The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-20 00:00:00

CO WES-SUNDAY.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
It has been blowing a gale at S. W. all day, but the ships
in the roadstead ride well—we have had the tide higher
than we remember for the last fifteen years ; the High-
street, from the Vine Inn to the Anchor, was under water,
to the serious annoyance of the residents in that part of
the town ; many of them on their return from Church and
Chapel found the water in their houses. The inhabitants
of Medina-terrace and Brunswick-street, were similarly
situated, and all communications between different parts
of the town cut off, except by wading through the waters.
The night tide is expected to flow higher, and we fear will
occasion considerable damage along the coast should the
gale continue. No steam packets have left the port.
THE PARADE AT WEST COWES, n former years the
favourite promenade of England's aristocracy in their
summer visits to that delightful watering-place, a great
portion of which, directly to the South of the Royal
Yacht Squadron-house, was destroyed by the N.E. gale
of the 2d of May, 1836, and has remained in unsightly
ruins ever since, our readers will be pleased to hear, is
about to be rebuilt, and with as little delay as the nature
of the work will allow, so that the admirtrs of nautical
sports, and the invalid in search of the pure sea breeze,
may enjoy themselves on this beautiful spot early in the
\ensuing summer. The difference that existed between the
Lord of the Manor of Northwood and the Commissioners
under the Act for the improvement of the town having
been satisfactorily arranged, the former claimed the parade
but declined repairing it. It is now settled that he find
the timber, stone, and other material, and alit the Com-
missionors find the labour. It is proposed also to carry
the High-street in a straight line, or nearly so, from the
Union Inn to the parade.

THE CHARTISTS IN LONDON.—On Saturday
morning a placard was posted in Brick-lane, and the neighbour-
hood of Bethnal-green, calling a meeting of Chartists for nine
in the evening, to assemble at the Trades' Hall, " for the pur-
pose of making known to the people of London the extreme
misery and destitution of the working classes." In consequence
of this announcement a large number of persons assembled in
the evening in Abbey-street ; but the landlord of the beer-shop
would not let them in, unless the resolution., with the names
of *hose who were to speak on them, were first given to
him for his approval, and the parties also pledging themselves
that all persons attending should come unarmed. This the men
calling the meeting refused to do, and the assembly was put off
until this evening.
MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—
A meeting of the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex was
held on Thursday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, for the
despatch of county business. Mr. Sergeant Adams in the
Chair. The minutes- of the last Court were read and con-
firmed. The Visiting Justices of the New Prison, Clerken-
well, repeated that during their sitting on the 30th of De-
cember the Marquis of Normanby, the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, had visited the prison, accompanied by
the Hon. F. Byng, a County Magistrate. when his Lordship
was pleased to exprsss his satisfaction at the general appearance
and cleanliness of the gaol. Mr. Tulk brought up a very long
report of the Visiting Justices of the Unwell Lunatic Asylum.
Amongst other things it set forth a variety of improvements con-
templated by the Visiting Justices, the estimated expense of
Oft& was 5,000/. The Report of the Visiting Justices of the
House of Correction stated that there were at present confined
in th,Nt gaol 749 males and 274 females ; making a total of 1,023.
mr. George Pounall was elected Surveyor for the district of
the parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George Blooms-
, bury. After disposing of some routine business, the Court ad-
joirned.
I NOVEL . OCCURRENCE.—A rather novel oc-

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currence took place on Saturday last. As a farming man
in the employ of Mr. Carnley, of Bessecar Grange. was re: 1
turning from Doncaster market, about five o'clock, with a
waggon and three horses, and whilst proceeding down Cantlev '
Church Lane, the ;ead horse took fright at something. The
man wa.s standing at the tine on the shafts. The horses leapt
over the hedge with the waggon, before he hail time to speak
to them ; and he soon found all salt in the middle of a turnip
field the man still standing on the .shafts.—Doncaster Gazette.
COACH ACCIDENT.—A dreadful accident,
which was nearly attended with loss of life, occurred on Satur-
• day evening, about eight o'clock, to a gentleman named Haiter,
iresiding at 65, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road. Mr.
I Miter had been viewing the wood pavement in Whitehall,
and, when about to cross thence to the Horse Guards, was
knocked down by the Exeter mail, which was travelling at a
rapid rate, on its way to the Southampton Railway. The horses
trampled upon him, and the off wheel of the coach aoac passed over
iboth his legs. He was picked up apparently dnd imme-
diately carried to the house of a surgeon in the neighbout hood,
who found, upon examination, that both legs were broken, and
that he had received a severe fracture of the upper jaw, and
was otherwise seriously injured. Some hopes are entertained
z of his recovery.
A box containing the skeleton of a child has
b'en found by a labourer in a wood in the pari,h of \Val-
kdrm. The box appeared to have been made out of a drawer.
Au inquest will beheld to-day (Saturday), when we hope some
i light will be thrown upon the matter,—Brighton Herald.
The pubication of the President's Message, in
the first edition of the Yorning Herald, and other journals,
on Thursday morning last, within a few hours after ifs arrival
at Liverpoo , was entirely owing to the eourtesy of the Direcl
tors of the Grand Junction Railway Company, who, aware of
the anxiety evinced for that document in I,Prkdon, readily
granted an extra engine to our agents in Liverpool, Messrs.
\-aililmer and Smith, to admit of its being forwarded so as to
overtake the regular train, which started film Liverpool an
hour an-d a quarter before. Tills was accomplished at Staf-
ford, the diAance, sixty-eight mites, being performed in one
hour and forty-five minutes. Occurrences like these afford
striking proofs of the utility of railway corrirouoipatipn.—
Morning Hera.d.