oy 
- 
1843,] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 45 
it, and the original resolutions were finally carried without 
a dissentient voice. 
Mortality of the Metropolis—The number of deaths 
Yegistered in the week ending Saturday, the 7th inst., 
was 869 (451 males, and 418 females), This mortality 
Occurred in the five districts in the following proportion, 
to which, being the first return for the year, we shall add 
the parishes included in each district. West districts, 
including Kensington, Chelsea, St. George’s, Hanover- 
Square, Westminster, St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, and St. 
James’s, Piccadilly, 130; north districts, including St. 
Marylebone, St. Pancras, Islington, and Hackney, 151; 
Central districts, including St. Giles’s, and St. George’s, 
Strand, Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke’s, East London, 
West London, and City of London, 164 ; east districts, 
including Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, St. 
George’s-in-the-East, Stepney, and Poplar, 213; south 
districts, including St. Saviour’s, St. Olave’s, Bermondsey, 
St. George’s (Southwark), Newington, Lambeth, Camber- 
well, Rotherhithe, and Greenwich, 211. The weekly 
average for the five previous years was 903 (461 males, 
and 442 females) ; and for the five previous winters, 1,004. 
Population in 1841, 1,870,727. 
*Brovinctal Netvs. 
Bristol.—The late storm, which appears to have affected 
almost every portion of the kingdom, in its progress visited 
Bristol and the neighbourhood, and raged on Thursday 
and Friday with the utmost fury. During the night the 
Wind blew with great violence, producing the usual effects 
of chimneys blown down, windows broken, and houses 
Partly unroofed. Among other accidents the Gothic 
Window of St. Nicholas Church, in the clock-tower, was 
torn completely out of its framework and dashed in. The 
Yane of St. Philip’s church also was torn off. From St. 
erberg’s Church several copingstones of large size were 
Own down. At the West of England Stay Factory the 
ee stack of chimneys was blown down, and, falling on 
© roof, dashed it in, and the whole mass forced its way 
through the ceiling of a room in which upwards of 50 
Sirls were at work, causing, of course, the utmost con- 
Sternation, but no serious injury to the inmates. Several 
Yessels in the Severn were driven on shore, and some 
foundered at the mouth of the river. 
Brighton.—The storm was severely felt here during the 
whole of Friday. Some of the old fishermen declare that 
they never saw the waves rise so high ; they occasionally 
Covered the chain-pier, which rocked very much, but has 
€scaped uninjured. The wind brought the Shoreham train 
on the railway to a stand-still. The Defiance, Portsmouth 
Coach, which left at 4 o’clock, was blown over near Shore- 
une and the passengers so much injured that they were 
liged to be conveyed back to Brighton. A boat lying 
nthe beach at Shoreham was blown into a field, and 
hutshed to pieces. At Kemp-Town all the fences and 
Oardings were levelled with the ground. The houses on 
€ cliffs have received great injury; the Bedford Hotel 
Presents the appearance of an attack by rioters, almost 
“very window in that fine building being broken. A great 
Ortion of the roof of the theatre was carried away. Mr. 
He” a florist in the Western road, had half the covering 
his green-house blown off and smashed to pieces, 
on ene many of the plants. The tall chimneys in the 
ae rocked to and fro, and many of the inhabitants took 
it uge in the lower parts of their houses, in the greatest 
fall of alarm from the roofs being beat in. From the 
ee ing stacks scarcely a roof in an exposed situation has 
ae injury. The fishing craft on the coast sustained 
uch damage, and many lives were lost. 
hag aremont.—The gales during the past week, which 
noe been generally destructive throughout the country, 
Che done considerable damage in the neighbourhood of 
emont and Esher. Several trees have been blown 
thonin the park, and the plantations and shrubberies in 
city have been injured to a great extent. Nearly 
fs Tont of the mansion at Claremont are two fine cedar 
ae Supposed to be upwards of a century old, and at 
the 40 feet high. Between these trees formerly stood 
aa mansion, previously to the erection of the present 
Thc’: During the height of the gale, on the night of 
sneened the top of one of them was blown down, the 
ae Snapping the stem in twain about 25 feet from the 
anc: The other tree was also shorn of many of its 
pe Oe and the beauty of both is materially injured. 
