The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-09 00:00:00

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It appeared that the prisoner, who was in the service of a newsman, was in the habit of calling every morning with the newspapers, and from the opinion entertained of his honesty, he was allowed the unc:ntrolled rurr of the prosecutor's chambers. The watch produced was safe at three o'clock on the mantel-piece, and in the evening, when it was missed, the prisoner on being taxed with the robbery, denied all knowledge of it. Information was instantly given to the constable, and after searching in the room of the prisoner's mother, who is a poor widow, he failed to And the watch, but ultimately discovered it concealed under the stairs, rolled up in a piece of brown pap-r. The prisoner then acknowledged his guilt, and said it was his intention to have returned the watch before it could be missed by the pro secutor. Mr. Rutherford expressed a wish that a summary punish ment might be inflicted, in consideration of the prisoner's youth and previous good conduct. Mr. TwYronn said that the robberies were so frequent of late in gerelemen'schambers, it was necessary to make an ex ample of the pri=oner, against whom the case was so clearly prored,—Cammitted for trial. LOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. Dant, JAN. B.—Wind W. N. W., fresh breezes.—Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Victoria, Gouldin, from Bahia; Lord of the Isles, Jugarthier, St. Michael's. Ar rived and remain, the Symmetry, Saville, from Sydney; Chicoria, Halsy, from Charles ton. Came down from the River, and remain with the outward bound, Benjamin Guin, Linnus, for St. Kitt's ; Velocity, Clark, Cape Coast Castle. PoarsSlOUTti, JAN. B.—Wind W. N. W. to N. W., fresh breezes and squally.--Arrived the Elizabeth, Thornton,• from London. Passed by the Orona, Webster, from Shields, bound to Constantinople. Her Majesty's ship Electra has been towed into harbour, from Spitheati. Sailed the Rising Sun, Masters, for London ; Freedom, Lupton, ditto. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 8. Wind W. Arrived the Sirius (steamer), from London. Sailed the Hercules (steamer), for ditto. The Braganza (steamer), M‘Leod, from London for Lisbon, &c., drove on shore at the back of Stonchouse Pool, and knocked off the rudder last night, and is detained at present in consequence. FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Strong gales, with squalls, from west ward. Put back, Pigeon packet, Lieut. James, for the West Indies. PooLF., JAN. B.—Arrived the Fame, Tebb, from New foundland. COWES, JAN B.—Strorg gales from the westward. Arrived the Devonshire, for Plymouth. LIMERICK, JAN. 4. Arrived the Charity, Griffiths, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Alarm, Hannington, for London. DUBLIN, JAN. 7.--Arrived the Eliza Ann, from St. John's. A severe gale commenced last night about 9 o'clock from the westward, and increased with extreme violence up to this morning. The Workington, bound to Leith, was driven on the East Pier, but got off without much damage. The Lady Lovett, for Wick, has driven on the Perch Hawk, and received damage. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. G.—The Nautilus, of and from Shields, came into the bay this morning, very leaky. Seven men were put on board, and she proceeded. Bth. A most severe gale Was experienced last night. The Yarico, Ronaldson, of Stockton, was driven on sh ore on Fl am b oroug h H ea d , an d i s Much darmged, but it is expected she will be got off. LYTHAM, JAN. 7.—The following vessels are on shore at Blackpool :—Kelly,Clifton, Tom, Scott,Agnes,Reeve, Green, O'Neil, Sally, M'Quirk, Content, Hyam, Mary Ann, Bond, Lively, White, Favourite, Butler, Mary, Hibernia, Whiteside, John Clifton, \Valley, Lotus, Dobson, Margaret and Peggy, Sumner, Barbara, Sumner. The Catherine, Tell, capsized and sunk in the Channel. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 6. —Arrived the Hind, Booth, from Dieppe ; Albion, Kirkman, Honfleur ; William and Jane, Booth, Hamburgh; Durham (packet), Bevis, Honfleur. The William an d H enry, an d Robert Bowring, of this port, cut away their masts, while riding off this place ; the former and two other vessels names unknown, slipped and drove to sea. REDCAR, JAN. 7.—Early this morning a most tremendous gate came on from S. S. W., towards daybreak, and veered to W. A vessel anchored in the Teas Bay, has lost her fore-top mast, and apparently in distress. HULL, JAN. 8.--The Fame, Russell, from London to Selby, is on shore at Spurn Point, with lo,s of foremast, bowsprit, anchors,&c. The Bradford ; Gouch,from London to Selby, is on shore inside the Spurn, with loss of anchors and cables ; also Thomas and Ann, Watkins, from Spalding to Goole, with loss of anchors and cables. OBAN, JAN. s.—The Albion. Lindsay, of Montrose, hound to Londonderry, is on shore near this port; cargo discharging. Arrived the Ann, Storr, from St. Petersburgh. BERWICK, JAN. 7.—The Swift, Gray, bound to Dundee, struck the rocks at Newton, 4th inst., and sunk—crew saved. It continues to blow a perfect hurricane at N. W. SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Sceptre, Ruddock, from lionfleur. 7th. It commenced blowing early this morning from W. to N. W., and increased to a hurricane ; several yes 'els got adrift, but no assistance could be rendered. Six p.m. rather less wind, but at times tremendous squalls. The Mary and Eleanor, of Cardigan, struck on the rocks at Milford, 7th instant, and sunk. WOKINGTON, JAN. 7.—lt blew last night from south, and at two this morning veered to the west, blowing a complete hurricane. The Cherub, Dcichbruse, is on shore, high and dry on the Derwent side ; every ship in the harbour broke adrift, but have not received any material damage. Great fears are entertained for the safety of the Pilot, Wilson, which sailed yesterday for Ireland. Noon. No abatement of the gale. strong gal e , SWANSE A , JAN. 7.—The wh o l e o f l ast n i g h t i t bl ew a commencing at S. S. E., and gradually veered to 1 1 , 7 %5. and at two this morning, it blew a hurricane at `" N. W., and continued until six, when it moderated. The Closter Packet, from Bridgewater to Meath, is on shore here. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 7.—lt has blown throughout last night and this morning a tremendous gale from W. S. W. to W. by N. The Ana Selina, from Naples, has been run on the beach on the East side of the Bay,but it is expected will be got off with out much damage. The p- Ae t'aldion, Tisseman, from Newcastle to Scarborough, foundered off Ilartlepool on the 3d inst.—crew saved. The Thomas Field, M'Catrey, is totally wrecked off Port Talbot master and two men drowned. - - TRI MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-E XCIIANGE. There are small arrivals of English Grain and Flour re ?rte. .[I this w ee k, an d mo d erate quant i t i es o f I r i s h Oats and c'reign Whe a t. Th e transact i ons i n a ll sorts o f corn to-day have been only to a limited extent, and Monday's prices are unaltered. For Flour the demand continues firm, at the late quotations. ARRVALS. tnglish. . Wheat. Barley. ' Ortx. I F 1.33 . h .............. I,o7oqrs 1,230 1,7 Dire 1,720 .cx3 ore . ................... 8,150 1 - 14ti .............. 5,680 - --- brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat of all kinds was in good demand, and the supply was also good. Prices, where altered, are higher. Beef, 2s. 10d. to 4s. Mutt on, 2 s . 10 d . to 45. V ea l , 3s. B d . to 4s. Bd. Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. Poultry and Game in good sup_ Ply, and the demand fair. Prices unaltered in anything of I mportance. For each, and n o t per coup l e or per pa i r, t h e following were the quotations :-Woodcocks, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Snipes, Is. to Is. 6d. Rabbits, Bd. to Is. 3d. Ducks, 2s. to 2s. 3d. Pigeons, 9d. to Is. Pheasants, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Partridges, Is. 3d. to 2s. Turkeys, 4s. 6d. to 12s. Hares, to 3s. 9d. Leverets, ls. 6d. to 2s. 6d. Geese, 4s. 6d. to B s. Chickens, Is. 6d. to 2s. Eggs, 6s. 6d. to 10s. per 120. CITY FISH MARKET. The l a t e h eavy ga l es h ave i n t er f ere d w i t h the supp l y of Fish, and prices to-day were high. Top price of Turbot 3131 . ; Soles 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters Is. to 4s. each; Cod 2s. and ss. to 10s. and 12s. each ; Whiting 3d. to 6d. "eh ; Haddock sd. to Is. each. HOP MARKET. The supplies at market are good, but with the except'on of the best sorts there is nothing doing, and prices of all kinds are Without variation. QUARTERLY TEA SALE.