LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3563, 9 December 1882, Page 3

LONDON.

December 7. Intensely cold weather is now being experienced in Scotland, and heavy snow storms have completely blocked the roads and railway lines in many districts. Weather of a severe character is also being experienced in the north of England, and partial snow blocks have occurred in sorae places. The latest bulletin issued states that Mr Fawcett's condition is more favorable. He is not, however, yet out of danger. The funeral of the late Archbishop of Canterbury will take place to-day at Addingten, Surrey. The homeward mails via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on October 26, were delivered here to-day. At the wool auction to-day the market was steady, but for low and inferior qualities the demand was not active. The catalogue comprised 6300 bales. December 8. A great fire occurred to-day in Woodstreet; it broke out at 4 a.m. in a block of buildings owned and partly occupied by Messrs Foster, Porter and Co. (limited), wholesale hosiers, between Addlestreet and London Wall. The whole of the block has been completely destroyed, and the loss is set down at fully £3,000,000 sterling. Tbe fire is the largest which has occurred in London since the great one in Tooley-street in 1861, when the damage was estimated at £1,500,000.