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THE ARCHDUKE FREDERICK
OF AUSTRIA.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 16, 1842.
The following addresses of congratulation, transmitted
for presentation to his Royal Highness Prinoe Albert,
on the occasion of the birth of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, wore presented to his Royal Highness
by the Right Hon. the Marquis of Exeter :—Frorn the
Legislative Council of Canada, in provincial Parliament
assembled. From the Commons of Canada, in provin-
cial Parliament assembled.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15.
An Address of Congratulation on the escape of her
Majesty from assassination, from the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Burgesses of the borough of Newport, Monmouth-
shire, having been transmitted for presentation to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, has been presented by
the Marquis of Exeter to his Royal Highness, who was
pleased to receive the same very graciously.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one
of the .Lords of Session, in Scotlaed, to Alexander
Wood, Esq., Dean of Faculty, in the room of Adam
Gillies, Esq., resigned.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 15.
Ordnanu Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon
William Kelly to be Surgeon, vice Seaton, retired on
half7pay, Nov. 1.
COURT OP QUEEN'S "BENCII.
Michaelmas Term, 1842.—Sixth Victoria.
15th November, 1842.
This Court will, on Saturday the 26th, and Monday
the 28th days of November instant, also on Saturday, the
3d day of December next, hold Sittings, and will proceed
in disposing of the business in the New Trial Paper,
Crown Paper, and Special Paper, and in giving judg-
ment in cases that may then be pending.
- By the Court.
CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE
RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
NORTHERN SPRING CIRCUIT, 1843 (AS ALTERED).
, Esq., Commissioner.
Yorkshire—At Sheffield, Friday, Feb. 10.
Yorkshire—At Wakefield, Monday, Feb. 13. •
At the Town and County of the Town of Kinston-upon-
Hull, Monday, Feb. 20.
Yorkshire—At York, Wednesday, Feb. 22.
At the City and County of the City of York—The same
day.
Yorkshire—At Richmond, Friday. Feb. 24.
Durham—At Durham, Saturday, Feb. 25.
Northumberland—At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tuesday,
Feb. 28 .
At the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-
.upon-Tyne—The same day.
Cumberland—At Carlisle, Friday, March 3.
Weitmoreland—At Appleby, Monday, March 6.
Webtmereland—At Kendal, Tuesday, March 7.
Lancashire—A t Lancaster, Wednesday, March 8.
Lancashire—At Preston, Saturday, Mauch 18.
Lancashire—At Liverpool, Monday, March 20.
Cheshire—At Chester, Wednesday, March 22.
At the City and County of the City of Chester—The
same .day. •
Montgomeryshire—At Welsh Pool, Saturday, March 25.
Flintshire—At Mold, Monday, March 27.
Denbighshire—At Ruthin; Tuesday, March 28.
Merionethshire—At Dolgelly, Thursday, March 30.
Anglesey—at Beaumaris, Monday, April 3.
Carnarvonshire—At Carnarvon, Tuesday, April 4.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
WILLIAM LYON, jun., chemist and druggist, Cam-
bridge. _ .

