The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-09 00:00:00

not known. The Alumbagh has not lost a spar.
The Ceylon lost fore and main masts, and sustained
other damage. The Knight Commander sustained
some trifling damage from collision with other yes.
sole. The Romany on shore high and dry. The
Hannibal on shore at Sappore, tot illy dismasted,
but hull in good condition. The Esmeralda on shore
at Cossipore. The Vanita has her forefoot on the
wreck of the Azemia ; is in a dangerous position.
The Calumet has sustained some injuries but is safe
in deep water. The Broughton Hall, for Bombay, has
been driven ashore near the engine-house. The How-
reside has lost nearly all her masts, and hull injured.
The Aphrodite, in Garden Reach moorings, and the
Goldfinder, for Bombay, in Salt Golsh mooring, are
both said to have escaped uninjured. The Inkerman
in dock, safe. The Cheshire, for Bombay, was driven
ashore south of Howrah terminus, otherwise unhurt.
She is afloat aft, and it is hoped may be got off with-
out much difficulty. The Tarragon, the St. Philbert,
the Nomade, the Anne de Bretagne, the Admiral
Casey, the Celinie, and the Alphonse and Nellie, all
seven ashore, but no particulars received of damage
or whether any is sustained. The Sir Jamsetjee
Family aground at Cossipore, with loss of fore and
main masts, mizentop, figare•head, and cntwater.
The Panjaub has lost maintopmast and topgallant-
mast, topgallant yards, all her boats but one, and
anchor and chain; ship badly strained, and a hole
in her side. The Madras totally dismasted, all her
boats gone, and lost anchor and chains. The Maul-
mein totally dismasted, funnel gone, bulwark stove
in, and anchor gone.
The following ships, it is believed, have escaped
without serious damage :—The Ally, the Akbar
Shah, the Royal Oak, the Alabama, the William
Fairburn, the Sultany, the Armenian, the River
Clyde, the Zenobia, the India, the Nagasaki, the
Renown. 'fhe tug steamers Resolute, Reliance,
Bulldog, Rattler, and Electric not injured ; the
Victoria and the Columbus slightly damaged; the
Union appears badly damaged ; the Banshee, the
Linnet, the Fire Queen, the Satellite gone down;
the Interloper severely injured, but can probably
be repaired ; the Alligator and the Pirate both very
severely damaged. The Sydney's starboard quar-
ter was very much damaged ; a large hole in her,
making a little water. The Orissa has bulwarks
carried away, anchors, chains, and rail gone. The
Princess Royal has drifted up to Cossipore, and is
jammed with other ships ; not much injured as yet.
The Royal Alexander is on shore at Garden Reach,
not much damaged, and is likely to get off.

made. Not a boat of the Harbourmaster or Mas-
ter Attendant's department has escaped, and so
many native boats have been destroyed that
there is great difficulty in communicating
with ships. The roads all round us are blocked
with trees and ruins of every description. No
natives can be got to work; they are absent digging
among the ruins of their houses. The river is now,
and will be for some few tides, dangerous from
sunken and floating wrecks; but I think we shall
be able to work to-morrow. The staff and super•
numeraries who lived on board the Hindostan have
been made as comfortable as circumstances will

permit.
" We have had nothing like this hurricane since
1832 ; but in fearful results—viz., destruction of
houses, stores, and shipping—nothing has equalled
it. Nearly 300 ships are reported wrecked, on shore,
or irreparably damaged.
" Through God's mercy no lives have been lost,
and only one serious accident has occurred among
us, namely—a steward blown down the hatchway
of the Hindostan.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, S. H. DE SALIS.

