had received. Every face wore a look of heart-rending despair and stupefaction.

I have

To return to Mr Brathwaite and his estate. said that the house was almost entirely ruined. One very small room, in which harness used to be kept, and which was paved with brick, was the only refuge we could find; our sole refreshment a cup of coffee, which we did not get till one P.M.; and in this miserable place we had to pass the night. We piled together old tables and chairs, and placed on the top some wooden shutters, and this place was assigned to the females, while we disposed of ourselves as we could. Ladies, slaves, and servants were all huddled together, for of course all form and ceremony was completely done away with; all were on a level of misfortune. Sleep was nearly impossible, and in this comfortless state several nights were passed. Meanwhile, the most alarming reports were everywhere circulated: at one time, we heard that the blacks were in insurrection, and that they had resolved on a general massacre of the white population; at another, that the garrison was in mutiny; and every individual had some affecting tale to tell of his total ruin, his dangers, and escapes. One young man told me how, his whole family and children being assembled at prayers, they saw the whole front of the house fall forward into the street; his wife was beside him, and a heavy piece of furniture falling on her legs, prevented her from moving, and it was by a considerable exertion of force that he succeeded in dragging her out. They then escaped with their children into the open fields, when the wind forced them apart, driving his wife and one child towards an extremity of the field, forcing himself and the others in opposite directions. While he was searching for his companions, a flash of lightning struck him, and he fell insensible; nor was he restored without much difficulty when he was found next morning. On recovering his senses, he went in search of his wife, and then, both together, they looked for the children-all were found in different parts of the plain, completely numbed with

cold and rain. The cold during the storm was excessive; but it is a singular circumstance, that no one died from the inclemency of the weather, but the slightest wound festered and mortified, so that locked-jaw was continually ensuing; every hour brought numberless deaths. Those whom we had seen the day after the hurricane riding or walking about, quite unconscious of having received a scratch, we heard of the next day as confined to bed with fevers, locked-jaws, &c., which proved fatal in almost every case. Numbers had been dreadfully lacerated in their feet by the broken glass and crockery everywhere strewed about, and from nails sticking in the shingle, which was blown off the roofs. I heard of one particularly singular death in this way. Two sisters, daughters of a clergyman, left their room together; just as they crossed the threshold, one stumbled and fell, dragging down with her her sister, whose hand she held, and who was unable to rise. When they were found in the morning, the one who first fell still clasped her sister's hand, who, when recovered, conceived that she was in a state of insensibility occasioned by terror, and attributed her coldness to the rain; but the cause was more fatal: she was dead and stiff. Two wounds were found-one on the top of the head, apparently produced by a blow from a beam; another at the back of the neck, attributed to a piece of shingle, which was everywhere flying about, and which, having a nail through it, had stuck in, and produced instantaneous death. I heard only of one person on the island who had had any anticipation of the catastrophe-a Mr Shaughan, who, on the evening of the 10th, was dining with a party of gentlemen: he rose after dinner, and said: 'Gentlemen, I would advise every one who has any regard for his property, to return home and secure it immediately, for I am certain that a very severe hurricane is approaching; if any one will put his ear to the ground, he will be aware of a very uncommon noise.' The company, however, put no faith in his words, and thought him intoxicated; he instantly returned home, and gave orders for securing his property as well

as possible; his wife and family also attributed his behaviour to convivial excess, but he, insisting on obedience, saved much of his possessions.

We now began to clear away the rubbish, and found a great deal of our property, but broken - or, as the Barbadians expressively say, mashed in pieces-and on Saturday we enjoyed the relief of clean clothes and water, Mr Brathwaite and I performing our toilet at a pond, resigning of course the room to the ladies. On Monday, I went to the town, a distance of about ten miles, and was constantly obliged to use a bottle of salts, for dead animals and birds were lying in numbers on the way, and the air was in a dreadful state with their putrefying carcasses. It was wonderful that no plague ensued. During this day's ride, I saw numbers of persons who were obliged to take refuge in the marl-pits, &c., with no covering but an old umbrella, in the most extreme state of wretchedness.

