The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

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The Gales.

CHATHAM, Monday Evening.
The gale which swept over this port and neigh-
bourhood yesterday raged with scarcely any abated
fury till midnight. From about noon until three
o'clock in the afternoon the wind was unusually
powerful, the patent anemometer showing the pres-
.sure to be, as, high as 301 b. to the square foot. Two
Or three terrific gusts showed a pressure of nearly
401 b., a force which has been rarely equalled in this
country. In Ordnance-place a heavy stack of
chimneys was blown down, and falling on the ad-
joining house crushed in the upper portion. The
inmates, who had timely warning
_given them, ma-
naged to escape unhurt. At Chatham parish church
a portion of one of the windows on the south side
was blown in, and some panes of glass were broken
at Melville Naval Hospital. At sunrise this morn-
ing the barometer had risen to 28.65, and this
evening the mercury stands at 29.05, the, gale hav-
ing entirely ceased.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.
The violent gale which prevailed here yesterday
from 4 a.m. until sunset gradually abated between
sunset and midnight. The wind veered to W.N.W.,
at which point it subsided to a somewhat strong
breeze by daylight this morning, and with none of
the violence of the preceding day. During the night
the town was in darkness, the greater number of
the street lamps being destroyed. When daylight
came it was found that but few houses had escaped
damage of some kind. , Some of the fine elm trees
which grew on the town ramparts have been torn
up by the roots. One large brewery has lost its
entire roof, another has lost its tall chimney, and
the walls of gardens and other enclosures have been
breached and levelled in all directions. In New
Southsea several of the ill-constructed " villas"
have been levelled to the ground. Several persons
have been seriously injured by falling materials
or from being blown down by the wind, and two
horses were killed at Landport by a large chim-
ney falling on them. The Hamburg brig Johanna
Elizabeth, Captain Robsein, coal laden, from
Newcastle bound for Martinique, which was
known to be safely anchored among other windbound
vessels at the Motherbank on the day preceding the
gale, was on the afternoon of Sunday, when the
wind was blowing at its greatest force from W.S.W.,
observed to be drifting through Spithead to leeward,
apparently having parted her chains at the Mother-
bank. About an hour before dusk she struck on the
Woolsoners, a dangerous shingle shoal lying between
Hayling and Portsea islands, and directly off Fort
Cumberland. Her foremast was seen to go by the
board immediately after she struck, and the crew
then took shelter in the main rigging, the sea break-
ing heavily over the brig's deck. The mainmastsoon
followed the foremast, and with it the crew of the
vessel were all lost. They appeared to have tried
their boats, as the latter were seen under the brig's
bows soon after she struck on the shoal, but if so
they must have given up the idea as hopeless. As for
rendering assistance from the shore that was impos-
sible, as the lifeboat station is to leeward of the
shoal, and a high surf was breaking on the beach.
One body, that of a seaman, with the vessel's keel,
her boats, and other portions of the wreck were
washed ashore to-day under Fort Cumberland. The
brig which drove ashore under Haslar Hospital dur-
ing the gale proved to_be the French brig Banque-
reau, Capt. Sicillac, from Bayonne, bound to Glo-
cester. Her captain is lying in prison in the Isle of
Wight for refusing to pay a claim of pilotage made
upon him. In his absence and during the gale the
vessel parted her chains and drove ashore at the
point mentioned. Some Portsmouth watermen
dragged a. boat over the Haslar peninsula, and,
launching her at no great distance from the brig,
succeeded in taking off the whole of the crew, leav-
ing at the same time two of their number on board.
At high water the same men got the brig off and
took her into Portsmouth harbour.
GREAT YARMOUTH, Monday.
Last night during the gale the brig Pero, of Whit-
burn, Beldington, master, bound from London to
Hartlepool, in ballast, came ashore off this place.
The surf lifeboat belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution was at once launched, and for-
tunately saved the shipwrecked crew. The same
lifeboat afterwards put off and rescued the crew of
the bark Reliance, of
Whitby, bound from Middles-
borough for Dieppe
with a cargo of coals. She had
lost three anchors, and had driven foul of the
schooner Sarah Ann, of Jersey. While the small
lifeboat was thus engaged in saving the crew of the
Reliance, the large lifeboat of the institution went
off to the Sarah Ann, and fortunately succeeded in
bringing her and her crew safely into harbour.