—THIRD DAY. The sile showed no novelty to-day whatever either in prices, attendance, or demand, from what we reported yesterday. Up to last night 21,300 packages for the two days' sale had passed, of which about 0,000 were sold. TALLOW MARKET. P. V. C. very flat at 58s. 6d., which is Is. 6 d. lower than the highest point which it has recently reached. COLONIAL MARKET. At public sale, Coffee at the 9d., and Coffee at the 6d., duty, and a small parcel of Mocha, fetched about their previous value. Mauritius Sugar-3 .500 bags sold in part, and prices, Where altered, are lower. A parcel of Siam Sugar fetched about its previous value. B. P. Sugar sells steadily, and Prices without variation. Pepper seems inclined to be rather lower for the present. Rice is not in the market just now, for Cocoa. Spices generally are flat. In Indigo nothing doing, as the trade are waiting for the sale. Cotton is more quiet than it has been, but prices are firm. Saltpetre continues to fetches up in' rice and Calcutta, rather dingy, 61, refraction, tetches 283. 6d., and in some instances 295. The Imports now are light. For to-morrow we have public sales of 150 casks B. P. Coffee, 100 bags Mysore, 250 chests yellow Ha svaaloonsaohf Suurgugars. ,50 barrels Jamaica Ginger, and several publio On Monday night an alarming fire broke out at the residence of Colonel Gore, situated at the corner of Upper Eaton -street and Grosvenor-place, Pimlico. One of the domestics, about ten o'clock, first discovered the fire, which originated in one of the back parlours, in consequence of the overheating of an newly-invented stove. The family were in town, and upon the point of retiring:to rest, so that as soon as the alarm was given they were enabled to effect their escape. Messengers were, without delay, des patched to the several fire-engines, and the engine stations, and the engines from the Baker-street, King-street, and Chandos-street stations, followed by the engines of the County and West of England Fire Insurance Offices soon armed. A plentiful supply of water was speedily obtained from the main of the Chelsea water works, and the flames were totally subdued between twelve and one o'clock yes terday morning. The interior of the house was completely gutted, and near l y a ll th e va l ua bl e f urn i ture d estroye d . The house and furniture are insured in the Sun-office! LITERA'T'URE. QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXXV. Murray, London, 1839. The observations which introduce an article on •' Rai I roads"---a subject which, being of paramount interest just now, is very properly discussed at great length in this Number—are remarkable for their sagacity and the good feeling that suggests them. We had thought it far from unlikely that a periodical, one of whose leading principles is a distrust of all change, would have indulged in many a quiet sneer against such a wholesale innovation as that of Ike railroad ; hut we have been mistaken, for the " Quar terly" is decidedly favourable the principle, and takes no little pains to disprove the charges of late so generally brought aghinst these roade—that they are a dangerous means of conveyance. The article commences with some obsetvations upon steam-boats, in the course of which we are told that— " So rapid has been the increase of these vessels through out the British empire, at home and abroad, that although, in 1814, we possessed only two, the united tonnage of which %%as 456 tons, we have now a fleet of 600, whose tonnage a.tiounts to 67,969 tons. The victory which the power of steam has gained upon the aqueous surface of North America, is even greater than this. Thirty years ago the United States had but one steamer—they have have now between 500 and 600. They were first introduced on the Mississippi, in 1811 ; and, by 1831, 348 boats had been built for the navigation of the is a .tern waters. In the very heart of the continent of Arne rici, at Pittsburgh, may be seen moored in the river Ohio a fleet of thirty or forty steamer... Lake Erie alone, is traversed by between forty and fifty, from 200 to 700 tons register." Alluding cursorily to the various modes of water-con- veyanee in America, the Reviewer observes that there is no one more curious than the mode of descending one of the great rapids, as it is practised by the native Indians in a small bark canoe. We subjoin a description of this dan gerous and skilful feat, the graphic, nervous vigour of which forcibly reminds us of Mr. Lockhart : " In the apparent turmoil of the rapids in which the canoe is preceded, as well as followed, by masses of huge timber, the slightest touch of which would annihilate it—the icy-cold judgment of the old Indian—his collected but lightening-like decision—the simplicity and ranquillity of his red beardless face, thatched over by his bluff -cut, black, lank hair—his total absence of fear or bravado—his inimitable presence of mind— and, in places of the greatest possible noise and confusion in the waters, the mild tone of his voice, with which he softly utters to his young comrade the monosyllable that directs him to steer the stern of the canoe in the direction opposite to that which he gives to its head—form altogether a most strilt4l 7 , contrast with the boisterous scene, the sudden kaleidoscope changes of which it is utterly impossible to describe—for one danger has no sooner been avoided than, instead of reflecting on it for a moment, the eye is attracted to a second, as sud denly passed and succeeded by a third. Sometimes the canoe rapidly dashes over a sunken rock, or between two barely ' covered fragments, which to have touched would have been ruin —in avoiding these a snag is passed, which would have spitted the canoe had it impinged upon it—sometimes the middle of the stream is the safest—sometimes the Indian steers close to the steep rocky bank, where it becomes evident the velocity of the current is so great that if the canoe were to be upset, its passengers, even if they could snatch hold of the bough of a tree, could not hang on to it without being suffocated by the resistance which in that position they wottld offer to the rush ing waters. In some places the river suddenly narrows, and here, it is said, the waves are not only tremendous, but the whole character of the torrent seems to be changed, for the weter apparently ceases altogether to descend the channel, doing nothing but as it vt ere boiling and bubbling up from the bottom. In approaching this cauldron the case seems hopeless, and often contim is so until the canoe is close upon it, when the Indian's eagle eye searches out some little aqueous furrow, through which his nutshell vessel can pass, and though his countenance is as tranquil as ever, yet the muscular exertion he makes to attain this passage, will not, it is said, easily be forgotten by any passenger whose fortune it has ever been to observe it." The whole of this vivid description—especially the sketch of the old Indian—is touched off by the hand of a master. Returning from this digression to the subject of railroads, the Reviewer proceeds to argue the question of their safety, and comes to the conclusion, which he establishes by data, that no more rational objection can be urged against them, on the score of their being a dangerous method of travel ling, than against the old stage and mail coach system. As respects the speed of the steam-carriage, he adds, " Mr. Booth observes that a speed of thirty miles an hour, with the luxury of the smoothest motion which springs and cushions can afford, is considered by many as merely our starting point. We ourselves humbly believe that that rate will ere long be doubled ; and if travellers can fly backwards and forwards at the rate of sixty miles, one can hardly say why infinitely lighter engines (on the tooth and pinion system, fur instance) might not, with larger driving-wheels. travel on this iron orbit at the rate of a hundred miles an hour; for, to return to the old argument, an accident at that pace could hardly do a passenger more mischief than at the rate to which we are already accustomed." Alluding to the arguments of those who assert that