Bee . course of Friday the royal standard hoisted on the 
Was br of Esher church, in honour of her Majesty’s visit, 
and lown into shreds. At Ditton, Hook, Chessington, 
exper} ampton, the severity of the storm was equally 
mumoneed, and considerable damage has been done to 
Srous buildings in all situations exposed to its fury. 
Disheg 220-—The observers of the barometer were asto- 
Tents’ on Friday morning, on inspecting their instru- 
hag ke find that an extraordinary fall of the mercury 
This aken place during the night, from 28.92 to 28.05. 
Vergg ge estal phenomenon was the general topic of con- 
to en during the day. The barometers in the public 
Movemr’ under constant inspection, and the minutest 
Tomine of the mercury was watched and noted from 
Noteq 8 till night. Some said that the phenomenon de- 
haq b 4n earthquake, for the great earthquake at Lisbon 
Othe = preceded by an extraordinary fall of the mereury. 
and ¢ S maintained that it was the precursor of a storm, 
Warg ie as the wind was blowing smartly from the west- 
hung at was the probable direction from which the 
tatio ane would come. All agreed that some severe visi- 
earth ote impending, but whether a convulsion of the 
the ti * merely of the atmosphere, nobody could tell. As 
that ay advanced, however, the wind increased, showing 
© predictors of the storm were the true prophets. 
Towards evening it had changed from a gale to a storm, 
and from 6 o’clock on Friday night till 4 on Saturday 
morning it blew a hurricane, causing serious damage and 
loss at sea as well as on land. The hurricane was at its 
height between 2 and 3 o’clock. It was, with short 
pauses, terrific. People who were exposed to its fury had 
not the slightest doubt that it was as violent as the me- 
morable storm on the night of the 6th January, 1839. 
The river, even at low water, about 3 o’clock in the morn- 
ing, was one sheet of foam, the waves running as high as 
if it had been a full tide in calm weather, Hundreds of 
families, especially those who reside in situations exposed 
to the sweep of westerly winds, never ventured to bed 
during the night, They sat up in the lower apartments 
of their houses. With one exception, however, where a 
roof fell in and buried a ‘hole family in the ruins, the 
damage done to the buildings by the tempest has not been 
serious. This accident occurred in the London road, but the 
inmates were all rescued alive. Several vessels were wrecked 
and many lives lost in the harbour and off Holyhead. 
Manchester.—The storm of Friday was anticipated in 
this town by the remarkable depression of the barometer 
observed by Dr. Dalton and other meteorologists. The 
fall was so rapid’and so low as to produce a general im- 
pression that it was connected with some sudden convul- 
sion of the atmosphere. Dr. Dalton states that on Thurs- 
day, at 6 o’clock p.m., the mercury began to descend in 
the barometer, and in five hours sank .12 of an inch, 
when it stood at 29.05 inches. On Friday morning at 
8 o’clock it stood 28.15 inches, and gradually descended 
until 2 p.m., when it was observed at 28.02, being lower 
by .16 of an inch than he ever observed it at Manchester. 
The only depression which he has found in his journal of 
observations made in Manchester for upwards of 49 years, 
that approaches the nearest to the present, occurred on 
23d Nov., 1824, when the mercury stood at 28.18 inches. 
The mean height of the barometer, as adduced from his 
observations for the last 49 years, is 26.885, being 1.865 
inch higher than the height it stood at on Friday. At 
4 p.m. it was 28.10; at 8 p.m. it was 28.20; at 9 p.m. it 
was 28.27. As to the wheel barometers, some of them 
actually went round the dial to ‘‘ very dry.’’ 
Plymouth.—During the greater part of Thursday night 
it blew a heavy gale in this harbour, and between six and 
ten on Friday morning it was a perfect hurricane from 
W.S.W., during which several vessels drove from their 
anchors in the Sound, and were stranded on the rocks 
in Batten Bay. The Southampton, from London t 
Gibraltar, went ashore, and lies apparently bilged; the 
General Brock, from London to Africa, drove at nine 
o'clock, and went ashore; the Seawitch, from London 
to Africa, struck soon after. They are all expected to be 
got off should the weather moderate, and the greater part 
of their cargoes will probably be saved. The Bragilla, of 
Falmouth, was lost in Bovisand Bay, but the crew saved. 
