The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-12 00:00:00

THE HURRICANE of THURSDAY. THE STARVING POOR.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—The storm which set in on Wed- TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
nesday night, and which towards yesterday morning increased SIE,—In your paper of Saturday last you have made some
to a perfect hurricane, has, in addition to the serious damage very just remarks on the impropriety of the Queen Dowager
done to property in the north and north-western suburbs of the sending money to build Colonial Cathedrals, while thousanl
metropolis, to a large extent involved the loss of human life. of poor people in this country are perishing for want.
About half.past three o'clock, when the storm was at its height, mention a circumstance in connection with this town, to shtice
the family of Mr. Atkinson, an independent gentleman, re- that your remarks were not unmerited. When our Relit(
siding in one of two newly-built houses in St. James's-road, Fend was established in December last Earl Howe was written
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Holloway, were alarmed by hearing a tremendous crash, ac • ' to, requesting his Lordship to lay the deplorable circumstances 4.
companied with violent shrieks, proceeding from the rear of of this town before her Majesty. To this letter noanswerhae
the dwelling, which consisted of a bed-room, covered with a ever been returned. After waiting some weeks a letter wee
zinc roof, communicating with the house, in which apartment addressed to her Majesty direct. After waiting some weeks
a young lady, on a visit to his family, named Feast, and Ann an ans., er was returned, stating how much her Majesty felt
Taylor, the servant, slept. Mr. Atkinson rushed in the direc- I for the sufferings of the poor of Stockport, but as other pieces
tion of the chamber, and burst it open. He still heard the were in the same distress, and as her Majesty could not relievestifled screams of one of the females beneath the rubbish, and all, it would be unjust to select a particular place. Nov, Sirs `‘sl
saw the hand of one appearing above it. The entire of the this is not exactly the truth. Many places, no doubt, are sti ,•
roof had been burst in near the centre by the falling of a stack great dist ess, but whether any are in as great distress M this
of chimnies eight feet high, and which had been blown from the town let the following fact tell :—ln the last week in February
summit of the house on to it. He raised an alarm, and with about 14,000 received relief in Paisley—the same wee* I"re,
the assistance of the police, the rubbish was with than 15,000 received relief in Stockport. The fund is 0"
great difficulty removed, when the body of Ann Taylor was exhausted, and unless some assistance be received from Go'
discovered perfectly lifeless, with her chest completely crushed I eesnment, or some other quarter, thousands must perish f°l4.
in upon her heart by the whole mass forcing the centre beam want. If her Majesty knew this, I cannot help thinking tba`
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of the roof upon her. Death must have been instantaneous. she would send us a trifle out of her hundred thousand a Yar''
Miss Feast was also apparently dead from suffocation, and had Stockport, March 10, 184:1 A POOR .)lAN•
received severe contusions about the head and face, but had
fortunately just escaped the beam alluded to, which caused the
roof to fall ho?low over her. She was removed to another
apartment, and a medical man instantly sent for, but she still
lies in a dangerous state. The body awaits a Coroner's in-
quest. Immense damage has been sustained by the ceal-
merchants and lightermen in the loss of their barges and
lighter=, but the stepping has wholly escaped in the pool,
where the masts threatened to snap every instant with the
violence of the storm. Above bridge a number of coal barges
were sunk with their cargoes. There were three under water
belonging to Messrs. Capel and Slaughter, nearly off the
Temple, and a fourth filled with coals lying across them. At
Irongate stairs, next the Tower, several watermen's boats were
swamped during the night, and there was much destruction
among the craft at Horselydown. About one o'clock in the
morning a lighterman name,l Hipkins, who was on his way to
the East India Dock, to look after some barges, was blown off
the pier-head at Blackwell into the river and drowned. His
body has not been recovered. The fury of the hurricane in
the Channel has been dreadfully severe.
