The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-19 00:00:00

EVENIN G EDITION.
STORM OF TUESDAY NIGHT.

Soon after the storm had abated a boat was found, bot-
tom upwards, in the river, near Greenwich, and under one
of the thwarts was a boy, named ',Halfp.ony, an apprentiem
to a waterman, named Oriffitbs, of Greenwich. He sp...
peared to have been dead several hours. ft appears that
he left Bugsby's Hole for Greenwich in the boat, which it
is supposed was overturned by a squall of wind.
Yesterday morning at one o'clock a ship's boat man
picked up by a Thames police constable named Yco--
man, in Limehouse Reach. Tile boat wa±., broken
to pieces, and her stem and keel gone. It is feared
that some persons have perished in her. A schotx er
or billy boy, called the Eliza, deeply laden willa
stone, coming up R the river, met with a brig driving up-
with her anchor over the bow, the fluke of which pricked
the schooner, and made a hole in her. Two puns on
board were immediately got to work, but she would have
inevitably gone down but for the msistance of William
Judd, a Thames police inspector, and his boat's crew, who
got the ve,sel ashore near Hague and Millar's, the en-
gineers at Wapping Wal', where s 4 was kept afloat by
means of her own pumps, and four others engaged by the
Thames police, until the tide ret eded, when the leak
was stopped, and she was afterwards removed to her pro-
per berth.

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A collision took place between the Comet, Gravesend
ateamcr, and the Friends, a fishing-smack, soon after the
commencement of the hurricane. The Comet was on her
way down the river, and in Woolvtich-reach met the
fishing smack beating up with the tide, and, front the seve-
rity of the gale, almost unmanageable. The two vessels
came in violent contact with each other; the Comet
struck the Friends a violent blow, and she iplawliatelY b°-
gan to fill. The crew ran her ashore, and when the tide
receded she was left high and dry aground, and the leak
having bee❑ stopped, the Friends was brought up to Green-
wich yesterday afternoon.
Upwards of 100 watermen's beats were stove in or broke
to pieces during the storm between London-bridge and
Greenwich, and the owners are by this unfortunate visita-
tion deprived of the means of subsistence. At midnight ft
barge laden with twenty-six tons of coals, was picked up
by the Thames police in a sinking pate, near the London-
dock buoy, and towed to WappineOld stairs.
The river presented the appearance of a rough sea for
several hours ; the spray dashed over the wharfs and ves-
sels, and for more than four hours the communication be-
tween the Middlesex and Surrey shore was almost totally
suspended below bridge. _ . . . ..

The effects of the storm wore severely felt above bridge,
and between Hungerford-market and London-bridge no
less than eighteen bargesladen with eoalsiand other carpel
were sunk. Between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock,
a sailing barge laden with a general cargo, and moored
at anchor off the Red-house, Battersea, was overturned,
and went down in five fathoms of water. The barge--
men narrowly escaped with their lives. About the same
time a sailing barge with bricks was carried
by the hurricane off Battersea church, and the
man in the cabin perished. Two coal barges, deeply
laden, belonging to Mr. Ewell, of Westminster, 'ank
near the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. A barge be-
longing to Mr. Dixon, coal laden, went adrift from the
road off the King's Arms-stairs, Lambeth, and went down
near the bridge, and all the coals were turned out of her.
A few minutes afterwards a light barge, the property
of Mr. Mallett, sank on the top of the other barge. Both
were towed into the King's Arms'.stairs yesterday, the
first by Inspector Maddox and his boat's crew, and the se-
cond by Kingsford and Charles Fraser, river constables,
who saved many lighters and barges from sinking, and
towed the others to a place of safety.
Soon after high water a barge laden with deals, pile!
eight or nine feet above the deck, was driven by the fpree
of the wind and current against the pier of the second hrch
on the north-west side of Blackfriars'-bridge, where it re-
mained fast, with the tide beating over it, and continually
washing the deals away until the tide began to flow again,
when the barge slowed round, was driven against the arch,
and capsized.

Sev'eral steamers which should have arrived, in the ordi-
nary ccurse, last evening, had not come in, while others
were ten and twelve hours behind their time. Some
picked up many dismastcd ships at sea.
This last storm has cauFed many shipwrecks and loss of
life on the coast, and, following so close upon the other,
has done extensive mischief.

CASE OF CAPTAIN REYNOLDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
British Coffee-house, Cockspur-sitieet, Nov. 18.
Six,—As some of your Correspondents have inti-
mated that fraud may be practised on the public in the
absence of information o❑ the result of the meetings at
the British Coffee-house, will you allow me, through
your columns, to state that no subscriptions have been
received, nor has any person been authorised to re-

ceive any.
The Committee appointed at the adjourned public
meeting met but once, and at that meeting resolved that
no further steps should be taken in the matter.

