The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

The Gale.

Yesterday morning a violent gale broke over the
metropolis, doing great damage, From about nine
o'clock the wind blew with great violence, and the
rain was dashed in sheets against the houses. It
was at its height at half-past 9. At Hackney a house
in course of construction was almost levelled with
the ground, and two men received rather severe in-
juries from the falling bricks. A chimney-stack
fell in the Whitechapel-road, at a time when seve-
ral persons were passing, and a manabout 5() years
of age was knocked down and injured. At half-
past 10 o'clock upwards of 300 square feet of the
zinc roofing covering the labour-shed attached to
the Marylebone Workhouse was blown off in one
sheet, and, after whirling round high in the air, fell
with a heavy crash into the middle of the Maryle-
bone-road. In its descent it struck the wheels of a
waggon which was passing and the driver from
fright fell into a fit and remained insensible for
several minutes. A workman was blown from a
scaffolding, in the morning, in the district of Hol-
born; falling some 50 feet, his skull was fractured,
and he now lies in King's College Hospital. At the
entrance of the station near Cannon-street, where
the new City Hotel is being built by Messrs. Lucas,
a labourer lost his life. The wind had loosened
many of the boards which had been used for roof-
ing the station, and about a quarter to 11 one of
these boards was blown off the roof by a fearful
gust and struck a labourer named Longnme, who
was on the scaffolding on the Dowgate-hill side 'of
the new hotel. He was killed instantly. This led
to further alarm among the large number of work-
people, and many of them left their work, it being
feared that the lofty scaffolding would come down,
as it was seen to sway to and fro. In New South-
wark-street a large building in the course of erec-
tion was blown down. Nearly the whole of the
brick and stone work is a wreck, and the police
have had much difficulty in keeping the public
at a distance from the ruins, in front of which
a tall scaffold is still standing. In the
docks, and generally below bridge, consider-
able damage was done by vessels breaking from
their moorings and coming into collision with others.
Off Blackwall a boat containing three men was
swamped, but fortunately a steam-tug was near the
spot and rendered assistance. It is feared, however,
that one man belonging to a collier brig moored off
Deptford, who fell overboard, has lost his life, as he
was carried away by the tide and has not since been
seen. Above London-bridge several collisions oc-
curred, but no serious results are recorded. Two
barges came into collision between Vauxhall and
Chelsea, and such was the force of the concussion
that one of them had a hole knocked in its side and
immediately sank. The man in charge of it jumped
on the other barge just in time to save his life.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 22.

Stormy weather has prevailed through the night,
and a heavy gale set in this morning from W.S.W.
Between six and ten o'clock more vessels have been
driven ashore at this port than has been known for
many years. No lives have been lost. The height
of the gale coming by daylight and at high water
fortunately lessened the risk to the crews of the
wrecked vessels.

The Amour, with 435 emigrants on board, for
Adelaide, broke from her anchorage, and went
ashore in the Catwater. The emigrants were all
safely landed. The French ship Paulista, the
Swedish brig Jules 1., the Belgian brig Espoir, the
brigantine Apollo, the schooner Swift, several col-
liers frcfm Swansea, the schooner Victoria of Lon-
don, the schooner St. Germans of St. Germans, a
Swedish brig with timber, and a small schooner
with oats, are ashore. _

Several vessels are damaged by fouling, and
others by loss of spars.

BRISTOL, Wednesday.
A gale almost unexampled for its fury commenced
here early this morning, and raged several hours.

The new Passage-pier of the Bristol and South
Wales Union Railway was seriously injured. About
half-past 9 this morning Mr. Adey, superintendent
of the line, visited the passage, and found it impos-

