The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-13 00:00:00

THE LATE STORMS, &c.

We have had some -ray stormy Woatheir since
our last. On Sunday night mad Monday morning in par-
ticular, it blew tremendouSly from the south and south-
west, accompanied with torrents of rain; and j,hutader end
lightning. We are happy in Stating,- howeier, that no
material damage lass been done in this neighlboarkwth
The shipping in the Catwator- were the most exposed to the
storm, but they rode it out safely. —Plymouth Journal.
On Sunday night we had a very heavy storm
of hail, rain, thunder, and lighting; the wind blew a hur-
ricane, and the sea run mountains high. The tide was
also very high, and the waves dashed with the utmost fury
against the chain-pier and esplanade. The wall, how-
ever, wears happy to say, sustained little injury; and the
pier itself, as usual, stood film against the wind and tide.
Part of the new sea-wall (about 50 feet) was washed down
near Lamprell'e baths. The storm was the most violent
that we have had since the memorable one in November,
1824 ; and the spray dashed, as it did then, although not
to a similar extent, upon the Marine-parade, being carried
over the Saloon, and up the New-steine, to the imminent
drenching of the numerous spectators who fell in its way.
—lt was sufficiently ludicrous to observe:some of the mis-
chances which befel inexperienced Cockneys, who, stand-
ing at the entrance of the pier to watch the breaking of a
wave beneath their feet, were suddenly enveloped in a
watery shroud, which left them, to their utter astonish-
ment, thoroughly wet to the skin.—. Brighton Gazette.
On Sunday night the French brig Le Jean
Arthur, bound from Ghent to Bordeaux, with a oargo of
herrings and deals, had a most miraculous escape. Alma
eight o'clock, when the sterna was at its height, and the
night extremely dark, .she was seen drifting past the
Nightingale schooner, then lying in Barn-Pool. She was
hailed from on board the. Nightingale, but no answer was
returned. It was, therefore, concluded she was a foreigner,
and, as her situation Was most perilous, she being Within
a few yards of the rocks under Mount Edgeotanbe, where
she must inevitably be dashed to pieces, it was determined
to send a boat to her assistance. Upon this servi.te, Mr.
Henry Wilkins, acting master of the Nightingale, with all
that prompt courage and disregard of personal risk which
characterise the British sailor, volunteered and put off in
the gig with six hands, in a sea which might have terri-
fied the boldest. The gig soon reached the brig, and on
boarding her, Mr. Wilkins found the helm lashed, the sails
hanging loose, and the crew in despair, some of theca at
prayer—they having given themselves tip for lost. So
panic-struck were the crew, that 'they could do nothing,
and the Nightingale's men were obliged to shift the helm,
and do what was necessary to get the brig into a Oa.: of
safety, which at length they accomplished by running her
said lashing her alongside a merchant ship off Mount Wise,
where she remained till morning. The only injury she
sustained was the loam of her main-topmast, which was
carried away by the other vessel's main-yard, as she was
running alongeide.—Plymouth Jouraal.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF
Livss.—The brig Albion, Captain Glanville, sailed from
Cove on the Ist instant, with a cargo of butter, provi-
sions, porter, leather, Ace., for Lisbon, and was obliged to
put into Baltimore on the 3d, in consequence of very se-
vere and contrary winds, where she remained until Sitter-
day the 6th, when it came on to blow a violent gale about
mid-day, and Captain Glanville let go two addiLional an-
chors. About five to six o'clock in the evening it encreas-
ed to a dreadful gale at smith, one cable parted, the other
three lifnaora were dragged with such dreadful fury to-
wards a lee shore—presenting nothing but certain destruc-
tion--that the main mast was cut away, but in vain, the
vess,l was drove on the rocks to the westward of Grey's
point in the island of Ringroran, opposite the village of
Baltimore, and the sea running over them. In this truly
awful situation, the Captain and crew, two female passen-
gers, and the Revenue officer, 13 -souls, got into the fore-
top, and secured themselves as well us they could, the
waves dashing over them for several hours, when about six
o'clock, the fore-mast went over board, and with it four
unfortunate victims--Capt. Glanville, two of the craw and
one of the women passengers—the mate, and remainder
were most miraculously preserved till the returning dawn
of day-light enabled them, with the assistance of the fore-

mast.and bow-sprit, towards the racks, to secure aprovi-
dential escape ; several of them severely, and one danger-
ouily bruised from the spars and the rocks. Michael

