The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

RAIN STORM IN THE WEST.

TE IG NM 0 UTH, MONDAY.
Probably no rain storm was more clearly indicated seve-
ral days previously than the heavy rain storm of yesterday,
when it rained throughout the day unceasingly. Attached
to the lifeboat-house belonging to the Nati.nal Lifeboat
Institution at Teignmouth, is a beautiful barometer, which
was made by the well-known meteorological instrument
makers, Negretti and Zambra, of London, and verified at
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by Mr. J. Glaisher,
F.R.S. This instrument on Friday last clearly showed
that change in the weather was approaching.
The barometer then registered 30.1—wind W.S.W. On
Saturday it fell to 29.9, with the wind from the same direc-
tion; and Sunday it had fallen to 291, with the wind from
N.E. This morning (Monday), the 15th inst., the baro-
meter had gone up to 30 inches, and the wind was from
E.N.E., the thermometer varying 8 degrees beyond what
it was on Friday last.

These readings of the barometer are most clearly indi-
cated on a chart attached to it. Thus a dot is placed on a
ruled scale corresponding to the reading of the barometer
itself, and a line is drawn closely from the last dot to the
new one, and thus successively, day by day, from one point
to the next, indicating to the experienced sailer as
well as to the fisherman the changes of the pre-
ceding days as shown by us above. Thus, anyone
looking at these charts, and following the lines on
them, can at once see the barometer readings of past
days, and the tendency of future weather. Thus the
National Lifeboat Society confers often an inestimable boon
on our sailors and fishermen by means of these valuable
and accurate instruments. Indeed, on the general public
also occasionally, as the following illustration will show
—the circumstances in connexion with it having been re-
lated to us by Mr. Bulkeley, the coxswain of the lifeboat at
Teignmouth, and the registrar of the daily barometer chart.
A few months ago a gentleman asked him his opinion ''n
the probable state of the weather, having observed that the
indications of the barometer chart had a downward
thtend-
ency. He observed that he and his wife had paid eir
Pi
fares for a passage on board the steamer Y 1
nug be-
lkeley
tween Torquay and Guernsey. Coxswain Bulkeley
the gentleman not to go in the
the baro-
he felt persuaded, judging from the density steamer, as
iv, of
gentleman
,s his
meter, a gale of wind was approaching.
did not like this check on his movement-,
of course ho was
would be expecting him at Guernsey;
friends than run the
told that he had better disappoint
11. The gentleman took
ho had full cause
risk of losing his life in mid-channteday
the coxswain's advice, and the Line,' :,.
for then blew a gale
to be satisfied with his resolution
and heavy rain, and
of wind from S.W. with Iwincreased to a furious gale
on the subsequent day it ha"many similar instances of the
with continued heavy rain.
value of the barometer tbe cited, if space allowed. We
trust these precious instrumentstig" will be found, at no distant
village in the kingdom.
day, at every

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ACTION FOR SEDUCTION
AGAINST. A
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FoRFAL:..—On Thursday last, a case was called before
Shone
CLEn.,GYs:ith, at Forfar Sheriff ourt. at the instance of
I-strtr
ipre Norrisan, weaver, Market
"e—of her fath
eet, Brechin, with
consent er as her administrator at law, against
the Rev. William Allan, minister
of the parish of Tanna-
dice, which concludes for £2OO as damages, sustained by the
pursuer, and sulatium to which she is entitled for wounded
feelings, under the following circumstances :—The pursuer
alleges that on or about the month of June, IS6O, the
defender formed the design of seducing her, while she
was a servant with him in his manse of Tannadice and
of thereafter deb inching her by some other man, in
order to fix the paternity of any child which might be
borne by the pursuer, on the latter. That, in pursuance of
said object, the defender had promised marriage to the pur-
suer, and at various times had made her presents of gown
pieces, by which means the pursuer was induced to have
illicit intercourse with him, in consequence of which the
pursuer became pregnant, and was delivered of an ille-
gitimate child of which the defender was the father.
That the defender, in order to secure himself, induced the
pursuer to receive the addresses of a young man resident in
the neighbourhood, who, on the child being born, admitted
himeelf to be the father of the pursuer's child, by advice of,
and promises of money from, the defender. On the case
being called, an order for condescendence aid defences was
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