The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

_EVEN). NG

of timber fur David Davis, Esq., on liar vciy
rge
hom:wards, was very fortunate, in the bands of
Providence, in saving trrenty.fire British seamen from
a watery grave, being, the crew of the ship Chirk
Castle, of Liverpool, nine of whom were, however, notwith-
standing ,very cxci tionto saye them, unfortunately drowned.
We have been favomed with extracts from Capt. Crowder's
log book, relative to the distressing circumstances, which
we lay Le.ore our re .ders Saturday, 3d October, 1340.
—At A.M., weighed anchor from the river Mersey, the
wind then light from the N E , in tow of the steamer Man-
chester : had fine weather until clear of the land. Nothing
material occurred until the morning of Sunday, the 18th
of Oct&ner. At 2 A.M , then blowing very hard, wore
ship to the S. W., found she had sprung a leak, and was
fast gaining on the pumps. The ship then lying very
low, Ives cut away the main topgallant mast arm yard;
towards evening, found the water still gaining on
the pumps, cut away the mizm-inast, the ship then
nearly on her beam ends, all hands at the pumps. Early
on the :norning of the 19th, thought prurient to heave over-
board the larboard chain cal.le, and boweranchor, in hopes
of casing the ship, but all to no avail. At 9, A.M., saw
a brig steering, to the eastward, hoisted a signal of
distress, w hen the 1-r:g rouadcd to, under cur lee, our
ship then quite unmanageable; hoisted out long-boat,
and scant four hands on board, to acquaintthe captain
of the brig the state we were in ; shOrtly after, the
boat ans dropped front the brig alongside of the ship,
when nin.: tact more jumped into her, and in getting
clear of the ship the boat swamped, four men were
drowned, and the boat lost. The jollv.boat was then
got out, and three men went towards the brig, which
had then hoisted her light, and came under our lee ;
lay bs, and eased the boat aloagside the ship, when
Captain Elder's son, and seven more
gut in, and reached
the brig in safety ; at that time there .were seven souls still
on bo;.rd the ship. At 7, A.M., again the brig dropped a
boat alongside the ship, when six men more got into the
boat, and in leaving the ship, the boat swamped, and the
chief mate, second mate, and three seamen, were drowned,
and boat lost; one seaman was saved by a rope from
the ship, by which he got on board of her again. The
Captain of the brig, not thinking it prudent to try any
wore that night, lay by until morning, trusting in God
fur better weather. At daylight, on the 201 h, more
modnrate, the brig hoisted out one of her boats (the
ship's beats all lest, as was almost all the brig's spare
lines and running rigging." Four men went in the boat
front. the brig, and tool:, from the wreck Captain Crowder
and another seamen, being the only two left on board the
wreck. Again the boat returned to the wreck, to try
for some provisions, but finding the ship sinking fast,
returned without any, and at 8, 45, A.M., the ship went
dawn, Tuesday, October, 20, 1640."—Capt. Crowder has
made a public as..nowledgement on behalf of himself and
crew, to Captain Rees, of the Triton, and his manly cress,
for their intrepid exertions in swing their lives, and for
their great kindness to them when on board the Triton.
Wu arc ar.Ty that we have not room to insert it. The
following is a list of the crew save;:—Win. Crowder,
master; Thomas Hunter, carpenter ; William James,
cook; Robert APPhearson, George Shurpler, John
Perross, Thomas Cornet, Matthew Wilson, Andrew
Anderson, John Thompson, Henry Carrold, Patrick
Whitt:, Robeit Clark, David David, seamen; Alexander
Elder., master mariner, passenger ; Alexander Elder, son
of do., do. ; Henry Moffatt, Duncan M'Gloriehtn, Joseph
Curran, apprentices ; Thomas Stells, John Clarke, Wm.
Gregory, Robert Williams, William Falconer, Michael
Doyie, scano We anticipate the pleasure with which
the friends and relatives of the survivors will peruse their
names as they appear in the preceding list ; but we must
discharge our duty, however painfully, in giving the
names also of those iinfortunate seamen who met. a
watery grave on the mournful occasion, viz. ; William
I3arss, chief mate ; Edward Barrid,ge, second do. ; Henry
George, steward ; Francis Brown, John Heart, Charles
Charles, Ilunh Donn, John Lee, John Harrington,
scarnc.n. Captain Crowder and his crew embarked yes-
terday morning, (Thursday), on board the smack Breeze,
Captain Bowen, fur Liverpool. Oliver Lloyd, Esq.,
ma hose property the I.3.eeze is, directed the Captain to
give them a 'passage free, and to provide them with every
comfort duting the voyage.
This morning, five large vessels were towed up the river
into the Pool by steamers, wit'njvaluable cargoes. fur the
Lond,,ii and St. Katherine's Docks, being totally
dis-
masted and otherwise considerably damaged by the tre-
mendous hurricane on Friday last. Oue of the veseis
lest two land the other four of their crews, by being
washed over-bow 0. A large portion of tkcir cargoes is
also considerably damaged.

