exciting chase, and was regarded as one of an extraordinary nature, the hounds (not fox hounds) carrying it through without a check.
Oh the Sunning Foxes! they would not hunted be,
Although a host of folk of high and low degree,
With choicest hounds did meet upon St. Leonards Green,
On day October's last - a morning most serene.
Yet 'twas a glorious meet, nor was there lack of pluck,
But Reynard did not choose to give the sportsmen luck.
Violent Storms
Other than the "Storms and atmospheric phenomena" described on pages 101 to 103, occurred in the month of October which deserve to be recorded. Rainstorm, wind-storm, gale and hurricane are terms descriptive of a series of atmospheric disturbances that visited St. Leonards and other places on the 28th to 30th of October, resulting in the destruction of property to a considerable amount. The rain of Wednesday evening the 28th, was succeeded by a clear, moonlight night, to be succeeded in turn by a boisterous wind and showers of rain on the following day. This again gave place to a moonlit night, and that again followed by a gale and heavy downfall of rain on Friday, On the last-named day, the barometer which had been previously oscillating, yet with a downward tendency, fell rapidly and from about noon the wind increased in severity until about four o'clock, when it had attained to the strength of a hurricane, blowing down chimneys, uprooting fences, unroofing houses, and doing other damages. The full extent of the damage had not been ascertained on Friday night when Brett's Gazette went to press, but at that time, the following was the list of casualties:- At 24 East Ascent a stack of chimneys was blown down; at 44 Marina, a stack of chimneys had fallen through the roof of 48; at 64 Marina the windows were broken, and at 56 Marina a stack of chimneys had fallen through an upper floor. At Landour House, Upper Maze Hill, also a stack of chimneys fell through the roof, by which a handsome stained-glass window was demolished. In Norman road a fence and out-house were blown down. At The Lawn, there were smashed windows and open roofs; and at the Mount slates were blown from every house, and the field in their rear strewn with slates to the distance of a hundred yards or more. Several houses in Warrior square, Church Road, and other places, together with the St. Leonards National Schools, were partly unroofed and unglazed, whilst the hairbreadth escapes of pedestrians and others from severe injuries by the flying and falling materials was very remarkable.
This series of storms commenced earlier in the north-west part of Europe, and continued for a whole week, and from the accounts which came in day by day, it would appear that Great Britain had a very large share. From every part, disastrous news arrived. The vessels which came -
