The country papers are filled with details of ravages committed
by the hurricane; but nothing very remerl- able is mentioned in addi- tion to the accounts given last 11-(1,1c.
A pent kejan froie Clieehire sta;es, that such was the severity of the late storm, that his windows were covered with salt, and that his woods were white as with liner frost, which on taeting, and examination with a microseope, he found to originate in minete erastals of salt ; the dis- tance from the sea being thirty miles in a straight Hue.
The mail width left Landon for Plymouth nnd Devonport on Sunday wash, Ammmt. three miles on the Loralon side of Deptford Inn, at :Our o'e!oe; on Monday morning. The hurricane was so overpower- reaehing nearly the top of Castle-ll, thel tl:e horses could not fare it, and they heeante umnbnageable, aad,.;topped. ; when the violence of the gale acteally drove the mail Niel:Iv:11-de, aad the horses, almost worn on*, were dragged after it for :.evertli ,f1rds, uatil the couch was stopoed by a bank at the Side of the road 11::.1 instantly blown over.- 11 stern Luminary.
We are not without fears that the deficiency of the late harvestmay be aggravated by the very extensive destruction of corn-stacks in this and the neighbouring counties. Immense members of stacks were thrown d' a, and their contents scattered far and wide ; and we apprehend limy could not he gathered together again -without much waste.—Leeds
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