The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-16 00:00:00

IVOIIIAN'S MISSION.

lfiss Susan Anthony, whose recent perrormances,at the
Philadelphia Labour Congress have attracted SO much
attention, bas been giving an account of heT aclventprestp
her sympathising colleagues of the Working Women's
Association. Unfortunately, the evening e ded in a
somewhat animated dispute between the principal ladies.
Miss Anthony said that the association'had done grand
things in the way of agitation. Everyone, she added,
must do what nature fits him or her for doing, and she
considered it her mission to keep the world in hot water;
It is satisfactory after this to find Miss Anthony declaring
that the never failed in what she undertook.

THE G LE

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Reports from all parts of the country concur in stating
that the reo^nt gale; were the severest which have been
experience, a long time, and the • damage done has
been very extensive. At Ryde between thirty and forty
boats lying off the pier were swamped, and a number of
others broke from their moorings and drifted out to
sea. In the Bristol Channel the shipping suffered
severely, and the coast on the Somersetshire side, from
Portishea I paSt the Nore to Walton Bay, for so e
miles is strewn with wreckage, masts, spars, & At
the Nore, two fine Prussian barques laden with timber
were driven ashore high on to the rocks, audit was thought
that one of them would go to pieces. The outward-bound
s'iip Rowena, from Cardiff, came into collision witha large
full-rigged ship named Her Royal Highness, and did con-
s7derable damage. In the Severn the force of the gale
was also felt severely, and the Bristol tugboat Old Forager
was completely wrecked there, and her captain (Mr.
Doulton) drowned. In the Western counties the gale was
very destructive. The steamship Danube, from Grimsby,
er:th machinery for the Black Sea, when off
the Eddystone, was struck by a tremendous
wave, which stove in he fore hatch and carried
away the binnacle and part of the wheel. The
Commodore, with culm, &c., in running for Padstow
harbour, caught on the inner part of- the Doombar, and
sank. The crew were rescued.
The reports received agree in stating that the gale was
at its greatest force on Monday, when it blew a
complete hurricane on the western and southern coasts.
At Ilfracombe the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat
Institution went out in a tremendous sea to the- assistance
of a vessel believed to be the Dart, belonging to Swansea.
At the time she was noticed by tho lifeboat .men
she was evidently sinking fast, and before the
boat left the shore she was seen to go down.
About ten men are supposed to have-been drowned. The
schooner Countess of Leicester, bound from Guernsey to
London, began to leak badly after the Sunday, and on
Monday; off Beachy.ljead, after shipping sey.eral heavy
seas, one of which washed the ship-boy overheard, the
schooner was. found. so rbe fast sinking: • This'
crew had to undergo great hardships, but were.
ultimately rescued just before the vessel went down
by the Tulip, of Sunderland, which landed them at Deal.
The brig Mary, bound from Sunderland to the Thames,
has been totally wrecked on the Maplin Sands, but all the
• crew were saved. On the Cornwall coast several ship-
wrecks with loss of life are reported.
Intelligence from Eastbourne states that about half-
past four o'clock a vessel came ashore at Langway Point.
about two miles to the east of the town, and immediately
became a total wreck, three lives being sacrificed. She
was a brigantine, named the Oneida, and belonged to
Aberystwith. Her crew consisted of the master,
Edward Morris ; the mate, David Davis ; four able-
bodied seamen, and a lad. She was bound from Hull
for Trieste. with a cargo of -railway iron, in weight
about 360 tons. The master and one able seaman were
in the forerigging when the Oneida struck, and
losing their. hold, were thrown into the sea and
drowned. Tho body of the seaman was picked up later
in the day about two miler to the- cast of the wreck at a
place called Wallsend. The lad, who was ill, and unable
to leave his berth, was also drowned, but the mate and
three Men; who clung to the rigging of the maintnast,_wero
saved, being picked up by the cuastguardsrnen on duty
near the spot.

A fatal riot is • odorted from Ireland. A London.
deny correspondent telegraphs that intelligenco has been
r caived from hia'ter,i, stating that an affray took plac3 at
the fair of 'rehermore, 11 which a man was diet.

According to the pre3ent arrangements the rem iins
of Lady ralirnslon, widow of the distinguished statesman,
will he removed from Brocket Hall, near Hatfield, Hertfoal-
shire, on Satm day next, and finaly deposited in tha family
vault in Hatfield Church. Tho funeral will be as private as
dircumstanccs will permit.

The coroner's inquest on the body of John Pietcy,
cattle jobber, who was killed in a collision between two
railway trains on the North-Eastern Railway, at the Siren-
rail station, near York, on the Ist inst., was concluded on
Tuesday. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death,
but recommended that the signal at tho station should be
placed in a better position, and expressed" regret that the
station wAs so badly orotected.