The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-04 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

The protracted storm appears to have been felt with
great severity in Scotland, and great destruction of
property, caused by heavy floods, is reported ; and these
disasters, added to those occasioned by the hurricane of
Friday week, involve serious losses. The Tay was on Satur-
day in higher flood than it has been since the autumn of
1847 ; and t'-.e Earn has overflowed its banks in destructive
force. At Stirling, the Forth has xisen to such a height
that the land dividing many of the links is entirely uncle
water. From Inverness it is reported that the waters
of the 1 es 3, w!iich the wind had raised to an enor-
mous lie.gh;, began to subside on Saturday aftemoon-
There h; still, of course, a great flood, and much destruc-
tion of property is the result ; but there has, fortunately,
been no further loss of life. So much damage has been
done to the Highland Railway that traffic has been
stopped. In FifeThire, the Lochty and the Orr have risen
into high flood. The Dunfermline Railway was at one
period of the day flooded to a depth of about a foot ; and
at Coupar-Angus a flock of a hundred sheep ha.s been
drowned. The Tweed, like the other rivers, has been
greatly flooded, but no serious destruction of property
seems to have resulted on its banks. In Edin-
burgh the storm raged, with great severity. In
the northern part of the city the experience of
it was even more alarming than that of the pre-
vious Friday's hurricane. The rainfall was very heavy,
and the wind blew strong and almost continuously from
the north-west. The storm was at its height probably
between the hours of midnight and four on Saturday
morning. During that period the wind was terrific ; it
dashed the rain upon the street in such heavy sweeps as to
give it the appearance of thick sleet. At break of day

the morning was still very wild. Daylight had scarcely
returned when, about eight o'clock, a great darknez,s sud-
denly set in, and thunder and lightning followed, and the
wind and the rain prevailed with great force, and with
very little intermission, until about one o'clock in the
afternoon. Then the rain ceased, the sun came out
and by and by the wind went down. For an hour or two
there was an almost total calm ; but in the evening
a high wind again got up, and the night was very un-
pleasant, snow falling thickly between ten and eleven
o'clock, just as the places of amusement were being
emptied. The snow melted as it fell, and the streets were
soon disagreeably encumbered with slush. There was a
heavy flood ou the Water of Leith, but not so great as to
cause any damage, as the river in the vicinity of Edin-
burgh did not overflow its banks—a result largely attri-
butable to the water company's reservoirs at the
sources of both branches of the river retaining a
large potion of surplus 'Water. The Esk, cst
Musselburgh, gave evident proofs of the heavy
rains in the south-west, the stream being much
swollen both on Saturday and Sunday. At an early hour
on Saturday morning two men, while travelling from
Comrie to Orloff, distinctly felt, during a 101 l of the storm,
two slight shocks of earthquake. Their attention was
suddenly directed to a loud rumbling noise coming from
the south-west, which passed by and proceeded to the
north-east.. The tremor f the earth was slight, but quite
perceptible. The violent gusts of wind which swept
across the Firth of Forth on Saturday morning compelled
the fishermen belonging to Newhaven and Fisherrow to
betake themselves to their respective harbours early in the
day.