The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-21 00:00:00

Weather.

Heavy rain
Ditto Squally
Rain and Fog
I Showery
'Squally
Fog, rain, and gale
Gale*
Fair
Foggy
Ditto Showery
Bright
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
,Foggy
Ditto
Wet
IDitto •
Ditto, 0:04 #-Sht
Ditto -
Squally
Cloudy
Ditto
Ditto
,Ditto, heavy rain

after dark 7
Showers, gale at
night
Gale and rain
Ditto, Bar. 9h.10m.

a.m. 28.60.
Ditto, Bar. 9 p.m

28.77.
Squally

Len drowned.

Fluctuations of the Atmospheric Pressure during the Gale of
the 28th and 29th of November, 1838.
28th Nov. 29th Nov.
8 0 a.m. 28.70 1 0 p.m. 28.34 a.m. 1 28.4
930 23.60 230 28.35
10 0 23.51 5 0 28.44
11 0 28.38 10 30 28.39
Noon 23.34 11 0 28.37

From these you will observe, that in the gale of the
28th, the greatest depression of the mercury in twenty-
eight hours, from 8 a.m. on the 27th to noon on the
29th, did not exceed 74-hundredths of an inch, while in
the late gale it reached to one inch 15.100 in the same
space of time, while the mean temperature of the first
sixteen days of the month this year has been 2 degrees
and 0.625 hundredths above that of the corresponding
periods in 1838. The mean temperature of the first
sixteen days of November, 1838, as deduced from only
one observation, recorded daily, was 51.25 ; of the cor-
responding period in 1840, 53.3125. Our last gale
came from the south and south-west. I have heard
that a vessel of some size was seen to go down with
every soul on board, by the workmen employed on the
Breakwater, who were themselves detained there by the
state of the weather, and were utterly unable to make
any effort to save their drowning fellow-creatures, es-
pecially as it took place when the tide was at its highest.
and the gale most severe. The tide was the highest
known for at least half a century, and flooded all the
lower part of the town, making about half-way up Bil-
burr-street.y Had it not been for the protection of
the Breakwater, the mischief to the lower part of the
towe would have been incalculable.

I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant,
WILLIAM HAMILTON.

Plymouth, Nov. 16, 1840.

SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN AT

LIVERPOOL.

Although there is not in Liverpool any place of re-
fuge provided expressly for the reception of seamen who
have escaped from shipwreck, there has, for the last
eleven years, been an asylum, open day and night, sum-
mer and winter, where such persons are always most
readily received, and where hundreds and thousands of
seamen have from time to time taken refuge—we mean
the Liverpool Permanent Night Asylum, in Froema-
sop's-•row. Had the poor fellows, mentioned by the
Courier, bee-a-directed to that establishment, they would
not only have found slicker ana warmth; but, under the
circumstances described, food also ; and it is equally the
subject of surprise and regret that they should not have
been immediately directed to that place of refuge, where
they would have been received with open arms, and
taken care of until they had provided themselves with
berths on board same of our merchantmen. _

It is a matter of great surprise that the Humane So-
ciety, with the handsome funds placed at its disposal,
has not provided a place of refuge for shipwrecked sea-
men. This, one would have thought, would have been
one of their first acts. We are happy, however, to
learn, that the matter has been taken up by several in-
fluential gentlemen, and that there is a prospect of
something being done, end that immediately. With
regard to the gallant fellows who had risked their
lives to save the shipwrecked seamen, it enhances
their claim on the consideration of the Humane So-
ciety, and the public at large, to know that if they
had left their fellow•creatures to perish, and passed on
to Scotland, they would have been entitled to one-
third of the salvage.—Liverpool Mercury.