merchant, Tokenhouse-yard, City, Dec. 13, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-strcet—C. Savin
and E. Le Roy, artificial flower manufacturers, Berners-
street, Middlesex Hospital, Dec. 9, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Basinghall-street—W. C. Golland, linen
draper, Cambridge, Dec. 13, at half-past two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, nasinghall-street—T. Lingham,
wine merchant, Cross-lauc, St. Mary- at-hill, Dee. 12, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street—O.
Hills, grocer, Bow, Dec. 13, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basiughall-street —W. Norton and F. Jackson,
warehousemen, Cateaton-street, Dec. 12, at half-past one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street—R. C.
and IL T. Gray, rope makers, Grosvenor-place, Commer-
cial-read East, Dec. 13, at three, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street —G. Booth, lime burner,
Princes-street, Lambeth, Dec. 12, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
PA lITNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
.B. Clarke, J. Tayleur, and J. Walmsley, -coal pro-
prietors, Shevington, Lancashire (so far as regards B.
Clarke)—R. Godeffroy and J. Situson, Great Winches-
ter-street J. Croton and G. Evans, flannel merchants,
Oswestry,`Shropshire—J. J. Clothier, R. Legg, and M.
Clothier, milliners, St. Paul's Church-yard—J. Wood, E.
Wood, and IL Gardner, Coleman-street—J. Guldthorp.
C. Goldthorp, and R. Goldthorp, flax makers, Rawfolds.
Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Goldthorp)—J. Green, J..
Green, T. HedleY, and J. Ritson, iron manufacturers,
Corsenside, Northumberland (so far as regards T. Hed-
ley)—Jh. and Jn. Rayner, drysalters, Pudsey, Yorkshire
—II. and G. Castle, linen drapers, Blackheath—T. F.
Piper and IL W. Gabriel, wholesale stay makers, New-
gate-street—S. limner and W. Porter, coach makers.
' Birmingham —I:. hicks ditd K. Hicks, jun., builders,
Stang-ate, Lambeth—T. 11. and J. Ktholes, muslin ma-
nutlieturera, Manchester—T. Haggett and 11. Parratt,
builders, Clifton, Bristol—'l'. Bolton, J. Ferguson, and J.
05den, merchants, Liverpool—B. Wood, sen., and B.
11 ood, jun., wino merchant, Leeds—R. Casson, W.
Kennedy, and W. Bettison, printers of the " Hull Adver-
tiser," Kingston-upon-Hull (so far as regards W. Ken-
nedy)—J. England, G. L. Shackles, and W. Popplewell,
jun., attorneys, South Cave, Yorkshire —J h. Thompson,
Js. 'Thompson, and Jn. Thompson, cotton spinners,
Manchester (so far as regards Jn. Thompson)—J.
Fletcher and T. Banks,steam-engine-makers, Manch, ster.

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MIDSITMMEII, EV E.
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and. the Publishers recommend it as of uncommon merit.

lyo-1162-31.„ Nov. 17.—A t eleven o'clock this
morning lmperial Highness the Archduke
Frederick of Austria, attended by Baron Lebzeltern,
Counts Karoly, Maronivich, Kobel, and Dumont, and
other members of the suite, accompanied by Captain
Fitzroy, R.N., as Aide-de-Camp and interpreter, with
Captain Boldero, M,P., Clerk of the Ordnance, ar-
rived in two carriages and four at the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, and were received by Colonel R. J. J.
Lacy, Colonel Cleaveland, Colonel J. E. Jones, Assis-
tant-Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery; Colonel
Mercer, Royal Marines ;
Lieut.-Colonel
Major Hardinge, K.H., • M'Bean,
Mejor Sandilands, and Bri-
gade Major Cuppage, of the Royal Artillery; and
Major Sandham, Royal Engineers. Colonel Jona-
than Peel, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, arrived
shortly afterwards;
and accompanied his Imperial
•Highness over the various departments.
on the Archduke Frederick of Austria alighting
from his carriage, the guard of the Royal Artillery
presented arms,
.and a salute was fired from a field
battery stationed on the wharf of the Royal Arsenal.
The first place visited by his Imperial highness
was the foundry, where he was received and con-
ducted over that department by Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Dundas, C.B. The Archduke examined the
beautiful brass leaves of the Corinthian order Cast
for Nelson's monument, and appeared pleased with
their chaste and
_ele ant earance. From the
fo.us pret"cedea to
the boring branch of that department, where a
most camp;ete and perfect set of machinery bores the
solid brass, according to the size of the calibre re-
quired, and turns with the greatest nicety and beauty
the exterior. These works have just been completed
by Napier, and are now in full operation, performed
by steam power, and scarcely requiring any manual
labour, the whole, even the moving of the guns from
one part of the building to the other, being accom-
plished by machinery. A great number of twenty-
four and twelve-pounder guns were in progress of being
finished, and altogether the party seemed much pleased.
In one of the wings large metal gam are bored, and
the operation was witnessed by the Archduke.
From the boring establishment his Imperial High-
ness proceeded to the laboratory department, where
he was received by Col. Cockburn and Lieut.-Col.
Dansey, C.B. On entering the rooms' set apart for
making percussion caps, the beauty of the machinery
and the rapidity of the work entirely done by hand,
and mostly by boys, appeared to give great satisfac-
tion. 'His Imperial Highness remained some time in
this department, and witnessed the whole process,
from the.cutting out of the metal in the form of a
Maltese cross, until brought into its finished form and
filled with the igniting composition, and varnished for
preservation until required for service. The building
occupied.by.boys employed in making blank and ball
cartridges, was also visited, and the 'rapidity with
which the work was accomplished appeared to sur-
prise the visitors. In another building in this de-
partment is a powerful machine, invented by Napier,
and worked bar hand, for. making musket balls by
highness witnessed the
with great rapidity
pler e s
processsu re, a n
odf leisfo r Imni-inpge r
from bars of lead.

