The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-21 00:00:00

EFPECTS of the LATE STORM on SHORE.

The devastations of the gale of Sunday on shore,
have been very extensive. Scarcely a house in the
three towns has altogether escaped injury. The
streets on Sunday morning were found to be thickly
strewed with slates blown from the roofs of the sur-
rounding dwellings, and almost every mason in the
town was in requisition, to repair gaps which might
have been increased to a serious degree, had the gale
returned with the ensuing night. In this town the
storm raged in all its fury. A piece of sheet
lead, measuring 10 feet square, and weighing
1001bs., was carried horizontally from the top of a
house at the back of Tavistock-street, into the
court of Mr. Morris, of Fore-street, a distance of 60
feet, where it knocked some bricks out of a chimney,
and fell to the ground. Part of the roof of the
Town-Hall was carried away. The slating of Go-
vernment House also suffered. In Chapel-street a
chimney fell with a tremendous crash into a room
where two young men were asleep, but though they
were for some time buried in the ruins, they provi-
dentially escaped with a few slight bruises. A
large chimney. was thrown down in Coxworthy's-
court, Chapel-street. In the Dock-yard con-
siderable injury has been done to the roofs and
chimneys. On one of the buildings a large quan-
tity of sheet lead was rolled up by the wind,
with as much ease as if it had been paper. In the
Gun-wharf a piece of lead, weighing 36 cwt., was
ripped off the roo' of the No,.th Store, and thrown
into the Canal. The Devonport Column, although
seated so high, received no damage, but the persons
residing near it, describe the roaring of the wind
through the iron balustrades at the top to have been
truly terrific—resembling a loud continued shriek,
which might at all times be perfectly distinguished
above the howling of the gale through the streets.—
A number of chimneys and roofs were damaged at
stoke and Morice Town.

At Torpoint a chimney of the King's Arms Inn,
fell foto a room where a man and his wife were in
bed, bat they fortunately escaped uninjured.
In Storehouse, a pinnacle of the tower fell through
the roof into the body of the edifice, and effected so
ranch damage, that no divine service was performed
in it on Sunday.
In Plymouth, one of the chimneys of the Work-
house fell through the roof into a room, in which
.
were nx poor women, only one of wham was injured,
and that but slightly in the knee, though the bricks,
2zc., fell upon three of the bedsteads, and broke one
of them. The chimney of a house in Bedford-street,
belonging to Mr. Huxhaw, was blown down and
injured the whole of the premises very considerably.
The roofs of the barracks in the Garrison were much
injured.
- - •

The damage at:Kingsland and Cawsand is very
serious. One house was entirely blown down, and
some of the inmates bruised. At Mount Edge-
cumbe, upwards of one hundred trees were laid level
with the ground ; at Tothill, near Plymouth, about
forty ; and the woods at Saltram, Radford, Hooe,
and many other places, present undeniable proofs of
the ravages of this calamitous storm.—Dr?,onport
Telegraph.

The menagerie of his Grace the Duke of
BEDFORD, Woburn Abbey, was entered in the night of
Thursday week, and several gold and silver pheasants and
a large black swan (which was highly valued by the Duke,
and was a general favourite on recount of its remarkable
tameness) were stolen therefrom. —B. ucks Chronicle.
Bowness, the supposed Rival of Allonby.—
On Friday last,. 2501„ per acre ;vas offered and refused for
one acre of land situate near Bowness, to build upon.
Other lands and houses have risen in proportion (hiring the
last three years.—Carlisle Journal.

Qn Sunday afternoon, ALEX. EDGELY, a
blacksmith in Dunse, was found dead on the moor be-
tween Longfoi ruacus and Danskin. It is supposed he had
perished from the extreme cold.—Berwick Advertiser.

A letter from Newcastle, dated yesterday
(Thursday) evening says,—" We have experienced, fm' the
greater part of the last 24 hours, very stormy weather;
the wind blowing rather hard from the eastward up to
12 P.m., and a heavy fall of snow taking place at the same
time. It is much to be apprehended that the marine in-
telligence on the eastern coast will prove of a disastrous
complexion in consequence of this storm.—Durham
Advertiser.