"The Managing Directors, Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London."
Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Nov. 3.—Her Majesty's despatch
vessel Psyche, Lieut.-Commander Robert Sterne,
left this port on Monday morning last for Mara
seilles to embark his Excellency Sir Henry Storks,
K.C.8.; the new Governor of Malta, who is ex-
pected to leave England on the 10th inst. to assume
the Governorship of the island. Sir Gaspard Le
Merchant, with his family, left this evening in the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah
for Southampton, and Major-Gen. Ridley has as-
sumed thecommand pro tem. Captain Vessey, 22d
Regiment, proceeded as passenger in the Yysche for
Marseilles. The paddlewheel frigate Magicienne,
16, Capt. W. Armytage, left yesterday for the
Pit was with stores for the Liffey, 35, Capt. George
Parker. She will thence proceed to Smyrna, Cans
dia, and Corfu. Capt, Bowden, aide-de-camp to
Major-Gen. Ridley, and Capt. Bland, Royal Engle
neers, went in the Magicienne. The Tyrian, 2,
gunboat, Lieut. T. P. Murray, left on the 29th ult.
for Gerbi, in the Regency of Tunis, for the protece
tion of British interests there, in consequence of an
attack on the island by a numerous band of lawless
Arabs from the mainland, in which several lives
were lost. The Tyrian will relieve the Racer, 11,
which has been despatched to Gerbi, on intelligence
reaching Tunis of the occurrence. In consequence
of news having been received of the English
merchant schooner Mermaid having been sunk by
a Spanish battery at Ceuta, her Majesty's frigate
Orlando, 46, Capt. G. R. Randolph, has been de-
spatched from Tunis by order of the Commander-
in-Chief Vice-Admiral Smart, to inquire into the
circumstances which led to this extraordinary act on
the part of the Spanish authorities. We learn from
Gibraltar that the Marlborough, 121, Capt. C. Fel-
lows, arrived there on Oct. 22, and left there on
following day for England. The surveying-vessel
Firefly, 4, Lieut.-Commander Wilkinson, arrived
yesterday morning from the Island of Favignana,
on the south west coast of Sicily, which is now une
dergoing an accurate survey. The Chanticleer, 17,
Commander Risk, came in this morning from Syra-
cuse. The Revenge, 73 (bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon.
F. A. Foley, leaves on Sunday or Monday next for
a cruise on the coasts of Sicily and Spain. The
Admiral Superintendent at Malta, Rear-Admiral
H. T. Austin, C. 8., is about to leave this island on
promotion, consequent on the decease of Vice-Admi-
ral H. F. Greville, C. 8., and the vacancy, report
says, will be filled up by Rears Admiral Kellett. The
departure of Admiral Austin and his family will be
very much regretted. Among the passengers who
arrived from Marseilles on Saturday last were Major
General W. J. Ridley, commanding the Ist Brigade
in this garrison :—Sir Victor Houlton, K.G.M.G.,
Chief Secretary to Government—Col. Harding e,
, commanding Ist battalion 22d Foot—and
Capt. F. Aakwright. The following have also
arrived :—Lieut. V. de Lancey, Lieut. Hudson
Capt. Lutman, Capt. F. Eynaud, R.M.F.A. Lieut
H. de Robeck, R.N., and Capt. Campbell, R.N.
have left on leave of absence. A court martial was
held this morning on board the Hibernia, presided
over by Capt. Chamberlain, commanding her Ma-
jesty's ship Resistance, officiating Judge-Advocate
Mr T. Boyle, R.N., to try assist.-engineer of the
second class Allison, of her Majesty's ship Gibraltar,
on a charge of drunkenness. He was sentenced to
be deprived of two years' service, to be severely
reprimanded, and to be dismissed his ship.
Yesterday the half-yearly general muster of the
Brigade of Foot Guards quartered at the west end
of the metropolis took place on the Parade in St.
James's Park, in front of the Horse Guards, the De-
puty Adjutant General officiating as Muster Master.
The following troops assembled on the ground at
11 o'clock, viz. :—Granadier Guards, Ist Battalion,
from Chelsea barracks, 600 strong ; 3d Battalion,
Grenadier Guards, from Wellington barracks, 600
strong ; Coldstream Guards, Ist Battalion, from the
same barracks, 600 strong; and the Scots Fusileer
Guards, 2d Battalion, from St. George's barracks,
400 strong; nearly 200 of this battalion were on
guard and were relieved by an equal number of the
Coldstreams. Soon after 11 o'clock the muster
commenced, the officers marching round in the same
manner as the rank and file. There being 2,200 to
answer to their names, the ceremony occupied more
than two hours, and at the conclusion the battalions
were marched to their respective quarters.
The gunboat Ferret, 2, left Plymouth on Monday
for Bristol, where she will be used as a training-
ship for boys.
The Netherlands transport Rotterdam, Captain
Adriaans, 116 days from Batavia, with 104 invalid
troops, put into Plymouth Sound on Sunday, and
when the wind changes will leave for Nieuwediep.
General 'fodleben is at present at Governments
house, Mount Wise, Davenport, on a visit to Major-
General Hutchinson, the Commander of the Forces
in the West.
The following appointments were made on Mona
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Pownoll W.
Pellew, to the Royal Adelaide—Lieut. Frederick S.
Vandermulan, to the Victoria—Lieut. R. M. Sperm
ling, to the Asia—John G. T. Forbes, surgeon, to
the Victoria—Owen J. Llewellen, surgeon, to the
Magicienne—Frederick J. Fegen, paymaster, to be
secretary to Vice-Admiral Smart—Ebenezer F.
Nicholson, assist.-paymaster, supernumerary, to the
Duncan—A, Marshall and J. M. Murphy, engi-
neers, to the Eipoir— G. Park, assist.aengineer, to
the Espoir—and D. Ferguson, assist.-engineer, to
the Donegal.
The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve :--To be Honorary Lieuts.,
Edward Cooper and Timothy Thornhill.
's I