Saunders and Utley, Conduit-street.

iIpHE THAMES TUNNEL is Open Dart),
..11. to Visitors, (Sunday excepted), from Nine in the
Morning until Dark, and is lighted with gas. The Entrance
is now on the Middlesex aide of the River, close to the Tun •
nel Pier, Wapping. (the Shaft at Rotherhithe being closed
to finish the new Staircase.)—Admittance One Shilling each.
By order of t' e Board of Directors,
.1. CH ARLIER, Clerk to the Company.
Company's Office, 2, Walbrook Buildings,
City, November, 1642.

N.B. Steam-boats to the Tunnel Pier at Wapping, from
Hungcrford, Adelphi, Temple Bar, Blackfriars Bridge, Old
Shades, Old Swan, and Adelphi Piers, London Bridge.
Books, with Plates descriptive of the Works, are sold at the
Tunnel, price Is.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
ANDERSON, HARVEY, and CO., thread manu-
facturers, Paisley), Nov. 12 and Dec. 18, at twelve, at the
Chambers of J. Dunn, Paisley.
JAMES STEUART, tanner, Thornhill, Perthshire,
Nov. 21 and Dec. 12, at twelve, at the Court-house,
Dunblune.

DAVID ROBERTSON, cattle dealer, emigres,
Forfarshire, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15, at twelve, at the Royal
Hotel, Dundee.

JOIN WRIGHT and ROBINA WRIGHT, mer-
chants, Aberdeen, Nov. 26 and Dec. 19, at twelve, at the
Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen.
ROBERT TORRANCE, draper, Airdrie, Nov. 25
and Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Chambers of Forbes and
Reddic, Glasgow.

JOHN CAMIVBELL, spirit dealer, Glasgow, Nov. 24
and Dee. 15, at twelve, at the Chambers of C. and R.
Baird, Glasgow.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending Nov. 18, 1842, is
365. sid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain.

SERIOUS AFFRAY.
On Sunday night last, the neighbourhood of Mount-
street was thrown into a state of great alarm, in con-
sequence of a very serious affray having taking place
between a party of soldiers and a tap-room full of
civilians at the Britannia public-house, Mount-street.
The case was heard at the Police-office yesterday
(Thursday), and the following are the particulars :
Henry IL:in.:es, a private in the Queen's Bays, was
charged by William Smith, landlord of the Britannia
public-house, Mount-street, with breaking a table,
and damaging four spittoons and four cans, of the
value of Ws. He charged others, but could not name
any more.
The evidence was as follows :—That on Sunday
night, about eight o'clock, while the tap-room of the
Britannia was filled with people, three or four soldiers
came in. The newspaper had been read, and the
company were talking about Chartism. One of the
soldiers immediately said, " D— and b— the
bloody Chartists." This led to some chaffing, and one
of the soldiers gave a toast, " May every Tory Magis •
trate's house be thatched with the skins of Chartists."
The chaffing went on, and shortly after one of the sol-
diers went out, saying he would be batik directly.
Almost immediately after some other soldiers came
in, took up the table, smashed the legs off, and played
away on all sides. The civilians turned agam, and
a general light took place, but eventually the civi-
lians were swept from the field. One witness, Wm.
Hind, of Cannon-yard, Long-row, had his arm broken
his hand smashed, his ear hurt with kicks, and
otherwise injured. Others were also injured. None
could, however, swear to any soldier as breaking the
table. They, however, distinctly swore that no blow
had been struck previous to the soldiers breaking the
table, and that they commenced what was termed a
cowardly and brutal assault. The prisoner's glove,
which was found, with his name written in it, was the
clue which led to his discovery as being one of the
psrty.

