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lence until six o'clock on Monday morning, when it consid- 

 erably lulled. 



Kingscourt. It commenced here at eleven, last night, 

 (Sunday,) and continued with unabated fury, until seven, 

 this morning. 



Dublin. We were visited on Sunday night, with the 

 most terrific storm we ever remember to have experienced. 

 The violence of the wind far exceeded any thing that usu- 

 ally occurs in these regions. There was but little rain, and 

 no thunder or lightning ; nothing, indeed, but the wind 

 blowing tremendously and furiously, and continuously, from 

 midnight till after five o'clock, on Monday, morning. It 

 began slightly at about seven, in the evening, and rose grad- 

 ually till twelve, when it came to its height. A more aw- 

 ful night we have scarcely ever past. 



Belfast. A previous frost about noon, on Sunday, began 

 to resolve itself into rain, and this continued until about 

 one o'clock, next morning, when it was succeeded by a per- 

 fect hurricane. The wind, in the first symptoms of its vio- 

 lence, blew from W. N. W. ; but, as its rage increased, it 

 shifted from west to west by north, and augmented in force 

 till finally it settled due south west. 



There is no storm from the north east, mentioned in these 

 accounts. 



The Meteor Steamer, from Dublin. On the evening of 

 the 6th, (Sunday,) we had reached as far as the Skerries ; 

 the wind drawing round strong to the south west, and mak- 

 ing little progress. At two, in the morning of the 7th, the 

 wind had veered to west, blowing a perfect hurricane. 



Dumfries. The storm commenced at ten o'clock, on 

 Sunday night, and at that time the wind was as near as 

 may be due south. But shortly after one o'clock, on Mon- 

 day morning, it got round to the west, and, however alarm- 