HASTINGS, THURSDAY, ELEVEN o'Ceocx.—This morning,
about nine o'clock, a sloop was noticed on her way to this port
from Beachy-head, and from her keeping near the shore it
was feared that something had occurred which prevented her
keeping the sea. Her name is the Flower of Weymouth,
Captain Court. She left London on Sunday week, with a
general cargo, and Ramsgate on Sunday last. When the gale
came on yesterday she was off the Isle of Wight, and making
five feet water. The crew were at the pumps all night, and
being nearly exhausted, and doubting their ability to reach any
other port, they put her ashore at Hastings. We are happy
to add that the poor fellows, five in number, eventually all got
ashore. Captain Court and his men were received at Mr.
Harman's, the Hastings Arms, and provided with changes of
clothes, refreshments, and good beds. A rope has just been
got out to the vessel, and the capstans are now at work to heave
her in before the
.sea. Her bulwaika are all gone and we fear
her damages are so serious as to resider her worthless. No doubt
the cargo will be saved.

The following is from the Memorial Bordelais
"We are positively informed that or, the reiterated represent/000e;
of the Court of Austria, excited by the King of Naliiels ed
French Gove:nment has for several daysbeen seriously engtE_
on the question of granting passports for Germany to
raisediCarlos and his family. it appears that the obstacles
,is
against this determination in the time of the Whig Cabinet.n_h
longer exist, since the 'furies have the direction of the Benh'32l
diplomacy. M. de Tinan, the Aide-de-Camp of Mar_stbe
Soult, the same who went to Bayonne in 1839, to receive _
Spanish Princes en the frontier, is now at Bourges, wit,r;
pcnals from the Government on the intended release of
r.'et
Spanish Royal Family. It appears certain that the Cele, s'
of her Most Catholic Majesty has been made officially.
quainted with these proceedings. Espartero is said to_Pern...
shown a most unexpected indifference on the subject ; a°
Regent-
trary to the policy adopted in this respect during the Regent-0s
of Queen Christina. We are told that France has "'rid
Don Carlos to give a pledge that he will not egam • is
his fortune in Spain, and endeavour to support his eretelT:ed
by reviving tbe embers of civil war ; but Dun Carlos has reintbst
to give his royal word, or enter into any engagement
instructed
effect. It is, moreover, stated, that M. de Tinan was instlu"tyie
to elicit from Don Carlos his opinions and sentiments °n.ed,
following points :—First, as to a matrimonial alliance; 'The
secondly, as to a visit from Queen Christina in person' he
Pretender, however, categ)rically declared, that as long a' st.
was detained a prisoner he would listen to no political pro it
tion, for lie considered his person violated, and therefol,he
was impossible for him to treat or act with freedom.
august consort of the Pretender is represented to have tan,
large share in these discussions, and to have shown great nrawer
ness and energy of character. '1 he eldest son of the Preteseet,
is said to have been kept entirely apart from these confereseot
although he appears disposed to concur in any arrange:l.
that would restore him to his elevated position and his e°uefors,
The young Infante is 24 years of age. Everything, the': des
seems to foretell that these Princes will shortly take theled to
parture for Germany, seeing that no one continues dispose
detain them any longer in France."
BAD ROADS.—A correspondent, who writes fr::,111
Taunton, informs us that the road between South Moltende
Tiverton, is in a most dangerous state, and if the Trusteedeors
not shut it up, or speedily commence repairs, fatal aequitig
must be the result. While tolls are levied for Insinisi or
roads, the Trustees must perform their part of the contrast'
be liable to an action for dais ages.
A labouring man, named Muller, was tried --re It
Nancy a few days ago, for an attempt to murder his w"e*
appeared from the evidence that Muller had a long ti,Teeti her
attempted to drown his wife in a river. He had pnwsroed
in, and, as the poor woman struggled for life, had te
stones at her to prevent her escape. His victim 11°1°d re-
length reached the bank, he kicked her on the hes of..
peatedly, and left her for dead. She recovered, howaveri;otsl
ficiently to reach her home, and, notwithstanding this
conduct, concealed the cause of her illness from her
hours, and continued to reside with her husband, until I'd yis e
usage compelled her to seek safety in flight. On the 23 ,
cember Muller met his wife in a wood, and, being ar106,14 it
a hatchet, made another attempt to murder her. n..)-00
flicted several wounds, when the cries of his wife brought cc'
persons to her aid, and, although dreadfully wounded, sheoer
covered after a month's confinement in bed. The P,r/w with
din was found guilty, and.reeeived sentence to imprisonmen" die
hard labour for life; the Jury having, notwithstangol
evidence, returned a verdict that the crime had been comet
without premeditation.
