The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

THE GALE,

Soon after 6 o'clock last evening the gale, which had
fallen considerably in the afternoon, broke out in the metro-
polis with renewed fury. On the ebb tide, notwithstanding
the precautions taken by the masters of vessels in the ex-
posed reaches to:strike topgallantmast and yards, and make
"all snug," to prevent driving from their moorings, the
greatest possible confusion prevailed. This was the case
particularly near the dock entrances, where a large number
of vessels had brought up, two of the most windward of the
vessels having dragged their anchors. Additional anchors
were let go by the weathermost and all hands turned out (it
nark) to separate the vessels,
otherwise the destruction of property must nave eetu
mense. It is feared that the damage will be found very
extensive. On the shore at half-past 9 o'clock the storm
raged furiously, causing much damage:to the roofs of houses
in the eastern and south-western districts.
GREAT YARMOUTH, Monday.

Yesterday the weather was very unsettled, and this morn-
ing at about 1 o'clock the wind blew with terrific force from
the south and continued with unabated violence until about
7, when it moderated. The rain descended in torrents.
There is a very large number of vessels in the roadstead off
Yarmouth and Dorton, most of them bound southwards,
some from the Baltic and others from the northern ports.
Shortly before noon the beach boats put off to a ship in
the offing which hoisted signals of distress. The boats have
not yet returned. A fishing boat is reported to have been
seen bottom upwards near St. Nicholas gatway ; at present
there is a large fleet of boats at sea engaged in the herring
fishery. The weather still looks threatening, and storm
signals have been hoisted.
PORTSMOUTH, Monday, 6 p.m.
Yesterday afternoon the barometer fell rapidly, and by
the evening had fallen an inch in 13 hours. About 1 a.m.
to-day a fierce gale, accompanied by rain, set in, and con-
tinued up to 4 a.m, when it abated ; the wind however con-
tinued very strong and veered to W. by N. with the mer..
cury in the barometer at 29.95, and a low temperature.
Admiral Fitzroy's signal for "Dangerous winds, probably
at first from the northward" is at present hoisted, and the
wind is N.N.W. with heavy banks of black clouds driving
over, promising altogether a full justification of the Ad-
miral's warning signal. The barometer is also rising, and
has now reached 29.1, and will probably continue to rise as
the force of wind increases from the northward. The oscilla-
tion of the mercury in the barometer during the past three
days has been extraordinary. A telegram has been re-
ceived at the office of Lloyd's agent here that the hired
transport King Arthur, on her way from London to this
port to embark the head quarters of the 55th Regiment for
Madras, had split her sails and was anchored off Deal. A
new suit of sails was immediately despatched to her from
here by railway to Deal. No accounts have yet been re-
ceived here of any serious casualties having occurred in the
immediate vicinity of the port or of the Isle of Wight.
PLYMOUTH, Monday.

The stormy weather on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

increased on Sunday almost to a hurricane. It has been
blowing heavily all this day. A market boat was upset in
the Sound, but the two men in her were providentially
picked up by a boat belonging to the coastguard tender
Hamilton. The Kent, Captain Anderson, which left on

Wednesday with SO passengers for Melbourne, put back to-
day with loss of sails. She did not got much beyond the
Land's End. The ship Fiery Cross, for Shanghai ; the
for Alexandria; the Russian bark Speranza, from
• Valli, an7l7iiiii-strothen4, have taken shelter in the Sound.
The iiiiiigouront,-Captain Flatinnk, from Portsmouth with
part of the 55th Regiment for mactr..,, was off Plymouth
at 9 this morning; all well. 8 p.m.—The wind is veering
from south-west to north-west, but it continues to blow
with great force.

SHIELDS, Monday Noon.
The weather has been extremely stormy at sea all night.
Several light vessels have reached this port, and some laden
colliers put back this forenoon. The gale is from the east,
and the sea is very strong upon the coast. No casualties
are reported.

SOI7THPORT, Sunday Night.

