The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

ere the ne, ed, vas the , ali ►a the ies, lift, t i i n pi site ac leaf v the yraV had per the leY , a) e, ; , be' ,ed• o ot , -;l‘e tie stor y '. , T Wes ui he roof o f St . M ar k' s Church, Cheethatn-hill, ; !le les Itilleobtv r'l damaged, by proportions, being driven in, and up ped u , some of the lead upon the turret was also ) ton pole,•Several windows were blown in of houses at Wil i. Vdrj ous °n, Lime Field Terrace and other localities in blo • other higher parts of the roa ' d. Many , chimneys were . wn doe, { th e roe , um (one of Mr. George Faulkner's, passing throne) j ora , ;it we believe,) and the windows broken and roofs in t „ ) _e_i! t re exceedingly numerous. We have heard of no per ritltitirt.tiry being experienced in this direction. addition'Es PlatTerec.—ElGHT HOUSES DESTROYED.—ID ru i ll to numerous comparatively slight disasters, such as i h u '_, ll being stripped of the lead, and windows being broken dioll.t.Lisle nerous houses, we regret to state, that eight cottage .7usgi Rider Row, between Great Ancoats street and St. k e t, s Road, have been completely destroyed. ROAD.—About four o'clock in the morning, the le.hisiiillnenyo. a house occupied • on dealer by Mr. Robert Brookes, pro two h edii. m Oldham Road, fell in through the roof upon m but those who had been in them had, fortunately, l'isen wind a short time b e f ore, b e i ng alarmed at the noise of the hi 4 jug, t h e h°' t twenty minutes past six o' c lo c k in the morn ter, No cmney of a hou se occup i e d b y M r. J o h n Bennis it tell • 12 1 : Oldham R oa d, f e ll i n t h roug h t h e roo f, par t o f 1 }414 1 . 11 g on the bed iu which Mr. and Mrs. Bannister were e we the chiorg r. and Mrs. Bn tnhi s e t i e r r i ' n i t h h e bed,ight cif the floor, and mne al y l f in cin to the kitchen, witho a ut • n uvered ° 7 in g anything of their descent; and they only (its wards, . .t when Mr. Bannister got up, immediately after in,. e . lantending to go into an adjoining room and, ou open witiis7n t he thought was the chamber door, h'e found that it ter wacicsu,Pboard in the kitchen. Neither he nor Mrs. Bennis wink' ,nrurt.—About half-past seen o'clock in the morning, pyi ng 'i th • James Whitehead, his wife, and two sons, occit reakfa e house, No. 125, Oldham Road, were about to get th e stm being all in the kitchen, the chimney fell through ke opt uf upon the chamber floor, and through it into the and ,7 . n ; part of the rubbish knocking Mrs. Whitehead down e n u'eaking the chair upon which one of her sons was sit g. Wh th eir LU Mr. Whitehead and his sons recovered from he... surprise, one of them inquired where his mother was, opionif.cluite unaware that he was at that moment standiug to „ e „! slate that covered her. They immediately proceeded le, h 7l ij h for her, and soon found her quite covered with rub and i h al 4 large slate had so fallen as to shelter her head i n °thee uliPer part of her body, and the rubbish was se placed h er hau r ,' ur respects th at s h e was not ser i ous l y ht, except about ANco . or the 4.l.B * — About six o'clock in the morning, the I•lninney o ldh house occupied by Mr. Thorburn, draper, Dale-street, dw e t? l 'streel, was blown down, and being a long one for a whiehneg.'house, it forced in the roofs of two rooms, in one of ' a bed, was a bed, in which were two females, and in the other th e bele" Which were tw o you ng men . Th e rubbish fell upon se r i o „ In both rooms, and one of the young women was wi th ""Y hurt; but the other and the young men escaped some bruises. Infi ° Dots ROAD AND ARDWICK. —At the Manchester Royal 'arsearYm several parts of the roof were much damaged. One e.. Portion of the lead from the roof over the pediment wh s iie st t rkt me a t o nearly off, being attached, however, by one end, p oem e other was driven with such force against the trans- . dine, glass dial of the clock (which is illuminated by gas for th: tun 'kik hours) as to break it to pieces. This dial, figure brilliancy of the light, and the aistinctness of the by to s m was generally admired, and, we believe, was regarded . in E a rly persons as one of, if not tile best dial of the kind, th e e u b iciand. Shortely after eight o'clock in the morning, to re ' u nneY of a small house in Upton-street, near the fac- • th - of Mr. Lewis Williams, was blown down, bringing all -- lt e r ( t i 'ut with it into the attic story. In Acton-street, London fi t ?: m there was a melancholy loss of life. About half-past 11 0e6e ° ',9,,ock in the morning, a chimney belonging to one el le .' 'ell upon another, occupied by a man named Moors, ch°, 4l ,eer al the factory of Mr. Lewis Williams. In the front old s were 11i:tore's wife, and an infant of four months lh ' e l l, b e e d 1 they were both completely buried in the ruins. steel " e " in the back room were three children, who were they a rlY covered, except one child's head. In this condition • huk t o reinained about two hours and a half, the accident being th e er -t . ) wn to their nearest neighbours, owing to the fury of le nete l ud rendering it unsafe for any one to venture out. At a t ,: '' a Man named Weston, finding the door fast, chopped ont e n ae, l with an axe ; and, nicking his way up stairs, he was ha t j' e " , e to discern in one room, above the rubbish, the left wh e " "Mrs. Moore, and in the other the head of a little boy, dt a - ,, W aS alive. - In trying to extricate the latter, Weston tli en ° lo4 a quantity of igicks slates, &c., upon himself. He es s C w ent down, - opened th ' e doors, and, having obtained i nt .: l nce, all th e su ff ere r s were promptly extricated. The li.ettlitrwas dead ; a little boy of about three years of age 'el l e 'pr about ten minutes, being apparently suffocated, as of '' tunch bruised about the head. His mouth was full r ubbish •i• ine e h • . he mother and the other two children, though bruisedjkourei(iergtLand, and hurt, are all doing well. There, was, we great difficulty in procuring a surgeon. In do w wi nKm much damage was sustained by the roofs and win e; °f many of the larger residences in that suburb. HE, X s PORI) ROAD CDOItITON•UPON-MEDLOCK, AND GREEN kre •---Besides numbers of roofs, partially blown tn, and ex at q u antities of glass broken in the windows of houses in c e r 4".ed situations all the way up Oxford Road, we have as in tained that the following, doubtless amongst many other efi ' ,, a ,, n ees which have escaped our inquiries, were some of the 1.1 0 ; - „ n i s , o f the gale of Monday morning :—The house of Mrs. t e ' - `"Y Thornhill, pawnbroker, the first building in tehorl ' 4—°n-Nledlock, over the bridge in Oxford Road, was much fr o -I „ ° ; i ged by the fall of a large stack of chimneys near the o e . 'house. The er room wasoccupied as a store ree-T for pledged articl, sapid`was fitted unwitiflarge wooden . of for that purpose. These racks, and the quantity of uf ~" in bundles upon the floor of the room, broke the force f ','' n ,fall, end prevented the mass of brick-work, slates, &c. a l. ',"` ',reeking through into the room below, where .rs. ~;;rnhill and her family were at that moment at breakfast. hr he roof of All Saints' Church was forced in in two or . e, Places t r im . , ; but the damage done to the edifice is but of o f i\ 't_g e t Atent.—Two houses in course .. of erection at the end Ai .ietv York -street,—an open situation a little behind the tonmodist chapel, Oxford Itoad,—being touch exposed to the fury of the wind, sustained considerable damage. it-11:1..me.—Here, as in other parts of the town, the broken i i , 4 , s ,' , slates, chimney-pots, and powerdn materials lying - „,'Lle streets, show the fury and of the gale. R a `, ain enttooe.—One of the most destructive effects of the I laTt e n u Property, in this immediate neighbourhood, was the th ( if the large and very handsome octagonal chimney at • r. e clietnical works of Messrs. Andrew Paton end Co. menu ), Mir ing chemists, Co t nbroOk, near nubile. In falling, the li Yge chimn e y b roug h t d own a sma ll er one , th a t o f the red- it luor building, probably about forty feet in height. We are 0 , 44 to learn that no person wits -at all hurt, though several i s ' i ri were very near th e c hi m ney when it fell. The rubbish i i ,„"!ing rao.idly cleared away: the erection of buildings, we Wil l ` nl dm will be commen c ed immediately, and no interruption i ne Occur to the operations at the works, arrangements hay- Q u een made for carrying on the various processes without re„r e usion or demay. The spray from the canal was thrown. • i a i s high as the top of the chimney of Mr. Patun'shouse, f d , I was tossed about in every directton. At a shout seadistane v - o ° 1 , 1 the works, in the garden of Mr. Halliday, there fi„Zious proof of the direction of the wind. A large hot-bed p - ro r t h e+ . placed east and west, had its chimney, which was the —aul Y Six yards in height, placed close to the middle of fr o m` 'utb side of the frame. This chimney was blown down, p e „about the height of five feet; it fell so exactly west, or b a et "'tel to the south side of the frame, as nearly to touch it ; br k ° ,!!he 500 or 600 panes of glass in the frame, not one is ne ° e fell and not even a brick of the wall„ by which the china the" l e " , is at all grazed. The wind blew in a few panes of the ( ~- °nle light at the works, and stripped many slates from de n , - "r• At the farm of Mr. Stnith, close. by, it did much di s t - n a ge to the hay, catching it up, and whirling about and a l so etsing it. The roofs of the house and farm buildings are s..ttich d amage d . to iil nk l:Fotto.—We regret to have to record one fatal result 11 0( „ e of the s t orm i n t hi s towns hip, a t Cl a pper Hill, an old wa s t e . u ecupied as a farm by Mr. Gaudier, one portion of which Obi i he residence of an elderly single lady, Miss Royle, with line: 4 r esided her niece, Mrs. Sandiford, and her child. A timed al ter seven o'clock in the morning, Miss Hoyle and the p ert were in one bedroom and Mrs. Sandiford in another th f , the house, when the wind blew down a tall chimney ta r : mm 1W the roof fil the bedroom where Miss Hoyle was at that h rit e •C ° "eling in prayer by the side of the bed. Pant of the fre e , work struck her on the back of the head, dreadfully i ll 6, 11 Pd her skull, and killed her instantly. The child was b edr m atid escaped without injury. The servant, in another • re ot ."'nm was driven to make her escape; slates from the the e cen niug throueth the ceiling of the room, and falling upon fe ry u n ' f l in which she was lyieg. In Miss . Royle's . garden the 'tee,. the wind snapped a tree in two, in the middle of the ;Ireami °t the is stated that the unfortunate lady had always a ' i "litte ''' the chimneys falling, and had had all the others he, d roilud with iron and stayed ; but the one which caused -Th e alli. she was assured by the bricklayers, was quite safe. ece e t , e ltininey of a house (one of three) in the Strettord 4 lr, 13"u,ad fell through the roof of the one occupied by a t itet,, n it°n. a surgeon, upon him as he lay in Led ; fortu nee : ';',,`'e was able to extricate himself without material dam 4;n.ioi ,i e c himney of his house tell through the roof of the one Just i l. n g with a violent crash; fortunately, the servants had r esie e t- , n um and had left the apartment.--:Aa Longford, the a t , e,, - "ce of C. J ' S. Walker F.sq. many of the haystacks v hitiir lr iiofed.