From the laboratory the Archduke proceeded to
the carriage department, and witnessed wood-cutting
by circular saws and forming lance poles, and in an-
other branch of the same department planing immense
planks by Brathah's circular machine, the whole
moved by steam power. His Imperial Highness here
examined two powder cases for magazines either for
land or sea use, and as they are made of a square form,
they are easily moved about, and being capable of
being stowed in less compass to the extent of fully,
one• fourth than could be accomplished with the same
quantity packed in barrels.
From the. carriage his Imperial Highness walked.
across-the field, where upwards of 28,000 large guns
of various calibre are arranged, and upwards of
4,000,000 of shells and shot visible almost at one •
view, and entered the store department, where accou-
trements are always kept in readiness to supply
10,000 horses at an hour's notice. In one part of this
establishment his I:nperial Highness appeared much
pleased with some cavalry saddles, and the complete
manner in which other saddles were fitted with moun-
tain howitzers, and cases for 56 small rockets attached
to each saddle. In the lower part of the extensive
storehouses are always kept ready for use a large
supply of naval instruments, and other articles far
sea service.

depart
to the proving
Imperial Highness
From the store deortment the Archduke proceeded
after the capture of G each,
he was received by
Lient.-Colonel Chalmer.ment, where:
Previous to entering, his
eam ined the three large brass
guns, about 18ft. longx
huznee. He also examined a
sent home from India
large gun of the new model, weighing 113 cwt., and
appeared gratified with its beautiful symmetry and
just proportions. d
In o
department the Archduke:n e of
the wings of the proving
witnessed the fragments or
1
rather corroded
_nasses' formed of the guns which
were recovered from thein wreck of the Mary Rose, af-
ter having remainedthe water about two hundred
provingyears. In the provinepartment, Lieut.-Colonel
Dundas and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer showed the
mode by which large guns
principle ; and in anulhwere fired on the percus-
sioner part his Imperial High-
ness witnessed the operation
of a beautiful and supe-
rior invention for measuringu the diameter and cotrect-
ness of the bore of large
are guages for measuring the"gns. In the same building
correctness of balls and
shells, the operations of which were all exhibited.
His Imperial Highness their
entered his carriage
and drove to the Marshes, where he witnessed
spherical shell practice, bytoo I 3 and D field batteries,
of under the command Colonel Cleaveland. From
the Marshes the Archduke and suite proceeded to the.
garrison, and after shortly examining the barracks of
the men, entered the splendid mess-room of the Royal
Artillery, where he partook
of an elegant dejeuner
prepared for the occasion.
During the time his Im-
perial Highness and suite
the band of the Royal Artillwere at the mess-room,erj
excel-
lent tunes in front of the colonnade, and a guard of
honour attended, under the command of Capt. Weller.
The Rotunda was afterwards
im-
mense variety of arms of all visited, and the
eriods of historyeared
, and
objects of interest in this national
to give great delight to the repository, app
At three o'clock the Royarrey.
Horse Artillery assem-
bled on the common, under Colonel Dyneley, C. 8.,
and went through their evolutions, notwithstanding
in
the wetness of the ground, an admirable manner;
and his Imperial Highness expressed to Col. Dyneley
his approbation of their aii:euvres. The Royal
Horse Artillery then marched to the upper part of
the common and fired a sehite
as his Imperial High-
ness returned to town by the Blackheath-road.
Woomercn, Nov. 18.—The
Firefly steam-vessel,
at present in dock being repair
and_ cowered, has
been ordered to be fitted with rotatory engines, on the
plan of Vice-Admiral the Right II m
om Thomas Earl
of Dundonald.
The Acheron steam-vessel sailed for Sheerness on
Wednesday, the 16th.
The Mastiff surveying vessel, Master
Commander
arrived on
Thomas, and the Woodlark, her tender
Wednesday, the 16th inst., from theo,
Orkney Islands,
and will remain at Woolwich during the whiter season.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Lie
ilt
William Winniett, returned from . Commander
'Walmer Castle to
Woolwich on Wednesday, the 16t,b.
The Falmouth, which sailed from Woolwich for
Portsmouth last week, was under the necessity of
putting back to land her sailing master, r At Everson,
who was taken dangerously ill on the •
rassa
Falmouth sailed again almost immediately after. The
land-
ing the master, and has been obliged to put back a
second time, having run foul of a hie
The Magician, an iron steam vessel
of 360 tons,
built by Messrs. Ditchburn and Marc, proceeded
down the river on Wednesday, the 16th, under the
command of Captain Sir Francis Collier, lint., C.B.
and K.C.H., superintendent of her Majesty's dock-
yard, Woolwich, to try engines of 110. lone power,
which had been fitted in her by Penn and Son, and
the speed attained is said to have been 15 knots per
hour. ..
APPOINTMENTS TO THE IVIEG2F,RA
mitts.-,D
Ir. Mr •-r. E. S. F.
Cheeseman, Clerk in ' charge
T. C. Pullen,
Second Master; Mr. W.J. Pollard, -Mate ; Mr. R.

