The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

711 E ArAVY.

THE A.F.M.

The large range of buildings erected by the Go-
vernmeNt a,t Brompton Barracks, Chatham, to be
used as messrooms for the officers of the Royal and
Indian Engineers, has been completed by Mr.
Stump, the contractor for military works, and will
be opened on the 26th inst. The entire suite of
rooms are of the most commodious character, and
include a handsome mess-room of lofty proportions,
together with coffee, smoking, retiring, and other
rooms for the officers. The large mess•room is a
noble apartment, and has been fitted up with ex-
quisite taste and at considerable expense. The
interior is so arranged that it can be used either as
a ball-room or banqueting-hall, its large size en-
abling as many as 250 persons to dine in it. At the
extreme end is an elevated gallery for the Royal
Engineer band. On the occasion of the opening of
the new buildings on the 26th inst. all the heads of
departments in the garrison will be entertained by
the officers at a grand banquet, to be followed by a
theatrical entertainment.

Major-General Eyre has directed Colonel Har•
ness, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engineer establish-
ment, to make known to the officers and men under
his command the gratification experienced by the
Major-General at the satisfactory appearance of the
corps on the recent occasion of the half-yearly in
spection at Chatham.

The following vessels are refitting for service,
and receiving their outfit for the steam reserve, &c.,
in Portsmouth harbour and dockyard :—Megmra,
screw troopship. Commander Henderson, at sailing
moorings in harbour ; complete and ready for ser-
vice. Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. J. Katon, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine ; refitting
alongside Pitch-house Jetty. Algiers, 91, screw,
Capt. Geo. D. O'Callaghan ; refitting alongside
sheer-jetty. Eagle, 50, training frigate, Comman-
der Strode, fitting alongside Victorious hulk. Gor-
gon, 6, paddle, Commander B. C. Pim, completing
her refit in the steam-basin ; Prince of Wales, 131,
screw; Frederick William, 91, screw; Sutlej, 51,
screw; Tribune, 32, screw; Pelican, 17, screw, and
Stromboli and Rosamond, 6, paddles—all in the
steam basin, fitting for the second-class reserve.
The Prince of Wales, in official phraseology, will
be out of the hands of the dockyard on the 31st
inst. Alongside the north wall of the yard, the
Philomel, 6, screw, Cygnet, 6, screw (sister vessels)
and two gunboats are fitting for the reserve. The
Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gunnery-
ship, is also:here, completing her repairs for further
service. In the ship basin are berthed the Volcano,
6, paddle, and the Harrier, 17, screw, both fitting
out for the reserve, the first named as a floating
steam factory. The Foxhound, 6, screw, Comman-
der Mitchell, in No. 1 dock, has been examining
copper, Kingston valves, &c., and comes out to-
day's tide. At Spithead are the Trafalgar, 91,
screw. Capt. Fanshawe, refitting as a part of the
Channel Fleet; the Tartar, 21, screw, Capt. Hayes ;
the Spiteful, 6, paddle, Commander Wilson; and
the Landrail, 5, screw, Commander Martin. The
Tartar will sail in two or three days for the Pacific.
The Spiteful and the Landrail are completing re-
pairs to sundry slight defects, and awaiting sailing
orders, expected for the West Coast of Africa.

The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, Thomas C.
Pullon master-commanding, from Woolwich, with
boilers and engine gear for the Liverpool, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday; and was placed in the north
basin af Keyham steamyard to unload. She brought
some , supernumerary artisans for the guardship
Royal Adelaide.

The artisans in Keyham steamyard are reducing
the corners of the propeller of the screw steamship
Aboukir, 91, now under repair there.

The 2(1 battalion of the 11th (North Devon)
Regimert were inspected on Southsea-Common,
Portsmouth, on Saturday. Owing to the state of
the weather the proceedings were of a very limited
character.

The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry
Broadhead, left Hamoaze en Friday under steam,
and went into Plymouth Sound, where, on Satur-
day, site received her powder.
The screw steam sloop Curlew, 9, Commander
Shaw, left Plymouth Sound on Friday, under steam,
for Rio Janeiro.

