The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM-LOSS OF
LIFE.
....

The accounts received from the coast, in the course
.of Thursday and Wednesday, relative to the effects of
the dreadful storm which raged during Saturday and
Sunday, were of a most distressing description. The
loss of life and property has been immense.
Shortly after the ship Hope, • from Quebec, had
struck on the Goodwin Sands, on Saturday morning,
two brigs heavily laden, the Mendingo, Captain Bur-
gin, bound for Jamaica, and the Felice Rosso, for
Pernambuco, were driven by the force of
_the storm
on the shore under Deal Castle. They remained in a
most perilous situation for many hours, both vessels
beating violently on the' sands, surrounded with a tre-
mendous sea, which defied all attempts to get at them
from the shore, although within 200 yards, and plenty
of assistance at hand. One Deal boat, in attempting to
reach the Mendingo, was capsized by the waves, and
one of the crew was drowned; the others saved them-
selves .by clinging to the bottom of the boat. At
lE ngth a steamer arrived from Margate, -the Royal
George, and a rope being thrown on board of the dis-
tressed vessels, they were towed off, but not before
'hey had sustained such severe damage that the pumps
were obliged to be kept in active operation to prevent
them from sinking. At Dungeness, the first burst of
the storm drove a large fishing-boat on to the hard
sands near the middle battery, where she instantly
became a wreck. The crew, consisting of six per-
sons, were washed ashore alive. Directly after-
wards the Beverley (a brig), of and belonging
to Guernsey, master William Hall, and another
brig, called the Rebecca and Eliza, from New-
castle-upon-Tyne, Odden, in ballast, on her pas-
sage to Rouen, became unmanageable, and were
liven on shore within a short distance of each other
at the same place. Within a few minutes after the
Beverley struck, her decks blew up from the effects
of the heavy sea, which made a complete breach over
her, and the crew, to . save themselves, took to the
rigging. In this situation they remained many hours,
and at last were taken off by a party of the coast guard
service, who put off in a lugger. They were in a
dreadful state of exhaustion, and were all but dead.
Both vessels, as the hurricane increased, became
wrecks.' Their loss is described as being nearly 2,0001.
At Ilfracombe the storm was severely felt. About
four o'clock on Sunday morning a large brig, called
the Wilberforce, from Saundersfoot, was totally lost
three miles up the beach by striking on the rocks
under the cliff. The whole of the crew, 10 in number,
including the master, Mr. Nixon, perished with the
ship. At daybreak the beach was found covered with
spars and pieces of wreck belonging to the ill-fated
craft. In the course of the day the bodies of the
captain and one of the seamen were washed ashore,
shockingly disfigured about the head and face by
coming in contact with the rocks. The Wilberforce
and cargo are valued at 1,2001. About the same time
a large barque, name
.at .present unknown, was ob-
served to go down between four and five miles off
Cromer lighthouse. Her crew (supposed to con-
sist of sixteen persons) sunk with her, and perished.
The catastrophe was witnessed by a fishing coble
belonging to Whitby, but the violence of the
hurricane prevented them getting near her to
render assistance. On Sunday morning, shortly
before six o'clock, the schooner Watt, of Plymouth,
was wrecked on the Boulder Bank, off East-
bourne, near Hastings. The vessel, which was
valued at 1,6001., was laden with timber, and upon
her homeward voyage from Quebec. Four hours after
she struck, the crew were taken off the rigging by the
Eastbourne life-boat. It is feared she will be a total
loss. On Monday, early in the morning, a vessel was
lost near Eyemouth, by breaking from her moorings
and driving upon the beach ; she proved to be the
Betsey, a schooner belonging to Dundee, laden with a
cargo of coals which had been shipped at Newcastle.
There were 12 passengers on board besides the crew,
consisting.of three men, three women, and six young
children, and their escape from a watery grave was
truly miraculous. After the vessel struck, a line was
thrown from the beach, by which they were drawn
one by one through the breakers to the shore. The
poor creatures, particularly the children, were in a
shocking condition by the time they landed, but
through proper treatment they shortly recevered.
The vessel is insured for 8001. During the night
'she broke up, and her cargo was washed partly
ashore. In the course.of the same day the Emma, of
Swansea, was driven on the rocks at Sker Point, and
is expected to become a total wreck. .Among the
numerous vessels that have driven ashore in various
parts of the coast, and in the same situation, are the
following:—The Burfnah, of Bergen, at Whitby ;
the Elizabeth, of South . Shields ; the Union, of
Yarmouth, on the rocks off St. Michael's Mount ; the
Ann and Ellen, of London, on the Skerrington Shoal;
the brig Thnbuctoo, of Bristol, and twenty more.
At Bideford the loss of life was dreadful in the ex-
treme. Several vessels were totally lost on Saturday
and Sunday morning. Two of them are known to be
the Auspicious; from Lowering, and the Thomas and
Eliza of Neath.
On Saturday morning a brig, called the Morgan of
Tenby, from Hayle to Llanelly, laden with copper
O. antlered in Se...Frei-Bay, and all onboard met
with a watery grave. Another vessel, the Friends of
Carbia, in Wales, went down in the course of the same
morning in the Channel, those on board perishing with
her. 11Iany other vessels are known to have been
wrecked, but their names and fate of the crews have
not been received.

