The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-29 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

At an early hour this morning the metropolis was visited by
a dreadful hurricane from the north-west, which has caused
very great devastation, particularly on the River Thames, be-
low London-bridge, where the destruction of property amongst
the shipping, we regret to state, is immense, and attended also
with loss of life. It was about half-past two o'clock when the
wind became boisterous, and by three it blew a complete
hurricane. In Lambeth no less than five houses were com-
pletely destroyed, 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 forced to the ground with great violence, but provi-
dentially no person was passing at the time. In the Old Kent-
road a whole family, consisting of five children, were buried in
the ruins while in bed and asleep, from the roof falling in. Al-
though they were almost immediately got out, they
sustained severe bruises, and one is reported to be
dangerously hurt, and is now an inmate of Saint
Thomas's Hospital. In the City great havoc has taken
place. About four o'clock a high stack of chimneys of a ware-
house situated in Trinity-lane was blown down, and crushed
the roof in ; another accident of a similar description is stated
to have occurred in Dean-street, Farringdon-market, where
the upper part of the house was carried into the street, and
what is most singular, the inmates, who were in bed, also came
with it, and did not receive any injury whatever I In Watling-
street, a stack of chimneys, belonging to the house of Mr.
Newman, engraver and printer, No. 35, was blown down on
the roof of St. Mary Aldermary Church, and has done con-
siderable damage, and likewise to the back part of Mr. Self's
premises, green-grocer, which adjoins. In the course of the
gale, the shop-window, with shutters, of the premises of Mr.
Perring, hatter, Cheapside, was forced in, and occasioned
much damage. At the West-end similar effects have taken
place. In the St. James's, Regent's, and Hyde Parks,
trees have been torn up by the roots, and carried by
the wind to a surprising distance. Covent Garden market
presented the greatest confusion ; baskets of vegetables of all
descriptions were carried up into the air.for some distance. At
St. Bartholemevv's Hospital several persons have been ad-
mitted with cut beads and extensive lacerations,from the falling
of bricks and chimney pots. The accounts brought by the
Planet, Diamond, and other Gravesend steamers, of the state
of the river, and the effects of the storm, are dreadful. It will be
severely felt by the fishermen. In the pool the damage by tiers
of vessels being driven from their moorings against other tiers is
verb great. We have heard of loss of life but not being eble
to obtain any accurate information, it is as well to refrain from
mentioning the circumstances. We fear that most awful
events occurred at sea during the raging of the hurricane.
This morning, between the hours of four and five, the in-
mates of Apothecaries' Hall were awoke from their slumbers by
Ipud and repeated c) ashings, which sounded as if the whole
building was being rased to the ground. They were imme-
diately on the alert, and on repairing to the Laboratory yard,
they were struck with astonishment at its ruinous appearance.
The whole of the chimneys, with the exception of what is
called the Hall-chimney, having been blown down by the vio-
lence of the wind. The watchman was standing in the midst
of the ruins, apparently petrified; his escape from destruction
was truly miraculous. Not less than twelve chimneys around
the building shared the same fate.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

David Burton, an extremely respectable-looking man, who
had been in the service of her Majesty's Customs for twenty
years, was indicted for an indecent assault upon Francis Clark,
one of the seamen on board a vessel called the John Bull,
upon which vessel Burton had been placed to detect smug-
gling. The evidence is totally unfit for publication.
The Jury, after a consultation of upwards of an hour and
a half, found the prisoner Guilty, and
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN sentenced him to two years' im-
sonment in the Surrey County Prison.
This was the last case of the Session, and the Court ad.
journed to Friday at ten o'clock.