—At Barlow 11111, the seat of Shakespear Wi ndo °B ' besides very sericus injury to the root and elio, O t . twelve very fine old trees, near the house, chiefly • Year;l`,ilsoine of theta it is believed, more than two .hundr,d ii , A Li p"' were torn up ' by the roots. h':' , !st - ou ° s l tu. cr —The storm appears to have caused fhe most -) -ee , - effects to property in this township : fortunately, di ltetti ' '' few persons received any injury. It would be a ,tleYs cull‘ lt ask to enumerate the instances of demolished chirn 'unte dwellings wholly or partly unroofed: we, therefore, (I f u r l le rourselves with stating the most striking instances of I it, or, lit' ; ' er e . ; -; the stortn. During the course of the morning, I the the 'd w as th e violence of time wind, that very few houses ,:ge chiureseent escaped without being partially unroofed, and TR, th e 'uce's blown down. About six o'clock in the morn : *O"lelph i s l° 1 111 was at its height in the neighbourhood of the : e l Wii The workmen in the employ of Messrs. Gisborne I ,"ich ; ' n um on the premises belonging to Mr.'rhomas Bury, Jrcei e dr e, being fitted up, we believe, for a calender-house, i t 'h ,ratel t h"t the large octagonal chimney near Bank Mill ii ' r oela "• 11 so frightful a manner that'they were apprehensive . ti, three tall. Five of the men were at work in that three tii,itig ti of thein in one of the rooms of the building ad ill 'gri ll e tugine.house when they were thrown into a state (,i'„httiliji n t 7 a loud crush above their heads. The roof of to h e chi Ir was smashed inwards by the large coping stones ti o I nle t e . , 414 e3, which they noticed was oscillating in such a tilt ° 0 1 t " L ' e to leave no douttain their minds that a great . por theey priivued structure would speedily fall. in this opinion crashFhi ln „ l" be correct; for, in the course of a few seconds, -er broke , • d fell forward with a tremendOus tr„, k , e ,.: . , e an. t te,„° to th ,.... 111 te down the roof and flooring of the finishing le," stee r , ',geound story, used as a boiler room, in which are V i e ehituo .ioilers, employed in 531workng the ste:nn engine. s t i ltilt of ( -3' was originally about yards in height, and a ai :ed i esbout 27 yards lia; fallen. The damage, we un.del m4thos.ed V i inated at nearly five hundred . pounds; end it is chved elo , 11 "! one of the steam boilers will prove to . have re tiltnoey t t l eri a t m ; ,„ v ßittry. It is supposed that the portion of the th it eope oe •es fell had first come in contact with the collier of le "nes, -h ."se m the walls of which are of the extraordinary :lairs e itu a t t 18 inches, and that this had broken the falling Sit.. t ile 10, to poi-liens, and in sonic degree weakened its fall. ho tiat ed „wer clown the street , on the side next the river, are , tr t.bll ers `rt t e , work s of Mr. Wm. Fletcher, dyer; and the N I PPLet of ', ( ,c , :pied by this gentletnan were almost wholly i m h,..sie e t i ~ slates forming the roof.. About ' five minutes to 1 4 to ( . 01 : 1 ( 1 i , m several of the men, being in the yard, were ebout e ti , at nence working, when some of them, happening w f ur l the chimney, which was a large square one, 1); l Y as It ?' yard s in height, observed it oscillating in such a lii 4 se etly tilleave no deobt but that it would speedily fall. voi r r 'lopie, e . e biinney cracked near the Lase. and broke oir „ i „, wi", ~ direction, falling forward, partly into the reser thiliinot t :tt e t f F: ii , l e . t_i dous , crash. The damage at this . place m,, auk s o . rive r , —Still lower down the Atlelphi near II Rite d l the river, are the cvorks uf 1) ee l ,' Yer s nod finishers.' Messr s . Demyhu;st and il ia tm, th , Upon the premises of these gen t, h th e nestruction was very great. they having no fewer nei r ree elii neys blown down. The men had come to (i.(6)inite‘ov?iri.k...,a,ttill'ile. usual tame in the morning; but had not !,4_ ~IVhetvhile.l c o nsequence of it being exceedingly question -11071.r, es tii i tt s ,. t • t could he . set to work with any degree of ehr t. " p arts !, le es and . bricks were flying about (corn the trine vi. ,, ct the buildings. At the same time, the large e e (.. it the .le t stand s in the yaid was bending to and fro dt,iit t hree ' t,imitnneys, on 'lnc of the building;, hail fallen le h °us u ' , lock in the morning, upon the blue end fancy "th es, (loin.. . • w et % th e r ears .. considerable damage in that place. At ovpr fully roatt entertained for the safety of the large chimney e r4s ,a %p ep , _ l e sell• Aker waving backwards and forwards di,t,, e, toliii,„.o! several feet, it rime down with a tremendous ela n , nee (4 .'e against the (Irvine sto • which is situated • t • tir e e''e do lit fifteen hundred stove, from its bas. The s ;11 it is ex ' ' Messrs. Dewhurst and Saear's premises will nue! Peeted, 1 "e II an ° 'rho exceed I:Bjo.—The dye r 'work's of Messrs. thttir eta p,. ~. pas Ashton, near Broughton Bridge, called ht ! er tl e i lzio :e u i I Works, shared somewhat similar to that of " al lit thue oxen .N. liitle before six o'clock in the morning, .'employed upon the pre - Mises were Sfaud ing at a fire in one of the sheds, when all at once they were alarmed by a most tremendous crash, as if all the buildings close by had fallen to the ground. Upon some of them pro .ceeding to the dye house, it was found that .the building was a heap of ruins, the large chimney belongin g t o the wor k s. having fallen, and breaking through the ro o f o f th e bl ac k dy e house and the machine house, in which are situated several dressing machines and drying cylinders The chimney was about thirty yards in height, and besides breaking through the buildings upon which it fell, it also broke the side of one of the stone troughs, and destroyed four or live dressing ma chines, and a set of drying cylinders, and broke the mill-geer ing. Of course much injury will have resulted to the ma chinery, from the quantity of rubbish that fell upon it. A very small portion of the chimney was left standing; and in this case as well as in the others, to which we have referred, the business of the works will be partially suspended for a few days. The damage done upon Messrs. Ashton's premises will be partially suspended for a few days. The damage done upon Messrs. Ashton 's premises will amount to about £4OO. One man was struck by a piece of timber, but was not much hurt. Had this chimney fallen a little later, there would have been 18 or 20 hands in the machine-room, immediately in the di rection in which it fell. At the chemical works of Mr M`Guire, bottom of Springfield Lane, Broughton Road, two large chambers of lead upon timber framing, used for making sul phuric acid, were torn to pieces by the violence of the wind. We understand that the damage will amount to at least £5OO. About half-past five o'clock the same morning, the chimney belonging to the house occupied by Mr. Charles Lancaster, butcher, New Windsor, Salford, fell with a tremendous crash, breaking the slates, and forcing the roof down into the bed room below. The beds and furniture were much damaged by the falling rubbish; but no personal injury occurred, the occupants having about a quarter of au hour previously quitted their beds. At the Ordall dveworks of Messrs. James and John Wor rall, a chimney about 20 yards in height was blown down, fortunately in a direction clear of the buildings; but it tell amongst a number of carboys of sulphuric acid in the yard, and broke nearly thirty of them. None of the men were hurt. Mr. John Worrall had passed the line of its fall but a yard or two when it came down. j PENDLETON.—There are very few houses in this township which do not exhibit many proofs of the violence of the storm. In Chester-place, Paddington, Leaf-square, and Richmond-row, there is not, we believe, a single house hut has received damage of some description, the. roofs being whAly or partially torn off, and the glass demolished.—At the house of Mr. Carver, at the end of Leaf-square, the wall in front of the yard has been blown down, and the chimney has fallen through the roof, presenting on the whole a very unsightly appearance.—The kitchen chimney belonging to the house occupied by Mr. Edward Connell, in Leaf-square, fell in with a tremendous crash; a large quantity of the rub bish falling through into the room below, and blocking up the door. . ECCLES At the vicarage, on Sunday night last, the vicar and Mrs. Marsden experienced a very narrow escape. Feeling alarmed from the violence of the storm, lest a chimney, over the room in which they slept, would tali, they removed to another part of the house, and shortly afterwards, at an early hour on Monday morning, the chimney was blown down with a tre mendous crash; the slates, bricks, and rafters, all tell into the bedroom, and laid that, as well as an adjoining room, open to the sky. In case Mr. and Mrs. Marsden had not 'fortunately removed, there is every probability that both of them would have been seriously injurtd. Of course, it will be readily supposed, that the tempest which caused such extensive devastation in this town has not passed over without leaving traces of its fury in the sur rounding country. On all sides we hear of buildings de molished or unroofed, large chimneys blown down, trees up rooted or broken, and other melancholy consequences of the storm. Of these, it is obviously impossible that we should be able to give any complete account; but we subjoin such par ticulars as have reached us : OLDHAM. The storm was experienced here with great severity, and caused great and wide-spread injury to the roofs and chim neys of houses, factories, &c., and to the timber and fruit trees growing in the neighbourhoo r ; and the following cases are of a serious description. A factory, four stories high, and ten windows in length, newly built, and not quite finished, belonging to Messrs. J. and J. Wile, of Turf-lane, Royton, and which stood in a very exposed situation, was entirely blown down a little after six o'clock in the morning, and now lies a complete mass of ruins. What seems very extraordi nary is, that the roof of the building was found lying upon the wreck of the walls and floors entire, not a beam or a ratter being displaced, nearly the whole of the - slates and ridging stones in their places, and, what is most extraordinary, con sidering the height from which it had fallen, the greater part of the glass in the skylights unbroken—one skylight in par ticular, not having lost a single square !—At another un finished mill, belonging to Mi. Jacob Taylor, of Scott Field, Primrose Bank, the chimney was blown down, - and, falling upon the building, cut through it from the roof to the ground floor, leaving the whole interior a mass of ruins.—Amongst the buildings which have suffered in - an interior degree are the following:—The north-east pinnacle of the the tower of the church has been blown off, but without doing any serious damage to the church. The roof of the chapel belonging to the methodist new connection was greatly damaged, 'as well as those of Primrose Mill, North Mill, and Park Mill; and two of the windows of Shaw Chapel were blown out.—We have not heard that any serious personal injury was sustained in the town or neighbourhood. ASHTON AND STALYBHIDGE A very lamentable accident occurred at the old factory, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Harrison and Sons, Staly bridge, where a chimney, which had been rebuilt about twelve months ago, broke off at the square of the building, and the tipper part fell in one solid mass upon the root of the mill, breaking through that and all the floors down to the boiler-house, on the ground floor. This occurred about half-past six o'clock i❑ the morning, when the hands were all at work, and for a time the most exaggerated reports pre vailed respecting the loss of life. It happened, however, most providentially that the rooms upon which the chimney fell were principally used as store-rooms. One, however, on the second floor from the ground was used as a drawing-in room, where nine or ten persons were employed in drawing in and piecing the ends of warps. A large portion of the floor of this room (which was fire-proof), together with five persons who were standing upon it, was carried by the fall- ' ing chimney through the next fluor, and down to the ground floor of the engine -house; and one, a woman, was killed on the soot, as well as the engineer of the mill, who happened to be in the engine-house at the time. Four others were more or less severely hurt; one who is now at the Manches ter Infirmary having a leg broken, and some other severe injuries. Four of the persons employed in the drawing-in room were fortunately standing, at the time of the accident, upon the arch .of the floor which was the farthest from the chimney, and which was left standing; and they escaped unhurt. The mass of falling rubbish broke the main steam pipes leading from the boiler; and it is believed that the en gineer lust his life rather from the steam which rushed out, than from the falling materials, as no serious wound or frac ture could be found upon him ; hut he appeared to have been dreadfully scalded. We understand that an inquest is to be held upon' the