The Mayor could not think that soldiers would act
so without great provocation.
The Adjutant of the regiment, who was present at
the Police-office, wished to call witnesses for the defence.
The Mayor said it was of no use, as there Was no
case against the prisoner, who was not sworn to, and
he must be discharged.
The Adjutant would very much like to call them, as
he should show the civilians to be the aggressors, and
that the soldiers merely acted in their own defence.
The Mayor assented to it.

Corporal Macdonell deposed that no chaffing what-
ever took place • that no such toast was given ; that
the people in the tap-room insulted the soldiers by
calling them hired assassins, and calling out " Map-
perley Hills ;" and that ille all the other soldiers
were out but himself, he was knocked down, kicked,
and beat brutally, and that it was over his body that
his comrades came and rescued him ashelay bleeding.
Corporal Lawrence Council proved that Macdonell
was most brutally used, and that, before that, nothing
had been done to irritate the pe'ople.
The Mayor expressed his decided opinion that this
row first commenced with the civilians, that Macdo-
nell was knocked down before anything else was
done, and that acting a friendly and noble part, the
soldiers rescued their comrade. He trusted in future
no one would attempt to insult soldiers, as they were
under very peculiar circumstances and ought to be
honoured more than insulted.
The Adjutant thanked the Mayor for his atten •
tion to the case ; he only wished the affair to be fully
investigated, as the Colonel would have punished the
soldiers if they had been'in the wrong.
Hind looked a most pitiable object, and Macdonell's
face was all colours, with blows.—Notfingkain Review.

