The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-29 00:00:00

Nairo and Military Intelligence.

Mr Thomas Baker, the senior inspector of machinery
in the navy, who has been, until the close of the late
war, employed in the flagship Royal Albert and as su.
perintendent of steam factory works on the Bosphorus,
has been appoint,' to her Majesty's ship Victory for
service of the fleet at Portsmouth. _ _

The Highflyer, 21, sere frigate, Captain Sbalwell,
C. 8., will leave Portsmouth, probably this day, for the
East India station, calling at the Cape of Good Hope to
land 80,090/. for colonial payments.
The steam troopship Perseverance, 2, Corn. J. M'D.
Skene, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Sa-
turaay.
The steamship Exmouth, Cspt. H. Eyre% is appointed
to leave Hamoaze for Rynaouth Sound. to-day.
The crew of the screw mortar ship Seahorse, 12, Capt.
L. G. Heath, were paid off at Plymouth on Saturday.
The Aboukir will be taken into dock at Davenport
to-morrow to be fitted as a screw-ship.
The following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :
Lieutenant L. C. 11. Robinson, to the Victory ;
M. T. Marshall, acting second-master to the Dragon ;
J. Hawkins, midshipman, to the Princess Royal ; H. P.
Garvey, midshipman, to the Shannon • B. Moore, mid-
shipman, to the Dragon ; L G. F. Bellamy, naval cadet,
to the'Conturion ' • J. T. Cooker and C. Love, maiter's•
assistants, to the Shannon.

- The 16th Lancers having been called on for volunteers
for the Military Train (formerly the Laud Transport
Corps) have giro!' about 60 men.
A. series of important experiments will be made at
Shoeburyness on Wednesday next with the monster
wrought iron gun, manufactured by the Mersey Steel
and Iron Company. Some hundreds of rounds will be
fired to ascertain the accuracy and range of the gun.
The trials are to be made in the presence of the Select
Committee of Artillery Officers ; and it is supposed that
the experiments upon floating battery plates which were
tried at Liverpool will be still further carried out.

THE DESTRUCTIVE EQUINOCTIAL

GALES.

DOVER, SUNDAY, 5 P.M.
The eqiinoetial breezes have set in during the past week
with unusual severity. Day by day they have increased,
whilst last night it blew a fearful gale of wind from S.S.E.
It blew so hard from this quarter yesterday morning,
that the steam packet Violet, although off the port,
with the English mails, at her regular time, could not cone
alongside the Admiralty pier, and was obliged to lie off
until there was sufficient water for her to enter the harbour
at 7.30, and as the wind increased in the afternoon the
Soutlffi•Eastern steam-packet, due here from Calais at 6
p.m., did not leave the French coast. It was easier to leave
the harbour than to enter it ; the packet Ondine therefore
left with the French mails, and the Royal Mail packets
Violet, for Calais, and Garland, for Ostend, took their de.
parture at the regular hour and made good passages.
During the night the gale became stronger, and the Bea
got up to a frightful height ; but this morning the aspect
of the weather was most appalling. The wind howled, and
the sea raged with the greatest fury ; the scene all along
the piers and around the port was awully grand. Gigantic
waves broke in succession right over the Admiralty piers
and works for two or three hours, but did little damage
there„; it boiled up, however, on the western side with such
strength and fury that it tore away the pavement in front
of the Lord Warden Hotel, and some idea may be formed
of its,power and range when it is stated that it dashed
volumes of water right over the building, and carried a
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cloud of sticks and stones into the dock on the other aide.

It filled up all the kitchens of the hotel, and left between
two nd three feet of water in the area all around.
V y little damage, however, was sustained by the build. I
ing b yond the effects of the flooding and the breaking of a
few anes of glass. The whole of the apace facing the west.
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yard, from the Archcliff first tunnel, and about 200 yards
from: the station. Suoh was the violence of the curling
fag sea in the corner near Shakespeare's Cliff that it
broke through the outer stout, fence, carried it away, then
throlgh the heavy and massive wooden framework tied by
iron rods across from one line of rails to the other, and from
buildings on one aisle to buildings on the other ; scooped.
out the shingle, broke down the stays ; swept off large
portions of the buildings nearest to the beach, carried away
some of the brickwork, and undermined the sheds nearer
the cliff ; and for 50 yards entirely broke down both lines
of rails.
Thee wreck from the railway, together with the planks
from the groins, were for hours dashed against and over
the Admiralty pier, and were thrown up at the corner of
the Lord Warden Hotel in pieces, some of more than a
hundredweight, more than 20 feet high, and were split in
pieces against the piers and pavement.
None of the steam-packets were expected to arrive in this
terrible gale, but about ten o'clock the Ondine, with the
royal and imperial mails from Calais, with her canvas set,
and coming along at a tremendous rate, made her appear.
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from the same quarter, and a high tide and a heavy seaare
again expected. The mail packet Queen, it is arranged
shall go to Calais to-night, and the Empress will come over
with the French mails, and so save the 2 o'clock train to
London to-morrow morning ; but if the wind continues in
the same quarter the English mails cannot be landed at
Dover before 9 o'clook to-morrow morning.
The South-Eastern Railway authorities, by most incl..
fatigable exertions, have made excellent temporary arrange-
ments for continuing the passengers' and mail accommoda-
tion with Dover, with very little personal inconvenience.

There was a yes y severe gale on Saturday morning in the
neighbourhood of Plymouth. The rain was almost like
water-spouts, and the wind fearfully strong. Some mall
vessels were drifted from their moorings in the harbour.
One pleasure yacht came on shore on the embankment
outside the works of the Plymouth and Great .Western
Docks in Millhay. The damsgo; with this exception, it
not very sextette.