The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-14 00:00:00

THE LATE SEVERE GALE,

The effect of the late hurricane has been most disas-
trous both by sea and land. In Dover and its neigh-
bourhood much damage has been done to property.
Among the many unroofings that took place, there was
no one more singular than that of Mr. I. B. Terson's
Waterloo Rooms, the entire sheet-copper covering of
the building having been lifted from its moorings at
eight o'clock on Thursday morning, and precipitated
from a height of upwards of fifty feet into the street,
about eighty feet off, without doing injurx to any
one, though many persons were passing near the spot at
the time.

We have not had so severe a gale during the whole();
the winter.

The encroachments of the sea, and consequent loss
of land, on which small tenements were erected to the
west of the town, continue in a serious degree. Several
' chimneys also were thrown down, and some houses un-
roofed, in the course of Thursday morning. A very
large quantity of beach has been driven by the storm
into the entrance channel, which, however, it is hoped,
may be removed at low water, before the next spring
tides.

Yesterday, about noon, a collier standing to the west-
ward was seen to have in tow a boat containing so.oe
men. The boat was observed, on quitting the collier,
to make for the harbour, but the flood-tide was too
strong, in consequence of which the Blue-eyed Maid
hovelling-boat stood out to sea, and succeeded in towing
into the harbour the boat, which contained eight un-
happy men, a boy, and a dead man. It appears they
quitted the brig Mary Coxon, of North Shields,-at the,
moment of her foundering at sea, and were thirty-six
hours in the boat without food, so that the cold was the
occasion of the death of the poor fellow.
Four vessels are said to be' on shore to the westward
of Boulogne ; one (a large American), with a crew of
seventeen, out of whom only five are reported to have
been saved.

The schooner Emma, of Portsmouth, from London, with
a general cargo, drove from her anchors under Dunge-
ness, and came in contact with the brig Hope, of Rye,
when she was abandoned by the crew, and is supposed to
have foundered, having received great damages.— Crew
saved except two.
On Thursday, during the gale, the Minerva, of Jersey,
from Sunderland, with coals, sunk off Calais. The crew
were saved from the sinking vessel by Mr. Slater, Second
Master of her Majesty's steam-packet Widgeon, who,
along with a crew of Englishmen, put off from Calais to
their rescue in a whale boat, at great personal hazard,
the sea running very high across the mouth of the har-
bour at the time.—Dover Chronicle.

ROBBERY AND TORTURE IN
TURKEY;
We find the subjoined from Smyrna, 19th ult., in
the Malta Times :
" I related in my last a short account of a daring
and, ultimately, as it turns out, successful attack on
an escort in charge of a sum of money belonging to
the Turkish Government, on its way from Aidin to
Constantinople. The robbery, as then stated, would
excite little curiosity, as the ends of justice seemed
nearly all satisfactorily answered. Both the facts
and results, however, differ so widely from that state-
ment, and seem with evil so portent, that nothing less
than a full and detailed account will serve to convey
an adequate idea of them. In the first stages of the
horrible persecutions which I am now about to relate,
such was the secrecy inculcated and observed, and
such the tendency of the stories industriously
circulated to allay or divert public curiosity,
that suspicion, though long wakeful, was nearly
lulled to repose, when suddenly it became known
that torture had been applied to two of the prisoners,
the surgeon of the Greek Hospital having been sent
tbr to attend one of them, who was dying under its
effects I A thrill of horror, like an electric shock, ran
through the. *hole Christian community. It appears,
then, that instead of nine mule-loads of money, there
were twelve • but the amount is the same 100,000
piastres. The attack was made, not from or close,by
a kaffene guard-house, but about mid-way between
two kaffenes, an hour's distance from each other. In-
stead of a robber having been seized, and, on being
questioned, had confessed, and, in consequence of this
confession, a great. part of the gang had been
arrested, and nearly all the money found, only
one of the number has been discovered, and he
only cognisant and abetting—not present at the affair.
Of the money, only one mule-load, and that by mere
chance, the animal being found dead on the mountains ;
it appears that it had been wounded in the affray,
broken loose, and ran on till it fell dead with exhaustion.
The gang seem to have made a successful razzia of all
the rest, led them safely to the sea-coast, near Vourla,
and to have got clear away with their booty in two
open boats waiting there to receive them. The whole

