28 JANUARY 1865, Page 2

It is stated on good authority that the Calcutta cyclone

cost sixty thousand lives. It is known, for example, that before the storm wave struck Saugor Island there were 8,200 persons on it. When it had passed only 1,200 remained, and this is only one of the many places swept. It is, we believe, in the opinion of geologists not impossible that the storm wave may one day sweep the Sunderbunds, in which case the loss of life would probably be without a parallel, except in the loss which may have been sustained when the Ruun of Catch, then a flourishing province, dropped one night into the sea.