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commenced in London and the suburbs. Towards noon on Tuesday,

with sheets of copper.

and scattered in every direction. About fifty of the finest lime-trees in Ken- Twenty-three persons who have received injuries during the star=s

sington Gardens were blown down.

friars Bridge was forced away. Twenty feet of the coping-stone at the east side large quantity of lead stripped from the roof of the chapel behind 'dl; of the Surrey end of the bridge were blown down, and a young woman was Royal Artillery Barracks.

seriously injured ; about eighteen feet of the parapet on the other side were also Considerable injury was done to the shipping in the Thames. blown down into the river.

rninster, when a violent gust came on, and the coffin fell on the stones, the pall which, corning in contact with each other, knocked away bowsprits and add--

flying off to a considerable distance. works and brought down masts and yards. On hoard many ships that wax The Royal Exchange has sustained some injury. A portion of the lead on were seriously wounded and bruised ; but the confusion which reigned dere.w the roof being disengaged by the wind, went over the balustrade taking about Monday night was trifling compared with the state of the Thames on Tru:day

forty feet of the stone-work with it, which in falling struck t ness in the Pools was almost at a stand-still, the barges and boats were adrift -rd,

above entablature at noon, when the hurricane was at its height, and the rain fell heavily. Raw- above the statue of Henry the Eighth, and brought it to the ground, about a ton of lead and stone falling into the enclosed area. all directions, numbers of them bottom upwards, and valuable cargoes were lest its leaden covering. missing have perished. Shortly before high water, a wherry containing thr In the York Road, Lambeth, a lofty chimney beloneing to the emery-paper persons was blown over off Poplar, but the parties were all good swimmers, zed manufactory of Mr. Johnson, was blown down, and broke the roofs of two ad- succeeded in reaching the shore alive. While the tide was ebbing, the steamers; coming up could hardly make way against the strong wind and current, , and rite joining houses. of the towing-vessels going towards the Upper Pool was obliged to cast e

The sheds attached to the lofty shot-tower of Messrs. Maltby and Sone, near x.cer, l Waterloo Bridge, which are covered with a:stout lead roof, had the whole roof, and bring up in Limehouse Reach, the wind and tide for once prerieg rams: powerful than steam. The few boats which ventured out returned to the slur.skylight included, blownslur. A large piece of the coping-stone belonging to the front of the residence of half filled with water, and their managers in an exhausted state, while very few w Lady Walsh, No. 5, Upper Harley Street, gave way, and fell with a tremendous of the regular ferrymen dared to cross the stream with passengers, The wae. a- crash into the street, to the imminent danger of the passers-by, who narrowly men are great losers by the hurricane, which has sunk and broken more that: 0 boats above and below London Bridge. About I escaped being injured. At the same moment, a chimney-put of No. I was 20 o'clock, a curious drea m:- g. razzi blown off, but was prevented from falling by an iron bar, otherwise a lady fur stance was observed on the causeway at Wapping named John Adams had placed his boat on the beach, bottom upwards, 'Am, advanced in pregnancy, who was passing, must have been dashed to pieces : the a sudden gust of wind lifted it up, carried it over two other wherries, and it lady was greatly alarmed, and fell down in a fainting fit ; she was, however, taken to the house of Mr. Watts, surgeon, where, by the aid of proper restore- fell, without receiving the least injury, about eight yards from the spot wkerc aw tires, the shortly recovered. About twelve o'clock, a respectable attorney, re- it was originally laid. The violence of the gale undermined the embankme on various

siding at the West end, was passing up Barlow Street, near the Police-office, parts of the river.