II mnuncll' Nov. 11.—In the course of last year,
a Hamburgh barque, the Echo, was seized in the har-
bour of Sierra Leone, and eventually confiscated
under the sanction of the local Admiralty Court, upon
grounds connected with her supposed infraction of a
convention made between Great Britain and Ham-
burgh, for the suppression of the slave trade. The
owner and agents of the barque applied, through the
medium of Mr. Colquhoun, in London (the Hanseatic
Consul-G eileral), to the British Government, complain-
ing of the illegality and injustice of the proceedings of
the Admiralty Court in Sierra Leone, and demanding
the restitution of the vessel, with indemnification for
her detention, and all costs. A diplomatic correspon-
dence arose out of this transaction, in which Lord
Aberdeen, Mr. Colquhoun, Colonel Hodges, and Mr.
Syndic Sieveking, of Hamburgh, were the principal
parties. Until the whole of the correspondence has
been published, it would not be fair to express what
has already appeared in print; a case is certainly
made out in favour of the owners of the Echo, which
demands a strict and very impartial investigation on
the part of the British Government.
THEATRICAL NOVELTlES.—Preparations are making
at both houses for the proiuction of the Christmas
pantomimes. At Covent-garden, an endeavour will
be made to improve the character of the amusement
by the substitution of clever jokes (which will bear'
repetition), for the endless riot and confusion
trs
which
has hitherto been its eharacter;stic—the Editors
Punch have been engaged upon it for some time. The
pantomime at Drury-lane will be called IF Tell.
The long talked of new ballet at Covent-garden is laid
by for the present, and the opera of Masaniello will be
revived as au afterpiece. The next operatic novelty
will, we believe, be Mr. Benedict's opera, which will
be produced immediately after Christmas ; this will be
hta del Logo, in which
mfolrlo:s'
followed
diabj witsssiunsrtas ucniaracter of Malcolm.—
inLathhe
Dramatic and Musical Review.
There are in the U •
mted States, according to the
census, one hundred and
eleven hundred and
forty-one weekly papers, and one
hundred and twenty-five
semi-weekly.
The number
o
cf periodicals is tw
hundred and twentv-seven.
Dispatches from the Governor of tie Mauritius,
and a'so from the Governor of Sierra Leone, were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Bren an, k=sistant. surgeon.
, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, assistant to
the Woolwich dockyard, has beep aPp:iinted chief en-
gineer, in the room of Mr. Peter recently
deceased from injuries he received by the breaking of
a chain employed in placing boilers on board one of
the steam vessels in the basin of the dockyard.

The Princess' Theatre, in Oxford-street, will 'be
opened with an opera company on the 26th of next
month. The musical department will
.be placed
under the direction of Signor Sebirra ; Mr. John
Loder is to be the leader ; and Mr. AV. Lovell Phillips
chorus-master.—Dramatic and Musical Review.
• . Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
t, Governor of
Cloanniaald-t.olffice for Sir Charles Bago