POOLE, DORSET, Monday.
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Royal Albert, fearing that
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about 10 o'clock steamed out of the harbour. She
passed near a brigantine of 130 or 140 tons, name
unknown, and which had been abandoned by the
pilot-boat No. 11 in
afternoon, and suc-
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The men having been brought to Poole, the steamer
again went out, and took in tow the Manley Wood
lifeboat. It appeared that the lifeboat had behaved
well during the gale, but in consequence of the ex-
treme violence of the wind the crew were not able
to make any headway. The lifeboat crew had been
in the boat from 11 o'clock till half-past 6, when
they found there was apparently no further demand
for their services, and she was taken to the lifeboat
station at Northaven. In the course of the evening,
however, a messenger arrived from Christchurch,
about 10 miles from Poole, and stated that a vessel
was driving ashore there. Horses were obtained,
and the boat was conveyed along the road from
Northaven to Christchurch, a distance of about 15
or 16 miles, the crew being conveyed to the latter
place from Poole in an omnibus. Before the arrival
of the boat, however, the vessel had become a wreck,
and part of the crew had perished. It appeared the
vessel• was the Eliza, of Tynemouth, laden with
coal, Beck, master, and owned by Mr. C. P.
Ward, Devon. While in her distressed condition
at the mouth of Christchurch harbour, Mr.
Henry Cutler, fishmonger, of Bournemouth,
took a boat and very courageously went to her as-
sistance about half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
He succeeded, after great difficulty, in reaching her.
He found the crew, seven in number, huddled to-
gether. On taking them ashore three of the men
were found to have perished from exposure. The
captain and the remaining three men are alive. The
brigantine Elizabeth, of Tynemouth, 119 tons re-
gister, laden with coals, at 7 a.m. yesterday was rid-
ing in Studland Bay with one anchor. As soon as
she began to drive the second anchor was let go,

but she still continued to drive, and about 8 30 she
struck on the east side of the bar. She shortly after-
wards began to break up, and the master and crew
left in the boat, which capsized, and four of the six
men who formed the crew were drowned. One re-
mained clinging to the boat until taken off by some
Coastguardsmen at the Branksea station, and the
other succeeded in swimming ashore. On making
inquiries at Bournemouth, about five miles from
Poole, we learnt that between 8 and 10 o'clock this
morning two dead bodies were picked up there. One
was taken to Branksome Towers, the residence of
Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., and the other to Boscome,
the house of Sir Percy Shelley. A couple of boats
were also picked up, one of which bore the name of
the Pallas, of Weymouth. A party of fishermen
and others were on the Sandbank, at the entrance
of Poole harbour, during the height of the gale yes-
terday morning, and they report having seen two
vessels go down a short distance from the shore.
Apparently all hands were lost. No less than from
15 to 18 sail were observed at one time in.Studland
Bay, the fate of which is entirely unknown, except-
ing the Elizabeth and Eliza. Such a gale has not been
experienced on this portion of the coast for the past
30 years. _ _ _

TRURO, Monday.

Cornwall was yesterday forenoon visited by
another gale quite equal in violence to any that
has yet preceded it this winter. Rain fell without
intermission till 4 p.m., at which time it was, if
possible, fiercer than ever. Several houses in
Truro were partially unroofed, and upwards of 20
fine old tiees-bTo.wn &ma in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the town. Telegrams reported the
gale to be raging with great severity at Falmouth,
Penzance, and St. Ives.

Mr. Peabody's Second Gift of LlOO,OOO

foi the Poor of London.

The following is the letter to the trustees for adminis-
tering Mr. Peabody's former gift of £150,000 for the bene-
fit of the poor of London, in which that great philanthro-
pist announces his intention of adding another £lOO,OOO
to it :

Gentlemen, —When I made a donation of £150,000 for
the benefit of the poor of London, in March, 1862, it was
my intention, if my life was spared until my retirement
from business, and Providence continued me in prosperity,
to place in your hands, as trustees of the charity, a further
gift for the same object. That time has now arrived ; but
before entering upon the subject of the second donation
allow me to say a few words relative to the course you have
pursued with regard to the first. Your duties and respon-
sibilities have been great, and the performance of the work
undertaken, you must have been aware, would occasionally
and inconveniently tax your valuable time ; but from high
motives of benevolence and duty, you cheerfully accepted
the trust, and I cannot but express my grateful thanks for
your constant attendance at the meetings of the board, and
my gratification at the groat success that has attended your
labours.

With regard to this, my second gift, it is my desire that
in the appointment of future trustees the same rules may
be continued as adopted for the first ; and that the United
States Minister at the Court of St. James's for the time
being shall always be one of them.

