The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-15 00:00:00

THE MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF THE LATE HURRICANE. WRECK OF THE PENNSYLVANIA. - - In theWbole list of casualties arising out of the hurricane, public sympathy has not been directed to anything more painfully or acutely than to the loss of the fine American packet-ship Pennsylvania. She was a remarkably powerful, well built vessel, and has been on the station about four years. Her commander, Captain Smith, who formerly belonged to the Napoleon, was a gentlemanly man, and deservedly po pular in the trade. Few persons in his profession have been more universally regretted. The Pennsylvania's day of sail ing was the 25th of December, when she left the dock, and proceeded to the mouth of the river, in order to take advan tage of the first favourable wind. Here she remained until the fatal morning of Sunday last, when sh.e put to sea about noon. After discharging her pilot, she made an extremely expeditious run down the Channel, and was off the Skerries about ten o'clock at night. At midnight the wind began to rise from S.S.E., and orders were given to take in the main topgallant sail. The wind continuing to increase in violence, they close reefed topsails, furled the fore and mainsail and jib, and in this state continued making considerable progress until four o'clock in the morning, when a perfect hurricane prevailed, the wind blowing S.W. During its continuance, the fore topsail ; as also the mizen topsail, gave way; and the foresail, mainsail, and jib were blown into ribbons. Soon after, the main topsail shared the same fate. The vessel was then at the mercy of the elements, the sea making tremen dous heavy breaks over her. When daylight appeared, on Monday morning, the fore staysail was bent. She was kept with her head to the south ward. In this state she lay to during the whole of the day and the greater part of the night. On the morning of Tues day she bent her foresail, and Captain Smith made the requi site preparations for putting back. She run before the wind in excellent style, until they made the Great Ormshead, when the Captain shaped his course for the liht ship, and not finding it, hove to. About ten o'clock, n anticipation of meeting with a pilot, he proceeded onward, when the St. An drew and the Lockwoods appeared in sight. At this time the lead was put in requisition, and finding plenty of water, she continued her course: About noon, they got into ten or twelve fathoms water. At half-past - one they made Hoylake, when the larboard anchor was thrown with a sixty fathom cable, and before the other anchor could be got over her bow, she swung with her head to the wind, and struck on Hoyle Bank. Strange to say, the Si; Andrew and the Lockwoods struck on the same' bank, not more than half a mile from each other, the Pennsylvania being in the centre. After striking, and owing to the violence of the gale, which brought her into collision with the bank, against which she struck with great force several times, she filled rapidly with water.- At this eventful crisis, she being then about three miles from the shore, a brief consultation was held with the passengers: the result was, that Captain Smith ordered the jolly boat to be launched, into which Mr. Parsons, of Manchester; Mr. Barrow, of New York; Mr. Douglas, of New York, and Mr. Suiter, of South America, and another gentleman, en- i tered, accompanied by the chief mate, Mr. Blightenburgh, and a young Scotchtnan, named Downey, together with five of the crew. Thea-fated boat did not long live in the tem pest. About midway between the vessel and the shore, she swamped, and all on board were thrown into the foaming element. Two of the passengers, Messrs. Thompson and Douglas, had taken the preceution to provide themselves with swimming belts : they sustained themselves; but the rest of the poor fellows, after struggling in vain for some time, sunk to rise no more. Mr: Thompson, finding it hopeless to con tend with the waves, threw himself on his back, and support. ed by his belt, trusted to the waves to carry him onward. As the tide was cowing in, he was propelled . with considerable speed, and eventually, much exhausted, reached the shore. His fellow-countryman, Mr. Douglas, was less fortunate. He early exhausted his strength in a useless conflict with the waves. He succeeded in reaching the shore, but so com pletely prostrated, that nature sunk under the trial. He was immediately conveyed to Leasowe Castle, where every atten tion was paid to him ; but he only survived his escape a short time. He was a native of Dunfermline, in Scotland, and was interred on Friday in Wallasey