The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-08 00:00:00

Gales in the North.

Sudden and violent gales visited the greater part
of Yorkshire on Sunday evening, and proved but
the prelude of very unsettled and tempestuous wea-
ther, by which the North Sea was swept. Through-
out Monday night and Tuesday the wind continued
to blow at intervals in extremely violent gusts.

Several casualties are reported, the most serious of
which was the destruction of the bell turret of St.
Luke's Church at Hull. This fell with a terrific
crash about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and damaged the
roof of the church considerably. The turret or bell
tower was elevated some 10 or 12 feet above the
ridge of the roof, and was supported on two project-
ing piers built in the west wall. The turret, be-
sides being ptdrced fof the felt,, was surmounted by
a cast-iron funnel, and also supported the lightning
conductor. The wind appears to have blown im-
mediately upon this gable, which was a by no means
substantial adjunct to the church, and totally unpro-
tected from the gale. The turret fell over upon the
ridge of the church, and the stonework and brick
passed over the roof on each side. The slates andlaths
on the north side of the nave, and the north aisle
towards the west end of the church, were consider-
ably injured, while the corresponding portion of
the roof on the south side was much more seriously
damaged; rafters as well in some places being
broken. Portions of the rubbish penetrated the
roof and fell within the church, but little injury was
done to the internal fittings. Some other accidents
are reported, and at Withernsea the wind caused
serious damage. It also blew out a portion of the
windows of the Wesleyan Chapel during the ser-
vice, thus extinguishing the lights and causing great
alarm. The lightning which accompanied this storm
was observed to burst out in bright horizontal flashes,
beginning at the west or south-west, and gradually
wearing round to the east. The flashes were almost
continuous, sometimes two or three successively in
the course of a minute.

A gale, exceeding the fury of any of the past
ones for some months, has been raging at Hartle-
pool with unabated violence. The wind proceeded
from a westwardly direction, and the pressure, as
indicated at the lighthouse, was equal to the force
of hurricane—at times the gusts being so violent
and sudden that foot passengers have been actually
blown down in the street. To perambulate about
the town was attended with much danger, as tiles,
slates, and bricks were being scattered about on all
sides, and several windows were blown in and
broken. The ferry-boats were very difficult to be
got across the channel, and at Middleton the road
was literally impassable, and those who managed to
cross between the two towns experienced very much
difficulty and discomfiture by the pelting showers of
sand that were being swept in clouds against their
faces. The gale might be said to be at its height
at an early hour on Tuesday morning, and scarcely
an inhabitant in the town could slumber, as
the houses fairly seemed to be rocking to and
fro, and the howling of the furious element
terrified the people. It was about this time

that a terrible smash alarmed the neighbourhood
wh.ro an accident of a most
alarming nature took place. It appears that ad-
joining a dissenting chapel are two houses, back
and front, occupied by Mr. William Burden, pain-
ter, and Mrs. Barker. The chapel has been erected
since this property was built, and as it is considerably
higher, the chimneys smoked, and to remedy
this several feet of brickwork were added to the
stack of chimneys ; but another addition was found
necessary before the smoking was cured. Conse-
quently, the masonry connected with the chimneys
of this property was very massive and high, and the
gale brought down the whole of the chimneys
on to the centre of the roof with a frightful
crash and broke away the whole of the roof of three
'lmps. In the front house, in one room upstairs,
were four of Mr. Burden's children sleeping, two in
a small wooden crib and the other two in a Tudor
bedstead. The parents were sleeping in the room
below, and the awful consternation that seized them
when the terrible fall above them occurred can be
better imagined than described. Mr. Burden
jumped out of bed, but he was unable to get up the
staircase, as it was blocked up with the fallen rub-
bish. The mother opened the window and screamed
out for assistance, and the neighbours were soon on
the spot, having already got out of bed on hearing
the downfall. After some of the rubbish had been
cleared away the father managed to scramble up
stairs, and another obstruction was here met with,
the bed-room door being completely blocked up,
but amid the howling of winds he could hear the
cries of his children who were smothered up in their
beds, which was a source of relief to him, as he con-
cluded they must have all perished. There was no
possibility of getting the door open, and with as-
sistance he got over the top of the staircase wall,
which was quite open, and dropped down into the
room. He made himself satisfied that his children
were not seriously injured, although their cries
threw him into the gre.Aest state of frenzied excite-
ment, and he saw it was a work of great difficulty
to rescue them from the perilous position they were
in. Therefore he cleared the doorway in order to
obtain assistance, and on the neighbours getting
into the room they all set to work to clear the rub-
bish away to rescue the poor children. The gale
was raging in all its fury, and the loose masonry
and the shattered timbers, which were scattered
around and piled over the bedsteads, were being
tossed about, threatening serious injury to those
engaged in the work of rescue. The crib
was completely covered over with timber, and had
thus protected the two children from the falling
bricks, &c., although they were slightly injured.
They had to be pulled through a small hole, as the
timbers could not be moved, and it was a consider-
able time before the place was cleared to get at
them. The two in the Tudor bedstead, which stood
in the centre of the room, were most miraculously
saved, the fallen timbers having crossed over the.
bed, and the slates and bricks mostly were carried
away at each side of them, but a number had fallen
upon them, and up to their waists they were buried
in the rubbish, and consequently sorely bruised.
After they were rescued they were taken into a
neighbour's house and properly cared for, and the
parents were in a state of distraction. The furni-
ture was nearly all destroyed, and in another room
on the same landing the furniture shared the same
fate. The adjoining house also suffered the same
damage, but fortunately Mrs. Baker was sleeping
at a friend's house opposite, and thus escaped what
might have proved a latal result, as her bedstead
was broken down with the fall. Two lodgers were
sleeping in another room but escaped. One of the
watch houses on the Staithes in connection with the
coal drops has been blown down, and various minor
casualties are reported. The shipping has been
pretty fortunate, not an accident having occurred.
The week opened in Scotland with boisterous
weather, which returned with renewed violence on
Monday night and Tuesday morning, during several ,
hours of which a strong gale continued at Glasgow
and vicinity. Houses in exposed situations were
severely tested, but happily no very serious damage
occurred throughout the city. Some chimneys fell,
and the gable wall of a brick building, in the course
of erection in Springfield-lane, was blown down ;

