The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

MARRIED,

On the 29th inst. at Trinity Church, Brontpton,
dlesex, J. Sedgwiell, solicitor, Watford, to Emma Sophia,
widow of the late William Oliver, Esq., of 22, Ovington.
square.
On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras, Charles , youngest son
of the late tßranbgyt,o
Harrington-square, third surviving daughter of, of Lambeth, to Frances Sarah
Wilson, ofani
the late H. Wilson, Esq.
DIED.

at 9, Beanfoy-terrace; Maids-vale,
On the 27th inst.,
at Mason's-row, Dalaton, Mr. H. R.
Barlow, aged 55.
6hOarnle the
hGe u2bBbtihir 1,118%1E8., aged 87.
On the 27th inst., W. Hamer, Esq., Brixton.
On the t 6th inst., at Sprivers, Horsmonden, Kent, John
Duncan, DI., M.D., aged 95.
On the 27th inst., Joseph Callow, Esq., of 4, College..
hill, London, aged 54.
On the 26th inst., John V. Selby, eldest son of Mr. John
Selby, of Birling-place, Kent, aged 27.
On the 26th inst., at Wentworth, near Egham, Sophia,
wife of Francis Green, .Esq., aged 29.
On the 27th inst., at 11., Tavistock-square, Mrs. Sarah
Lewis, widow of the late Nathan Lewis, Esq., Barnes,
Surrey, aged 66.
On the 15th August last, drowned by the overturning of
one of the ship's boats on the Reef Head, river Hooghley,
Captain Samuel Mendham, of H.C.S. 'fuel Cain.

LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. ]l2,
Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of
Middlesex, Tuesday, October 30, 1855.

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THEATRE - ROYAL, DRURY - LANE.--
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith ; Acting Manager, Mr. Chas.
Mathews ; Stage Manager, Mr. Robert Roxby.—Reduced
scale of admission Upper gallery, 6(1. ; lower galle, ls.;
amphitheatre or upper boxes, Is. 6d.; pit, 25.; first circle of
boxes, 2s. Gcl.; dress circle boxes, 3s. Mr. Smith respectfully
submits the above scale of prices of admission, varying 6(1.
extra, according to accommodation. Mr. Charles Mathews in
two Pieces. In consequence of the continued and unprece-
dented success of the comedy of Married for Money, and the
enthusiastic applause with which Mr. Charles Mathews and
the Lyceum Company are nightly received, the comedy will
be repeated every evening this week.—The extraordinary suc-
cess and unparalleled hit of the new Egyptian di ama, Nito-
cris, pronounced the most complete and magnificent specta-
cle ever produced, the new scenery, splendid dresses, and
gorgeous appointments being the theme of universal admira-
tion, induce the lessee to announce it for repetition every
evening (Saturday excepted) till further notice.
THIS EVENING and during the Week (Saturday excepted)

The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of tho Times:—Sir, my attention having been drawn to
two letters under this head in the Times of to-day, I take
upon myself the responsibility (in the absence of the
committee) of immediately forwarding to you the enclosed•
copy of a commulication which I have received by.this
morning's post froten the harbourmaster, and requesting
that you will be good enough to give the same publicity'
to it as you have to•the said letters, being convinoed that
in so doing I shall be fulfilling the wishes of the direc-
tors of this trust, who are at all times desirous that
every publicity should be given to any matters in which
the public are interested in connection with thisharbour.
I am, air, your most obedient servant,
Thos. M. SHADWILL, Sec.
Royal Harbour of Ramsgate Office, 22, Austinfriars,
London, October 29.

(Copy.)
" Royal Harbour Office, Ramsgate, Oot. 27.
" Dear Sir,—Enclosed is an account of the fearful trials
we underwent yesterday. I have also forwarded a copy
to the Board of Trade for the Royal National Institution
in the Adelphi, and have only time to say that crippled
vessels are arriving every tide, and I remain your obe-
dient servant, "K. B. AUSTIN, Harbourmaster.
" Thos. M. Shadwell, Esq., Secretary,
" Office 22, Austinfriars, London.
" N.B. There is also a copy of a letter of thanks,
which I felt it both a duty and v. pleasure to address to
the Commander of the French gun•brig Arqnebuse."

EXTRACTS FROM THE HARBOURMASTER'S JOURNAL.
"Royal Harbour, Ramsgate, Oct. 26.
" Daybreak.—During the past night a continual and
heavy gale from south-west, and wind and sea increas-
ing. The steam-packet Queen of the French, with pas-
sengers from Calais, came in, with one engine disabled,
but took the harbour well, and those on board imme-
diately disembarked without difficulty.

"At half flood prepared the lifeboat, manned the
second boat, ordered steamer Aid to prepare for service.
At 10 a.m. a storm of wind, with very heavy sea in the
harbour entrance and at the back of the piers ; stationed
an extra man with the coxswain at the Pier-end, and
another by myself, with the signal staves, to wave the
vessels in, as they kept too far to leeward and were en-
tering very badly, without sufficient canvas to give them
proper steerage way through the sea and tide; and
ordered steamer Aid to tow. the arrivals to the weather
side of the harbour, if possible to clear the others run-
sing in.

