The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

THE LATE GALES IN IRELAND.

On Friday and Saturday last we were visited by very
severe gales of wind blowing from S.S.E. to S.S.W.,
during which the shipping along the coast has suffered
Eeverely, and several lives have, we regret to say, been
lost. On Saturday morning the mail steamer Thetis,
which made her passage good during the late tremendous
gale, on the night of Tuesday the sth, and morning of
Wednesday the 6th of February, did not arrive here on
Saturday morning till half-past 8 o'clock, being five
hours beyond her usual Cute. The Firefly, from Ar-
droisan, and the Princess Alice, from Fleetwood, arrived
about the same time. The steamers Athlone and Wil-

Liam Penn, which sailed hence on Friday night for Liver-
pool, put back on Saturday. The Athlone bore up off
the. Calf of Man. The Windsor, which should have
sailed on Saturday evening, did not leave till Sunday
morning, when she, the William Penn, and Athlone,
proceeded same tide for Liverpool. The Lyra steamer,
which left Greenock on Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock,
with the mails, arrived next mornieg at a quarter past 5,
being about three hours beyond her usual time: The
Prince cf Wales, which left hero on Friday evening, and
for whose safety great fears were entertained, encountered
the gale, and arrived sate in Fleetwood on Saturday
afternoon. The Blenheim arrived here on Sunday, from
Liverpool, the storm being still very severe, at a qaarter
past 1 P.M. On her passage off the Mew Island, near
Donaghadee, ste passed a quantity of wreck, which was
proved to be part of the cargo of the barque Teresa
Jane, Wright master, of and from Liverpool, with a
general cargo, which went on ehorn on the Mew rocks on
Satureasy night, at .11 o'clock, and .has become a total
wreck. Some of the cargo (calicoes) has been saved
and landed at Grooweport. In this case of shipwreck,
we are sorry to say that before the vessel went ashore
the master and six of the crew were washed overboard,
and drowned. 'Pin bugle Burrell, of Lancaster, Wil-
liam Foster went ashore en the rocks at Coney
Lland Bey, Lear Ardglass, on Friday night. The
schooner Peggy, of Portgordon, Reid master, from Liver.
pool to Aberdeen, loaded with salt, was driven on shore
in Cloughey-bay, on Friday morning. She has received
little damage; but her cargo will have to be discharged
before she can he got off. A small vessel was driven on
shore on the North Rock, on Friday, the 29th ult., all
hands lost. Her name is not known; but she is sup-
posed to be a Manx schooner, laden with salt, for Bel-
fast. The brig'Spartan, Rorge master, from Liverpool
to the Mediterranean, has put into this lough, leaky.
The schooner Preston, Wilson, master, of Be!fast, from
Dundalk to Llanelly, was wrecked on Saturday on the
Common Rook, and, lamentable to state, not a single
soul of those composing the crew was saved.—. Northern
Ihig.

REQUISITION TO SIR E. N. BUXTON, BART., M.P.
—A.requisition has been got up by the advocates of Protec-
tien, and is in curse of signature by the electors in South
Es,ex' calling upon Sir Edward North Buxton, one of the
Members for the Division, to resign his seat and make room
for a gentleman who will uphold the principle of Protection
in the Legislature. The requisition states that the parties
view with the• utmost alarm the distress of the cultivators
of the soil and the depression of trade; and convinced that
ruin must result from free-trade in corn, they are anxious
to obtain a Parliament that shall represent.the general feel-
ing of the country.. With this view addresses have_ been
presented to her Majesty, praying for a dissolution, but these
have been unheeded; 'and they add," Under these circum-
stances, we are obliged to scrutinise the conduct of indivi-
dual Members of the House of Commons, and finding that
all your votes have been reeorded in favour of free trade,
and against all remedial means of relief, we are reluctantly
compelled to request that you will forthwith give us an (T-
-portunity of electing, in- your place, some gentleman who
in a British Legislature will advocate protection to British
industry."—.E:ssex Herald.
OXIDE or ZINC.—A communication has been
made to the Customs' authorities by the Secretary to the
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, stating that
he has received the commands of their Lordships to transmit
to them for their information a communication from the
Board of Trade on a memorial, praying that a material deno-
minated grey, oxide of zinc may be henceforth imported into
the United Kingdom without payment of duty, and that he
was directed to state that their Lordships of the Treasury at
present concur with the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade in considering that the article in question
should be admitted free of duty. It was, however, the wish
of their Lordships, that it should be understood by the Corn-
missionere, that if it should appear to them that there is any
substantial difference or distinction between white oxide of
zinc (Which is already by Treasury order admissible free of
duty) and grey oxide of zinc, their Lordships would be pre- .
pared, upon being furnished with adequate information from
scientific persone upon the subject, to reconsider their deci-
sion.- Itappears from competent authority that the material
is an impure oxide of zinc,. produced during the process em •
ployed for extracting metallic zinc from the use, and that the
grey colour which it bears results from its admixture with
portions of coke placed with the ore in the retorts used for
the smelting process, and that the only preparation to which
the substance thus obtained is then subjected to consists in
crushing and sifting it, and on consideration of the matter by
the Commissioners of Customs, it has been directed that in
i
future grey oxide equally with white oxide of zinc s to be
a dmissible• duty free. •
A CLERGYMAN HIS OWN CHURCHWARDEN.— At the
ofin:CmhbUernetl7l:llCleinnatiebdr and
usual meeting for the election
parish of St. Giles's, in the city of Durham, on Easter Tees_
no'ne that gave him satisfac-
tionday, the Rev. Francis Thompson'
elected himself as his own churchwarden, stating that, as he
to appoint
the dpties of the office, he would
had never been ableee
in the discharge
nominate and elect himself.. The
inconsistent with
against
such appointment, as being inconsistent with his other duties
to the par sh, and nominated two inhabitants to fill the
office. The reverend chairman would only put one of the
persons nominated to the choice of the meeting, and the
other as an amendment. The parishioners insisted on elect-
ing both, if the chairman refused to appoint a parishioner as
usual. The chairman stated that he would only return him-
self and a Mr. Joseph Dawson, who had the majority of
votes, at the next visitation as elected. A scene of confusion
ensued, and the parishioners then left the vestry in a body,
declaring that such conduct of the chairman was tantamount
to shutting the doors of the church.

THE LASCNSHIRE ESTATES •OF 1:#1E EARL OF
DERRy.—The Bight lion. the Earl of Derby is now engaged
in draining nearly the whole of his extensive estates in the
townships of Ilalewood, Eccleston, Knowsley-, BickerstaiF,
and other places. We believe his Lordship is determined to
complete the task in a thorough and workmanlike manner,
which will be a lasting and permanent improvement, and
ultimately return twenty-fold to his numerous tenantry.
There are a great number of labourers now engaged in the
good work.—Liverpool Albion.
A BLACK RAINBOW.--We learn from Messrs.
Hatch, Gray, and Co.'s /?epottcr, that a a black rainhoW was
discovered one evening, about eight o'clock, by the good
people of Sew Bedford. Its direction was from the north-
west to the south-east, and it lasted about twenty minutes.
It was very perfect, and of . great size.—Boston Traxecript.