The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1839.

wind began to blow in furious squalls. From two to four
o'clock it was a complete hurricane, with a heavy sea. They
passed the wrecks early in the morning of yesterday, and ar-
rived at George's Pier about five o'clock. The engines of the
Avon, we believe, have suffered some slight injury. The
Shearwater was also much knocked about by the tempest, on
her homeward voyage ; she yesterday morning passed the
wrecks on the banks. The crew heard the poor sufferers on
board crying for assistance, which they were unable to render.
YORK, JAN. 7.—This morning a gale sprung up between
three and four o'clock, from the N. W., which increased in a
fearful manner until six o'clock, threatening the most fearful
damage, and loss to both life and property. The strong outer
wall of the House of Correction in this city was blown down,
and some hundreds of pounds' worth of damage done. Fortu-
nately the prisoners were in bed at the time of the occurrence,
or many would, in all probability, have suffered. York Castle,
the Barracks, and the venerable Cathedral, were also injured.
The loss of life has also been most serious. Many of the shops
in the city have been closed, and public business is nearly at a
stand.

NEWCASTLE.—The damage to property is enormous, but
happily no lives have been lost.
SUNDERLAND.—SeveraI persons have received injury, and,
lamentable to relate, four persons are killed. It would be im-
possible, within the limits of a single sheet, to enumerate all
the cases of damage done to property.
BANGOR.—The shipping in the port has sustained some da-
mage, many vessels having dragged their anchors and run
ashore, with loss of boats, &c. ; others are missing. At day-
break on Tuesday we saw a South Wales schooner aground
off Garth point, with her broadside to the ebbing tide, enve-
loped in spray, and the waves careering over her deck. We
regret to add that the land communication with Anglesey has
experienced a temporary suspension, a portion of the wooden
road having given way in the bridge; some of the sustaining
links are also broken.

TIM PORT. —The Mary Aun, of Conway, sunk at the
quay ; a sloop dismasted and sunk at the weir; the schooner
Thomas Mason, of Liverpool, drifted out to sea without her
crew, supposed to be lost. Another sloop was driven from
the patch and went ashore at Beaumaris. Eight or ten vessels
broke from their moorings at Hirael, and drove against the
quay with considerable damage to themselves and to the new
pier, two tiers of which have been much shaken, and the im-
mense blocks of stone displaced. Such was the violence of
the gale that slates half a hundred weight were blown from
the quay to a distance of 150 yards on the strand. There is a
square-rigged vessel dismasted off Beaumaris Point, and three
sloops on the point. From Carnarvon we learn that eight or
ten vessels have been driven on shore, and that a vessel was on
the bar and the life-boat unable to make her.

WHITEHAVEN.-About two o'clock in the morning, and
from that period till five, the Cimmerian darkness of the at-
mosphere and sky contributed greatly to the terror of the
scene. This period, too, was the climax of the storm ; and we
really think, as a scene of horror, it could not have been sur-
passed by any occurrence which the warring of the elements
could produce, save one of those stupendous convulsions of
nature, when the terrific earthquake buries the inhabitants of
entire cities in one undistinguished grave.
A strong vibration, or movement, slightly resembling the
shock of an earthquake, was very generally felt in the town
during the early part of the morning.
WRECKS.-This unfortunate vessel,`the John Airey, which
put into this port a few weeks ago, bound from Leghorn to
Liverpool, with a valuable cargo, consisting of palm oil,
marble, crystal, wool, silk, &c., dismasted ; and having in the
meantime undergone the necessary repairs (at an expense of
5001.) she sailed for her destined port on Sunday last, but not
being able to make much progress. and probably dreading the
aspect of the elements, Captain Wilson put back, and moored
his vessel inside the New West Pier, about six o'clock on Sun-
day evening. Captain Wilson, and his wife, who was also on
board, left the vessel in the course of the evening, for the
purpose of obtaining assistance in the town ; at least, such is
said to have been the object of his leaving her. The desired
assistance, it would appear, had not been obtained, nor did the
Captain go on board again. The vessel continued at her
moorings until about three o'clock yesterday morning, the hour
at which the storm reached its height when she was forced
from it by the fury of the tempest, and drifted upon the rocks
near William Pit.

The sea broke over the West Pier with such awful violence
as to render it next to impossible to approach the vessel to
render assistance, when in all probability aid was most
needed. And, on the other hand, had every individual in
the town been assembled on the beach when she first struck,
the darkness of the night and the fury with which the en-
raged waves broke upon the shore would have rendered their
efforts perfectly useless. There were four persons on board.
At day-break the body of Mrs. Miller was discovered washed
up near Messrs. Whiteside and Scott's building-yard ; and on
the tide receding the wreck became approachable, where the
first and second mates and Twentyman were all discovered
lashed to the chains, and. though life was extinct, this would
appear not to have been the case long, as their bodies were
yet warm. In the course of the forenoon the corpse of Twenty-
man was taken to his house in New Town, where it was re-
ceived by a sorrowing widow and four children.
In the course of the day a considerable quantity of the valu-
able cargo was secured ; but much of it, of course, in a da-
maged state. The vessel is a total wreck.

In the course of the night the Buoyant, Winder, belonging
to Harrington, and bound from Londonderry to Liverpool,
probably grain laden—but this we have not been able to as-
certain—was driven so high upon the beach near the Salt Pans,
betwaen Parton and Harrington, that her crew, on the vessel
heeling over, dropped from the mast upon the beach, and were
all saved.

The third and last wreck is that of the Prince of Wales,
Beatty, bound to this port from Liverpool, in ballast, which
place she left on Sunday morning. After having been tossed
about by the tempest the whole of the night she was driven
on shore yesterday morning on what is called the South
Head, near St. Bees, where all except a man named Sands,
who had just completed his apprenticeship, succeeded in get-
ting on shore and scrambling up the rocks which line the
coast. The sufferer, we are told, in his anxiety to gain the
shore, slipped his footing, fell into the sea, and was washed
away by the receding surge. The survivors were taken to
Southfield, where every attention was paid to them that their
exhausted condition required. The vessel has become a com-
plete wreck.
Outside the harbour the casualties are nearly co-equal with
the number of unroofed houses in the town, consequently are
too numerous to particularize.