Yesterday afternoon it was reported that a large vessel
was on shore on the Trunkhill Sandbank, three miles from
shore. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution vas
at once taken down on her transporting carriage abreast of
the vessel and launched. After a hard struggle against the
strong wind and sea the lifeboat fortunately succeeded in
closing with the vessel. She proved to be the foreign bark
Tamworth, of Skien, Norway, bound from Liverpool to
Havannah with a general cargo. The master had cut away
the fore and main masts in the hope of saving the hull, over
which the sea was making a clean breach. The lifeboat took
off the crew, 17 in number, and landed them safely at South-
port. After leaving the ship the lifeboat was filled by a tre-
mendous sea, which overwhelmed her, and greatly alarmed
all on board, but she soon cleated herself.
FLEETWOOD, Saturday.
The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Association on this
station has again been out on service. Yesterday evening
the gale blew with unabated violence, and a large ship (the
Lillias) bound from Liverpool to Bombay, with 1,900 tons
of coal on board, was observed to show signals of distress.
The lifeboat was immediately manned and taken out in tow
of the steamtug Wyre. The vessel was found at anchor in
the Lune in 18 fathoms of water. Ultimately the steamtug
was laid alongside the ship for a moment, and 26 of the sea-
men on board at once jumped on the tug. The captain and
two mates were left on the ship, and they requested the
which she did for three hours,
lifeboat to remain by them,
when a very heavy sea struck the ship and brought her
down upon the lifeboat, which, with her crew, narrowly
escaped destruction. The lifeboat was then cut adrift, and
notwithstanding the noble and repeated efforts of her crew,
she was unable, in their exhausted condition, and in face of
the heavy gale and tide, to regain the ship. She was there-
fore compelled to run for Glasson Dock, where they arrived
about midnight, suffering from cold and exhaustion. At
y ht they again returned to the ship with the view
dalig
of rescuing the poor men on board ; but, fortunately, they
had been previously taken off by a Morecambe steamer, the
weather having moderated. The coxswain of the lifeboat
left four hands on board the vessel, which is full of water,
it being nearly up to the decks.

KINGSTON, Saturday.
On Tuesday it was blowing a violent gale from W. by
N.N. Nir" with a heavy sea on ; a collision took place be-
tween a brig and a sloop near the entrance of Kingston
Harbour. The latter was dismasted and drifted out to sea,
and the brig made sail out of the bay. It was thought that
the crew of the sloop were probably on board, and would
inevitably be lost, and the Kingston lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat institution was towed out and reached the wreck
of the sloop, which was about five miles out. With much
difficulto the coxswain put one of the lifeboat's crew on
board, who reached the vessel and found no one there.
There was no name on the vessel or her boat, and the crew
were probably taken away by the brig that came into col-
lision with her. The sloop ultimately sank in 14 fathoms
of water, near the Kieh Bank. The lifeboat afterwards re-
turned to the shore.

CAUPEELTON, N. 8., Friday.
All day yesterday it blew a most terrific gale here. About
midnight the bark Providence of Dantsic was wrecked at
Westport, on the west coast of Cantyre. As soon as the in-
formation reached this place the lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution was immediately despatched on her
transporting carriago to the scene of the wreck. By the
time she arrived some of the crew had been dragged ashore
by means of ropes, but, the tide having then turned, and a
terrible sea rolling in, the lifeboat was at once launched.
After a great deal of exertion the remainder of the crew,
consisting of seven men, were taken off by the lifeboat. The
crew of the lifeboat behaved in a very daring manner.
The sloop Ebenezer(of Fisherrow) WaS On its passage from
Fisherrow to Berwick with a cargo of sulpnor, when it en-
countered the severe gale of Thursday. The master ran the
vessel up to Leith Roads for safety, and anchored there for
some time, till the increasing violence of the storm cont-
pelled him to raise the anch or and ift before the wind.
Shortly after the sloop was struck by several heavy seas,
and when nearly opposite Kirkcaldy a leak was discovered,
which increased so rapidly that the crew, consisting of the
master and two boys, had to take to the boats in the hope
gone has of reaching shore. After strong exertion they reached the
harbour
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since been heard of, and is supposed
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shortly after being abandoned. 'Eh!! Was the sole