bodies, at the White Hart Inn, Sta lybridge, this morning. We are not aware that any other chimneys in this neighbourhood (numerous as they are) have been blown• down, with the single exception of one belonging to the Messrs. James and John Ashton, of New ton Moor, with respect to which we have not heard any particulars; but several of them have been so much injured as to make it imperative on the owners to take theist down. Amongst these is one belonging to Messrs. Dean and Tinker, machine-makers, Stalybridge, which, by the violent action of the wind, was actually shifted two or three inches near the base, but still remains entire. Another, belonging to Mr. Leach, of Stalybridge, had a hole blown through it near the top; but no part of it fell„ The injury to dwelling-houses and buildings of all descriptions in this neighbourhood is ex tremely severe. Three new houses, on the road between Ashton and Stalybridge, were entirely blown down ; a public house, kept by a person named Goodall, was very much shut terel ; and the old Unitarian Chapel, at Dukinfield, had some • or the windows blown in, and the interior very greatly in - jured. The number of houses partially unroofed, and having chimneys blown down, is very great; but we have not heard of any cases requiring particular mention. BURY. In this town 'no less than seven large chimneys have been wholly or partially demolished, namely, those of Mr. James Hutchinson, Mr. Hardman, Messrs. Cabrow, Mr. Nuitall, Messrs. Samuel Greg and Suns, Messrs. Bennett and Cross, and that of the gas-works which, we are sorry to say, fell upon and entirely destroyed the purifier, so that the works were brought to a complete stand, and are not likely to be in operation again before the end of the week, to the very great inconvenience of t he manufacturers, shopkeepers, and others, who relied upon them fur light. Several dwelling-houses have been very severely injured, amongst which are the rec tory house, the house of Mrs. Haslam, at Chesham, and that of Miss Clegg, who was much hurt, and very narrowly es caped with her life, a chimney having fallen through the roof into her bedroom. Tne number•of dwelling-house chimneys blown down, and of houses partially or wholly uroofed, is here . as elsewhere, extremely great; and the streets were covered with bricks, slates, and chimney pots, in every direction. ROCHDALE. The chimney at the factory of Messrs. Howard, in Chee tham-street, fell upon the building, crushed in the roof, and several of the floors, doing very serious and extensive da mage. At the saw-mills, in Oldham-road, the chimney, which was 45 yards high, tell in the same manner upon. the building, and broke down every thing before it to the ground. The watchman narrowly escaped with his life, having just left the spot when the chimney fell. The chimney at the machine shop of i\l r. Ashworth, 'Oldham-road, also fell upon the building, breaking through to the ground floor; whilst that at the works of Messrs. Worrall and Shaw, spindle makers, New Road, was blown into the river Roach. The chimney at the factory of Mr. Butterworth, of Small Bridge, fell against the end of the factory, which was completely beaten in by it. Several other engine chimneys, of smaller consequence, were blown down ; and the destruction of roofs, windows, and house chimneys, the glass in hot and green houses, and the trees in the neighbourhood, is beyond all de scription. Scarcely a single building covered with blue slate has escaped a partial unroofing, with the exception of those in which the slates were fastened with copper nails. Not withstanding the great amount of damage to property, and the numerous instances in which house chimneys fell through the roofs or rolled into the streets, we cannot learn that a single person has been killed, or seriously injured. The storm began at about two in the morning, and appeared to be at its greatest height from four to six. About five o'clock the barometer was observed to stand at 27. 80. BOLTON. On Sunday evening a little rain fell, accompanied with a cold atmosphere ; but about half-past twelve o'clock on the *following mottling the wind rose, and, in about an hour afterwards, blew a complete hurricane. The inhabitants became greatly alarmed, and numbers got out of bed to Sit in the lower apartments of their houses, in order to escape the danger .of the falling in of the chimneys and roofs. The streets were -strewed in all directions with bricks, chimney pots, and slates; and in the different lanes in the neighbour hood, a great number of garden fences were blown down. At Mortfield, the residence of Mr. Cross, solicitor, all the chimneys were blown dowii; and Mr. Cross' two sons, Mr. John Cross, barrister, and Mr. Thomas Cross, bleacher, nar rowly escaped injury; a chimney fell into the room through the roof where Mr. John Cross was sleeping, and another through the roof exactly over Mr. Thomas Cross's bed; but the flooring of the loft, being pretty strong, resisted the shock, and prevented the materials falling upon him. A chimney fell at the house of Mr. Benjamin Hick, at Rose Hill; and a stone of great weight fell upon the bed, from which two of his sons had just risen, breaking it to pieces.— A large chimney, connected with Messrs. Goodwin and • Hughes's factory, at Rose Hill, was blown down, and fell upon the railway.—A large chimney was also blown down at Mr. Jackson's sizehouse, in Little Bolton. The chimney at the factory,belonging to Mr. J. A. Smith, Little Bolton, was blown down, and some damage done to the mill. A child be longing to Mr. Stead, superintendent minister of the Wes leyan methodist connection in Bolton, had a most providen tial escape. The servant, with whom the child had been sleep ing, had got up early to wash, leaving the child in a small ciib near her bed, and had not been long down stairs before the . chimney fell, carrying with it a portion of the r oof, and breaking her bed to nieces. A portion of the bricks and slates fell upon the crib where the child lay, but fortunately without injuring. it in the slightest degree.—The cross was blown off the steeple of the new church dedicated to Emanuel, in Can Row, Bolton Moor. 'Throughout the whole town, al moSt every building has suffered more or less damage; but, we are glad to add, there has been no loss of life. The build ings and trees in the country about Bolton have also very ge nerally suffered front the storm; but the only accident of a very serious character which has come to our kudwledge oc curred at Kearale y , where a factory chimney belonging to Mr. Noah Baker was blown down, and fell upon the building, cutting through it from the roof to the ground, and doing great damage to the machinery. The accident, we believe, occurred just before the usual time of commencing work, and none of the hands had reached the mill. WORSLEY, CHOWBENT„ &c. , . The trees in the neighbourhood of Worsley have suffered severely from the gale. Numbers were torn up by the roots, and some of the largest were split up the middle, by the fury of the wind, as if cleft by lightning. Not the least injury was sustained at Worsley Old Hall; but several roofs in the neighbourhood were partially driven in, or blown off.—At MarSh Brow, near Chowbent, a chimney was blown down, which, falling through the root of Mr. Woodward, land agent, and carrying with it a portion of the roof, caught the son of Mr. Woodward, who is said to be much hurt; but we have not been able to learn the particulars. BLACKBURN In this town and the immediate neighbourhood, the de vastation produced by the storm has been excessively great, far exceeding any thing of the kind that has occurred from a similar cause within the memory of man. No less than 11 factory chimneys have been levelled, namely, those of Messrs. Feilden and Townleys, Messrs. Cartwrights, Messrs. Tur ners. Messrs. B. Eccles and Co. Messrs. Eccles and Abbott, Mr..J..Forrest, Mr. .1. Thompson, Messrs. Brierley and Co. Messrs. T. Livesey and Co. and Messrs. Cort and Harrison. Several of these chimneys, we believe, have done very serious damage. At Messrs. Cartwright's factory, in King-street, the chimiley cut clean through the building from the roof to the ground floor, and the damage will probably not be less than £lOOO. In consequence of the fall of these chimneys, and the threatening appearance - of many others. none of the factories in Blackburn were at work until the afternoon. In the surrounding country also very extensive mischief has been done, the exact particulars of which we have not been able to learn. At Clitheroe, we understand, a large drying stove belonging to Messrs. Thomson and Sons, calico print ers, was entirely blown down, and much other daMage done. BURNLEY. The hurricane commenced here about two, and raged with great fury until seven, having done considerable damage in Burnley and• the neighbourhood. Several steam engine chimneys, house chimneys„&c. have been blown down, pass ing through the roofs of the buildings, and effecting much destruction of property. Many private buildings have also been completely or partially unroofed; and the woods and' plantations, especially in and near Townely Park, have likewise sustained great destruction of timber. There were many providential escapes loin the ruins of falling uhim neys through the roofs into bedrooms; but we are glad to learn that no lives have been lost, though several persons have sustained more or less injury. The mercury was down at the very lowest point in the barometer. PRESTON, The destruction of property in this town has been very great, and we regret to learn that two persons lost their lives from the falling of chimneys. One of these was Miss Lowe, daughter of the late John Lowe, Esq., banker. LANCASTER. The storm extended to this town, though, apparently, its force was not quite equal to what was experienced in the southern part of the county. Several factories and private houses were inure or less damaged, and three of the well known elm trees on Castle Hill were blown down. We hear little of the storm to the northward of this place, except that the mail was twice blown over on Shap Fells; and the guard, finding it impossible to proceed with the coach, was obliged to put the bags in a cart, in which he proceeded Until he was able to procure a post chaise. TODMORDEN, HALIFAX. &c. The fury of the storm was very great in the vale of Tod morden, where two mills, one in Dulesgate, belonging to a Mr. Hammerton, and another belonging to a Mr. Hinchliffe, near Mytholm Bridge, were entirely blown down; as was also a chimney at the Mill of Mr. Frith, of Todmorden;' but we do not hear that any lives were lost. In the neighbour hood of Bipponden, two chimneys were blown down—viz., those of Mr. J. Whiteley and Mr. H. Bitins, the latter of which fell upon the factory, and did very great damage to the building and machinery.—ln Halifax, the house of a man named Jennings, a cabinet-maker, situate in Pellon lane, was entirely blown down; and the poor man, with his wife and child, buried in the ruins, and killed on the spot. A severe accident also happened to Lewis Alexander, Esq., the well-known solicitor, of Halifax, who was at breakfast when one of the chimneys of his house fell upon and severely injured him. We are glad to learn, however, that he is con sidered out of danger.