Derivation of "Calamity"

I beg to refer MR. F.S. MARTIN (No. 14. p. 215.), for the derivation of "Calamity," to the *Etymologicon Linguæ Latinæ* of Gerard Vossius, or to the *Totius Latinitatis Lexicon* of Facciolatus and Forcellinus. He will there find that the word *calamitas* was first used with reference to the storms which destroyed the stalks (calami) of corn, and afterwards came to signify metaphorically, any severe misfortune. The terrific hail-storm of the summer of 1843, which destroyed the crops of corn through several of the eastern and midland counties of this kingdom, was a *calamity* in the original sen…