The Belle, of this port, ran ashore on the rocks in Cat- 
water, and a trawl sloop ran on the rocks under Teats- 
hill. The Thunderer, 84, the Euphrates East Indiaman, 
and numerous other vessels, rode out the gale in safety 
under shelter of the Breakwater. The position of the 
Euphrates was at one time very perilous; she dragged her 
anchors, and hatchets were kept ready to cut away her 
masts; she is bound to Calcutta, and it is stated that she 
has specie to the value of 150,000. aboard, and 50 tons 
of Congreve rockets. The Royal Adelaide, 120, during 
the gale, parted one of her mooring chains. She drove 
some distance, but brought up by letting go an anchor. 
The Confiance steam-tug went to her assistance, and she 
was soon put in a position of safety. So great was the 
force of the wind, that lead weighing nearly a ton was 
peeled off one of the sheds in her Majesty’s Dock-yard, 
where other effects of its strength have been manifested. 
In the citadel the slates were blown from the roof of the 
barracks to the ramparts, and the lead on the chapel was 
turned up like paper. Many chimneys were blown down 
in Devonport, Stonehouse, and Stoke, and in some cases 
the inmates were compelled to escape through the windows. 
The roof of Saltram House, the seat of Earl Morley, has 
sustained considerable damage. The officer employed in 
the Dock-yard to record the movements of the barometer 
for a period of seven years, states that in all that time it 
was never so low as on Thursday night on the approach 
of the gale, but that on Kriday morning, during the worst 
of the weather, it was still lower, and that there was no 
means left of indicating the force of the storm, 
Portsmouth.—The gale of Friday was severely felt in 
this harbour. The William the Fourth, from Cowes to 
London, ran ashore in Stokes Bay, but has been got off ; 
the Moore, from Southampton to Sunderland, went ashore 
on the beach, but is expected off if the weather moderates ; 
the Two Brothers, from Weymouth to Langston, went 
ashore on South Sea beach, but has since been got off; a 
brigantine ran ashore on the Woolsners, crew supposed to 
be saved. A sloop and a two-masted vessel were observed 
in the morning riding heavily, two miles S.S.W. of Cum- 
berland Fort; they both sank shortly afterwards, and it is 
feared all hands have perished. The mast-heads of the 
two-masted vessel are visible above water. Several houses 
at Southsea are much damaged in roofs, chimneys, and 
windows. Many of the large dockyard buildings are, 
also slightly damaged ; and Lord Ashburton’s new marine 
villa, in Stokes Bay, is severely injured. At Cowes the 
streets were flooded, and great damage has been done to 
the quay and wharfs. At Southampton, a number of 
boats and small craft were driven on shore. Several un- 
finished houses were blown down in the neighbourhood of 
the railway terminus, which sustained some damage by the 
falling of a stack of chimneys, and some breakage of sky- 
lights. On the south side of the Isle of Wight, a large 
brig from Sunderland to Grenada was driven on shore, 
and the master and mate drowned. 
Ramsgate and Margate.— Several wrécks oécutred along 
this coast, and in the neighbourhood of Ramsgate and Dover 
—the oldest man in the Coast-Guard declares that he never 
witnessed such a scene. Seven ships and four schooners 
were lost on the North Sand; the Diana was driven on 
the Knock Sand, full of water. At Deal a number of 
vessels have arrived more or less damaged, and there is 
little doubt that many have foundered in the channel. 
At Sheerness the hurricane was severely felt; in fact, it 
was impossible to stand against it in any exposed situa- 
tion. The oldest inhabitant has no recollection of so 
awful a gale. During the night no less than four ships 
drove on shore on the Maplin Sand, where it is expected 
they will become wrecks. fine American packet, 
Samarang, reported to be 600 tons burthen, was lost on 
the Brake shoal, close to the Goodwin Sands. The ship 
was laden with a cargo of turpentine, oil, and other goods, 
and arrived in the Downs from Quebec on Friday morn- 
ing, and was on het way to Hull, when overtaken by the 
storm: The crew of 21 men weie rescued by the Duke 
of York;Cutter, of Ramsgate, which went off in the height 
of the gale to their assistance, A delay of half-an-hour 
would have ‘been fatal, for the ship went to pieces Im- 
mediately after they left her. 