The water was yesterday admitted into the old
sh:p basin in Portsmouth dockyard on the comple-
tion of the work of lengthening Nos. 3 and 4 docks
by the stern. The Harrier, 17, screw, from No. 2,
and the Volcano, 6, paddle, .from No. 4, have been
unlocked and berthed in the basin to fit out for the
steam reserve. The resumption of the use of this
basin for the outfit of small class vessels will greatly
relieve the pressure in the steam basin and at other
parts of the dockyard.
The Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, Capt.
R. S, Hewlett, C. 8., having completed her outfit
and shipped her stores and armament in the steam
basin, has moved out and taken up her moorings off
the north part of the dockyard.
The Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander B. C. Pim,
got up steam yesterday in the steam basin at Ports-
mouth to test machinery, &c. She has received a
thorough overhaul in both hull and machinery, and
her upper deck has received new planking through-
out. She was built from designs by the late Sir
W. Symonds at Deptford in 1837, is 1,111 tons
burden, and 320-horse power.
The weather at Portsmouth during the past three
days has been very wild and unsettled, with copi-
ousfalls of rain. Yesterday the wind increased itg
force from W.S.W., and the danger flag was hoisted
from
her. Majesty's ship Victory, and the shipping
in the harbour.
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Mr. E. Penrhyn, one of the donors, in the presence
of the corps and of many ladies and gentlemen, who
had assembled to witness the proceedings.
On Sunday the 20th Surrey (Norwood) Rifle
Corps paraded at their head-quarters, the Working
Men's Institute, and were marched by their com-
manding officer, Major Oachterlony, to Upper
Norwood Church, where a sermon was preached
to a crowded congregation, on the subject of the
Volunteer Movement, by the Rev. R. M. Browne,
M,A., the honorary chaplain of the corps. The
20th Surrey, which is composed almost exclusively
of working men, including many of the persons
employed by the Crystal Palace Company, now
musters in considerable strength, and has at-
tained a highly creditable degree of skill and
steadiness in drill and musketry practice.
The 2d London (Captain-Commandant G. A.
Spottiswoode) assembled on Saturday last at the
drill-ground, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and
proceeded to Gray's-inn-square, where it was in-
spected by Major Nelson. The corps subsequently
marched down Holborn and Fetter-lane, to the
head-quarters, No. 10, Little New-street, preceded
by its own band, composed entirely of Volunteers-
The 4th Middlesex North London Rifle Volun-
teers marched out on Saturday evening, com-
manded by Lord Truro, and headed by the drums
and fifes of the Foot Guards. Notwithstanding the
unsettled state of the weather they proceeded along
Islington, Stoke Newington, Kingsland, Stamford':
hill to the Tottenham turnpike, returning by the
Seven Sisters-road, through Highbury, to head-
quarters, where his lordship, who appeared much
pleased, complimented the men on their behaviour
And soldierly performance. The 4th Middlesex now
number about 260 men, and their strength is daily
increasing.
_

