PETERSFIELD.
THE LATE GALE.—As the reports from the country come in, the damage produced appears heavier. Although the damage done has been great in many of the surrounding localities, yet nothing, we may add, in comparison with the disastrous consequences experienced from the gale that happened in and around Harting. Three barns upon the Uppark estate, belonging to Lady Fetherstone, with, it is said, 200 trees in the park, were blown down. In the same parish, part of a house belonging to Mr. Harffey, of Petersfield, was also blown down, the inmates luckily escaping injury. Also, in the same parish, a large and lofty stable belonging to Mr. Maxwell was blown down, and a miraculous escape happened to the horses. The carter left the stable at eight o’clock, and while at his breakfast, half an hour after, his mistress looking out exclaimed ‟The stable is down!” Upon hastening to the spot, he found that a large beam of about a ton weight, had fallen across the backs of three horses, pressing down the middle horse of 16 hands to a level of two smaller horses, and resting upon a wall, thereby protecting them from the fallen joists, rafters, and debris above, and strange to say, they were removed from their perilous position without the least injury.In an adjoining building, which also fell, was a valuable hay tedding machine, also protected from injury in a similar manner. At Ditcham Farm, in the occupation of Mr. W. Boys, a hovel, wherein a horse had taken shelter, was blown down, by which his leg was broken, and was consequently killed.