The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

LOWESTOFT.

THE LATE GALES.—During the last few days the
Lowestoft roads have presented a highly animated
appearance, owing to several hundred vessels getting
under weigh, after seeking shelter in that safe and
conspicuous basin from the fury of the storms that
have raged with peculiar violence on the neighbouring
coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, and also, it would
seem, on the opposite continental shores, for no less
than 60 Dutch schuyts had put in for repairs at one
time, and found an asylum which no other English
harbour in these boisterous seas could have afforded.
Outside the harbour the disasters to he local and
other craft have, we regret to say, been numerous
and calamitous. During the tremendous gale on
Friday morning a heavy sea struck the herring lug-
ger Chase, of Lowestoft, off the Dudgeon Light,
making an almost complete wreck of her and drowning
the unfortunate master, Joseph Garwood, and the
mate, James Butcher, the former leaving a wife, and
the latter a wife and child, to mourn their bereave-
ment. About the same time the Fortitude lugger,
also of Lowestoft, had five men washed overboard, but
succeeded in recovering four at the reflux of the wave.
A Dutch schuyt likewise foundered with all hands,
one of whom was seen to perish by two brothers in
another vessel close to leeward, without the possi-
bility of relief being tendered. The damage done to
the fishing gear has been most extensive, but infi-
nitely less so than might have been expected, consi-
dering the exceeding violence and duration of the
hurricane. On no former occasion of a like nature
probably were the advantages of this admirable har-
bour of refuge more conspicuously apparent, perhaps
frombeing made better known of late
among
its capacitythemaritime nations of the north, owing to the
fastextending traffic opened up by the new route to
Denmark, in which several powerful steamers are now
regularly employed, with the best results to all parties
concerned. The season at Lowestoft is now at its
height, and the influx of visitors greatly exceeds all
former precedent.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—It has been blowing a perfect
hurricane for the last 48 hours, the wind being nearly
due east and the weather wet and hazy. The storm
appears to have been general. The Cork Examiner
of yesterday says :
" During last night and this morning a violent gale
has blown. The sea ran so high in Queenstown as in
many places to cover the quay, and to render it imprac-
ticable for the half-past nine steamer, which came up
from Aghada this morning, to get a landing there.
Several of the vessels in the harbour dragged their
anchors, and were driven towards Queenstown, but we
have not heard of any vessel being sent ashore, with the
exception of one or two pleasure yachts, or any serious
damage having been done. A great portion of the quay
at Monkstown was swept away by the sea, and in the
reach between Pasaago and Carrigaloe the fury of the
gale was tremendous. The wind has since considerably
abated in violence."

From the north the intelligence is of a similar
nature :

" Since Friday (says the Newry Telegraph) we have
had very severe gales from the north-east, which must
have been severe on the shipping in the Channel. The
Sea Nymph steamer, from Liverpool, due at Warrenpoint
on Saturday, did not arrive until Sunday morning, having
delayed her departure from Liverpool, One of the
Dundalk boats, which did venture out, was, we are told,
partly dismantled; she, however, made her passage
good. The Sea Nymph sailed again from Warrenpoint
Dock, with passengers, cattle, and goods, on Sunday at
midnight. Her passage must have been a rough one,
as during the whole night and all yesterday it blew hard
from the same quarter, accompanied by heavy and almost
unremitting rain. The cold is intense, and fires have
been, consequently, had recourse to much earlier than
usual. The wcrst of it is that the poor man's harvest,'
especially on the mountain sides, has not yet been ga-
thered in."

This morning the wind veered to south-west, but
there is little or no abatement of the gale, which is
blowing very fresh, accompanied with heavy showers
of rain.

The Kingstown shipping note of the Freeman's
Journal thus reports :
" September 29.—This morning, at a very early hour,
the wind veered roand to the south-west, and commenced
blowing fiercely, the bay presenting one sheet of foam,
accompanied by a mad rolling sea, the vessels to wind-
ward making for the harbour; those less fortunate made
for llowth, where I hope they arrived in safety. The
railway steamer Scotia left at the usual hour, nine, A.M.,
and, to my surprise, had a number of passengers. As
she rounded the east pier she plunged madly into the
heavy sea, and was apparently ingulfed, still onwards
she steadily went in the teeth of the gale, and in a
very short time was hull down. The Dublin Company's
mail steamer arrived in harbour when the gale was at its
height, and, from her appearance, she experienced its
full efftc*.s ; howevi r, she made a capital run. The
steamer Eblana left at 6.15 F rt. for Liverpool. The gale
at this period was evidently on the increase, the mercury
standing at this time at 29.5., the inclination still down-
wards, the bay appearing in the most disturbed state,
with a roiling and lumpy sea. The brig Etigulck Cana-
way, 109 term, Conaway master, from Whitehaven,
bound for Cardiff, with iron ore, was standing in for
harbour this morning about 11 o'clock; she struck the
barque Kingston, lying at anchor near the harbour's
mouth, carrying away her bowsprit, jib-boom, foremast,
fore and maintopmast. She was towed into harbour by
the steam•tug Ellen Fawcett, and now lies alongside the
Wolf, east pier. The barque proceeded to Dublin.
"Ralf-past 10—The pier presents a most desolate ap-