The excavations at Pompeii have just led to the
discovery of a temple of Juno, on the flags of which
were scattered about more than 200 skeletons. They are
those of women and children who, during the eruption
of Vesuvius, had hastened to the temple to seek refuge and
implore the protection of the goddess.
A NEW WAY OF PRINTING.—The description
of a very rapid process for reproducing pencil
drawings has been going the round of the Russian journals.
The process will be particularly useful in campaigns, where
it is often desirable to have a number of copies of a hasty
pencil sketch, Seine time ago M. Villani-Villanis remarked
that if a sheet paper on which a plan or any drawing or
writing has been executed with pencil bo moistened will
acic'ulated water, and afterwards inked, the pencil marks
alone will take the ink, and the whole drawing,,may then be
transferred to metal or stone. Capt. Sytenko, of the Rus-
sian Artillery, director of the Photographic Service of the
Staff at St. Petersburg, has introduced very ingenious modi-
fications into this process, and contrived a portable mili-
:ary press, which, as already hinted, may be extremely use-
ful in campaigns. It does not take more than ten minutes
to effect the transfer of the drawing upon a zinc plate or
lithographic stone.—Galignani.
[AnvEltrisEmENT.]-11olloway's Ointment and Pills,—
Fur bad legs, bad breasts, and scorbutic or scrofulous sores
this is a gentle specific. The grateful and earnest testi-
mony of thousand 3 who have experienced their unrivalled
power over these complaints, and who have been raised
from prostrate helplessness and a condition loathesome to
themselves and others, render it quite unnecessary to en-
large in this place on its extraordinary virtues. The parts
affected should be bathed with lukewarm water, and when
the pores are thereby opened the ointment should be rubbed
in at least twice a day all round the complaining parts. It
then penetrates to the seat of the disorder, and effects a
thorough and permanent cure. These preparations are com-
posed of real balsams, as mild as they are efficacious.

Opening

Bridge.

Yesterday afternoon another wide and much-needed
bridge thoroughfare into the city was given to the public
by the opening of this structure toll free for a period of six
or twelve months at least, if not for perpetuity. The nego-

:iations and arrangements which have at last brought about
&is most desirable result have been for some long time past

in progress. The shareholders were not reluctant to take
almost say terms for a structure which had cost them very
much, and which had paid them almost nothing at all, and
seemed unlikely in the future to be more remunerative than
during the past. They accordingly offered it to the
Bridge.house Estate Committee far the small sum of
£200,000, which, considering that it cost up to the time of
its opening in 1819 £660,000, and is as good now as the day
it was first used, was a very liberal offer, especially when
we recollect that the mere approaches would, at the present

