The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

Roaels ; served in the ships „ee cap-
ture: riaar• large. gurebeat, off Ile d'Aix, where
the officer of the French -vessel. 'was desperately
woundecjaand three of his men killed_; and wag severely.
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b • ed by- the. eeeploaion of a , fire-vessel, a bile en-
d ourineg, under the hie& -Captain' Gardiner Henry
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ralo lay her on libard a Trench frigate in the-road .
ef Ile d'Aix. As a reward for these services, Mr. Cole,
on the 18th of July, 1810, waif promoted to the Race-
horse, 18, Captain-William Filler, to a lieutenancy in
I)Xii
the Otter %loop, Captain James Tom -- son, which vessel
had; boeoever, salted for England, re he could reach
:thalsle of France eajoin her. : e then, although on
half-pay, volunteered to St neet'a large prize-frigate, La
Bellone, found, on the capture of the latter place, dis-
masted, and without a bewsprit ; „after which service he
retanzoil to England on board the Eetreprenaate, 10,
Captain Edward Brazier, and became fireelieutenant,
17th 4uly, 18.13, of the Crocodile, Captains john
Filincife, John Richard Lumley, eel' William Elliott.
In that frigetaho was actively employed on the Channel, a
Listron, Mediterraneal, and Newlhundland etations ;
and on one occasion, ie! July, 1312, displayed much gal-
lantry in attempting, with fekilioite and 11:2 volunteers,
to cut out in open day a detiichment of four armed yes-
self, togeth& with a; coevea, lying beneath theliatteries
in•the-Bay of Pares, on the coast of France, where the
Crocodile's cutter, than under Commander Joe. Roche,
was. unfortunately sunk by a shot from. 'a natioeal brig.
Between 1815 and the date of his promotion to the
rank of commander, Bth of Auguet, 1828, Mr. Ccle
appears to have afterwards served; generally as first
lieutenant, and chiefly on ' the hoineestatien, An leoerd
the Rhin, 38; Captain Charlee Malcolm, Florida, 29',
Captains -.William. Elliettand- Charles .811etherp' "John
--Haweeytee,-Northumberland, .73, Paptairte Sir Micha 4
SeymoureJebnHarvey,andThoreaeJaines.Maling; Cam-
bridge,Bo,comin arid al by the latterofficer Prince U'-gent,, .
126, hearing theft J..; of &r.l3ertjamiii 4EIOOII e Royal:,
George and Royal, 4e,verelgOtath•te ; * also in. coral-;
wand of the Oeystal.o:* He irbtaineek,..,wieflaio t'ue Rhin,
the thanks le Captain %keen ,for,, hie ability.: in con- • . •
ducting tlia ship throngfirla, difficulVnavigitierre while , - ' - '
the het-tee. aqcer, kith
,allbut reixkeetwo of the erew ,
wasengaged' 'ob *a.. 'ctittleg. out 4peri,.iori in the small '
"iiirbour of-Co-tit ou,-neer-
.Aberen t* 3, 78 arrrf—J-1-07, 1815
—had charge, during his attriehment to,the •Northu m her- . ,
land, of the Seagull and Ilightiver tandere—cruised in • • a i e•.e' ea',
the Roys,l Sovereign, as first lieutenant to IT.R.R the • ''-a., ' '.:. e:ee
,f_ei;rd liig,lo4.4tnirapi ; and for 4ie exertions dorme a rimer-ea ,; : -,3',.
violent gale in the same yeesel, wligp conveying to Rol- e-.,' 'ei •
land the Queen. of Wurtemburg, was mentioned in the ' , `i„
despatcnes of Sir William Preemantle to George IV.—
and when ig Command of the Onyx, ran to the coast of .
Africa with important despatches and invalids from
Feel:lender-Po. From the Gth of July, 1831 a meeil 1834,
Captain Cole next held a responsible appointment in the
Coast Guard; on leaving which gqiViCelhe was pre- --- • ..
sented by the chief officers and others who had been un-
der his command with a superb silver snuff-box ae a
tolzen•kaf their respect and regard.for him. He farther: , .-.... .
i'ittlaaTir-ItiAltAirieV* 4-.lflrrttrarr'lggWiiiAlselk 7-e-AZ>r s'*':
paid off in 1837, as second eeptain of the Revenge, 78,
commanded in the Mediterranean by bisestimable friend
•
Capt. Wm. Elliott; but since his attainment of post-
rank, 1838, has been on half-pay. Captain Cole .
(who was nominated a K.ll. Ist January, 1837, and
is a magistrate for the county of Gloucester) has had the
pride, on four separate occasions, of preserving the
life of others by imminently hazarding his own—first dur-
ing his servitude in the Crocodile, when his intrepidity
in saving two oflicars and a seaman from a watery grave
• '
procured him, terough the hands of H.R.H. the late
Duke of Sussex, a first-class gold medal from the Royal
Humane Society ; secondly, on his passage to the coast
of Africa in the Onyx, when he jumped overboard after
a seaman who had fallen out of a stern-boat in the act of
being towered down ; a third time, in the river Thames,
where, in July, 1835, being at the time a passenger on , .
board the Red Rover steamer, he rescued two gentlemen,
Messrs. John Snape and Gilbert Wilson, who had been
epset in a wherry by getting under the bows of that
vessel ; and, again, in June 1836, when he plunged into
the sea after one of the gunner's crew belonging to the
Revenge, who had fallen from the main-chains. He
married, 23d October, 1818. Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of Robert Wace, Esq., of Lechlade, in the county of
Gloucester, and has issue four daughters.

