The eight officers belong...
The Times, 1824-09-09T00:00:00

Thb eight officers belonging to the Cavalry Depot at Viaidatone. who started from thenre in ani open boat to row to Cal;uis, rrived there on Thursday (2dI inst.) at four p. In.. aft,r a pull of eight hours t. I ilmargate, wherc thtey had slept the preced. ina niglt. rhey emlearked in the Lord il!dzil/e steam-vessel ves. terday morning (Oondar, 6th inst.) to return, not liking, as it would6 appear, to retrace their voyage in the frail bark whicli conveyed them.YKenutic. (Gaczatge. A trenmentlous ihuvider-storin passed ovcr tllc metrnpolis at one o'clock yesterday morning. It lastetl abont halt an hour. and was remarkable for the immense discharge of rain, the fiercenes, of tite lighining ainti the lotud and prolonged reverheration of the thiit- der peals. BOSTON. SCpt. 7.-i ttEMEl.lotS I{tRlll(tANE.-Yes- terday ahlernoon, abotlt one o'clock, SOO11 afier t *o cloUds of pecu- liar shlape, fraught withi a tempest atId heavily cliaiged. had been observed to meet together in the south-west, there catle on here, at(i lasted for sorne miit.ires, a hurrIcane, said to be the most t-e- nicndoois ever witnessed by the oites,t inhabinart of floston. In: Skirbeck-quarter it seizcd the top of al haystack, whiCi it wv irled ahoaut spirally to a great lleight, anti scattered far Srom uLte SDot where it stood. In lHighi-street, where it3 violence itcreasetl, a large pop ar-trec and a hot-hoase were blowin down, and the tileR forced trom several buildings. A v-hole framc, belongitig to a peachery in a garclen, near 6outhetid, was blown to tte distance of 30 or 40 yards, and cvery pane of glass broken: an elm-tree, in an adjoining gardeni, saidi to be five or six yartls in citeumference, was also blown down, atrl two others wihich stood in adjoiting pastures. Att ancient thorn-bush shared the xame fate, near wrhich seAne cattle had juist befbrc been gramzng, but stere then, fortinately, otit of the way. In MUain Rilgc an! its inimtne-date neighbourhoo6l, wviere the hurricane raged with such dread-inspiring tury as caused the tttnmost conster,nation andil isnma, much injury was sustained in various dtrections: for thcre sole butldings 7-Treparuty utnroofe.h several win- dotvs broken, agardens-wall,sone yards in extent,overwehelmedand he sails of a mtil, used in abrick-yiLrd, tattered into si;reds it- a irnmcnt of time. This lhurricane wa3 rendered still more alarming by being accompanied and followed by a ViOlCMt tivtteler-siormt - during which the lightniing, whiCIt was vivid and diPasive, scarcely ever ceased for a minutr, antd peal succeeded peal with little intermissiott. Tha re-echoed crack of several peals was by somne personscomupaled to the report occasioned by resounding artilltry besieging a ton, and itiimenscly extendcdi irt ba:ttle array. slI.S. COUTIS.-This lady has expressed the sense en- tertained by her of the attention sbe hats experienced at the hands of the Lord Provost of Elinburgh, by presenting bis Lordship with a handsome silver vase, bearinwg the followilig inscripticn: " 30th August, 1824. To the Right Honi. Alexander ilenderson, ,ord ProvoFt of Edinbttrgt, from his friendl Harriet Coatts, in kind rettenabranee of her first visit to Edinburgh, the birtl-place of !lMr. Coutts, son of Joha Coutts, Lsq., Lord Provost ofEttirtburgh, from October,1742, to I ctober, 1744." Mirs. Coutts has made donations to the public charitiea of Edin- burgh to the ainount of 1601.