The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-01 00:00:00

waves. Mr. Collins, chemist, of
picked up half-a-crown, and another man
half-crowns, a lad three shillings, and a fel
htng-
All these pieces of money are of ti:e reign . Irge
and were apparently, by the leng-continued _ the
waves and sands, worn to a high polish, with the exception
of one of the shillings. The sea rolled in waves so high.
that at intervals they could not see Gosport. although the
distance is only one mile. Three large trees on the plat-
form at Portsmouth, uptorn by the roots, fell down. No,
storm causing equally extensive ravages had occurred since
the same month in November, 12 years ago.
At Kensington workhouse, three high stacks of aim-
neyh were, a few minutes before one o'clock, blown iuto the
yard, providentially, although a number of the children were
playing beneath, one only was injured, and that but slightly.
About the same time, Miss Dalton, the daughter of the
landlord of the Holland Arms Tavern, Kensington, had a
narrow escape. Just as she was entering one of the attics,
a stack of chimneys belonging to the house were blown ott
the roof, which was immediately forced by the weight into
the room, crushing every article the room contained. Had
she proceeded a few steps further she must have been killed.
At Warwick House Establishment, nearly opposite, the
side window of the school room was blown into the centre
of the room. Providentially none of the young ladies who
were sitting in the room were injured. At Kensington
Gravel-pits, a high-stack of chimneys, belonging to the
Feathers public-house, was blown down, taking with it in
its descent a long sign-board, which falling under tho
weight of bricks, upon the roof of the house of Mr. God-
frey, next door, forced it completely in, down to the parlour,
and making it a ruin. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey, and their
three children, who were sitting in the back parlour, eating
their dinner, had a most providential escape. Hearing the
crash overhead, they rushed into the street, at which mo-
ment the floorings fell in. In Brook Green-lane, the roof
of a small house was blown off ; and close by, the coach-
gates, and a portion of the wall of Miss Cox's premises,
were crushed by the fall of a large chesnut-tree, which had
for years stood by the side of the footpath. •
In the Waterloo-street, Hammersmith, a largo chimney,
about forty feet high, belonging to the saw-mills in that
street was blown down with a tremendous crash. A ,school.
of 26 children, which had just broke up, was passing at the
time, but fortunately none of them were hurt. The roof
of a large slaughter-house, belonging to Mr. Day, butcher,
in the same street, was literally lifted several feet into the
air, and in falling buried in the ruins a bullock, a horse,
three sheep, and a pig, which were about an hour after-
wards dug out not materially injured. A portion of the
house of Mr. Dobson, a gardener, and a shed, attached to
the thatched houses, were blown .a considerable distance
from the premises. In the Duke of Northumberland's
Sion Park, Isleworth, a number of fine trees were torn up
by the roots.
In Surrey the effects were fully as destructive. At Car-
shalton, in the park of Mr. Taylor, the Lord of the Manor,
many fine trees, which had stood for ages, were uprooted.
A large portion of the park wall was blown down. On the
estate of Mr. Nicholls, in the same parish, the devastation
was equally great, the finest trees being destroyed, and the
enclosure round carried away.
The beautiful park of Mr. Reynolds, the rick Quaker,
also shared the same fate, most of its ancient beauties being
destroyed. Beddington Park also suffered severely. The
Croydon and other roads were rendered almost impassable
from the fragments of trees and branches, which were
strewed in all directions. _ _

Near Mitcham, we regret to state, a fatal accidet4
oc-
curred to Mr. Fisher, the postman of the vi3ago, who,
whilo engaged in delivering hisletters, was unfortunately
killed by the fall of a tree. At Carshalton Hill, a house
belonging to Mr. Henry Clowser, was completely blows
down ; and in the same neighbourhood two persons of the
name of Cooper, who had been engaged during the after-
noon collecting the fallen branches, went out for the Senn
purpose, about five o'clock, leaving a child about three years
old in the house, which on their return they found so dread-
fully burnt that it cannot survive. _

There is scarcely a mansion belonging to the nobility and
gentry at the west end of the town but which has been
more or less damaged by the violent gale which visited the
the metropolis on Tuesday. The residence of the Marquis
of Lansdowne, in Berkeley-square, has received some in-
jury. An enormous stalk of chimneys in the centre of the
mansion, when the hurricane was at the highest, came down
with a tremendous crash, and with such violence that the
heavy materials forced their way through the roof and the
first and second floors ; but happily the numerous domes-
tics did not receive any injury. Several other mansions in
Berkeley-square were considerably injured by the gale. In
Park-lane the portico of the splendid mansion occupied by
the Marquis of Londonderry, was completely severed
from the building, and the residence otherwise much injured.
In the neighbourhood of Downing-street and the public
offices a vast number of chimney pots were blown down,
but fortunately, noswithstanding the great thoroughfare,
not a single accident happened to the numerous persons
passing. A small chimney at the Foreign Office was blown
down but the materials fell between the double roof of
the Office, and consequently no injury was sustained to
the carriages and servants waiting in the street.
The Custom-house, by the uptearing of numerous iron
stanchions in its front, has sustained serious damage.

THE O'CONNELL FUND.

Bryanstone-square,Nov. 28, 1836.

MY DEAR SIR—It 111 with unfeigned pleasure I send
you a copy of the Resolutions agreed to at a public meet-
ing held at the Crown and Anchor on the Ist of June last.
The Committee appointed to carry into effect these
Resolutions have terminated their business, and I now
transmit you the sum of 8,4891. 15s. 2d., which is the
balance of the subscription in their hands, after defraying
all incidental expenses.
The Reformers of Great Britain have, by their liberal
contributions towards the object proposed, shewn their
entire approbation of the intentions of the meeting ; and
the Committee rejoice in thinking that the pecuniary pres-
sure which the Dublin Election Petition caused you to
sustain will, by this means, be materially alleviated.
The torrent of obloquy with which you have been so
long, and so furiously assailed, by the leaders, as well as
by the menials, of the Tory and Orange factions, has only
tended to raise you in the general estimation ; and to
secure to you the cordial support of the friends of liberty,
and of the advocates of Reform, in the whole United
Kingdom.

The malignity of your enemies has but stimulated the
sympathy of your friends—your enemies had devoted you
to a martyrdom of calumny and abuse ; but the people
of the three kingdoms hailed you as the champion of Ire-
land's violated rights, and the able advocate of civil and
religious liberty throughout the empire.
When the long catalogue of Ireland's wrongs and suf-
ferings shall have become matters of history, the great
achievement of Irish regeneration will be inseparably con-
fleeted with your name—contemporaries may be envious
or ungrateful—posterity will be more just.
I cannot conclude without expressing my sincere con-
dolence upon the heavy domestic affliction with whi▪
ch you
have been lately visited, and permit me to remi▪
nd you
that, embarked in the cause of a nation, you must not
yield to the distressing influence of private grief, but, nobly
struggling against those natural feelings, pursue your pa-
triotic course until its object is attained.
Believe me, yours sincerely,
( Signed ) JOSEPH
To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P., Dublin.