"Unsettled, cold and stormy air,
With fitful showers, here and there."
A Derelict. The Ocean queen fishing lugger brought into Hastings a boat which the crew picked up, ten miles at sea, which it was supposed had drifted from a steamer or other vessel.
Vessels Wrecked - The predicted storms of Sunday, Monday, and Thursday, the 27th and 28th of September and the 1st of October had their fulfilment, and many maritime disasters resulted therefrom. The gale of Wednesday night and Thursday morning was more particularly note-worthy in this locality, as having caused the wreck of two vessels, the Perseverence and the Milward, which were unfortunately - and as the writer thought at the time, indiscreetly - ashore, discharging their respective cargoes. Great efforts were made to save them, but so violent was the wind from a southerly direction that, being unable to get off again to sea, the former became a total wreck, and the latter was so shattered as to make it doubtful if she would ever be be(sic) again seaworthy. Both vessels were said to be owned by the Messrs. Winter and were uninsured. These storms were the supposed effects of some rare positions of the sun, moon and planetary bodies, as were certain other meteorological phenomena. The forecast in Brett's Gazette for Sunday was "Now Moon and Mars, and others stellar powers, Denote a turbid sky, with wind and showers". For Monday, the calculation was - "Electric tokens still remain; high tides and windy, also rain." For Wednesday the forecast was "Of this day's weather one doth feel some doubt, but very soon some storms will fly about". And for the Thursday, on the early morning of which the local wrecks occurred, the weather prediction was - "Now Mars and Saturn meet, nor meet in jest, While Rugged Herschel still remains at rest; And thus, unless, for once, their mission fail, Magnetic storms extensively prevail."
The Stranded Smack, a fortnight after the event as described above was hauled ashore. Its keel was the only part that was much damaged.
Wreck of the Louise. "Misfortunes never come singly" is an old saying, and in a majority of cases it is grievously verified. Scarcely had the excitement of a fire been allayed when it was found that the storm -
