The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

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A hurricalie visited Leiden on Sunday eight, 01, 1110, • sre-
perly speaking, on Monday morning, which for its violence
while it lasted, and for the desolation left behind when' it had
passed away, few " memories can parallel "
In Lambeth no less than five houses were completely de-
stroyed, and the inmates had a very narrow escape of their
lives. During the violence of the hurricane a large portion
of the wall round the Magdalen. in the Blackfriars-road, was
foxed to the ground with great violence, btu povidentidly
no person was paskiug at the time. It the Old K read a
whole family, consisting of five chi ideen, e ere buried in the
ruins while in bed and asleep, from the rout' falling in Al-
though they were almost immediately got out ;hey sustained
severe bruises, and one is reported to he dangerously hurt, and
is now an inmate of St. Thomas's Hospital.
As the hurricane was at its he ight, a gentleman oc-
cupying apartments at Mrs. Jacobs's, tobacconist, No. 9,
Chester- terrace, Borough-road, had a most fortunate
escape. A building which had been recently erected on
the adjoining premises, in the occupation of Messrs.
Ogden and Neve, builders, and which have been covered in
with lead only on the Saturday preceding, was completely
stripped, and every portion of the lead blown into the back-
yard of Mrs. Jabob's, with a tremendous crash, to the great
consternation of the inmates. The party alluded to had net
left the spot where the lead had been deposited more than two
minutes previously. But for this good fortune he must in-
evitably have been most seriously maimed, even if he escaped
with life. The scene, during the violence of the storm, was
one of a most extraordinary description. In some places
shop-doors were forced open, and their contents whirled into
the street with singular effect. In the neighbourhood of
Cheapside a similar occurrence took place at an extensive gos-
samer-hat maker's, where four or five dozen gossamers were
taken by the wind into the air in all directions ; watchmen of
the City were completely knocked up in giving chase along
the various streets after the hats, very few of which they suc-
ceeded in capturing. In Queen-street, Brompton, about three
o'clock, police constable Wincup, of the T division, while on
duty, had a most narrow escape of having his skull fractured.
As he was passing the house of Mr. Dell, a pianoforte-manu-
facturer, he heard a loud crash, and the next moment a
large sign-board which had been fastened against the
front of the house, being torn away by the wind, fell at his
feet ; and about the same time one of the trees, and a large
portion of the weather boarding from opposite the Half-way
House, on the Kensington-road, belonging to Kingston-house,
the residence of the Marquis Wellesley, were blown down. In
Kensington- gardens the havoc occasioecd by the wind has
been most extensive. The whole of the walks were covered
with bodies and limbs of trees. At the south-eastern corner
of the gardens, in " the little wood," no less than six tall and
stately trees were blown down. They consisted of elm, beech,
and horse-chesnut. The beech, which was a most lofty one,
in its descent forced down two others, by which, on its reach-
ing the ground, it was splintered in all directions. At Ham.
mersmith, opposite Brook-green-lane, a stack of chimneys of
the house of Mr. Jago, surgeon, was blown down, and falling
on the roof of the surgery beneath, forced in a considerable
portion thereof. In the Bridge-road, numbers of new houses
were stripped of their lead roofings, and otherwise injured ;
and at Starch-green several small houses, recently erected,
were unroofed. as was also a much larger, not quite finished,
intended for amalthouse. On the back common,beneath Turnham
Green and Acton, several houses have suffered most severely.
Towards Brentford the destruction has been more extensive.
Just after three o'clock a loud crash was heard by the inhabi
tants of the eastern portion towards Kew-bridge, which was at
first supposed to have been caused by the fall of the recently
erected shaft, 160 feet high, at the newly formed works of the
Grand Junction Company, but on several of them rising from
