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

THE GALES.

The gale raged furiously during Monday in many parts
of the kingdom. The list of casualties and wrecks is very
numerous, and stories of great destruction are coming
from all parts. The. pressure of wind was greatest
in, the Channel, though the gale was general.
Advices from Ramsgate state that the storm had been
• productive of many disasters in the neighbourhood, one
of which was attended with fatal consequences. A boy
employed in furling a sail on board the Edith Marie
of Hull, was blown from the yardarm on to the deck and
killed. At Weymouth an exciting scene was presented
to many hundreds of people on the nplanade and Pile.
pier on Tuesday morning. The Hannah, a brigantine,
bound from Stockholm to Nantes, endeavoured to make
for the breakwater, but failed, and was fast drifting on
to the rocks to leeward, with the sea continually break.
ing over her. • The Commodore then steamed out of
the harbour, and with great difficulty got a tow-line on
board of her and towed her into the -harbour. At Port.
land, on Sunday,- the Salathiel, , of Aberystwith, a
schooner carrying corn, went on: to the breakwater and
fotlndered. The captain and a boy are supposed to
drowned. A Chatham correspondent writes :—" On
board the Great Eastern every precaution has been taken
to prevent the-vessel dragging her anchor. Duringthe height
of the gale a barge foundered near Saltpanreach, and it was
stated that two men who were on board were drowned."
Immense loss has b'een caused to the shipping lying in
the Portland roadstead. On Sunday morning, the
Salathiel, of Aberdove3-, North Wales, was wrecked in
the roadstead. The ship had been obliged to run iu fog
shelter, and the captain, John Richards, went, accom- •
panied with the mate and another hand, on shore, and
left a boy in charge of the vessel. At nine o'clock, anj,-,
again between eleven and twelve, they endeavoured to
reach the schooner, but, in consequence of the heavy sea,
they had to return. At five o'clock on Sunday morning 4
the Salathiel broke her cable, drifted on the breakwater,
and immediately foundered with the boy, in about twelve
fathoms of water.

From Padstow some accounts tell of the' most serious
shipping disasters. The smack Commodore, of Lynmouth,
with cuhn, for Plymouth, in running for the harbour,
caught on the inner part of the Doombar. On the flowing
of the tide she beat over the bar, but unshipped her
rudder and knocked away her rudder case. She began
to fill, and ran up to Gun Point; scraping the rocks, het
rudder being unmanageable. As she was beginning to settle
doWn, the crew, consisting of two men, were taken oil iu a
pilot gig. About five o'clock a message was brought to the.
chief officer of the coastguard that a vessel was brought up
below Trevose Head. The coastguards were mustered-,
- and proceeded to the spot with the rocket apparatus, and
found the ship about two miles from the shore, with her
!bast gone, and drifting ashore. During the forenoon she,
catne ashore i❑ Fox Cove, near Treuarvon House, and the
crew, seven in number, were taken off by the rocket
-apparatus. She is the Victoria, of Plymouth, Samuel
Wilton, master, from Cardiff to Cadiz, with coals.
A despatch from PIS mouth,"dated Dl onday, says :—" It
has been blowing Lard all day, chiefly from the southward
and westward.. The wind has now veered to the north.
west, and seems to have decreased. The brigantine Flora,
• 220`. tons, Captain Austin, belonging to Mr. S. Goldberg,
of. Swansea, from Arroya Negro, with tallow, and the
ship Berkshire, Captain John Jack, belonging to Messrs.
George Marshall and Sons, of London, with general cargo,
for Calcgtia, prteinto the Sound to-day. On Saturday,
-at-ortiianight, south of the Eddystone, the brigantine
sprung her foremast 'head and lost foreyard, Stc., during a
heavy gale from. the westward. Tli6 ship experienced the
same gale, and lost fore and maintopgallant masts and
lower topsails."

The following is a list of the wrecks and casaulties :
The Aden, from Cardiff to Maranham, was totally lost on
the 6th of August on Santa Anna Island ; crew saved.
The Isabelle, of Dinan, from St. Malo to Swansea, with
barley, has sunk on the Doombar, crew saved. The
Wheatsheaf, from Sidmouth to Newcastle, in ballast
has been totally wrecked near Boulogne. II':
Victoria, of London, has gone ashore on the coast of
Belgium, derelict and broken up. The St. Petersburg
(s), of Lubeck bound to Cronstadt with rails, has gone
ashore at Rodshar ; cargo discharging. The Salathiel,
schooner, driven ashore on Portland Breakwater and
sank. The Harmony, from Havre to Newcastle, in bat
last, stranded near Boulogne during a very severe gale.
The Commodore, from Sundusfort to Plymouth, with
coals, struck on the rocks in Padstow Harbour, and sank
in the sand, but would probably be got off. The Unity,
of Portsmouth, in ballast, drove ashore near Margate ;
crew saved by lifeboat. The Belle, schooner, of London.
derry, capsised and sank while at anchor in Waterford
river during the gale ; crew saved. The Eno, bound to
Sunderland, with tar, has been lost off Cross Island. The
Anna, of Whitby, bound to Rotterdam, with empty vitriol
carboys, was stranded near Southwold. The Oneida, of
Aberystwith, from Hull to Trieste, with railway iron, bar
been totally wrecked near Eastbourne. The Reliance, of
Poole, from Swansea to Fremington, with coals, has been
totally wrecked in Bideford Bay ; crew drowned. The
Oddone, of Genoa, from Cardiff to Cagliari, with coals,
stranded at Portledge Mouth, near Clonelly, and was
breaking up ; crew saved. The Ivan and the Nicolay,

bound tci P,elchora, with flour, have been lost of Cross

Island. The Mountain Eagle, from St. John's to Phila.
delphia, has gone ashore at Dyer's Island. The Victoria,
of Plymouth, from Cardiff to Cadiz, with coals was

totally wrecked west of Trevose Head ; crew saved. The
Serena, from Barletta to London, has stranded in the

