The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—l beg to send you a report of a violent gale
which was felt here last night and this morning.
The weather during the greater part of Sunday was
very fine, but in the afternoon ominous-looking
clouds appeared in the wind, and in the evening
rain gradually commenced, and by 9 p.m. there
was indication of a thoroughly stormy night. At
that hour the wind freshened, and before midnight
a gale blew from W.S.W. This increased as the
night advanced, and this day (Monday, May 28), at
3.20 a.m., the pressure was equal to about 161 b. on
the square foot—a remarkably violent storm for the
usually quiet month of May. Up to this hour (3
p.m.) there has been occasionally very violent
squalls (since 4 a.m. from N.W.), which must have
been severely felt in the Bristol Channel.
The following are some readings of the barometer
corrected and reduced to the level of the sea :--
Inches.
May 27, sp.m. .. • • 29'859
„ 10 30 pm. 29.566
May 28, 3 40 a.m. .. 29.413*
„ 9 a.m. .. 29.710
I have the honour to be, Sir. your obedient servant,
Clifton, May 28, WILLIAM C. BURDER.

GREAT YARMOUTH, TUESDAY.

The gale was attended with frightful effects off
this port. Eight vessels went down to-day, and 40
to 50 lives were sacrificed. As the vessels foundered
with all hands their names are unknown.

The severe storm of wind, rain, snow, and sleet
which passed over Yorkshire on Monday last proved,
as was stated in Me ,Sun of yesterday, very de-
structive. At Scarborough it did considerable
damage, besides causing the death of one human
being, as mentioned yesterday. At Whitby and
along the coast, both to the north and south, the
storm raged with great fury, but fortunately few
casualties at sea have been reported. At Pickering,
and further inland, trees of all descriptions suffered,
many being uprooted, and the branches and foliage
of others were greatly-damaged. At York, Ripon,
Thirsk, Bradford, Harewood, and indeed in many
other parts of the country, some fine trees were
brown down. In the northern and north-western
parts of the country flocks of newly-clipped sheep
suffered severely, many of them perishing from the
severity of the weather. Yesterday (Tutsday). the
temperature was low, and there were showers of
rain, with a strong gusty wind from the north-west.
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In many respects the weather was moreindicative
March than of the'29th of May, " Royal Oak day."
A correspondent, writing from Great Smeaton,
near Northallerton, on Monday, the 28th, says
" After a howling night, during which the rain
and hail have been pelting down without intermis-
sion, a snow storm commenced at 5 p.m., and carried
on with blustering goodwill. The appearance of the
landscape, so far as it is left visible, is very extraor-
dinary, for instead of the skeletons of the trees
standing forth (as in a chalk drawing) more strik-
ingly by the contrast between black and white, those
skeletons are now clothed and rounded with foliage,
which at the storm-beating side have the appear-
ance of frosted silver; while the sheltered side, with
its rich deep-tinted green, seems strangely out of
keeping with the falling flakes. The raspberry
and currant bushes are beat to the earth as with a
heavy crop, and the fruit trees, which are wonder-
fully covered with bloom, have their branches borne
down by the weight of the snow, added to their
foliage. -While I write some of the branches are