the multiplication of railroads will have the effect of diminish ing the population of the metropolis, the Reviewer urges, and we think with justice, that When London, instead of being supplied with expensive milk, fruits, and vegetables, produced on lands and gardens of an exhorbitant rent, can be readily furnished with these articles from a distance—when bullocks, instead of being driven at great expense, larding the lean earth' as they proceed, can be killed a hundred or two hundred miles off, and be thus dispatched to, instead of in, the metropolis—and when all sorts of provisions can be forwarded thither with equal facility, it must, we conceive, follow that the prices of these commodities will be more equally adjusted throughout the country than they hitherto have been. London must thus become a place of much cheaper residence, and we think there can be no doubt that, in proportion as the objections to livi ng i n i t are re moved, its population mustincrease." After discussing the question of Irish railroads, and the Report of the Commissioners thereon, at considerable length, and in by no means a hostile spirit, if not very lau datory, the Reviewer closes by urging, as a matter of abso lute necessity, the formation of a board of Government officers in Downing-street, who may exercise such control over the railroads of the empire, as Parliament from time to time may think proper to direct. The next article is insidiously headed " Miss Martineau's Morals and Man ners," and is a most caustic attack on a work recently published by that lady, under the title of " How to Ob serve," in which she acquaints us with her ideas on the subjects of religion, morals, and philosophy. Many of these —if we may judge from the extracts given by the Re viewer—are absurd, palpably so, particularly where the authoress remarks that the sensible, observant man of the world will not " indulge contempt, nor anything but a mild compassion, for any social depravity or deformity"— just if a Tburtell, a Hare, a Burke, or any similar mis creant, deserved no severer punishment than such as might be inflicted on him by the " mild compassion" of the public l—bless the homed, velvet phrase, how it savours of Benthamism ! Still, absurd as these and other crotchets of a like nature, are, we think the Reviewer would have effected his purpose better, if, instead of savagely mangling Miss Martineau with his critical tomahawk, he had con tented himself with turning her crude, social theories into ridicule, or else visiting them, on her own principle of retri bution, with a " mild compassion." In the article on " papal Conspiracy," an attempt is made to sound another anti-popery alarm. 'lbis intolerant diatribe bears in every p ige evidence that it is the production of a high church man—a pluralist, no doubt, who is quaking for the in tegrity of his sung benefices. The bare mention of the word " Pope" scares him out of his senses, and it is under the influence of this lamentable hallucination, that the whole article is penned. " Lord Mahon's History of Eng land" speaks, of course, in terms of glowing panegyric, of his Lordship's historical work ; and quotes several extracts descriptive of the Pretender, in his manhood and in his age, which we must honestly confess, are written in a strain of manly eloquence. " Political Affairs" is a melancholy Jeremiad, in which the protracted absence of the Conserva tives from office, is bewailed in such terms of grief and agony as might dissolve an ice-berg. We have mentioned the chief articles in the Number—the few remaining others have no particular character about them. AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES. NATURE, AND TREATMENT OF DEAFNESS, AND THE VARIOUS DISEASES OF THE EAR. BY D. CRONIN, SURGEON. Wertheim, Paternoster-row. We notice this little essay, less to criticise its literary merits, than to give our encouragement to the author, in a work in which he lays so fair a claim to utility. The dissertation comprises the Physiology of the Ear, in its finely-moulded cells and delicate membranes, by which the conveyance and modulation of sound is so beautifully con trived ; and must afford especial interest to the class of readers who labour under the malady, to the removal of which, by a simple and unpainful process, the author fairly,con asserts hi s c l a i m to success. somewhat t ec h n i ca l, b ut not more con fidently, t s l t y y , i e and of ie the think es sa y i s so, perhaps, than might become the treatment of a subject so purely professional. We wish the author success in his undertaking. For if the eye be that next noble " entrance" whence " knowledge is shut out," the ear may be regarded as the side portal of the soul, and the exclusio n or preven tion of sound by injury, or obstruction in that organ, is a privation most sensibly felt, as a diminution of enjoyment, or as a bar to intercourse. It is at once an individual and social inconvenience. BEA TLEY'S STANDARD NOVELS, VOL. 72. Bentley, London, 1839. The present volume of this entertaining Miscellany con tains a republication of Sir Edward Bulwer's " Last Days of Pompeii," which—though we by no means think it, as a whole, the best of his works of fiction—is full of passages of a high order of eloquence and imagination. The volume is illustrated with two engravings, neither better nor worse than usual. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1839. FINE ARTS. FINDEN'S ROYAL GALLERY OF BRITIS. ART.—Part 2. There are some admirable engravings in this Part—the productions of the most eminent artists of the day. The " Ruins of Carthage," which is engraved by Willmore, from an original painting by Linton, in the possession of Lord Western, is perhaps the most striking plate in the series. The artist has happily caught the bright effect of a sultry Eastern atmosphere, and worked out with impres sive effect, our notions—always sufficiently exalted on this subject—of the grand and and massive character of Car thaginian ruins. Marius, however, should have had a more prominent place in the picture. We never think of Carthage, but our thoughts wander to that romantic episode in Roman history, of the disap pointed military leader of the people, meditating over his fallen fortunes, among the mouldering fragments of the only African city that ever presumed to rival Rome. ' He, therefore, should have been the prominent object in the picture, and the ruins mere auxiliaries, to help the effect. " Neapolitan peasants," from a painting by U wins, is engraved by Sangster. The figures in this picture are skilfully grouped, and defined—the bold handsome boy who walks in front, with a would-be manly stride—his younger sister, who follows with an arch, but modest and downcast countenance, all smiles and sunshine— the staid and matronly female who accompanies them, with her baskets of fruits and flowers on her head ; all these various figures are full of " mark and likeli hood," and could only have been pourtrayed in the style in which they are here presented to us,by one who had been long a student in Italy, and was familiarly acquainted with Italian character. " The Smuggler's Intrusion" is replete with such strong homely character, as Wilkie only, of all our modern artists, is able to throw into his pic tures. The countenance and bearing of the principal in truder at once explains his profession. This painting is en graved by Bacon, and he has executed it in his most careful style. On the whole, the work is a magnificent spe cimen of art, and is appropriately dedicated to the Queen. lying across it, as to render travelling on it not only tedious but extremely dangerous. In the village of Bebbington and in the neighbourhood of the Rock Ferry scarcely a house has escaped more or less damage, chimney-pots swept away in masses, slates and por tions of roofs carried off, and in some cases the sheet lead of the gutters rolled up like paper, and removed to some other more conspicuous position, where it hung in festoons like ribbons. Almost every house in Birkenhead has sustained more or less damage in glass, slates, and chimney-mugs, presenting in every direction the most fearful effects of the violence of the storm. Several houses fell in, and are left with only the bare walls standing. The Church too, now building at Woodside and nearly com pleted, has had its full share of the storm. Nearly the whole of the north side has been levelled to the ground. The damage done cannot be repaired for perhaps less than 2001. We learn from Bangor that the intercourse by land with Anglesea is temporarily suspended by the damage done to the wooden roads constructed on the Menai-bridge. The violence of the storm of Monday night caused the bridge to vibrate so considerably, that the wooden roadway, which appears to have been considerably decayed, was broken up and carried away by the winds, so as to render the bridge totally impassable for carriages and mails. Some of the sustaining links are also broken. Mr. Churchill, the Post-office surveyor, was, for. tunately in the neighbourhood, and arrangements were quickly made for the transmission of the mails in a large barge. Some considerable damage has been done to the shipping craft in the neighbourhood ; and a schooner, the Thomas Mason,' has drifted to sea without crew, and is supposed to be lost. MANCHESTER, JAN. 7.