The shooting for prizes offered by the Devon
County Volunteer Association, which extended over
four days of last week, closed on Saturday at
Newton Abbot. The great prize of £lOO was shot
for on Friday, and attracted considerable interest.
It was open to all Volunteers from the western
countigt—Devon, Somerset, Gloucester, Wilts, and
Dorset—or any regular Militia regiment within
these counties. There were no less than 63 com-
petitors. The range was 700 yards, five rounds ;
and 900 yards, five rounds. Colour-Sergeant Gul-
ston, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, made seven
points at 700 yards, and three at 900, yards and
was declared the winner of the prize. Next to
the winner the highest scores were made by Lieut.
J. B. Richardson, R.A. ; Sergeant-Major W. Park,
12th Regiment; Private Hounsell, of the Ist
Dorset Volunteer Rifles ; and Private Thomas,
of the City of Bristol Volunteer Rifles, each of
whom made six points. Mr. Hounsell made the
largest score at the long range, obtaining five
points out of his five rounds. A challenge
cup, worth 20 guineas (together with £5 given by
Earl Fortescue) presented by Viscount Ebrington
to the Devonshire Volunteer who made the highest
aggregate number of points in shooting in three
classes, was won by Sergeant Hook, of the 3d De.
von Volunteer Rifles, who scored 26 points and 20
hits. A prize of £lO was awarded to Ensign Mac-
donald, of the 12th Regiment. Sergeant Hern, of
the Ashburton Rifles, won a prize of eight guineas,
given by Mr. Harvey, gun and rifle maker, Exeter.
Sergeant Hook won the first prize in Class A, at
150 and 200 yards; Captain F. D. Bewes, 2d Ply-
mouth Volunteers, the second; Private N. Clarke,
Stonehouse Volunteers, the third ; and Corporal J.
S. Short, Exeter Volunteers, the fourth. In Class
B, at 400 and 600 yards, Sergeant Collard, 14th
Devon Volunteer Rifles; Private Tacker, Ist batta
lion of Devon Rifles; Corporal Heath, 13th Devon
Rifles; Private Rossiter, 14th Devon Rifles ; and
Private Algar, 2d Devon Rifles, made the highest
scores, but there were four ties, and the prizes were
awarded to Collard, Algar, and Rossiter.. There
were several other minor prizes awarded. On Fri-
day there was a grand banquet in the Globe Assem-
bly Rooms, at which the Earl of Devon presided.
Among those present were Sir S. Duckworth, Mr.
T. D. Acland, Brigade-Major Kirk (who was de-
puted to the command of the Volunteers assembled
at Newton by Major-Gen. Hutchinson, commander
of the western district), Capt. Hawley and Capt.
Richards, Royal Marines ; Rev. H. Huleatt, chap-
lain to the forces at Plymouth, &c.
A grand rifle fete of the 3d Cinque Ports Rifles is
to come off at Rye on the 29th inst., when prizes
will be offered to all Volunteers of the 4th, 10th,
26th, and 35th Regiments.
The review of the Dorsetshire Rifles will take
place on the 24th inst. The Yeomanry Cavalry, Ar-
tillery, and Rifles (about 1,100 of all ranks) will
attend. The Lord-Lieutenant (Lord Shaftesbury)
will review the force.
The Wilton (14th Wilts) Corps of Rifle-Volunteer
were inspected by Major Hume on. Friday after-
noon last in Compton-park, !t ti • 'residence of the
commanding officer, Captain Penruddocke. At
the conclusion of the ivarious movements
the inspecting officer expressed his satisfaction
4t what he had witnessed, and the members
.of the
company afterwards sat down to a_handsome colla-
tion provided by the captain.
A project is on foot for the establishment of a
volunteer artillery company at Etruria, Stafford-
shire Potteries. The scheme, which was started
about a fortnight since, has received the approval
of the inhabitants generally of this village, and as
the result of by no means a complete canvass 65-
young men enrolled themselves as members of the
proposed company. A deputation from the projec-
tors waited upon Mr. W. S. Roden, of Etruria-hall,
and solicited that gentleman to accept the captaincy,
to which after some hesitation Mr. Roden consented.
A grand review of the volunteers of North Staf-
fordshire and neighbouring towns will take place
at Leek next Monday. More than 1,000 rifle volun-
teers, besides a number of yeomanry cavalry, are
expected to be present.
An interesting ceremony, in connection with the
Queen's Cadet Rifle Corps was witnessed at Carlton
Ride on Saturday evening by a numerous assem-
blage, when prizes to the value of £2O were distri-
buted. The winners were the successful competi-
tors in various athletic games, instituted to promote
the health, strength, and enjoyment of the juveniles.
The contests took place in the Crystal Palace some
weeks since. Mrs. Cross, of New-street, Spring-
gardens, who has taken the greatest interest in the
formation of this corps, now numbering nearly 90
effective members, gave out the prizes with a short
address to each lad.

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TILE BRIGADE REQUIEIifiSPIECII 01%

DR. CULLL'A:

Something was to be done, and Dr. Cullen has
done it. It is not a time for the Catholic Church
to show herself ungrateful even for very small ser-
vices. The most awful fiasco, the most bitter and
biting satire upon the Papal Church militant, has
just passed before the eyes of the world. Arch-
bishops and Bishops whose titles are a sham have
been recruiting warriors whose courage has turned
out a hoax. At vast expense they have sent out
to the Holy Father troops of defenders who were
more like locusts than lions so long as there was no
enemy near, and more like hares than lions as soon
as an enemy appeared. They were not even an ob-
stacle to the liberating army of Italy. They had
not even the pluck to run away. Other bodies
of troops have retreated in the face of an advancing
foe when outnumbered, or have even cut their way
through their lines and concentrated their little
bands until they could form a respectable force for
further resistance. Garibaldi did this with signal
heroism when Rome became untenable, and with
still greater success in Lombardy when followed by
Uriban and his flying columns. Even the much-
contemned Neapolitans have fought a good fight
when hemmed in by two armies. But Dr. Cullen's
Irish Brigade stood still, and cowered and surren-
dered. The shameful hare-heartedness of this
brawling band is only equalled by their impudence
in boasting. Falstaff ceases to be humorous in
comparison with these braggarts, and Parolles is a
modest man beside Dr. Cullen's mercenaries. The
disgust of all Europe was patent, Spoleto was get-
ting to be a word of shame, it might become a new
watchword for the Orangemen. Something must
be done. It was a case for a miracle. Dr. Cullen
hag the intrepidity which his levies lacked. He
was equal to the occasion, and has wrought that
miracle.
The miracles recorded in the Sacred Volume are
all of a beneficent kind. The Prophets and the
Apostles—we do not dare be so profane as to cite
a nolier name—when they worked miracles re-
stored the sick to health and the dead to life.
The modern Catholic miracle is of an easier and
a less healing character. It consists only of
counting live men as corpses and in making hale
men limp with wounds. It does not make
the dead alive, but it makes those alive dead. Dr.
Cullen argues that if the Irish Brigade had been
heroes there would have been it great many dead
out of them, and there would also be a great many
wounded among them. He assumes that what ought
to be has been, and prepares to put in action all the
sensual magnificence of his Church in honour of
the great dead who never died and the heroic lame
whose skins are quite unbroken. He does not
even hesitate to pray for souls who, as far as we can
learn, have never been disembodied, and to call out
of purgatory those who are suffering no other pur-
gatory than the scorn of this world. He clothes
his church and his newspapers in mourning for
fictitious victims, and he makes a speech in which
he has the audacity to declare that the " men in
buckram" for whom he You3hes have "purpled the
fields of Italy With their blood." No metropolitan
theatre could produce a finer spectacle to do honour
to a beautifully-conceived fiction. We are told that
the Cathedral had been specially decorated with
gauze and draperies, with antependia of rich black

