The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-02 00:00:00

Commencement of Term.—This Day.

The business in the superior courts of law was resumed
to-day.

In the morning the Judges, Queen's Counsel, and the
leading members of the bar, were entertained at breakfast
by the Lord Chancellor, according to annul custom, and
afterwards they went in procession to Westminster-hall to
open their respective Courts.

There were a great many persors assembled within the
hall to witness their lordships' arrival.

The public business did not commence until a very late
hour.

THE GALE,

In London the wind continued high during the whole of
Saturday, and yesterday there were several strong gusts,
accompanied by showers. Between 12 and 1 o'clock on
Saturday afternoon an accident happened in one of the
poorest districts of Bethnal- green. A poor woman named
Caroline Hudson, was passing No. 10, Lisbon-street, Cam-
bridge road, Bethnal-green, with an infant in her arms,
when the upper portion of the front wall coping stems and
roof suddenly fell into the street. The falling bricks struck
her on the head, inflicting a severe scalp wound. The in-
fant in her arms escaped uninjured. Her little boy who
was with her was much hurt. A police-constable ran to
their assistance, and conveyed the mother and children to
the accident ward of the London Hospital, where their
wounds were dressed. The injured persons were then con-
veyed home. The inhabitants of the houses ran into the
street, fearing that the adjoining ho.uses would fall ; but the
police lost no time in sending for Mr. Price, the Govern-
ment inspector, who promptly attended. Mr. Price went
to No. 10, and found the wall in a condition which made him
order it to be at once "shored up." He ordered the inmates
not to sleep in the houses, Nos, 9 and 10, and said that, if
necessary, he would give them an order for admission into
the workhouse of St,
i Matthew, Bethnal-green, but they re-
fused to make use of t, The landlord, who had only come
into possession of the houses a few days ago, set several
men to work, and the property was so far secured as to pre-
vent further apprehension of danger.
The the London, St. Katherine's, the East
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CRATHAM, Saturday.
The wind was still strong this morning, but the gale
has altogether subsided. At nine o'clock this morning the
29 deg., or a r
barometer, w which during yses. yesterday had fallen to 29.5,
marked s
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ter, in the occupation of Mr. Everist, and that eight horses
which were in the stables had been buried in the ruins, and
five of the number killed, several of the farm servants
escaping with their lives. A fine elm tree, believed to be
upwards of a century old, was broken short off at the trunk,
in considerable damage was
in the grounds adjoining Rome-house, Chatham. In the
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windmill Rochester,
the Borstall-road, at the out-
skirts of the city, belonging to Mr. Elorsnail, was much
injured. A portion of the roof of St. Peter's Church was
also stripped. In Chatham dockyard a portion of the gal.
vanized plating covering some of the building sheds was
lifted bodily up, but, happily, was not carried away. At
New Brompton a heavy brick wall, recently erected, was
blown down, and numbers of houses in that district of the
town were partially unroofed.

Noftwicit, Saturday,
It blew exceedingly hard in the Eastern counties on
Friday and to-day, but as the wind was off the shore,
comparatively little damage appears to have been sus-
tained by the shipping. Island, however, various injuries
were inflicted. At Colchester some damage was occasioned
to a new riding school in course of erection at, the new
cavalry barracks. At Ipswich a shed in the shipbuilding
yard of Mr. W. Read was entirely unroofed, the roof being
carried over the dwelling-house of a man named Waller at
the back of the yard. It fell into the dock. Several large
squares of glass were blown out of their frames at the
Custom-house. A shed at the old station-yard, Stoke, was
entirely unroofed, while the end of a house situated close
by, in the occupation of a bricklayer named Whyatt, was
blown in.

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LIVERPOOL, Saturday.
During the storm which prevailed at Liverpool on Fri-
day morning, soon after midnight, her Majesty's ship Ma-
jestic partially broke from moorings and drifted alongside
the Conway, but did very little damage. She was soon
secured to her anchors again,

MALTON, Saturday.
On Thursday, Friday, and to-day the north and east of
Yorkshire was visited by a heavy storm of wind, rain, and
hail, increasing to a hurricane on Friday night. The heavy
rains have caused the rivers Rye and Derwent and all the
moorland streams to rise rapidly, and on Saturday the
waters were over the banks and threatened to lay all the
low country under water. as the rivers were still rising at
night. The farmers have taken the precaution to drive off
their cattle. A flood at so early a period of the season will
greatly damage the aftermath, of which the fields have had
a good crop.

