The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-13 00:00:00

TILE GALE.

Yesterday most disdztrous accounts were received
from the several ceasi-guard stations on the south
and west COdStS. be Kale is described as fearful,
and such as has not been experienced in the chan-
nel for many ears, with a in ,sr, tremendous sea.
The storm was so violent from south to west south.
west that the tide does not ebb further from
the shore than the shingle extends. At Wey•
mouth the sea was so heavy in the bay on Wed-
nesday that it swept clean over the esplanade,
whicn at low water presented the appearance of a
rough beach, and a large quantity of the piles
at the Break water has been • washed away. A coast
guard boatman, named Hansford, is missing,
and it is
reared that the poor fellow was drowned. It appears
that he crossed a large bay that lies between the
Wyke station (to which he belonged) and the beach,
in a small boat on the previous night, and on Wed-
nesday morning the boat was found to have drifted
on shore ; a most active search was made for the
missing man, but it was unavailing, and it I, sup-
posed that the boat had capsized in the gale, and thus
he was drowned. He has left a wife and six
children. The Rev. Mr. Templer's yacht parted her
cable, and drove on shore near the Royal Hotel,
where she lies exposed to the fury of the gale and
sea, the latter beating with great violence over her.
On the same day the Caroline, of Ipswich, from
Plymouth for Southampton, went on shore under
idount Edgecombe, and in a short time became a
total wreck; the crew were fortunately saved.
Yesterday the Earl Balcarras, Morris, from London
for Bombay, lost two anchors and chains off the North
Foreland, having run up for shelter after slipping
an anchor and chain in the Downs. At Lymington
the destruction of property has been serious ; several
elm trees have been torn up by the roots, and many
houses have been nearly stripped of the tiles and a
number of chimneypots blown down. A yacht and
two merchant vessels (smack.) have driven on shore
off the "Jack," and the sea breaks heavily over them
(names unknown). A brig was observed in the
offing, from Shoreham, it blowing heavily
from the southward and westward at the
time, but no having subsequently made her
appearance afterwards, great anxiety pre-
vails as to her fate. In the Downs most of the
vessels were riding with two anchors down, and yet
drove considerably ; some had let go a third, and a
ringßotoa dtsu.rnTdhorwene
schooners c
ho
obore r s upw were
er
observedshelter
endeavouring n de Margateav ou
to
Channel on the ebb from Bonchurch station, Isle of
them blown our,t
Wight ; two split their headsails, and theother
of the boltrope, and were obliged
abreel
bear up.
.The accounts from other places on the coast
disastrous, and the gale continues.

FREE.IIASONS of the MIDDLE AGES.
the tactile ctural works of the middle
ages, two curious tug
NN
hen stud}
attention.
itze la'
us. circumstances force themselves on the
the similarity apparent ID the build-
ings of each particular period, although erected in various
parts of Euro
Pe (the rapidity with which every alteration
in style was made
play- the mostt
great mathematical g imagination,
ignoranc,eapnrdevailed,
that many of he extraordinary buildings, which dis-
lywiidmealyikninowh); the other, the fact
graeradded when
nn dk i
ij3ugdsgwmeernet
I,
oe rbi de
the greatest
tt or
uu foundi unable tree skill, were erected at a thee when
as
who knew a few physical
seems tolerably clear that ruagicians. On iequiry, it
of men b, und together b theyceriai la
were
erts f
exfi an associationcutadb
by bands
y
were, to a certain
who were,
known as "Free
partly of a religious character,
extent, protected by the church
this extraordinary fra-
present time we
vidualaassociated
Masons." The early history of
Freemasons'di Tavern
ternity is obscured by table. At
were
charity.
their
eelvery diff,r-
know them simply as a body of jog;
connexion
for social purposes, who meet at the
and elat7 where, to discuss a dinner and
Originally, he wever, their proceedings
ent, Some Masonic writers seek to trace
a'r existence
from a remote time, and endeavour to shownion
with the Eleusinten mysteries anti the
tifi:ters, who peaseseed the privilege of erecting y SlaC itr.
ilt,prublic
structures in Asia Minor. Without entering
this questionable ground, or even stopping to ascertain
the earliest date en, real their presence in P.
--off land can
be proved, suffice it to say they were the builders 'in,f
Leahy of our cethedrels end churches, and preserved
within their lodges a large amount of scientific skill
greatly di.propertioned to the geoeral attainments of the
tithe.— Builder.

---- -----,
TToUnE TO THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL AT LEEDS,
—The magniticeot statue of this distinguished statesman, by
Behnes, it has , Ow been cetermined, shall be publicly inau-
guratedthe 90th instant. The site for the statue is adja-
cent to the Court House, the Commercial Buildingg, and the
anW eedxnpe
isod:l3o,Eta
principal
cost is 1500 guineas.
Cloth Hall. Tne statue is a splendid work of art
bottom of one
CoAL p .
IT ,LCCIDEN
burned (one dant(l,l T.—An accident occurred on
t the Ai
—alago Vale coal works, near Bristol, by
owingof to the men having kindled a foe at the
drifts. Four men were so seriously
the Guniea-street gu'lY) that they had to be removed to
reet •
Maw.,
Sir John P.kingLo 1
seat, WeBtwood.park.- n
left town yesterday, for his