churchyard, together with Mr. Sniter, his unfortunate fellow passenger, whose body was cast ashore on the beach opposite Leasowe. The fune ral was attended by a number of the friends of the deceased from Liverpool. After despatching the jolly boat, Captain Smith ordered the long boat to be got ready, when, to their indescribable agony, they could not find the lines for lowering her into the sea. After some delay, however, she was got ready, pro vided with a rudder, oars, and other requisites; but in the act of lowering her, the ship heaved a dreadful sea, which stove in the boat, and thus cut off their only prospect of es cape. The same vibration of the vessel threw Capt. Smith with great force on deck; he lost his footing, but on regain ing it, another sea swept over the devoted ship, threw him with great violence between two water casks, which were on deck, and immediately after he was 'swept into the foam ing abyss beneath. The crew then got into the rigging about three o'clock in the afternoon, where they remained from that hour until the following morning about ten o'clock. ''heir sufferings during this period, without food or nourish ment of any kind, exposed to all the horrors of a night un exampled for severity, have hardly ever been surpassed Among those on the rigging during the night was the stew ardess, a native of Shropshire, who survived its severity. Three pour fellows, however—the second cook, John Lenya; the second steward, Dewit Reitner, and a seman, sunk under the accumulated suffering, produced by the storm, and in tense cold. They were literally starved to death of cold and hunger. On Wednesday morning, at seven o'clock, those on board the Victoria, and the William Huskisson, inward bound from Dublin, saw the Pennsylvania and the Lockwoods, but could not render the crew and passengers any assistance. The total number of persons on board the Pennsylvania was forty, fifteen of whom, as we have described, perished, and the merit of rescuing the remaining twenty•five belongs to the Victoria Tug boat. The wretches who infest this neighbourhood and the Che shire coast, better known by the cognomen of wreckers, were not long in rendering the catastrophe a source of emolument to themselves. The property of the passengers and crew was plundered by them to an alarming extent. The steward, who had in his trunk sixty watches and other articles of jew ellery, found on regaining the vessel that the whole had dis appeared—doubtless through the agency of the wretches aforesaid. We are glad.o hear that several fellows, charged with the inhuman crime of robbing strand-' essels during the late hurricane, are in custody. The . I dealt viltb, we hope, according to their deserts. Till: letter wig!, reeorpred from the Pe' ; 4 2 ,,. venia are nobs at the office of the consignees, Messrs. tides, Pickerseill and Co.; they are, as may be imagined, in woeful plight, saturated with water, and the superscription of many of the letters cannot be deciphered. Those which can be read, will he forwarded to their destination by the Hibernia for New York, which will sail, we understand, in place of the Penn sylvania. One of the bags, we hear, is missing. We subjoin the following highly interesting letter from the only surviving officer of the Pennsylvania : TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE Stir,—Owing to the many very conflicting statements which have been made, by different parties, relative to the lamented loss of the packet-ship Pennsylvania, I deem it MN duty, as the only surviving, officer of that ill-fated vessel, to give to the parties interested and the public generally, through the medium of your valuable journal, an impartial account of every circumstance relative to the sufferings and management of the ship, from the moment we set sail to the period when myself and the rest of tt.e survivors were taken from the wreck and brought to Liverpool by the - Victoria steamer. About half-past 10 a.m. on Sunday, Capt. Smith came on board in most excellent spirits and desired the ship to be got under weigh immediately, which being done, we had a fine run with a south wind as taras Point Lynas, which we reached by 9 P.M. when a dead calm came on for about ten minutes, at the expiration of which time it began to blow fresh from the south west. We then close reefed our topsails, furled the mainsail, and endeavoured to reef the foresail, but failing in the attempt were compelled to furl it. Things continued in this state till 2 A.M. on Monday, when the wind changed to the west and blew a perfect hurricane, carrying away our fore and mizen topsail yards taking the maintop sail clean out of the bolt rope and blowing the courses, though