The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-30 00:00:00

DEVON VALLEY.

THE GALE.

The gale was very strong upon the coast of
Northumberland and Durham last night. It blew
from the north-east, and there was a high sea. The
night was pitchy dark, with blinding showers of sleet.
The Ann and Mary, laden collier brig, has gone
ashore at Whitburn ; and last night the Prussian
bark Iduna, having broken a tow-rope attached to
a tug, was stranded at Marsden, on the Durham
coast. Both of the crews were saved. We have
intelligence to-night that the brig Assiduous, of
South Shields, has been sunk at Nieu Dieppe. Five
of the crew have been landed; the rest are supposed
to have been lost. Several Tyne and other north
country ships have been lost on the voyage to Hol-
land during the past week ; in fact, the loss of col-
lier vessels bas been rather more than in the gales
of the previous weeks. The North Shields Insurance
clubs sustained considerable loss this week by the
wreck of a fine ship, the Bedford, at Helsingfors.
She was bound from Cronstadt for the Amoor river,
and was insured in the North Shields clubs to the ex-
tent of £B,OOO. The weather has been fine in the north
to-day. Wind N.W., with a bright frosty sky.
PORTLAND, DORSET, Friday.

As was anticipated on Wednesday last, the abate-
ment of the bad weather previously existing was but
of short duration. During Wednesday night the
wind retrograded from N.W. to S., the sky becom-
ing gradually overcast, and at midnight the wind
began to increase, with fog and rain aecompanying
until 10 a.m. on Thursday, when the rain ceased.
The wind during the day again veered to W., and
heavy squalls, with lightning and a considerable
amount of rain, continued throughout the night,
and indeed have continued all to-day. The Cygnus
steamer, belonging to the Weymouth and Channel
Islands Steanipacket Company, left Weymouth
harbour at 6 a.m. to-day for Jersey, but after pro-
ceeding about 30 miles on her passage was obliged
to return to Weymouth on account of the heavy
weather she experienced. During a heavy squall
about 10 a.m. the Cygnus was struck by two seas
simultaneously fore and aft, which did some damage
to her bulwarks, boats, and skylight, as also to the
after-cabin furniture, the water pouring into the
cabin in such quantities as to float a pair of boots
(left on the cabin floor) belonging to one of the pas-
sengers on board. The captain, too, had a narrow
escape from being washed overboard, and it is said
the sea has not been so heavy in the Channel for a
long period as it has been to-day. The Cygnus
reached Weymouth harbour at 11 30 a.m., and
will proceed on her voyage again to-night, if the
weather moderates. Up to the present time (8 p.m.)
however, there does not seem any probability of it.
The barometer has again fallen rapidly, and has
been lower to-day than on any day since the Ist of
Feb. last, when it read at the sea level 28.90 inches,
To-day it has read as low as 29.05 inches, its third
minimum point this year. It is a remarkable fact
that although the temperature has not attained a
higher maximum than 61 deg., and the minimum is
40 deg., all the squalls which have been experienced
in this locality for the last four days have been very
electrical, more especially the squall in which the
Cygnus was caught this morning, as stated above,
when wind, lightning, and heavy thunder accompa-
nied it.

PORTSMOUTH, Sunday Eventig.

A rapid rise of the barometer on Saturday from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. was followed by as rapid a fall
towards sunset, and a heavy gale from the north-
ward, with continuous rain, through the night and
this morning until past noon, when the wind veered
in by S.S. W. to W.N.W. in the afternoon, when
the gale moderated and the weather cleared. A
number of ships ran into St. Helen's and the Mother-
bank for shelter, with which, during the height of
the gale this morning, communication was only made
by Lloyd's agents' cutter, no other vessel being
afloat and under sail, owing to the violence of the
weather. A schooner is reported to have struck on
Betnbridge-ledge, and two small craft to have gone
ashore somewhere off Hayling, but no particulars have
been received. The barometer at 3 p.m. marked
29.20, and now, 6.m., has risen to 29.30, with up-
ward tendency.

SCOLUID.

On Wednesday a violent gale from the north-
ward visited the east coast of Scotland, being espe-
cially felt in the Moray Firth, and about Dunbar
and Berwick ; and a number of disasters to ship-
ping have in consequence to be deplored. A sloop
belonging to Glasgow was stranded in Cullen-bay,
and, in spite of earnest attempts at rescue, her
crew were drowned by the upsetting of their boat
almost within reach of the distressed spectators. At
Macduff a wheat-laden brig, bound for Leith, was
totally lost, the crew, however, escaping to the
shore ; at Dunbar a sloop came on the rocks near
the harbour, and is expected to be a total wreck ;
and from Fraserburgh and Eyemouth we have re-
ports of danger and damage to the fishing fleets in
the storm.—Scotsman.

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dianopolis at an early hour, on the 27th ult., the switch at
the end of the curve at Guildford had been turned, inten-
tionally, and the car in which the General was seated was
thrown from the track and dragged some distance. No one,
however, was injured. On the same day a train on the
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was thrown from the track east of Lawrenceburg. No one
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A special meeting was held at Rumbling-Bridge
on Wednesday, for the purpose of confirming the
agreement with the North British Company—Mr.
H. Young in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN moved that the meeting confirm
the agreement by which the North British Company
undertook to subscribe £60,000 to complete the line,
on which they were to have a preferable dividend of
4 per cent. until the traffic on the entire line yielded
a certain amount per mile, when both companies
were to have an equal dividend.
The motion was unanimously carried, and a vote
of thanks was tendered to Mr. Adam, M.P., for his
services in the negotiations with the North British
SHIELDS, Saturday Night. I Company.

SAFFRON WALDEN.

Capt. Tyler, R.E., the Government engineer, has
officially examined this line, which forms an exten-
sion of the Great Eastern system from Audley End
to Saffron Walden. Two powerful engines of the
Great Eastern were brought from Cambridge, and
traversed the line from the Audley End station. At
the close of the inspection Capt. Tyler expressed to
the directors his general approval of the works.