party was composed of Turks and natives of Samos.
Of the two prisoners -above alluded to, one is a
Turk who confessed not by questioning, but by
torture, that he has leagued, though not pre-
sent, with the robbers ; he is the BollOok-nashi, or
head of the guards at one of the kaffenes. The other is a
Greek, arrested on mere suspicion, and now reported
dead. Two other Greeks are also reported to have
expired under the horrid tortures to which they were
subjected to extort a confession of what they knew
nothing. In vain they protested their ignorance
torment after torment was added, until death released
theth from their sufferings. The torture was inflicted
as privately and secretly as possible. Every exquisite
suffering that a fiendish imagination could devise was
remorselessly inflicted. -They were first bastinadoed;
the temples were then crushed by balls of hone
pressed by a band twisted behind the head
till the eyes started from the sockets. Needles

were forced up the fingers ; boiling oil poured on the
breast. If they still lived, red-hot horse-shoes were
applied to the feet, the wrists were turned, and a red
hot brass basin placed upon the naked head ! Other
atrocities were perpetrated, far too horrible to name
Two of those who suffered most severely, confessed
all they knew, even before torture was threatened.

_
Againsi these there were some grounds of accusation.
It appeared by their own account, which is also con-
firmed by other evidence, that being at their occu-
pation on the hills, they were seen by the rob-
bers, who obliged them, on pain of death, to go
to the next village to buy provisions. Had they
disobeyed—much less denounced—these bandits,
murder surely awaited them. More than fifty per-
sons in all have been tortured or imprisoned. Some
of them have been released. Amongst those remain-
ing are three Primates of the village of Bouja, being
held responsible for the conduct of one or two vil-
lagers who have been arrested on suspicion ; whilst
from the confession of the Bollook Bashi it appears
evident that none of these were any way concerned
in it. The various European Consuls, and such of
the respectable merchants as were known to have in-
fluence with the Governor, proceeded to the Konak to
endeavour to induce him to mitigate the severity of
these proceedings. Their humane intentions were
however fruitless, and some of them were not even ad-
mitted to his presence. Said Paella, the Governor, be
it known, is a most devout and rigid Mussulman. Dur-
ing the day he has a Mollah by his side reading the
Koran. Being very regular in his devotions, he always
retires from the scene of torture at the appointed
hour. He was married to a daughter of the Sultan,
but the Princess died some time ago. Latterly he
was Governor of Aidin, where he still governs by
deputy. His cruelties there to the Greeks are said
to be of the blackest dye. At the time of the pro-
mulgation of the celebrated Hatti-Scherif of Gull-

he was one of the leading. Ministers of the
Porte, and the document bears his signature.
No sooner did these shocking facts become known,
than the English residents petitioned the British
Consul to interpose all his influence and authority
in behalf of the sufferers. This example was
followed by the French residents. The only answer
Mr. Brant could make was that Said Pacha might .
question his right to interfere ; that he might place
himself in a false position by attempting it; but pro-
mised to refer the case immediately .to Sir Stratford
Canning. But the franctic rage of the Pacha has not
stopped here. His vengeance could not be glutted,
by his, unheard-of cruelties to the Sultan's subjects,
he has dared to insult his master's best friend and ally
(England) by bastinadoing two Anglo-Greeks. One
of them, a farmer, he imprisoned on 'suspicion of
knowing something of the robbers ; the other, by trade
a butcher, was, seized for selling meat at a higher rate
than that fixed by the Governor. In vain did Mr.
Brant remonstrate and claim exclusive jurisdiction
over them ; in vain he warned him of the consequences
of his refusal to give them up to, him. They were both
biutally beaten.