POOLE.—lntelligenee has been received of t-1,
egi de,
of the brig William, belonging to AL Hrs. R. T. and ''T•
of this port. It appears that, when off the coast of New °OO,
land, at eight o'clock on the evening of Sunday, slanugrj add
she struck near Cape St. Francis, during a snow-stornlt.ais
was totally lost. The master (E. Eagen) and five of the to
were saved after considerable difficulty ; but we lament
that six of the poor fellows on board were drowned.-"'''
borne and Dor
NchFßlDAYester Jou
Trnal.
HE GALE OF
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—The schooner in distress, off Brighton, yesterday after is
proved to be the Sylph, of Jersey, laden with culm.
faPbele
that she was at anchor off Littlehampton, the master and ,bera
of the crew, with the exception of a little boy being °lli be
when she broke away from her moorings, and drifted at •
mercy of the waves the whole of the night. Upon the 'T
the life boat boarding her, the poor boy was discovere.Tholt •
dead with .fright; they immediately took him into the','„ and'
and, after getting a few articles, left her in a sinking
within halt-an-hour she went in twelve fathoms water. slot tt
account in the Times and Post this day, stating that tenst 0 • s
were lost in the Economy, off Littlehampton, is incorreerio
the whole of the crew were saved, as stated in myYdeesiste!ittli h Ss.':!,:,
account. The Flower of Weymouth, Cape. Cant, la
general cargo, on the night of the gale, was driven .fro Ott ;
Isle of Wight to Hastings, where she ran ashore, and, I the
brave exertions of the Hastings fishermen, the whole e
crew were saved.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—The town of Bra ic,
was thrown into a state of greal alarm on Saturday nights'seraes''.
by a rumour of a robbery having been committed under
stances of a desperate character, almost within the 41t.,„ree' alfll'i
the town. On inquiry it appeared that Mr. Win. Jch'lsreiv '0;
elderly farmer, residing at Noyadd, in the parish of Crickaeolifs's
who had been attending the market, left the Green Prlif .11!
Inn, on horseback, a few minues before eight o'clock 1011,1 ,s 1
evening, for the purpose of returning home, but had sesareP o'et,
en
passed the last house in the street by more than 110 6- bloc s
yards, before he was struck off his horse by a blow from
goon, and while stunned and bleeding on the grontrf
robbed of about 15/. in notes and cash. In the e°°lll° OA
night the police, under the personal superintendence,:-oeile el'i
magistrates, pursued their investigations, and t(;sit ier,' 111
persons into custody, of whom Joseph Wichlow was fuse I'l e
mitted to take his trial at the approaching assizes ; pbibe
lips, Jones, and another person named Robert Nirilliss4"•.o"
admitted to bail.— Cambrian. IStijoviej
The late tides have done serious damage.neartoreo4',l
Valery-sur- Somme. At Veules, a small town, about slitii/di.
of a league distant, a mill, which, from its elevated Yoder; I.s
seems to be entirely out of the reach of the sea, was tr hosanse.,., •
mined at the base of the hill on which it stood, that
necessary to raise strong defences against its further Vol
Early in last week a house standing near it was washe ose°
and fell into the water, in the presence of a large enne°o silos
people, attracted by the catastrophe, which had for 1107 teed.
been foreseen. The defence was carried awe'', an o 0
00810.,,
instant it was expected that the mill itself, for which
had not long age refused 20,000 franca, would suffer th e crepe"
fate. The sea has advanced to within two yards Of the id
which the mill is placed, and a few more waves wOOl
pletely merge it in the channel.
