 of the frost for the last fortnight 

 has not been exceeded by any that 

 has preceded it for many years. 

 The river Severn is frozen over, 

 and in the vicinity of this town 

 has been covered with skaiters. 



In London tlie great accumu- 



