The Sun. — 1838-11-08 (London, England)

STORM AND TEMPEST.—We of this district know little comparatively of the aerial warfare which, embracing a very wide circle, has swept alike ocean and land of late. Hurricane followed hurricane in rapid succession, not to speak of minor storms ; every day had its tale of woe, in the shape of wreck, and its painful attendants ; the Atlantic seems to have been agitated in its entire length and breadth ; other seas may have partaken of the same turmoil, and when the whole truth comes to be known, the list of casualties will be one of the longest ever recorded in the books at Lloyd's. It was during the first of these fearful tempests that the Northern Yaekt went down. One vessel saw the waves spouting over her decks, and from what is said by the crew of the Circassia of Newburgh, who beheld a vessel sinking close to the lell Rock, not a doubt can remain that she foundered at sea, - with with all bands on board. Last week we recorded the narrow escape made by the Victoria, while on her passage to Strangford the same , and other shipwrecks occurred much about me time._Dunfries Courier. About nine o'clock on Tuesday night a man named Bruce, a native of Oxfordshire, who was navigating h a .arge near Chelsea, fell overboard and was drowned. The body was not found. Yesterday a child named James Gunn, four yea age, the youngest child of Mr. Gunn, cow-keeper,, at rsof was in his father's cart with his brother, who was driving it, when by some means the backboard of the cart gave wa-y and the child fell under the wheel of the cart, which passed over his body. He was conveyed to a surgeon's, where it was ascertained that the ribs had been forced in upon the heart and lungs. He was then removed to his father's house, where he died after a few hours of excruciating pain. On Tuesday afternoon, as William Follit's Chalfont coach was proceeding, shortly before five o'clock, over the Grand Junction Canal bridge, on the Uxbridge road, it was met by the Sovereign, Warwick and Leamington coach, coming to town. The Chalfont coach, being unpro vi e 'cl d • wit h lights, was not seen by the coachman of the Sovereign, and the two coaches coming in collision, the pole and splinter-bar were broken. Fortunately, although both coaches hadr several outside passengers none of them were thrown off, nor was any person injured. Both coaches were after some delay enabled to proceed on their journey. Shortly after three o clock yesterday afternoon, as a crossing boy, about 11 years of age, named Williamson, was Long-acre, near James-street, he was knocked down va carrier's cart, loaded with heavy bales of goods, and before ldriver could pull up, one of the wheels passed the over the upper part of his body, and crusi.ed it in a shocking manner. The boy was immediately carried to a surgeon's in the neighbourhood, who recommended his removal to Charing-cross Hospital, but be died on his way thither. The body was taken to St. Martin's workhouse to await a coroner's inquest. The driver was taken into custody, and the horse and cart removed to the green-yard. The driver, whose name was Hemmings, was f c subsequently examined b when the evidence ore the Magistrates at Bow-street,' brought forward tended to show that he was not to blame, and he was allowed to depart on promising to attend the inquest. An Irishman named Collins, residing in Kensington, was yesterday r e-examined before the Magistrates in Petty Sessions, and held to bail on a charge of having with others committed a most murderous assault on an Englishman named Aslin, arising peal of the Union." Aslin outf some dispute respecting the " Rewas so much injured as to lie in a state of insensibility for forty-eight hours, and is even now in a very precarious state. The prisoner attempted to prove an alibi, but failed. During 1837 the vessels entering the different ports of Holland amounted to Jr " ,/ 87, and their tonnage to 753,105; the number of those which sailed outwards was 5,784, and their tonnage 770, Among the entrances, 2,721 vessels measuring 313,982 (:). tons were under the flag of the Netherlands, and among the departures under the same flag were 2,720 vessels measuring 327 481 tons.