The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-13 00:00:00

HEAVY GALE AND DAMAGE OF VESSELS.

(From the Greenock Intelligencer of Saturday.)
We mentioned in our last that the weather had for
several days been exceedingly tempestuous. On the
morning of Thursday a change took place, and we had
a most beautiful day ; but Friday was ushered in with
heavy rain and a gale of wind from the north-east. As
the day advanced the wind increased, until about; two
o'clock, when it blew a perfect hurricane, and the
storm continued to rage with unabated violence till
about six o'clock, after which it gradually subsided.
The scene from the Custom-house quay about five
o'clock was awfully grand, the sea breaking over the
quay with great violence. The damage done to the
shipping is immense. We subjoin a list of the vessels
injured, particularising the extent of the • damage,
which we have been at much pains to ascertain exactly.
The brig Czar, of Greenock, from Quebec, which was
at anchor in the roads, dragged her anchors, and came
in contact with the brig Essequebo and the barque
Hope ; the Czar's starboard and larboard quarters
were stove in, and some of her planks on the starboard
side chafed and broken. The Essequebo had her
windlass torn away, and the copper and sheathing torn
off her side by coming in contact with the quay ; her
starboard quarter and stern were stove in by the Czar.
The spectators who assembled on the quay to render
assistance to these vessels were at times more than knee
deep in the water. Indeed, at one time several of them
were thrown down, and narrowly escaped being washed
off the quay. One of the chain cables by which the
Essequebo was fastened gave way, but not before it
had nearly torn away the pall to which it was fastened.
The ship Camden, of London, which arrived a few
weeks ago from Canton, broke from her moorings, and
drove up between the old Dry Dock and the Fish
Market ; the copper and sheathing on her starboard
side were nearly all torn off, her quarter boat was
staved, and the ship herself otherwise much damaged.
The ships Mary Sharp and Glasgow, lying alongside
the Dry Dock, were slightly injured by the Camden
coming in contact with them.
At the Mid Quay, the brig Mary Ann had her
stern stove in, and her larboard quarter gallery smashed.
The Hercules steamer, in coining into the harbour,
lost her funnel, and the bulwarks on her starboard bow
were carried away. The ship Trinidad had her star-
board quarter stove in, her garboards smashed, and the
bulwarks and stanchions on the starboard side knocked

in. A boy, named Andrew Anderson, belonging to
the Trinidad, when assisting to put some fenders be-
tween her and another ship which lay alongside, fell
down, and was crushed to death ; his legs and ribs
were broken, and his head dreadfully smashed. The
brig. Corsair had her stern injured. The brig Mary
had her quarter stove in, and the bulwarkS and stan-
chions carried away. The Ann .Grant had her stern
slightly injured by the bowsprit of the Mary.
The paling of the timber yards between the New
East Quay and Mr. Steele's building yard are all
washed away, and a lighter • driven up among the
timber, but she is not much damaged. Great injury
has been done to the fishing boats and small craft at.
the Mid Qua,y. The paling of the timber yard oppo-
site Mr. Ramsay's ropework is also demolished, and

tile embankments of stone still farther to the westward
are shattered in various places. A great part of the
wall in front of Mr. Angus's house, Bay of Quick, is
thrown down, and the whole coast bears marks of the
fury of the waves. So violent a storm has not, we be-
lieve, been witnessed for many years.

THE STORM.