Yesterday (Fr:day) S ,uthainptoa was Visited by ono
of the most terrific: gales that have occurred for many
years. Indeed, the only storm which has exceeded it
in violence, within the nieniury of the more elderly in-
habitants, was that of the 23d of November, 1524, in
which, it will he remembered Captain Lanham fell a
victim to its fury. The gale of 1836 was attended
with violence of ao ordinary char.,cter, but that of
yesterday was ia many respects worse. Although we
had had ind;.eations of the continr, storm for several
days previous, and more particularly in the preceding
high!, I*. yids not until about ten or eleven in the morn-
ing- that gave signs of its presence.

At 'that-time it began to blow hard, and increased
witY4 ungovernable fury until between two and throe,
when the gala may be said to have been at its
height. in the town itscli its effects we7e visible from
the fall of tiles, chiinney-pots, and other elevated ::,ate-
rials usual in such cases ; but as we nearod the beach,
every yard we advanced opened to us additional proofs
of its devastation. Foremost in this serious scene were
the docks. The work which it had taken time, capital,
and labour, to achieve, was in a few brief hours trans-
formed into a chaotic mass of irrupted banks and float-
ing timber. The Leviathan barrier which seemingly
bade defiance to the sturdy clement rapidly gave way
beneath its overpowering force, and the interior wos in-
undated to a great extent.
The Ma-ish and glebe lands were speedily deluged,
and the '.vinti and water combined operated with such
disastrous effect cn the exterior of the Railway Ter-
minus, that the wall on the east side was broken down
to 0,,e extent of GO or 70 feet. The approaches to the
i;tr,ilway for pedestrians were totally impassable, and
for the most part also for vehicles. The floors of the
houses, too, in the neighbourhood were in many places
covered with Water to a considerable depth.
'The Floating Bridge across the Itchen had managed
to cross the water, although with great difficulty,
during part of the day. In the afternoon two vessels
drifted, and becoming entangled in the chains of the
bridge, stopped her progress. The Portsmouth mail,
which conveys the bags to that place on their arrival
from London by the Railway, and whose route is be the
Floating Bridge, was compelled to go round lay -Nor-
tham Bridge in order to reach her destination.
Numbers of the watermen's boats and other small
craft, which are usually riding in safety but a short
distance from the wharf, were speedily turned keel
uppermost. Tne horse-boats, too, used to convey
horses, cattle, carriages, Ste., to different parts, shared
a like fate. Some of these being the principal source
of livelihood to many of the poorer watermen, we fear
the misfortune will be severely felt.

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Fortunately there were but few vessels lying along.
side the Quay and Wharf, or the damage might have
been much more seriuus. The Masflower, laden
with tiniliQr and tar, lying- just off the Sun Hotel, was
knocked about for some time ; but at length she cap-
sized, and the captain escaped with much difficulty.
It is expected she will right again, without much loss.
The " Bee," of Cowes ; the " George," of Chiches-
ter ; the " William and Henry," of Portsmouth ; and
the " Duke of Gloucester," Poole and Southampton
Packet ; wise all lying by the wharf side, and were in
hum:tient danger of being knocked to pieces. By skil-
ul management, however, one or two of them got hit o
open water, and thereby escaped ; the others were more
or less injured loy heating against the wharf Fall. The
worst affair was that of the " Nimrod," of Cowes,
laden with currants, raisins, and a small quantity of
cheese, consigned to Mr. Bass, of Shoraain. She had
been lying at some distance off, but had broken from her
moorings, and, drifting to the wall, was continually
being driven on it with a violence which seriously da-
maged her. The " Ajax," of Guernsey, was lyin; very
near her, and once drifted foul of her, owing to which
part of her stern was damaged ; but luckily she managed
to keep sufficiently clear to prevent further damage,
The Pier sustained no injury worth noticing, its
fortunate escape may be attributed in a great measure
to the circumstance of the wind having been a-head of
it. Had it been a side wind the tri:sellef would have
been very great.

The steamers prudently got out into open water,
where they remained and rode the gale harmless. Se-
veral yachts which had been laid up for the winter were
more or less damaged, some having drifted from their
moorings. A vessel uadergoing repair at Mr. Ransom's,
at Cross-house, was materially damaged.
At the West Quay, also, a vast amount of damage
was done. Boat-houses, stables, and other buildings,
shared the common fate ; and the gardens in that loca-
lity were literally swamped, scarcely a vestige of many of
them being left. Here, too, several boats, the owners of
which arc poor but industrious watermen, were driven
ashore and many of them very seriously damaged.
We have aiso heard of sheep, timber, sails, and
.na
variety of °ilea. articles having been washed on shoret
arn
our immediate neighbourhood—in fact to gar
extent, that it was impossible to partiTraizli
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On Frida•y, the 13th inst., came on the election
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of Governor of the Corporation at the Royal Exchange
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Govomor.

Nov. 1-I.—llis Grace the Duke of
V
arrived here this day, at twelve o'clock, uncle
aN—sclall)lluln°tegvttErcEl the heights, to review the troops now eta.
tioncd at Dover ; but, on account of the unfavourable state
of the weather, his Grace was unfortunately obliged to
dismiss them immediately on his arrival, to the very grea
disappointment of a l'irge assembly of fasionables. His
Grace shortly afterwards returned to Wainer Oustle.