From rhe "№obru-ChixA Dan News" or January 16, 1878.
It will afford home readers some idea of the severity of the experienced last week at Shanghai, when we say that we are assured the river froze over one moi at Woosung, and that on the same morning a sheet of ice extended from the French Bund to the mail steamship. There has been a quantity of ice about in the river, and One shooting boat, which was down the river afternoon, found its return greatly impeded by its presence. The thaw which set in on Monday. and promised a change of weather, was of short duration, It began again to snow heavily Monday t and continued until nearly noon yesterday: after which it gradually cleared and grew colder. Ull a sharp frost set in last evening. At Hankow, the thermometer has been as low as 6° on board ship in the river.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.