The weather in London became very boisterous on Tuesday evening.
On Wednesday and Thursday, much rain fell ; and on Wednesday night there was a perfect hurricane of wind and rain, with lightning and thunder at intervals. The low lands in the neighbourhood were boded by the high tides, and much damage was done on the banks of the Thames. Many of the vessels in the Pool broke adrift on Wed- nesday itight, aTIl at daybreak were veer, iii tet ;elits;21c,I in gi.cat sion. Most of the steamers and vessels on the coast put into different ports ; but several were driven ashore, and one large ship went down on Goodwin Sands. In town, houses were unroofed, chimnies blown down, and windows shattered, but we have seen only one account of death occasioned by the storm, though many have been injured. Several persons were sitting round a fire in a sick ward of Spitalfields Workhouse, when a stack of chimnies fell into the room, killing one old MO, and hurting five others. Trees in Kensington Gardens and the Parks have been rooted up.
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