The provincial papers contain some accounts of the damage done
by the storm on Monday. Off Cowes, many boats and lighters were sunk, and several vessels driven ashore. A large portion of the cause- way, with part of the parade which joined it, was swept away. All the quays have been damaged; the Sea, dashing over the tops of houses on the shore, fell into the streets.
The wind blew quite a hurricane at Brighton on Monday, and seve- ral persons met with serious accidents. A sailor was literally blown off the deck of a vessel, and drowned. Another person was blown over the cliff near Kemp Town, and was taken to the County Hospital seriously injured. Women and children were blown down
on the cliff; and large sheets of lead, weighing several hundredweight, in two or three places were lifted off the houses and carried into the Street by the violence of the wind. About forty trees in Lord Chi. elm:tees park were torn up by the roots.
The Brighton Gazette says—" Such was the violence of the gale on Monday tnorning, that not only were windows broken, and chimney.
Pots seta whirling through the air, but several persons were actually blow down, amid sustained considerable The wind blowing off the laud, the Sea on this side of the Channel was not very rough; but on the French coast it raged furiously.
The packet-ship Crusader, with the mail, left Calais on Monday, but was obliged to put back into Boulogne ; and the Britannia steamer, with the mails, attempted to cross from Dover, but was driven back by the storm of hail and snow.
Some rude and vulgar fellows in a gig, on driving recently through Eaton park, nearly ran down the Marquis of Westminster. Instead of apologizing they made use of language to his Lordship which we shall not repeat. His Lordship has, in consequence, ordered the gates of his park to be locked ; and thus are the good citizens of Chester deprived of a most delightful promenade through the conduct of two ill-behaved and worthless men.— Chester Courant,
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