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

TEE 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 stories 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 houses 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. 19, 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, Matthew, Bethnal-green, but they re-
fused to make use of it, 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 London, St. Katherine's, the East
further apprehension of danger.
Inadillaeanshd Westipping in the
India Docks Was much damaged by the gale,
and many of the vessels were driven from their moorings.
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Cita:mem, Saturday.
The wind was still strong this morning, but the gale
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has altogether subsided. At nine o'clock this morning the
barometer, which during yesterday had fallen to 29.5,
marked 29 deg., or a rise of 5-10ths during the night, and
later in the day it was still n,ing. The hurricane raged
with great fury throughout Chatham and Rochester, and
caused considerable damage, Late yesterday evening
intelligence was brought that the gale had swept away a
portion of New Barn farmhouse, at Cooling, near Roches-
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 the grounds adjoining Rome-house, Chatham. In the
neighbouring city of
Rochester, considerable damage was
done, and a windmill in the Borstall-road, at the out-
skirts of the city, belonging to Mr. Horenail, was much
injured. A portion of the roof of St. Peter's Church was
also stripped. In Chatham dockyard a portion of the gal.
vsnized 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 tb.at district of the
unroofed.
town were partially

NORWICH, 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. Inland, however, various injuries
were inflicted. At Colchester some damage was occasioned
to a now 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.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday.
Daring 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 ail 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.

i.,EDS, 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 aro 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 she had about 300 head of cattle on
board, no very serious loss has taken place. The
gale con-
tinues in the same direction—viz., W.S.W.

EDINIIITRGII, Saturday.
In Edinburgh the gale of Thursday evening has caused
considerable destruction of exposed property, but no personal
injury. In Leith the damage has been more serious. The
gable of a house in Darling's Brae fell on the roof of an ad-
joining house, and part of it went thr„ugh upon the inmates,
whose escape was effected with great 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 gable, being left exposed
and unprotected, fell soon afterwards, Several casualties in
the Firth of Forth have been reported. The sloop Lady of
-the Lake, laden with stones, was being towed from queollB-