furled at the time, into the merest ribbons. At daylight we found also, that our foreyard was very badly sprung. During the whole of this day we were employed in clearing away the wreck and wearing ship every four hours. About 2 A.NI., on Tuesday we succeeded in bending a new foresail to run up with about daylight, and when daylight came we made every effort to regain the harbour, keeping au anxious look-out for the light ship, and following in the track of the Lock woods, which kept about half-a-mile a-head of us; but being perfectly bewildered by the aesence of the light ship, we dropped an anchor abreast of Hovlake beach, 2 or 3 miles from shore. When, however, we had got about 30 fathoms of cable out, the chain snapped, and the ship, after drifting for 2 minutes to leeward, struck very heavily on Hoylake Bank, and after thumping ei;:ht or nine times, filled. When she had thumped two or three times, the first and second mates, five of the crew, and the five passengers, went off in the jolly-boat. As soon as she filled we cleared away the long boat, but to our consternation we could not find lines to hoist her out with, and jest as we were straining every nerve to hoist her out by main force, the vessel shipped a heavy sea which stove the boat and bruised Captain Smith very much, on which he made an attempt to spring into the main rigging, but failing he fell down between two water casks, when she shipped another tremendous sea, and Captain Smith, ex claiming " Oh! my God," was washed overboard and never seen more. This was at 3 o'clock, P.M. Just before the last sea came, I ordered the men into the rigging to save them selves it possible, and I followed them myself, when we finally took to the main and mizen tops, and wrapp e d ourselves up in sails for preservation from the weather, and in this con dition we remained until half-past 10 A.M. on Wednesday, when we were rescued from our perilous situation, and put on board the Victoria steam-tug, which brought us all to Liverpool, except three of the crew, who were starved to death in the rigging during the night. I ought to observe that the Magazine life boat would not have attempted to render us the least service if they had not been shamed into doing so by a small green gig, which suc ceeded, after a desperate effort, in reaching us. There were 'lO souls on board, including five passengers— Twenty-one saved from the wreck, and nineteen drowned. Yours most respectfully, GEO. WASHINGTON RICHARDS, Friday, Jan. 11th, 1839. Third Officer. WRECK OF THE ST. ANDREW. Three of the New York Packets are totally wrecked—the Pennsylvania, St. Andrew, and Oxford. The Cambridge had a most providential escape. The St. Andrew sailed on Sunday afternoon, about two o'clock. At five a smart breeze sprung up ; at twelve a severe gale, which increased to a per. fect hurricane by two o'clock. At that time the sails were li terally torn into ribbons; these sails were quite new, and never before bent. One of the hands was dashed from the yard-arm on the deck; he was severely injured, but is still alive. At that moment Captain Thompson ordered the men aloft, but they, seeing death staring them in the face, refused. After the loss of her sails the ship became unmanageable, and in this condition she remained till the forenoon of Monday, when an attempt was made to relieve her by cutting away the upper parts of her masts. She was then rigged with a mizen 'sail and a foresail ; early on Tuesday morning, in this crippled state, she was steering for Liverpool. About half-past ten a.m., she struck on the Burbo Sands, with both anchors down, the sea beating heavily. The life-boats were sent off to extri cate the passengers. who were conveyed on board the steam vessel Victoria, and thus providentially saved. The steady and admirable conduct, and presence of mind of Captain Thompson, during the whole of this trying occasion, is beyond all praise. As soon as the ship had struck, almost the first thing he did was to stave in all the spirit casks; indeed, every bottle containing wine or spirits was emptied or destroyed, he being apprehensive of the consequences to the crew. WRECK OF THE LOCK\VOODS. The most appalling event connected with the calamitous visitation which we experienced at the beginning of the last week remains to be told—an event, compared with which the destruction of property, however extensive, or of indivi dual suffering, however acute, sinks into comparative insig nificance. The Lockwoods, although not a packet-ship, was known as a regular trader between this port and New York; she usually carried out a great number of emigrants,_who were seeking iu a forei gn c li me that independence and comfort