FE V Ex.--`fie regret tile having to state, upon
;nforrnation from Athy, that contagious fever prevails in
that town. The effects of this severe visitation of distem-
per ere already felt in the death of several respectable inha-
bitants. —D üblin Patriot.

IRON TRADE.—We are glad to hear that the
workmen in the Staffordshire iron-works are well employed,
and are obtaining good wages. The demand for iron is
good, though at low prices.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
. SILK TRADE.—We regret to inform our
readers that there are now, in the township of ilfaccks-
field, the following unoccupied property:—
Empty Houses 920
Ditto Factories lb 9,.
Ditto Rooms in do 644
We have not ygt been able to obtain a return► from the ad-
joining townships of Sutton and Hurdsfield, which com-
prise the remainder of the town of Macclesfield. We
believe we may safely add that, during the last two years,
there have not been more than twenty new houses built in
Macclesfield. These observations we are compelled to make
in reply to the various and erroneous reports which are
afloat, relative to the state of trade in this neighbourhood,
and in confirmation of the position which we have uniformly
sustained, that the " Free Trade" system, however eulo-
gized by a party, has proved ruinous to this town, and unless
.some corrective he administered will ultimately banish the
,Silk Trade from the country.-11facelesfield Courier.

We regret to state that the Hawk, MUNRO,
which .sailed from Greenock, on Wednesday, for Demerara,
was lost no the following night, during the snow storm, on
the south-east point of the Isle of Bute. The crew got
ashore alive, but so benumbed with cold that two of them
have since died.— Glasgow Courier.

RESURRECTIONISTS.—SeveraI of these gen-
try have been lately prowling about in this neighbourhood;
and last week they stole the body of an elderly female,
which hail been interred on Sunday se'nnight, from Wal-
sall burial ground.—LicMeld Mercury.
At the Westmoreland Quarter Sessions, a
man was accused of incest with his own daughter, a girl
about nineteen years of age. She had previously sworn
the child to another man, but the Magistrates quashed the
order, thereby confirming the charge of incest.

At the present Stafford Sessions, the amount
of blisZnesq is very large.. The following is an abstract of
calendar of prisoners now committed for trial :

For felony ................ • ............. 105
For poaching ............... . ... , ....... l 5
For uttering base coin ..................
For common assaults • • ........ ' ...... 1()
For acts of vagrancy
3

.Lichfield Mercury. Total
DYSART, JAN. 7, 1828.—The inhabitants
of Dysart have of late been somewhat amused by the novel
occurrence of a man with a beard of most patriarchal length
"holding forth" to them in an old barn. He at first called
himself a "converted Jew," although it has since been ,
ascertained that he is a Highlander from Argyleshire, and
not a Nazarite from Judea. A hearer a this Apostle (for
he pretends to have received a commission directly from
God)--a knight of the order of the needle and thimble,
startled at hearing some of his ueighbours saying that the
man with the beard did not preach sound doctrine, ex- ,
claimed, ,c If yon binna soond doctrine, I dinria ken what
you ca' world- doctrine, for -I lookit up every passage 0' Scrip-
ture that he cited, an' they were a right except ane that l
didna mind."—Fife Herald.
A PRODIGY.—Those who believe in 'well_
authenticated stories, may place implicit reliancorin the
following :—There is now in Warrington a boy ten years
of age, who is thus particularly signalized ; on the white
of one eye is to be seen in legible characters, .‘ T. SMITII,"
and the year of his birth is marked on the other. He
has been taken about as a show, accompanied with a cer-
tificate, vouching these things to be preternatural, signed
by several medical men. We may add that this astonish-
ing youth is a natural child, and that the father, before
birth, said he would not Own him as his, if his name were
not written on his forehead: Though we may claim the
privilege of scepticism, we caution our readers from enter-
-tabling any doubt of this statement offucts,—/lfacelesfiekl
Courier.