Prince's Channel ; crew lauded. The Pride of the Ganges,
from Callao, drove on the Brach Sands, on Monday,
during the gale, and went to pieces ; crew saved. The
Courier du Havre, of Nantes, from Sunderland, with
coals, drove ashore on the Gth inst., on the coast of
Coqueville, in a leaky condition. The Spiridione, from
Taganrog, with wheat, has been wrecked-at.Cherbourg.
The Queen, from Rochester to Sunderland, with wheat,
has been abandoned off Lowestoft with 41 feet of water in
old ; crew saved.

It is stated that the Bishop of Exeter will re-
tain his Durham Canonry. The income of the see itself
has been the lowest of all the sees during Dr. Phillpott's
Episcopate—about £2,soo—but will be increased to £5,000
on the appointment of a now bishop. What the arrange-
ments will bo as to the retiring bishop's pension aro not
exactly known, the seo of Exeter being peculiarly circum-
stanced.

There is every reason to believe, says the Pall Mall
Gazette, tLat the "preparer" of the too-celebrated Newton-
Pascal letters has at length been discovered. A man
was arrested in Paris on Friday last on a charge of
forgery, and appearances point strongly to the con-
elusion that ho is the originator of the letters of
Pascal, of Newton, and of Galileo, the first appearance of
which created so much excitement some three years ago
in the scientific wcrld. Iu England every ono had long
been convinced of the spuriousness of these papers:
but in France, M. Chaslcs, their literary godfather,
still chmg to the belief that they were genuine, in spite of tho
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overwhelming proofs to the contrary adduced by the late
Sir David Brewster in England, and by MM. Hvurlttt!n,
Vaugbre, and Leverrier iu Prance. • -

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EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS,
For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual
General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869,
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy-
Chairman of the Company, in the Chair.
The Report which the directors have now to submit to
thN prrprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or
two particular from that laid before them in 1868.
The income of the year, it will be seen, amounts t
540,499 18s., and the total charge to £44.i,077 10s. 9d
The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of
the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial
year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15e. 9d., its present
amount.
SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, June 30, 1869.
INCOME OF THE YEAR.
£ B. d.

Dx.
Balance of account, 30th

X o. d

June, 1868
Premiums on new sssur-
itnees
Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0

371,548 12 1
Interest from investments 120,959 12 10

Profit and loss, balance of
account

492,b08 4 n

47,991 13 1

Total income

550,499 18 0

£1,44?4,052 6 6
Examined and approvpd.
THOMAS ALLEN,}
Auditory.
HENRY ROSE.
CHARGE OF THE I EAR.
X d.

Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lived

11.4.1Iroct
Additions to those under
participating policies
Policies surrendered
Re-assurances - new
Ditto old 51,009 4 1

405,561 12 1
Commission
Medical fees
Income tax 3,017 13 8
Expenses of management 16,238 910

L. d.
8,880 4 0

436,187 6 9

Total charge
Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per
balance-sheet .• 1,002,974 15 9

£1,44R,052 6 6

The total of premiums received is £371,548 12e. id., of
which suns £13,560 se. id. is for new assurances effected
in the year.

The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or
.£-1 2s. per cent. on the net amount of the company's
realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection
with this important feature of the company's affairs the
directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit
and loss Recount again exhibits a considerable' profit,
amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000.
It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount
was announced in last year's report.
Turning to the items constituting the charge of the
year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac-
tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than
usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material;
as was observed o a a previous occasion, • the proper quin-
quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and
the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex-
ceeds X 309,000 tends to confirm that statement.
The expenses of management are greater by nearly
ABOO than they were last year. They Would have been
o • terially less but for the unavoidable bast of transferring
the company's securities into the names of additional trus-
tees. 'liken as they are, however, these expenses must
be recorded as very moderate. It will.be observed that
they are only three per cent. of the total income.
BALANCE-SHEET. Irrnt 30, 1869.
LIABILITIES.
Interest duo to proprietors £6,757 17 0
Claims on decease of lives iussured, and
additions thereto unpaid 108.940 6 7
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, lee. (1867) 6,336,626 8 -2
Proprietors' fund
urplus fund

.£7,673,813 0 10
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN
HENRY ROSE, Auditors.
Cit ASSETS.
Amount invested In fixed mortgagee .61,661,699 9 2
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 13 2
Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6
Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2
Ditto ditto Temporary seen-

. -
rides 198,207 17 0
Current interest OR theaboveinviatmenta 30,934 4 6
Cash and bills 12,256 15 10
Advanced on security of the company's

policies - - 165,887 1 8
Agents' balances
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) .... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances ... 85,706 14 5

£7,675,813 0 10

The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re-
mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of
£95,422 7s. 2d. already mentioned, as is shown by the
augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus
fund.
The Direction of the Company is now constituted as
follows :

WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, Ewa., Chairman.
ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman
Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq.
Charles Chatfield. Esq. Goorge Russell, Esq.
SirJ.l3ullerFast, Bt., D.C.L. 'I homas Godfrey Sanabrooke
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
Admiral Tindal.
Cmir'e.Tho,=.lllilcombe,Esq. I Right lion. Sir John Young
Jushna Lt.ekwo,,d, Erg. I Bart.,

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