which they found it impossible to secure at home. On her present voyage, the Lockwoods had not on board so many emigrants as she sometimes carried, but the number, never theless, was fearfully great considering the untimely end which has overtaken the greater part of them. The total number of sou l s o n board was one hundred and eights-, eighty-tour of w h om were passengers ; the crew amounted to twenty-four. Of the latter only one was drowned ; but we deeply regret to state that fifty-two emigrants have l os t th eir lives by this tra gical event. It is not difficult to imagine the affliction which this melancholy affair will carry to the feelings of the fathers, wives, and relatives of the unhappy vi c ti ms . The Lockwoods sailed on the afternoon of Sunday, and with the favourable breeze which prevailed for some hours, made considerable progress. Between eleven and twelve at night, she made the Great Ormshead, when a strong wind as sailed her; her . topsails were reefed in consequence. This 'was the precursor of the awful hurricane which followed, and during which the vessel behaved nobly. ' Early on the Tuesday morning she was found drifting northward, opposite the Lancaster coast, and two hours after :the captain discovered that he was opposite the Black Coombe, in Cumberland; he gave orders to hoist the fore-top staysail, 'and tacking, made the Great Ormshead at ten a.m. Having 'lost nearly the whole of his canvass during the storm, he 'deemed it prudent to make for Liverpool. He kept on his course, and soon fell in company with the St. Andrew and Pennsylvania, which sailed on the same day, and which were likewise making for port, the Lockwoods being a head of both. Owing to the unforttinate absence of the Floating 'Light—to which, indeed, may be traced the whole of the disasters and the frightful loss of life which have marked this 'melancholy occasion—the Lockwoods got aground about 'noon on Tuesday at Hoyle Bank, nearly opposite Leasowe Castle. When she struck the cries of the wives and children 'cif the emigrants were appalling; they appeared on deck in a frantic state, running about in wild despair, believing their fate to be inevitable. The crew, after some difficulty, got out two anchors. At this. moment a terrific sea swept over the devoted craft, and the poop of the cabin was instantly dashed to pieces. This, as may be supposed, did not allay the general consternation. To render her position still more desperate, one of her cables snapped about this time, and She was at the mercy of the raging storm. She began to fill 'rapidly, and the care of the affrighted emigrants was now devoted to rescuing their wives, children, and relatives from the impending ruin which stared them in the face. Great exertions were made by the captain and crew to get the pas sengers into the rigging, as the only place of safety and refuge. The steamer Victoria hove in sight to windward, together with a pilot-boat, about four o'clock on Tuesday af ternoon, which had the effect of imparting a ray of hope to their sinking spirits. Two hours elapsed before the steamer reached them. In the mean time the jolly-boat was launched, and the captain, steward, carpenter, and two other men got into it : they hailed the Victoria, into which they got, and then proceeded to the wreck. For the purpose of receiving the passengers, the stern of the steamer was placed to the stern of the Lockwoods, and such as had sufficient strength to jump from one to the other, saved themselves. Two of the most robust of the passengers undertook the task of getting the children away—one throwing them from the vessel, the other, on board the steamer, receiving them in his arms. Twenty-six of tip passengers were by this means taken from the .wreck: With these the Victoria proceeded to Liverpool, leaving the unhappy beings on board exposed in the rigging, ddribg the whole of the night, to a boisterous and Piercing wind, accompanied with a keen frost, and interspersed with snow, sleet, thunder, and lightning. Their sufferings pass description. The general impression is, that, hail the steamer immedi ately returned to the wreck, the lives of the greater portion of the poor creatures who perished during the night from cold and hunger, would have been spared. Shocking, however, to relate, no attempt was made to rescue them until the fol lowing morning, the work of death having in the meantime, as might have been expected, proceeded with awful rapidity. The Victoria returned to the fatal scene the following morn ing, when it was found—what every one of sane mind might have expected—that the bulk of the wretched beings had ceased to be troublesome—they slept in the embraces of