(hrom theJnverness Courier.)

silk, bearing a white ems ; and the altar candle-
sticks were wreathed with mourning. emblems ; that

the whole Catholic hierarchy et Ireland knelt
around ; that the sarcophagus, lit up with tapers,
was adorned with inscriptions in the Latin language,
from which " Rebeta non hone parmula" seems by
mischance to have been omitted ; that military
insignia were ostentatiously displayed on the lid.;
and that a great inscription invited the faithful of
their charity to pray for the souls of their brave
countrymen, who are discreetly left unnamed, and.
of a French General who alone is mentioned. I n
the midst of all this magnificent counterfeit of grief
Dr. Cullen rises and makes such a eulogy over
the imagined dead as an actor in a great theatre
might make over the prostrate. comedians who play
the part of dead men after a scenic battle. He
has the face to tell the assembly around him that
the men for whom they had come together to offer
their prayers and their sacrifices had " written

less Niolence, but with more rain than during the
previous gale, to the great detriment of the corn
stocks, which had been ail blown dawn."
MOIDART.-1110 heaviest gale ever remembered
here was felt on the morning of the 3d inst. During
the previous day and evening there were no indica-
tions. Though the wind was high about 11 p.m.,
yet the barometer was at 29.8, having fallen two
degrees since the previous night. After 12 at
night it gradually increased, and seems to have
been at its height between three and five o'clock in
the morning. It seemed to be from north-west,
but was not steady. Between three and six in the
morning the barometer stood at 28.8. Great
damage has been done. The gale being accom-
panied by a high tide, a number of fishing boats
have been smashed ; and reports reach us of loss of
life at sea. The natural wood and plantation have
been greatly damaged. Two•of the fine old plane
trees in the Prince's-walk, at Kinlochmoidart are
down, and others injured. The houses generally
have suffered, and the roads are blocked up by
fallen trees. We hear of similar damage in the
adjoining districts of Sunart and Ardnamurchan.
LocHAwE.—The storm of Wednesday morning
blew with hurricane fury in this quarter, doing
much damage amongst the hay ricks and unsecured
grain crops, and to the timber on the banks of the
lake. It has been often said by travellers that the
timber on the banks of Lochawe is of a larger and
heavier character than that on the sides of any of
the other lochs of Scotland; but whether that be
the case or not, the late storm has shown that no
branch, however large, and no root, however ex-
tended, has been able to withstand the force
of the late gale. On the estate of Inistrynich
alone, 500 trees have fallen to the blast,
of almost every kind of timber peculiar
to the north •, and amongst them an aged
elder, its extended boughs still full of foliage and
berry, measured close upon seven feet round the
stem; also an aged birch measuring 8 feet in cir-
cumference near the ground, whilst some of the old
larch measured, just above the ground when cut,
upwards of ten feet in circumference. These old
giants of the forest must have stood many a hard
blast for 80 or 100 years, but they had to yield at
last to the wild fury of the storm, as it raged on the
morning of the 3d inst.

