PETERSFIELD
Agent—MR. G. DUPLOCK
THE GALE.—On Sunday last a terrific gale from the south-west blew from early morning throughout the whole day, accompanied with heavy and incessant rain. We do not learn that any accident occurred to life or limb, but a great many houses were partially stripped of their tiling, and trees were blown down in all directions, a large and handsome elm, standing near the Railway Hotel, was prostrated; fortunately the direction of the wind was such as to throw it away from the house, which must otherwise have been seriously damaged. Several trees were blown down in the immediate vicinity of Heath-pond, including two unusually large willows at the south-west corner. A large poplar, standing in the meadow at the back of the Red Lion, was snapped off within a yard of the ground. We hear, also, that in Stodham-park, the residence of Captain Sandeman, 17 trees were levelled, and 5 at Liss-place, the residence of G. E. Coryton, Esq. The large and lofty building, in the course of erection for the London and County Bank, at the top of the High-street, under-went a most severe trial; being sufficiently elevated to catch the full force of the wind, which having free access at the capacious windows, &c., seemed as if it must tear the whole fabric to pieces, but it withstood the fury of the gale as if it were a solid rock: a fact which redounds to the credit of the contractor, and the workmen in his employ.