News in Brief
About four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a concussion of air, not unlike the violence of a tropicAl tornado, was experienced in this neigchbourhood. The wind arose suddenly, and with such force, that many houses in the country, within a few miles of thic city, were unroofei, and the windows driven in. A considerable quantity of cloth was carried up by the whirlwind from Luncarty bleachlield, part of which was recovered froma the east side of the Tav. At Leach-hill a pea-stack was carried away, and not a vestige of it has been seen. Several trees at Craigle were torn up by the roots, and six of the large willows at the top of South Inch were stripped of their branchen, and their trunks rent and broken.-Pcrth Courier. The late high winds blew down one of the vanes from the broad tower of Lincoln Cathedral, as well as thc ponderous ball on which it stood. The ball fell with great force on the roof of the church, makiag a large aperture in the lead, but was prevented from going tbrough to the stone groined roof below; by the stresgth vf the ratrs. Thevaiie fell to the groundnear the loisters, Itis the north.east pinnacle which sthu thnsuffired: it is feared that the tops of the othertree pInnacles are in neatly the same decayed state.