20 NOVEMBER 1852, Page 1
The strange weather has been attended by some remarkable pluenomena.
The incessant variation of the thermometer, the earthquake in the North and West of the United Kingdom, the in- cessant rains, are followed by floods and depressed health in the people. Although the yellow fever on board the La Plata, confined to the crew and sparing the passengers, may be traced primarily to a West Indian climate and proximately to bad sanitary arrange- ments on board, it is probable that the disease would have been blown away at sea if the weather had not been in itself morbific. The floods in the Midland counties have been fearful : whole tracts of country are laid under water ; cottage-roofs just peer above the surface ; and not since railroads have been in use has the commu- nication been so cat off.