their beds and hastening to the spot, that was found to be per-
fectly secure, and it was soon ascertained that the crash lied
taken piece on the extensive premises of Sir Felix Booth,
Bart., the eminent distiller of that town. It appears
that on the east side of the distillery-yard, an extensive
building, with walls forty feet high, had recently been
erected, in which were intended to be placed eight new
vats, each capable of containing from 40,000 to 60,000
gallons. The building had but just been roofed in, and
soon after three o'clock the wind, entering it by means
of the open windows, forced off the roof, throwing down the
western, eastern, and southern walls, and destroying one of
the two vats already erected. The damage is estimated at
nearly 1,000/. The roof of the Northumberland Arms Ta-
vern is much damaged; and the family of Mr. Emery, a baker,
residing near the Castle Tavern, had a most narrow escape
of their lives. Mrs. Emery, who had only been confined
within the last six weeks, was in bed with her husband and
child, when a stack of chimneys was blown down, which,
forcing in the roof, the greater part fell in on the bed ;
providentially one of the beams which supported the root
gave way, and in falling, rested on the bed-post, and thus
were the lives of the family saved, the fragments of the tiles
and chimney-pots laying round them. Soon after three o'clock
the inhabitants residing near the London Gas Works, in the
Vauxhall-road, close to the bridge, were thrown into the ut-
most alarm and consternation by a noise resembling the explo-
sion of artillery, which shook the habitations to the foundation; a
number of persons rushed out of their beds and others frem
the houses to endeavour to ascertain the cause, but nothing
satisfactory could be gained till the break of day, when a
scene of immense devastation presented itself by the entire
demolition of the lofty and immense brick walls which were
being built on the grounds of the London Gas-works for the
completion of a retort house. The buildings had proceeded
rapidly under the directions of Messrs. Burstall and Son,
builders, the contractors. On the workmen entering the
grounds yesterday morning, scarcely a brick remained one ~n
the other. In the place of a wall, which on Sunday stood 60
feet in height, 90 feet in length, and 50 in width, nearly 600
bricks, forming part of the wall, had been carried over another
twenty yards distant ; the immense scaffolding was broken
in pieces. The damage is estimated at between 7001. and
8001. In Greenwich Park several 0f the fine chesnut trees
were torn up, and others partially destroyed. The park
yesterday presented a curious appearance, from its s being
thickly strewed with the fallen boughs.
In the East and North-east of London the storm has left in
every direction proofs of its fearful violence, in the uprooting
of trees, the levelling of fences, and often in the more seri-
ous mischief caused by the falling of chimneys. Mr. Al-
dridge's provision warehouse, in High-street, Wapping-, was
stripped of its leaden covering, which was rollo up like a
scroll, although it withstood the fury of the bfs-st in Novem-
ber, 1836, when the most serious hurricane occurred which
can be remembered to nave visited, the metropolis. The ves-
sels on the river appear to have escaped with very slight in-
juries. Li Stepney church-yard two very old and immense
trees were blown down, and did extensive mischief to the
tombs and railings, which have been lately erected at a great
expeece round the graves. In Ciapton, Hackney, and in the
neighbourhood of Stemford-hill, every step bears proofs of the
force of ihe wind dul ing the hurricane, which appears to have
swept over the metropolis from the South-west to the North-
east, the suburbs at both these exticmities, suffering most of
its rage.
A vest number of trees were laid prostrate on Putney awl
Bme Gammons from the fury of the storm. Barnes work-
holeie, which lies particularly exposed on the side of t;:e
Cie-ninon, was expected to be razed to the ground, and the
inmates continued up during the whole right; the building,
however, escaped, with the exception of sonic slight damage
to the roof. The oldest inhabitants are unanimous in declar-
ing that in their memory they do not recollect, for the time it
Listed, i severs e gait• of eind.