—We learn, also, that at Leeds and Hull the storm was exceedingly destructive; but we have not heard any particulars of the damage done, except that many vessels had been lost in the neighbourhood of Hull. CHESTER. (Fran the Chester Courant qf Tuesday.) It is our painful duty to reCorda most violent storm, which was experienced in this city, on the night of Sunday last, commencing about eleven o'clock, and continuing without intermission until day-break. The damage done to dwelling houses and other buildings is very c o nsiderable; - many were Unroofed, several.chimnies were blown down, and in some instances were precipitated into the room immediately under. The falling of slates and bricks, rendered it exceedingly dan gerous for any one to be out. Families fled from their beds, and took refuge in the lower rooms during the night—alarm was universal; but-it affords us the highest gratification to state that no persons to our knowledge have lost their lives, nor have any received very material injury. If for a moment we reflect upon the many providential and hair-breadth escapes of several of our fellow-citizens, we shall find much cause to, be thankful to a kind and merciful Providence, whose protecting aid has been so conspicuously manifested during the continuance of this awful visitation. The following are a few of the casualties which we have been enabled to procure:— As might have been expected, those buildings which, from their height and situation, were most exposed to the fury of the winds, have suffered the greatest injury. In the main streets, as Bridge-street, Northgate-street, Eastgate-street, and atergate-street, comparatively little injury has been sustained. Miss Hunter's house, in Watergate-street, was partially unroofed, and a great quantity of valuable furniture destroyed, and Mr. Walker, brewer, was subjected to the same accident. One of the windows in - Mr. Weaver's boeSe in Eastgate-street, and one in the Black Dog Coffee-room, were completely shattered. In Newtown, the roofs of several houses were partially uncovered, and from the New Church, which has just been erected at considerable expense,.a vast number of slates were blown away, and a portion of the pa lisading considerably injured, and its whole appearance was sadly defaced. The roof of the house of Mr. Green, of the Tower -Wharf, was in a great measure destroyed, and the adjoining buildings also received considerable damage. In Abbey-street, the chimney of a house in the occupation of Mrs. Peers fell in with a tremendous crash, and the lower part of the house was very materially injured. At Mr. Boden's, the garden wall was thrown down, and the house nearly unroofed. At the Castle, several of the windows were very much shattered, but we have not heard that any further injury was done to that noble edifice. In Castle-street, with the exception of Mr. Fish's house, no material damage was done, beside the removal of a few slates. In Pepper-street, however, the ruin was much greater. In consequence of the falling of a very large chimney, trout a house occupied by Mr Peters, considerable damage was caused. The chimney fell on the east side, and came in contact with the adjoining alms houses, which are chiefly - occupied by old infirm parsons. In the room of the alms-house next adjoining Mr. Peters', one of the inmates. a very old woman, was asleep in bed; fortu nately, however, she was awoke by the falling of a few bricks, the first intimation of the impending accident; and she had scarcely time to make her escape from the room, before the chimney fell, and with it the ruuf of the apartment where she had been sleeping. The escape was almost miraculous. An escape somewhat sinailar, and equally providential, oc curred to one of the childi en of the Rev. Charles B. Tayler, rectorOf St. Peter's. It appeared that the child, who is about six years of age, was sleeping soundly in bed, uncon scious of the danger to which it was so imminently exposed. The rev. gentleman, however, was on the alert, and having heard some noise which indicated the falling of a chimney over the room in which the child Was sleeping, he immedi ately hastened thither, and had traly just time to release it front its perilous situation, before t.he cuimney came tumbling through the roof, directly over the bed. The child fortu nately escaped without receiving any injury, but we under stand that_ec portion of the materials fell on the rev. gentle man's shoulder, as he was making his exit from the route, which bruised it rather severely.. Had not the child been removed at that precise moment, there can be no doubt but it would have been killed on the spot, as a large portion of the brick-work alighted on the room u here it was sleeping. In consequence of the falling of a part of the buttress front the tower of our venerable cathedral, the south transcept was much injured, and the timbers burst through, and broken to pieces. In Eggleston Lane, a large barn and two bays were levelled with the ground; in the barn was deposited a large quantity of grain. A bui lding in Northg,ate-street, with two stacks of hay, belonging to Mr. Brassey, were much dama ged; aud.a considerable quantity of hay was carried away 'by the wind. The city gaol was also a good deal damaged. The parapet, wall, for the space of twenty or thirty yards, fronting the city walls, wp,s demolished, and the chimney of a house belonging to Mrs. Wrench, in Lower Bridge-street, was also blown down, but we have not heard that any luither damage resulted from it. The works formerly occupied as a soapery in Grosvenor street, the property of Mr. Witter, are very Much injured, in consequence of the fettling of the large chimney. The outer wall for several yards' was knocked down, and the inte rior of the works was also destroyed. This, we believe, will be the most extensive and the most costly damage which has occurred. St. John's Church has also not escaped with out considerable injury. The windows of the church are nearly all shattered; and one of the pinnacles was blown front the tower. Large stones were also removed from the Priory. The houses in Stanley Place also sustained considerable damage, particularly those of Major Morrall, the Rev. F. Ayckbowm, and the Rev. W. Hutchinson. The chimneys of the houses of the two former gentlemen adjoin each other, and iu the early part of the morning they both fell, carrying with them the roofs of. the respective houses. One of the chimneys fell in the room occupied by Mrs. Ayckbowm; but that lady hearing the signals of danger, happily made her escape before the roof came in. The other chimney fell into the room in Mr. Morrall's house, formerly occupied by Miss Morrall (now the Hon. Mrs. Nugent); but as that lady was from •hume, nu personal injury was sustained by any one. • The adjoining house (occupied by the Rev. W. Hutchinson) sustained similar injury. lm this case the chimney fell into the room of a servant-maid, who was in bed at the time; but the materials fortunately proceeded no further than the tester of the bed. We hear that Mr. Henry, butler to Capt. Ball, in Stanley-place was very much injured by the falling of some materials. In the Hope-pole garden a very large pear-tree was com pletely cut off at the root, and St. Martin's church had many slates blown off; 'a wall and some small cottages in V, all's lane were blown down—houses in Nicholas-street much in jured by being unroofed, as also at the lower end of Water gate-street; at Mrs. Owen's, Grey-friars, a stack of chitnnies tell, breaking through the roof into a lodging-room, doing considerable damage. Dr. Lleylleu Jones' house in King's buildings, haul all the windows fronting the west entirely blown out—in King's -street, at Mr. ltitlway's, the workshop was nearly - unroofed. Messrs. Eaton, brewers, were also sufferers. Mr. Fletcher's house, Upper Nortugate-street, has suffered materially; and 11. Kelsall, Esq., has had a vast quantity of windows broken and blown out, besides other damage. The two large new houses of the Messrs. Dickson. at Upton Nursery, wete unroofed, and at Lady Broughton's, Houle, a very large stack of chimnies fell with a tremendous crash, broke through the ceiling into her chamber, smashing and destroying the bed, furniture, &c., but fortunately her ladyship was not at home. On the Eggleston-road an im mense large:oak tree was blown - down, belonging to the Mar quis of Westminster. The early hour at. which we have to go to press does not allow its to give so ample an account of this tremendous hurricane as we could desire, but our antici pations are direful as regards the shipping on our coasts, and the next week we hope to be enabled to give more infor mation. SINGULAR EFFECTS OF TUE STOLIM. —We understand that the hedges, trees, and fields in SolOO districts are covered with a substance having the appearance of white fur, which is perfectly salt• to the palate. Our informant describes this appearance to have been observed at least twenty miles from the sea. SII EWSBI.7 It Y. (Front the Salopian Jourual.) Our town, on Monday morning, was visited by the most tremendous and disastrous tempest that has occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The previous day (Sunday) was,gloomy, a.fall of snow took . place about noon, which was ftilluiVoil tevesaL sctoalls of r a i n an d wind. About eleven at night the storm commenced, and continued roaring with increased violence from the west and south-west until eight a.m. on Monday, shaking by its force the strong est habitation, and making the stoutest heart tremble. The destruction of property in and around the town is great in deed; and it would .be an almost endless task to detail all the damage sustained, or to enumerate the many hair-breadth escapes of lites which several of our townsmen and their fa milies experienced from the violence of the tempest, at the time when tired nature was seeking repose in the arms of forgetfulness. In fact, there is scarcely a house in the town but has received more or less injury ; the streets at day-break were strewed with tiles and other remains of brickwork and masonry, while the slates from numerous buildings appeared scattered as paper by the wind in every direction, and the massive pieces of lead ..which had hound them to the roofs, were in many places rolled up like a scroll. About Claremont Hill the effects of the wind were great, and several houses in that direction have suffered severely. A chimney belonging to the Rev. It. Astley fell upon an adjoining tenement, and carried with it about one half of the roof and• timbers, providentially. however, the life of a little girl who slept in the room was saved, her. mother (Mrs. Clin ton) having removed her to her own room about five minutes before. At the house of Mr. Walton, situated a short dis tance from above, one of the chimneys was also blown down. At St. Chad's Church pat t of the balustrade above the chancel was blown down, and some of the painted glass in the windoW destroyed. Many of the trees which adorn the beautiful promenade' called the "Quarry," have sustained much damage; the vio lence of the wind has snappe d t h e trun k s an d upper branches of several of them, like so many pieces of broken sticks; the fine group of horse chesnuts "rowing. in "the Dingle," which have so often charmed the obfierver by their autumnal foliage, are much disfigured. Some of the houses, &c., near the Cres cent have been partially unroofed. "the iron railing which crowned the chimney (20;) feet high,) under the Wvle, was blown down, and fell upon a building belonging to Mr. Lewis Meredith, which it smashed to pieces; a portion of the massive coping at the top, was also blown through the roof of a new house adjoining, - and which was also the property of Mr. Meredith. The chimney of a house which once formed part of the Grey Friary, near the bottOm of Wyle Cop, fell into a room occu pied by Miss Stirrop, her servant, and a superannuated lady. The two former were sleeping together; the servant wascrushed by the mass of brickwork, and died almost immediately; a beam falling above Miss Stirrop, preserved her from the su perinctimbeut weight, by which she was mercifully preserved from the fate of her servant. In Colehani, a portion of the building formerly occupied as a cotton factory, and now divided into several dwellings, lost some of its chimneys, whish falling through the roof, caused the greatest consternation among the humble occupants. 