Oliriscell, Esq. Agent to Lloyd's, at Baltimore, W
across to the wreck, also the Chief Officer of the Preven-

tive Service, and his men, by whom every assistaßee;as
rendered subsequently by Midtael Galway, jurA. Esq.,
and the Chief Offietr of Police, who hastened there flour

Skibberten, so that the few firkin of butter swell,—.about
eighty •or ninety 'only—are bxlged in Mr. OTriseoll's
storeti, with some trifling fragments of the wreck. The

surviving part of the crew were treated with every kind-
nes4, which the poor people of the island pould possibly
render them, and little disposition was evinced to plunder
the articles saved.—Cork Constitution of Tuesday.

THU .Irotor.—On Sunday evening last,
anieliester and its neighhoprhoorl, and, indeed, the whole

of this part of the kingdom, ware visited by a 410,; violent
storm of wind, accompanied by much thunder and light-
ning and torrents of rain. It continued at intervals during
the whole of the night, and the morniag, though apPa-
rently calm, exhibited portents of approaching violence:
the sky pn;ielopeil in clouds which almost prevented
the appearence of day nod nearly ttr? 0'0(4 ; about eleven
a powerful gust, of w;roi time fr°'74 tjie 3‘„.,ilirWest!
was followed by one of the most violent rooms retnerp,
bered. The 'destruction committed in ..arions parts Is
immense. But the greatest devastation has been suffered
at Cerne, by the visitation of an extraordinary hurricane,
passed through the town about half-past eleven. Its
p.tog •
• lei:, was from the south-west, was evident for a
'considerable distance oe‘o;ze j:-, reached Cerne, by its tear-
ing 'hedges and'taes, and 'destroying ries, pr whatever
yisible in 'the total '"disperSion of laude
turns tiny. On reaching the town its first
(:'lLtes t-8;
4;3:y pre-mists,' it reached the
'Reif Lion, carrying away the'thatch on the roofs of the
Ontlii'Msc, arid in
ene Patt remoViti the wh'ole of thet-oi:f ;
Wita statqlpi in'tfie`pril Was Overturned and
roiledg, consnieratie 4ist.iiiice. • Alr.ll-aitlesrdi4liis
tory was then visited by ;114 teriihc pos-
sessed sufficient power to force down the roof and ono of
the side walls; but the fall of the look being impeded byan
apple tree, the work people, of whom about a dozen were at
(..,?c, troyed. l, and a brewhouse and cellar beneath
the thee engaged in the building, were providentially saved.
A malt house briunging.
to Nlr. Gundry, also in full work,
1
materially '43404 P tjie :o:f :/7; blown off, and the whole
of the building itimast:iil44.4o:,44:
dwelling-house was also seriously it4juretl,t,, •
lititel.w
Inn was shaken to the foundation ; and a stable helungiltg,
0:0; vg,a unroofed, and so damaged that it was with
rgi4at , we.e got out. It is supposed
that the'ainotint .Igr'th‘ 6.6.5;:h;F,,,i; is nowartis of
2000/. ; but' it' is yet' itupoasibl ti tHiertatti
T 4 hurricane passed over the town itrthe mostinSt4t-
ianeous it-.ltor,eF .;its Progress was effected in a zig-zag tli-
rectiNn, 'and in the wtdtin it e.;.tepkd from one hundred'to
one arid thirty yards. '• Ile:same sieges v;0-
hence is visible in its track' after • Tl 4

fusion caused by this extraordinary phenomenon it/us itn-
mentte,--Porig County Cl/4ronicle.