THE SEVERE WEATHER IN BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5394, 1 March 1879, Page 7

THE SEVERE WEATHER IN BRITAIN.

By the last San Francisco mail we had papers from London to the 2nd January, containing details of most severe galea and snowstorms during the latter part of December. By telegrams, however, since then, we learn that further storms and gales visited Eng. land and France oil the 9th and 10th of January. The despatch says :— I London, January 9.—A report from Weymouth, published in the Times, states that very severe weather has prevailed in that district since Monday evening. A heavy south-east gale is blowing on the coast, accompanied by snow and rain. At Cherbourg and the Channel Islands the weather is very stormy, the water being so rough that no vessels can venture out. The mail steamers are considerably delayed by the high seas. The JPenzance report states that a strong east-south-east gale commenced on the night of January 7, and is still blowing. The >'cilly mail has not yet arrived. Despatches from Bangor state that a heavy easterly gale prevails. At Dundee the south-east gale continues, accompanied by intense cold. The weather on the north-east coast of Scotland is so tempestuous that noue of the trading steamers dare venture out. Tue increase in the force of the wind since Tuesday has been so great that it finally attained the velocity of 47 miles ail hour. The local reports, in nearly every instance, mention the fact that the cold has not been so intense for many years past. The snowfall in Bristol ia the heaviest that has been experienced there in twenty years. On the Island of Jersey the weather is very severe. Heavy snow and frost, accompanied by strong north-east winds, continue. The severe east-north-east gale that blew in the aeighbourhood of London during yesterday rendered passenger, steamboat, and other ;raiiic on the Thames very hazardous. Inieed, for some time the penny steamers had o abandon their trips until the high winds abated. It was impossible to steer the ■essels during the storm. This, in a word, las been the most severe storm that has truck the island for years. Pakis, January 9.—Traffic on the leading 'Vench railways has been stopped by hen vino w-storms. In the South of France strong ;ales have prevailed, accompauied by rain, ■ud in some districts serious inundations lave occurred. At Bayonne, the barque rloster, from Baltimore for Bayonne, had to mt into Soco Roads during the gale, after Dsing spars, sails, bulwarks, aud boats. The arque Curlew, Captain Davis, from Baltilore for Bayonne, was lost in the gale. The rew were saved after considerable difficulty. !oth the above vessels are British. Teleraphic communication in all parts of France s delayed by snow, especially in the midlaud epartments. Trains are blocked, and all idings of some of them are lost. Madrid, January 9.—The Spanish brig Incarnacion, Captain Galiana, from Fernanda, Florida, December 19, for Ferrol, pain, landed yesterday two of the crew of be steamer Bayard, which foundered at sea n December 10. All the remainder of her rew were drowned. The Bayard was a iritish steamer of 96-4 tons, commanded by aptain Everett. She sailed from Sew 'rleans on December 4 for Rouen, France.