'One of the lights of the beautiful stained glass window recently presented to Trinity Church, by the Rev. Richard Scott, and noticed in this journal a few weeks ago, has been blown out, and the centre one otherwise damaged. Houses in the middle of the town were not exempt from the force of the hurricane; hundreds of squares of glass were destroyed; a stack of chimneys fell through the roof of Mr. Isaac Taylor's house, in Dogpole, carrying by its force a great portion of a handsome stone staircase. Nearly oppo site, the upper part of a house was blown down, and one half of the roof of the Post-Office stripped. In Castle-street, a staircase in the house of Mr. Harries met-with a similar tate to that above mentioned. The roof of the north porch of St. Mary's Church has been damaged, and a cross, which ter minated the apex of that on the south side, is destroyed, and the hands of the dial carried away. A chimney of the house of Mr. Nevett, on Pride-hill, fell on the roof of his next neighbour, Mr. Davies, gilder, and penetrated into his work shop. destroying property, it is said, of £5O value or upwards. Mr. Webster, of Milk-street. had a providential escape from a chimney, which fell.upon his bed just after he had quitted. A chimney belonging to the next house fortunately fell into the yard. A portion of St. Julian's Church was dismantled, the glazed clock dial broken, and two of the vanes from the pinnacles blown off. A large portion of the lead is raised from the roof of the County Prison, and many fine trees were uprooted in the vicinity of the town in every direction; and we regret to say that, in this respect, much damage was done to the beautiful and valuable property of Dr. Darwin, at the Mount. But, as we remarked at the commencement of this narra tive, it would be next to impossible to recount all the damage and destruction of property occasioned by the tempest in this town and its vicinity. It is, however, somewhat satisfactory to know that, by the merciful interposition of Divine Provi dence, only one life has fallen a sacrifice to its severity ; a circumstance, it cannot be doubted, but will be duly regarded by sincere and heartfelt thanks to the Great Governor of the nivers e, by every one who happened to be placed in pecu liar situations of danger. In the afternoon of Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Robert Jones, coroner for this borough, on Edith Jones, aged 16, the young woman whose unfortunate death is above alluded to. From the evidence of William Morgan, it ap peared that he went to the house ofilliss Stirrop at the request of Mr. Stant, builder, and finding the back and front en trances locked, he burst one of them open, and requested Mrs. Millington, a neighbour, to go up stairs to the bed room, the door of which was also fastened; vu forcing it open, the deceased and Miss Stirrop were in a bed covered with rubbish and bricks from an adjoining chimney, which bad fallen through the roof upon them. Immediately assist ance was procured, and the rubbish being cleared away, Miss Stirrup was found alive; but Edith Jones was quite dead. This witness stated that he believed the chimney which had fallen was in a good state of repair. Mrs. Mil- - . lington gave similar evidence, having bees attracted to the house by the inmates not being up as usual. The servant was not in her usual room. She heard Miss Bromfield, aged 90, call out about six o'clock in the morning, but as this was her frequent practice until she got up, she took no no tice of the matter until between eight and nine o'clock in the morning. Verdict, Died of suffocation, caused by a chimney haying accidentally fallen upon the deceased, whilst she was in bed. A magnificent old oak, on the lawn at Longner Hall, the seat of Robert Burton, Esq., which has long been the ad miration of all beholders for its picturesque beauty, fell a sacrifice to the storm; and a vast number of trees in the vicinity of the house were likewise prostrated or otherwise seriously injured by its devestating effects. At Hawkstone, the seat of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., about 1100 trees were blown down, among which were several very fine elms. The obelisk in Acton Reynold Park, twenty-two feet in height, and weighing at least seven tons, was smashed to atoms; many trees also in the centre of Shrewsbuty park, the property of Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart., have been up rooted, as well as some of the finest trees along the drive leading to Berwick House, the seat of the Hon. H. W. Powys. In short, there is scarcely a landed proprietor or farmer in the vicinity who has not been a sufferer, more or less, by the destruction of trees, injury of stacks, &c., by the violence of the hurricane. IRELAND. (From the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday.) DREADFUL Huniticami.—The metropolis was last night visited by a hurricane, such as the oldest inhabitants cannot remember—unbounded in its fury, and unlimited in its extent. Accounts are pouring in upon us from all quarters of its ter rifle and irreparable effects. The tempest commenced at ten o'clock, from the S.S.E., and varied in the. course of the night frequently train 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." Houses burning—others unroofed, as if by storm of shot and shell—a few levelled with the ground, with all their furniture within—while . the rattling of engines, cries of firemen, and labours of the military, presented the very aspect and mimicry of real war. THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.—The trees in Leinster lawn, of full growth, are torn up by the roots, and are scat tered like prostrate giants on their mother earth, In Nassau street, No. 10, a glass-shop is a heap of ruins. In Kildare street, the corner house next to the Royal Society is partly unroofed, and the front wall in a most precarious state. In Clare-street, a stack of chimneys fell in, and destroyed a female, who had not been ten minutes in bed. In Sackville street, three houses are unroofed. The Bethesda Chapel, and the Rev. Mr. Gregg's house adjoining, are burned to the ground. A fire occurred in the chapel on Saturday, and the board-room was burned. On Sunday, at noon service, thanksgiving was made to the Al mighty for sparing the building, but early this morning all was in flames, and.totally consumed. Considerable damage has been done in the Coombe, and other parts of the Bari of Meath's Liberty. In New Market the poor people left their houses and thronged the police station-house, and the market-house in the centre of the square, for protection. The churchwardens of St. John's humanely opened that church to shelter the numerous poor of the neighbourhood who fled front their tottering houses. The ball which surmounted the spire of St. Patrick's Ca thedral was blown down, providentially without doing mis chief. It had been out of perpendicular a considerable time, and fell within the railing in the North Close. About twenty seven years ago the former ball fell, carrying with it several feet of the spire. In Sidney-avenue, in the house of Mr. Collins, a servant boy and a woman were unfortunately killed by the falling of a stack of chimneys, Waltham Terrace—nearly all the chimneys are blown down, and the venerable elm at Sans Sauci has been up- rooted. A portion of the steeple of Irishtown Church was blown down, breaking its way through the roof of the church. PninsnortouGn CHundn.—North side much injured by the cut stone of the belfrey and ridge stones falling on the roof. Stones upwards of 2cwt. were blown a consi derable distance from the church. Scarcely a house on Phibsborough Road has escaped injury —several fronts and windows blown in, and stacks of chimneys blown down. GLASSNEVlN.—Considerable injury was done at Glassne yin, and a policeman had his thigh broken. PRUSSIA-STREET.—A number of trees at ..Mr. Jameson's demesne torn up by the roots, and several ha.ve.fallen across. and injured two houses. The entire of this street, from the oldness of the roofs, has suffered greatly. In short, there is scarcely a street, nay, scarcely a house, which does not bear the impress of this dreadful calamity. The country 'around has equ4lly suffered. The dire disasters of the sea remain as yet untold; but that they have been grievous we must expect to hear. It will be our melancholy duty, as soon as we can collect the particulars, to furnish the public with a more detailed narrative of these sad everts; as yet we have heard of but few accidents attended with loss of life. Two of the Royal Artillery were conywjed to Richmond Hospital, in a state of insensibility, from injuries received at the Bethesda; hopes are entertained of their recovery; the persevering skill and reckless daring of this distinguished corps was the theme of universal praise ; and to their exer tions the preservation of the neighbourhood is mainly in debted; nor were the new police deficient in the performance of their arduous duties. „ . . . _ . . 'Perhaps 110 part of the metropolis or its vicinity has suf fered more from the hurricane of last night than the Royal Hospital. Commencing with the bend at the Military-road, almost every tree is levelled to the ground; and here the:sen tinel had a narrow escape, though warned of, and therefore prepared for, .t he approaching danger, by a gentleman passing about eleven o'clock. He had scarcely time to quit his sentry box before it was blown from its stand, and scattered into atoms. The beautiful avenue which led to the " Old House" no longer exists. The magnificent back avenue of elms, which terminated at Kiln i sinham, is almost totally destroyed. Sad, indeed, is the scene of devastation which this ancient institu tion presents. The whirlwind of desolation has spared neither building, tree, nor shrub, and a few of the present generation will live to see the damages of this fatal night repaired, or the umbrageous grandeur of its once glorious avenues re stored. In the neighbourhood of Rathfarnham the scene of devas tation which presented itself this morning baffles description. Marley, the seat of Charles D. Latouche, Esq., suffered dreadfully; many of the finest trees are prostrate, and the wall near the Grange is levelled. Holly Park, the seat of Mr. Foot, also suffered severely, and in the neighbourhood of Stillorgan, Mountanvili and Roebuck, the roads are totally impassable for carriages. The same may be said of Donny brook, Upper Leeson-street, &c. It is even with difficulty that foot passengers can make any progress; in fact, which ever way one torus ruin and devastation is to be met with. It will be seen from what follows that the ravages of the storm were not confined to Dublin or its vicinity. So far as ac counts have yet reached us, it appears that the tempest was generally felt throughout the whole county: — DELAY OF THE MA I Ls.--The Sligo mail, which left Dub lin last night, was upset oy the force of the wind near Kinegad. We have not heard whether any accident occurred in conse quence. 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 Waterford coach was for several hours prevented from pro ceading—ahe road being literally blocked up with trees. The Cork coach was stopped near Callow 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 Rat hnew, 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 postoffice until one o'clock. At the hour of going to press, the only mails which had reached the postoffice, were those from Col k, Limerick, Galway, and Wexford. Among the most serious sufferers by the gale was Mr. Guinness, the eminent brewer. 'the back wall of a large stable on his premises was blown in by the violence of the wind, burying under its immense weight nine fine horses. The ruins having been cleared away early this morning, the stalls presented a pitiable spectacle—the noble animals stretched everywhere as if sleeping, but with every bone crushed by the ponderous weight of the wall. Two houses situated opposite to the brewery, in Thomas-street, were also blown down, but we are happy to hear that no lives were lost. THREE. O'CLoCK.—We 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 neighbour hood the roofs of which have not been more or less injured. (From the Cork Constitution of Tuesday.) THE WEATHER.—We had several falls of snow on Satur day, and on Sunday night the most violent hurricane we have had this winter.