The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-02 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZES.

The following days and places have been named by Sir John
Patteson, Knight, ono of her Majesty's Judges of the Court
of Queen's Bench, and Creswell Cressvrell, Esq., the newly-
appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for holding
the enduing Lent Assizes :
OXFORD CIRCUIT.

Berkshire—Reading, Wednesday, February 23.
/xfordshire--Oxford, Saturday, February 26.
Worcestershire—Worcester, Thursday, March 3.
City of Worcester—Worcester, Thursday, March 3.
Staffordshire—Stafford, Wednesday, March 9.
Shropshire—Shrewsbury, Friday, March 18.
Herefordshire—Hereford, Wednesday, March 23.
Monmouthshire—Monmouth, Saturday, March '26.
Gloucestershire—Gloucester, Wedresday, March 30.
City of Gloucester—Gloucester, Wednesday, March 30.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.
Southampton—Winchester, Thursday, February 24.
Wiltshire—Salisbury, Thursday, March 3.
I)orsetshire—Dorchester, Wednesday, March 9.
Devo„Lire— Exeter, Monday, March 14.
City of Exete,:—Exeter, Monday, March 14.
Cornwall—Bodrnin, LTonday, March 21.
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Somersetshire._Taunton, Nab: ay, March 28.
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Hertfordshire—Hertford, Tuesday, March 1.
Essex—Chelmsford, Monday, Mach 7.
Kent__Maidstone, Monday, March 15.
Sussex—Lewes, Saturday, March 19.
Surrey—Kingston-upon-Thames, Monday, March 28.
The days for holding several of the ensuing Circuits have
not yet been appointed.

THE LATE HURRICANE--LOS‘3
OF LIFE.

Within the last three or four (Lys accounts of the most de-
piorable description have been received by the authorities at
Lloyd's, respecting the loss of an immense number of vessels
during the late frightful hurricane on the evening of Wednes-
day last, which has not been equalled for many years past.
The sicrifice of human life has been very great, and it is feared,
from the immense quantity of wreck that has since been washed
on the roast, that many vessels foundered during the violence
of th t storm. It has been ascertained that upwards of 23 ves-
sels were wrecked during the night of the 26th ult., as will be
proved by the following particulars :—Shortly after the com-
mencement of the storm a large smack, called the Alicia, be-
longing to Cork, drove amongst the rocks off St. Bride's Bay,
near Milford, and almost immediately became a wreck. The
first person who left the vessel was a seaman named James
Trance, but he had scarcely reached the roads before a tre-
mendous sea overwhelmed the vessel, and she was seen no
more. The remainder of the crew happily succeeded in saving
themselves except the mate, who failed in his attempt to reach
the shore, and met with a watery grave. The vessel was laden
with ballast, and was not insured. She was on her voyage
from Ynughall to Newport, in Monmouth Shire.
Amidst the fury of the storm, and at about half-past ten
o'clock at night, the brig Vermillion, laden with as general
cargo, and belonging to South Shields, which place she only
left the night before, ran on to the rocks beneath Pitch Point,
at Flamborough Head. The crew fortunately saved them-
selves through the assistance of the Coast Guard, but the ves-
sel became a total wreck. About the same time another ves-
sel, called the Kerton, a brig, belonging to Sunderland, was
driven on to the Corton Sands, off Great Yarmouth, and
subsequently sunk in deep water a complete wreck. Her
crew, consisting of seven persons, had barely time to jump
into the long boat before the vessel sunk, and were not picked
up till late the following morning. The Braganca steamer,
Captain Lewis, which arrived at Falmouth, on Saturday
last, with the mails ft om Gibraltar, (luring the hurricane
picked up the crew of the brig Chance, of Stockton, from
Liveipool, which was lost at the commencement of the
storm, and about the same hour the pilots and Coast Guard,
stationed on the coast at Falmouth, saw a sloop founder
within three miles of the shore, 'and all on board pe-
rished. From accounts received from Limerick, dated
the 26th of January, it appears that the damage done-
by the hurricane to the shipping lying in the har-
bour exceeds 10,000/., and similar injuries are reported
to have occurred to the shipping in the harbour at Water-
ford. The other ♦essels wrecked during the storm are as
follows : The Druid, belonging to Workington, lost at
the mouth of the river Fleet, near Kirkenbright. The ship
Stag, belonging to Liverpool, froth Beaumaris, wrecked on
the rocks rear Leasowe Castle. The brig Peruvian, Captain
Currell, on her passage to London from South Shields, lost on
the sunkets rocks near the lighthouse at Flamborough Head ;
crew saved by the ship's boats. The schooner Craig's Eliza,
Captain Paterson, totally wrecked on the rocks underneath
Tynemouth lighthouse ; crew saved by Captain Manby's lite
apparatu,. The Honour, of St. Ives, wrecked on the coast
off Wexford, and also the schooner Sarah, belonging to Wex-
ford ; all of the crew, except one, perished. The ship Ceres,
Captain Pecker, having on board 700 tons of sugar, and a
cargo valued at 20,0001., lost on the 25th, on her voyage home-
wards ; one sailor was killed by the fall of the mast, and an-
other drowned. The Arethusa, from Dublin, wrecked at St.
John's Pier, Workington ; crew saved. The Margaret, be••
longing to Liverpool, from Conway, laden with a valuable
cargo., lost off Hoy's Lake, at Mostyn. The French brig Cor-
riere di Malta, belonging to Venice, laden with sugar, lost on
the coast near Calais. 'I he smack Nymph, belonging to the
pilots of Llanelly, lest off that harbour. The Centurion, Cap-
tain Johns, from Amlwch, was lost on the coast of Grenfield,
at Mostyn, and the master and three men met with a watery
grave. Several other wrecks occurred on the coast during
the violence of the gale, but their names are not correctly
made known.