LEEDS, Saturday.
Leeds was visited with a severe storm of wind and rain
on Friday and to-day, the rivers and all their feeders
overflowing their banks in many parts, particularly the
Wharfe and the Aire. At a branch of the latter in Leeds,
on Friday afternoon, a man driving a one-horse conveyance
belonging to Messrs. Carver and Co., the well known car-
riers, attempted to get across at a ford called Sandy Lobby,
but the stream was so strong that the horse and the vehicle
were swept away. The horse and a youth who assisted the
driver were drowned. The driver had a very narrow escape
for his life.

CARLISLE, Saturday.

The storm broke with great fury over Cumberland on
Thursday. Several persons had to put back into port, but
there were no disasters in the Solway Frith, except that the
Condor from Drogheda ran ashore near Braystone's, near
Whitehaven. At Carlisle the rivers are in high flood, inun-
dating the low lying holmes in the neighbourhood of the
city

CARDIFF, Saturday Night.
The gale continued with unabated fury during the whole
of last night, accompanied with heavy squalls and unusually
violent hail storms. On the whole the ships in the Penarth
Roads have borne the storm well, only one casualty having
as yet been reported. The vessel Orwell, of Ipswich, had
her bowsprit and jibboom carried away by the Prussian
bark Claudine, in consequence of having anchored too close
to the latter vessel, and she has come into dock for repairs.
The Cork Company's steamer arrived safe this morning,
having encountered a dreadful storm between Milford and
this port which obliged her to put into the former place fot
some hours. Although the had about 300 head o! cattle on
nets caused
board, no very serious loss has taken place.
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injury. In Leith the damage has been more serious. The
gable of a house in Darling's Brae fell on the ro)f of an ad-
joining house, and part of it went through
whose escape was effected with great upon the inmates,
difficulty. A small
church, for 400 persons, became a heap of ruins. The roof
was completely lifted off and fell on the south well, which
it demolished, and the northern
and unprotected, fell gable, being left exposed
soon after
wards, Several casualties in
the Firth of Forth have been
the Lake, laden with fit reported. The sloop Lady of
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ferry to Leith, when, at the height of the storm, about S
o'clock, the towing rope broke. The tug was obliged to run
under Inchkeith for shelter, being unable to make Leith
harbour, and the sloop, on board which were two men, has
not since been heard of.

THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Pera, Captain T. Jamieson, bringing the
heavy portion of these mails, arrived at Southamp_
ton yesterday at 1 p.m. This vessel has made one
of the most rapid passages from Alexandria on re-
cord, having left that port on the 21st ult., Malta
on the 24th, and Gibraltar on the 28th. The actual
time under way is 10 days 19 hours from Alexan-
dria, seven days twenty hours from Malta, and four
days three hours from Gibraltar. In the Mediter-
ranean she had fine weather; from Gibraltar to Cape
St. Vincent, moderately easterly winds; along the
caast of Portugal, northerly winds; across the Bay
of Biscay and in the Channel, strong north-westerly
gales, with heavy sea.
The Pera brought 43 passengers (viz., 22 first-
class, nine second, seven children, three servants,
and two deck), among whom were \lr. Shuttle-
worth, Mr. and Mrs. Tate, and child, from China;
11r. and Mrs. Dew and child, Mr. and Mrs. Mit-
chell and child, Capt. Cobbet, from Calcutta; Lieut. '
West, from Madras. Oa freight she had £1,300 in
specie, 11 packages of valuables, worth £14,870
sterling, 3,317 bales of silk, 258 boxes of oranges,
25 boxes of raisins, 53 packages of elephants' teeth,
and 160 packages of general merchandise.
On the 20th ult., at 5 p.m., in lat. 36.19 N., long.
6.47 W., the Pera spoke her Majesty's ships Gib-
raltar and Hydra, both under steam, steering S.E.;
and on the 30th, at 11 a.m., off Cape Finisterre, the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Cey-
lon, with the outward Bombay mails of the 27th,
steering to the southward.
The French frigate Perdrix was at Alexandria
on the 21st ult.

Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Chanticleer,
Phcebe, and Orontes were at Malta, the last-named
vessel embarking the 24th Regiment for Gibraltar,
and was to sail for that port on the 24th, after the
Pera left. Tae Malacca and Supply were at Gib-
ralta, the latter vessel having arrived on the 27th
from Greenhithe and Torbay. Tne screw corvette
Racoon, Captain Count Gleichen, put to sea from
Gibraltar on the 27th.

The Italian squadron, consisting of the frigate
Victor Emwanuele (bearing the Italian Royal
standard), the frigate Maria Adelaide (flag of Ad-
miral Provana), five other screw frigates, one cor-
vette, and a paddlewheel sloop, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the morning of the 22d from Lisbon. The
squadron was saluted, on arrival, by the guns of
the fortress, her Majesty's ship Racoon, and the
Italian sailing corvette Tride, the Admiral's ship
returning the compliment. The Victor Emmanuele
sailed for Genoa on the morning of the 23d, being
again saluted on leaving the bay by the garrison
and the men-of-war in the harbour, which compli-
ment was immediately returned. All the other
vessels of the squadron left for Genoa, after coal-
ing, by the evening of the 24th.
The Russian screw frigate Oleg, Capt. Andreef,
five days from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on
the afternoon of the 22d, and left on the night of
the 24th for Toulon. The usual complimentary
salutes were fired and returned on her arrival i❑
the bay, and the Russian Consul was also saluted
with seven guns on his visiting the ship. The Oleg
is to escort and not to convey the new King of the
Greeks to Athens, and the screw corvette Sokoe is
to join her for the same purpose. The last named
vessel, in command of Captain Arloubegoff, arrived
at Cadiz on the 23d from Lisbon, and left for
Toulon on the following day.
Sir John Drummond Hay, the British Minister
resident at Morocco, landed at Tangier on the after-
❑oon of the 23d ult. with his family, on their re-
turn from England, from the steamship Cadiz,
which touched at Tangier for the purpose.

It was reported at Gibraltar from Melilla that
the Sultan hea sent a sum of money to his Minister
for Foreign Affairs at Tangier for remission to
Melilla, in order to pay to the Riffians the value of
their lauds ceded to Spain under the late treaty.
The following British merchant steamers had
arrived at Gibraltar :—Oct. 21, the Ctlpe, Captain
M. Conolly, seven days from Liverpool, for
Palermo, 8.7 c. ; 22d, the Christina, Captain W.

Mansfield, seven days from Liverpool, for Al alta and
Alexandria; 23d, the Cadiz, Capt. J. Russell, 7 days
from London, and 3 hours from Tangier, with Go-

vernment stores, and the Livorno, Capt. T. Living

stone, 26 days from Glasgow and two from Lisbon,
for Genoa; 25th, the Ripon, Capt. E. Christian, 4

days 23 hours from Southampton, with mails, &c.

for Malta and Alexandria, and tte Venetian, Cap'

R. Joy, 8 days from Liverpool, for Genoa, Leghorn

&c. The brig Shields, from Oran, bound to King.

road, 15 days out, was spoken, all well, on the 19th

ult., off Cape de Gatt, by the brigantine Mercury,

arrived at Gibraltar.

The Spanish screw frigate Concepcion, 37, Capt.
Macrohou, left Cadiz for tho Havanna on the 19th

ult. ; the screw sloop Consuelo, 2, Capt. Oreyro, put
to sea on the 22d; the war steamer Colon, 6, Capt.

Cocco; and steam sloop Leon, 2, Capt. Tudela, On
the 22d; and the screw sloop Concordia, Lieut.

Campos, on the 24th.
The French frigate Dryade, 4, Capt. Pinta, from
L'Orient, arrived at Cadiz on the 21st.