A spacious cattle-market, which has for some time past been
in course of erec- tion at Islington, is to be opened with much ceremony on Tuesday next.
Several of the mail-bags brought by the Northern mails were detained yester- day morning, in consequence if obstructions caused by a sudden and exceedingly dense fall of snow on the Trent Valley line. The guard reports, that in many parts of the line the snow lies from two to three feet deep; and that near Tam- worth it is full four feet deep. Farther North the fall has been very considerable.
We are glad to learn, from undoubted authority, that the two registered letters posted for London by the Devon and Cornwall Bank, and stolen from the mail on Monday night, contained chiefly bills of exchange, which were specially endorsed, and the cash checks were so secured as not to be negotiable. Thus, although some inconvenience may accrue, the pecuniary loss will not amount to twenty pottads.—Plymouth Journal.
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