The weather has been colder than is usual before Christmas.
Since the SHOW, which Zell at the end of last week, there has been almost con-
tinned frost ; and the sheets of water in the Parks have afforded good skating during the week. On Wednesday night, the thermometer was eleven degrees below the freezing-point. The prognostications from the " flight of birds," and other signs, which are noticed in the country papers, indicate a severe winter.
On the Serpentine yesterday, it is calculated there were during the day nearly 40,000 persons on the ice. The thermometer at six o'clock yesterday evening had sunk to IS degrees, or 14 degrees below freezing.
An inquest was held on 'Wednesday on the body of a boy, aged four- teen, who was drowned in the Serpentine River on Sunday, by the ice giving way.
An inquest was held at Guy's Hospital, on Tuesday, on the body of William Galt, a young man, who died in consequence of injuries re- ceived by being struck by a locomotive engine on the Croydon Railway. The deceased entered the Company's employ on Monday week ; and the next morning he was sweeping the snow off the rails when the train approached. The engineer gave the usual signal of the whistle ; but Galt, not being used to railways, neglected it, and so was run against by the engine. Verdict " Accidental Death."
Mr. ()aster is now an inmate of the Fleet Prison, at the suit of Mr. Thornhill. To assist Mr. Oastler in prison, his Huddersfield friends are endeavouring to devise the best means in their power.—Leeds .
Scott, the American diver, jumped from the Southwark Bridge, on Tuesday, into the Thames, a height of 160 feet, without sustaining any injury. A house in Clerkenwell Close, Clerkenwell Green, was nearly de- stroyed by fire on 'Wednesday afternoon. The flames broke out in a room on the first floor, in which a child, six years of age, had been locked up alone by his mother during her absence. The body of the child was found in the room burnt to a cinder.
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