AMERICAN GENEROSITY.----We some time Tor
luded to the subscriptions raised in America for beh°°` i
that
starving operatives, by the comfortable inhabitantceoo. sits`
republic. As a satire on our infamous starvation sr; fisidi.s,
other subscription has been raised in the city of Albany'aer to;„
from the letter we subjoin, it will be seen, is to be sent ;of eet
the shape of a present of provisions, to put the infamy or II
Corn-laws further to the test, by ascertaining whetheroot of
the Government will permit the provisions thus kindiffeeor
the inhabitants of a foreign state, to be admitted duty n I'ool
whether they will allow the people to die of starratish,4 bre,,
than permit them to eat bread got for nothing, unless too •
has paid tax as a bounty to our rich landowners.--Es' .
letter dated Lowell, the 29th January, 1842, to .1 f'sir.g
in Paisley :—" I am sorry to learn, that the distress itird
is still on the iiscrease ; the cry of the population is hes-ton
the one end of the earth to the other, and we rejoieei.ol.ol,.
that those who have it in their power are cerningisappiL
cheerfully in behalf of the suffering poor. I
wanigjtdtebussti;otte:
inform you and my fellow-townsmen, that their case w 'OIL;
entered into with great spirit in Albany, State of v'e ot,ip
309 dollars have been collected for the sufferers.
been bespoke in New York foe the purpose of tak
sum in fluur to the Clyde, and it is expected to get iu isetAr
In Lowell, also, a subscription has been set on foot in to theselo
for the same purpose, and it will be sent to Paisley son- d
tributed by Baillie James Clark. I cannot tell 110_1'000;0
may be, as it has commenced only to-day ; but I 044
that 100 dollars have been forwarded to New Vril'alf
barrels of beef. I believe there is much doing in be
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countrymen."— Glasgow Chronicle. O ;
" The prosecution against the Spanish ells, ch
serves the Presse, "is still continued. The metrtr:ol meot_er.
ter of Lugo has been condemned to a month's iinPr' gosits 1
denying, as anti- canonical, the authority of the di0ce,,,,0
nor named under the influence of tke Regent.
...11:10 of:
proiecutor called for sentence of death again st tw° ° beer'
,v"
bers of the chapter. Two canons of Toledo have si
niched for eight years for the same offence." wee, i '
About the middle of last month, a younee, a iro.;,:t
longing to lssarils, in the Haute Loire, having: ,oretirri~,: rep
time absent from his family, became so anxiou rj'..„ to i.
that he set out on foot to make a long day's
home, notsvithstanding the rigour of the seas°l to vvitboa'
unusually great in that part of France. He reacheddfoie•tnet!
50 yards of the house, when, overcome by cold an he rites: "
sunk down, and was soon frozen to death. Here se calleu,,i
a whole week, his fate unknown, until attention the
_;•••„t•
the spot by an unusual congregation of crows, nin
fellow's body was found with the whole of the face nalon
being only recognisable by his clothes. te
WHAT DO WE TOIL FOB ?
the pearl he risks his life to win : that T‘ih-The
csothbritaeanfi
stranger's
erd,aesrcshk sometoshme
race bleu't
the parent adorn the daughter with every g rods.
home.
who sow are seldom those who reap.
The swolhdieerrelgeirvewsehtiosrini,few's
eb
store
that, thus.

A FLOOR-CLOTH MANUFACTORY BLOWN DOWN.—Yes-
terday morning, about half-past three o'clock, the extensive
floor-cloth manufactory of Mr. Moss Lyons, situate in King-
street, East-lane, Walworth, was suddenly t lown down. It
was a wooden erection about twenty-five feet in height, and
of considerable length and depth, occupying an area of nearly
an acre of ground. While the hurricane was at its height, a
sudden gust of wind entered between the lengthened avenues
formed for the reception of the canvas, and lifted the uprights
of the building which supported the roof from their sockets, so
that the whole instantly came down with a tremendous crash.
The damage sustained by the building, and the destruction of
some thousand yards of canvas, will amount to a considerable
sum, which cannot be ascertained until a clearance of the ruins.
