A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPECTATOR," JANUARY 28TH, 1832.
THE WEATHER. •
On Thursday we had collected a whole bundle of paragraphs from our various country contemporaries, touching the extreme mildness of the season, the budding of flowers, the swelling of fruits, and various other symptoms of Spring, more becoming the soft and tearful April than her sullen and gusty sisterSanuary. We were emit- with the laudable desire of proving to our readers and ouraelves,—for we had some small doubts on the subject,—that old mother Winter had been scared away by the Cholera a month before her usual time when, lo ! as we opened our eyes on the works of men yesterday, we perceived dimming our brieken landscape, ten thousand times ten thousand flakes of fast-falling snow ! This waking reality, we need not say, put to flight our dreams of budding trees and pairing birds, for one week at least. The drift passed away as the day drove on, but it left the streets comfortless, the atmosphere raw and cold, and nothing tolerable in the wide region of sun and sea-coal but the fireside.
THE COTTON TRADE.
The cotton trade has undergone revival during the last three weeks: The spinning branch in particular has felt the advantage of this beneficial change, and the prospects for the spring are thought to be very cheering.
HERNE BAY.
An attempt is now making to add to the number of our watering- places, which, as every extension of the healthful pleasures of an overgrown metropolis is important, seems to merit ashort notice. The attempt to which we allude, is the erection of a jetty for steam-ves- sels, and various accommodations for bathers and visitors, in pro- jection at the little village of Herne, at the bottom of the bay of the same name,
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