- " Sent gangs of labourers to both basin gateways to
'assist the coxswains there to get the crippled vessels
and those without anchors passed through into safety.
At 10'50 a.m, a small oyster cutter, belonging to Col-
chester, came for the harbour, with only small head
sails, and improperly across the tide. Waved and hailed
to no purpose to induce her to keep more in, but having
no after sail she fell athwart the pier, and one of her
crew was snatched ashore from the rigging as she fell
into the sea, and immediately swamped in the terrific
sea outside and its rebound from the walls. One poor
fellow was too much injured by the broken bowsprit to
ascend the rigging, and was soon gone. All hands now
endeavoured to throw lines on to the wreck as she fell
over to seaward about 30 feet from the parapet wall,
but the wind was so heavy that the lead lines, which
are kept for that purpose, could not be thrown success►
fully from the strongest arms. The life cranes, with
their baskets, were already over, but would not reach.
Ordered the steamer Aid immediately to attempt the sea
with the lifeboat ; the heavy sea between the piers roil.
dered it doubtful, and the Ramsgate mariners being gene-
rally, with all my disposable force, engaged in assisting
distressed vessels inside the harbour, some detention
took place in manning the lifeboat ; but in about 20
minutes both vessels passed out clear through a sea
which repeatedly filled the lifeboat, but loft her as
quickly through the relieving valves. As she cleared
the pier-head I hailed them to cut the tow-rope, and
take to their oars, to let go their anchor, and veer
away down to the wreck, which was fast breaking up.
"We had succeeded in casting two of Cartes' lifi.buoys
into the tideway with lines attached and streamed thorn
to the wreck, but they became fouled among the spars,
aed the poor fellows could not reach them. The steamer
Aid could not place the lifeboat in consequence of the
vessels running for the harbour entrance, and at this
moment the French gun-brig St. Barba struck the pier,
went behind it also, and drove down athwart the wrock,
and as her stern passed the mast one of the poor smacks-
men jumped into her Jigging and was saved.
The brig then drove clear of the walls and let go
her anchor. Two of the smack's crew now remained
clinging to the rigging, and it was evident that the life-
boat must take the risk of rowing right on to the wreck
if these men were to be saved, and I continued hailing
and waving them to do so. They then rowed right at
'her, threw a line across one of the men, which be
fastened 'around him, and they hauled him on board,
but the lifeboat began to subside rapidly, and it was
very clear that they bad stove her in so doing. They
backed her out clear of the Raffle, throwing at the same
time a Cartes' lifebuoy to the remaining innaOsman
into.which he succeeded in placing himself, and tE7e ,
boat's crew endeavoured to haul him out clear, but,
strange fatality, his legs were so fixedly entangled in the
ropes and tagging that they were obliged to desist. He,
with great apparent presence of mind, released one arm
from the lifebuoy and endeavoured to extricate his legs,
but the cause which held him fast (as a heavy sea broke
over him) drew him out of the lifebuoy, and he disap-
peared, and thus three only of the smack's crew, out of
the five, were saved. The water being now nearly up to
the thwarts of the lifeboat, the crew made sail upon her,
ran her into Broadstairs, awl landed the rescued man,
and had him put to bed and attended to. Our attention
had also been directed to the French gun-brig. Her en-
gine was disabled by striking on the ground. James
Hogden, my coxswain of lifeboat, had been left on
shore in the haste of getting her to sea, and, as we
have a smaller lifeboat suspended to a davit from
the parapet wall, he with three others had
jumped into her, and got on board the French brig, and
advised the commander to cast her to seaward, and he
would take her clear of the shoals. They had done so,
and the French consul came to me for steam assistance,
and I pointed him to our steamer Aid already on her
way after her, in consequence of a signal which I had
made to those on board to do so. In about an hour I
bad the satisfaction of seeing the brig towed in, the
French crew cheering as she entered. I then despatched
the Aid to Broadstairs after the lifeboat, in case she
should bear towing back ; and about 4.30 p.m. had the
gratification to receive her again into harbour, but she
was supported entirely by the air chambers. Her gar-
board (or keel strake) was stove in its whole length, and
a few more blows upon the wreck would have sent her
adrift in fragments ; and any other lugger (not a life-
boat) would have gone down and all hands with her.
Ordered her on shore for immediate repair, and retired
after eight hours of anxious exertion and drenching upon
the piers. About 40 sail bad entered for shelter, more
or less distressed. One brig broke all her ropes, drove
across the sluice guides and bilged ; the rest were safely
moored in the basin and kept afloat.

" K. B. MARTIN, Harbourmaster."

(Copy of a letter addressed to the Commander of French
gun-brig Arquebuse, lying in Ramsgate Harbour.)
"Dear Sir,—Allow me to thank you for the prompt
manner in which you sent your boats to assist the die,
tressed vessels running into this harbour during the
storm of yesterday, and under the trying circumstances
which took place.
"It is not, I assure you, the first time in which I have
received assistance from the French Marine in the exe-
cution of my official duties.
" I have the hono,urto. MARTIN Harbourmaster.
ourobligeservanit
, K. B
"The Commander, Arquebuse, F.N."