when three chimney-pots of the house No. 30 blew off. He heard them fall In the country and on the coast, the gale blew with tremendous V.0- against the coping, and looking up, saw them falling into the street, when, by lence, and proved most disastrous. jumping quickly into a doorway, he avoided the impending danger. At Exeter, on Tuesday, the tiles were flying like leaves in autumn; statslea The ball and cross of St. Paul's Cathedral were observed to vibrate in a fear- of chimnies were also blown down, and in some cases portions of houses sitis

ful manner during the hurricane, and attracted the marked attention of the them. Trees, one hundred and fifty years old, were blown down in the packs! people who were passing through St. Paul's Chuichyard! The howling of the of the neighbouring gentry, particularly at the residence of T. Snow, Res, storm in the vicinity of the sacred edifice, which, opposing itself to the wind, where a fine grove of elms were completely uprooted. In Northernhay, sereez1 dividing the current of air on each side of the massive pile, swept every thing trees were blown down, others only partially so; the front of the Cathedral in before it like a whirlwind. damaged, a portion of the battlements having been swept off. -

L The gale has produced no specimen of fine writing equal to this, At Brighton, ..lie wind was at its height at half past eleven on Tuesday, waist, It is impossible not to feel an ominous shudder in reading of the danger chimnies by the dozen were blown down, windows were blown in, and tiles flea to which the " sacred edifice" was exposed in "dividing the current of about in every direction. Several houses were completely unroofed; and s.,e air" which ",swept every thing."—except the " massive pile," we sup- regret to state that a young man, a bricklayer, while passing down the New Stepie, was struck by a sheet of falling lead and killed on the spot. The eoetAr pose—before it like a " whirlwind."' wall of the Rock Brewery, near Kemp Town, gave way to the storm; and tl' In Cross Street, a stack of ellininies fell upon the house of Mr. Coates, an Old Gas-works being deprived of this shelter, their western wall, which var. engraver • Mrs. Goulding, a mechanic's wife, in the upper story, was coding very high, soon fell with a tremendous crash, broke through the crown of ere, dinner, era being driven from the fire-place Cy a sudden issue of smoke and of the largest gasometers, from which twenty thousand feet of gas escaped. A flame, she snatched up her infant and retreated to the back of the apartment, stack of chimuies blew from the top of Mutton's, confectioner, King's Read° by which both lives were preserved, for a moment after the chimnies fell, and and failing through the roof of an old building at the back of the house, mufie the whole front was in ruins. Mr. Wingfield, an oilman, who had run to the its way to the first fluor, and so seriously injured a young woman, a nail lop of his own house adjoining, looking round to his neighbour's, which was been driven into her head, that she is considered in a very precarious state. then completely unroofed, saw the poor woman in her room, with the child Among the other casualties of the day, that of the Chain Pier was not ebc clinging to her breast, and the bricks still filling around them, and he exerted least remarkable. The third suspension bridge, its massive chains and A, himself to calm her agitation and induce her to remain quiescent, until an swayed, bent, yielded, and twisted absolutely like a thread-paper, supported by opening could be safely made for her. strings of cotton ; first one plank and then another flew up, till at last it weal Many trees in the neighbourhood of South Lambeth and Stockwell were off, as it were in splinters, and broke right asunder, falling down on each tide blown prostrate; some were snapped short in the centre, and almost looked as if like thin pasteboard. St. Peter's Church has lost one of its pinnacles; arse they had been cut with a saw : there were several from which their largest throughout the town the damage has been very extensive. The mischief in limbs were blown off and (in a few instances) carried to the distance of many other places has been equally great. Upwards of one thousand trees are cal-

yards. culated to have been blown down in Snunnore Park. In the town of Lem%

It is impossible to describe the scene of alarm and confusion which took the storm raged with equal impetuosity ; and most of the houses being ex- lace in Marchmont Street, Russell Square; for about ten minutes, slates, tremely old, scarcely one escaped without losing several chimuies and part ‘

fire was prineinely confined to the great room, the roof of which has tiles, and chimney-pots were seen flying about in all directioas: the cr'er of entirely fallen in. The damage done to property is very extensive.— the females were terrific. Hull Observer. An accident, nearly attended with loss of life, took place at the house at Mrs. Macgregor, No. 3, Regent's Place, Brunswick Square, near the Somcin