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DREADFUL STORM at MADEIRA.
' Funchal, the capital of Madeira, and the whole
of the island; has been visited with one of the most
dreadful storms that has occurred since the flood in
the year 1803, when upwards of 400 persons were
swept into the sea; and had the late deluge occurred
at night, as was the case in the former catastrophe,
there is no doubt but hundreds of persons would have
been drowned; however, as far as can be learned at
present, few lives were lost except in the distant pa-
rishes, where several hundreds of persons have been
carried into the sea.
The last summer was exceedingly hot, and almost
without rain, the weather remaining beautifully fine
until the 15th of October, when the clouds began to
envelope the mountains, which brought on the fol-
lowing day severe thunder storms, accompanied with
heavy rain, continuing almost without intermission
until the morning of the 24th of October, when the
rain partly ceased. At ten o'clock the Royal West
India steamer Dee arrived, and landed fifty-two pas-
sengers for the island. She was, however, prevented
from proceeding until the following day, as the Ad-
miralty agent, who had come on shore with the mail,
could net get on board again.
, About mid-day the whole of the island appeared
our:ed in a one vast cloud, threatening total dark-
ness ; the barometer fell considerably. The air be-
came very oppressive, with a strong sulphurous smell,
and the wind veered about to nearly- every point of the
compass. At one o'clock the rain began to fall in
torrents, and about an hour afterwards I perceived at
a distance of about a mile from shore an immense
rising in the sea, which was soon connected with a
mass of dark clouds overhanging the bay, to all ap-
pearance charging tnemselves.•or drawing the water
from the sea, for the space of about ten minutes, fol-
lowed immediately by a heavy swell or rising of tire
ocean, which swept towards the shore; and although
I was at a considerable elevation above the level ofthe
sea, it appeared- high-enough to sweep over the city ;
its force, however, was broken, and it subsided on the
beach. The rain still continued in torrents, and at
four o'clock the roar of the water in the river, which
was forty feet in depth, began to give me some alarm,
when litokine- out of the window of my house I per-
ceived that the bridge was being swept away, awl that
the water-was rushing into the streets. I knmedlately-
left the house, and on reaching the street the appal -
line si t that appeared in every direction was enough
toiliEn'tite stoutest heat quake with fear. The
street in front of the ;garden of my house was upward«
of three feet deep with water, and hundreds of men,
women, and children, were wading their way up the
stream, flying towards the mountains, whilst others
were flocking to the town, not knowing where to go
for safety, amidst the most dreadful shrieks and cries
that can possibly be imagined. As I approached to-
wards the river, the scene became still more awful, the
water having burst open the wine lodges, and the
contents being swept into the sea, whilst the streets
in the neighbourhood were all overflowed with water,
and the inmates of the houses escaping by ladders and
over the roofs of thnbuildings. Upwards of 200
houses have been destroyed, or become untenantable
by this disastrous flood, and the quantity of wine, corn,
&c., swept into the sea and destroyed, is very great,
hut at present, it is utterly impossible to state any-
thing like an estimate of the amount of damage done.
A meeting was called on the following day (25th) by
the Governor, and food distributed to the poor; at the
same time, an arrangement _was made to open
several forts, &c., for their accommodation, until
such times as they could proeide themselves with
other houses. The authorities also made every arrange-
ment to prevent drunkenness in the streets, and rob-
beries at night, but as casks of wine were rolling
about in every direction, and whole streets of houses
open to any one who wished to enter, the inmates
having fled, many robberies occurred, and many scenes
of intoxication. The rain continued to fall during
the night of the 24th, but the following day gave
signs of the weather moderating, and in the afternoon
it was fine, with a strong breeze from the S.E., which
continued until three o'clock P.M. on the 26th, when
it blew a hurricane from the south, the sea rushing
over the beach, and entering into the streets in the
lovvr part of the city. Six vessels were at anchor in
the bay, but to me it appeared utterly impossible for
them to ride out the gale, as the sea broke with ter-
rific fury over them, and the wind being dead in the
bay. gave the:n no chance of escaping by making
sail. At five o'clock the American brig Creole drag-
ged her anchor and was soon on shore—the whole of
the crew were saved ; and about an hear afterwards I
observed the English schooner Wave was doomed to
the same fate, the whole of her crew being saved by
the exertions of Mr. Henry Crawford, who secured
them ropes, &c., from a rock above where the vessel
struck. It had now become dark, but as I observed
a blue light from one of the vessels, and as the
gale still continued, I• 'determined to attempt to
get to the beach to give all the assistance I could,
as I apprehended the whole of the vessels must come