I now propose that, as soon as a deed can be prepared by
your solicitor to fully and legally meet the views and direc-
tions which I shall state herein, to transfer into your names
5,000 fully paid-up shares of stock in the Hudson's Bay
Company, of £2O each, amounting to £lOO,OOO, and repre-
senting one-twentieth part of that vast territory. It is my
desire that all dividends, as they fall due and are collected,
shall be at once invested in shares of the company until
the market value of the capital and invested accrued divi-
dends reaches the sum of £120,000, which, it is my impres-
sion, may be within two or three years ; but should I be
mistaken in this anticipation, and should the market value
of the entire shares, including those acquired by the re-
investment of dividends, be loss than £lOO,OOO, at the ex-
piration of two years from this date, I will at that time
either make up the deficiency or take the shares, paying for
them £lOO,OOO in cash, as the trustees may think best for
the interest of the fund; and in the event of my death be-
fore that time, my executors will be duly authorised and
directed to fulSi this engagement.
Should the shares be taken by No for £lOO,OOO, or sold to
others at the limit stated above, I desire that the proceeds
shall be invested in safe securities, including interest ac-
cruing on the same up to the Ist of July, 1869, when you ,
or your successors will consider all restrictions regarding
sales at an end.

The delay thus caused in appropriating this gift to the
charity will, I think, act beneficially by enabling you, first,
to expend the X 76,000 now remaining on hand of the former
donation, thereby testing by further experience the wisdom
of the course you have hitherto pursued. •Taking the joint
capital of the two gifts at a minimum of £250,000, it will
form a fund, the operation of which is intended to be pro-
gressive in its usefulness as applied to the relief of the poor
of London (so correctly defined in your recent reportiwith-
out exclusion in consequence of religious belief or political
bias. It will therefore act more powerful in future genera-
tions than in the present ; it is intended to endure for ever.
A century in the history of London is but a brief period
comparatively within the life of man, and should your suc-
cessors continue the management of the charity as you have
begun it, it is my ardent hope and trust that within that
period the annual receipts from rents for buildings of this
improved class may present such a return that there may
not be a poor working man of good character in London
who could not obtain comfortable and healthy lodgings for
himself and his family at a cost within his means.
As your course with regard to the former gift of £150,000
is already defined in your trust deed, I can only express my
own views and wishes regarding the appropriation of the
principal and income of this second donation, and leave to
' yourselves and your successors to manage it accordingly.
You are fully authorised to use any portion of the fund
in building lodging-houses for the labouring poor as ex-
pressed in my former letter; but as before many years it is
to be apprehended that desirable sites for such buildings
may be difficult to obtain at moderate prices within the
limits of the metropolis ; in that event, it is my desire that
my trustees for the time being may seek out and secure at
such rates as the state of the fund may warrant, such free-
hold sites within ten miles of the present Royal Exchange,
as may appear eligible, both on account of salubrity of posi-
tion and proximity to the great centres of labour and rail-
road accommodation, due regard being had to the probable
burden of taxation. It may also be desirable to obtain
from railroad companies the most economical arrangements
procurable for the conveyance of working people at stated
hours to and from London at such moderate fares as wil
come within their means. 1
Comfortable and convenient houses are to be erected
upon those sites for the exclusive accommodation of the
honest and industrious poor of London, under such regu-
lations and such toms and conditions as my trustees may
direct, subject only to the guiding principles laid down in
respect to my former donation.
As dwellings in such sites may in some instances be re-
mote from schools and other facilities for instruction, the
trustees shall be at liberty in such cases, should they con-
sider it needful, to set apart space, adjacent to the building
and suitable for schoolhouses for the children of the fami-
lies holding tenements. But such schools must be so orga-
nised as carefully to exclude sectarian influences, and so
conducted as to avoid denominational jealousy. With this
view it is my desire that the course of education shall be
exclusively of an elementary and literary character.
I would also suggest to my trustees that, for the mental
improvement of the inmates, the schoolrooms might, if
they think desirable, be open some hours during the even-
ing ; and that books, periodicals, and newspapers be pro-
vided for those who chose to attend, and that at certain
seasons popular and scientific lectures might be introduced
at a charge, if any, merely sufficient to defray necessary
expenses.

As some of these dwellings will probably be at inconve-
nient distances from good markets, I would also suggest to
my trustees to consider the propriety, in localities where it
may seem to be required, of providing within the build-
ings, or near to them, apartments in which the tenants
may organise co-operative stores for supplying themselves
with coal and other necessary articles for their own con-
sumption, subject to such regulations as, in the judgment
of my trustees, may be needful.
I also beg to suggest and recommend to you and to your
successors in the management of this trust, that in the
month of February, in every year after 1868, a report of the
progress in buildings (if any should b© commenced), with
an account of receipts and expenditures, with the various
items attending the management of the fund, be prepared
and published in the London newspapers. I would add my
wish that in like manner, as trustees of my former gift,
you should continue once in every year to lay a similar
report before the public. •
It having occurred to me that for good reasons my trus-
tees may wish, at a comparatively early period, to change
some part or parts of the deed which is to be prepared
for the management of this fund, I therefore hereby autho-
rise them to do so at any time during my life conformably
to any resolution or resolutions which may be unanimously
passed by their board and approved by me.
In conclusion, looking to the 'object of this donation and
to the large development in coming years of an arrange-
' runt designed to promote the physical, moral, and social