A disturbance took place on Saturday in a public-house in Hamel), Church. The stack of chimnies belonging to the adjoining house, Nu. 2, woe

blown down upon the roof of Mrs. lUaegregor's house, which was forced it b,

between a party of English and Irish labourers at work on the Great the violence of the shock, and the whole mass of ruins fell into the attics. ..tt Western Railway. By the assistance of the police, who were sum- the time of the accident most of the inmates were in the lower part of the pre-- taloned by the landlord, the Irish were ejected. They then began to roarer; but, unfortunately, one lady named Crookshank and her female attes- throw stones at the house, and would soon have forced their way in dant, were in the front attic. The lady was buried up to her neck in liar again ; but on learning that Dr. Walmesley, a Magistrate, had sent for fallen bricks and rubbish, and seriously bruised ; her life was only laved by the the Brentford Police, they resolved on going to attack his house. gallantry of a gentleman, an officer in the army (Captain Taynton), WIIN4SIC They were prevented, however, from doing any further damage by the hearing the crash, instantly ran 'up from the drawing-room, where he arse timely arrival of the police. Three of the ringleaders have been sent seated, and, at the imminent hazard of his life, succeeded in extricating rail

On the night of the 24th ultimo, a most desperate affray took place In all quarters of the town, chimnies and coping-stones were blew:

body of poachers. The struggle was long and bloody. Three of the A stack of chimnies was blown down front the residence of Prince ratar• keepers are cut in a most frightful manner about the head, and one of hazy, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, and falling on the roof of the Lei- the poachers named Frost is so much injured that it was thought joining house, completely beat it in, causing the utmost alarm and consternaLac dangerous to remove him from the West Suffolk Hospital, where he to the inmates.

is now lying. Three of the poachers were taken to Bury, and were Iu Hill Street, near the City Road, the roofs of two houses were blows eh, committed for trial.—Suffolk Chronicle. and similar accidents occurred in various other parts of the neighbeneh.asii-

At some points, a heavy stack of chimuies might be observed reeking to irall The barn of Mr. G. Sales, at Speldhiirst, near Tunbridge Wells, fro under the influence of the wind, and a crowd collected at the oppusiw tea was set fire to on Saturday evening. Fortunately, the wind carried watching with anxiety for the expected fall, and forming a sort of cordoA earaa:- the flames from the house and stack-yard ; so that only the barn and a Mire to warn paasengers from the dangerous epot !

small building attached to it were consumed. The whole stack of chimnies on the west side of Brownlow House, Bele:tars: In the county of Gloucester, crime is said to be diminishing in an Square, were carried by a sudden tremendous gale of wind directly through a! e extraordinary degree. Last year, the commitments to the County Gaol roof of the mansion. The stack of chimnies at the north-west angle of Lansdowne House, •wee were 150 fewer than those of the four preceding, and this year the dimi- earl icd through the roof of the upper room, immediately over the 31arneatu Chandos House, the residence of the Austrian Ambassador, had a similw. THE GALE. attark. St. George's Hospital suffered much. The Marquis of Lonilonderrele Early on Monday morning, a tremendous storm of wind and rain magnificent balcony and awning were completely destroyed, although cove:-.J

its violence was rather increased ; but in the evening it partially sub- The Marchioness Dowager Conyngbam's mansion, situate at the wesweei sided. The newspapers from day to day have been tilled with accounts corner 01 Hamilton Place, was exposed to all the force of the hurricane, nia-1, of the damage to property, and in several instances loss of life, noes- carried away the copper roof and several of the chimnies. Many of the Wik•- sioned by the hurricane. We select some of the striking incidents ; doors were forced in and destroyed.

A great amount of damage was sustained in the inner circle of the Park tar

even the more serious ones being rendered almost laughable by the the bowing numerous owing in of numous large plate-glass windows, which were shattered, so

atoms. In Cavendish Square a house was completely unroofed.

