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man had learned no tidlno-s of the mail, and refused 

 to go out again on any such exploring mission. 



''Brighton, Monday. — All this part of the country 

 is at the present moment buried in snow. A stable- 

 man was picked up in Black Lion Street last night 

 by the police, frozen to death ; another, an old man, 

 named Freeman, dropped dead in the street from 

 sheer cold. The ' Times ' coach, which leaves London 

 at four o'clock and generally arrives here a little 

 after nine, did not get in till twenty minutes past 

 eleven, being for the last fifteen miles of the journey 

 clogged up by the snow. The Gloucester mail, which 

 ought to have been in by five o'clock yesterday 

 afternoon, was obliged to stop on the road, and the 

 guard and the coachman reached this town only at 

 one o'clock this morning, having brought the bags 

 in a cart along the beach ; they were, however, so 

 affected by the cold that the guard now lies, it is 

 feared, in a dying state. The mail started as usual 

 for London last night, but had not got three miles 

 before it was obliged to return. A King's messenger, 

 who had important despatches with him, attempted, 

 with the assistance of a guide, to travel on horseback, 

 but could not o-et on. The messenger is about to 

 start again in a post-chaise, and the mail-bags will 

 go with him, but no passengers. Not a coach besides 

 has left this town or come into it to-day. 



"The Portsmouth 'Regulator' on Monday got 

 buried at Horndean Hill in a snowdrift, and so con- 

 tinued for three hours and twenty minutes, when, 

 by the assistance of numerous labourers and extra 

 horses, the coach was released. From Marlborough 

 Forest to Devizes the roads are dreadful, and the 

 hollows have from twelve to sixteen feet of snow. His 