—Chimneys have been blown down, houses unroofed, and, in some instances in the country, com pletely prostrated. The coaches have been delayed in their arrival, and we know not how vessels at sea could have with stood the squalls, they came on so suddenly, and raged so furiously. As yet, however, beyond the unimportant refer ence in our Cove Letter, we have heard of no damage. Snow fell yesterday again at intervals, but did not remain long on the ground. (From the Belfast News Letter of Tuesday.) TREMENDOUS HURRICANE IN BELFAST. —On Sunday night last, and during the greater part of yesterday morning, this t,twit and its neighbourhood were visited by one of the most tremendous hurricanes that have ever occurred within the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. The beginning of the night was comparatively calm, a considerable fall of snow having taken place the day before; but about eleven o'clock a violent westerly wind began to blow, which in the course of an hour or two increased into a complete tornado, sweeping every thing before it with destructive impetuosity. Chimneys were blown down, houses unroofed, walls laid prostrate, trees torn up by the roots, and consternation and alarm universally prevailed. In many parts of the town the houses rocked as if shaken by an earthquake, to such an alarming degree as to compel the inmates to abandon them, and seek shelter in places of greater security. In the morn ing the streets were covered, and in many instances entirely choked up, with ruins, so as to be nearly impassable, and the scene of desolation which presented itself was truly frightful. It would be impossible to detail all the cases of damage which have come to our knowledge, and we must therefore be content with a brief notice of some of the most important. The chimney of the Flax-mill belonging to the Messrs. Mulholland, off Yoik-street, :was blown to the ground. It was 180 feet in height, and in its fall destroyed a considerable part of the building attached to the Mill. A store thirty or forty feet in length connected with the same premises was quite levelled to the ground. At Graymount, near White house, one half of the chimney of Mr. Gray's Mill was pros trated by the storm, but we have not heard that any other im portant damage was sustained. One of the chimnies belong ing to Brookfield Distillery was thrown down, as were also the chimnies attached to the Mills of Mr. Charters and of Messrs. Currell and Howie, on the Falls road. An extensive Mill for the spinning of Linen yarn, and also manufacture of Linen. cloth by Machinery, which had been lately erected iu the same neighbourhood by Messrs. Ledwich and Dickson, gas totally destroyed, and the watchman killed amidst the ruins of the building. The Barracks, we understand, have been severely damaged, and the Messrs. Lepper's extensive factory has also sustained serious injury. In Lodge-lane, a man was killed in bed by the falling in of the roof of his house, and his wire, who was in bed at the same time, was so injured that she had to be conveyed to the Hospital, where she lies in considerable danger. In various parts of the town the roofs of houses were destroyed, and the lives of the inmates endangered by the falling in of stacks of ebirnneys. In York-street the roofs of two houses are thus perforated, and in College-squire very serious damage has resulted from the occurrence of similar accidents. In t he neighbourhood of Victoria-place, the gable was completely blown out of a house, leaving its interior quite exposed; but happily no lives were lost. The brick wall at M'Clean's fields, a similar wall near the Covenanting Meeting-house, another at the head of Queen-street, and a fourth in Done gall-street, have been levelled to the ground; but it were endless to particularize, as, in fact, there is scarcely a wall, of the description referred to, that has been left standing. In the country districts surrounding Belfast, the destruction of trees, even of the oldest growth, has been immense, and furnishes impressive evidence as to the violence of the storm. We understand that at Belvoir, the residence of Sir IL Bateson, Bart., M. P., much damage of this kind has been done • and even the castle itself has suffered. At Aunadale, the oldest oaks were torn up by the roots, and strewed about, and indeed, there is scarcely a gentleman's seat, within many miles, respecting which we have not received similar dis astrous intelligence. We fear that throughout the country districts much distress and suffering will be experienced by the poorer classes, especially in consequence of the havoc which this frightful tempest cannot fail to have made amongst their habitations. We have been informed that at Dunmurry very serious damage has been done to houses in the village, and also the extensive establishment of the Messrs. Hunter. In Car rickfergus, in addition to the usual routine of destruction, a large stack of chimneys fell upon the Court-house, immedi ately over the space appropriated to the Record Court, and carried with it the roof and side galleries into the very body of the house, thus leaving the interior completely open from above. At Comber,-the chimney of the distillery belonging to Messrs. Johnston and Miller was entirely thrown down, and various other damage done The other distillery has also been injured, and the chimney of Mr. Andrews' flour mill is levelled to the ground. In Hollywood the effects of the storm were quite as des tructive as in Belfast, numerous houses being totally unco vered, and the inhabitants compelled to seek for shelter else where. But the most melancholy occurrence is the death of two persons, a man and a boy, who were found dead, by the coast guards, in a boat which had been drifted ashore near Cultra. The boy was found reclining on the man's bosom, to which, it is supposed, the latter had drawn him, in the vain hope of sheltering him from the blast, and preserv ing his life ; but both unfortunately perished. We have not heard whether the bodies have been identified. In our list of casualties in Belfast we forgot to mention that about half past four o'clock yesterday morning a chimney in the rear of Mr. Robson's china warehouse, in High-street, fell in with a tremen•lous crash, carrying with it two rooms in. which were large quantities of.gilt and plain china, fine earthenware, &c., all of which were totally destroyed. No lives, however, were lost, but the damage is very considerable, amounting to about £2OO. FACTOKY CIIIMNEYS.—Some months ago, in recording the fall of a large chimney in Glasgow, which caused much damage to the surrounding buildings of the factory to which it was attached, we called the attention of the mill-owners of Belfast and its vicinity to the dangerous state of some of their chimneys, which, owing to the sinking of the foun dation, had declined considerably from the perpendicular, and were in danger of being overturned on the occurrence of a severe gale. Our fears have,• untortunately, been too soon realized; though, in the present instance, from the event happening during the night, when the works are un occupied, it has not been accompanied with the loss of life which otherwise would have been inevitable. We have little doubt that proper care will now be taken that these chimneys are rebuilt in a secure and substantial manner; and that a few score pounds extra will not be spared to secure the per manency of these strictures. This will be true economy ul timately, when the chances are considered, of the damage which must evidently accrue by their downfall, on the re currence of another gale of wind; independently of the loss of life, which may, also, in every probability, be occasioned. ( From the Newry Telegraph of Tuesday.) TERRIFIC STORM.—On Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, the wind, which had been previously blowing' hard from the N.E., rose suddenly to a pitch of - fury rarely paralleled in this atitude, and resembling the hurricane which so fre quently spreads desolation and ruin among the West India Islands. It continued increasing in violence during the whole night, but abated considerably yesterday morning. There is hardly a single house in town unstripped; and a number of cabins have been, we understand, completely wrecked. The streets, yesterday, were thickly strewed with slates, tiles, &c. In the country, and along shore, the ef f ects of the storm are still more disastrous. Several ships, it is said, have been driven on land, more or less damaged : reports add, that some dead bodies have floated in with the tide. Lofty and venerable trees, which for probably a century defied the storm, have been torn up by the roots: the grain, flax, and hay crops, stacked in haggards. have been overthrown and scattered • and the dwelling and office houses, particularly those with thatched roofs, have been, generally, much in jured. As one instance of the severity of the storm, it has been mentioned to us, that, in the parish of Donagbmore, an immense stack of turf was, in ar. instant, lifted up about a foot tiom the ground, and then dashed to pieces. - The loss will be seriously felt by the agricultural population. The high wind, which still continues, will render abortive any at tempt to secure the grain, &e. Since the above was written, we hear, with deep concern, that several lives have been lost in the immediate neigebour hood. one case a mother and her child were buried in the ruins of their little cabin : the latter was killed, but the other was rescued before life was altogether extinct, in the same district a hog was killed, and rumours abound with re spect to otherdeplorable casualties, We are informed that Dundalk has suffered very severely from the storm. The postmaster and his assistant were both so much injured by the fall of a stark of chiinneys as to be unable. to make up the mail-bags. Duou!acc r ; list 11911 Y "' SCOTLAND. ; qssrg vdi n(tr 01). oirt Ehe S'cottish Guardian, if Tuesday.) THE WEATHEIi.—We have again had abundance of all sorts Of weather ince our last—rain, hail, high winds, end'a snow-storm, which commenced on Friday afternoon, exceed ingly thick, but as the • ground was wet, it thawed as it alighted for some time. During the night, however, it must have been incessant, as the streets were covered to the depth of a foot on Saturday morning. With short intermissions the fall continued nearly all the day, and a hard frost hav ing set in at night, th e snow w as c h a nged into ice, masses of which lay on the pavements, and the walking along on Sab bath was of course exceedingly difficult, which difficulty was rendered dangerons in the evening, when the ice became as slippery as. possible with a torrent of rain which fell, and which likewise brought down the snow from the house-tops with a noise resembling distant thunder. The heavy rain, accompanied with a high wind, throughout the night, pro duced a rapid thaw, and yesterday morning the snow had almost entirely disappeared. The river was much swollen in consequence. The Liverpool Mail of Saturday afternoon was six hours after her usual time, and Sabbath's London Mail, which generally arrives at half-past three in the morn ing, was brought in a chaise and four at half-past ten—the mail-coach having stuck fast in the snow about twenty miles off. It was twelve on Sabbath night again ere the Liverpool Mail reached town ; and yesterday morning's London Mail did not arrive till about half-past ten. Andrews, in his Anecdotes, remarks sarcastically that free thinkers never wish to make converts of their wives and daughters. RECIPE FOR IntrosTuniz.—The Lord Mayor having a few days ago expressed it to be his intention to endeavour to clear the London streets of the professional mendicants who im pose upon the charitable by a parade of simulated wretched ness, the following ingenious plan, by which the same object was effected in the city of Cork, during the mayoralty of Mr James Malone, may furnish a useful hint on this subject. Allf the usual expedients to extirpate the brood having failed o_ success, Geoghegan the constable (and who was also a bar e ber), received instructions, instead of conveying them to th e justice-room to take them forthwith to his own shop, an thereby shaving, scrubbing, brushing, and scouring, to dives t them of the squalid and loathsome exterior on which all their hopes depended. Five or six of the sturdy rogues were ac" cordingly seized and so efFectually operated upon with scissors, brushes, razors, and we.sh-balls, that though they went in mendicants, macaronies they came out—objects calculated by t heir jaunty and debonair appearance to excite admiration, rat her than the coinmise ration they sought for. This laughable scheme was attended with such success that the whole tribe avoided the jurisdiction of the mayoralty as carefully as if it had been visited with a pestilence, In consequence of the non-arrival of our Stamps, we are under the necessity of printing - 701f our impres sion of this day on Blanks, which will be duly accounted for to the Stamp-office. In consequence of the late Post-dfice regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is• now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half-past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham; Manchester, 4-c. 7'his arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. Zbe kibtrpoot g"Ttantiarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 11, 1539. THE WEST INDIES.