THUNDER STORM IN SUSSEX.

BRIGHTON, MAY 30.
A violent storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied
with heavy rains and hail, visited the western part of
Sussex on Thursday, extending to Brighton, Lewes, and
neighbourhood. Littleharnpton, Worthing, and Shoreham
appear to have felt its effects the most severely. In the
vicinity of the former pface, a bullock was killed by the
lightning, and the electric fluid also struck the wires of
the telegraph between the Ford and Littlehampton sta-
tions, doing considerable damage, and passed into the
latter station, completely destroyed the
,telegraphic in-
strument. Fortunately no person was touching it at the
time, or the consequences might have been serious. The
rain fell in torrents ; and at Worthing the town was
almost deluged, but we believe no particular damage re•
stilted, though the thunder and lightning was terrific.
At Shoreham the storm raged most furiously, and was
nearly being attended with a fatal result. Five or six
of Mr. Bailey's workmen were engaged on the mast of a
which was in the course of erection in the yard,
when they were • all struck by the lightning, and were
all more or less injured, one most seriously. At
Brighton and Lewes the storm was sensibly felt, al-
though not to FO great an extent. Tlae rain, however,
fell in arch torrents between Lewes and Keymer, that a
portion of the railway on that line was completely inun-
date!, and the trains had to pass through water for
some distanek
Another account says :—The storm came on a little
before noon, and extended from near Hastings to P
mouth, and about 10 miles inland. The peals of thunder
were tremendous, and the lightning exceedingly vivid ;
while the rain poured down in continuous streams, over-
flowinc, the rivers, and covering the lowlands with water.
At Chailey the parsonage-house, which is built on the
low ground, !liar a stream of water, was completely
surroundo by the flood, which entered the house, and
filled the rooms on the ground flier to a height of seve-
ral feet. the inmates being obliged to betake themselves
to ibe upper rooms for shelter. At ileathfield a farm
servant, named Piper, was struck by lightning while
sitting near a window eating his dinner, and was killed
almost instantaneously. His master was sitting in the
room, and at the same moment experienced a severe
shock, but escaped from personal injury. The storm
came on so suddenly, that it is feared the damage done
to the cattle will be very great, an! the growing crops
are much injured in many places.

ACCIDENTS IN THE PARKS.

We can, on authority, contradict the rumour which
prevailed in the metropolis yesterday morning to the
effect that five fatal cases of accident had occurred
during the
progress of the fireworks, as we are in a posi-
tion to state that, as yet, only one of that unfortunate
character has come to the knowledge of the police au-
thorisks, the deceased, George Smart, while standing
in the Green Park, having sustained a severe lacerated
scalp wound, occasioned by the falling of a rocket-stick,
from the effects of which he shortly, died.
Several cases of serious, and in some cases, irrepars
able injuries have been taken to St. George's Hospital,
viz..—

Patrick Burke, smashed toe.
John Cassell, total blindness, by the falling of a rocket.
stick.
Geo. Wilding, blindness of the right eye, which it is
feared will seriously affect the left.
Thos. Morris, severe fracture of the head, from the
falling of a roeftet-stick.
Sarah Fenn, blindness of the right eye, and the left
slightly injured.
Augustus Long, run over by a private carriage in Pic.
cadilly, from which he has sustained serious injuries.
The whole of the above cases are under the immedi-
ate medical care of Dr. Duncan and Mr. Tatham.
Some serious cases of injury to the eye have also been
taken to the Charing-cross Hospital. To this hospital an
unfortunate policeman, Alfred Butler, 35 E, was con-
veyed, having, while in the discharge of his duties, been
run over by a cab, and from which he has sustained a
severe fracture of the thigh.