The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-30 00:00:00

TEMPESTUOUS GALE.

(From the Inverness Courier.)

Oa Saturday; last one of the most furious gales ever
remembered in this quarter, accompanied with rain and
sleet, blew from the south-west. It commenced about
eleven o'clock, and raged with unabated violence till past
two. The Moray Frith at Kessock Roads was one t ast
sheet of foam, and several fishing boats were thrown high
up on the land. The ship Laurel, of Waives, Alexander
Marrow,, master, while loading timber at Lettoch, was
driven upon the beach, and had her bottom and keel much
damaged. About two thousand trees were thrown doWn
in the wood of Dochfour,' and an immense number in the
wood of Dunain. The waters of Loch Ness were agitated
like a stormy sea, and beat upon the beach at Bona with
such fury that the road was covered with the spray, and no
person could approach the ferry. In the east, the torn-
pest also raged, and several trees in Ciw lor wood were
uprooted.. Indeed, in all parts of this country similar
effecta were experienced, and in the town, there was
scarcely a house but bore traces of the storm. Chimneys
were blown down, 'windows broken, railings, gates, and
fences torn away; and with the falling of slates, stones,
and rubbish, it was somewhat of a perilous task, even to
those who could keep their feet, to pass through thestreets.
House, standing in an insular exposed situation were pro-
portionally damaged, and some of our country mansions
(Daviot, Ruigmore, Acc.) had their windows dreadfully
shattered, and otherwise sari-red severely. Some noble,
old, trees which ornamented the mansion house of Castle-
hill, were split from top to bottom. East of this almost
all the cottages were unroofed. A gentleman who was
anxious to travel on to Perth in his gig, den rosined to
sally out, but ow getting fairly.under weigh 'on the High-
land Rce:ll,i be found it impossible to stand against 'the
.storm, and was glad to abandon hie intention. A woman
was thrown down in our street', and had an arm broken.
We hive fortunately as yet heard of no other damage done:
by the hurricane, which all epee in. Oeusideriog as one of
the most violent ever knower here; and as even more severs,
though less fatal, than the memorable Christmas gale of
1806, end the Martinmas storm of 1826.

Wtmc, Nov. 22.—Our correrpondent writes as fol.
lows:—" I am extremely happy to have it in my power
to state that, notwithstanding our not having experienced
such a gale since Christ►nas 1806, as that of Stturday
last, no material injury has been sustained, excepting a
few houses being unroofed, and ether trivial damage occa-
sioned by the storm.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 29,

MOULT AND OTHERS v. MASSEY, ESQ. AND OTHERS,

Lord TENTEFtDEN delivered .the opinion of the
Court in this case, which was argued last week upon
a rule nisi to set aside the noniuit.—(We hare be-
fore reported the facts.)—The question arose upon
the construction of the Bankrupt Act of the 6th
Geo. IV., c. 16. The plaintiffs sued as the assignees
of a bankrupt. The Commissioners had made a pro-
visional assignment to 19ur persons, three of whom
were afterwards chosen ussigoees along with three
others. The four provisional assignees executed un
assignment to the Commissioners, to the intent to
assign to the six assignees chosen by the creditors,
and the Commissioners then made an assignment to
those six who were the plaintiffs in this action. The
mode of assignment had been adopted in conformity
to a practice which had been introduced in the
county of Lancaster by the late Sir William David
Evans, and the question was, whether it was sus,
tainable under the Bankrupt Act. The Court were
of opinion that it was not, for reasons which Lord
Tcnterden entered into at some length, and the rule
was therefore discharged.