A Ine!ancholy accident oceurred on the railway in
the afternoon of Wedn;isday. A fine young boy, about seven
years of age, fel' befoie one of the waggons, when one of the
wiieel, went over his right arm, and took it clean off a little
below the shoulder. The little suff,rer bore his misfortune
with great fortitude, crying out, " Where is my arm ?" He is
in a fair way. He is a Fon of John Grindlay, a currier.—
Duvniee Advertiser.

Last night an inquest was held at the George.
Castle-street, Leicester-square, on the body of Ralph Richard-
son, aged seventy, a pauper in St. Martin's workhouse.
appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been an hi.
mate of the workhouse since the beginning of the year 1836
and was employed in what is termed the "hair-room." IT

had latterly been in a very infirm state of health, and his mind
was affected. Between seven and eight o'clock yesterday
morning he was discovered hanging by a piece of rope to a
nail which wss affixed in the wainscoting of the room in which
he lived. The nurse gave an immediate alarm, and one of the
male paupers cut the cord. The deceased appeared quite
lifeless. In answer to questions from the Coroner and Jury,
Mr. Bainbridge, the surgeon, said that, from the nature of the
disease under which the deceased was labouring, the mind
was very likely to become materially rffTted. Mr. B uin-
bridge added, that the deceased had extra nourishment be-
sides the usual dietary allowed to the male paupers, and
was not compelled to do any kind of work ; the little he did
was perfectly optional. The Jury expressed themselves
satisfied, and returned a verdict of " Temporary mental de-
rangement."

THE SISTER CHURCHES !—Wonders never cease.
Such is the appellation given to the Churches of England
and Scotland—to Presbyterianism and Episcopacy—to two
Churches whose partisans resisted each other to the death, and
who now, to serve a political end, would cordially embrace
each other in their arms.—Kelso Chronicle.

GLASGOW.—It is now ascertained that there will
be contests in four of the wards, and both parties exnregq
hopes of being
able to carry their men. On Wednea3ay
night, the Universal Suffrage Association had a meeting to
select candidates of their own creed for the various Wards.
Only four were named, and of these two were nominated only
conditionally. For the fourth and fifth Wards they made no
provision. One of their orators, named Purdie, counselled tbe
meeting to join the Tories to put down the Whigs.
To the numerous instances which have been given
of the voracity of the cod, we have to add the following :
A fine fish of that species was purchased yesterday in the
market, and on being taken home and cleaned, a lobster ut
considerable size, with the two great toes perfect, was found in
its stomach. From the toes being covered with barnacles, it
appeared that the lobster had been dead, and had lain for a
length of time in the water before it was swallowed.—Edin
burgh Courant.
The thaw, after the storm of rain and snow (n
Sunday and Monday last, flooded all the rivers in the north.
On the latter day, the Dnvern was so much increased in size
that Mr. Gordon, of Cairnfield, in attempting to cross near
A. achy on horseback, nearly lost his life, having been carric-i
down the rapid stream—obliged to throw himself front 'oh
horse, and with difficulty got to a shallow place, from which
h© got to land.—Edinburgh Courant.

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400 d Bread may be had at

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rfacE OF

SEEDS.—Oct. h}.
Cer Cwt. Per ()starter.
New English red Clovers 9,. Ses St. Foin 40s 44s 4a,
ON Ditto Ditt0............—5. —a. —s Grass t3os 34;
gew Foreign Dist. 4,5. tis 7sts so. 4fie
Olsi Ditto Ditto.. ..... s. 40: 00s. I.inE.;,ed, for ceding 5",
White Chpcor ~;.3s. 70s. Ditto, for ssiwif.g. .......
' Ditto Ditto.„ f:0.4 Ditto, for crusl,sig F 40 f'y
25, jCanary . cs.•

;.•!(1,. 2.'

`nglish Carraway ---= 42,. 465: !White '0
Fore.ge Ditto —s. -Ills. 45, ;Brown Ditt
roriander
Rapeseed, Eragral., ins .per 1.,,,,"" :3..1. 38,....,
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PR.TCES OF HOP.—Oct 29.
r'arnhain Pocket., (pee cwt.) 7. M. 14/. Os. to 101 .Is.
East 1(..,• Pockets. -
Ditto Bags. 5 11l 61 ~s. to 7 15 .
Mid Kent Pockets
Ditto Bags 4. Pi- 5 10 to 61. 6s
sussex
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Yearl,n gs 4i. 4s. 41. lt.s to 5/ 5
Old Olds
Old Ditty estimated at 11,5,9.01
PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS
Ware 4ss. Od. to 55s 04. per ton.
Middling
Chats
1.513.10 ES OF LEATHER
Per lb d. to d. • Per li, 5, to d.
it o;, ilid,,, 30 to tilib each ;1 13 • Horse llide.., German ...... 111 224
---.-4.0 5o ..... „„ !2 !6 • Spanish ...... 12 ,a
50 6.1..........3 :s Calf Skins,:lo to 401b.(doz )514 '
dull Hides
Butts, Vitriol
1.',a5----- English - 70 Blri ..#15 "
15
Foreign
Foreign Hides lO 12
Dressing Hides
6 I/
Shaved . , 12 15 Basils i
Beat Saddlers Hides
Horse Hides, English
• If rounded 2d. to 4.d par lb more.

