The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

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devastation. The scaffolding was blown to the
ground from the violence of the hurricane, and the
damage done at this spot must amount to many
hundred pounds. In the neighbouring villages of
Bleadon, Kewstoke, and Worle, the gale was also
severely felt—rdofs, trees, and hayricks being scat-
tered in all directions. With all these disasters on
land, it speaks well .for the safety of the Bristol
Channel that the casualties reported as arising
from these trementlofis' gales are few and compara-
tively trifling.

EXETER, FRIDAY.

In Exeter the damage to property is very great.
Houses were partially unroofed, walls were blown
dawn and a vast number of large treeswere uprooted.
In the Cathedral-yard one of the old elm trees which
stood near the venerable structure was blown down.
In the streets flys and carts were overturned by the
violence of the gale. At Topsham several
houses were uprooted and windows smashed. The
schooner Paz, belonging to Denmark, broke from
her moorings, and so many of the trees in the high-
way were blown down that the road in many places
is impassable. In the rural districts the storm did
much damage to the homesteads. Ricks of corn and
hay were blown down, and great loss has been sus-
tained. At Torquay the hurricane was terrific and
much destruction of property was caused: A cook
in the employ of Mr. Sidgreaves, Falkland Villa,
was killed by a chimney falling through the roof
into the kitchen. A large elm tree fell in upon Torre
Church and demolished the outer porch. The tele-
graphic wires for some distance on the Bristol and
Exeter Railway were blown down, and all commu-
nication stopped. Such destructive gales have not
been remembered for many years.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.
The storm which prevailed here so severely yes-
terday subsided as the night advanced, and this
morning it was comparatively calm. The sea how-
ever continues to run very high. There is a report
that an iron-built ship went ashore last night in
Hamoaze. The Belgian brigantine Joseph, which
was driven into Batten Bay yesterday by the Hia-
watha, floated off as the tide rose, and is now safe
in. Sutton Harbour. Shipwrights are at work on
the schooner Pigeon, laden with gunpowder, which
grounded under the citadel, and hopes are enter-
tained that she will be got off. The fore and aft
• schooner which ran on the Batten Ridge is called
the Freedom, of Jersey. If the weather continues
moderate there is a remote chance of her being
saved. The strange barque which fouled the
schooner Devon yesterday afternoon is called the
Fury, Captain Lorentz, a Prussian, from Memel for
Belfast. Having grounded at half-tide she is likely
to come off to-day, as her cargo consists of deals.
When Capt. Fowler observed the barque driving in
an unmanageable state, stern foremost, towards the
Devon, he skilfully hoisted his jib to give the
schooner a cant to the northward, and then veered
out chain. In this condition the blow from the bark,
which went to the southward, fell with less force.
Her foremast caught the schooner's jibboom and
bowsprit, both of which fortunately gave way with
the foretopmast, and the schooner's ground tackle
held on. She is supplied with Brown and Harfield's
patent windlass, which much facilitated the process
of veering out cable. Two of her crew were so
much alarmed that they jumped on board the barque
and were stranded in her. Commander Henry
Phelps, Inspecting Commander of Coastguard,
Mr. Bath, and the other officers, and the men under
them, have been very sedulous in their attention
to the wrecked vessels, some of the crews of which
they have saved. No lives were lost yesterday.
During the storm steam was kept up on board the
paddlewheel sloop Geyser, 6, Commander Jackson,
in the Sound, to assist her anchors.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 22.

For the past 48 hours it has blown a succession
of heavy gales with unprecedented severity, and
almost entirely from the southward, accompanied
by rain. The large fleet of merchantmen in the
roads and harbour hare ridden out well, notwith-
standing they amount to fully 200 sail, with one or
two exceptions of collision ; the Dutch ship Two
Gesasters, from Batavia, drove foul of the barque
Grecian Queen, from Venice, and each sustained
damage in hull and spars, on the night of the 20th ;
and another collision of less importance took place
on the 19th, between the Norway barque Soerimner
and the barque Woodhouse. These are the total
casualties, in addition to the accident by drowning
of the master of the Dutch brigantine Levant, with
one of the crew, by the capsizing of a boat in going
off during the gale. The works at the docks have
sustained no damage whatever by the gales, and
the breakwater, which has been carried out 120
feet beyond the granite structure, has stood-undis-
turbed the test of the wind and sea, to which it was
exposed in full front.

THE COUNTY AND THE BOROUGH

FRANCHISE.

MR. LOCKE KING'S AND MR. BAINES'S BILLS.

The following is the bill brought into the House
of Commons by Mr. Locke King and Mr. Hastings
Russell, to extend the franchise in counties in Eng-
land and Wales :

" Whereas it is expedient to extend the elective franchise
to many of her Majesty's subjects who have not heretofore
enjoyed the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-
s:nt of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows :
" 1. From and after the passing of this act, every male
person, of full age and not subject to any legal disability,
who occupies, as owner or tenant, any land or tenement
situate without the limits of any city or borough entitled
to return a burgess or burgesses to Parliament of the clear
yearly value, or for which he is liable to a clear yearly rent,
of not less than £lO, and comprising a house of the clear
yearly value of not less than £6, shall be entitled to vote
in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in
any future Parliament for the county, riding, part, or division
of the county, in which such land' or ' tenement' is situate :

" But no such occupier shall be so entitled to vote unless
he be duly registered as such voter, nor shall be entitled to
be so registered in any year, unless he have occupied such
land' or tenement of such value or at such rent as afore-
said for six calendar months at least next before the last
day of July in such year.
" 2. The act passed in the second year of King William
the Fourth, to amend the representation of the people in
England and Wales, and the act passed in the sixth year of
her present Majesty's reign, to amend the law for the regis-
tration of persons entitled to vote, and to define certain
rights of voting, and to regulate certain proceedings in
the election of members to serve in Parliament for Eng-
land and Wales, and the present act shall be construed as
one act."

Mr. Baines' bill, which is backed by Mr. Bazley, Mr.
Scholefield, and Mr. Digby Seymour, is as follows :
" Whereas it is expedient to extend the right of voting
for members of Parliament in cities and boroughs in Eng-
land and Wales : Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows :
" 1. The occupation of premises within a city or borough
which returns a member or members to servo in Parlia-
ment, or within a place sharing in the election for such
city or borough, of the clear yearly value of not less than
six pounds, shall confer a right to veto in the election of
such member or members, in like manner as such right is
now conferred in respect of the occupation of premises of
the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; and all
provisions now in force concerning such right in respect of
such occupation shall, save as herein otherwise provided,
be applicable to the right hereby conferred, as if six pounds
were mentioned in section 27 of the act of the session holden
in the 2d and 3d years of King William IV., chap. 45, and
were mentioned or referred to in all other the provisions
concerning such right instead of £lO.
"2. No person shall be entitled under th act to.vote in
an election in respect of his occupation, jointly Nslth any
land, of any building other than a dwelling-k ouse in which
he himself resides, unless such building separately be of
the clear yearly value of not less than £3.
"This act may be cited as The Borough Franchise Act
1861."

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