The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

TIE STORM OF SUNDAE

The severe storm which passed over the metro-
polis on Sunday morning raged with equal vio-
lence on several parts of the coast. The sea-going
steamers which arrived in the river yesterday
were several hours overdue, and report having
encountered the most severe weather. The Hall
steamship, which should have reached London-
bridge on Sunday about noon, did not come up until
between 9 and 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
A few miles below the Nore, a brig, called the
Delta, bound for London from the Tyne, was run
down by the Resolute screw steamer, which was
on a passage to Goole. The brig Thomas and Eliza-
beth, from Sunderland, was discovered to be wrecked
on Gunfleet Sands. The fate of the crew is uncer-
tain, nothing having been heard of them. On Sun-
day, about one o'clock, the storm burst with awful
fury over the Lowestoft range of coast. Several
ships that were riding in the roadstead parted from
their anchors. A three-masted schooner, reported
to belong to Bremen, went ashore near Pakefi9ld.
The brig Confidence, belonging to Sunderland,
also was stranded a short distance to the north-
ward of Lowestoft harbour; the crew are reported
to have been saved. The bark Undaunted, laden
with oats, from the White Sea, bound for Lon-
don, went ashore near the North Pier; the crew
had previously been taken out by the lifeboat of
the district. A long list of casualties has been
received from Bridlington. A fleet of windbound
vessels were in the bay when the gale burst forth
from S.E. to E. with terrific fury. Several went
ashore, and many have lost spars and sustained
other damage. More than a dozen coasters are re-
ported to have been stranded, but it is believed that
some will be got off. Several, however, are stated
to be wrecks. The gale was severely felt in the
Downs on Sunday, and several ships slipped.

SHIELDS, MONDAY FORENOON.

Yesterday morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the
weather previous to that time having been nearly
calm, the wind chopped round from south to north,
and then westward, a fierce gale came suddenly
away from the eastward, blowing almost a hurri-
cane from east by south to east by north, and the
sea rising on the coast with appalling fury, torrents
of rain also falling. The gale reached it height
about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and then gradually
subsided, it being nearly calm between 5 and 6
o'clock in the evening, the wind having got round by
that time from the north and north-west. There
were a good number of light collier vessels on their
passage from London off the coast between Flam-
borough Head and the Tyne at the time the gale
came away, and very great anxiety prevailed with
regard to them. A large pilot steamer, the Robert
Ingham, took off a number of Tyne pilots, to place
aboard those vessels, but after putting pilots aboard
about a dozen vessels, she was obliged to put back
to the Tyne for shelter, as the gale increased. Seve-
ral vessels ran for the Tyne, and got in safely. The
Ivanhoe, screw steamer, from Leith to Dunkirk, put
in for shelter, and a little schooner had a most nar-
row escape in taking the port. About 50 sail of
light collier brigs have arrived from London this
morning, and more are coming in. The gale took
these vessels by surprise off Flamborough Head,
blowing from the E.S.E. At one time, as
the sea increased, it was feared that they
would all go ashore together, but as the fore-
noon advanced the wind got more round to
he southward, and the vessels effected a bet-

ter offing, and so escaped. It is to be regretted
that two Tyne laden brigs, which sailed on Friday
week, arc still missing, and the very worst sur-
mises are entertained with regard to the fate of
them and their crews; four or five small Yorkshire
brigs also have not been heard of since the gale,
and it is to be feared that they are gone as well.
The wind is about south here this morning. The sea
is falling rapidly on the bar of the Tyne, and a few
small laden vessels have sailed for the north. The
Tyne is much swollen with freshets this morning.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY, 6 P.M.
To-day the gale has greatly moderated here, but
a strong wind is still blowing from W.N.W., to
which point it shifted last evening from S.W., the
point from which the gale commenced. During the
early part of the forenoon several very severe squalls
of hail and rain passed over the town, but the chief
force of the gale expended itself, as yesterday,
in a semicircular direction from N.N.W., by the
South round to East. These squalls decreased
in number as the day wore on, and now
they can only be detected by the intensity
of the clouds along the course referred to. It is
evident that we have only felt the inner edge of
the gale in the immediate vicinity of the town. At
Spithead it has been developed to a much greater
extent, where, during the passage of the squalls,
the water was lashed into a white mist by the
wind, hail, and rain beating on its surface. The
sky is now light away to the North, but from
W.N.W. to East it looks peculiarly dark and
threatening. The barometer stands at 29.78.
Yesterday at this time it marked 29.30.

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perfect calmness. But he who belongs to the highest class
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task, without his place and function in the great scheme of
humanity ; and that task and that power is to influence
silently the great stream of opinion.—Blackwood's
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