Star.
London, England, 1825-11-04 00:00:00

THE GALE.

Wednesday afternoon, the wind, which had blown
fresh from the South-west of the metropolis, gradually
veered, and in the evening became rather stormy, until
midnight, when the gale became due West, and blew a
most perfect hurricane during the remainder of the
night, and part of yesterday, accompanied at the com-
mencement by slight showers, and during its continu-
ance had scarcely veered two points to the South•west.
The effects of this stiff gale around the suburbs of Lon-
don have been severely felt, in the blowing down of
trees, walls, fences, chimnies, &c. and some of the guards
of the coaches that arrived yesterday morning say, they
have not met w th such a boisterous night for some years.
In the vicinity of Paddington, and for some miles in
that neighbourhood, including Kilburn, Bayswater, Ac-
ton, Ealing, Harrow, the suburbs of the Regent's Park,
Sec. and many places around that quarter, the effects of
the gale, it is ascertaire !, have more resembled a
whirlwind than the wind generally observed at this
'season. The plantations have in some of the villages
been torn up and swept wholly away, and were lifted
into the air with as much violence as the smallest atom.
The Regent's Park shrubberies have been much torn
and damaged, and a great number of the new buildings
in that quarter have been unroofed, and even th- gable
ends of some blown d rwn : several stacks of chimnies
about Ki burn have been blown down. The stacks o. f
hay and straw to the number of' from forty to fifty, in
[the neighbourhood of Acton and Ealing, have been
'scattered before the wind: indeed, to describe the in-
jury done to pi irate property by the sweeping effects of
the Westerly gale, would occupy a very considerable
I portion of our Paper ; but from the accounts received,
such has been the damage in the •icinity of London,
that a very great extent of time, trouble, and expense,
must be occupied to repair it. The gale occupied, as
will be found, several hours, during its visitation of the
metropolis, and all that time blew with close and un-
remitting violence, and did not subside until yesterday
afternoon, when it changed to W.S.W. and then slew
very strong. In Holborn two stacks of chimnies were
blown into the street about the heads of the passing
throng, but injured no person materially. A variety
of casualties, too numerous to mention, took place
about town during the day.
At eight o'clock yesterday morning, part of an addi-
tional building, erecting at Mr. Ridley's floor-cloc.
manufactory, Islingtrin, was thrown down. which the
workmen bad, providentialy, left a few minntes before,
to go to their breakfast; and the building being at a
distant part of the premises, and quite detached from
any other, no further injor y was suAained, or any impe-
diment occasioned to the busine,s of the factory.

THANES TUNNEL—The large and ingenious iron
shield, which is destine) to ptoted at once the work.
men, and the tunnel itself, fiom almost a possibility of
danger during the operation, is now at the bottom of
the great shaft, and fixed, and ready to proceed hod-
zuwaily. The workmen are cutting away the brick
work, preparatory to their striking out horizontally
under the Thames. This, from the solidity of the
work, and the hardness of the cement, is a laborious
wot k, and necessarily of slow progress. It is hoped,
that in eighteen months from the getting through the
wall, the tunnel will be carried to and under the
further shore of the rivers and in the opinion of persons
most competent to form a correct judgment, the first
exrectation of ultimate aid complete success, is in-
ceased by all the circumstances which have hitherto
attended this imp-irtant undertaking.
The Laura Ann, from Virginia to Liverpool, WAS abandoned at
sea 15th ult. in a sinking state; the Catherine, from Maranbam to
Liverpool, has put back with six feet water in her hold ; the Three
Brothers, Smarr, from Boston to Granada, was lost at the Bahamas
sods of September; the Gower, Tarr, front Malaga to London,
was totally lost near Tariffa, on the 4th ult. crew saved ; the Ma-
ria Auguste, Tam, from Stettin to London, was driven on shore on
Ameland, on the 21st ult. and it was feared would be wrecked ;
the Friendship, Lammers, from Cuba to Havre, was wrecked at
the Bahamas 10th September, and part cf the cargo saved; the
John Oldin, Pu.ssuar, from Genoa to Alvarado. was totally
lost on ileneage 28th August; the Abigail, HOLMIS, from St.
John's, New Brunswick, to Jamaica, was lost in Turk's Island,
7th of September, part of the cargo saved; the George, from St.
John's, New Brunswick, has capsized at sea; the Flora, Emu
from New York to Nevr Brunswick, was driven on shore 9th Sep-
tember, at Campo Bello, and it was feared would be lost.
Monday, u Elizabeth Harrington, a char-woman, was washing,
at Earl's-court Terrace, Kensington, she suddenly fell back, and In
her fall, drew tbe tab go her, and instantly expired.