SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which will long be re- membered, especially on the north-eastern portion of our coasts, appears to have sprung up at U.N.E., and to have veered round to S.E. and S.S.E., at which points the gale was in its strength, and the greatest damage was done. Did our limits permit, it would be a subject of much interest to trace the progress of the storm, and to note the state of the barometer at the several stations along the coast, which, from the .excellent return of the Board of Northern Lights to the Ad- miralty, we have the means of doing; but time and space forbid more than a mere in- dication which may serve to call the attention of others. As usual 'in an easterly gale, the mercury did not fall low. At Sumburghead, the north point of the Shetland Isles, at 9 P.M. on the 26th September, the mercury stood at 29° • 80, which was the lowest at that station. At the Isle of May, in the Frith of Forth, it fell no lower than 29°• 60, and it was the same at Ramsgate. Thus it will be seen the barometer gave little warn- ing ; yet on the east coast 78 vessels were wrecked; between Hartlepool and Redcar, including the entrance of the Tees, in a dis- tance of 10 miles, 18 vessels were wrecked; in all 112 vessels. As far as can be ascer- tained, 70 lives were lost.