The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-16 00:00:00

THE HURRICANE IN SCOTLAND.
The following interesting details regarding the hurricane
have been supplied by Professor Nichol of our observatory :
—" I have now had experience of a good many storms here ;
but certainly none of them at all equalled in fury the gale of
this morning. The devastation caused by it in the district
over which it has passed must have been quite unprece-
dented. The facts, as observed at this Qbservatory, are the
following :—About I o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the baro-
meter began to fall. It was then 29.156 (corrected per tern-
p:,rature), and it fell wry graduall, by a small quantity
each hour, so that at midnight :t at. 28.990. The
wind was not high as yet. Towards the evening it blew
fresh, bat nothing more. The subsequent occurrences are
too important to be passed over with only a general notice,
and I therefore give them in a table :

4th March. Height of Force of Direction of
Hour. Barometer. Wind. Wind.
1 A.m. 28.944 6. S.
2 —.855 10.— S.
3 —.779 12.-- S.
4 —.705 23.-- S.
5 —.628 28--. S.
6 —.566 29. S. ,-
7 —.546 30. S. •
8 —.526 37•—•-• S. slightly W.
9 —.480 45. S. by W.
10-- —.549 S. by W.
11 —.6SO S. W.
12 —.793 S. W.
The temperature at eight in the morning was 47 degrees 12
seconds of Fahrenheit, at nine it was 45 degrees 5 seconds,
and at ten, 46 degrees *O4 seconds. The force of the wind in
the foregoing table is expressed in pressure of pounds' weight
on a square foot. The record of force ceases at nire o'clock,
as the tempest then broke the part of the anemometer.
which indicates it. I was too much engaged in efrotts
having regard to the safety of the house to take particular
note of minute changes ; but I have rezon to believe that
the storm at that time was near its maximum. One pecu-
liarity very much struck me. In general these hurricanes
come in mere gusts of great waves. This one dhl so too ;
but I never have known a storm in which the power of the
gust wa4 so persistent ; the pencil of the anemometer remain-
ing at its full height for a very considerable space of time.
The dynamic effects of the wind here have been quite equal
to what the indications of the anemometer would prepare us
for. A front window of the observatory was early dashed
in; and, but for the aid afforded by a visitor in my house,
and Mr. Johnston, farmer, at Horslet-hill, in barraeading
the shutters, I make no doubt that the roof of the building
would have been carried off. The stand of the Herscheliau
telescope was blown down under peculiar circumstances. It
was secured by strong ropes to heavy stones buried in the
ground. The rope, attaching it to one of the stones, broke;
but the other stone, a block two feet square, and about afoot
in thickness, was torn from the earth, and tossed ten yatds
from its place I The mignetie house. is levelled to the
ground ; but, what is most strange, its floor, consisting of
very heavy beams,_ has been driven some six yards fro;rl
where it was. Fortunately, no instrument, except the
trifling damage to the anemometer, has suffered. I am
quite at a loss to account for this storm. It gave very little,
if any, pretnonition of its approach I think it must have
been a storm of translation, or a moving whirlwind of large
radius, but of immense power. If that was its character, the
same thing will be found to be the case as occurred on our
last great gale, at all similar to this, when Professor Airy
informed me, that at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich,
the atmosphere underwent no commotion whatever. Sup-
posing my conjecture accurate, I would expect very serious
intelligence from both coasts of Ireland ; from the west
coast of England, as far south as Liverpool, and from the
north. But it were quite wrong to speak dogmatically ou
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so obscure a subject."—Glasgow Argus.

IRISH vRODUCE.
As the alleged scarcity of provisions in Ireland, and the
necessary consequent inconvenience arising to the immense
mass of the inhabitants of the sister kingdom, continue to
occupy an important position in the councils of the Lsgis-
lature and the consideration of the public generally ; with a
view to the adoption of the best means for its partial allevia-
tion, an enumeration of the list of the principal importations
of provisions which have taken place within the past week,
in continuation of that previously given in our columns a few
days since, may prove of utility and interest. On Wednes-
day, the 4th inst., four vessels arrived in the liver Thames
from various other ports, having on board, collectively, 2,772
packages of bacon, 675 of pork, 300 of beef, 1,015 of butter,.
885 of lard, 41 hampers of hams, 530 barrels and 450 quarters
of oats, 161 barrels of porter, 55 packages of whisks., 392 of
eggs, 142 of other descriptions of provisions, and 77 pigs, in
addition to a quantity of malt, paper, leather, and various
other articles. On the following day, the imports into the port
of London, from the same quarter, consisted of 599 packages of
butter, 1,062 packages of bacon, 424 of lard, 47 of pork, 700
quarters of oats, a quantity. of hams, several packages of
pot atoes, and various other articles. On Friday, 1,225 packages
of oats, 93 of hams, 61 of egg=, 33 of butter, 70 of bacon,
67 of matt, 51 of beef, 122 packages .of porter, a quantity of
spirits, linens, and other articles the produce of the Irish sail.
At the same period, the imports into Bristol from Ireland
consisted of, in addition to a quantity of linens, whisky,
and other articles,, 299 packages of bacon, a quantity of
lard, seed, farina, 300 packages of butter, 61 of feathers,
214 bushels of oats, 37 sacks of barley, and several packages
of pork. oatmeal, wheat, pollard, and malt. The following
is the list of provisions imported into the port of Liverpool
from the Irish ports for the past week, being from the 27th
ult. to the sth inst. exclusive :-2,718 firkins,' 138 half-
firkins, 453 casks, and 120 boxes of butter; 2 625 barrels and
317 sacks of wheat ; 4,698 sacks of flour; 34 barrels and 150
bags of oats; 22 sacks of barley; 530 sacks, 115 other
packages, and 120 barrels of oatmeal ; 250 bags of meal ; 3
barrels, 25 tierces, and 52 hhds. of hams; 497 barrels of bacon ;
28 bags of feathers; 27 casks, 26 firkins, and 1,147 kegs of
lard ; 488 sacks of farina ; 501 boxes and tierces and 10 bar-
rels of linens and cottons; 309 barrels, 5 tierces, and 12 kegs
of pork; 15 barrels of tongues; 13 barrels and 6 kegs of other
descriptions of provisions; 392 sacks of malt; and 39 casks
of whisky. Finally, the following articles were imported
into the port of London at the commencement of the present
week, viz.. 435 packages of pork, i 53 packages of butter, 684
of bacon, 88 of hams, 5 of tongues, 34 of porter, and 59 of
ego, in addition to a quantity of linens and other articles,
the whole being the production of the Irish soil. It will be
for those most competent to form an opinion of and most in•
terested in the matter to judge of the inferences deducible
from the enumerations of the importations of provisions
which have taken place in the course of a single week from
Ireland for consumption in this country, viz., the capabilities
of the country for the production of food of every description
for the supply of its numerous inhabitants; and, in the
secondplace, as to how they can be spared for extraneous
purposes at a time when so much distress and want is stated
to exist in that kingdom This is not the place to enter into
a further particular consideration of the matter, otherwise it
would be worth while to suppose the immense quantity of
provisions which must be contained in so many large pack-
ages, and to draw a conclusion as to the amount of relief
which the salutary distribution and disposal of them through
proper channels in their native country would afford.