—One of the most violent and awfu storms ever recollected by the oldest inhabitant of this town was experienced last night. It commenced about eleven o'clock, and the results, we are sorry to report, are of the most melancholy nature, both as regards the loss of life and propely. A list of the killed is handed beloW, and as it was procured from the Coroner's-office every reliance may be placed on its authenticity. The damage done to the various public buildings is very severe, and from the quantity of slates, bricks, &c., started from the house tops into the streets, it appears almost miraculous that more lives were not lost. The greatest sufferer ir, we hear, a Mr. vegan, the owner of three or four man'ions at Braughton, which were injured to the extent of 2,000/. ; this amount, however, includes furniture, &c. Our Infirmary clock has undergone severe damage. A short time ago a sudden swelling of the river Irwell carried away eight large wooden centres, of 100 feet span, which were temporarily erected previous to the turning of an arch of the new Victoria Bridge. The new centres were only replaced last week, and the storm of last night a;ain swept them away. There is scarcely a house but has suffered more or less, and the town presents a melancholy spectacle of windows com pletely battered in, chimneys blown down, &c. LIST OF PERSONS KILLED AND MISSING.—Tha cook at the Manchester Infirmary ; Miss Kyle, Cappershill, killed by the chimney falling into her bedroom : two children killed in the same manner in Acton-street, and two others dangerously hurt; a servant girl killed at Braughton; a man killed whilst passing through Bridge-street by the falling of Mr. Yadsley's chimney ; a lady killed at Stretford, four miles from Manchester, by a chimney falling into her bedroom. So violent was the wind in the early part of the day, that the trains could not leave for Bolton at the regular hour, and the intercourse in that way between Liverpool and Manchester was interrupted for some hours. A hurricane, attended with a greater loss of life and of property has never visited that part of the country. DREADFUL HURRICANE IN DUBLIN. (From the Pilot of Monday.) Never in the memory of man has Dublin been visited with so fearful a storm as that which prevailed last night. A scene of devastation meets the eye in all quarters, and the visitation has had a serious influence upon the present publication of the Pilot—the state of our printing-office is little better than a ruin. Chimneys have been hurled down in all quarters, and numberless houses are stripped of every vestige of slating. Windows have been burst in and whole fronts of buildings are left almost without a single pane of glass. The house, No. 40, Dawson-street, was blown down at one o'clock, and two servants were burned in the ruins. After great exertions by the police the unfortunate creatures were dug out, and found to have experienced considerable, though, we believe, not not dangerous injury. The front of a house at the corner of Church -street, Arranquay, is carried away ; and the roof of one near the corner of Aungier-street fell, completely gutting the building, which was fortunately uninhabited. Vast damage has been done in the Liberty, where it was melancholy to see the poor people running from house to house, seeking for shelter and safety. The ball at the top of Patrick's steeple was hurled to the ground in the course of the night. A young man, in turning the corner of Sackville-street, in Britain-street, was blown off his feet, dashed against a lamp-post, and had his leg fractured in a shocking manner. In Leinster-street, we regret to say that the falling of a chimney proved fatal to a lady named Whissitt, and injured a number of other persons. The roof of one angle of Stephen's Hospital was dashed in by the falling of a r atack of chimnies. —The mass of materials fortunately fell over the large staircase near the Church, and no personally injury was experienced. The roof of Surgeon Rumley's house in Stephen's Green fell, carrying with it all within the walls. The inhabitants, however, had providen tially left it on the first warning, The Messrs. Guinness had nine valuable horses killed by the falling of the wall of Mr. Murray's concerns. The vitriol-works belonging to Mr. Jones, on the Military-road, were damaged, it is said, to the extent of 2,0001., the leaden chambers having been carried away and the liquor spilt. Our Paper, in short, could scarcely contain the particulars of the mischief, and we have but hastily set down a few of the cases out of the mass we have beard of. We have heard of the loss of a number of lives, but particulars have not yet reached us. In the outlets of the city the damage appears to have been terrible. At the Old Man's Hospital, the beautiful avenue of trees has been almost prostrated, many of the fine elms several feet in circumference, being snapped across. In the Pheenix park the devastation has been most awful, it being calculated that there cannot be much less than one thousand trees thrown down and damaged. At Glasnevin a portion of the wall at the Botanic Gardens was forced out, and crushed to death a policeman who is supposed to have sought shelter under it. At Finglass and Castleknock we understand several houses have been blown down, and hay-ricks carried away bodily ; and the quantity of timber plucked up on Lord Cbarlemont's demesne is quite astonishing. At Williamstown Avenue two women were killed by the falling of a chimney, and we believe that much damage has been done in that quarter. A number of vessels have been stranded on the coast, and we anticipate frightful accounts from sea. DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION.—The horrors of the tempest arc augmented by the additional calamity of fire. The Be thesda was last night the scene of a dreadful conflagration, which soon extended to the adjoining buildings. It is impos sible to give a description of the awful appearance of the fire in the middle of the hurricane. The streets were nearly im passable from the immense quantity of sparks which were driven about by the wind. The Bethesda and the school ad joining are complete wrecks; and the storm being too violent to allow the engines to be worked with effect, the fire conti nued to increase, and the houses next to them in Dorset-street became ignited, and three of them have been destroyed to the bare walls—like devastation having visited the houses at the corner of Granby-row. We regret that three distillery men were nearly killed by falling through the fluor of one of the houses. THE HURRICANE. LorsooN.