in their blood a noble page in the annals of
Christian warfare which shall never be oblite-
rated." He lavished such encomiums upon
the valour of these Christian warriors that the
world must stand eager to know the names of
these Irish heroes whose fame is to be so deathless.
Here, however, we are doomed to remain unsatis-
fied. Not a Murphy, nor an O'Shaughnessy, not
even an O'Brien, can make any portion of this eulo-
gium his own, or is written in that " noble page in
the annals of Christian warfare." When he seeks
a name he can find no other than that of General
Pimodan, a Frenchman, whose fate deserves all
sympathy, and whose conduct was that of a soldier,
but whom we never heard of as having anything
to do with the Irish Brigade. " Who, ' asks Dr.
Cullen, " can describe the valorous exploits that
were performed on the side of justice and truth ?"
By "justice and truth" the speaker, of course,
meant the Pope, and echo seems to have answered,
" Who ?" Some poet or novelist might have done
it, but Dr. Cullen's miraculous gifts seem to be con-
fined to the upholstery and scene-shifting depart-
ment. He paused before the tremendous effort of
imagination required for such a description. With
a modest but rather general declamation that " the
heroic struggle was a spectacle rather worthy of
God, men, and angels," he passes on to the easier
task of recounting the deeds of Garibaldi and Vic-
toC Emmanuel, and abusing them with a good hearty
malediction worthy of the Pope himself. A scolding
priest is too trite and vulgar an exhibition to de-
serve attention, unless indeed he should happen to
be a Pope. What Dr. Cullen may choose to say of
those men of his own faith who hold the heretical
dogma that civil freedom is not incompatible with the
faith of Rome, will not much disturb our English
minds, but there is something which even to our
Protestant sensibilities is almost awful in this pro-
stitution of a high ceremonial of an ancient Church
to a political falsehood and gigantic farce.
If we had any right to speak in the name of the
scandalised Catholics of Europe, we would ask this
bold burlesquer of his Church's holiest rites to men-
tion the names of those Irishmen who " purpled
the fields of Italy with their blood," and for whose
souls' sake he has sung this requiem. Are there
hundreds of these victims—are there scores of
these heroes, can he count them by tens, can he
even name them by units, can he produce any
credible account whatever that the struggles he
talks of ever really took place ? We published
some days ago a letter written in mock heroics,
which talked of some fierce struggle in Spoleto,
and how the Irish there had declared that they were
there to die, and not to surrender. But this men-
dacious stuff could 'not deceive a child ; for every
one knows the fact to be that the Irishmen at
Spoleto did not die, and did surrender. Moreover,
we have Colonel 'Reilly's own report, in which
that officer only claims his loss to have been three
dead and sixteen hors de combat. Whether Colonel
O'Reilly followed the example of a shrewd post-
captain, who, after a naval battle in which he was
not able to take the part he could have wished, is
said to have obtained some share of the credit of
the victory by the returning his dead and sick from
natural causes as killed and wounded in the action,
we will not inquire. We will make Dr. Cullen a
present of these three dead men as actual killed
Irishmen, slain in battle. We now ask him whether
he means that this great religious ceremony was
held for the repose of these three men ? We ask
hie), moreover, whether he intended that the world
should know this, and, if so, why did he not pub-
licly proclaim it ?—whether, when he speaks of
thbse whose courage and devotedness have added
lustre to Ireland, ho means only those three name-
less men P If he had said this openly we could
have no fault to find with any amount of ceremonial
with which it might have pleased the Roman
Catholic Church to reward the devotion of three, or
even of one mercenary. But no such number as
this would satisfy the language used by Dr. Cullen,
and we shall wait to see what the Catholic world
will think of what appears to Protestant eyes as
sminething very like a profanation of holy things.

VIE GREAT STORM IN SCOTLAND,

Our local list of disasters by the storm of Oct. 3
might, unfortunately, be increased to a vast extent
if we were to chronicle all the losses in farm and
wood. We subjoin some details from correspon-
dents :

STRATIISPEY.—NearIy a half of the corn here is
still uncut, and scarcely a sheaf is in stack, so that
a great deal of the best grain is irrecoverably lost
by the wind. But the most perceptible injury is
that done to the w ods ; many thousands of trees,
i
representing thous nds of pounds in value, have
been levelled with le ground, some torn up by the
roots, and others broken and splintered half way
up, with the upper portion blown away to a great
distance. In the vicinity of Castle Grant the storm
was terrific, judging from its effects. Many of the
fine old trees which had stood the storms for hun-
dreds of years succumbed beneath the fury of the
gale. We observed limes, oaks, sycamores, elms,
and beeches huddled together in interminable con-
fusion, with large circular masses of earth attached,
in some instances 20ft. in diameter. In exposed
situations the wood was entirely blown down, stone
dykes were smashed by the falling of the trees, iron
fences and wooden palings were to be seen in all
directions. The roads about Grantown were en-
tirely blocked up ; and the Speyside coach, while
passing through a wood in the immediate vicinity,
was almost grazed by a large tree which fell across
the road close behind it. A young man in Duthie
was lifted fairly off his legs and blown over a fence,
breaking his leg in the fall. Hay stacks were over-
turned, and in some instances entirely blown away ;
14 stacks of barley in one corn yard were blown
down, and it will require a very nice discrimination
to make a proper distinction between meum and
tltlinl in some cases. Altogether the storm has
made sad havoc here, and it will be many years ere
the beautiful grounds about Castle Grant will re-
cover from its effects.

