The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 16.—The
.market has been very
buoyant, and a fair amount of business has been
transacted at improved quotations. Threes, for
the Account, are now at 69f. 20c. Railways firm,
with a slight improvement on a few of the lines.

The following are the last quotations :-
4t per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Foncier 1175
Do end month.... 96 60 Belgian 4f —
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 20 Roman
Bank Shares 2930 , Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 766 25 I Spanish Threes —
Do. Account 767 .501 Home Debt

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY.
SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER_SHIPPING
DISASTERS.

The gale of Friday night and Saturday, which
swept with but comparative violence over the Irish
mainland and coast, broke with unmitigated force,
as may well be conceived, on the Welsh coast.
Scarcely had the Munster mail steamer got within
the shelter of the harbour at Holyhead, when the
gale broke with a suddenness and force only to be
attained at the equinoxes. Crowds of vessels, prin-
cipally of small tonnage, ran for protection to that
harbour, filling the enclosed area to a dangerous
extent, and, failing of entrance, casting anchor in
the roadstead, dangerous at once to themselves, as
being exposed to all the risk of a lee-shore, and to
the incoming and outgoing mail, express and cargo
steamers, passing to and from Ireland. The first
casualty of which an account has reached Kings-
town was found to have occurred some 20 miles
west of holyhead, where four men were picked off
with great difficulty by the Scotia, express Holy-
head and Chester railway steamer, from a schooner
the Providence, laden with 140 tons of iron ore.
The men when taken on board—they being in a
very exhausted condition—stated that the schooner
of which they formed the crew was about to
founder in the gale, being heavily laden with iron
ore. The next casualty occurred at midnight on
Friday, owing, it is stated, to the crowded state of
the harbour of Holyhead, and to the fact that the
vessels in question carried no lights. The Admiral
Moorsom, cargo and passenger boat, from
the North Wall, Dublin to Holyhead, ran down
a sloop, named the Alma, and sank her, a
man and a boy being immediately drowned, a third
escaping, the three having formed the crew of the
unfortunate vessel. A schooner was s.t the same
moment run into, her bowsprit and cutwater being
carried away; but, happily, in this case no loss of
life occurred. All incoming steamers were detained
through the violence of the gale and the heaviness
of the sea in the Channel. The Munster arrived at
eight a.m. on Saturday, the incoming mail on the
preceding evening being kept out till seven p.m.,
the detention in some measure, however, arising
from the difficulty of getting clear of the crowds of
shipping at Holyhead. The above, it is feared, are
but a few of the casualties arising from the gale.
This (Sunday) evening the wind moderated, the
mercury rising considerably.
The Daily Express says :—" The accounts from
the provinces, as to the weather during the past
week, and its effect upon the harvest, although not
quite so favourable as those previously received,
were, on the whole, by no means discouraging. In
the early part of the week advantage was taken of
its comparative fineness, and a great deal of agri-
cultural work was completed. An unwelcome
change, however, took place about the middle of
the week, and the weather became wet and tem-
pestous. In some places violent storms have been
reported. Along the west coast especially there
have been violent gales, attended in some instances
with loss of property, and, it is feared also of
life. The Galway papers mention disasters to
shipping off the Arran Isles, and in one instance
apprehensions have been excited respecting the
fate of a barque seen in great distress.
A gentleman, writing from Connemara, gives a de-
scription of an extraordinary tornado which he
witnessed, by the force of which the water was
lifted some feet out of a river in his demesne, and
cattle and even human beings carried away some
distance.