The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

FALMOUTH.

A gale of wind, almost unprecedented in its seve-
rity and in its sudden rise, occurred at Falmouth
on Tuesday. The early morling and up to noon
was comparatively moderate, but at 1 p.m. the
wind increased rapidly from the eastward, with
violent and unceasing rain and a tremendous
rush of tide. It continued for an hour from
this quarter, and then as instantaneously
changed to N.N.E., the wind and rain bot'i
as unabated as before, and did not decline _until
5 p.m., or a little after high water. The ship-
ping in the roads and harbour (about 110 sail)
rode without accident, with the sole exception of
the American barque Jane M. Thurston, Grant,
master, in ballast, from London for Port Talbot,
which vessel being anchored close to.,the bar point,
and from her light draught of water exposed to the
powerful action of the gusts of wind, drove on
shore under Pendennis Castle, between the bar and
middle point, at 3 30 p.m., where she lay until
Wednesday morning's tide, when she was got off
by the Dandy steam-tug, and towed into the inner
harbour. The damage done to her bottom may not
be considerable. The brig Lavinia, of Hull, Fall,
master, from Taganrog, laden with linseed, which
on arrival, before the gale commenced, had been
put on the ground at the bar to stop a leak, was
driven so high on the beach by the force of the
wind at high water that she must be lightened to
be got off.
In the harbour of St. Mawes, the Swedish brig
Oscar, Nelson, master, from Sundswall for Lisbon,
timber laden, was driven on shore in St. Mawes
Creek, but was got off at high water after the gale
had subsided, and towed into Falmouth inner har-
bour on Wednesday. A coasting schooner (name
unknown) was also beached on St. Anthony's side
of St. Mawes Creek during the gale.

MARGATE.

On Tuesday night a violent gale'blew here from
the S.E., and at about six o'clock on that evening,
Mr. Boorman, chief.boatman at the Kingsgate sta-
tion, observed a blue light burning to seaward;
supposing it at first to be a reflection from the
castle windows, but having called one of the men,
they soon discovered it to be on board a vessel
standing into the bay, and which almost imme-
diately struck the ground. Men were despatched
to Broadstairs and Margate for the lifeboats; the
boat frem the first place was soon on the spot, and
it is said, but we hope without foundation, that most
of the men were at the time intoxicated and inca-
pable of rendering any effectual assistance, and at
the same time threatened to thro‘v overboard the
Coastguard men if they attempted to enter the life-
boat. The Margate lifeboat was three hours before
it arrived at the scene of the disaster, in conse-
quence of one or more persons refusing the use of
their horses to convey the boat overland to Kings-
gate, and it is said by persons competent to judge of
such matters that, but for these circumstances, in
all human probability the lives of the crew might
have been saved ; but, as it is, all are now lost, not
one being left to tell the fearful tale. One poor
fellow was taken out of the rigging on the following
morning quite dead. It should, however, be stated
that the Margate boat visited the wreck as soon as
possible, but could find no person on board; the
name of the vessel is supposed to be the Abby, of
Podle, the stern of a boat being washed ashore
with this name on it, and an elderly man supposed
to be one of the crew had also been picked up.
About the same time as the above the Mary Ann,
of Stockton, coal laden for Caen, struck on
_the
wreck of the Northern Bell and sunk, she was disco-
vered in the morning by the crew of the Queen lug-
ger, of Margate ; and the crew, after having been
several hours in the rigging, rescued ar.d brought to
Margate. Both wrecks took place within a very
short distance of each other, and, had the Coastguard
a boat at all available at this point, it is more than
probable that the crew of the Abby might have been
saved ; and it should be stated that, as it was, they
more than once attempted to reach the wreck in their
small skiff. Would it not be well, could a rocket
apparatus be supplied to this dangerous part of the
coast, as both wrecks are now lying within a short
distance of the cliff ?

PORTSMOUTH.
The Owen Glendower (one of Messrs. Green's
Blackwall fleet) put into St. Helen's Roads on Wed-
nesday evening, with loss of her foreyard. Capt.
Dickenson reports that the gale in the Channel
first showed itself from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Tues-
day, when it blowed fresh from the south. From 1
until 5 p.m. it freshened to a perfect gale, with
violent puffs of wind veering to S.S.E., accompa-
nied by heavy rain. At 5 p.m., when the gale had
reached its height, the ship lost her foreyard, from
which a part of the crew had luckily but a short
time before come down. The barometer at this time
stood at 28.90. From this period the gale broke, but
still blew hard during the night, veering round to
S.W. and W., shifting suddenly from various points
in the squalls. The Owen Glendower is from London,
bound to Melbourne, calling at Plymouth for her
passengers, and will sail as soon as she has her new
foreyard on board. On the Isle of Wight numbers
of large trees were blown down in different parts.
At Ryde the new pier, now in course of erection,
has sustained serious damage. The pier is formed
of iron screw-piles, on which the roadway is laid,
and was laid to some 1,000 feet. From the pier-
head nearest the town, to a distance of over 300 feet,
the heavy roll on the shallow ground, caused by
the south•easterly winds, has torn away the road-
way from the iron piles below, twisting and bend-
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log the piles with their iron braces into all manner