Lori Moray's estates of Petty and Darnaway
have suffered greatly from the storm of the 3d. The
Forres Gazette states that in Petty there are about
10,000 trees, larch and fir, blown down. The value
of the wood cannot of course be correctly estimated,
but at a very moderate calculation it may reach
betwixt £3,000 and £4,000. In Darnaway it is
reported that some 12,000 trees have been blown
down, chiefly oak, larch, and fir. On the green at
the front of the castle there are six large trees
down. One, the celebrated poplar—the finest spe-
cimen of this tree in the north. It measured 108
feet high, and girthed 16 feet 4 inches at the root.
The others are ash and elm, and measured from 10
to 17 feet in circumference. Sir A. Gordon Cum-
ming's fine trees at Altyre have also suffered great
damage. _

BROADFORD.—The gale of Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning last spread general terror and
dismay in the neighbourhood. The early part of
Tuesday night being fine, about 150 boats went to
sea at the Sound of Scalpa. About nine o'clock
the wind commenced to blow pretty hard, and
gradually increased in severity until all the boats
had to run for the shore, many of them leaving
their entire train of nets behind. The wind was
now so strong that the boats could do nothing but
run beforli it; two or three were swamped, the
crews being picked up by passing boats, but all the
rest got safe to land. Towards five o'clock in the
morning the wind came suddenly round to the
north, and blew with such terrific fury, that the
boats which had got safe ashore were many. of
them broken and smashed on the shore ; others,
the crews in them, broke adrift, and all that could
be done was to steer the boat to the most conve-
nient beach where escape was possible. One boat
belonging to Applecross, with three of a crew, un-
I fortunately struck on a rock in the Sound of
Scalpa, when the boat filled and went down, and
the three men were drowned. This sad accident
occurred within 12 yards of the shore, and people
looking on who could render no assistance. As far
as can be ascertained no more lives were lost in this
locality. A great many fishing vessels riding in the
Sound of Scalpa drove from their anchors, and went
ashore, some receiving considerable damage. At
Broadford Bay a smack loaded with lime went down
at:her anchors and has since become a total wreck;
crew saved. A small yacht was driven ashore at
Kyleakin and broken to pieces. Some boats received
damage there also. Indeed, the damage to boats
and vessels all along the coast is very great. The
fishermen must fee the loss of boats and nets
severely, more especially as it comes after a very
poor fishing.
GAIRLOCU.—This coast was visited this (Wed-
nesday) morning by one of the most terrific gales
experienced here for the last eighteen years. It
commenced about six o'clock, and continued to in-
crease in violence for some hours, tearing up trees
by the roots, unroofing houses, scattering the stooks
of corn far and wide, carrying away and breaking
boats, and destroying exposed property in such a
manner as a tropical hurricane only is capable of
doing. At Poolewe, on Friday night, some twenty
boats had shot their nets at the head of Lochewe,
quite close to land, and returned to their homes to
rest for some hours. Between six and seven o'clock
this morning, as they were proceeding to take up
their nets, one of the boats, with four of a crew,
capsized, and, sad to relate, three of them were
drowned—two being brothers. In another boat a
fine young lad met with a watery grave at the same
time, and within about an oar's-length of land. So
near was he to shore that he made sure:of being able
to leap from the boat safely; but, alas ! it was or-
dained otherwise. His body was found at ebb-tide
in the very part at which he had sunk. It adds
mus.h to the distress of the relatives of the crew of
the first-named boat that the same families lost a
son each in one of the holes of the Australian gold
fields some 18 months ago. Two of the missing
men were married, and have left widows and or-
phans totally unprovided for. Their names are
William (married) and Donald, sons of Robert
Urquhart; Colin Mackenzie (married), Inverasdale;
and Alexander Mackenzie, Braes, of .Inverasdale.
The event has cast a melancholy gloom over the
whole district.
ULLAPOOL.—Never in the recollection of the
oldest inhabitant has there been such a hurricane
as we had on the morning of Wednesday last, re-
sulting in the wreck of two sloops, a number of
boats, great loss of crops, uprooting trees, and in-
jury to houses. After one of the sloops wrecked
parted from her moorings, she was upset, and
floated away, keel uppermost, until one of her an-
chors grappled with the ground tackling of the
Marquis of Stafford's yacht, which rode out the
storm bravely and prevented the sloop from being
a total wreck.
STORNOWAY, Oct. 3.—We regret to mention that
this locality has been visited during last night and
this morning by a dreadful gale, resulting in a loss
of human life, and much damage to property and
the crops. Towards the end of last week we had a
few beautiful days, and a continuance of such the
high state of the barometer led us to expect, but it
fell rapidly yesterday afternoon, and by midnight
it not only blew terribly from the south-west, but
the wind was accompanied by torrents of gale. The
gale, however, did not attain its height till between
five and six a.m. to-day, when the wind changed to
the north-west, in its fury causing the most sub-
stantial of our buildings to vibrate perceptibly, to
the great discomfort of the inmates, who were
alarmed lest they should, in a moment, be buried
in the ruins of their dwellings. Chimney-cans,
slates, and glass actually seemed td• have taken
wings to themselves, and were knocking about in
showers, rendering the streets too dangerous to be
frequented ; and small rivulets had become braw-
ling and impassable rivers. The schooner Mercury,
belonging to Mr. Wm. Robertson, laden with coals,
and lying at anchor off the esplanade, parted her
cable, and appeared disposed to take a cruise on her
own account, but fortunately was not successful,
having gone ashore in the vicinity of the Arnish
Lighthouse, where she now lies, and it is feared
will become a total wreck, entailing a heavy loss on
Mr. Robertson, who had an insurance over her.
Two other boats, one a pretty large wherry, newly
repaired, and the other a handsome four-oared gig,
were swept out to sea. The corn in stooks was
scattered all over the fields, many stacks werecom-
pletely overturned, and the corn uncut suffered s_
verely. But the saddest occurrence wasthediess ee
three
a boat containing four fishermen, a father
sons, belonging to the Aird of Taig,
who c
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havingo e
leaves since,
come
little
a
had gone
out to fish in the Broad Bay before the gale com-
menced. end
piecesnce d.
of
aThey a
boat
haveresembling
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ne been n heardtheirs
a
ashore on the opposite side of
wthebap
,
doubt they have met with
were Macleods to name, and a wellte- conducted, indus-
y grave.