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this district, accompanied by heavy rain. Town bi-; . 1., ' . lli.:
the gale increased, and about midnight' it blew 1 3 - ...4,,,, * ,„,4
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ricane that fears were entertained for th 0 safety o . "'-'
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of the new Free Church, which was co'
last with the exception of the iron bolt atm'.
apleted cal tity '""71 "-
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vane e .t the sum-
mit, for the erection of which the,gcaffoldi. ag he d been left
around the building. Thgt..Ktitykof the w Ind .on the mass '
of the scaffolding hat: paused it to give about a ample of feet,
and it was found necessary ;,;.) brace it up by ti '
.sans of ropes
fixed half-way up, and carried ae:oss to the 0 A 'waits side of
the street. By the increasing force o; the wirkA , however,
the scaffolding was brought in contact wit.:' the '
stonework
the conse-
at the top of the spire, which it surrounded, and
quence was that the immense leverage thus bron, =ht into
play was too much for the resistance of the stonewt. ‘llrl and
a little before 2 o'clock in the morning nearly one-tl. 'ird of
the steeple gave way, and came down with a most trt men-
dous crash on the top of a house below, smashing the cl 'im-
nloexyrecans, tearing away a portion of one of the unfinisl `ad
roof lower turrets turrets of the spire, and breaking a large hole in li '0
the house on which it fell. Fortunately no one wt.;
injured.—John o' Groat Journal.

The Fatal Accident at the New-cross Station,

The coroner's inquest upon the body of the unfortunate
man, Henry Woodrow, who was killed last Friday after-
during the storm, of a large en-
noon by the destruction,
gine shed at New. cross Station, was held yesterday aaer-
noon at the Railway Inn, Now-cross, before Mr. Carter,
one of the coroners for the county of Surrey.
It is now ascertained that all the men, 12 in number, whcr
were working in the shed at the time of the accident, were
more or less injured, but, happily, only four of them seri-
ously, and these are stated to be going on well.
The jury having viewed the body, proceeded with the
coroner to the spot where the accident happened, when it
at once became apparent how the unfortunate man lost his
life. A mass of bricks, forming a portion of one side of the
shed, fell against the engine at which Woodrow was at
work, and, having completely destroyed the line, on the
outer side, the engine and tender fell sideways into the en-
gine pit, carrying the man with them, and crushed his chest
so dreadfully as to cause his instantaneous death. The
place is a perfect wreck, the whole building, with the ex-
ception of one end, which also forms part of another engine-
house, being levelled with the ground. An up-train on
the main line happened to be passing at the time of the
accident, and some of the bricks and debris were projected
on to the engine, smashing the weather-board. A quantity
or um.. _ _ riO4, t over the double line of rails,
and broke down the coping of a wall by me 41,4
station. Other portions of the roof were hurled with great
violence a distance of 30 or 40 yards. The men escaped
principally by creeping into the engine pits under the
engines, and it was considered that the unfortunate deceased
was endeavouring to do the same when the engine fell on
him.

The jury having returned to the inquest-room the fol-
low ing evidence was taken :
John White, an engine driver, in the employment of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company,
said—l knew the deceased Henry Woodrow well. He was
22 years of age, and was an engine fitter. On Friday last
he was repairing a locomotive engine, which, with its tender,
was standing on the rails in a shed at New-cross. It was
an engine that I had myself brought into the shed at half-
past twelve o'clock that day. There were other engines in
the shed and other men at work upon them. There was
another man, myself, the fireman, and the deceased, at my
engine. Underneath the engine was an excavation to
enable the workmen to get under the engine. About half-
past three or a quarter to four o'clock, I was at work at tha
front end of the engine, and the deceased was engaged in
screwing a nut to the side of the buffer plank. My attention
was attracted to some slates and pieces of dirty waste in
front of the building, twirling about in a very singular
way with great velocity. All at once I heard a great crash,
and on looking up I saw half the roof come tumbling in.
I was in the pit at the time and ran under the engine for
safety. I did not call out ; there was no time for that. The
foreman and ;another: fitter also] ran: under an engine. II
had hardly got under when I felt tho engine sink upon me.
I heard another very heavy crash, and instantaneously the
whole of the roof and the walls fell. At the time of the ac-
cident the deceased was screwing up a nut to the engine at

