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 stones 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. 10, 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 further apprehension of danger.
The shipping in the London, St. Katherine's, the East
India and West India Docks was much damaged by the gale,
and many of the vessels were driven from their moorings.

Beyond the temporary stoppage of some of the lines of
communication of the London District Telegraph Company,
no other public inconvenience has arisen from the accident
to the wires reported in The Sten of Saturday. The wires
which broke at the corner of Princes-street, Bank, were in
a very exposed position. The only damage is said to have
been the breakage of a skylight in Walbrook.
CHATHAM, Saturday.
The wind was still strong this morning, but the gale
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 riving. 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. Horsnail, was much
injured. A portion of the roof of St. Peter's Church was
also stripped. In Chatham dockyard a portion of the gal.
vanized 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 that district of the
town were partially unroofed.

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 new 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.

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LIVERPOOL, Saturlay.
During 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, tut 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 all the
moorland streams to rise rapidly, and on Saturday the
waters were over the banks and threatened to lay a►.l 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.
LEEDS, Saturday.
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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.

CARLIsDR, 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 are 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 c onsequence 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 foe
some hours. Although she had about 300 headhoet cattle on
board, no very serious loss has taken place.
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Saturday.
In Edinburgh the gale of Thursday evening has caused
considerable destruction of exposed property,but no personal
injury. In Leith the damage
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the Firth of Forth have been reported. The sloop Lady of
the Lake, laden with stones, was being towed from Queens-

ferry to Leith, when, at the height of the storm, about 8
o'clock, the towing rope broke. The tug was obliged to run
under Inchkeith for shelter, being unable to make Leith
harbour, and the sloop, on board which were two men, has
not since been heard of.

THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS,

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Pera, Captain T. Jamieson, bringing the
heavy portion of these mails, arrived at Sow hemp.
ton yesterday at 1 p.m. This vessel has made one
of the most rapid passages from Alexandria on re-
cord, having left that port on the 21st ult., Malta
on the 24th, and Gibraltar on the 28th. The actual
time under way is 10 days 19 hours from Alexan-
dria, seven days twenty hours from Malta, and four
days three hours from Gibraltar. In the Mediter-
ranean she had fine weather ; from Gibraltar to Cape
St. Vincent, moderately easterly winds; along the
c'3ast of Portugal, northerly winds ; across the Bay
of Biscay and in the Channel, strong north-westerly
gales, with heavy sea.

The Pera brought 43 passengers (viz,, 22 first-
class, nine second, seven children, three servants,
and two deck), among whom were Mr. Shuttle-
worth, Mr. and Mrs. Tate, and child, from China ;
Vlr. and Mrs. I)ew and child, Mr. and Mrs. Mit-
chell and child, Capt. Cobbet, from Calcutta; Lieut.
West, from Madras. On freight she had £1,300 in
specie, 11 packages of valuables, worth £14.870
sterling, 3,317 bales of silk, 258 boxes of oranges,
25 boxes of raisins, 53 packages of elephants' teeth,
and 160 packages of general merchandise.
On the 20th ult., at 5 p.m., in lat. 36.19 N., long.
6.47 W., the Pera spoke her Majesty's ships Gib-
raltar and Hydra, both under steam, steering S.E. ;
and on the 30th, at 11 a.m., off Cape Finisterre, the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Cey-
lon, with the outward Bombay mails of the 27th,
steering to the southward.

Tile French frigate Perdrix was at Alexandria
on the 21st ult.

Her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Chanticleer,
Pheabe, and Orontes were at Malta, the last-named
vessel embarking; the 24th Regiment for Gibraltar,
and was to sail for that port on the 24th, after the
Pera left. Tae Malacca and Supply were at Gib-
ralta, the latter vessel having arrived on the 27th
from Greet:ahe and Torbay. The screw corvette
Racoon, Captain Count Gleichen, put to sea from
Gibraltar on the 27th.

The Italian squadron, consisting of the frigate
Victor Emmanuele (bearing the Italian Royal
standard), the frigate Maria Adelaide (flag of Ad-
miral Provana), five other screw frigates, one cor-
vette, and a paddlewheel sloop, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the morning of the 22d from Lisbon. The
squadron was saluted, on arrival, by the guns of
the fortress, her Majesty's ship Racoon, and the
Italian sailing corvette Tride, the Admiral's ship
returning the compliment. The Victor Emmanuele
sailed for Genoa on the morning of the 23d, being
again saluted on leaving the bay by the garrison
and the men•of-war in the harbour, which compli-
ment was immediately returned. All the other
vessels of the squadron left for Genoa, after coal-
ing, by the evening of the 24th.
The Russian screw frigate Oleg, Capt. Andreef,
five days from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on
the afternoon of the 22d, and left on the night of
the 24th for Toulon. The usual complimentary
salutes were fired and returned on her arrival in
the bay, and the Russian Consul was also saluted
with seven guns on his visiting the ship. The Oleg
is to escort and not to convey the new King of the
Greeks to Athens, and the screw corvette Sokoe is
to join her for the same purpose. The last named
vessel, in command of Captain Arloubegoff, arrived
at Cadiz on the 23d from Lisbon, and left for
Toulon on the following day.
Sir John Drummond Hay, the British Minister
resident at Morocco, landed at Tangier on the after-
noon of the 23d ult. with his family, on their re-
turn from England, from the steamship Cadiz,
which touched at Tangier for the purpose.
It was reported at Gibraltar from Melilla that
the Sultan has sent a sum of money to hie Minister
for Foreign Affairs at Tangier for remission to
Melilla, in order to pay to the Riffians the value of
their lands ceded to Spain under the late treaty.

The following British merchant steamers had
arrived at Gibraltar :—Oct. 21, the Cilpe, Captain
M. Conolly, seven days from Liverpool, for
Palermo, &c. ; 22d, the Christina, Captain IV.
Mansfield, seven days from Liverpool, for Malta and
Alexandria; 23d, the Cadiz, Capt. J. Russell, 7 days
from London, and 3 hours from Tangier, with Go-
vernment stores, and the Livorno, Capt. T. Living-
stone, 26 days from Glasgow and two from Lisbon,
for Genoa; 25th, the Ripon, Capt. E. Christian, 4
days 23 hours from Southampton, with mails, &c.,
for Malta and Alexandria, and tte Venetian, Capt.
R. Joy, 8 days from Liverpool, for Genoa, Leghorn,
&c. The brig Shields, from Oran, bound to King-
road, 15 days out, was spoken, all well, on the 19th
ult., off Capo de Gatt, by the brigantine Mercury,
arrived at Gibraltar.

The Spanish screw frigate Concepcion, 37, Capt.
Macrohon, left Cadiz for the Havanna on the 19th
ult.; the screw sloop Consuelo, 2, Capt. Oreyro, put
to sea on the 22d; the war steamer Colon, 6, Capt.
Cocco ; and steam sloop Leon, 2, Capt. 'Eudela, on
the 22d; and the screw sloop Concordia, Lieut.
Campos, on the 24th.
The French frigate Dryade, 4, Capt. Pinta, from
L'Orient, arrived at Cadiz on the 21st.