Bible to take the passengers across as usual as the
sea was sweeping over the entire length of the pier,
which extends into the Channel for a distance of a
quarter of a mile. An old hulk used for the landing
of passengers prior to the construction of the pier
had got into the corner at the point of junction of
the pier with the shore, and against it the sea came
with such violence that it was dashed completely over
the pier. Mr. Adey succeeded, not without imminent
risk, in crossing the surf, and found that the centre
of the pier was passable, but on reaching the end it
was found that a portion had been carried away.
The " skirting-board," a ponderous piece of the
structure, having first yielded to the fury of the
waves, taking with it a considerable portion of the
ballast of the line, had thus displaced the rails, ren-
dering it impossible for an engine to traverse them.
Such of the passengers as declined waiting for the
repair of the line and did not care to encounter the
supposed danger of a passage across thepier returned
to Bristol. As the tide receded it was further disco-
vered that a portion of the stairway used at low
water had been demolished, and this part of the pier,
together with the skirting boards, was found float-
ing in the sea. Packers and other workmen were
immediately brought to the spot, the ballast and
skirting-board were replaced, and traffic was resumed
in the course of the afternoon, the company running
special trains to accommodate the passengers who
had been delayed on the Portskillock side. After
the receipt of the usual telegrams in advance of the
London morning papers, all electric communication
was suspended, the wires of the various companies
having been blown down or otherwise rendered use-
less. The steam-packets and other vessels leaving
the port had hardly quitted the river before thefury
of the gale warned them to proceed no further, and
they returned and sought safety by anchoring in the
Avon. In the Queen's-road, leading to Clifton, a
large and massive plateglass window, of an inch
in thickness, was blown in at the shop of Mr.Mundy,
and the valuable stock of china and other ornaments
which were displayed behind were almost without
exception shattered to fragments. The plateglass
of the folding doors at the principal entrance to the
Queen's Hotel were also blown out and broken.
SWANSEA, Wednesday.
The wind this morning blew with great fury from
the west, driving all the vessels that were out in the
Channel towards the shore. Five vessels have been
driven on the beach—the Prince of Wales, 1,100
tons, a new ship built in Cannda for the Canadian
trade, has drifted into the Aberavon Sands, and is
a partial wreck. A Prussian bark has also drifted
near these sands, and a schooner has been compelled
to cut her masts away. The Claudius, an iron
vessel for the Chili trade, has been drifted to the
beach, but has sustained comparatively
i little da-
mage. Four other vessels are stranded n the bay.
A portion of the stonework of the new pier has
been washed in by the tide. The shore
side of the Llanelly Railway is partially blown
down. The tide washed into the lower part of
the town, rendering several of the streets impassable
for traffic. The damage to house property is consi-
derable both in the town and the suburbs. There is
scarcely a street that has escaped the fury of the gale.
The South Wales Railway below Swansea to Mil-
ford is torn away, and all traffic along that part of
the line is Stopped. The up and down lines are torn
up and wrapped over one another, and the telegraph
line is also washed away. No trains are running,
and it is expected that a day or two will elapse be-
fore the damage is repaired.

CARDIF F , Wednesday Afternoon.
A terrific gale sprang up this mornine, about

o'clock, and gradually increased in violence
high water (about 9 a.m.), when it was at its height.
The wind, being S.W., caused the tide to rise to a
great height, covering the whole of the ground be-
tween the Taff river and the Glamorganshire canal.
The entrance of the several docks were completely
flooded, the sea running over them, and the spray
rising 20 or 30 feet high, and covering a consider-
able portion of the wharfage with what appeared a
dense fog. The Penarth roads soon presented an
animated appearance, hundreds of vessels beating
uP Channel for safety. Several in the roads, how-
ever, broke from their anchors and went down Chan-
nel, where it is feared great damage has been done.
„kmong those who have •
slipped their anchors are the

• Marquis, of Cardiff, the Telegraph, and the Eliza-
beth Yeo. Several brigs have gone to sea after them.
The schooner Volante, which was being re-coppered
on the gridiron, has drifted on the mudbank, and
fears are entertained that when the tide recedes she
will break her back. Numerous slight accidents
have occurred to the shipping in the docks, and
most of the pilot-boats have been injured. One is
dismantled, and another has gone ashore on the
breakwater, where it is expected to become a wreck.
The gale was slightly felt at noon, but great fears
are still entertained for much of the shipping in the
roads. Innumerable accidents have happened through
the falling of tiles from houses, and the windows of
the Stuart-hall and other places have been blown in.
PORTLAND, DORSET, Tuesday.

Yesterday the wind (which had previously blown
strongly from the southward) veered again by W. to
N.W., decreasing in strength meanwhile, and the sun
shone out in the morning very strongly, but only to
prove temporary. As the sun declined the sky be-
came rapidly overcast with heavy cirro-cumulus
clouds, and during the night the wind got back to
S.S.W., bringing with it heavy squalls of rain, which
have continued all to-day without intermission.
There has been a heavy chopping sea in the West
Bay all day. The barometer has oscillated consider-
ably since we last wrote, having to-day fallen as low
as 29.269 in. at the sea level, while the temperature
has maintained an average throughout the day of
more than 9 deg. above the average for this period of
the year. The atmosphere has only shown 2 deg. of
dryness, as registered by the hydrometer. There is
now-6 p.m.—every evidence of the present boister-
ous weather continuing.

BRIDPORT, Tuesday.

