The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-17 00:00:00

DREADFUL HURRICANE AT

SOUTHEND.

On Wednesday night, between eight and nine o'clock,
Southend was visited by a most tremendous storm of
wind and rain, the severity of which has not been
equalled for many years, and its effects have been
most melanQwly and disastrous. The wind blew a
perfect hurricane from the south-east, and the rain fell
in torrents. Windows were blown in, and slates, tiles,
&c., were hurled in all directions. Many persons were
afraid to retire to rest, and others who had done so
were greatly alarmed, as the houses literally shook
(such was the force of the wind), and they were per-
ceptibly rocked in their beds. About half-past twelve
o'clock the tempest began to subside, and day-break
presented to the view the wreck of no fewer than six
boats which had been driven from their anchors, all of
which had sustained serious damage, and many were
completely destroyed, being by the violence of the wind
driven against the wharfs and piles of the pier, until
they were not only complete wrecks, but had the appear-
ance of being chopped up for fire-wood ; such destruc-
tion among the boats here was never before witnessed,
and the most distressing circumstance is, they were
mostly the property of poor hard-working men, who
have no other means of subsistence.

The Rhoda, of Newcastle, was V driven from her an.-
chors on Shosbury Beach, but got off without much
damage. The Ocean Chili and Wave, from hence, being
on the lopk out on Thursday morning, perceived a large
ship on shore on theMaplin Sands ; they went to her
assistance, when she proved to be the St. Lawrence,
bound to Malta, with Government stores. She had lost
all her anchors, and sprung a leak, having then two feet
of water in her hold, which afterwards considerably in-
creased. She was taken into Whitstable, and being par-
tially repaired, the next day proceeded to London, with
the crews of the boats; who were compelled incessantly
to work at the pumps We believe she arrived in safety.

EDINBURGH & GLASGOW RAIL
WAY.-SUNDAY TRAINS.

Yesterday, as our headers are already aware, the first
Sunday trains commenced running on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway ; and wo are happy to state that
everything went off in the most quiet and orderly man-
ner. So far as Glasgow is concerned, we are enabled to
state that not one of its inhabitants, but for the
previous announcement made in the advertisements
of the Company; would have known that such a
thing as a railway train had been put in motion ;
the streets were as quiet and decorous as on former
Sabbaths, and even in the neighbourhood of the terminus
scarcely any difference could be , observable. In the
afternoon and evening, it is true, a number of people,
actuated by feelings of curiosity, assembled to witness
the departure and arrival of the trains both here and at
Cowlaws ; but in a few moments their curiosity was
gratified, and they dispersed without the slightest breach
of decency or decorum being exhibited,
The number of passengers who passed along the line,
going and coming, was 878. In the morning train from
Glasgow there were nine carriages, three of each class,
carrying 259 passengers, the greater portion of whom
were for Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch, and the stations in
the west. The morning train from Edinburgh, on its
arrival in Glasgow, had 197 passengers. The evening
train from Glasgow had 143 passengers, and the evening
train from Edinburgh 279.
It has been alleged that the Sunday travelling must
have the effect of making people, who would otherwise
travel on Saturday, postpone their journey till the Sun-
day ; but it so happens that, on Saturday last, there
were more persons conveyed along the line than have
Tet been on any one. day. We shall see what the result
is to-day.—Glasgow Argus of Monday.

MONEY MARKETeaId CITY NEWS.
TIMES. —The premium on gold at Paris is 9 per mille, whirl
t at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 25 37k, and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold
is 0.70 per cent. dearer in Londor. than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 433 i per
mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101,4 d. per
1 ounce, for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 91, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10k, it
follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is 108
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex-
change is 1.58 per cent. against. England. But the quoted
exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the
interest must be deducted from the above difference.

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PEEL'S NEW-TAXES.
A Northern Correspondent informs us that the news
of Sir Robert Peel's scheme of additional taxation, has
been received on the Tyne and the Wear by men of all
parties, Whig, Tory, and Radical, with astonish-
ment and indignation. The income tax, which is
to send a legal inquisitor into the very heart of
every man's business, will be evaded by all the
" ingenious devices " that so • hateftil a measure
can call into action. It is felt to be monstrous to lay
an equal tax on the comfortable owner of real property,
worth, say 2Q,01. per annum, and on the shopkeeper
and merchant's clerk, who have but the same income,
and that precarious, wherewith to keep up a decent
appearance in society, and make provision for
the wants of old age, and it may be, for the future de-
mands of their children. The shipowners are uttering
curses loud and deep against the author of the
proposed tax on export coal. Already cramped
in the field of enterprise, and pushed to the
verge of destruction by our abominable Corn-laws.,
they look with utter dismay on this last blow to their
expiring interests. Were our gracious Queen to dis-
solve Parliament, the duped manufacturer, the cheated
shipowner, and the "humbugged" farmer, would com-
bine to return a House of Commons very different from
the present one. Those that cried out against the rule
of the Whigs, as the reign of King Log, are now feeling
the tender mercies of the Tory king Stork. They are
rightly served for placing him where he is.

THREE BODIES FOUND IN THE RIVER THAMES:—
On Saturday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the
bodies of two young men, having the appearance of sailors,
wrre found floating in the river hames, off Rotherhithe. The
deceased are supposed to have belonged to some barge lost
during the late gale. Between eight andnine o'clock the body
of a young female was found between Southwark and London
bihtges, and conveyed to the workhouse.
The Havre papers state that the gale of Wednesday
night and Thursday morning eras felt very severely in that
town, and was considered the strongest which had been ex-
perienced since February, 1832. No damage ofany importance
is mentioned among the shipping.
The Nantes papers mention that the high tides at
the end of last moan have made serious encroachments in the
shores of the Island of Noirmouliers, and that the inhabitants
are vnder appreheesitn of the sea making a complete breach
through the sandy downs into the cultivable lands.
The Swiss papers state, that, from an inspection of
the bed of the Rhine, between Basle and Sehaffhwsen, it has
been found impracticable to navigate that part of the river with
steamers, the current being
,either too rapid in some places, or
too much obstructed by rocks in when.