The gale on Sunday and Monday last week seems to
have been as much felt on land as at sea. "On Tuesday," says the Portsmouth Herald, "about seven o'clock, when the gale was at its height, a fine elm, at the dairy-house of Mr. W. Field, at Rumbold's Whyke, was snapped off at twelve feet from the ground, and the head driven rolling across the meadow, until stopped by a strong fence. Trees, ricks, and build- ings, were damaged in every part of the neighbourhood, although the fury of the storm appears to have been more severely felt in the parish of Walberton. There a fine conservatory, belonging to Richard Prime, Esq., was totally demolished. A barn, the property of G. Halstead, Esq., and a machine-house, were in one minute levelled with the ground, as was also a group of seven large elms ; an ash pollard, with a large limb, driven from the trunk with a great portion of the same, was, in sight of several spectators, taken into the air, and carried
entirely over a field of ten acres ! A barn at Binstead was completely cut asunder; the doors and centre roof being scattered about, and the two ends remaining entire. A barn of Mr. J. Cootes, at Middleton, was blown away ; and five wheat-ricks had their tops blown off, and a great portion of their sheaves scattered. The thunder and lightning at Arundel, and to the eastward, were terrific."
A most melancholy and distressing accident took place at Yarmouth last week. The Ocean, fishing-boat, Warner, commander, of Ibrty-two tons burden, belonging to R. and T. Hammond,Esqrs., of Yarmouth, was . struck (between the Ridge and the Knowl) by a heavy sea, and turned over; and every person on hoard perished. The boat had eleven hands on board; consisting of the master, two sons, a brother-in-law, and five others. Mr. Warner has left a wife and five children. Several others of the crew, we hear, had families.—Norwich East Anglian. On Friday, two Liverpool pilots lost their lives, in attempting to board a vessel requiring their aid.. They had, with another man, got
into a boat, but the sea was so rough that it was swamped. .
The Dundee smack Forfarsbire was lost on Friday last, off St. Abb's Head, close by Fast Castle. The vessel sunk in three fathom water. The passengers (with the exception of a woman and a boy, who were washed overboard) and the whole of the crew were saved.
Two ladies, named Beaumont, were very nearly drowned on Satur- day last, in attempting to cross Pegwell Bay, in a small boat, during a strong breeze of wind. The boat upset off Cliff's End. The ladies and boatmen clung to it, however ; and were in consequence rescued, though with some difficulty. The people of Ramsgate designate the actors in this piece of ignorant foolhardiness "time two heroic ladies."
On Saturday morning, as a person was passing near the Shaft, Pover, he heard some person calling for help, but he could perceive no one. By following the sound he was at length led to a well on the premises of Mr. Reuse, the coach-builder, at the bottom of which there appeared to be a man. Assistance was inunediately procured, and the poor fel- low drawn up; who, it appeared, belonged to the Rifle Brigade. On the previous evening, wishing to avoid the picket which goes round the town every night for the disorderly, he gut hold of the well-rope, as he said, naturally thinking to let himself down a little way and then come up again : but no sooner were his feet on the bucket, than down he went by the run. He had been nine hours in the water. —Maiddene Gazette.
/ — An itinerant tinker, travelling through Devonshire last week, near f- Cowley Bridge, took a fancy to a pole which constituted the principal prop to a hay-rick ; and having with difficulty dragged it away, without being aware of its importance, the rick fell upon him, and he lay for \\:ipwards of thirteen hours in danger of suffocation before he was discovered. Morton Lodge, near Stockton -upon-Tees, the property and residence of the Reverend T. M. Rudd ( bid' has lately been advertised for sale), was entirely destroyed by fire on Friday moraing..—Leeds In- tdligencer.
On Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Rosbrook, jobber, of Ballingdon, Essex ; which threatened destruction to the surrounding houses. It was discovered in a large haulm-stack, containing the produce of eight and a half acres ; which communicated with the sheds pig-styes, slaughter-houses, &c. ; the whole was soon levelled with the ground.—Bury Herald.
James Clare, for the twenty-ninth time, is committed to the Hunt- ingdon county prison, for poaching. He is now in the eighty-first year of his age; and for the last twenty-five years, he has made our prison his "town-house," as he calls it. —Huntingdon Gazette.
/—On Tuesday, a woman named Thompson was committed for trial, / for robberies in St. John's Market. The produce of her day's exec- / titans, were a shoulder, a leg, and two loins of mutton, a cow's head and I a half, half a pig's head, five pieces of beef, two pieces of bacon; three 1 pig's shanks, five sheep's plucks, and half a hundred eggs !—Liverpool k.,,_ Albion. --. A . ewindling rascal, who bad been discharged from the London Po- llee for misconduct, contrived, at few weeks ago, to: impose iiimielf, by means of a forged letter' on the relations of a young policeman, who reside in Derby, and to obtain not merely entertaigment -for several days, according to the best of their means, but five pounds, as he pre.. tended for the use of the policeman. He was apprehended at Not. tingham last Friday, and committed for trial.
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