As one among the countless instances of the violence of
the lato hurricane, it is stated that the town of Newport, ir.t.le Isle of Wight, As one among the countless instances of the violence of the lato hurricane, it is stated that the town of Newport, ir.t.le Isle of Wight, though nine miles from the coast, was covered with salt-water. In such quantities was it brought by the wind, that the windows be- came thie!rly incrusted with crystallized salt, and objects could scarcely be seen t:irough them.
An Exeter paper says—" During the storm of Tuesday, as a man at Mount Radford was driving home a cow, holding the tail of the ani- mal in his hand, a tree fell across it, completely severing the tail from the body, and leaving it in the man's hand. Both man and cow were unhurt!" [This is in the bad style of the Yankee editors, which we hope will not be introduced into this country.1 No less than 2600/. worth of timber is said to have been blown down on the Blenheim estate during the late hurricane.
Lord Palmerston's seat at Romsey has been seriously damaged by the hurricane of lust week ; one hundred trees having been torn up.
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