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breeze, which blows with so much regularity from the North-west for 

 seven months in the year, has disappeared. On Sunday evening some 

 light showers fell, and the sky has ever since continued black and 

 cloudy. The most singular phenomenon of all is, the remarkable and 

 steady fall of the barometer, which has been gradually sinking for four 

 days, and has now got to a point rarely attained by it. The following 

 are the readings of the Observatory Standard since Thursday, when it 

 began to fall — they are given both as read from the scale, and as 

 corrected for temperatures, capillarity, &c. The hours are very nearly 

 those of daily maximum and minimum : — 



4 A.M. 



10 A.M. 



4 P.M. 



10 P.M. 



Read. Cor. 



Read. Cor. 



R ead. Cor. 



Read. Cor. 



Th. 18, 29.736 29.586 



29.792 29.633 



29.686 29.529 



29.722 29.568 



F. 19, 678 526 



746 594 



462 488 



710 557 



S. 20, 688 538 



768 586 



632 475 



710 555 



M. 22, 575 421 



630 471 



494 338 



566 411 



Tu. 23, 510 357 



572 412 



489 331 





" As no tempest has presented itself here, such as these indications 

 would have inclined us to expect, we are led to infer that within the 

 last four days a hurricane has been raging within a few hundred 

 miles of us, the effect of which has only been manifested here on the 

 barometer. The influence of the Madras hurricane last October was 

 very conspicuous, but nothing like this." 



" For the following accounts from Cochin and Tellicherry, we are 

 indebted to the kindness of Capt. Biden, the Master Attendant : — 



" Cochin. — The Ship Hero of Malown, which left these Roads on 

 the 25th ultimo, was wrecked on the 26th or 27th near Alleppee — all 

 the crew with one exception were saved, and they have arrived here 

 this day. 



" Tellicherry. — During the night of the 31st, two Pattimars were 

 driven on shore a little to the southward of the flag staff, and were 

 soon knocked to pieces by the heavy surf. On the 1st instant, another 

 Pattimar was driven on shore to the Southward of the flag staff, and 

 on the 2d, one was swamped at her anchors and went to pieces — the 

 above wrecks have been caused by a heavy rolling sea." — Madras 

 Athenceum. 



