The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-22 00:00:00

THE GALE.

GREAT YARMOUTH, Wednesday

The high wind still continues, accompanied at in-
tervals with driving showers of rain, sleet, and snow,
and vivid flashes of lightning. Yesterday evening
and through the night it blew with terrific violence,
and though it has somewhat abated now, there is
every indication of its speedy renewal. Yesterday
the barometer fell to 28.9, the lowest point at which
it has stood since the disastrous gale of May, 1860.
The damage to the shipping is, up to the present,
much less than could have been anticipated ; but
with the wind from the westward, from which it has
generally been blowing, Yarmouth Roads afford a
secure shelter, The sloop Solid, from Bowness for
London,has been driven from her anchors and towed
in, and the brig Medora, of Whitby, has put in
kith loss of mainmast and other damage. A large
fleet of trading vessels is out, for the safety of which
great anxiety is entertained. The schooner
of and from Sunderland for Caen, with coals, drove
ashore on the beach, and became a wreck. Yester-
day she was sold for £42, but during the storm of
last night, in the course of which the wind blew at
intervals from almost all points of the compass, she
was dashed to pieces, and her masts, stores, &c., de-
stroyed. Since Thursday 21 men have been received
at the Sailors' Home from vessels wrecked, but this
morning no farther additions have been made to this
large number. Intelligence was, however, received
last night of the loss of the bark Sea Swallow,which
was observed on Monday night making signals of
distress on or near the Cross Sand. The men
launched their boat and went off in a heavy sea.
After they had made some way theyfound, however,
that the ship was also standing out to sea, the wind
blowing off the land. They followed her to such a
distance that the Newarp and other lightships were
well down, so that they were 16 or 17 miles from
laud. When day broke they observed the vessel at
the distance of about a mile. They immediately
made for her, bat before they could come up with
her she foundered. The vessel's boat seems, how-
ever, to have floated off her deck and the lifeboat
soon afterwards fell in with her and took in the
men who had escaped in her. The master, mate,
and two seamen were found missing ; the remaining
men, seven in number, were landed at Lowestoft,
yesterday.
This morning an alarming report bas obtained
circulation here that the Cromer lifeboat has been
lost with 17 hands. It is stated that she went to
the assistance of a disabled vessel and capsized
through becoming entangled with her when along-
side. It is earnestly to be hoped that this report
may prove without foundation.

SBIELDS, Wednesday, Noon.

After the despatch was sent from this port yes•
terday, at noon, very little improvement took place
in the weather, and a gale from the west, with oc-
casional heavy snow showers, prevailed all through
last night. In Northumberland the country is white
with snow to-day, and we are experiencing a keen
frost. The wind, which still continues to blow from
the west, is very squally. It having, fortunately,
kept off shore, no casualties have occurred upon our
coast. Word has reached, however, that three well-
known old colliers have been rua into and sunk to
the southward of Yarmouth Roads. They are the
Thames, formerly ti well known goods trader be-
tween the Tyne and the Thames; the St. Helena,
and the Naples Packet. On account of the weather
having set in cold, coal freights to London hare im-
proved. Yesterday they were quoted at 6i 9d afloat
and 7s 3d, at the wharf, for household coal.
PRESTON, Wednesday.

One of the most violent and destructive storms we
have had to record for some time past visited Pres-
ton and the surrounding district during Monday
night and yesterday. The heavy rains which fell
on Sunday and Monday, with a strong wind from
the north-westerly direction, had the effect of
causing the Ribble to overflow its banks. At
Preston yesterday morning the whole of Strand-road
the bottom of Marsh-lane, the Marsh itself, the
railway leading to the quay from the London and
North-Western station, and all the low lying ground
extending from the sloping gardens beneath Stan-
ley-terrace and the Preston Cricket Ground, were
completely submerged. All the roads and paths
were quite impassable. Men were busily engaged at
much personal inconvenience and danger,in securing
large timber's which were floating about. The
cellars of the public houses and of other premises
were filled with water, which numerous labourers
were occupied a long time in damming up, For
passers-by all along the Strand-road novel contri-
vances had to be called into requisition, planks and
rails being used for locomotion. So high was the
tide that men were seen passing over the roads in
boats. The violence of the storm caused much de-
struction of property, chiefly, however, confined to
the vessels moored off the quays. Five vessels, all
schooners, broke loose from their moorings. The
Ocean Queen, Captain Thomas Iddon, had her jib
boom broken. About the same time the Punch,
belonging to Mr. George Richardson, of Freckleton,
and laden with a cargo of meal and oats, consigned
from Newry to Mr. Richard Carr, broke from her
moorings and drifted away, her anchor by some
means piercing her hull, which speedily filled with
water. She soon sank, and the force of the tide
rolled her over on her side. Much of her cargo was
lost, but men were on Tuesday afternoon engaged
in endeavouring to recover as much of it from the
sunken hold as possible. The Falcon shortly before
had snapped her mooring and floated off, but she
did not sustain mush damage. The Agnes and the
Cabriole also broke away, and were considerably
damaged. In the town of Preston a good deal of
injury has been done to house property. Daring
the violence of the gale a cottage, which had just
been erected and was ready for roofing, in Ham-
mond-street, Moor-park, fell with a tremendous
crash. Nothing now remains of it except a portion
of the front and the wall of the lowest rooms.

FLEETWOOD, Tuesday Night.
We have this day been visited with a very heavy
gale of wind, accompanied by a high tide, which has
done immense damage along the Lancashire coast.
The boat-house belonging to the National Life•
boat Institution at this place has been totally de-
stroyed by the violence of the sea. It was erected
about 3 years since, at a cost of £175. The lifeboat
and transporting carriage have been seriously injured
It was with considerable difficulty that they were
got oat of the house by the lifeboat's crew, who
risked their lives in securing the boat and her
equipments.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 21.

Yesterday afternoon the ship John H. Elliott,
Capt. Somers, hence for New York, and the ship
Admiral, Capt. Clarke, for Bombay, both of which
sailed on Saturday, having encountered the storm,
put back. In endeavouring to make the port while
the gale was at its height, they got ashore on the
Burbo Bank. The crews of both vessels, and 20
werek
passengers on board the John li. Elliott,
rescued. The Admiral had sunk up to herkdehcers
in sand. She has since become a total
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laden with deals, went ashore this
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the crew, besides the cap i
of the sailors were drowned attempting to reach
the shore.
Another vessel is also reported to have
got on shore near the same place, but no tidings
having been heard of her crew it is feared they have
been lost, though no positive evidence to that effect
has been received. Portions of cargo, consisting of
applee, have been washed ashore along the beach.
From Southport information has been received that
the barque Rubin, tiV oodpoint, for Glassin Dock,
laden with timber, had gone ashore and become a
total loss. Subsequent information states that she
had floated off, and was knocking about, the crew
having been taken off by the lifeboat. The Pride
of Canada, from Benin for Liverpool, went. ashore
during the night at the entrance of the Mersey.
Steam tugs were at once despatched to her assis-
tance.

HOLYHEAD, Monday Night.

The barque Medea, of Liverpool, anchored in the
outer roads at Holyhead. Her anchors did not
hold. As she was dragging, the lifeboat of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution was despatched to her
the lifeboat
agloistAtice. On atriying alongside,