More than twenty trees in St. James's and the other parks were laid pros- The windows of the private entrance of the Judges to Westminster Hall Ifcvc. trate, most of the sentry. boxes in St. James's Park were thrown down, and the completely shattered. high wooden rails opposite the entrance of Buckingham Palace were torn away, and scattered in every direction. About fifty of the finest lime-trees in Ken- Twenty-three persons who have received injuries during the star=s

have been taken to the Metropolitan Hospitals.

Nearly the whole of the wooden pallisading on the south east side of Mack- At Woolwich, two hundred houses were more or less injured, anal c friars Bridge was forced away. Twenty feet of the coping-stone at the east side large quantity of lead stripped from the roof of the chapel behind 'dl; of the Surrey end of the bridge were blown down, and a young woman was Royal Artillery Barracks.

A corpse was being carried across the churchyard of Sr. Margaret's, West- The gale sent adrift several tiers of colliers and other vesiels in the rive:: rninster, when a violent gust came on, and the coffin fell on the stones, the pall which, corning in contact with each other, knocked away bowsprits and add--

forty feet of the stone-work with it, which in falling struck t ness in the Pools was almost at a stand-still, the barges and boats were adrift -rd,

above entablature at noon, when the hurricane was at its height, and the rain fell heavily. Raw- above the statue of Henry the Eighth, and brought it to the ground, about a ton of lead and stone falling into the enclosed area. all directions, numbers of them bottom upwards, and valuable cargoes were lest arc church of St. Bartholomew, near the Exchange, was nearly stripped of Several coal-barges were capsized; and we hear that two lightermen who rr thrx its leaden covering. missing have perished. Shortly before high water, a wherry containing thr In the York Road, Lambeth, a lofty chimney beloneing to the emery-paper persons was blown over off Poplar, but the parties were all good swimmers, zed manufactory of Mr. Johnson, was blown down, and broke the roofs of two ad- succeeded in reaching the shore alive. While the tide was ebbing, the steamers; coming up could hardly make way against the strong wind and current, , and rite joining houses. of the towing-vessels going towards the Upper Pool was obliged to cast e

New Stairs. A water

g. razzi blown off, but was prevented from falling by an iron bar, otherwise a lady fur stance was observed on the causeway at Wapping named John Adams had placed his boat on the beach, bottom upwards, 'Am, advanced in pregnancy, who was passing, must have been dashed to pieces : the a sudden gust of wind lifted it up, carried it over two other wherries, and it lady was greatly alarmed, and fell down in a fainting fit ; she was, however, taken to the house of Mr. Watts, surgeon, where, by the aid of proper restore- fell, without receiving the least injury, about eight yards from the spot wkerc aw tires, the shortly recovered. About twelve o'clock, a respectable attorney, re- it was originally laid. The violence of the gale undermined the embankme on various when three chimney-pots of the house No. 30 blew off. He heard them fall In the country and on the coast, the gale blew with tremendous V.0- against the coping, and looking up, saw them falling into the street, when, by lence, and proved most disastrous. jumping quickly into a doorway, he avoided the impending danger. At Exeter, on Tuesday, the tiles were flying like leaves in autumn; statslea The ball and cross of St. Paul's Cathedral were observed to vibrate in a fear- of chimnies were also blown down, and in some cases portions of houses sitis