GLE-NELG.—The effects of the tornado is described
by a correspondent of the Daily Courant as the
most violent experienced for the last 55 years :
" The roads were strewn with large limbs torn
from fullgrown trees, chiefly ash and poplar; hun-
dreds of larches have been prostrated in the woods
on both. sides of the glen, and several fishing-boats
were whirled in the air to great distances, and of
course dashed to pieces on their fall. The tide rose
about three yards perpendicular above its due
height, and the sea in the sound which divides
Glenelg from Skye raged with extraordinary fury.
The schooner, Medora, of Plockton, which was
lying on the beach laden with timber, though se-
cured with three anchors, was driven on shore at
the head of the bay, where she sustained so much
damage that it is doubtful whether she will be
worth repairing; and the ferry-boat of the steamers
was destroyed, in spite of the most strenuous at-
tempts of the men in charge to save her. The
minister's small mission yacht, the Enigma, which
was moored in the bay, and which was at times
almost concealed from sight by the drift and spray,
rode out the gale in safety. There is reason to fear
that the tempest was not confined to this quar-
ter; for the barometer, the movements of which
usually indicate an extensive prevalence of the
same atmospherical changes, and which stood on
Tuesday evening at 30 inches, fell by midnight to
29k, and by daylight on Wednesday to 29
inches. Tidings o 1 serious losses may therefore be
anticipated among shipping ; and the numerous
boats engaged in the herring fishing cannot all
have escaped. Some of these Indeed are reported to
have been cast away and their crews drowned ;
while the loss of nets must be considerable. It has
long been observed in this quarter Oat 411 heavy
gales of wina eriginge, like this one,
at S., and
come round by the W. to N.--a course which,
according to the received theory of insular storms,
would indicate a motion of the centre of the cyclone
from S.W. to N.E. Friday morning.—lt has
blown hard during the night from the S.W., With

