The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-17 00:00:00

MELAND.

OCT. 12.—Sunday inSt'ille t
and Right Reverend Lord Bishop of KILLALGE held
an ordination at the Cathedral of Kilhdoe, when the
felhe.ving Gentlemen were'adwitted to the Order
of Dee Con, viz. the Hon. ItoenttT M./turn, A. M.
brother to Lord Viscount H A WARDEN, Wsr..BUTA
LER, A. B. anCll. STO,NEY., -A. B.
We regret to hear that the effeels of the late
equitiodtial gales have been severely felt on the
North coast of this kinadom. A heavy gale of
wind commenced on Friday night, which blew. un-
abated until the forennen of. Saterday. The fol-
lawina effeEts of its destruaiite fury have already
reached our knowledge;, though we fear the darrt.,
age is not \comprised in what we arc tow enabled
to state.
• A small sloop was wrecked at Larne, on Friday
night; she belongs to the Island Of Magee, and
was loaded with limestone for Scotland. We have
not learnt her name—crew saved.—tre are extreme:
ly concerned to state the loss of the: brig Comet, of
Whitehaven, J. NicifoLsozr, Master, loaded with
timber,. frem Pifton to Belfast. .She went on shore.
at Ballyeastie during the heavy gale last Saturday
evening; 'and, ',melancholy to relate, the Captain,
Mate, and six of the crew were drowned. E.
toYD, ,Esti: who commands a yeomanry corps, 4e-t-
-mediately ordered out his men te protest such part
of the property es might be saved. Much praise is
due to this Gentleman on various occasions for his
thivity aed humanity in afrordieg
.reliof to the on-
fortunille mariner. wien, cast away on that danger-
ous coast..--On Friday last the brig Unity, Captain
I.l%vinsoN,.of Workingtone sailed from Belfast, to
take in cattle. for England from • Banger. - As the
wind was South, she could not make thelarbour,
but canie to anchor in the bay; a severe shower of
:rain in the evening shifted the wind to neaoy North,
blowing strong with a heavy sea ; site, -however,
fode it ou till nearly nine o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, when she patted her cables, and alinost instaet+
ly came on shore, a lit tle'to the eastward of that har •
bour, among the roeks, :end soon after. went to
pieces. Owing to the great exertions Of the Hoe.
Colonel \VArn, and the seamen of the place, the
lives of the crew, consisting of the Captain, five men,
and two boys, were saved.
• BELFAST, 00'1'. 11.—On Friday night we ha '1 a
very hard gale of wind from the North-west. It
ccettinued till the forenoon of Saturday, and pi-o-
duced most calamitous consequehces. In this town
several buildings, were materially injured, and the
walls of a large faCtory in Done;all-street, on which
the workmen had bcgan to'put the roof; were com-
pletely blown 'down. Jr was very fortunate that
they tell in the night : had it
:occurred during .
the day, the calamity might have been increased by
the loss of many lives,
KING WILLIAM'S IRF.E.—Ameng, the various
marks of devastation which 'appeared on Saturday
morning, after the stortny-niht of Friday last, was
the prostration of. a large ash in-Mafoee, knOwn by
the name' ofKing William's Tree. This was not,
however, the7original. one designated by that ['Nn-,
which was blown down it' the year 170 ; the reel
tree grew in a line with tit: adopted one, but in
Mr. TEMPLETON'S'. avenue. It was said to
been a thriving leafy young tree at the time King
WILLIAM was passing, who being caught by a
shower, went under it' for shelter, where he was
observed by a Mr. ECCLES, who then lived in the
house, and invited up to take sonic retreshment.
The tree was in a state of great decay, and had been
hollow in the heart for many years before its final
destrutßion.

An extraordinary feat of pedesirianim wakper-
formed on Satutday,thorning, by a man of the name
of Williams, steward to Mr. CrOtich, of Wigmore
street. He Was backed for twenty n:1111631 to go
twenty miles in two 110dri; he started at_ Hamwer_
smith,• and did the-distance, in unfavourable wea-
ther, in seven minutes within Ole.giyen time. Ills
trawl was straight to, Colnbrook„,and to return to
near the Magpie: