The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

IHE LATE GALES.

The shipping in the vicinity of the mouth of the
Thames suffered severely from the north-west gales
which set in early on Friday and continued till
Sunday with such serious effect upon many points
of the coast. Capt. Little, of the General Steam
Navigation Company's steamer Countess of Lons-
dale, arrived at St. Katherine's, reports having en-
countered the most fearful weather. The gale gra-
dually increased as they approached the English
coast. About noon on Saturday, just as the steamer
was on the eve of entering the mouth of the Thames,
a vessel called the Lady Emma was observed to
capsize about midway between the Swin Middle
and the Maplin lightship. The wind was blowing
in fearful gusts from the W.N.W. The longboat
was instantly lowered from the steamer and after
some difficulty the crew were rescued, the appren-
tice, who was dragged through the water, being al-
most drowned. The Countess of Lonsdale had
scarcely got under weigh before another wreck was
seen, the schooner Orion, of Shields, bound to Ro-
chester, which bad been driven upon the Barrow
Sand. The steamer's boat was again promptly
lowered, and this second crew was preserved. Capt.
Little also reports having observed a barge inside
the Sunk Channel, and she must have beaten over
the sand to have got there. It is feared that the
worst has happened to her. Two other vessels are
reported to have been lost on the Barrows in the
course of Sunday morning, the Gipsy, of Blake-
ney, and the Eliza Robson, the crew of which,
it is hoped, were rescued by some outward-bound
steamer. The Rebecca Bray, of London, was
also lost near the Mouse. She was carried over the
sand, having been driven from her two anchors and
foundered. It is stated that the crew have been
saved. The small craft have suffered considerably.
LIVERPOOL, DEc. 22.

Rumours were current here yesterday and to-day
that the Anglo-Saxon, which sailed hence for Port-
land on Tuesday last, had been lost on her passage to
Londonderry. The telegraph lines between Belfast
and Londonderry having been blown down, no in-
formation could be obtained from the latter place
until this afternoon, when intelligence was received
that the Anglo-Saxon safety arrived at Moville at
two p.m. yesterday, after a very stormy passage of
three days, and proceeded for Portland.
GREAT YARMOUTH, DEC. 22.

The fury of the gale exhausted itself yesterday
afternoon, the wind veering round from north►-west
to north-north-east. As the tide fell the sea be-
came less rough and the surf lighter on the beach.
Inland, the tides yesterday rose so high on the river
Yare, which falls into the sea at Yarmouth, that the
marshes between Norwich and Yarmouth were
covered with vast sheets of water. This morning
the floods have somewhat abated, but a large ex-
tent of land is still under water. From the same
causes, the tido in the Waveney and at Oulton
Broad, near Lowestoft, were extremely high, and
the waters of the Broad forced their way over the
Lowestoft branch of the Great Eastern Railway, so
that the traffic was compulsorily suspended, and
passengers had to be conveyed by omnibus to Yaa-
mouth, and from that point to their various destina-
tions. Every effort is being made to restore the
traffic, a large staff of men having been sent down
for the purpose, but it will probably be impractic-
able to resume the usual movement until this even-
ing or to-morrow.

KIND'S LYNN, MONDAY.
The gales and the high tides have had a conside-
rable effect upon the banks, which in this neigh-
bourhood protect so great an extent of territory
from the sea. In addition to the Terrington Marsh
band and the Wolverton bank mentioned yesterday,
as being damaged, the bank of the river Nar, a tri-
butary of the Ouse, gave way about two miles from
its ontfall, and flooded about 100 acres. The tide
in the Ouse on Sunday morning was a 23 feet tide,
and its effects were felt all up the country, the water
being level with the banks for a long distance. At
Downham-bridge the water overflowed and washed
up part of the floor of the bridge. At Stow-bridge
the water also went over, and at about half a
mile below Stow-bridge the bank gave way to the
extent of about eight yards, and from 50 to 100
acres were flooded. The breach was repaired be-
fore the evening's tide. At the well-known Syphon
dam, in the Middle Level river, the water rose over
the syphons and dam. The top of the dam was
cradged and the water so kept back, and on Mon-
day all the syphons were at work again. Mr. Page's
dam, at the entrance to the Marshland Fen drain,
had the break part of it carried away. The Terring-
ton Marsh bank has been repaired by great exer-
tions, a large number of men being set to work, and
as the wind has quite abated and the tides are fall-
ing, the danger is over for the present. A brig has
got upon one of the sands in the Lynn Channel,
and as it will require an 18-feet tide to float her her
condition is not very promising. There have been
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FEARFUL WRECK ON THE CARRICK
SHORE.