on shore. I had some distance to go ere I could
procure a torch, and over a very dangerous passage,
the flood having made such dreadful havoc in the
lower part of the city ; however, I reached the beach,
,and Immediately heard the cries from another vessel
approaching the shore. This proved to be the Portu-
guese schooner Novo Beijinho ; and I must say, that
with the few lights we had on the beach, every ex-
ertion was made to save 'the whole of the crew, but,
unfortunaiely, four of them were drowned. immedi-
ately afterwards a vessel approached burning a blue-
light, and which came on shore alongside the Novo
Beijinho; but as the rain fell in torrents and the
wind was still blowing a perfect hurricane, it was
sonic time ere we could afford them lights or approach
the vessel. She proved to be the Dart, of London;
and by great courage and good management all the
crew were saved ; and I cannot but praise the daring
conduct of the Portuguese on the beach in rescuing
the crew of this vessel, particularly Senhor Jacinto de
Freitas Lomelino, as well as the activity of Senhor
Nuno Dias, Senhor Francisco Antonio Rodrigues de
•Silva, and of Mr. Unwin, all of whom were indefati-
gable in their exertions to:save the unfortunate seamen.
We got up a bonfire here as a signal for the vessels
still at anchor ; and then left to prepare another at
the wreck of the Wave, where we found only a few
boards left, which we soon had lighted, and were glad
to find that the ship Success was still at anchor; but
we here learnt that the Sardinian schooner Gloria
Madre Esperanza had gone on shore to the east of
Fuxona, and not a soul saved or a vestige of her left.
At nine o'clock the wind veered to SAY., and at ten
p.m. I considered the remaining vessel, the Success,
was perfectly safe, but I understand she owes her
safety to the anchor of a large American ship which
bad gone to sea, and which anchor came in contact
with that of the Success, as she was in the act of
being dragged on shore. At nine a.m. the following
morning the Success got out to sea, and is no doubt
safe ; but a wreck of a three-masted vessel is found at
Porto Cruz (north of Madeira), without any of the
crew,- or even anything to distinguish her name. I
apprehend this vessel must hays come on shore pre-
vious to her having seen the island, probably in the
night at the commencement of the storm. Several
ships and barks are expected here from London and
Liverpool, and doubtless it will prove to be one of these.
It is utterly impossible to describe the state of the
streets in the lower part of the city, and having seen the
river in its force as it swept down the ravine, I Won-
der that the greatest part of Funchal was not carried
into the sea • at the mouth of the river N. 8, docalh ao ,
a fruit-market, and a part of a fort, with the entrance
to the Pram Academics, are entirely swept away,- and
the bed of this river, formerly thirty- or forty feet.
deep, is now filled up with immense rocks and stones
brought down from tie mountains, which I am afraid
Portugal in the present poor state of can never beere-
movel Three rivers flow through the city of Fun-
chal, taking their rise in the mouatains, but the river
N. S. do Calhao lees now been the cause of the great-
est part of the disaster, and the houses on its banks
that are not swept away will remain untenanted, as'
the bed of the raver is now nearly equal with the
streets, and liable at any time to overflow. The news
from the interior, or rather the coast—for from the
interior we have none—is awful. Half of Machio is
swept away, and all the fishing-boats belonging to the
village. In the parish of Maddena nearly all the
houses and part of the Population are gene; in
Celheta many houses are washed away. Fayal
and Porto Cruz have suffered much, entire
vineyards having been swept I
• into the sea.
Santa Cruz has sufferedless than others; but at
Cattle() the disasters-are great. The excellent road to
S. A. de Serra has disappeared altogether, and instead
of travelling the distance, as formerly, on horseback
in two hours, it must be taken on foot, and a person
who arrived from there since the flood was twenty-two
hours on the journey. The village of Camacha ls in
a most deplorable condition ; in fact, all the places
have suffered more or less, and most of the roads
leading front Funchal are utterly impassable. On
the 28th the Bishop, with the Governor, and all the
principal authorities attended prayers in the Cathe-
dral, after which they had a procession, carrying the
figure of our Saviour on the cross, the size of life, as
the Saviour of Miracles in having saved the city from
being altogether destroyed.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
Funchal, Nov. 2.
We are still without news from the interior of the
island, but from all places on the coast the intelligence
is truly distressing. Another Sardinian schooner was
wrecked at Porto Santa, and the Aguia, from Lisbon,
whichwas eight days off the island, had a narrow
escape. The Success is returned, and leaves to-
morrow fur Demerara, and the following vessels have
also arrived since the storm :—English war steamer
Wilberforce, from Sierra Leone; ship Thames, from
London; schooner Castle Loriam, from St. John's;
American schooner Itho, from St. John's ; Greek
polacca Pelican, from Gibraltar; and the Portuguese
schooner Aguia front Lisbon.

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