PAI6i ,;,
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15. 0:i
4, Pd (1,1
• :4.

PRICE OF OIL. rx
Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 424 Os —Refined, 43/. 10g.—Linseed Oil, 2.8%
Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, ;1000 , 13, Os —Rape Cake, per ton, 6 S •

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of bib.
Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow :getters) 3,4, sd.

PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, to per I 121 b.
town Tallow 6os. 6d. Yellow Soap
Yellow Russia
White —s. Od. Curd —s. 04.
Soap Ditto s Od. Graves l6s. (1,4
Melting Stuff
Ditto Rough 3os Id.

PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is as follows
Candles, per dozen, 8s Od. ; inferior, 7s. o:l.—Moulds, 6.1.
Sixpence per dozen discount for cash.
COA L M A RKET.—Oet. 29.

Ships arrived since last mania-day. 56.
Per Ton, a. Per I ~r.
Anair's 2l 6 Walls End Lambton 24 .'.
os t
fl'arr's Hartley -
14 3
Holvwell
Ord's Redhugh - 2„1 5
Russell's High Main
Walls End Bell and Brawn
Walls End Gosfbrth 23 8 Walls End Barrett ..... . ......... r, •
Walls End Hilda
Walls End Killingworth
p
Walls End Riddell's ,
Wall- End W,alker 23 0 Walls End West Hetton ...... 23 6
Lambton's Primrose
Walls 1
Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 24 3 I Cowpen 21 0
Walls End Haswell .. ....... ... :.:3 1) Howard's Netherton Main

Colonel Eggerle, or the artillery, on the retired
list, met with his death a few days ago at Colmar, in the fot
lowing deplorable manner :—He had descended into his cal,
lar without reflecting on the danger to which he was expose",.
from a quantity of carbonic acid gas which escaped from son;
new wine in a state of fermentation. After ascending a feell
steps of a ladder, he was seized with a sudden fainting fit,„lfe„,l
backwards, broke his spine and one of his legs, and was k"",.
on the spot. The Colonel, as some of our readers may re the
lect, was one of the witnesses who gave evidence before e
Court of Assizes of the Lower Rhine on the trial of Prinpc,f
Louis Napoleon. It was he who introduced Colonel Your"'
to Prince Louis Napoleon at Baden.
Covent-garden market retains its supremacy °sd,
every similar establishment in the metropolis. Notwithstallo,
log the advanced season of the year, it was on Saturday anre,
Mg at an early hour filled with every variety of fruit and nvii,
getables. Turnips, corots, onions, greens, cabbages, be pd
and potatoes, were most abundant, of excellent quality, sda.
very cheap. Apples, pears, walnuts, grapes (foreign and he
mestic), pines, and• peaches were equally plentiful, an „tif
price of each extremely moderate. There was a fair suPc
of a delicious vegetable called Brussels sprouts, so higblY,,Biri;
preciated in Holland and in Belgium, but not yet geaer-of
cultivated in England. The beet-root is this season. Toy
fine, and the consumption of it in salads and other v
preparations much increased ; its saccharine quality is said
beet;
the faculty to be finely antiscorbutic. Thirty years ago