—The storm of Sunday evening has been produc tive of much mischief in the vicinity of the metropolis ; se veral trees in Hyde and St. James's-parks, have been levelled with the ground, and much damage done to the houses. There is too much reason to fear that in a day or two disastrous tidings will be received from sea. The account given of the storm by policemen who were on night duty is, that it was so tremendous that they could scarcely keep upon their legs. In the neighbourhoods of Islington, Camden Town, Holloway, and Kentish Town, numerous chimneys, &c., were blown down, and considerable damage sustained. The shipping in the river sustained but little damage. A number of vessels were driven from their moorings in various parts of the river, but with the exception of the loss of a few bowsprits, spars, and bulwarks, no material damage was done. We have not heard that any fatal accident occurred. The disasters on the coast have doubtless been numerous. HULL —Less OF Two SLOOPS. —On Tuesday night last, as the Lindsey (Gainsborough steamer) was on her passage to this port, the master, Captain Waterland, perceived something above the level of the water, in appearance like the mast of a vessel ; he immediately turned the steamer round and lowered a boat. In coming up ho found it to be the mast of a keel, with a man clinging to its head. The other vessel lay sunk close by. The poor fellow was immediately rescued from his perilous situation, where he had been two hours hanging, and taken into the boat. In about half-an-hour afterwards the keel turned bottom upwards. Two much praise cannot be given to Captain Waterland and his men for the kindness shown on behalf of the poor fellow. One of the sloops be longed to a gentleman at Bishoprigg, the owner of the other is not known. —Hull Observer. ( From the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday.) The tempest commenced at ten o'clock, from the S. S. E., and varied in the course of the night frequently from that to S. S. W. ; and though towards six this morning its fury in some degree abated, yet it still continues to blow an ordinary gale of wind. Dublin in many places presents the appearance of a " sacked city." So far as accounts have yet reached us, it appears that the tempest was generally felt throughout the whole country. DELAY OF THE MAILS.—FIRES.—The Sligo mail which left Dublin last night was upset by the force of the wind near Kinegad. We have not hard whether any accident occurred in consequence. The guard of the Galway coach reports that there were several houses on fire in the town of Kilbeggan. Trees of immense size lying across the road in various quarters impeded the coach. In the neighbourhood of Athy, the Water ford coach was for several hours prevented from proceeding —the road being literally blocked up with trees. The Cork coach was stopped near Carlow for three hours and a half, owing to several large trees belonging to Colonel Bruen having been blown down. The Wexford mail was stopped near Rathnew, in the county Wicklow, and it being found impossible to remove the impediments, the letter bags were forwarded by men. They did not reach the Post-office until one o'clock. At the hour of going to press, the only mails which had reached the Post-office were those from Cork, Limerick, Gal way, and Wexford. _ THREE 0'61..(H77K, P.M.—WC regret to say that a heavy snow storm has just commenced, and that the wind is blowing almost as fiercely as it was at any period of the night. The worst consequences are to be apprehended should the gale continue as there is scarcely a house in the city or neighbourhood the roofs of which have not been more or less injured. AWFUL STORMS. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Post.). We have just received the following letter from our Dublin Correspondent : " DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The most awful hurricane that ever occurred in the memory of the oldest inhabitant visited this city on this morning. Scarcely a house in the whole metro polis but suffered more or less from the gale. It blew at first from the west, accompanied by violent rain, and then got round a point or two to the south. Nearly all the fine row of elms planted by the late Earl of Chesterfield, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, are prostrated. The avenue of ancient elms, forming a beautiful and favourite approach to the resi dence of the Commander of the Forces, are levelled with the earth. Several chimneys fell, burying the inmates in the ruins ; and one lady, a Mrs. W histon, of Clare-street, was killed, and a servant man and woman at Sidney-avenue ; a woman and child in New-low. A gentleman was blown against a lamp-post, and had his leg fractured. " A policeman had his thigh and arm fractured by being blown down—in fact the casualties and losses to human life and property are incalculable. " Amidst the raging of the elements the Bethesda Church, which had the furniture of a room burned on Saturday night, burnt forth into the most awful conflagration, threatening de struction to all the neighbouring houses from the fury with which the flames were fanned by the wind. The artillery were sent for to cut off the communication by firing six-pound shot to level the contiguous houses, but this plan was not adopted, as the flames, by the intrepid and active exertions of the po lice, were subdued, but not until this fine Church and six dwelling houses, were consumed to ashes. So appalling a sight was never beheld—the fire and the fury of the gale con spiring to deter the bravest from venturing to give assistance. The city was enveloped in darkness, the gas-lamps being blown out." AWFUL STORM AT LIVERPOOL. ( From a Second Edition of the Morning Chronicle,) LOSS OF THE PACKET SHIP PENNSYLVANIA. Liverpool, Tuesday Night. We continue our account of the disasters by sea and land that have resulted from the late hurricane. The weather, however, continues very unsettled. Violent gusts arise at in tervels of such a squally nature, accompanied generally with showers of hail and sleet, as to render the navigation of the river very unsafe. The Dublin mail packet Avon, due on Monday morning, has not yet arrived ; she has, however, been preceded by the Lucifer, which was on her return from Dub lin. The Lucifer sailed from Dublin at two o'clock on Sun day, three hours after the Avon, which conveyed the mail, which, strange to say, has not yet reached its destination. The most disastrous intelligence unhappily remains to be told. We regret to state we have received intelligence of which we can hardly entertain a doubt, of the total loss of the fine packet ship Pensylvannia, which sailed from hence on Sunday, together with all her crew and passengers, save one. One only being left to tell the dreadful news. The gentleman believed to be the only survivor, escaped the melancholy fate of his late companions through wearing a life preserver. A boat had put off from the ship in which he and other persons hoped to reach the land, which was lost on the breakers at West Hoyle. All the crew and passengers perished but the individual from whom this sad intelligence is derived. There were five cabin passengers. The cargo which the Pennsylvania was carrying out was of great value. Six r. M. The St, Andrew New York picket ship which sailed on Sunday, is on the North Bank, full of water, both anchors a. head, beating heavy, expected to go to pieces before morning. Three other American ships ashore near Spencer-gut. (From a Second Edition of the Times.) MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. LtvEitr•ooL, TUESDAY, Six P.m.—The hurricane, which commenced about midnight on Sunday, and which continued with but little abatement in its violence from that period until three o'clock this afternoon, has now completely spent'its fury. An almost perfect calm prevails. The most melancholy event reported is that of the loss of the packet-ship Pennsylvania, which, after having been wind bound from the 25th of December, sailed on Sunday last for New York. She had been at anchor for a week at the Rock, and proceeded to sea, about noon that day, in tow of a steam tug. The steamer returned to the river before five o'clock, and it was hoped that the ship had made a good offing. But if the statement made of the landing of a solitary passenger at Hoglake, who, having been so fortunate as to possess a life preserver, which he wore, and thereby made his escape, when the other persons in the ship's boat, in which they were trying to reach land when it was overwhelmed in the breakers—if this statement be true, and we cannot, we lament to say, see anv good ground for doubting its truth, the Pennsylvannia and all her crew and passengers, except this gentleman, have perished on West Hoyle. The crew would amount to about twenty-five; and Captain Smith, with whom we conversed just before his putting to sea, told us, in reply to a question, that he had only five cabin passengers. Her cargo was a most valuable one, and so great that even her cabins were crammed with goods. _ _ What has become of the New York packet ship St. An drew, the Lockwoods, and other vessels, which sailed on Sun day afternoon, nobody can tell. The worst is feared for the whole of them, as they had not so good a start by three hours as the Pennsylvania. The