The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-05 00:00:00

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1 this be determined by the Governmel, ; ' it lAp -ME
fears whatever for the ultimate r
loag felt and thought, in common[ w . V
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that a House of Comm n A el ee 7,ipt*.-A .1-Wal(ii- . ff.,.
nirel of the famous W. B , of #.ogfitiik.i. riot, rke,
riety, though containing unity illiWkeNtid ale ;„-,T
individuals, was not ready site G\liKustryt COIIIV-.7::'
mons as t; ity and unmistakabl wed .....
opin.ons and views of the country ge. At w -
prJbal,ly be better for all parties—be ibilN- r foe i -
ter: eta of peac ', economy, and practicable retiench-
ment—tbat the people should he called on, at no
very dirsnt day, to say whether they prefer the
views, feel.n:s, and . principles of the 247
gm!lemen w::o snst tinel the Minis er who prose-
Lad issue, or whethercobd
tchut-yedwaistretoithwaavre
at
lDaergbl;,riG°
Coalition. How the c_ arry feels and thinks can-
not, we Inerev., be a matter of m filch doubt. Though
sensible and moder.ta men regret that several use-
ful bills must he, in the event of a dissolution,
pos'poued—thit some legal r, forms must be ab in-
doned, and a great deal of priva'e Parliament ry
buduesz, comprising dock, harbour, and railway
bills, must be delayed—yet th 3 incouven'ence,
though gieLt, undoub ells, can only be temporary,
whila the ul'imate b.nefit naus, in our view, be
s lid and-pErman-tit. We b lieve a.. better and a
more homogeueou, Hou-e of C immons must he re-
tur lel at t Ae next g uteral election, let a dissolution.
come when it may, which will better appreciate the
policy of the Government, and better sustain tie
honour and inter s'3s of t'n 0 mntry.

A HARBOUR OF REFUGE-ON THE

NORM-BAB 'AST.

The fearful loss of life and property in the li,rth
Sea during Vie January pies hts attracted ago Kt.
d al of nt!-.entiun 'n the mer commimit es To
the imp ri ive neces,ity of formin4 a h-trb.iur of
refuge s,.mew.iere on f.e north-east seabo ird -
tweel Yarmout) road-; and the Tyne. Various

proj cts are under disc-11.94 in, each locality advo-
cv ing its own pa•ticular sahetne. Reelear, Harde-
r..., 1-bay, and northward of tie Tyne, Newbiggen-
bay, have bean sugge-t?.l 1:4 eligible -sites. Mr.
Murray, tit, r of the Sandi cis, has
mapiffeet,' scheme to forma harbour of 600
ae-es in Acnd_in-bly, by the gide of th 3 of--etu
track from Loo on to th- c al ports ; and the River
Tyue Improvement Conim'ss osiers al-o urge that
they should have aid from the Treasury to cx end
the pier-works now in course of formation, s . as
to in tke the noble estuary of the Tyne a har-
bour of refuge in gales of w;nd. Mr. James
Mather, ono of the River Tyne Improvement
Oommissilners, a lduces the folio ring facts in a
Peftion he Las presented tl the House of I.,?,rds
in proof that such a place of shelter should be made
by the Govirummt. He says a harbour of refuge
on the n rah-east coast of Euglaud would sa,v3 an-
nually from destruction a large number of h
seamen and a great amount of shipping property.
Tirat out of 1,141 wrecks and casualties (according
to the "Admiral Wreck Register" for 1856) 576,
or upwards of one-half, took place upon the cast
coast. And on this coast for '260 miles, from Yar-
m iuth Roa is to the Frill of Forth, tht-re is no
harbour if refuge for vessels canglit in galas f om
the eastward. That in the year 1852, wi hin a
radius •of 70 miles of the river Tyne, a'iout one-
fou, th of the wrecks of the kingdola oocurred; mud
that in a single easterly ga'e in Oct ,ber if that
year, within 20 nautical wilds of the Tyn', 69 lives
were sacrifice,i in a few hours. That in the begin-
ning of January, 1854, by anotier easterly gale,
110 wrecks occurred in rhte3 days withln the same
radius, which upwards of a .quart-,r .of a mil-
1-on sterli,,g of British shipping and other pro-
per'y was destroyed and a large number of Briti-h
s,,amen was sacrificed ; and at the month of
the sr-awe river, which was sought by a liirge fleet
for whet -r during the gale, 36 wrecks occurred, one-
fourth of which only belo,g-id to the port. The
crews of the wrecked vessels, with the exception of

one, were, hove r, ali ga hrntiy raved by the life-
-13-at. Tnw. in OH terrible gale fi o n the north-east,
upon the sth ofJaouary in th-3 preseht year, within
a rad.us of si) mils from the Tyue, and in the same
bay, 94 went on shore or foundered, by which
iu a few hoar; 167 lives were miserably destroyed
and a ia.ge amount of property was eutirely lost.
Tnat wit in 20 nAutical miles of the river Tyne,
where these terrible diQa ers are crowded so fatally
t.,g,-ther, a great am.mit of a ipping is perpetually

Oil tle c.):::sf, triding to and fi,in the three north•
eastern rives, tie Tyn-, the Wear, and the Tees,
wi. h their ri hutarit s. The five pot t, on these rivers,
it ii reLtordtd in the last year's Parliamentary Re-
tu) n on stiipplng, had iipw iris of 8,100,000 tons in-
war, is and ou, wards, of which o !e-half belonged to
the Tyn!, bell; 4'.0. A one-sixth of t' •e entti e t• ad-
iuu tonnage of tiv., IsAtgdoon, acid more than tivat of
the Thum s. That dur, u g ,he ye tr upwa-ds of 57,000
v,-ssds trom rhos port, were t0,u,4 wsposecl dty and
night in all we thus upon Vie dAnge:cus ryntn•
east eoa4t, who,, harbours are berme iea)ly at al d,
the s,‘on• r and th,‘ marceL)aely the heavier till

gale. 'I„ su h gal a t',ose of View at the tine ur,011:
tl,e coast not to keep the sea or enter a har-
b,iur speedily founder or are dashed and wrecked
upon t•lis di,a4f rous leethora. That, in widit.oa„
theie is al o a I,rge numbar of veksols at nj dis-
tance in t e No7tik Sea pis4ng alutiv the colo, or
b-und to and fr.)ln th. Bat and the no th-
em ports of Europe, which, with Viese airea ly
speeifi,d, (it) not amount to 1. ss than 120,000 ves-
sels a year thus exposed. That the south cost
England, asc rding to the laA Parliamenta y re-
turn (1856, No. 122), had le,s than 3,000,000 of
trading' tonntge (the Tyne its-if has upwards of
4,000,000), which has been provided by the Go-
Vernment wit) fJur harbours of refuge still con-
structing, and h ving cost already nearly 2,000,0001.
sterling, annually increasing, while the more than
9,000,000 of tinnage of the nortt-east coast is left
entirely witt;o'l a harbour of refuge.