The hurricane of Friday week probably did more mischief on
land than any storm that has passed over England for many years. At sea, though destructive enough, it does not appear to have been quite so destructive as the storm which occurred just a year previously. But no storm of wind that we can remember within the last ten years has torn up so many trees. blown down so many walls and chimneys and skylights, eausotl so many fatal accidents on land, and stripped the trees so largely of their lovely autumn dress. In Windsor Park alone there must be a hundred noble trees down, to say the least, without counting, of course, the innumerable branches,—and fear that that number is much beneath the mark. Nor is it a trifling loss to have all the glow of autumn stripped so prema- turely from the woods, and the coining .of winter nakedilehi .hastened by many days, if not indeed some weeks.
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