-By the Pandora packet we have received our usual files of Jamaica papers. The dates from Jamaica are to the 6th of December, from Demerara to the 30th, from Barbadoes to the 22nd, and from Trinidad to the 21st of November. The chief source of excitement in Jamaica was the election of members for the new House of Assembly. We regret that our limits will only permit us to insert the following extract : (From the Jamaica Despatch.) " From the numerous reports that have lately come to hand, we regret to announce that in several parts of tee island cultivation is at a stand. The cry of "No thing doing" is not confined to St. Andrew's, but ex tends to a greater or less degree all over the island. The numerous properties advertised for sale bear certainly a discouraging aspect as to the future pro spect of cultivation. It looks as if a panic had spread amongst the proprietors, and a desire to get rid of property they consider no longer profitable wai oblig ing them to abandon estates they would otherwise have improved with credit to themselves and athantsge to the country.. , " We hear of continual.alarms amongst the poorer classes of settlers and residents in the vicinity and out skirts of Kingston, of their being disturbed by large bands of negroes. marching into town every week in military array—sometimes with their heads bound- as when prepared for tight, (the negroes bind their -fore head with a handkerchief to avert blows when they engage in hostile conflicts,) and bearing torches,—on other occasions with wooden swords or clubs. Whe ther these demonstrations are meant as a defiance to foes, or merely as. exercises to prepare them for militia duty, we know not; but they are certainly calculated to alarm the timid, and, in case of any obstruction be ing offered to their martial sports, might lead to seri ous consequences. The outskirts of the town require a careful guard.. " Complaints continue to .pour upiln us of the pil fering which is now practised on many estates, and the necessity which •exists for strong laws to prevent the _ . further spread of the crime. A Gentleman assures us, that the quantity of stolen canes brought into town during the past week was. sufficient to make twenty hogsheads. "We understand a Privy Council assembled on Tuesday, the 13th of November, at the Queen's House, for the purpose of considering the conduct of Secretary Hill. A regular scene was enacted, and the governor, confronted by his-own servant or secretary, placed on the horns of a dilemma. " Mr. Hill was called upon to account for his unau thorized circular to the stipes, so seasonably exposed by Dr. Barnett. He asserted that it was written according to the instructions of his excellency the go vernor, whilst his excellency declared that he had no recollection of'ever hai7ing given the instructions! • "The, government mine has been exploded, and the enemies of Jamaica's peace sent flying in all direc tions. Mr. Stipe Daly announced at Half-way-Tree, on Thursday, that he would call on the governor to receive his commands respecting the labourers' obli gation to pay rent for their houses and grounds. His excellency stated th it proprietors were clearly entitled to their rent, and instructed Mr. Daly to recommend to the negroes to pay two days each week in labour for the occupation of their cottages and grounds. When this official representation was made to the se veral negroes present at the court house, they left perfectly satisfied, and have, we believe, shown a dis position to resume labour. " Had his excellency the governor issued a procla mation three months ago to this effect, everything would by this time have settled down in peace, happi ness, and industry, anti the sacrifice of large crops prevented. The fact of Sir Lionel Smith being obliged to issae the instruction at the eleventh hour, as clearly substantiates the correctness of .our views as it proves the mispolicy of Sir Lionel Smith's government." "The handsome address and piece of plate presented by the proprietors . of Westmoreland to Lieut. Thomas, special magistrate of that district, as a mark of . their approbation of - conduct in the perform ance of his magisterial duties, proves, indeed, at once the very generous liberality with which the people of this colony are ever prompt to encourage and reward the exertions of all public functionaries who are of any real service to the community. Although the majority of the stipendiary magistrates appointed to superintend the apprenticeship act were entire strangers to the people, yet, whenever they have conducted themselves with suavity and discretion, and with the candour and rectitude of honourable men, the proprietors have treated them with the utmost cout tesy and -kindness, and afforded them every facility to discharge their im portant duties with fair and unbiassed judgment. When they have discharged their task impartially, they have thanked and rewarded them, but where they have made their surveillance a scourge to the master, and a partial means of perverting the negro niind, they have very properly denounced their administration of the law as prejudiced and unjust, and calculated to level and destroy all the barriers of property, the distinction of rank, and the responsible actions and duties of civil society ; and, we may add, none but the frantic dema gogue, or sans culottes destructive, could be base enough to pull down every line of demarcation which separates virtue from vice, vulgarity from refinement, ignorance from education, or guards honour, inno cence, and purity from corruption and sin. " MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR NOV., .838.—The unfortunate proprietors in this parish are • . again doomed to lose a proportion of their present coffee crop. It is calculated that there will be a loss of from one to two thousand tierces. for want of pick ing. On most properties the negroes felt reluctant to pick it, until they could get their barrel each—for which they charged from 2s. Id. to 3s. OW A good deal of coffee has therefore fallen to the ground ; and as there are not above ten properties clean in the whole parish, very little will be found among the grass, which, in most places, is as high as the coffee trees. Many of tile people work one week, and squat down the next. If they keep on at this rate, culti vation will gradually disappear. We have heavy rains. Since rent for houses and gardens have been charged, many negroes are going to work, in order to pay the charge on some chancery properties. A great many are sitting down." . THE LATE HURRICANE.—In order to make room for the full details respecting the dreadful effects of the hurricane with which this town and other pacts of the British dominions have been visited on Monday last, we have omitted several articles of local interest, which will be inserted in our next. Ourcorrespondentstvill, we have,•no doubt, excuse the postponement of their ;: 131 PtrAYRKcii4 . 14E,.THE LOCKWOODS. 1.1 pi • 18 9"il8J, ' l9 M 4l ' TiiiilaitidiitiCOlindtfed With thisinelatebolevent Wave !en furnished' by the mate of the vessel, who arrived here _ . - on Wednesday afternoon, ! This ship :stilled on Sunday. afternoon, With' ak : Wesli• lid Orfratt ' iv 4 , n . T‘i . $ It/env ing the Ormshea„ p,win pu en ' 0444 19 afterwards to.the,N 4 W.,, at ofixicistlimelthettlurricautramaii E nenced. The sails had' bi6tiliitfArietnefOt o'ckCk 'tbe evening,' and afferwara thgs t Vißed"'at ten' O V c i r#44; when the hurricane struck. her. All the sails were -Wm *Av away by twelve o'clock, and she drifted to Black Comilts to the south east of Whitehaven. They afterwards wore 'sh iP) ' and borenp for Liverpool, and a second time made the Orms, head. Soon after they came within the limit of the light-sfiiP,' and were much surprised at not falling in with her. The vessel then shoaled fast, and the anchor was let ao to bring her up, but the cable parted immediately. The other anchor was then dropped, but before half the range of cable was out, the ship struck on the North Bank, close to the North east Buoy. The boats were instantly got out, and the pas sengers brought on deck. On consultation it was deemed advisable to stip the cable, and let the vessel drive. Soon afterwards the Steam Tug Company's boat Victoria (No. 1.) came to their assistance, and succeeded in rescuing twenty-two passengers front the wreck. There seems to be but one opinion as to the conduct of the crew of the Victoria, who shamefully abandoned the vessel, under a pretence of not having coal sufficient to carry her to Liver pool. We should not have thus publicly exposed their con duct had it not been that a threat of abandonment was held out, unless a sufficient remuneration was given, and some hard and unfeeling language was made use of to the crew and passen gers. The company will, we hope, make strict enquiry into the conduct of the the captain and crew of the Victoria ; nor will we prejudice the case by any remarks of ours, as the matter will be brought before the public. A testimony of approbation from the passengers is about to be presented to the captain and officers, for their efficiency and attention to all on board the ill-fated vessel. LECTURES ON ENGLISH VOCAL. HARMONY.—OR Wednes day evening, Edward Taylor, Esq., Gresham Professor of - Music, commenced a course of tour lectures upon this de lightful subject, at the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. Anticipating a crowded attendance, owing to the popularity of these lectures in every town where they have been deli vered, the directors confined the admission on this occasion to annual subscribers. It was well they did so, for previous to the appearance of Mr. Taylor the theatre was densely crowded in every part, and a little after the aisles, both in the gallery and body, were thronged with anxious spectators. Mr. Taylor was assisted in his illustrations by Misses Swain and May Swain, and Messrs. Stott, Balls, and Boothby; and certainly we were highly gratified with the manner in which the Misses Swain and Mr. Balls performed their parts. Mr. Stott seemed to be out of voice, but we hope he may recover before the next lecture to-morrow evening. Mr. Eyton conducted in his usual style. We shall give a full report of the lecture in our next. LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBgeRIrTION' CONCERT& The second of .this_seriets of concerts.toolbsplacetiondbasist *W day evening last, at the Amphitheatre, and was as succeasrals, as its most ardent supporters could Piave wished. Every part of the house was crowded, and with a most fashionable audience. Owing to the severe gale preventing the arrival of the "`. Dublin steam-packet on Monday, the audience was deprived of the musical treat which the talents of Madame Dulcken could afford, she being on board; and a notice to that effect was early distributed in the Amphitheatre, and expressive of the sorrow of the Secretary at this disappointment. The concert opened with a Grand. Symphony in C Minor, from Beethoyen, which, under the able leadership of Mr. Herrmann, was played with great precision and effect. The. next piece, a trie, from Mozart, "Soave sin troduced the three chief and only singers, Mr. Phillips, Mies Fanny Wyndham, and Miss Bruce. The piece itself is a . sweet melody and was delightfully sung. The character of Mr. Phillips' voice is well established and well known. H. possesses a most musical tenor voice; every note is inimical and full of rich tone; and he has in addition a most goad humoured and agreeable style of singing. Miss Fanny Wyndham, combined with the no trivial advantage of heist an exceedingly fine young woman, possesses a most superior voice, of great power, clearness, expression, execution, and • • capable of modulation to a tone " So soft, t here's nought 'twixt it and silence," and at the same time of bewitching sweetness. Mini Brace's voice is such an one as without competition and injurious • comparison would be termed an excellent voice. It has cos siderable compass, plenty of tone, is capable of much exams tion, but there is a harshness and shrillness about it, which • offends the ear attuned to a softer expression. Mra Phillips next sang a rather tedious recitative and air, which was fol lowed by a recitative and air from Mayerber, by Miss Brute, which reminds us of a negro's curly head—it was all turns and quavers. Nevertheless she sung it with considerable sweetness, but devoid of all simplicity.: Miss Fanny Wynd ham next appeared, and sang a recitative and air from Doni zetti, exceedingly sweetly, and with a volume of tone and clearness of enunciation which Was charming. Her eed humoured smile too won greatly on the audience. After another recitative, Miss Fanny Wt, ndbam again made' im+. - appearance, and sang the beautiful ballad of " John Ander son my Jo." The beautiful simplicity of style - in whieh she . song this, and the thrilling feeling and expression she threw into it, were. rewarded by a rapturous .entore. Withiat going through the detail of all the pieces, we may mentien• )9 , that the overture from Weber's "Oberon," - which opened, .1414 'the second part was played in such excellent•style aid with .",& such precision, as to draw down a hearty 'encore. Mr. Phillips sang a sweet pretty ballad.