The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

REMARK'

The decrease in pressure come

on Saturday afternoon extended subsequently to our other stations,
and readings yesterday were decreasing everywhere, though higher
in the north than on Saturday morning. This decrease seems to have
continued till to-day, and nearly all readings in these islands are
again below 29in. The lowest is at Nairn, and is (I'BSin, below that
at Rochefort. Temperature had increased considerably on Sunday
since which time not much change has occurred. During Saturday
hard south-wesetrly gales blew on all our coasts, being heaviest in
the S. and W. Yesterday the wind subsided in the north, where it
is still calm ; but at southern stations and in the west of France a
hard S.W. ga'e is still blowing. Rain has been very general, with
thunder and hail at some southern stations. The sky this morning's
cloudy, with rain in places, and the weather very unsettled. The
sea is rather high in the Channel. Warnings repeated.

THE GALE.

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GREAT DISASTERS IN THE WEST OF
ENGLAND.

CENTRAL PRESS, Monday Morning.
The Western Morning Dees of this morning contains
accounts of terrible disasters caused by the great gale of
yesterday morning. There was a fearful deluge of rain,
accompanied by the most appalling lightning and
thunder. The tide in Plymouth and other ports of Devon
and Cornwall was the highest known for thirty years. A
considerable portion of Plymouth - which especially through
Union-street, the long street connecting the three towns of
Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport, lies low—was com-
pletely inundated, and one of the Royal Marines was
unhappily drowned. In other towns the streets were con-
verted into deep rivers by the unparalleled rain. The
inmates bad to leave their houses in boats, and there were
some most exciting scenes owing to the narrow escapes
from drowning. The shipping in Plymouth Sound rode out
the gale in safety, thanks to the Breakwater, although at
the latter end of last week a portion of the wall
of the Great Western Docks was washed away. At
Falmouth several collisions took place among the large
fleet of merchant vessels which crowded the harbour. The
French brig Charles Emma sank ; the crew were, fortu-
nately, saved. The barque Aldivalloch, of Sunderland,
also foundered, and the crew in this instance, too, were saved.
At Penzance, noted for its tremendous seas, the scene was
terrific, the great rollers from the Channel charging up
over the sands of Mount's Bay in a manner frightfully
grand. The ship Choice, of South Shields, went
ashore on the Praa Sands at one o'clock in the
morning. The master; the second mate, and one seaman
Were drowned ; eight men were saved by the use of rocket
lines brought from Porthleven and Prussia Cove. The
lifeboat was brought from a distance of ten miles in an
hour and three quarters after the news of the wreck had been
received at the station. The boat put off again at seven
a.m, after having been out all night. The schooner
Padaran, of Abersthirsk, went down off the Start, and all
hands were lost.
The railways and telegraphs have suffered severely. Two
hundred yards of the long wooden viaduct of the West
Cornwall Railway, which skirts Mount's Bay between
Marazion and Penzance, have been washed away, and the
trains are unable to enter the town. This same viaduct
was destroyed several years ago. The South Devon
Railway has been greatly injured, and for a long
where it runs across the
distance near Dawlish,
alds at the foot of the lofty red-sandstone
cliffs, the line has been washel away, as it was
during the " Royal Charter" gale. Traffic between Exeter
and Plymouth is thus completely cut off. At Daw:ish, un-
happily, one man has been killed. The Electric and Inter-
national Telegraph which follows the lino of railway has
been either blown down by the hurricane or washed away
by the sea. The United Kingdom Telegraph line, which
is inland, is, however, still open,

The tempest still continues 111:s 11.oril.ng„ and there is
not a seaport in the two counties n' l'evou and Cornwall
which has nyt sauna 6CM:CIy.