death ; their wailings, anxieties and griefs were hushed for ever. In the absence of a perfect knowledge of the fact, we are unwilling to pronounce a harsh judgment, but we cannot avoid thinking that gross and criminal neglect attaches itself to some parties in the transaction. The tug-boat left the ves sel in the evening at six, and did not revisit her again for up wards of sixteen hours, although the spot is hardly two hours sail from the port. How is this? If the tug-boat undertook the task—a perilous one, we grant—of relieving the ship wrecked crew and passengers, why did she not do it promptly and energetically? Why allow hours, or even minutes, to elapse beyond what were absolutely necessary for providing her with fuel to effect the object of her god-like mission?— These are questions, we suspect, which will be inure readily asked than' answered. When the steamer returned to the Lockwoods, on Wed nesday morning, at eleven o'clock, the poor creatures who had survived the horrors of the night were weak and dying, every hour reducing their number. The conduct of the chief mate, Mr. Thomas Flake, is beyond all praise. He exerted himself in every possible way for the safety of those commit ted to his care; many of them were carried by his directions to the mizen-top, some he had conveyed into the cabin, and to all his attention was unbounded. He succeeded in getting to the stores, broke them open, and administered a little brandy to such as could partake of it. Had it not been for the noble conduct of Mr. Flake, who was the last person to qUit the ship, the mortality must have been even greater. Many of the sufferers who were washed away during the night, or who died from the extreme severity of the weather, experienced the kind attention of the mate.—One poor fellow lost his wife and four children. Amongst the persons brought from the wreck were two children whose mother had perished, the father being left on the wreck. One qf them was an infant only seven weeks old. They were taken to the British Queen, formerly the Car narvon Castle, New Quay, kept by Mrs. Sayers. The hospi table landlady had an infant of her own at the breast, but put it aside in order to succour and cherish the almost perish ing little stranger, on whom she bestowed the most maternal attention until the following afternoon, when it was restored to the father, who in the meantime had been brought from the wreck, with others of his fellow-sufferers. These traits of feeling are creditable to humanity, amid the mass of selfishness with which unfortunately they are associ ated. We have heard statements respecting the conduct of the life-boat at Hoylake, which, if true, demand investigation, and must receive it. THE CAMBRIDGE. The New York Packet Cambridge, which was to have sailed on Monday, drifted from her moorings in the river. She was perilously situated at the south end of the Prince's pier, with her stern near the shore. She had two anchors a head; but great fears were entertained that, being so near to the pier, (the ground near which is shallow and rocky,) she would ground abaft when the tide retired. This apprension, however, was happily not realized; and by dint of good sea manship in bracing up the yards in the teeth of the wind, and tightening her cables, she rode out the tide without damage. On the rise of the evening tide, her condition (from her prox imity to the quay) appeared to be yet more perilous; but she stood her ground to the great satisfaction of numerous spec tators. The captain, apprehansive that she would be aetiou,lv damaged, displayed a large board from the stern of the vessel, on which was written in chalk in large characters, that the sum of £lOOO would be given to any steam vessel that would tow her into the stream. It will not excite surprise that so great a sum should have been offered, when it is stated that the value of the cargo was upwards of £300,000, and the cost of the vessel herself not less than £15,000. The gale however was so strong, that none of the steam vessels accepted the offer. We lament to add, that, about half-past three in the afternoon, eight men, riggers, who put off in a boat to render their assistance, were capsized, and four of their number drowned close to the quay, in the view of numerous distressed spectators, who could afford them no assistance. The Cambridge sailed on Wednesday for New York. Captain Burslev, her commander, evinced great anxiety to convey to New . York the melancholy tidings of the loss of the other packets. We may here state a rumour which is current bearing upon the subject under notice. Some sur prise has been expressed that experienced nautical men like the commanders of the New York