Loss OF TIIE FRENCH SCHOONER COUNA BABA.
—As her Majesty's mail packet Medina, commanded
by Mr. William Smithett, E.N., was proceeding with
the mails for Kingstown yesterday morning, after
passing the Rock Lighthouse, a vessel was seen by
Capt. Smithett on Burbo Bank. The life-boat was im-
mediately got ready, and at ten minutes past 7 o'clock
put in charge of Mr. Dillon, second master, who with
nine men proceeded to the sand bank with a view of
saving the perishing crew, as it was evident that the
vessel must go to pieces on the flowing tide. It was
blowing very strong from the north with a heavy sea.
The life-boat, deeply laden, having in all 17 souls,
behaved well, although at times she nearly filled with
water. She returned to the packet at half-past eight,
having the crew of the vessel, seven in number, who
were put into the magazine life-boat, which Captain
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bottom up, on the sand-bank, and felt highly grati-
fied at having had it in his power to rescue the suf-
ferers from a watery grave. This is the second in-
stance in which the life-boats belonging to her Ma-
jesty's packets on this station (which have been fur-
nished within the present year) have been instru-
mental in saving human life.—Liverpool Courier of
Wednesday.
COWES.—The Princess Victoria steamer has been
lying off here, during the week, with the steam up,
on the look-out for the Belgian steamer British
Queen, from New York, but as the time of her de-
parture from that port is uncertain, the probable time
of her arrival here is all conjecture. It has been
blowing very hard here from the south-west.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT. —An inquest
before
Mr. held lately in the village of Pontantwn,
Mr. W. Benville, on the body of Mr. Jos. Griffiths,
of the Bridge-end, accidentally drowned in a shallow
mill loot, near that place, under most singular circum-
stances :—lt appears that on Tuesday deceased.
two
business, and that on his return
hundred yards of his house, he
had occasion to go to the village
hoofmLel ahnl gtehned edi ruts'
dusk
on
the evening, within a
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with ; there
d in the water, which was about
had to cross a
happened to be a bridge,
planks, covered
to 1 • 'nto which his foot slipped hisknee, and he fell
12 inches deep. No person being present at the time,
he was unable to extricate himself from this singular
and perilous situation, and was consequently Suffo-
cated.head Some time afterwards, a woman coining that
way discovered the deceased a lifeless corpse sus-
pended by his feet, his head only being
under the wa-
ter. The deceased was much respected 1 •
all who
knew him. Verdict---" A •
ccidentally drowned."—
Welsh Paper.
The death of - Lieuten•an t C
en eral Count Claparede,
Cross o
Peer of France, and Grand C f
the
Legion of
honour, took place last week, at Montpellier. Ge-
neral Claparede
distinguished himself on various oc-
casions during
Napoleon's career, and took part in the
campaigns of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Russia. He
was created Peer of France in 1819.
A great portion of the town of Perm, in Russia,
has been destroyed
by fire.
REVISION OF VOTING LISTS.—CAUTION TO OSTER-
sEEIIS.—The lists of voters for the western division of
Gloucester have within the last few days been revised
by Messrs. Kempson and Philihnore, the barristers
appointed. The Learned Gentlemen made their cir-
cuit, and were attended by agents for the two parties
—Messrs. Wild and Beck for the Whigs, Messrs.
Burgess and IVormsley for the Conservatives. About
1,000 claims and objections were investigated. Seve-
ral of the overseers failed to attend at the places ap-
pointed, and were summoned to appear at the last
place,
where sonic had for their negligence to come
about 50 miles. A circumstance occurred during this
circuit which is likely to lead to further proceedings.
In two parishes the overseers did not make their ap-
pearance, either at the parishes or in the last place,
where they had notice to attend. In one of the
parishes the list exhibited 95 voters, and in the other
12, both of which are, in fact, by the non-attendance
of the parochial officers, disfranchised until the next
registration, The overseers are liable to heavy penal-
ties,anlc
under he Reform Act, for their negligence,
to actions at law by the respective persons claiming
to be voters.—Hereford Journal.

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