the buffer plank. All the bricks fell round us and buried
us. I could not release myself, but when I was taken out I
found that the whole of the engine• shed except the end wall
bad fallen. The roof was a type roof, fastened with iron
girders. The south-west wall fell in on the engines, and the
opposite side outwards on the Croydon line. There was a
large portion of the bricks lying against the engine where I
had just before seen the deceased. When the dust and
steam cleared away a little I saw the deceased doubled up
between the sandbox of the engine and the rail. He was
head downwards, and appeared to be jammed in between
the engine and the wall. He was quite dead long before
he couid be taken out. It was about an hour and a quar-
ter before all the men could be taken out of the ruins.

There was a great deal of blood about the head and face of
the deceased. There did not appear to be a great weight

of brick upon him, but the engine had been thrown on
one side in consequence of the rail giving way, and had
tallen partly upon him. lf it had fallen upon him alto-
gether it would have crushed hiriiliranms:- --Deeeased was
terribly crushed in the chest. From the time that I saw the
lout:, violently .: htkon till the clue the roof fell, certainly
not more than a second had elapsed, consequently there
was no means of escaping by getting out of the building. I
attribute the death of deceased to the falling of the wall,
which forced the engine off the rails into the pit, and am
of opinion that such fall was occasioned entirely by a power-
ful rush of wind, which might be termed a hurricanetl or
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outwards ; the roof was all lying down in ruins, some part
of it in the place where the shed stood, and some part on
the Croydon up-traffic line. I first of all ran on the line
and held up my hands to stop the traffic up and down, and
then went to the shed. I found that two up-passenger
lines were obstructed, and also a siding used for our own
purposes. The furthest point which was obstructed was
about 23ft. from the street. Pieces of timber and slate form-
ing portions of the roof had been carried as much as GO
yards from the shed, consequently the force of the wind
must have been very great. I ru-hed into the ruins and
assisted in getting out the deceased, who was taken out
dead. Ile was jammed between the sand-box of the engine
and the rail. The length of the building was 145 ft., and the
width 42 feet ; the spring of the roof being 19 feat. The
wall was 14 inches thick, with additional piers at an in-
terval of 21 feet. The piers were 23 inches thick. The
materials used in the construction of the building were
good stock bricks, and the rest of the materials were also
very good. The height of the centre of the roof from the
side wall was nine feet. The roof was composed of T iron
girders and wooden rafters. Iron girders were let into the
wall, and secured to iron plates built into it. The two
walls seem to have given way at the same time, and the
roof to have been lifted bodily, the wall being lifted up
with the roof from the bottom. The force of the wind wag
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the jury were of opinion that it was not attributable to any
hum„ agency, but was caused entirely by the hurricane—
and that opinion seemed to be strengthened by the fact that
a great deal of damage was done in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, it having come to their knowledge that other
roofs had been blown down—it would be their duty to say so .
The Foreman said the jury were unanimously of opinion
that the occurrence was entirely accidental, and a verdict
of Accidental Death was accordingly returned.
The proceedings then terminated.

-
MEYERBEF,Iit'S " AFRICAINE."—The destination
of this opera was once an interesting topic of
speculation, but the subject threatens to become quite an
Gossip has been going on for years past on the
questions where, when, and with what singers does the
master intend to bring out his long-expected opera, finished,
it is said, 17 years ago? One is bound to hope for a work
greater than the " Huguenots" or " Prophi.'te ," but really
it would be almost a deserved judgment if the opus magnum
proved a failure. M. Meyerbeer's exigence has reached the
limit of caprice. The last rumour is that Patti, Lucca,
Iv audio, and Tamberlik are the recipients of the several
parts,
and Covent Garden the fortunate locality, It would
be an honour well deserved by the theatre.

L ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the . Ilanazement of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS EVEN-ING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE
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DES RT FLOW ER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ' •
Messrs. W. H. We iss, Fl. Com. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. A. Mell,w2.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
tommence at Eight.

rinFrEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE.
Manao-ers, Me stirs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS
E"NTENIT:;,G (TUESDAY), November thei3d. and
during the week, the nert ormances will commence with the
Comedietts of J MIN DOBBS : John Dobbs, Mr. G. F. Ne-
ville (his first appearance in London); Peter vaternoster,
G. BeLnore.; other characters by Mr. j. Neville, Mr.
Warde, Viso DiArfleur, and Miss Murray.
Af rer which. Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Diessrs. Phel!)8, Ryder, Rayner, 31.-agreson, Ward, Slencer ;
Miss Heath,_ Miss F. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. ocalists—Miss Poole. Miss hitter, Miss Cicely
-Nov, Miss If eywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with an Original Farce (never acted), by
John Oxen !ord, Esq entitled BEAUTY Olt rI'HE BEAST.
principal characters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville,
garret, Spencer, and G. Weston; Mrs Edmund Falconer and
Miss Lealerq.

THEATRE ROYAL HAY \1 ARKET._
see Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVEAING, OUR MARY ANNE.
After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles
Mathews.
Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles
Mathew., Compton,Weathersby, Az. ; Mesdames C. Mathews,
L Keeley. Griffith, Ac.
And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
BIM DE MONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated
Ever Evening until further notice.
EVENING, to commence with a Comedietta,
by W. Gilbert, Esq., entitled UNCLE BABY: Mess-s. J. G.
Shore, iViddicombe, Charles, Miss P. Leclereq, and Carlotta
Leclercq,„!
After vetich, at a Quarter-past Eight, BEL DEMONIO,
a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's
Italian Chronicle ," by John Brougham., Principal charac-
ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles,
Br lugh:irn, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford,
Collett, Andrews, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Lavenue, birb.
Lee, and Mist; Elsworthy.

-DEL DEMONIO ; a LOVE STORY, in Twelve
it, Tableaux.

_______ ______ •
NEW TitEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI....
Sole Proortptor and Manager. Mr. R. Webster.
THIS EVENING. at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
Stirling,. •
9t 8, the New pi:MAW:Vt. Tir,fdirti,.; ‘: 7,
lAiiintlon: vr
,v,3.--s,iilutrne, Miss 11. Simms and iirs. Billington. Stuart,t
To or
with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Viroolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

31 ISS BA.TEMAN.—LEA El.—The triumphant
and enthusiastic success of the great tragic artiste,
„,,,,,BATEMAN, on her first apeof that title, havingarance in the character of
iTia toe new five act Drama been
repeated, and even exceeded during the last four
repet
niffhtly
weeks, amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences,
tt—n- toe profound impression created upon all who have wit-
,--,,ased the touching impersonation by Miss Bateman of the
heart-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unani-
mous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the
0.--,,,nap,er of the NEW ADEL PHI THEATR E has the honour
to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear in the New
Drama of LEA El EVERY EVENING till further notice ; and
in order to mept, as far as possible, the increasing demand
for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously
existing.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--HERRMANN,
PRESTIDIGATATEUR.—Great Success of Herr-
mann Performances.—" rte always keeps as close to his
public as he can, and courts their vigilance, that his superior
dexterity may be legitimitely triumphant." Times, Oct 27.
.
His celebrated FISH., RING, HAT, and MONEY TRICK,
EVERY EVPNING Constant change of programme.
Commencing at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Clock.

OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
JAL/
THIS EVENING, FAINT NEVER WON
FAIR LADY. Mr. Leigh Murray.
After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey,
Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR. WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

VHE THTRI) EDITION OF " THE SUN,"
Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
n be had Every Evening of
G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tiro DAY.—Morning, 6h. 39m.—Afternoon, 7h. 2m.
To.hcoßuow.-Morning, 7ti. 34m.—Afternoon, Bh. 10m.

The Weather—Sun Office, Nov. 3, 1863.