, The late fearful hurricane has left sad mementos
of its ravages and fury on our shore. On Thurs-
day evening the full-rigged ship Rialto, from New
York to Greenock, laden with flour, &c., after a
passage of 22 days, was nearing the Cumbraes,
towed by a steamer from the mouth of the Clyde
when the violence of the storm separated the two,
the Rialto, driven by the tempestuous elements, and
in the dead hour of night, grounded heavily on the
rugged rocks between the Castle of Culzean and the
ruins of Turnberry, at a point of the Maidens near
the ehemicel works, It was about siZ in the morn-

On Monday, the 15th inst., it was reported in
The Sun that the Lily, 4, screw steam gun vessel,
200-horse power, Commander Henry Harvey, had,
by orders from the Lords of the Admiralty, returned
from Plymouth to Sheerness, to undergo inspec-
tion, relative to certain defects which rendered her
unseaworthy having been reported on her arrival at
Plymouth en route for Cuba. It was also reported
that on her return to Sheerness Mr. Joseph Large,
constructor of the navy, and Mr. James Wright,
assistant-chief engineer of the navy, from the office
of the Controller of the navy, bad inspected the
Lily, and that they had sent up their report to the
Admiralty. Since then their lordships have re-
ported to the Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness
that, having taken the matter into consideration,
their lordships had decided that Commander Harvey
had incurred their most serious displeasure for re-
tarding the public service by sending in a list of
frivolous defects which ought not to have been
made. They further entirely exonerate the officers
of Sheerness dockyard from all blame in the matter.
The principle defect which required alteration was
connected with the furnace bars, which had from
improper management become welded together
during the passage from Sheerness to Plymouth.
The authorities at Sheerness are now making new
furnace bars, and as soon as they are fitted the Lily
will proceed to sea.
A few days since we had occasion to refer to an
order received at Portsmouth dockyard from the Ad-
ratty directing that the chief energies of the Mas-
ter Shipwright's department should be devoted to
the repairs of the Curagoa and Esk (the one a
wooden screw frigate and the other a corvette, and
both half rotten in their framing), even to the neg-
lect, if necessary, of other work in hand in the yard.
At the same time we pointed out the strange incon-
sistency of this order, if by carrying it out any por-
tion of the work upon the two ironplated ships
Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfred should be de-
layed. Our fears in this respect have been fully
verified. The Royal Sovereign shield-ship has now
only some 50 shipwrights employed upon her, and
the Royal Alfred, plated frigate, about 60. Both
vessels have therefore had three-fourths of the
hands employed upon them removed, inadequate
as the original numbers were for the work to be
completed. They have been employed upon the
repairs of two vessels that will be worthless as men-
of-war when finished, and therefore can only repre-
sent so many thousands deliberately thrown away.
It is necessary the matter should be fully under-
stood, for no question at present can be of much
greater importance to us, as the chief maritime
power of Europe. The Royal Alfred is supposed
by many naval men to be the representative of what
this country should possess in the iron-plated broad-
side gun-frigate, while the Royal Sovereign, as
everyone now knows, is the representative of the
Coles shield, or central gun principle—a principle
which has been almost exclusively adopted in the
additions lately made to the Federal American fleet.
It is therefore surely requisite that both these ships,
but more especially the Royal Sovereign, should be
got afloat as speedily as possible, in order to obtain
certain results for future guidance. Their Lord-
ships appear to wish to reduce Capt. Coles's plans
to a simple applicability for coast floating batteries,
and to further damage the principle by unaccount-
able delays. Capt. Coles, on the contrary, has
always maintained that his shield-ships would be
as good sea boats as the ordinary broadside gun
class of ship, and would, moreover, be en-
abled, from the central position of their guns,
to cast adrift and work their guns in a seaway when
it would be simply impossible for any broadside-gun
plated ship, with her ports cut down to the water=
ways of her decks, to do the same. In addition, the
Admiralty have before them drawings of an exceed-
ingly simple and effective plan of rigging the cupola
or shield ship with ti ipod tubular iron masts, which,
fitted with the. Cunningham topsail yards, would
enable the Royal Sovereign to carry some hundred
more feet of sail as a shield ship than she could have
done as a three-decker. Here, again, there is
another reason why the ship should be at Spithead
as speedily as possible—that we may find out what
sail she can spread under ordinary circumstances at
sea, and her mode of reducing sail, and the amount
she would then carry on going into action. At pre-
sent, therefore, the case stands thus :—The number
of men employed upon the two iron-cased ships
have been reduced to a minimum, in order to repair
two wooden ships the hulls of which are only fit
for firewood. The iron-cased ships, when completed,
would not only prove a most valuable addition to
our navy, but 'Would 14140 assist greatly in solving