trious men.
entered
In Moray Firth there were 11 wrecks and 10 lives
lost. Some of these we reported last week, and
the Banffshire Journal supplied further details
all evincing the fierceness of the hurricane : A 1, 4.
--...0U I.
12 o'clock the sloop Rose, of Inverness, On
Macduff harbour when the sea was running very
high. The Rose was bound from Bo'ness to Av
with a cargo of coals, and left the former
Troup
port_"h'
Sunday morning. About 2 o'clock
5 o'clock reached Spey n
on Wedn on
an.aged to
morning, when the gale began, she Was off esday
Head, and by
this time the
the !nester, Mr. Alexander MacgrAerloray, Where
keep. his vessel until 8 o'clock,
appearance ho at once
d little smack
gale greatly increased in strengthT,haeo
resolved. to run for Mitedeff,
helm well, and she
awPal3s taken behaved admirably, obeyed the
did not once ship a sea until at the
On the mouth of Mac-
of the vessel in
dßuaffn
ffhaßrabyouz%
the 1
persons volunteered to man it -en out, and various
, alth
would have been a hazardous —011921 the service
however, took the hari. on e. The little sloop,
oldest inhal-r,.tant does lour
beautifully, and the
entering Macduff in not recollect of a vessel
Indeed the escape madea storm of equal violence.
miraculous. by those on board is some-
thingtoss the sloop so The heavy waves continued to
than an hour much that in the course of less
spars. The she
was literally broken up into
man, and a .crew, consisting of the master, one
by ropes. Aboy, had before this been taken ash.)
considerable portion of the cargo was
carted ashore in th
the tide, and _ e. afternoon on the receding of
Ilui Wag the sails and some other stores have ,

been saved, and were sold. by auction atu on Srday.
The Rose was about 25 tons burthen, and was the
property of the mast, r, Mr. Macgregor. She was
not insured. The cargo belonged to Mr. M'Kenzie,
Avcch. Considerable anxiety was felt in Macduff
for two youths who on Tuesday left that port in a
small open boat, intending to sail to Leith. It was
learned, however, on Thursday that they had put
into Fraserburgh before the storm began. About
half a dozen sailing vessels and a steamer were
visible in Spey Bay until obscured by the heavy
vapour which arose on the increase of the storm at 9
o'clock. Just about that hour, the Jean and Mary,
of Lossiemouth, Captain Sudding, drove ashore at
Nory's Scalp, a little to the east of Speymouth.
The tide was then back, though advancing, and she
grounded so far from the beach as to render it im-
possible for the men to escape to shore. They be-
took themselves to the rigging for safety, no doubt
expecting that the ship would keep together until
high water, when, being driven close to the beach,
they would get safe to land as the water receded.
As soon as the condition of the vessel was known
in Garmouth, a number of men went with all
despatch to the scene of distress, but as considerable
detention occurred crossing Spey—the severe gale
rendering it almost impossible to row a boat across
the river—the fate of the sufferers, five in number,
was sealed before they could reach them. In little
more than an hour after the vessel grounded, the
crew were all buried beneath the surf; and the hull,
masts, rigging, and provisions, scattered along the
beach, We have never seen or heard of a wreck so
completely smashed in so short a time. Those who
were first on the spot saw the sailors clinging to the
rigging and waving for aid. As they approached
nearer, tfie ship upset, and they were seen upon the
hull ; but the succeeding wave overturned her, and
the unfortunate men were seen no more. The hull
was shattered in a thousand pieces. The Jean and
Mary was the property of the master, and was
built a considerable time ago by Mr. John Duncan,
Kingston. The owner leaves a widow in Lossie-
mouth, whose anguish is greatly deepened by the
loss of her youngest son, aged about 14, who shared
his father's fate. The body of the captain was got
on Thursday, near Portgordon, and also that of one
of the men, James Ross, who belonged to port-
gordon, and leaves a wife and three children. The
mate, Alexander 'Taylor, belonging to Brander-
burgh, leaves a wife • and seven children. The re-
maining one of the five persons on board was
Thomas Robertson, from Hartlepool.

COUNTRY .MAREETS.

COLCHESTER—Ocr. 13.

A fair supply of wheat was brought into atarket to-
day, with a ready trade, and prices were at fully late
currencies. Barley in good demand, and sold at full
rates. Beans very few at market. New peas were selling
readily.
Wheat, white s4s to 68s Beans, Mazagan..4os to 42s
red 44s to 60s Middle & small 44s to 508
Barley 4os to 44s White peas 44s to 48s
Oats 26s to 28s Grey.. 40s to 44s