L The gale has produced no specimen of fine writing equal to this, At Brighton, ..lie wind was at its height at half past eleven on Tuesday, waist, It is impossible not to feel an ominous shudder in reading of the danger chimnies by the dozen were blown down, windows were blown in, and tiles flea to which the " sacred edifice" was exposed in "dividing the current of about in every direction. Several houses were completely unroofed; and s.,e air" which ",swept every thing."—except the " massive pile," we sup- regret to state that a young man, a bricklayer, while passing down the New Stepie, was struck by a sheet of falling lead and killed on the spot. The eoetAr Many trees in the neighbourhood of South Lambeth and Stockwell were off, as it were in splinters, and broke right asunder, falling down on each tide its root, so that toe streets ale quite strewed with orickbats and other materials. St. Ann's Church was pat tinily stripped of its roof, and a great many of the tiles blown.ahrough the windows of the Pelham Arms, at least one hundred feet distant. On the lands of the Reverend Mr. Croft, at Mailing, sixteen fine trees were blown down in a row, like so ninny ninepins. Shoreham, Wurthing, and all the places along the coast, have also suffered. Aiming every house in Southampton has, in some degree, suffered. The entire front of one in St. George's Place has been blown down ; stacks of ehimnies have disappeared, and in many places the roofs have been turn of The lead which covered All Saints' Church bus, in parts, been rolled up, and the streets are strewn with bricks and mortar. Slates, two fret long, were tarried like feathers hundreds of feet in the air, and dashed to the ground with a terrific impetus, while flocks of cormorants and other aquatic birds, driven from their natural resting places, flew screaming about the town. The immense wrought-iron chain belonging to the new steam-bridge, which seemed strong enough to resist any pressure, proved unable to withstand such a tempest, and broke. A skiff was actually blown out of the water, and catried half-a- Naile over the mud ; numerous trees and barns in the forest were uprooted, and two Small vessels drifted from their anchors opposite the pier, and were iu ten minutes utter wrecks.

In the promenade of Chapel Fields, Norwich, several large elm-trees were blown down, the roofs and chimnies of many houses were driven down, and tiles and chimney •pots were flying about in all directions. A fine old tree in the Prussia Gardens, about half-a- mile from Norwich, was upturn by the roots and fell across the road, and had to be removed before the mail could pass. Stacks of corn and hay were unroofed in all directions, and the contents dis- persed abroad. Along the road huge boughs and branches of trees were fre- quently met with, and other signs of the fury of the gale.

The roads to Hull, Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Liverpool, and Dover, were almost impassable, in coesequenee of the number of trees which were blown down. Bath and Bristol are said to have been "inundated."

On the Southern coast, immense injury has been done to the ship- ping. Even a man-of-war was dismasted off Portsmouth.

Thr S rd a song of war etas dismayed, not havingdrivtn in the lea,t. This acciee ill, the fro of tile a rt within .,or remembrance for flirty yews as having happened to a man of war, must be accounted for !white a proper tribu- nal : but still no surprise was expressed by the people on shore at the accident, fiat it was observed I y every one that no ',Lip ever rode so uneasy it her anchot ; she dipped deep and rose uut of the water till a'l her forefoot was exposed at every wave that passed her, and it is now known she rolled most prodigiously ; so much for the roadstead qualities done of Sir Symonds's ships. It is subsequently learnt she was in the act of striking topmast when her masts fell, and the men in the tops jumped overboard, and all except two, who were drowned, readied the boat, which was astern; two ether men had their legs fractured by the fall of the wreck on the deck ; but with the exception of a few bruises, these providentially were all the casualties that happened : she must some into harbour, and will, most probably, be paid off.

[It has been since stated, that, a day or two before, an American vessel ran foul of the Serpent, and sprung her masts.]

At Southampton, a singular circumstance was observed during the gale : the tide, which should have flowed till about hall-past two o'clock, about eleven receded, and ebbed rapidly for more than an hour, when it again b,gau to flow to its regular height. At Deal, the gale is considered by many of the most experienced boatmen to have exceeded any thing remembered. It commenced at about eleven A.31., and continued with unabated fury until Witty minutes past one p.m., timing which time it frequently blew in squalls a. complete hurticatte ; tool the sea was most terrific in its appearance; inbuilt excited the gremes4 alarm for the safety of the shipping in the Dow us, a'sli Mr the intr. pit l int ttmen that Were di, at the risk of their lives, endeavouring to render a,si-mere if required. The greatest devastation has on-laved to the shipping in the Downs (a large number having accutonlansl them in constlinerwe of the wind prevailing so long from the westward), si veral of them bring distrusted, others !using anchors and cables, and saute driven on shore.

