The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-08 00:00:00

TILE LATE HEAVY GALES.

We regret to have to add to the already long
catalogue of casualties on the north-east coast dur-
ing the late fearful gales which swept those shores,
the total loss of the Yarborough, screw steamer, a
fine ship nearly 600 tons burden, while on her
passage from Grimsby to Cronstadt, and three of her
crew, who were left in the rigging ; and the truly
marvellous escape of the City of Norwich, steam-
ship, from sharing a similar fate, which, however,
sustained the serious loss of upwards of 200 head of
cattle.

Yesterday a notice was posted at Lloyd's an-
nouncing the loss of an English vessel in the Chan-
nel near Furnes, on Sunday. The crew are all
supposed to have been drowned. Four bodies have
been found. One had a silver watch and chain con-
taining the following name :—" P. Alexander,
jeweller, 21, George-street, Sunderland." Another
had also a silver watch and chain, without any
name. All had a medal with the following inscrip-
tions (on one side the bust of a king or admiral) :
"England expects every man will do his duty,"
and on the reverse, " Shipwrecked Mariners' So-
ciety." One of the bodies had a certificate from
"David Ditchburn, master of the Caspian, of
Whitby, in favour of George P. Jackson, given at
Amble, port of Shields, the 28th January, 1860."
The following initials were on their stockings :
" G. M.," " T. R.," "J. B.;" and one of them had a
portmonnaie, with 13 pieces of foreign money.
Another fatal catastrophe is reported to have
happened in the mouth of the Bristol Channel. The
ship Solides, which arrived at Queenstown with a
cargo of sugar, from Demerara, left the former port
for Bristol on Thursday. A Bristol pilot went down
to meet, and spoke her below the Lundy Islands,
about eight o'clock on Friday. Owing to the
terrific sea that was running it was impossible for
him to board her, bat ho directed the captain the
course to take, and that he the pilot should follow,
and board the ship when an opportunity presented
itself. Owing to the severity of the storm, heavy
the pilot lost sight of the
daylight the following morning,
wuahedtidl snow,
that she had gone ashore
.on and
.on a shoal called Scarweather, off the a Mumbles,re
and every soul belonging to her had perished. The
wreck and cargo was strewed about the coast.
Off Flamborough Head the brig Sunbeam, be-
longing to Shields, was run down by the American
ship Borodino, and we regret to add that six of the
crew of the former perished. The Sunbeam went
down in deep water. The Borodino was bound
north from the Thames.

The Union, from Grimsby to Brest, reports from
the Downs that she saw a schooner (apparently
Welsh), and advised her to get the long boat ready
for launching, and while the crew were in the act
of shortening canvas, saw her go down with all on
board. Farleigh bore north-west four miles.

The Saba Public of Lyons says :—" All Saints
Day has brought us winter this year, as a cold north wind
has set in, and been the more severely felt through coming
upon us so suddenly. It froze on Sunday throughout the
valley of the Brevenue, at Sairi-Bal, and Arbresle, Snow
also fell in abundance at St Etienne ; and on Monday
morning Lyons was visited with a fall of sleet and snow.
On Tuesday morning at seven, the thermometer was only
one degree above freezing point, having been below it du"
ing the night,"