The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-17 00:00:00

STRONG WINDS AND GALES.

At e meeting of the Meteorological Society, held
en Jammu 15, N. Baku:mom, Fag., C.E, ptesident, is
the chair, a paper was reed by lutes °LAMM. F.R.8.,
" On the Prague of the Wind in Strong Winds end Gales
at the Royal Okeeenstery, Greenwich, in the bean 1841 to
1860." The author excluded Item his investigation all light
winds, or whenever the proem, on the square foot was tea
than 51be. He detailed ni each year every 311000011VO stormy
wind or gale, beginning with deepest 1841, and ending with
the year 1860, indicating the limits of pressure of each with
the direction of the wind. He then collected all the cases
whisk bed happened in these Wynne under each direction of
the whirkand found that there had been Seises from the south,
with psesmras from 71ba to 16lbs. ; 12 from the SAW.,
nrem7lba to 2416. ; 85 from the f 3. W., from 71ba to :Ma;
11 he the W.S.W., tem 71be. to 25165. ; 18 from
the week, from Ms. to %lbs. ; 6 from the W.N.W.,
haunts. to 2516 e ; 3 from the N. W., from 7165. to 1211 e. ;
use from the N.N.W., with a pressure of 61bs. ; eight from '
the N., front 716. to 1151ba. ; nine from the N.E. from
nbo. to 2111 w.; three from the E.N.E, from 7lbs. to 1416 e.;
two from the E., from 7165. to 9the. ; one from the SE,
with a pressure of 61te. ; and one from Use S.S.E., with a
of 71bs. ; and within the twenty yearn the wind
=Le blown with a preemie of 1016., via, in 1860, from
the west ; twice with pressures of 2516. from the W.S.W.
and S.W. ; once with 241 be. from &S.W.; once with2llb.
from N.E, and the greatest pressure from all other quartets
was 1611 m. From the N.N. E. and E.S.E. there bad beim
instance of •pressure so gnat as bibs. on the square feet.
Mr. Manlier then exhibited tables, showing the order t.
frequency and magnitude of the pressure of the wind in
every month of the year. He remarked that in January
exceeding 511 w. had always taken place ; that in
=they varied from 616. to 161 b., and once reached
251 b. In February four =stances occurred of no preen=
so greet as Mb., 14 from 71b. to 2Mb., and one of Idb.
In March four instances of no pressure so great as 51b, 15
from 616. to 171 b., and one of 2llb. Iu April three io.
Moose of no pressure so great en Sib., 14 from 61b to
131 b., and three of 151 b. In May, six instances of no
pressure so great as 51b., 13 from 61b. to 161 b., and one of
231 b. In June there were 11 instances of no pressure
grad, ea 51b., 8 from 71b. to 121 b., one of 2316. In July
9 instances of no pressure so great as Sib., 10 from 61b.
1011)., and one of 151 b. In August 11 instances of DO
pressure so great as 51b., 8 from 71b. to Illb., and as
of 1616.
In September, ten instances of no preemie so greet se
51bs. ; nine from 611 m. to 1211 n. ; and one of 13 lbs. 10
October five instances of no pressure so great as Mbs. ; four.
teen from 711 m. to 1511 m ; end one of 161bs. In November
six indiums of no pressure so great en bibs. ; thirteen from
6th.. to 20th.. ; and one of 241 b.. In Deoendne, seven
Maisano of no pressure sogrest as 51be. ; twelve from 71ba
to 161ba. ; and one of 241bs.
The author then exhibited a table of the extreme p4B
sure of the wind in every month, and remarked that ix
some years, as in 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849, 1835, 1854
and 1857, no pressure had reached 516.. for several months
together ; whilst in other years, as in 1848 and 1853, the
pressure had been exceeded in every month but one in both
years, and in 1850 in every month without exception. Ms
year 1860, the last of the series, was distinguished by the
greatest pressure in the twenty years, viz. : 28th.. the
mouth of February ; and this year was no less remarkable
for pressures of 2311 m. in the months of May and June,
whilst in these months generally the extreme pressure wee
very much lees.
Mr. Glaisher then spoke upon the greatest preesures is
each year, and pointed out the great difference between
them in different yearn. He said in 1851 the greatest era-
sure in the year was Illbs. only ; in 1846, 121 be. ; in 1045,
1848, and 1857, in each year, was 1311 a, whilst is 1859 it
was 20th.. ; in 1842, was 21165. ; in 1849, was Vibe. ; is
1841 and 1852, wan 24165. ; in 1843 and 1850, was ?.bibs.;
and in 1860, was 2816 e. It was also remarked that the
light preemies, with the exception of 1851, were ingreept
as in the five years 1844 to 1848, the extreme pressures wen
1311 w. to Iblbs., whilst in first three years of the mime
1841 to 1843, they were from 211ba. to lithe. ; in the lean
1849 to 1652, with the exception of 1851, they were ;.,2lte.
to Vbs.; and in the lest two years of the wise. they were
2011 m. to 2811 m.
Mr. Negro= exhibited a new mountain barometer, and
explained its construction.

At a meeting of the depositors of the Bilston
Savings Bank, held on Wednesday, Mr. Tidd Pratt ray
strongly commented on some remarks lately delivered by
the Bishop of Manchester. At the meeting of the Nair
chaster and Salford Savings Bank, the bishop took ocm
sloe to condemn the Past-oflice Savings Bank system,
lately introdnoed by the government, and said that •• Is
viewed it with a considerable amount of suspicioo." fir.
Tidd Pratt, however, said he was totally opposed to the
bishop's opinion, and he inquired why his lordship had not
made his sentiments known when the Past-office &rigs
Bank Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords.
Mr. Pratt, in continuation, said the bill was one of the best
thatever pissed through the house, and he strongly urged
the neetalaess and convenience of the system upon his
sodium&
We read in the Lerant Herald :—" The Sultan
bas ordered the repair and redecoration of the mausoleums(
his father, Sultan Mahmood. The resting-place of the •0.
Instrions reformer' is to be enclosed within a raid
of solid silver, and the inscriptions on the tomb-cloth ere
robe re-embroidered in gold,whilst new and catty candelabra
are to be hung from the ceiling. Thus restored, this
already very elegant little building will be, far beyoed
comparison, the grandest of the many beautiful turbCs of
the spited."
MUNIFICENT DONATION. —The Rev. T. Peachy
has gives the large sem of 50,0001. to Archdeacon Law for
the bending et a college for education in the neighboulbood
et Leadms.—Timer.
SOCIETY FOR Tlie ENCOURAGEMENT OF Tgc
Pots Arri.—Last evening the brat of two lectures on the
Life sad Works of B 0116110•1111 wee gives by Mr. Alfred
Gilbert, at the society's rooms, 9, Conduit4trost. Tho
lecture comprised the feast period of the great compeer
eerier dove to 1801, and the illustrations were selected
from opts Ito 36. Mr. Gilbert handled his subject II •
masterly manner, and was assisted in the interpratrstion
the examples by Madame Gilbert, Mir Emma Bodies
Mr. Edward Southwell ; Herr Pollitrer, violin ; Her
Daubers, molonoello. The room was crowded, and the
applause enthusiastic.