Accounts of damage to shipping as far West as Cardiff have been received at Lloyd's. Whole columns of the newspapers are tilled with brief statements of the loss of vessels along the coast. The loss of life appears not to have been large.

The Regulator Portsmouth roach was blown by the fury of the gale against a hedge, by the Devil's Punchbowl. near Mellon, and the guard was obliged to open both coach-duet s, and allow the blast Pi rush through, as the only means of saving the coach from complettly overdo Mug. The weather had twee stormy along the line of road ft ion tin• continence:mot of the week, anti cm Mon- day night, at Cobham, the nail went over a forge tree that had Miler' across the road. A large part Of the pa raper. of Rochester lit idge was blown down, and the Dover (Woo roach, in passing over, was t:.rown on its side.

At Littlehampton, barges have been seek in the river, boats blown over the banks and broken to pieces, some buildings totally unroofed, and few have escaped being ito rtially so : much of tat: roof of the new church is gone, and it is remarkable that, with such force were the slates thrown, that one cut moan& r an iron rail of an enelosure over a vuult ; chimnies have been blown down, and large quantities of glass forced in.

At East Grinstead, one of the spires of the church was blown down : it fell through the roof, cutting large timbers in the ceiling, de- molishing several pews, and just missed the organ, which would have been otherwise crushed to atoms. A new nelieished building of con- siderable dimensions was butted to the ground with a tremendous crash, and presents a heap of ruins. On the French coast the hurricane was terrific— The appearance of the sea was most awful, being covered with wrecks which dashed upon the shore, tearing up the sand in every direction. The pier or jetty of Calais, the strongest and best-constructed of any in this country, and which has for years defied the anger of the deep, could not stand against the impetuosity of the foaming element. The huge and massive stones which are linked together by strong iron bars, and hitherto have served as a breakwater to the pier and harbour, were shaken from their embedment, and broken asunder. The deep-driven piles of the jetty then became loosened, an I could scarcely stand against the violence of the waves dashing in the most furious mariner from the W.S. W. At the end there was a sentry-box for the Douaniers, or Custom- house soldiers, who are on duly day and night, to give an alarm to the pilots of the port in case of any vessels being in distress—that was completely washed away, and about twenty-five or thirty yards of the upper part of the pier or bars, having only the piles standing. The ancient Fort Rouge, the saluting fort and battery on the right entrance of the harbour, and signal-staff, which is built upon strong piles, driven about forty feet into the earth, was shaken to the found- atiou, and in many parts gave way. The whole of the roof of the Corps de Chude, or signal-house, is blown off; and had it not been for the heavy pieces of Gannon around it,which caused an aperture fur the fury of the wind through

the port-holes, the whole in all probability would have been swept away, as the artillerymen on duty state it shook with such violence that they all ex- pected every moment that they would be blown into the port to rise no more. The signal-staff was broken to pieces. and six small brass guns, which serve to salute the arriv il or passing of any squadron or ships of war, were totally dis- mounted from their carriages, and thrown to some distance by the impetuosity of the waves.

At Montreuil, a most serious accident occurred on Tuesday morning, which might have proved fatal to many. The Paris diligence of Messrs. Lafitte and Caillard, and that of the Alessageries Reyales, of Rue Notre Dame des Vic- toires, had just changed horses, when, coming down that steep bill, the poor quadrupeds of the for [tier took fright at the violence of the wind, and, notwith- standing all the hallooing and cracking of the postilion's whip, they would not go on, so that both the heavy vehicles came iaa contact with such a concussion that the wheels of both came off, and the astonished inside and outside tra- vellers only had a severe shaking on the stones, when they got out, and were politely requited by Messieurs les eonducteurs to wait in the village at the bottom until the damage was repaired, notwithstanding the heavy rain and wind, which nearly took them uff their legs. Among the passengers were several Englishmen, who heartily enjoyed the appearance of the dismayed Frenchnieu at this contretemps, which is an unfrequent occurrence in this country.

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commenced in London and the suburbs. Towards noon on Tuesday,