St. Andrew had only four cabin passengers, and the Lockwoods, which was also bound for New York, had 85 passengers in the steerage. The Brighton, from Bombay, was wrecked this morning on West Hoyle. The life-boat, after several ineffectual at tempts to reach her, was towed close to her by a steamer. The captain and seven of the crew were taken off the wreck, and brought up to the town. The remainder of the crew, four teen in number, had previously quitted the wreck on a raft, and, up to this hour, no tidings have been received of their fate. It is feared that they have perished, At dusk two small vessels were aground on the Burbo Bank, and would be complete wrecks. The packet-ship Ox ford, which arrived on Sunday afternoon, and brought the important news from Canada and Mexico, will, it is feared, prove a total wreck. Nothing but her hull remains, and it fills at high-water. Dead bodies continue to be washed up the tide along the coast. Her Majesty's steamer Lucifer, which ought to have ar rived from Dublin yesterday morning, did not arrive until ten o'clock to-day. The mail-boat of to-day did not arrives until three o'clock this afternoon. Little short of twenty persons have lost their lives, in the own and its vicinity, by the falling of the buildings. THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS AND MR. STEPHENS. Lies have been the chief basis of the Anti-Poor-law agita tion. Whatever may be the motives of the individuals—and even the chief incendiary, who is now called upon to answer for his conduct, has the credit for amiability of private charac ter—nearly all the declamation employed has been rested on false representations of the principles and practice of the law and its administrators. But of all the charges which have been preferred, perhaps the most atrociously false is that which we report in our present publication, forming part of a Sermon delivered by Mr. Stepbens to a multitude of his infatuated hearers at Ashton-under-Lyne, in the interval between his first and second examination. The statement is to the effect that he has seen a book, written by one of the Poor-law Commis sioners, recommending that all the children of the poor here after to be born, above three in a family, should be immedi ately put to death. Feeling convinced that, monstrously in credible as this statement must appear to every person of calm judgment, there was a large class of persons whose minds were so inflamed as to render them capable of believing any- thing, we took the liberty of requesting the authority of the Poor-law Commissioners to give it a direct contradiction, and we are happy to lay before our readers the following reply to our application : Poor-law Commission Office, Somerset House, Jan. 7, 1839. Sir,—The Poor Law Commissioners acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of the 6th instant. and they desire to ex press their thanks to you for the communication. It is impos sible for them to describe the feelings of .astonishment with which they have seen the statements made by Mr. Stephens, to which you allude, as to some work, represented by him to be written by a Poor-law Commissioner, containing a project for destroying all the children of the poor over three in a fa mily. Not only are those statements utterly abhorrent to their feelings, and also totally at variance with any opinions which they have ever held or expressed, but they arc unable even to guess what it is to which he alludes. Of the three Poor-law Commissioners one has never pub lished any work whatever, either with his name or w thout it ; and the only publications which have emanated from the others appeared many years ago, long before the Poor-law Commis sion was even thought of, and contained neither a statement nor an expression which could by any ingenuity be tortured into a resemblance to such opinions as are put forth by Mr. Stephens. It cannot but be painful in the extreme to the Commis sioners that they should be called upon to disavow what they would willingly believe no human being could impute to them ; but, if such a disavowal is necessary, they declare that no such publication has ever emana ted from them, and th at t h ere do not exist persons on the face of the earth who more en tirely abhor the sentiments imputed to them by Mr. Stephens than they do. ° e d ge , Esq , Editor o f t h e B ury Post, ( Signed, by Order of the Board,) E. CH A DWIC K . S ecretary. j l have no doubt that after thi s i n di gnant d i savowal, the charge Bury St. Edmund' s . will vn be shifted from th e C omm i ssioners to some other grrVogthe ha q uarters s and we perceive th a t at a meet i ng at B o l ton the book la p te e d rs b o y n tb c e all \ i v ng big h s i . mse o lf f ‘ e ' e ll e f r a s r e cu i s t ," is an itn d e p e t a r a b i l b i pus circulated aanad. w as mentioned by a " d e l egate " named D eegan, as wr i tten c i Scu a swer so sweeping an accusation as this. If there be ie exist, ence a book containing such a project—and the speaker di rected his hearers to a place where it might be purchased—it is either a most untimely and wicked joke, in the manner of Swift's plan for relieving the distress of Ireland by eating the children, or it is put out by the agitators themselves, in order to stir up the people to a higher pitch of madness. It is evi dently necessary for the Government to do something more than * merely holding Mr. Stephens to bail to answer to a charge of using inflammatory language. COURT CIRCULAR. Tire Queen arrived at the new Palace at a quarter-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four with outriders, escorted by a party of Hussars, from the Pavilion at Brighton. Her Majesty was accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Countess of Charle mont. _ In the other Royal carriages were the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, the Hon. Miss Paget, the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Baroness Lehzen, the Marquis of Headfort, and Lord Alfred Paget. The Royal Standard was hoisted on the top of the Marble Arch immediately on her Majesty's arrival. Her Majesty was received at the Palace by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, Lord Lilford, the Clerk Marshal, the Hun. General Sir Wm. Lumley, and Colonel Armstrong. Viscount Melbourne and the Hon. Wm. Cowper joined the Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. BRIGHTON. TUESDAY.—This morning at twenty minutes past ten o'clock, her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness Lehzen, and the Countess of Charlemnnt, left the Palace in her travelling carriage for Buckingham Palace. The Royal suite, comprising the Hon. Mrs. G. Campbell, the Hon. Miss Paget, the Marquis of Headfort, Lord Alfred Paget, the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Colonel Buckley, and Sir \Vni. Lumley, followed her Majesty. Yesterday evening the Princess Augusta paid her personal respects to her Majesty, previous to her Majesty's departure. Her Royal Highness will, we believe, remain at the Palace till about the middle of next month. Yesterday evening Mr. Gutteridge had the honour of per forming a selection of Sacred Music before her Majesty on the organ. Most of the Royal suite paid their respects to the Princess Augusta, prior to the departure of the Court this morning. The Royal cortege had scarcely left the Palace grounds when a royal salute was fired from the battery. There was an immense concourse of spectators at the Palace gates, by whom her Majesty was respectfully saluted. The windows of her Majesty's carriage being down, the assemblage had a very ex cellent view of the Queen. Her Majesty bowed most gra ciously. The very short sojourn of the Court at Brighton has given rise to various conjectures as to the probable cause of her Majesty's early departure. Some attribute it to the very bad weather during her Majesty's: stay, which gave the Queen a distaste for the place; but the general opinion seems to be, that the pressure of State business called her Majesty to town. The Scots Fusilier Guards marched from Brighton this morning, shortly after the Queen left, en route for Windsor. Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, G. C. H., Privy Purse, has paid to the Treasurer, through Sir M. Tierney, Bart., 1001., her Majesty's annual subscription to the Sussex County Hospital; also her Majesty's subscription of 20/. to the Brigh ton Dispensary. The Duchess of Kent has also given a do nation to the Sussex Diocesan Association. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Hon. Berkeley Noel, and son, at Marshall Thomson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Warwickshire ; M. Dodd, the Netherlands Minister, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook -street, from a visit to Lord and Lady Montagu, at Ditton Park, near Windsor ; the Hon. Mrs. Bosville, at ditto, from Thorpe Hall, Yorkshire ; Mr. Nettleship, at ditto, from Kent ; Lord Cantilupe, in Grosvenor-street, from Melton Mowbray; the Hon. J. Dutton, from a visit to the Earl of Macclesfield, at his seat, in Oxfordshire; Lord Maryborough, in Saville-row, from Coatford, Herts ; the Hon. C. Murray, from Brighton ; Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, in Cavendish-square, from a visit to Mr. Hope, at Deepdene, Kent ; the Hon. Fox Manic, M. P., in Hill-street, from Dalguise House, Perth shire; Major-General Wyndham, at his scat, Sladeland, Sussex ; Major-General Sir Henry and Lady Hardinge, in Whitehall-place, from a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor; Major-General Sir William and Lady Gomm, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from a visit to Lord and Lady Robert Kerr, at Edinburgh ; General Sir Gordon and Lady Drummond, in New Norfolk-street, Park-lane ; Viscount Torrington, from Brighton ; Colonel Buckley, Groom in Waiting to her Majesty, from ditto ; General and the lion. Mrs. Meade, in Bryanston-square, from a tour. DEPARTURES. Mrs Harrison, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Caven dish-square, for Ryde, isle of Wight ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Van de Menial), and Jahn Young Black, Esq., and Mrs. Black, from ditto, for the Continent ; the Hon. Mr. Upton, for Paris ; the Marquis of Northampton, for his seat, Castle Ashby, Northampton ; Lord Hill, from Belgrave square, for Leicestershire ; Baron Brurquevet, for the Conti nent; Lord Clinton, for his seat, Trefusis Castle, Penryn ; Lord Burghersh, from Harley-street, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle ; Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Er rington, from Sir John Macdonald's, Pall-mall, for Tun bridge Wells ; Lady Lisle, from the Green Park Hotel, fsr Southampton; Hervey Aston, Esq , from Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street ; Alexander Bosville, Esq., from ditto ; Rear- Admiral Skipsey, for Brighton ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, fr m Park-lane, for his seat, Taymouth Castle, Perthshire ; the Hon. Major Keppel, from Lower Brook-street, on a visit to Lord and Lady Albemarle, at the Stud House, Hampton Court; Lieutenant- General Sir Charles and Lady Eger,on, for Brighton; Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, from the Claren don Hotel, for Dublin Castle ; Mr. and Lady Harriet Drum mond, from ditto, for their scat in Surrey ; Sir Edmund Pear son, for Brighton. CHANGES. Count Woronzow, at the Castle Hotel, Brighton, from Wilton House, Wilts; Lady Charles and Miss Somerset, on a visit to Lord and Lady Rolle, at Breton House, Devon; the Earl of Charleville, at Durrow House, King's County, from Chareville Forest ; the Earl and Countess of Belfast, from Auberies, the seat of Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, in Suffolk, on a visiting tour; Lord and Lady Mayo, on a visit to Mrs. Smith, at Bersted Lodge, Bognor, from Dublin ; Lord Leveson, at Paris, from Italy; the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, at Rome, from Florence : the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood Park, near Chichester, from Brighton; the Earl and Countess de Grey, at their seat Wrest Park, from a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, Herts; the Marquis and Marchioness of Exe ter, at Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, from Burghley House, their seat, near Stamford. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle entertained the Duke of Argyle, Miss Campbell, and a select party, at dinner at the Stud House, on Monday evening. His Lordship is expected in town to-day to have an audience of Her Majesty. The Lord Chancellor will give his usual dejeuner to the Judges, Q ueen ' s C ounse l an d S ergeants - at -law, on Friday next, in Bruton -street, being the first day of Hilary Term. His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Monday evening, accompanied by Baron Ostini, Dr. Carina, &c., in a suite of three carriages, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton. Baron Lowenberg and Mr. Cottrell, Cham herlain to his Royal Highness, have also arrived from Badminton. _ _ — Lord and Lady Francis Egerton were expected at Bridgewater House , this evening, from W o r s i c y Hall, Lancashire. The youthful members of their f am ily arr i ve d last night, having been delayed a day at M anc h es t er by the boisterous weather. A matrimonial alliance is on the tapis between Stephen Henry Spring Rice, Esq., eldest son of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and Miss Frere, daughter of the late Mr. Sergeant Frere, . of Downing College, Cambridge, and Grisborough Hall, Norfolk. STREET ADVERTISEMENT NUISANCE. —We wonder what the denouncers of cab and omnibus nuisances aro about, that they cannot see the superior growth of the nuisance above-mentioned. Vast, though unsubstantial structures, toppling on Lilliputian wheels, and dragged by a singl e foundered quadruped, parade our principal tho roughfares daily, stopping the way to announce wigs or up holstery in Brobdignagian characters, GALE AT LIVERPOOL. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, AND LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The weather was for some dap previously to and on Sunday last somewhat boisterous, though not more so than might be expected at this season of the y ear. A considerabl e num b er o f vesse l s (nearly sixty) some of them of large burden, set sail on their respective voyages in the af ternoon—the tide being at its height about three o'clock, and leaving them little more than an hour of daylight (the moon being late in rising) to clear the banks in their passage to the Irish Sea. The wind, during the day, had been S. S. E., and rather strong. About ten o'clock p.m., it died away for a short time, and the atmosphere suddenly became unexpectedly mild and warm. This was remarked by a great many persons who were abroad at the time, and had the baro meter been consulted, we doubt not but that its sud den fall would have indicated an approaching storm. In a very few minutes after this portentous pause of the elements, alarming gusts of wind began to blow from the S. W. and W. S. W. Some slight alarm was excited amongst those who chanced to be abroad at the time; but those gene rally hurried to their comfortable homes, unapprehensive, and cousequently careless, of the event—deeming it nothing more than a customary winter gale. The night, however, to these who could sleep, and the following morning, disclosed the reality of a storm as disastrous to human life, and destructive of property, as any within the remembrance of the oldest in habitants of this town. Many persons,: in every part of the town, were alarmed during the night by the howling of the wind, the noise of fall ing slates, and, not unfrequently, by the trembling of their beds, and the shaking of their domiciles from top to bottom. In Great Nelson-street (now Lord Nelson-street) and the immediate neighbourhood, as we stated yesterday, the severity of the hurricane was severely felt. A widow lady in Walnut-street, too, keeping an infant school, terrified by the prospect of having her window blown in, placed herself in a position against it to prevent so unfor. tunate a calamity, when the roof gave way and fell at her feet, and at the same instant the wall fell outwards, leaving her standing without the slightest injury. A yonng man, named Lce, a plasterer, lodging at a beer-house in Shannon -street, was killed by the falling of a chimney through the roof. A companion of his, who was sleeping with him, fortunately escaped uninjured. Numerous other fatalities happened. At an early hour there were five casualties brought into the Northern Hospital, arising from the consequences of the storm. Four of a serious nature. Amongst the many buildings injured is Kirkdale Gaol ; the damage done to which is immense. The west wall, to