The past few days have been very stormy on the
S.W. coast, and among the shipping disasters of the
week has to be recorded the total wreck of the
schooner Black Diamond, belonging to Messrs. Sut-
ton and Donovan, of Cork, Capt. Walsh, when ap-
proaching the harbour of Bridport, on the Dorset-
shire coast on Monday night. The vessel, whose
official number was 14,118 and 88 tons register, was
built at Swansea in 1841. She left Cork about six
o'clock on the evening of the 4th inst., laden with
1,218 barrels of oats in bulk, consigned from Messrs.
J. °llea and Sons, Cork, to Mr. Knight, Bridport.
Her crew consisted of the captain (G. Walsh), mate
(John O'Hea), two men, and a boy. She left Tor-
bay on Monday morning with a fair wind, and ar-
rived off Bridport at about 4 p.m., when she spoke a
pilot on board the schooner Try Again, waiting for
water off the harbour, of whom the master asked if he
could have a pilot that night, and received a reply in
the affirmative. It was dark, a thick rain fell, and
wind was blowing afresh gale from S.S.W The cap-
tain ran for the harbour pier-head. The mainsail
was snugly set, but the vessel did not answer her
helm, and missed the entrance to the harbour. Her
helm was put hard to starboard, and an attempt was
made to clear the land to the west, but it was found
quite useless. The anchor was dropped just as they
touched on the outside rocks, about a cable length
from the shore, which was paid out as quickly as
possible. She was, however, pitched and tossed
about to such an extent by the ground swell that
she parted her cable and went broadside on the
beach. The coastguard then rendered every assist-
ance in rescuing the crew, a line being thrown
across the forebrace by the mortar apparatus, and
thus communication obtained between the shore and
the vessel, and the crew were then dragged through
the surf by means of buoys. The chief officer of
Coastguard, Mr. Boxhall, rendered very essential
service, displaying great courage in approaching the
side of the vessel through the surf, which several
times threw him down, and at one time drove him
under the bottom of the vessel. The crew were
taken charge of by Mr. Monteith, the Shipwrecked
Mariners' agent at the port. The vessel remained
on the beach subject to the fury of a rough sea,
which broke in her port side and washed out her
cargo. Towards midnight the tide had receded so
as to admit of the captain saving some of the ship's
stores and valuables, but about high tide at seven
o'clock on Tuesday morning she was again subject
to such severe twists that her masts fell over her
starboard side, and she became a total wreck. The
captain cannot state whether the vessel is insured,
but her cargo was insured in the sum of £BOO in the
I'hcenix office. The master affirms that he used
every possible effort to keep her off the shore, but
all their efforts for her preservation and that of her
cargo were fruitless. A rough sea is still running.
ronTsmOUTII, Wednesday.

Strong south-westerly winds prevailed here at an
early hour yesterday morning, with the barometer
at 20-35. The wind rose as the day wore on,
and at sunset the weather looked as gloomy as it
has done on the south coast for a very long time.
At 2 p.m. there was a very stiff squall from the
S.W., and a still more violent one about sunset, the
latter accompanied by one broad lightning flash,
with thunder at a considerable interval. On the
subsidence of the greatest strength of the squall a
meteoric body of considerable brilliancy was ob-
served for a short period in the north east. About
midnight the weather settled down into a gale from
the S.S.W., with rain. At daylight this morning
the barometer marked 29.0, and soon afterwards
gave signs of rising, at 10 a.m., marking 29.02, at
noon 29.05, and at 2 p.m. 29.1, the wind veering
during the morning as the mercury rose to about
W. by S. The wind continued to blow with una-
bated force all this forenoon, but at high water in
Portsmouth harbour at 1.45 p.m. it considerably
moderated. This afternoon the wind has gradually
fallen and the atmosphere is clearer.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.

Early this morning the barometer here com-
menced falling very rapidly, and for some time fell
more than a tenth of an inch per hour. The read-
ing at 11.40 was only 28 deg. 332 in. From that
time it rose with even greater rapidity, the wind

changing from south to west. The lowest reading
of the barometer recorded here was on Dec. 6, 1847,
when it was 28 deg. 154 in. To-day there was a
stiff breeze, at times approaching a gale, with rain.
SHIELDS, Wednesday, Noon.

The weather has a very stormy appearance on the
north east coast to-day. The wind seems freshen-
ing into a gale, and is blowing from S.S.E. The
sea is making fast also. Intelligence has reached
this port of the loss of the Blyth bark Constance in
a heavy gale of wind. Four of the crew were
drowned, viz.: J. Wright, carpenter, Blyth, Taylor,
seaman, of Shields ; Holmes, a boy belonging to
Copenhagen; and the master's eldest son, Thomas
Burgen, 'a youth of 16 years of age. The mate,
named Scrivener, had a narrow escape from being
drowned.

WINDSOR, Wednesday.

This morning the gale caused a great deal of
damage in this district. About half-past 10 o'clock,
when the storm was at its highest, the entire front
of the east gable of the Lodge at the entrance to the
Royal Gardens at Frogmore, in the old Windsor-
road, the residence of Mr. T. Ingram, was blown
away, the bricks and atone coping in their descent
crashing through the roof of a building in the rear,
in which Mrs. Ingram happened to be at the time.
She had a very narrow escape, a block of stone forc-
ing its way through the ceiling near the place where
she was standing. The west gable is in a critical
position, and other damage has been done. At the
works for the Royal Mausoleum a shed has been
blown down, while trees in the lower grounds of the
Home Park have been damaged, and the park
strewn with branches. On the Round Tower the
"storm" flag was kept flying instead of the large
Royalorin"
standard.

CHATHAM, Wednesday Evening.
It has been blowing a strong gale from the south-
westward throughout the whole of the day,the wind
at times having the force of a hurricane. Commu-
nication with all the ships in the harbour was for
some time supended, and throughout the day has
been attended with great difficulty. There is a large
fleet of colliers and other vessels at anchor inside
the Grain Spit, at the entrance to the harbour, and
others are fast taking up their positions for the
e
night. The Great Eastern has additional anchors
down,
is lying,own, but owing to the excellent anchorage where
sno fears are entertained respecting her,
although the force of the wind driving against her
immense broadside surface is very strong. All the ves-
sels in harbour have their yards pointed to the wind,
and made all snug for the night, which pro-