(From Stewart's Despatch.)
In consequence of the uncommon heavy rains and
high winds on Thursday night and yesterday, the river
doddea became so swollen and impetuous in its course
as to overflow its banks in many places. Several
bridgos on it have been either swept away entirely or
considerably damaged ; Ball's-bridge,-particularly, one
of the most frequented outlets from this city, has been
totally destroyed by the floods. A new bridge has
been begun here, and a wooden one, recently erected,
was to remain standing for the temporary convenience
of the communication it afforded between Dublin and
Kingstown. There is no part of either now visible,
except the foundation of the abutments intended to
support the arches of the lat,b, commenced building.
Over these the mauntainous•tcrrent was dashing yes-
terday in foaming eddies, and occasionally invading
the precincts of its narrow banks, The bridge of the
railroad, a little further down, has also been injured,
and it is conjectured that this accident will prevent the
opening of the works at the time calculated on. The
bridge at Clonskca too has been destroyed, and about
50 or 60 yards of the parapet of the new Anglesey-
bridge, Donnybrook. It is, as yet, impossible to ascer-
tain even the probable amount of the damage done
either to person or property. Report speaks of a con-
siderable number of horses and cows, together with
farming implements, &c., having been lost, and it was
affirmed that the bodies of a•, woman and child had
been driven ashore near Irishtown. The road from
Beggar's-bush barracks to Ball's-bridge was entirely
covered for three or four hundred yards, and the houses
or cottages in its immediate vicinity were much incom-
moded by"the water. In two or three instances the
lawns in front of a new range of houses had to be
drained-by perforating the boundary wall to admit the
floods through. A great number of the poorer inha-
bitants in this neighbourhood with difficulty escaped
from being smothered in their beds. One old man, in
particular, was only rescued by the determined exer-
tions of a young relative, who was obliged to swim with
his pious burden through the lake like inundation
which encompassed their little dwelling during the
night. The labouiers of the railroad were engaged
busily during the day in removing the various frag-
ments and building materials which the current had
hurried down, and all the horses and carts which could
be procured were employed in drawing them to a field
off Pembroke-road. Even the fields on this side of
this road were inundated at a good distance from the
river, wherever the ground happened to be low. The
wooden bridges at Donnybrook and Rathgar were also
torn away, and the bridge at Milltown suffered consi-
derably. It was fortunate that the destruction of
Ball's-bridge had taken place after daylight, as other-
wise a good many lives might have been sacrificed.
As it was, a rumour was abroad about Artichoke-road
that sonic persons from the neighbourhood of Serpen-
tine Avenue had been lost. The greater part of the
low grounds between the railroad and Ring's-end were
one sheet of water.
Northwards of the city, particularly in the more re.
mote country parts, the injury done by the violence of
the storm was, we regret to state, to a very serious ex-
tent. No less than 11 cabins in the immediate vici-
nity of Drogheda were completely blown down, an 4
two of the inmates (females) dangerously hurt. From
the various accounts that have as yet reached us, the
farm-yards, and haggards, which along the line of
road in question are in a peculiar degree exposed, must
have been materially injured by the gales, not only in
respect to the scattering of the hay and corn, but the
exposure of the same to the rain that fell in torrents,
such as have been seldom witnessed by the oldest
persons.

INCENDIQRISM. —William Collett, the man
charged with causing the fire at Mr. Holtham's, at Cleeve
Prior, was re-examined at Evesham, on Monday, and again
remanded. It appears that he had made use of some threaten-
ing language, and, though waraed off the premises, went into
the barn the day before the fire on some pretence, while a man
was thrashing there. A few days before the fire, he purchased.
gunpowder, brimstone, and nitre, of a grocer at Bidford.
Islotwithstaming these suspicious circumstances, however, he
has accounted for his time on the evening of the fire very closely.

The rising prosperity of Preston, as a manufacturing
town, has for some time past been remarkable. Many manu-
factories on the first-rate scale have been lately built, and
more of
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munication with the sea, which, however, is now likely to beremoved by a projected railway to the Wyre, which as a natu-
ral harbour affords a safer one than many others on the same
coast : it is, besides, capable of affording accommodation to
any number of vessels of burden, however great. The com-
parative difference of port dues, and the small charges for
transit, with all its expedition and facilities, will necessarily
draw to this harbour all the traffic of Preston and neighbouring
towns, and in a short time foreign traders generally may be
calculated upon, and the steamers and coasters from the ports
north of Dublin, the Isle of Man, Glasgow, and the western
coast of Scotland. Mr. liesketh Fleetwood, the member for
Preston, deserves great credit for forwarding this under-
taking, which all who value the advancement of the internal
resources of the vicinity of Preston must highly appreciate.