and in the west end about 501 t. of brick wall was
thrown to the ground. A number of windows in
shops and dwellings were forced in, and wooden
sheds and palings were partially destroyed, while
the debris which lay in many streets in the morn-
ing testified to the extent to which chimney cans
and slates had suffered from the violence of the gale.
lain also fell heavily during the night. On Tues-
day forenoon the storm had ceased, but the day was
disagreeable with occasional soaking showers.
A severe gale raged near Greenock on Tuesday,
and caused a large amount of damage through the
destruction of chimney cans and window glass. The
wind was from N.N. W., and blew in dreadful gusts,
accompanied by heavy showers of rain. A number
of vessels lying at the Tail of the Bank dragged
their anchors, but fortunately all of them managed
to ride out the gale.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, had a let*
yesterday afternoon. at the Horse Guards. Nearly
200 officers were received by his Royal Highness.
VALETTA, Feb. I.—Her Majesty's ships Victoria,
Caledonia, Royal Oak, and Enterprise returned into
port on the 26th of January front target practice
outside the harbour. The Surprise went out on the
31st, also for great gun exercise, and returned to
her moorings in—the Sliema trcek the same day:-
The Resistance came out of dock on the 27th, and
the Caledonia was taken into dock on the 30th.
The gunboat which was despatched by the Com-
mander-in-Chief to lookJor a wreck, reported to
have baen seen to the eastward of Malta, returned
on the 23d with a beam of the upper deck of some
vessel, and a piece of hatchway attached. Another,
or the same, wreck was reported to have been met
with by a French steamer 50 miles east of Malta,
together with a floating human body. As yet no
information has been received tending to identify
the ship or ships to which these remains belonged.
The following appointments have just been made
by the Commander-in-Chief :—Mr. C. A. Browne,
acting second-master of the Tyrian, to the Royal
Oak ; Mr. B. S. Bradley, acting second-master of
the Royal Oak, to the Tyrian. Her Majesty's ships
in port are the Victoria, the Hibernia, the Cale-
donia, the Gibraltar, the Royal Oak, the Resistance,
the Cossack, the Terrible, the Hydra, the Surprise,
the Enterprise, the Firefly, the Cockatrice, the
Tyrian, the Psyche, the Wizard (in reserve), and
the Hearty. A lammentable accident occurred a
short time ago, by which two bandsmen of the Bth
Regiment lost their lives. They were returning
from Fort Ricasoli to Fort Manoel at night in a
small skiff, which got upset, and both men were
drowned. The body of one of them, Private
Thomas Cribble, was picked up a fortnight after-
wards, but the body of the other poor fellow has
not yet been found. The Malta and Alexandria
cable is still out of working order. The steamer
Hawk left Malta on the 24th of January for the
locality of the fault, which is believed to exist about
170 miles from Alexandria, and hopes are enter-
lained that telegraphic communication will be
shortly restored. The Italian paddlewheel sloop
Piloro, 2 guns, came in on the 29th ult., from Corfu,
where she left on the 27th her Majesty's ship the
Arethusa, 35, Capt. R. J. J. G. Macdonald. To-
day another Italian war steamer, the Etna, 10 guns,
arrived also from Corfu. Two screw steam frigates,
of 52 guns each, the Italia (bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Vacca) and the Gaeta, of the same nation,
have also left Corfu for Malta, but being under sail
only have not yet made their appearance here. This
squadron has orders to proceed to Naples, after
making a short stay at this island.
The screw-frigate Eudymion, 22, 2,486 tons,
500-horse power (unarmoured), having shipped her
lower masts in the steam basin at Sheerness, has
been removed into 'No. !lock, reectity occitpittd
by the ironclad corvette Pallas, where she is now
having her launching cleats and fittings removed
from her bottom. The riggers have commenced
setting up her wire standing rigging, and the work
of fitting her engines and machinery on board is
being carried forward by the mechanics belonging
to the firm of:Messrs. R. Napier and Son, Glasgow,
the manufacturers of her machinery.

