The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-18 00:00:00

TFIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER is, 1636.

COURT CIRCULAR,.

Count d'Aglie, the Sardinian Minister, and Baron Mal-
titz, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Hampshire.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Henry Parnell has arrived in town from Paris.
The Governor of the Bank of England transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Treasury.
Sir Robert Peel, accompanied by his Lady, left town
yesterday morning for his seat, Drayton Manor, Stafford-
shire. Sir Robert arrived i❑ town on Friday, from the
Continent.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

C. .1. Tennant, Esq.. Mrs. Tennant, and Miss Tennant, at
the Sackville Hotel, Sackville-street, from the Continent;
Mrs. Dunlop and the Misses Dunlop, at ditto, from ditto ;
Baron and Baroness Ende, at ditto, from Portsmouth ; Mr.
and Mrs. R. Hargrave, at ditto, from Foots Cray.

DREADFUL GALE.

Guernsey was visited last Wednesday evening by a gale
of wind which, acting upon, the sea at the high water of a
spring tide, caused such devastation on the eastern coast of
this island, as was never before experienced, except perhaps
in the storm of November, 1825. The weather was rather
finer than usual early in the morning, and the mercury in
the barometer was slowly on the rise. It, however, began
to blow rather freshly from the S.S. W. in the forenoon,
increasing- considerably in the afternoon on the flowing of
the tide, at which time the barometer indicated a rapid
fall, and the appearance of the firmament to windward was
portentous of a coming gale. By five o'clock it was blow-
ing quite a gale from the South, and the sea in the offing
was already running fearfully high. About this time
the sloop Britannia, Shean, master, which had got
under weigh from our roadstead, with the intention of
proceeding for Lyme, was compelled to run for shelter
into St.. Sampson's harbour. The schooner Elizabeth,
Bound, master, with part of a cargo of fish from Gaspee,
also arrived off our roadstead from Jersey, whence she
had sailed about noon, and there not being water enough
to allow her running into the harbour, and the master not
feeling disposed to bring up in the roadstead, she put out a
signal for a pilot, when three pilots went out to her at
the hazard of their lives, and having succeeded in getting
on board, safely ran her into St. Sampson's harbour. At
five o'clock the cutter Frederick, Kellaway, master, which
had left Alderney in the morning, was descried in the
Great Russell making her way through seas that were
awful to behold. There were at this time, we are in-
formed, three hands at the helm, two of whom were
lashed. She ran into the harbour like an arrow, passing
within a few inches only on the lee side of the cutter
Maria Ann, that had been hauled between the pier
heads in the morning. A French chassemaree also ar-
rived soon after from the southward, and took refuge in the
harbour. At six o'clock the gale was still increasing, and
the wind having got to S.S.E., or within a point or two of
the very worst wind that can blow from our harbour, the
sea began to break over the outer parapet of the south pier,
and to render it impossible for any one to remain there
without being drenched. By half-past six the gale was at
its height, and angry billows bounded against the outer
wall of the south pier, as though they would destroy every-
thing► before them, then threw their foaming tops some fifty
or sixty feet high among the rigging and upon the decks of
a tier of vessels, most of them cutters, that were moored on
the south pier rings, whilst on the pier itself the solid
waves so emptied themselves that the water between
the outer and inner wall was frequently from two to
three feet high. The sea at this time was making au
equally fearful breach over the breakwater of Glatney Es-
planade, hut as it was very dark, and no living creature
could with safety venture along that path, it was impossible
to form any correct estimate of the ravages which the sea
was making in that quarter. The newly-formed land on the
south beach was at this time, as might have been expected,
very much exposed, and long before high water the greater
part of a cargo of timber that had been piled close to
the angle formed by the pier and the outer face of
this land, was sent adrift. About one hundred pieces
kept floating outside of the large stones heaped
over one another to protect the land, and by breaking
the sea no doubt contributed to prevent its being wholly
carried away ; but perhaps twenty pieces, each of them
a foot square and about twenty feet in length, were thrown
over the wall upon the flags of the pier, and there, by the
mere power of the sea, piled on each other as though by
the hand of man. All the slight buildings erected on this
strip of land, some of which were used as dwelling-houses,
greatly suffered. At about nine o'clock, the cries of dis-
tress proceeding from La Jenne Sophie were heard. This
vessel was stranded. The crew, however, by holding out,
and watching the reflux of the waves, were saved.
Shortly after seven o'clock, or about an hour before high
water, the wind during a very heavy squall veered a point
or two to the westward, and from that moment it began
gradually to lull. The swell, however, for at least two
hours after, was fearfully high in the harbour ; but by ten
o'clock, when most of the vessels began to take the ground,
it had considerably subsided, and they all grounded without
receiving any very material damage.
The pier of the Glatney coast suffered severely.
We feel deeply concerned to be obliged to add, that a
crack, of about forty yards in length, commencing at the
angle formed by the land on the beach, is visible on the
pavement of the South pier, and that it bears no equivocal
indications of its having been caused by a loosening, not of
the pavement, but of the whole of that part of the struc-
ture. Indeed, we have heard a gentleman whom we know
to be a competent judge in such matters, give it as his
opinion that a not very prolonged continuation of the severe
shocks which that part of the pier received between half-
past six and half-past eight o'clock, must have terminated in
the falling down of the whole of this already loosened por-
tion.—Guernsey Star.