It had been colder in the month of January in England, than was ever known before in that country. In the city of London the thermometer stood twenty-three degrees below the freezing point. At Islington, the silver in the barometer on the 14th, was down into the bowl.
Upwards of 2,200,000 eggs were imported into England from France the last three months.
Extraordinary produce of a potato.—A single potato was cut into eyes, and planted in the garden of C. Moore, esq. at Woodbridge, Suffolk; and the produce was the surprising quantity of a bushel skep without being heaped, and it weighed 64lbs.—The potatoes are remarkably fine and clean.
Brownsville, (Penn.) March 13.
Accident.—On Thursday last, the chain bridge over Dunlap's creek, between Brownsville and Bridgeport broke down with a wagon and six horses upon it. The wagon fell on the bank, this side of the stream, the horses in the water. The driver, who was on the saddle horse, was pitched between the two middle horses, where he was held entangled in the gears, until relieved by the citizens. He received no material injury, but two of the horses were killed. The team, we understand, was the property of a person named Hackney, near Winchester, (Va.) The distance from the floor of this bridge to the surface of the water, must have been at least 30 feet.
Leeches.—The Montrose (English) Review of January 1st, states that a gentleman examining two bottles containing 3 leeches each, found the water a complete mass of ice, with the leeches frozen. He dissolved the ice gradually before the fire, when he found the whole 6 alive, and very animated.
Annual consumption of the necessaries of life in London.
| Consumption of bullocks, | 110,000 |
| Sheep and lambs, | 976,000 |
| Calves, | 250,000 |
| Hogs, | 210,000 |
| Sucking pigs, | 60,000 |
| Gallons of milk—the produce of 8900 cows, | 908,000 |
| Quarters of wheat, | 900,000 |
| Chaldrons of coal, | 800,000 |
| Barrels (36 galls.) of ale and porter | 1,775,500 |
| Gallons of spirituous liquors, | 11,146,783 |
| Pipes of wines, | 65,000 |
| Pounds of butter, | 27,600,000 |
| Cheese, | 25,000,000 |
| Acres of land cultivated | |
| in the vicinity of London for vegetables, | 10,000 |
| Ditto for fruit, | 4,000 |
| The sum paid annually for vegetables amounts to, | l.645,000 |
Abstract of the exports of cotton and tobacco from New Orleans from the 1st of October, 1818, until the 31st of the same month, 1819.