The original motive, viz., a strong and ardent sym-
pathy with Mr. R. A. Reynolds, which had been ex-
cited from a conviction that his high feelings of honour
and independence could not brook the tyranny and de-
gradation practised in the 11 th Hussars, after reading
his letter no longer existed.
It was admitted that the conduct of Lords Hill and
Cardigan were in no wise affected by the pliancy of their
victim, except, indeed, that a stronger proof was adduced
of the prostrate submissiveness into which the junior
officers had been successfully drilled—their conduct still
merits that universal condemnation which has been so
unequivocally expressed, but as many of the gentlemen
who have come forward to testify in one instance their
feelings upon the subject have great repugnanee to the
turmoil of general political agitation, they desire to leave
the matter to Parl ament and the influence of public
opinion, unexcited by any organised system of agitation.
It is much to be regretted that the course purved
by Mr. Reynolds had not been such as would have
allowed the country, through him, so to have declared
their indignation at the practice of the Horse Gtairda
and the conduct of his late commanding officer, as would
have enforced an abatement, if not an abandonment, of
the tyranny and aristocratic pride now exercised to such
a disgraceful extent in the British army.
I am, Sir, your's, &c.,

E. HUGGETT,
Sec. to the Committee on R. A. Reynolds' case.
[None of our Correspondents cam any imputation on
the meeting held at the British Coffee-house, because
it was distinctly stated at the time that no money vras
to be collected there for Captain Reynolds.]

We direct the attention of our readers to the Agenda
Paper of the 'Westminster and Middlesex Court of
Sewers to-morrow, Friday, at 12 o'clock, at that office,
in Greek-street, Soho-square, inserted in another co-
lumn, from which will be seen the multifarious nature
of the business of the Court, and the great importance to,.
the public interests of many of the subjects then to be?
disposed of. We shall endeavour to afford our readers an
accurate account of the meeting.
MALTA, Nov. s.—The remonstrances of the
Alexandrian merchants appears to have but little weight
with Rear- Admiral Sir John Louis ; for although there
are three disposable steam-packets in port, he persists in
detaining, not only the mails for India, but likewise those
for Alexandria and Syria, despatched from London on the
30th of September and sth of October, to the serious de-
triment (and to some, no doubt, utter ruin) of commercial
interests. The City of Dublin steamer left for Corfu
yesterday, when the Hastings, ship of the litre, arrived
from Bey rout to undergo repairs, bringing the sick from
the fleet, and such of those whose wounds admitted of
their being removed. Some of the subalterns (such as
purveyors' assistants) of our military hospitals here, have
received orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark
for Constantinople, where it is said military hospitals are
absut to be organized on the system of the British service.
Major Napier, of the 86th, lately arrived from England,
has proceeded to Syria in the Hydra. Upwards of twenty
vessels arrived here yesterday, chiefly Greeks, with oar.
goes from Alexandria, sent here for safety.
ARRIVAL OF STEAMERS.-This morning
the two Scotch steamers, which were due on Monday
last, and for the safety of which great fears were enter.
tained, arrived with their crews and cargoes in safety is
the river' but the vessels have sustained very considerable
damage, having encountered a tremendous storm, by which
their paddle wheels and machinery have been considerably
injured, which caused their dctension for so long a period.
During the morning several other steamers, andzirneroue
sailing vessels, arrived in the river Thames, IsOck had
been detained on account of the ;heavy gale on Tuesday
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DITCHLEY PARK.--Sir Frederick and Lady
Louisa
Louisa Johns' one arrived at the above mansion, on Tues-
day last, for tl e winter, and will shortly
lion receive a succea.
of visiters.
The Marquis of Northampton arrived on the
Terrace, Piccadilly, esterday afternoon,
from Castle
Ashby.

Earl and Countess Craven arrived in town, on
Monday, from the Dowager Countess Craven's seat,inifaeri
Newbury, and have since gone on a visit to Sir Wi a
Joliffe.

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Marquis of Headfort has arrived in town
Park,ceunty Cavan.
Lord Headley has arrived at his seat in Essex,
from visiting his newly acquired estates in Ireland.
Viscount Alford, M.P., arrived in town yester-
day afternoon, from Castle Ashby, Northampton, where his
Lordship has been on a visit to the Marquis of Northamton.
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The Earl of Malmesbury,Viscountess Fitzharris,
ke more re.
Lord and Lady Montague, &c., have been among the nobi.
lity who visited Bournemouth, last week.
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