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ships, however, 'to the superior judgment of the
Admiralty, which is perhaps the most charitable
way of putting it, and sacrificing all others upon
the official shrine, the only inference that can then
be drawn is that their lordships, after due conside-
ration, have determined to abandon the further
construction of iron or irpn plated ships, and to re-
vert to "wooden walls."

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The amended code of regulations', giving the
rank ~-Jf commissioned officers to army schoolmas-
ters, has been promulgated from the Horse-guards
by direction of the Duke of Cambridge, and pub-
lished rt Chirtham garriscrefor general information.
In future there wilt he two grades of ermy school-
masters—superintending schoolmasters and school-
masters, the-men:be-Ts of both of vir hich grades will
be in every respect subject to the Mutiny Act, tho
Articles of War, and the general regulations and
orders for the army_ Superintending schoolmasters
will receive commissions as efficons, but the lower
grade of army schoolmasters will rank as non-com-
missioned officers next below sergeants-major. The
pay of schoolmasters will in future be as follows :
First appointment as schoolmaster, 3s. per diem ;
after two years' service, 3s. 6d. ; after four years'
service, 45.; after eight ditto, 55.; after 10 ditto,
ss. 6d. The above periodical increase of pay will
depend upon the conduct and ability of the school-
master. After 21 years' service schoolmasters will
be entitled to a pension not exceeding 3s. per day.
Schoolmasters will be provided with uniform, quar-
ters, furniture, fuel, and light at the public ex-
pense: Promotion to the rank of superintending
schc -.nester will be conferred by the Fie;d-Mar-
shal Commanding-in-Chief, on the recommenda-s
tion of the Council of Military Education, in con-
sideration of merit and service. The pay of a supe-
rintending schoolmaster will be 7s. 6d. per diem,
the periodical increase of pay and tbe amount of
retiring allowance being now under consideration.
The above regulations are subject to any alteration
that the Commander in-Chief and the Secretary of
State for n ar may hereafter think proper.
A War-office order has been received at Chatham
directing that the practice of painting guns, car-
riages, and platforms the same col, ur as the works
is in future to be discontinued. The guns are to be
coated with an anti-corrosive substance, and the
platforms and carriages painted lead colour.
In accordance with the recent regulations received
from the Horse Guards, the whole of the rifles in
possession of the troops at Chatham garrison have
been inspected by one of the officials from the Go-
vernment small arms factory at Enfield, in order
that all defective arms may be at once withdrawn.
An inspection of the arms in possession of the troops
undergoing their course of rifle instruction at Grave-
send has also been made, under the direction of
Capt. Vereker, 12th Regiment.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 22.

The bad spirit which disgraced Tralce has ap-
peared in Galway also, where an effort has been
made to frustrate a work of charity. A county
meeting was convened on Saturday last by the
High Sheriff, Mr. Persse, and the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
The attendance was very numerous, including
Lord Clanricarde, Lard Dunkellin, Lord Clan-
morris, Lord Clonbrock, Lord Allen Churchill,
Sir Thomas I. Barke, M.P., many of the local
gentry, some of the clergy, the Professors of
the Queen's College, &c. file chair was taken
by the High Sheriff. The first resolution was pro-
posed by the Marquis of Clanricarde, who, in an
able speech, enforced the claims of the distressed
operatives upon the sympathy and aid of the Irish
people. The resolution was no sooner seconded by
Mr. Bodkin than a gentleman who had been taking
notes under the speaker rose in a very excited man-
ner, and, waving his hat to the audience, he was
about to speak, when his voice was drowned in n
tempest of applause from the populace who filled
the body of the court. Lord Clanricarde remarked
that the meeting was called for one object only—
namely, for raising subscriptions for the distressed
people in Lancashire. If the gentleman's observa-
tions were in accordance with this object he had a
right to speak. If not he should find a more fitting
place for their utterance. He could call a meeting
for the relief of Irish distress if he wished, and in
that case Lord Clanricarde would give for every
ss. he gave. The gentleman was Mr. Martin
O'Brennan, editor of the Connaught Patriot. Speak-
ing loudly and with energetic gesticulation, Mr.
O'Brennan told Lord Clanricarde he would not put
him down; that he had met his Lordship six years
before, met him now again, and "when Greek meets
Greek then comes the tug of war; " that the Mar-
quis had not subscribed for Irish distress; that
Lancashire is the richest county of the richest
country in the world; that the operatives there
have £4,000,000 in the savings-banks. He there-
fore propose an amendment, which was an excellent
specimen of Connaught logic:—
" Be it resolved that, as this meeting fully sympathises
with the alleged distress in Lancashire, the richest county
in the world, we consider it would be a mockery of Irish
poverty to collect for this without relieving home distress."