By direction of the Admiralty a mechanical ap-
pliance is to be fitted to the ironclad frigate Belle-
rophon, for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of
roll of that ship when at sea. A similar contrivance
will also be placed on the other vessels of the iron-
clad squadron.

The Chanticleer, 17, screw sloop, 950 tons, 200-
horse power, Commander William H. Feuwick,
arrived at Portsmouth on Monday from the Medi-
terranean. She sailed from Malta on the 22d ult.,
and arrived at Gibraltar on the 28th, sailing again
from the latter port for England on the 29th. The
Meeanee, 60, screw, Capt. G. Woodhouse, sailed
from Malta for Gibraltar and England on the same
day as the Chanticleer, with a large number of in-
valids and time-expired men on board, but had not
arrived at Gibraltar when the Chanticleer sailed
thence. The Racoon, 22, screw corvette, Captain
Count Uleichen, arrived at Gibraltar, and went along-
side the Mole as the Chanticleer was leaving. The
Chanticleer has brought about 20 time-expired men
home from the Aediterranean squadron, who, on
the ship's arrival at Spithead, were transferred to
the Victory flagship in Portsmouth harbour. Mo-
derately fine weather was experienced during the
voyage home until the last four days, when strong
but fair wind prevailed up to the time of the ship's
arrival at Spithead. On anchoring at Spithead the
Chanticleer exchanged salutes with the flagship of
the port admiral. She is ordered to proceed round
to an eastern port to be dismanted and paid out of
commission, but she remained at anchor at Spithead
last evening at sunset, waiting her final orders for
her selected port.

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Bronchitis has been decreasing slowly during the
last four weeks. The number of fatal cases referred
to it in the first week of the year was 219 ; in the
present return it is 161. The deaths from pneumonia
also exhibit a decrease, and the number in the week
is 76. Phthisis was fatal in 178 cases.
There were 21 deaths from smallpox. In the
north districts there were six (three of which were
in the Smallpox Hospital) ; in the central districts
one ; in the east districts eight ; and in the south
districts six. None in the west districts. Of 66
deaths from whooping-cough, 7 were in Islington
west sub-district, and 6 in that of the hackney-road.
There were 19 deaths from diarrhoea.

At 6, Little Hermitage-street, St. George-in-th-
e on the 26th of January, the wife of a general
labourer, aged 53 years, died of " cholera." There
was also a fatal case 9f cholera infantum.
In the Adelaide-road, Hampstead, a gentleman
.aged 79 years died of exhaustion following variola.
At 27, Matilda-street, Hackney-road, on the Bth
January, a needlewomakt, Aged 48 years, died of
" asthma, accelerated by destitution." (Inquest.)
The following four deaths by carriage accidents
in the streets were registered in the week :—A car-
man, aged 76 years, run over by a van on London-
bridge, died on Jan. 24 in Guy's Hospital ; a cow-
keeper, aged 61 years, run over by his van atLewis-
ham, died on Jan. 25 at Guy's Hospital ; the son of
a general dealer, aged 11 years, run over by a van,
died on Jan. 26 in Skinner-street, Somers-town ; a
house painter, aged 37 years, rupture of liver,
knocked down by a cab, died on Jan. 23 in Univer-
sity College Hospital.
I The annual rate of mortality last weekwas 24per
1,000 in London, 29 in Edinburgh, and 28 in Dub-
lin, 23 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 32 in Birming-
ham, 34 in Sheffield, 34 in Leeds, 33 in Bristol, 27
in Hull, 34 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, and 29 in Glas-
gow. The rate in Vienna was 38 per 1,000 during
the week ending 27th ult., when the temperature
was 6.8 deg Fahrenheit lower than in the same week
in London, where the rate was 23 per 1,000.
SOUTHAMPTON.—In the population of this borough
(estimated to the middle of this year at 54,531) 370
deaths were registered during last quarter, giving
an annual rate of mortality for the period of 28 per
1,000 persons living. Scarlatina was very fatal
throughout the quarter, and although it had declined
since Christmas, it appears to have again become
more prevalent during last week, when seven deaths
were referred to this disease. The annual rate of
mortality in the borough during last week was 38
per 1,000.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.553 in.
The atmospheric pressure was 30.50 in. on the morn-
ing of Sunday; it fell to 29.13 in on Friday, and
rose to 29.82 in. on Saturday. The mean tempera-
ture of the air in the week was 45.1 deg., which is
7.1 deg above the average of -Me same week in 50
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperature was above the average through-
out the week, and on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday this excess was from 9 deg to 13 deg. The
mean daily range of temperature was 10.8 deg.
The difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was :44 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 85,
complete saturation being represented by 100. The
general directions of the wind were south-west and
west. The amount of rain was 0.68 in., most of
whin-fell on the i:e two-days.

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MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIIIB DAY,--Ilerning, 7h. 19m.—Afternoon, 7h. 42m.
T a-Monnow.
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