the extent of one hundred yards, is razed to the ground. The chimneys of the committee and grand jury rooms fell through the roof of the former, and forced their way down into the latter, leaving them both complete wrecks. One of the windows of the court-room was blown in, a stack of chimneys off the Governor's house blown down upon the roof, the treadmill stripped of its covering, and a considerable portion of the weav ing shops demolished by the falling in of the outer wall. To convey anything- approaching a correct idea of a visitation surpassing any precedent within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, would be fruitless ; but when wo state that the wall which yielded to the blast was three feet thick at its base and two feet at its summit, surmounted by a coping-stone of nearly three feet wide and about nine inches thick, we shall leave it to our readers to form their own estimate of the fury of the elements. A messenger was immediately dispatched for additional assistance ; a number of police officers were sent for the safety of the prisoners' custody. The damage done in Kirkdale, and indeed every where else, is very serious. The effects of the storm in the docks, the river, and the adjacent coast, were even more disastrous than its raysges on shore. Near the old bathing-house (south shore) a schooner, the Susannah, of Maryport, has gone on shore. The Bridgewater, Runcorn steamer, a total wreck under the wall of the Brunswick Dock pier. Three flats sunk in the Brunswick Half-tide Basin. CLARK'S Sup.---Four flats sunk. QUEEN'S DOCK. --A large fishing-smack sunk number of vessels have lost their spars in this dock. KIND'S DOCK BASIN.—Four flats and an anchor boat sunk, and most of them much injured. KING'S DOCK. —Several vessels lost spars, &c. KING'S DOCK PIER-lIEAD.—A flat and a fishing-boat sunk. Two other flits sunk in the adjacent basin. CORNHILL.—The schooner Harriet, of Lancaster, ran ashore with considerable damage. Several flats damaged. The Woodside steamer, Ribble, came alongside a total wreck. Some of the parties in these vessels were indebted to the ex ertions of the Master of No. 1 Quay for the preservation of their lives. A great GEORGE'S PIER lIEAD.—The Runcorn steam-boat, Eclipse, went down. The fireman, an old and worthy servant of the Company, missed his footing in attempting to get ashore, and, falling into the river, was not again seen. The tent for the camera obscura was washed away. The basin, or small dock,l at the George's Pier, for the accommodation of boats, presented a lamentable scene of destruction, the water being covered by planks, boxes, &c., chiefly from the wreck of the Eclipse and another vessel. The Landing-boat Pier drifted from her moorings into the entrance of George's Dock Basin, and is water-logged and damaged. GEORGE'S DOCK BASlN.—Three fine brigs, one of them cop pored, got adrift, and coming together against the S. E. cor ner of the basin, were much damaged, after sinking a schooner l: sc y hi c , o , t n ß i in , was pi c .u o r n cp t oA a s e ,,ei t rid w ß D tl with should — er . sail Thi s yesterdayfineliner driftedtoNew from YoP nor moorings moorings in the ri ver , an d early yesterday' morning was perilously situated at the south end of Prince's Dock Pier-head, with her stern almost within biscuit throw of the shore. She had two anchors a-head ; but great fears were entertained that, being so near to the pier (the ground near which is shallow and rocky), she would ground abaft when the tide retired. This apprehension, however, was happily not realised, and by dint of good seamanship in bracing up the yards in the teeth of the wind, and other appliances, she rode out the tide without damage. On the rise of the evening tide (}'esters}') her condition (from h er p rox i m i ty to t h e quay) appeared e d ared to be yet more perilous; but she stood her ground to the great satisfaction of numerous specta tors. The large sum of 1,0001., we understand, was offered to any steam-vessel that would tow her off. The gale was, however, so strong, that none of even the powerful steam tugs of the port accepted of the proffer. We lament to add that about half-past three in the afternoon eight men, riggers, who Rent to the ship in a boat to render their assistance, which was not required, were capsized on their return, and three of their number drowned close to the quay, in the view of numerous distressed spectators, who could afford them no assistance in the moment of need. Lower down, and near the outward wall of Prince's dock, Marine-parade, a sloop was sunk, the top of her mast being alone visible. The master and a boy were drowned. The Admiral, Seacornbe-ferry steamboat, sunk a little fur ther on, and only a small part of her topmast could be seen. It is said that two men were drowned in her. The fine new Dublin schooner Vestal got against the quay wall, and stove in the upper works of her stern, unshipped her rudder, and was otherwise considerably damaged. She was, however, got off, and towed into the Brunswick-dock basin. PRINCE'S Dock BASIN. —Here the damage sustained was equivalent to that in the other basins. Several vessels, chiefly of small tonnage, were sunk and much injured. About two o'clock in the afternoon, the pilot-boat No. 6, came into port with loss of mainboom, bowsprit, and bulwarks on one side. About the same time, the N. W. light ship, which had drifted from her moorings, came into the river, and anchored saf , ly under Seacombe. The Fondale, after drifting into th© Victoria-dock basin, sunk, the crew saved with difficulty. Many other vessels have been injured in the docks and basics. BOOTLE BAY. —A great number of vessels were thrown ashore in this bay. The Oxford, from New York, lay on the sands with nothing standing but her bowsprit and mizenmast. The passengers had all been landed with their luggage. The following ves sels are on shore i n B oot l e B ay :— Th e Jarro, Elisha, Alexandria, Hark quin, Pearl, Ailsa, Fortune, and Redwing. No communication can be had from the Telegraph-office ' the Bidstone telegraph being blown down. It was s t a t e d t h a t a ship was wrecked in the new channel. LIVERPOOL SIIIPPING. The Mary, Bibby, for Trieste, and the Majestic, for New Orleans, which sailed yesterday, have put back. The first ship has brought back her pilot, but the second had parted with her's. The wreck of a large vessel is visible in the new Channel. She appears like a ship. The Eclipse and the Duchess of Bridgewater steamers have sunk in the river. The Elizabeth and Johanna, for Kirkcudbright, and Fa vourite, for Pwllheli, and the schooner J. R. Askew, are sunk in the Prince's Dock Basin. The Thomas and Nancy, for Drogheda, has lost both masts, and the Commerce, for ditto, her main -mast, in the dock. One ship and several small vessels are off the port. Late last night a signal of distress was flying off Bidstone. The Oxford. New York packet, is still on shore near Bootle land-marks, with six feet water in her hold. A vessel is on shore on Benbo. A great many bales of Brazil cotton, marked "1 D B," arc washing up near New Brighton. A ship or a barque is on shore on the West Hoyle, with all her masts gone. The Seacombe steamer has gone jsut to attempt to tow the life-boat, which had made severaUneffec tual attempts to get to her. The Endeavour, for Drogheda, sunk in the river on Sunday night. The Cambridge, New York packet, is riding safely in the river. . -- The storm revived on Monday night with great violence, accompanied with thunder, lightning, and hail. At this hour it is not known whether any loss of life is to be added tn the above list. Walton was a scene of dire destruction yesterday morning. Amongst the many narrow escapes from the violence of the storm we may mention that of the children of Mr. J. Holmes, who were only removed from bed a few minutes before a stack of chimneys fell through the roof of the house, and would, most certainly have killed them had they remained. Hay stacks, large trees, walls, roofs of houses, and outhouses were swept away. The storm of Sunday night appears, from all the informa Lion we have been able to collect, to have spread its ravages in every direction around, several houses in Chester having been unroofed by its violence, and partly reduced to ruins; and the road from that city to the ferries on the opposite side of the Mersey, being, in Many places, so thickly strewed with trees, I I