Tynemouth Castle—The storm has produced very 
serious damage on this coast. On Thursday the Percy 
steam-vessel was totally wrecked about 10 miles north of 
the Castle. She belonged to North Shields, and had left 
this harbour on the evening previous, to look out for 
vessels in distress, when she was overtaken by the storm: 
Owing to her pitching heavily, the engines soon becaiiie 
ble, and the der, in order to save her, 
brought her head down upon the shore ; but unfortunately 
she drove upon a mass of rocks, where she subsequently 
became a total wreck. All the crew, excepting a boy 15 
years of age, who was drowned, saved themselves by 
swimming ashore. Between the place where the Percy 
went ashore and Dunbar, five vessels are reported to have 
been driven upon the beach, and there is said to be no 
chance of getting them off. Other vessels have been lost 
on different parts of the coast, and it is said that so awful 
a storm has not been experienced since 1824. 
Windsor and Eton.—The storm of Friday night has 
done considerable damage in this neighbourhood. The 
wind blew a complete hurricane, several trees were up- 
rooted in the park, many portions of which were strewn 
with the branches, which the poor of the neighbourhood 
were permitted to carry away. Public attention has been 
directed by* several correspondents of the Times to 
Dorney Church, in this neighbourhood. Tt was stated that 
two antique statues of Bacchus and Ceres, recently im- 
ported from Italy, had jbeen placed over the altar, in the 
room of the Lord’s Prayer and Creed ; that a pew built 
like a conservatory glazed at the sides, with a glass roof, 
and fitted up with a stove, was recently erected in the 
church, and that pewter vessels have been substituted for 
the communion plate. These charges have called forth 
replies from Mr. Palmer, the patron of the living, and 
from Mr. Carter, the rural dean. Mr. Palmer says that 
the statues were not those of Bacchus and Ceres, and 
denies that his pew is now covered with a glass roof ; the 
rural dean states that the statues, were removed by his 
direction last summer, when he recommended the Tables 
to be replaced, and that the Bishop of the diocese fully 
approved of the order he had given. 
Bath.—A meeting of the Town Council took place last 
week for the purpose of agreeing to petitions to both 
Houses of Parliament, at the commencement of the en- 
suing session, for a repeal of the Corn-laws; the, subject 
was brought forward by Admiral Gordon, and supported 
by several aldermen and other members, in a discussion 
which lasted upwards of two hours, when it was unani- 
mously agreed that petitions should be presented, and a 
committee was appointed to draw them up and submit 
girl of a want of food, and the statement o 
gentleman tended to confirm the alleged dil erratmen of 
the girl by her mistress. The prisoner, who is the wife of 
a tradesman in the town, was committed to Taunton jail 
to take her trial for manslaughter. ‘ 
Caermarthen.—We noticed in our last the extraordi- 
nary proceedings of a part, of rioters in this part of 
Wales, who have obtained notoriety under the name of 
“ Rebecca and her daughters.” We now learn that a de- 
tachment of Royal Marines, stationed at Milford, was 
despatched on Thursday mormng, in carriages, from that 
place, under the orders of Captain Wilson, to suppress 
the warfare against turnpike-gates, which has caused so 
much excitement at St. Clare's. It is supposed, that as 
the farmers have refused to be sworn in {as constables, 
they are encouraging their labourers in their acts of de- 
struction. It is suid that the rioters are armed with mus- 
kets, pistols, and scythes, and fancy that they will be 
able to effect the demolition of every turnpike-gate in 
this way, and then attack the Union at Neorbeth, to which 
they have a great antipathy. 
Cambridge.—The approaching election to the office of 
the Regius Professor of Divinity, vacant by the promo- 
tion of Dr. Turton to the Deanery of Westminster, is 
creating great interest in the university. At theglast 
meeting of the Electors, the following divines declared 
themselves candidates :—1. The Rev. W. H. Mill, D.D., 
Christian Advocate, Chaplain to the Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, and formerly Principal of Bishop’s College, Cal- 