The manner in which the houses in the town were rent was exceedingly curious, and seems to countenance the idea that an earthquake accompanied the storm. Among the strange objects observable in the street, was a large block of mahogany, which the wind had carried from the quay some way up the street: I say the wind, for though the sea rose considerably, it never advanced far enough or in nearly sufficient depth to float the block to where I saw it. In like manner, the wind had blown the ships completely out of the water, and laid them high and dry; the sailors made no attempt at resistance, but remained quietly on the beach in a very snug shelter. It is said that the sea was very much agitated before the wind came, but I was not near enough to the ocean to confirm or deny the assertion. An army ship being near the island, stood off and on during the night, and in the morning ran into the bay; she perceived immediately what was our state, and instantly made for the other islands, to give notice that Barbadoes was in ruins. In about eight days, supplies began to arrive from the other islands. Our fears of famine were ill-founded, for the

corn, though damaged, was almost ripe, and was thrown in heaps, and still quite available. One hundred thousand pounds was granted by England for our relief, L.75,000 of which was allotted to Barbadoes, the rest to St Lucia and St Vincent, which, however, suffered nothing in comparison. A very large subscription was also raised in England, and happily the crops had been shipped off before the hurricane occurred. The deaths were about 1700 in a population of 100,000.

It was surprising to see how soon the buildings were raised again; in three months, the island looked quite restored, for there was much rain, and the weather altogether was very favourable for vegetation.

THE SPANIEL OF DARMSTADT. ACCORDING to a French newspaper, a few years ago, there appeared a new phenomenon in the musical world. Marvels of this kind are not uncommon, in the shape of little biped urchins, not yet out of petticoats, who execute variations upon the fourth string, and write fugues without knowing a note of music. But this novel phenomenon is of an entirely different order, being a modest quadruped of the canine race. Dogs have been occasionally observed, both in modern and past days, to shew an extreme sensibility to music. On some of them, fine music has been known to produce an apparently painful effect, causing them gradually to become restless, to moan piteously, and, finally, to fly from the spot with every sign of suffering and distress. Others have been seen to sit and listen to musie with seeming delight, and even to go every Sunday to church, with the obvious purpose of enjoying the solemn and powerful strains of the organ. All these displays, however, of musical tendencies on the

f the canine race, are as nothing in comparison

with the following, which a German paper gives an account of, for the amusement of the world of harmony:

"Frederick S- a musical amateur of Darmstadt, in the grand duchy of Hesse, possesses a female spaniel, which has become a strange source of terror to all the mediocre musicians of the place and its vicinity. Having acquired a competency by commercial industry, Mr Sretired from business, and devoted himself, heart and soul, to the daily and hourly enjoyment of his favourite science. Every member of his little household was by degrees involved more or less in the same occupation, and even the housemaid could in time bear a part in a chorus, or decipher a melody of Schubert. One individual alone in the family seemed to resist this musical entrancement; this was a small spaniel, the sole specimen of the canine race in the mansion. Mr S- felt the impossibility of instilling the theory of sounds into the head of Poodle, but he firmly resolved to make the animal bear some part or other in the general domestic concert, and by perseverance, and the adoption of ingenious means, he attained his object. Every time that a false note escaped either from instrument or voice--as often as any blunder, of whatever kind, was committed by the members of the musical family (and such blunders were sometimes committed intentionally)-down came its master's cane on the back of the unfortunate Poodle, till she howled and growled again. By and by, simple menaces with the stick were substituted for blows, and at a still more advanced period of this extraordinary training, a mere glance of Mr S's eye was sufficient to make the animal howl to admiration. In the end, Poodle became so thoroughly acquainted with, and attentive to, false notes and other musical barbarisms, that the slightest mistake of the kind was infallibly signalised by a yell from her, forming the most expressive commentary upon the misperformance.

"When extended trials were made of the animal's acquirements, they were never found to fail, and Poodle became, what she still is-the most famous, impartial, and conscientious connoisseur in the duchy of Hesse. But,