The French papers report disastrous consequences of the storm on
Tuesday. Many vessels were lost upon the coasts. In the midst of the hurricane, at Rouen, a whirlwind came and swept the valley beyond Devine. The destruction was in- conceivable in its suddenness and completeness. Houses, trees, and crops were swept away together, and so mingled that of some buildings it was impossible to arace the site. Three large factories were hurled down; 370 people being at work in them at the time. Of one, the third story, with the roof, was brown *roes the river; yet the people were no more than bruised ! Other Parts of the buildings were torn, crushed, and broken; and the workpeople suffered wounds and death in the most hideous shapes, being smashed, mutilated, crushed in at the chest, and mangled in all ways. Forty persons were killed on the spot, and a hundred wounded, many of them mortally. The effects of the hurricane were observed to extend for a league and a half in length; the whirlwind, however, Inoving in a zig-zag course, so as to destroy some buildings and to leave others untouched. Some of the particular incidents are affecting: "Whilst the work was going on in the rains at M. Neveu's, (one of the factories,) cries were heard from him, and the men were directed to turn their attention towards the spot from whence they proceeded. He was found supporting himself on his wrists, with his back supporting a mass of rubbish, and protecting his mother, who hal fallen close to him, and who would have been smothered had it not been for his a_dminible courage: he had remained in this position, forming a sort of arch over her. Both were taken out without any serious injury; but the emotion of M. Fcveu was so great, that for an hour and a half after his deliverance he could not frticulate a single word." "The mutilated remains of two young girls had been just taken from the ruins at M. Mare's, when a woman, who was watching what was going on, recognized them as her daughters. She immediately gave way to Am wildest grief, and, rushing to the river, threw herself in, and was drowned."
The Indian papers mention a hail-storm at Arracan, in April, to the wonder of the inhabitants. One thought that the hailstones were diamonds, until he felt Sisal it was "hot" An aged man remembered such a visitation about forty years
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