The chairman declined to put the amendment, as
being opposed to the object of the meeting, and,
apparently satisfied that it had been adopted by the
mob who supported him, Mr, Brennan desisted
from troubling the meeting further.

Lord Cionbrock moved and Sir Thomas J. Burke
seconded a resolution that a subscription list be
opened, and that the clergy of all denominations be
called upon to co-operate. £2OO was subscribed in
the room.

Mr. Charles Kean and Mrs. Kean have concluded
a most successful engagement in the Theatre Royal
of this city. Mr. Kean took his benefit and de-
livered a farewell address on Saturday night week,
when the house was crowded in every part, and the
company manifested the liveliest feelings of admi-
ration. At the request of the manager, Mr. Harris,
they prolonged their stay for another week, to the
great satisfaction of the playgoing part of the
public. The enthusiasm elicited by Mr. Kean's
Wolsey and by The Wonder was as great as they
had ever excited on any former occasion.
On Thursday some of the Kanturk constabulary
were employed in guarding a gentleman who re-
sides about 10 miles from the town, Mr. Richard
Bolster, Summerville. He was escorted from his
residence, Castlamagner, by some of the Ballyclough
police, and thence into Kanturk by two of the consta-
bulary of that town. It appears Mr. Bolster some
time ago got a threatening notice, wherein he was
told that he would meet the same death as Braddell
and others met if he would not change his present
mode of dealing with parties. The Mallow and Bally..
slough police remain near his residence every night.
It is said he intends applying to have a few con-
stabulary left with him henceforward both night
and day.

Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
In the heart of Berlin, on the bank of the Spree,
along which lies a dull garden open to the public, but little
visited save by nursemaids and their attendant guardsmen,
stands an old palace, where originally was a farm and dairy
of the Electress Louisa. Frederick I. having sold the place
to Count Wartenberg for the very moderate sum of C 76
dollars, the purchaser erected the central part of the pre-
sent building I At his disgrace, it passed into the hands of
Queen Sophia Dorothea, who enlarged the edifice and gar-
den, and named it Monbijou. It was occupied by Peter the
Great and his suite in 1717, during that visit to Berlin of
which Carlyle affords us such strange glimpses. Since thf n
it has had various occupants, and for smae years past it
northern wing has been fitted up and used as an Eaglida
chapel, where the service of the Established Church is re-
gularly performed. On Sunday last, a mournful itnniver-
sary,the chapel was hung with blaek,an d unusually crowded,
and the Queen of Prussia and her suite occupied the pews
habitually reserved for the Princess Victoria, now absent
from Berlin. Her Majesty was received at the entrance to
the chapel by the British Charge d'Affaires—the ambassa-
dor, who arrived three days previously, not having, up to
that date,delivered his credentials, and being present,there-
private capacity. The usual selection of fore, only in his
appropriate psalms, &c., was made, and a sermon was
preached 14 the Lev. Dolton,

*** For full particulars of amusements see first page.
ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
This Evening, Wallace's new opera, LOVE'S TRIUMPH.
Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
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NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI,
This Evening, the Drama of THE GREEN BUSHES.
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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Evening'. IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TWAS IN THE
PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with
SILLA.ttNEY;

Commence at 7.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay-
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CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.—
Grand Selections from the Popular Operas.—The Comic per-
formances of Unsworth, Eugene, Little Bob, Arthur Lloyd.
'Hollingsworth, E. Marshall, Miss G. Smithson, dm—The
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THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY
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