The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

done immense damage, particularly at Eastbourne
and Hastings and between Bexhill and St.
Leonards, where it has washed away nearly
200 yards of the London and Hastings line.
Early in the evening a heavy gale arose
from the south and south-west, continuing to
increase in power till it became a perfect hurri-
cane, while the rain fell in torrents. Most
damage has been done at Eastbourne, where
one enterprising tradesman has lost property to
the extent of £2OO. His name is Simmons, and
he is the owner of considerable property on the
Marine-parade, where several of the best houses
have been seriously injured. From Mr. Simmons
houses the inmates had to be carried out near mid-
night, some of them at the risk of their lives. The
whole of the houses, or nearly all, on the seaside
were also flooded, and some. of the trees which in
summer shade the charming walk between the
Sussex Hotel and the lower part of the town were
blown down. It is gratifying to know, however,
that although there have been many hairbreadth
escapes no one has been killed or seriously injured.
The tide was the highest known for several years,
and those who witnessed it assert that beyond all
question it " rolled mountains high." At Has-
tings, too, great damage has been done to property,
although nobody is injured. The lower part of the
town was flooded, many of the dwellings to the
extent of between two and three feet. Two vessels
lay close to the beach; strange to say that neither
of them sustained the slightest injury. The bath-
ing machines, however, were much tossed about ;
at Eastbourne some of them were carried into the
middle of the town. Between St. Leonards and
round Boxhill, as we have just said, a large por-
tion of the south coast line has been washed away,
In consequence, all the trains up and down have
been delayed about an hour each. A great number
of men have been set tio work, and the necessary
repairs are being done with all possible despatch.
In the meantime the passengers have to walk round,
and take the train which comes to relieve them.
Here, as at Hastings and Eastbourne, no one has
been injured. At Brighton, Lewes, Newhaven, and
other places on the coast more or less damage has
been done by the high winds which prevailed.

DOVER, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Last night, during a terrific gale from
the S.E4, te schooner Pilot, Captain L. Jones,
belonging to Milford, and bound from Havre to
Hamburg, with a cargo of asphalte, went ashore off
the harbour, between the Admiralty pier and the
west pier-head. The Pilot was a vessel of 55 tons
burden, and had left Havre on the preceding morn-
with a crew consisting of the captain and three sea-
men. Overtaken by the gale, she was running for
Dover harbour to obtain shelter, when the captain,
a stranger to the coast, unfortnnately mistook the
lights of the Admiralty pier and the west pier-head
for those indicating the entrance to the port, and,
under the impression that he was steering his vessel
into the mouth of the harbour, he ran her dead
upon the stone-apron which lines the shore between
the points in question, the harbour lying a little to
the eastward. The little craft broke up almost im-
mediately, and before the slightest assistance could
be rendered the lives of the captain and two of the
seamen—John Murray and Thomas Cobbin—had
paid the penalty of this error. The fourth man was
recovered from the wreck, and conveyed to the
Dover Sailors' Home, where every attention was
paid him, and, with the exception of a few bruises,
he is:unhurt. Two of the bodies of the poor fellows
who were drowned have been picked up in the bay
this morning, and have been identified as the bodies
of Murray and Cobbin, and they now await the
coroner's inquest. The captain's body has not yet
been found. After breaking up portions of the
wreck drifted into the harbour, at the mouth of
which the hull still lies. The effects of the gale are
seen all along the sea front. The asphalt pro-
menade in front of Waterlo-crescent has been en-
tirely torn up by the violence of the sea, and the
windows of some of the houses have been blown in.
Other casualties aro reported between this and
Hytho, but particulars have not yet been gathered.
A very I,eavy sea is still running.