packets, should have at tempted to go to sea on Sunday, when the indication of the barometer and the general aspect of the weather were so dis couraging. The facts are stated to us as follow :—The cap tains of the St. Andrew and the Pennsylvania were nut de sirous of sailing on that day, although they had been wind bound, the latter from the 25th of December, the former from the Ist of January. But Captain Bursley, of the Cam bridge, whose day of sailing was Monday last, expressed, in a conversation with his brother captains, his determination of putting to sea on Monday, " no matter what weather pre vailed ;" and the others were apprehensive that he would put his threat into execution. This, it is said, is the cause of their going to sea on Sunday, contrary to their own judgment, fearing that in vessels so punctilious for keeping to their day of sailing, as the New York packets are known to be, they would lose caste by permitting a vessel, whose day of sailing was subsequent, to get away before them. We give this as it has reached us, without wishing to throw the slightest im putation on the commander of the Cambridge, who in the line of action he had chalked out for himself was, doubtless, actuated by the best feelings for the interest of his owners and his own reputation. We observe it stated in the morning papers of Thursday, that a policy of insurance was effected on the cargo of the Cambridge at Lloyds on Tuesday as high as thirty-five gui neas per cent. The order to insure at this enormous premi um must, of course, have been forwarded to the metropolis on the afternoon of Monday, when the vessel was in such jeopardy. It turns out to be a very profitable spec. for the London Underwriters. The offer, we presume, must have been made to the Liverpool Uuderwriters, and declined by them. VALUABLE SERVICES OF THE STEAM TUG COMPANY IN THE LATE STORM. At a meeting of the directors of the Steam Tug Company, held at their office, New Quay, on Tuesday morning, the Bth instant, to take into consideration the best means of affording prompt relief to the vessels outside the harbour— " Resolved, that the large boat, the Victoria, proceed im mediately to render every r ossible assistance in the saving of life and property, and that she call at the Magazines fur the life-boat to assist her.'' This resolution having been immediately acted upon, the following is the report of the toaster of the Victoria steam tug, who was deputed to execute the benevolent orders of the directors:— "Left the pier yesterday, the Bth instant, at half-past one, a.m., with sixteen pilots on board. At the Magazines took in tow the life-boat belonging to the Dock Trust, and pro ceeded through the Rock Channel, against a heavy head About half-past three got abreast the St. Andrew, New ork packet, then heating off the North Bank. Sent the life-boat and out own boat to that vessel, with two pilots who had volunteered to assist, which in two trips succeeded in bring ing off twenty-three of the crew. After which proceeded towards the crew of the Lockwood. At this time the hands of the life-boat refused to proceed any further, or even to allow the crew of the tug, or pilots, the use of the boat, but slipped the tow-rope and made for the Magazines. After wards picked up a pinnace from the Lockwood, nearly full of water, with seven persons therein, whom we rescued, and the pinnace immediately went down. On nearing the Lock woods, ran the tug under her poop, which was the only part visible above water, and on which were a great number of the passengers and crew. After many attempts, succeeded in saving twenty-six persons, making, with those from the pin nace, thirty-three. At this time the tide had so far receded as to render it datwerous in the highest degree to remain any longer near the Lockwood; and about six p.m. bore up for Liverpool, and landed the unfortunate individuals saved— fifty-six in number. "This morning, the 9th instant, after having taken in fresh hands, and twelve boatmen and two stout gigs, proceeded at four, a.m., round the Rock, to endeavour to rescue the re mainder of the persons on the wreck of the Lockwood, and to those on the Pennsylvania. At 7 a.m. got abreast of those vessels, the sea breaking over them furiously; found it impossible to send the gigs to them. At 8 a.m. observed a large fishing-boat coming from Hoylake. which came along side the tug, and we put into her two more oars, and took her into tow to place her in the best position for getting to the wreck of the Lockwoods, which she succeeded in reaching, and in two trips brought to the tug twenty-two persons. During this time, despatched one of the gigs to the Penn sylvania, which brought