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scientific world will now have it, a Cyclone, of a most violent 

 description. 



On Sunday evening the near approach of bad weather was pretty 

 clearly foretold, by the rapid fall of the Barometer. From this 

 time the wind, which was from the S. E., began to increase, accom- 

 panied with heavy rain. The storm reached its maximum violence at 

 about 2.30 p. m. on Sunday, when the Barometer fell to 29.42 and 

 Sympiesometer to 29.48, but from daylight in the morning had con- 

 tinued to blow in alarming and destructive gusts, and had veered 

 completely round from its original point, to the North and West- 

 ward. Much serious damage has been done in the town attended, 

 we regret to say, with loss of life. 



We have only however authentic information of the death of one 

 old man (a milkman) upon whom a beam of his house fell. Many 

 of the pucka buildings which the owners have been so anxious to 

 get completed before the rains, and upon which large sums have 

 been expended — the expenditure being more than doubled by the 

 enhanced price of labour and materials — have fallen down, or are 

 otherwise materially injured, owing chiefly to their not having had 

 time to set, before exposure, first to such a deluge of rain which 

 loosened their foundations, and then to gusts of wind acting on their 

 walls. It has been a severe test for such brick buildings as have 

 escaped. 



On the river also much damage has been the consequence. The 

 schooner Wave foundered, with loss of three lives, the Flora nearly 

 sharing the same fate. All the ships drifted more or less ; and 

 hundreds of boats were swamped and lost. The Engineers' Depart- 

 ment and Timber Merchants have suffered severely by the breaking 

 up and dispersion of their rafts : as also we believe the Dockyard. 



We cannot learn from the oldest inhabitants, that Rangoon has 

 witnessed such a storm before. We trust that its violence did not 

 extend to the gulf of Martaban, or we may anticipate bad news from 

 the shipping outside ; and the Tenasserim will have had a severe 

 taste of it. — llangoon Chronicle, April 26th. 



A "Rangoon paper of the 3rd of May contains a further report of 

 the mischief done by the late Cyclone, which we have extracted. 



" The Zenohia is off in a few hours, so just a line by her, The 