It is fortunate that the workmen, of whom there are a great
number employed, were not on the premises.
BRIGHTON, 11ARCII 10.—Loss OF TEN LIVES. —At about
10 o'clock last night the wind blew with terrific strength
during the whole of the night. The gusts of wind actually
shook the buildings to the foundation, and the pattering of the
rain sounded like the falling of marbles. A storm so severe,
and of so long continuance, has not been known here for many
years. Fragments of chimney-pots and tiles were to be seen
this morning in nearly every street, and several instances have
come to our knowledge of houses being completely unroofed
by the strength of the wind. At the residence of Mrs.
Brisbane, 7, Dorset-gardens, a stack of chimnies was blown
down, and fell through the roof of the house into the bed-
room of a female servant, just missing the foot of the bed.
A similar occurrence took place at a lodging-house in the
Grand Junction Road, kept b' a Mr. Wilkinson. Here a
stack of chimnies was likewise blown down by the wind,
and falling through the roof just grazed the cheek of
a man servant, fortunately without further injury. The
wrecks in the channel we are afraid will turn out to be
very numerous. At present, we have heard of two, and in
one of these eases, the whole of the crew, eight in number,
and two pilots, who had gone on board to conduct the vessel
into the harbour, have unfortunately met with a watery grave.
The vessel was the brig Economy, of Littlehampton, belong-
ing to Mr. Thomas Isemonger, of Littlehampton, laden with
coals from Sunderland, in burden about 250 tons. Four or
five other coal-vessels were, yesterday, in the Littlehampton
roads, and all succeeded in making the harbour. The Economy,
however, drew too much water, and was obliged to remain in
the roads, waiting for the next tide. In the evening the hur-
ricane, as we have stated, sprang up, and, notwithstanding the
efforts of the captain and crew, the vessel has gene to the bot-
tom, and not one of the crew was able to reach the shore. The
master of the vessel was Captain Isemonger, brother of the
owner. The second case occurred off Brighton, at three
o'clock this afternoon. A schooner was seen in the Channel
in the morning, about ten miles at sea. A Shoreham life-
boat put off to her assistance. At three o'e.ock the life-boat
could 'oe discovered returning, but no trace of the schooner was
visible. It is conjectured that the crew have been taken into
the life-boat, and that the vessel has gone to the bottom. The
life-boat is at this moment returning, and is now ( lour o'clock
), eight miles distant from land. The wind has been very
high this morning, but, at the time of writing this communica-
tion, is becoming more calm.

Beevor, Esq., of a. daughter. .4-. of B. ~
On the 7th hut ,at Broughton, near Newark, the o'°- ',, ,',,
road,h te aOn Brixton,itdheermB l
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BIRTHS
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On the 7th inst„ the lady of J. 11. Schroler, Esq., °
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On the 9th inst., at Walcot-place West, Larnboth,

Wagoaffe, of a son.

MARRIED. rga ItB
On thci 6th inst., at Chevening, B, F. Shore, f •
Captain in the 17th Lancers, tollelen;second daugnie-
Pea kins, Es, of Chip stead
Stok en lace, Kent.
On the Stq.h inst., at -p
church, the Rev. J. to
son of the Rev. J. BalL,w, of Woodeaton, in Oxfoael' rosi'in ;he
Eliza, eldest daughter of John Fane, Esq., of Wornu
same county.

DIED.
On the 28th ult., at Dover, Florinda Fanny, rife
of Callfgis
Catesby Paget, Royal FuFileer2
On the 7th inst., Alfredli °
ardcastle, Esq*P f °itch°
House, Surrey, aged 51. en °1
On the 7th inst., Atherton Augustus Cuttingharfie% 9
Edwaid 'Maio, Esq., late Captain of the 37th Regitrenlutlett
On the Bth inst., at Rye, Sussex, Richard Weed° '.
Esq., aged 76.
. On the Bth inst., at Winw;ck, Lancashire, Thomas •-'rliugli- .. • .
ton, Esq., aged 63. .
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