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point of depression, the mercury having fallen to 28 inches, or 

 " stormy," being half an inch lower than it has been observed since 

 the storm of 1830. It was at 8^ p. m. that the mercury began to rise 

 again. 



In the morning, the following vessels were in the Roads : Cervantes, 

 L'Appollon, V Antoinette, he Mirabeau, and Le Corsair. They put out 

 to sea at 2 p. m. on cannon being fired as signals from the port. The 

 Mirabeau and Cervantes returned with loss of masts and other damage, 

 but the Appollon, Antoinette, and Corsair had not made their ap- 

 pearance, and great fears were entertained for their safety. The ship 

 Nouveau Tropique, which had left two days previous for Madras, re- 

 gained the Pondicherry Roads with much damage. The officers of the 

 vessels which returned, reported that they had never witnessed so 

 severe a storm ; its ravages are described as extending inland for 18 or 

 20 leagues ; in Pondicherry itself many houses were damaged, and two 

 lofty chimneys of the manufactory of Messrs. Fontain and Co., 100 feet 

 in height, were thrown down by the storm. 



Coupling the above interesting particulars of our Pondicherry cor- 

 respondent with the appearance of the storm here, where it was much 

 less violent, and at Cuddalore, where a former correspondent seems to 

 have conjectured very rightly, they had " but the tail of it;" the pro- 

 bable loss at sea of three vessels off Pondicherry, and the known 

 wrecks of five near Sadras, with other casualties to the South, we are 

 much inclined to arrive at the conclusion that the storm of the 24th 

 ultimo was a true rotatory hurricane, whose centre or vortex was 

 somewhere out at sea, between the latitudes of Pondicherry and 

 Sadras — a conclusion to which we invite the attention of our scientific 

 readers. We may add, that at Madras the wind at 10 a. m. was North 

 and continued in this quarter till 2 or 3 p. m. At 4 p. m. it was N. E. 

 by E. At 8 p. m. had moderated considerably. At 10 p. m. had shifted 

 round to the South-East, and during the night became calm. — Madras 

 Spectator, Nov. 5. 



The Madras Athenceum furnishes the following further particulars 

 of the late gale :< — 



"The following statement from the Master Attendant, details fur- 

 ther mischief occasioned by the recent gale. 