day, cost as much as the whole work did 45 years ago. But
the corporation were not unnaturally unwilling to enter on
what must in any case be a costly purchase without some
better proofs of the utility of the roadway than that which
was furnished in theory, for the practical fact that during
the greater part of the day London-bridge was virtually no
thoroughfare at all was ignored by every one as beside the
real question at issue. At last a compromise was come to,
and the directors of the bridge company agreed to let the
corporation have the public use of the bridge free of toll for
a space of six months for the sum of £1,834, or for 12
months for £2,750, the bridge company under taking all ne-
cessary repairs of roads, &0., during either the 6 months or
year. With this offer the corporation closed at once, and the
result was the public opening of the bridge on those terms
yesterday. Until now it has never been ct nee to either
shareholders or public, and the bridge directors have done
wisely in letting the public have the use of it toll free for a
very small sum, and trusting, like Sam Slick with the clock,
that when at the expiration of the time the article lent must
either be returned or paid for, the public will have got ac •
customed to its facilities, and be so convinced of its use, if
not necessity, that the city will have no option but to pure
chase it. Southwark.bridge is now the oldest of our metro-
politan bridges, except Vauxhall, which was opened in 1813,
whereas Southw ark was not finished till more than six years
later. The span of its magnificent centre arch is one of the
largest known to exist, and was for years considered an en-
gineering marvel. The ribs of all the three arches are ar-
ranged as nearly as possible to the constructive features of a
stone bridge—a new principle for a cast iron arch, but one
which time has proved very successful. The segmental por-
tions of the arches, and the struts and cross braces, are kept
secure by dovetail sockets and long iron wedges, driven in
between the jants, so that through bolts were only used in
building and till the wedges had been driven home. How
these wedges will stand the jar of heavy city traffic, after
long repose and comparative idleness. remains to be seen,
though no doubt is entertained as to their perfect security.
The spandrils of the arches are similarly fastened, and the
roadway rests on the ribs, overlaid with iron slabs between.
When the work was finished and the centerings removed
scarcely any deflection could be discovered, though subse-
quent experiments made to ascertain the effect of contras-
tion and expansion showed that the centre arch rose in sum-
mer from an inch to an inch anl a half higher than in win-
ter. The piers and abutments are of solid stone, founded
upon timber piling carried below the bed of the river, and
the masonry is tied throughout by vertical and horizontal
bond stones so as to meet the thrust in all directions, The
first stone of the bridge was laid by Admiral Lord Keith on
the 23d May, 1813, and it was opened at midnight on the 24th
March, 1819, as the clock of St. Paul's struck 12. Such is
a rough sketch of the bridge which was yesterday given to
the public, and which, we trust, will never be revoked from
their free use. Shortly before 12 the Lord Mayor in state,
accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, and attended by the
Mace and Sword bearers, drove to the entrance of the bridge
on the city side. The members of the Bridge-house Estate
Committee also attended in their carriages. Among others
present were Mr T. Webber, the chairman ; Mr Alderman
J. C.Lawrence, Mr Alderman Phillip, Mr Alderman Salo-
mons, M.P., Mr Alderman Gibbons, Mr J. Kilday, Mr W.
Tegg, Mr Brand, City Controller, 4563, They were received
by the chairman and several directors of the bridge com •
pany, including Mr F. H. Brandruni, Mr Carter, Mr W.
Pott, &c. Upon the arrival of the Lord Mayor and the
various civic officials on the city side of the bridge, the
directors of the company advanced to meet them, and the
chairman briefly than, ed his lordship for his kindness in
opening the bridge. His lordship replied that it gave him
great pleasure in assisting at the ceremony, as he felt sure
that the bridge would when opened free of toll greatly faci-
litate the passage of traffic to and from the city, and so
prove of essential benefit to the public.
The temporary barrier was then removed, and the Lord
Mayor and members of the Bridge-house Committee drove
over the bridge to the Southwark side, and turned round,
The barrier having in the meantime on that side also been
removed, one of the company officials read the following

notice :

" Southwark-bridge is from this day open to the public
free of toll for a period of 6 months, or until further orders.
Opened by the chairman and directors of the Southwark-
bridge Company, in the presence of the Right lion. William
Lawrence, the Lord Mayor,and the Chairman and members
of the Honourable the Bridge-house Committee of the cor-
poration of London."
The notice was again read after the removal of the barrier
on the city side.
The ttaffic during the rest of the day was chiefly confined
to cabs, and not very great numbers of them; but with
pedestrians it was pretty thickly thronged, and poor chil-
dren from the Borough and Southwark tested with their
hoops the capabilities of the now thoroughfare in all direc-
tions.