root was little known as a vegetable.
On Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, ask:
gentleman named Edward Keane was crossing from D,lloi,
Arcot, Lincoln's Inn-fields towards the College of Pbysie',Boo)
he observed a man lying in the road, apparently suffering out,
illness. He, fearing that the man would be run over if sci to
fered to remain in that situation, got him up, and offere„,fr.
assist him as far as Chancery-lane, near which place
v ill
Keane understood him to live. The man seemed to be riot
as scarcely able to walk. He fell down again, but on arrivfor
at the corner of Bell-yard, he rallied considerably, and •
thanking Mr. K. for taking care of him, walked away ttfi,
tolerable pace. Mr. Keane soon afterwards had the 111°"*„1
cation to discover that the fellow had contrived to rob biro s
his watch (a silver hunter), and his purse, containing 1111,1
twelve shillings, while he was assisting him in his pretenu
illness.
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repetition
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personsl o s i o n o of
were f
tsadlygunpowder
injured. occurred
at
BriLivtoaels,t
Thursday, which interrupted the cuettinsgtoonnf syomleve:ftitheer
lying fields of corn, which are still out in various cEstricts
the county. These are chiefly on the hill tafrns on the s?tio:
ol Strathearn, and along the southern base of the Grampia_
amounting perhaps to about one-sixth of the whole oat crodie';
balcaks-t,
Reaping and leading were resumed on Friday morning, untbe
a cool north-west wind, and during that and following da%too
greater part of the remaining crop was secured. Pc'Es by
lifting has been going on briskly, preceded in many case
the sale of the crop. The great inequality of the crop Ishood
deuced by that of the prices, which in this neighbour from
vary f, orn 111. per acre to 221.—varying in the prod uelo
20 bolls per acre to 40 shipping bolls, with perhaps froi.
to 15 bolls inferior size. —Perth Courier.
place
On Wednesday morning an explosion took
one of the ccal pits at Harrington, and upwards of thirty
re,
aid beys were killed, and eleven horses. Two Men, truat St
ported to have been in the act of descending in a 'throws'
the time the explosion took place, one of whom was 'to the
to :.n immense di-tance, the other, after being raised i° ots
air, fell into the pit-sh.ft. The names of those Inistiageso,
hardly yet be aseert,ined amidst the confusion and at, sISI
hut, although the precise extent of the awful catastraP4lo un-
its immediate cause, whether by neglect or otherwise's, AO
known, it has spread a gloom over both HarrinO° 000
Workington that many years cannot dissipate--whole skireor
at oece enshrouded in sorrow and want, by sudden be of it:
ment of sons or husbands, who were their support 01 of
old age. Another correspondent informs us, that that,to,"
number of sufferers has not yet been ascertained ; but ift
is feared, it will he found to be nearer forty than thief be'
to two o'clock en Thursday morning, ten bodies 013
been found and brought up.—Carlisle Journal. tierriSia°
SCOTCH HONESTY.--A few days ago a P,.-11.,„t11,-
travelling by the night-mail from Glasgow, inadeer`bn
the dark gave the guard a sovereign for a , at,
covering the mistake, the guard next morning Calle.. tv
the passengers he knew, and at last succeeded in OadlarrocieP
owner of the sovereign, who had not the slightest suldiagi
of having lost it this manner, although he found it al; °
The guard's name is Mr. Duerla.le Such inst°- e
honesty ought not to pass unnoticed.-s.cotian. 0f '
GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LARGE CONSUMER
TEA.
TEAS at WHOLESALE PRICES, in quantitieeet%
less than one pound, in tin cases of 61bs. net, or small ch
aor:
I 21bs. and upwards. thi§a.e
To afford every facility to large consumers, to whom coke
tisement is addressed, not less tan one pound of Tea -
made at this establishment, as the small profits will not au--
, O'
usual division of quantities made by retail houses.
G. T. MAN&,ELL and CO., WHOLESALm
DEALERS, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside.
of these
GOLD SIGNET RINGS.—A great VarietYon elf
Useful and Fashionable RINGS, are kept for Seleetil-81,1e
Cornelian, Amethyst, Topaz, and other Real Stones, sor too;
engraving. Armorial bearings may be referred to, saleistiert
gratis, and can be engraved by an Artist of greatateethilios:
47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Graceehurch-s
T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and
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