— " Go lovely Rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee,- H ow sweet and fair she seems to be." exquisitely. The plaintive simplicity of his style of singing it, with the rich mellow musical tone of every note, were delightful. This wee enthusiastically encored. A duet lie;''„ o . / tiveen Miss Fanny Wyndham and Mr: Phillips, at the con elusion of the performance, from the humorous and *lever ,„ style in which it was sung, was twice encored. In coeds sion we may add, that Miss Fanny Wyndham has establishes!. 'herself a favourite amongst us, and we hope soon to hear her again. The concert appeared to give great satisfartion, amd ," has fully answered every expectation. IsOin LIVERPOOL HUMANE SOCIETY. "f The committee of the Liverpool Humane Society matt ' ll to-day, and appointed Mr. Court, of the Underwritersi room, as secretary and treasurer. They also appointed tae gentlemen of the committee, to endeavour to discover ties residences of those persons saved from the wrecks , is order to supply them with immediate relief; and the following ie the result:— John Mahony, furnished with funds, to proceed-to Kerry, and C. Williams, ditto to Welshpool.—The abtive bold a respectable station in society, out lied lost all their property in the wreck. • • James Toinlinson, wife, and . four children, a joiner trade, lost his property but saved all his family,—weri ter--''lA Dished with clothes and funds for their temporary *ants. -I , l * Resided at Bristol, but remaii,s at Liverpool to endeavoar tis procure work. - • ;tc R. Bown, confectioner, from Warwick,, has lost wife one child. Was relieved with clothes and temporary ellei t z" Intends returning to 'Warwick. , In Northern liospital:: ' Margaret Umalvanney.—Husband resides is lost two children, and father, mother, and sister, and expecte to be confined about Match: At 'present in the NOttliern, : Hospital, being severely frost-bitten. • Wiliam Cohan, shoemaker, and wife.—N.Wisk to retina to Newtown, Queen's County. Lost all their clothes sad pi.. perty: Relieved : will be sent home when able to move. • Seta to the Poor-house. Wm. Moncrief, front Perthshire.—Lost all his property. Relieved, and wishes to be sent home. Charles . Smith, wood-turner, from Sheffield.—Lost his clothes and property. Has a wife in Sheffield, and will return when able. Sent to the Poor-house. William Vasey, and his two children, and one child of his brother's, from West BromwicH.—Lost his swife, brother, and brother's wife; one child of his brother-in-law's eared. • Lost all his property. Relieved, and will be sent - bowie. John Sayers, plasterer, from Leamington.—Lost his wife and two children, with all his property. Was relierad aid will be sent home. Sent to the Poor-house. Elias Martin, miller, from Tipperary.—Lost all his prey perty. Was relieved, and will be forwarded to Kingsten,. Canada, where he has friends. In the Poor-house. • - , Patrick .Maley, labourer, from Leitrim.--Lost hi. pre: perty. Has a brother in New York, and will be seat there. John Akitt, boiler-maker.--Lost his sister, and all hie property. Will be sent to West Bromwich. Sent to the Poor-house. Daniq Whalley, brickmaker, (brother-in-law to Williany Vasey,) and one child, from West Bromwich -Has lest wife and two children, father and mother, two brothers with their wives, and nine of their children, with all his property. Will be sent home. Has received clothes and teralierari"' !s " relief. Mary Rowme.—Had no friends on board. Wesides is toil' County Down. Much' bruised, and in the Infirmary'. WM; ' • • pit be sent home wh en sufficiently recovered. Locharran.—At present in the Northern Hospital.' Was recovering from some slight injuries, and had relief given. All the preceding are saved from the Lockwoods. Edwin Redman, seaman .on board the Brighton.—Freat- bitten and. injured. Friends-at Swansea, and will be seat home when fit to move. At present in the Northern Hos- . '; pital. Those persons in the Poor-house are comfortably. accoat. ,,, - : modated, having a room appropriated to themselves. they will remain, receiving the kind attentions,of tifeCgsiree2;; ; '' nor and his wife, until they are sufficiently recovtriclie'prst-oo,„. ceed to their respective destinations. The visitors - tissue to use their best endeavours to discover : the rentioAk!" is of the unfortunate sufferers. ass dtierc WM. , HUSON, JAQUES MYE4, 1 -S•riSM Liverpool, 10th January, 1839. LECTURES ON POPERY.—The seventh Nature oa the deer nines of the Church of Rome will be delivered by the Rev. D. James, of Kirkdale, this evening, in St. Michael's Church, Pitt-street. LECTURES ON THE P O ETRY O P THE HEUREWS.-14r. M. J. Raphall, of London, the editor of the Hebrew Reviser, and joint editor of the new translation of the Sacred Scrip tures, last evening commenced a course of f o u r l ec tu r es u a "The Poetry of the Hebrews, as contained in the Sacred . Scriptures," in the Medical-hall, Mount-ple asa nt. We ;re gret tbat the melancholy events of the early part of thewirek, • the details of which occupy so large a space of our present number, preclude us from noticing more fully th e °penis?: lecture of this talented gentleman, but we trust, next week Is be enabled to follow Mr. 11. through his sublime discourses. LIVERPOOL HUMANE SOCIETY.--At a public meeting of • the merchants, shipowners, and others ietereated in the' .1- commerce of this port, it was resolved to f o r s u a soc i e ty far rewarding the services of those brave men who have exerted -, themselves in rescuing their fellow-creatures from destrne..,*,, boo during the late hurricane, and to encourage and' reward ;.,. such enterprise in future. This society is to be called .. 4- -The Liverpool Humane Society." Such an institution ilearkervi : been wanted, and is at once an honour to the port, and Are... fleets the greatest credit on the promoters of so benevolakt rt , '% an undertaking. , :,:.• ei..i mj, We have not heard of the loss of any strainer on tlAtit4 . _ . .,pit during the late gale. H. M. Steamers, Mete or , Lient.,PflV % chard, Aron, Lieut. Townley, and Shearuat er , Mr. Siiithilt; 4 t com mander, were fortunately mos t o f them well to winivhirel when the gale came on. The Lucifer, Lieut. Tailor, 0415 411 ' not so fortunate, being close on the bank fro m I a.m. eatin morning of Monday, until. 2 a.m. o n T ues d a y, w h ee, laf breaking his scars, bulkhead, &c. he s u ccee d e d i n gam the river. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHUR C H, T OXTETiI rattx.— „ vv ade s z e, understand that the injury done t o thi s c h n epe r...- -, --- of a portion of the spire, during the lat e , i as was at, first stated. ,A considerable n' indeed made their way through the roof, of the pews in the gallery at the west er church: but, descending no lower, they remainder of the interior is quite uuinju to board riff the gallery alluded to until it sion being made below, for those who pith, in it. Aud the portion of the spire now pronounced by a person whose opinion an , relied on, to be firm and secure. VALUABLE TESTIMONIAL.--We have superb gold snuff-box, value 200 guineas, Mr.,Daniels, of Lord -street, and which is i seated with much ceremony to Charles 5,.. ..sq., Scarisbrick Hall. be his neighbours and tenants, as a teMi., ‘ monv of thcitapProbation of his spirited conduct, in resisting,'{ • the iitterii.PLOf the Liverpool and Leeds Caaal Compasy.ter:r - impose a tax on tillage conveyed to .the farmers- of Searle-n;' 1 bricle,,by:the canal,. they being specially exempt from tollisy 'S the iiiiii.l.om . c palsy's act. It is one of the most finely fiaislierliz' i pi t icl i s,9l workinanship of the kind we have seen, aid refleftpa. _ ex ilk : Au the makers. It will be exhibited fort IfOrt 4 1 -:tt to embody baon,dlyin s o p f e t c h t e le i n ns w e i r l i t p r t ei ca Pitir Ir : itst b . ., grateful leehafisal • . '• • t ri lat s r .a m ib t ,: o ri fry ° is P it i . n Tlie r following is a copy the numerous tenantry and neighbours of Charles Scarishrselt, • Esq., of Scarisbrick Hall, for his spirited and saccessfal k 7.T:i".::11e". rfect.atLte(m"pi rests : M*o ; i 04a onpressive exaction, sought to be issAPeN4 upod i k s *by t 4 Liverpool and Leeds Canal 'Company, is.. preseked !with a view that the remembrance of a great and lasting:Atenclit should outlive the memory of those apallir, whop' it was conferred. 1138." -i, :r. NORTH-WES T LIGHT Slam—Again, during tlissisnetri gale, when most needed, to guide vessels in dtstresic• 1111 M - : this vessel parted her moorings. It is scarcely two mutatkite since she parted her moorings before, in a gale, and istali*s , into port. To us this is very extraordinary and lorxplicithiCie . '['he Formby light-ship is exposed to heavier sales ami ill'e'' heavier swell, and vet never parts her moorings; threliklitri ship off Triskar never p ar t s h ers , an d s h e i s more eiposeso • than the north-w es t li g ht ship. There are three light shitta_ in the Downs, exposed to all the swell and the salts whitli sweep across the German ocean, and they newer 'part Alinti'z moorings; whilst scarcely a gale of any severity emirs; bet': into port comes the North-west light strip. Ilia. iireletiit" . strange. It sppears to us that there must be culpability some where : and in a ease of this kind where human Wooled pfas:.. perty to great amount are risked by the absence of the'light , ship from her station, the most strict iuvestigatioa aught I - : be instituted as to the cause of it. To say that the violin's- of the gale drove her from her moorings is absurd. We he:, , ,; here the light ship has cables strong enough to rifle a 74# whilst she is so built that she holds neither Whit - ROT NM, and with plenty of length of cable ought to ride es easy tit duck oil the water in the heaviest gale that ever -blew.. We ~ have heard it stated that the anchorage ground is stiels'ilvit it wears away the cable by friction, et the anchor. If that be so, why not have the cables examined every month, Or i every fortnight if needs be. Or, if the cables she has, be ear' sufficiently strong or numerous,- why not have them . swell =' ' stronger or inure numerous. She ought to be seeuristilisr". that her bows would tear out sooner than she would'lltgr• way. We have also heard surmised the possibility oleorredl6 l4 7 . ise prompting the nicki ng o f t h e ca bl e c h a i ns i n a geld; lialla( that that may be the se cre t of h er so f requent l y partinglier -_,- cable. We hope, how ever, t h at t h e str i ctes eenquiry yrill 4 W7 instituted. In one point we do not hesitate to say thatteyttem there appears to have been great negligence, when the ligliri ship did come into port, in not towing out, at almoirintrit risk, another vessel with sufficient moorings and liginig wogs take her place, till she could be replaced. What is Willi* of one•vessel and three or four lives, to be enmPared Ito tblrg• risk of perhaps half a score vessels and scores of lives, 1 want of the guide which the north-west tight-ship affords ? - '-",' !hurch by the fallint gale, is not so greet lumber of the steno and damaged many In extremity of tike, v rented there, 'The ' . led. It is itgended..! t be repaired, provi- , s.: , o r herto ocoipied,piie .v v standing . haws "pi nd judgiihtliiol , % „t Att , fil iD ..;!;;/ i :% 0414.0 K OPP.lit* ,ir t manufactotesi by intended, to be prip. Scarisbrick, Esq., of