off a part of her crew to us; and the Magazine life-boat, which had come up, also made two trips, and brought from that vessel a number of others. At this period the life-boat from Hoylake came to us; desired them to go to the Lockwoods, to bring off a tnan and his wife, the woman being in a helpless state, her husband being unwilling to leave her, and unable to assist her into the fishing boat; after which proceeded to Liverpool with the persons saved— twenty-two from the Loekwoods, and twenty-six from the Pennsylvania, making a total, saved by the Victoria tug, of one hundred and four persons. " I sin of opinion that had the Magazine life-boat not left it on the Bth instant, that we should have succeeded in saving the remainder of the passengers and crew of the Lockwoods. "N.B.—The number supposed to be lost is stated to be from forty to fifty." PUBLIC MEETING AT THE UNDERWRITERS' ROOM. On Wednesday notices were posted up in the Exchange Newsroom and L nderwriters'-room, to the effect that a public meeting would be held in the latter place at three o'clock, for the purpose of considering of the hest plan to he pursued for rewarding the individuals who had exerted themselves to save the lives of many of the sufferers on board the vessels wrecked on the banks. In pursuance of this notice, a large body of the most influ- ential merchants of the town assembled at the Underwriters' room. Amongst those present we observed Messrs. C. Hors fall, T. B. Horsfall, C. Lawrence, Joseph B. Yates, John Cropper, jun. J. Hornbv, J. Myers, Shand, Neilson, Brockle bank, Leathorn, Eyre evans, Booth, Moon, Aikin, and Shiel. The MAyolt having been called to the chair, said that the objects of the meeting were to consider of the best means of rewarding the humane individuals who had exposed them selves in endeavouring to save the lives and property of their fellow-creatures. He had great pleasure in attending a meet ing with such objects. Their principal object, he thought, would be to take measures for forming some permanentmeans of rewarding and stimulating those who had displayed so laudable an anxiety. Mr. Aixix said that no arrangements had been made; but he would, with their permission, offer one or two suggestions. On several occasions they must have been compelled to no tice that there were no permanent bodies to whom applications could be made on occasions like the late deplorable disasters. Anything which was done on such occasions should be done with promptitude to be done with effect. Every day they had recently had people coming therefrom both sides of the water, saying that there were vessels on the banks. What answer was made under such circumstances ? If they went to the Dock Committee, the answer was " We have no power!" If they went to the steam-packet establishment, the answer made there was, " We have no power to act :" and whenever they came to the committee of that room a similar answer was returned—they too had no power. If such an establish had existed on the proceeding day, a great number of their fellow-creatures who had perished would have been at that moment alive. He hoped that an establishment would arise out of that meeting, which would be cabable of acting with promptitude and effect on such occasions. He was sure that by snaking an appeal through the county, and in the neigh bouring large towns, an ample fund might be realised. If only the sum of one guinea each were the subscription, they would soon have a fund of EMU or £4OOO per annum. He should therefore propose that a permanent committee be es tablished. He would also propose that the committee include permanently the Mayor of Liverpool for the time being, the chairman of that room, the chairman of the Dock Committee, the agent for the Postoffice steam-packets, and the harbour toaster, and to them might be added such individuals as the meeting throught proper to name. The persons whom he had named would, from the nature of their offices, always be here, and always be accessible. He therefore proposed that those gentlemen be a permanent committee. Mr:BooTu seconded the motion. He thought, however, it would be desirable to extend the objects of the resolution, so as to embody a provision that relief should be given to the persons saved. Several individuals had been brought up that (lay, who had lost in the wrecks all that they had in the world. Mr. AIKIN said, he thought it would be advisable to leave all matters of detail to the committee. The MAYOR suggested that the better plan would be, in the first instance, to pass a resolution i❑ accordance with the suggestion of Mr. Booth, acid afterwards to put Mr. Aikin's motion. Mr. CHAS. LAWRENCE said that if the committee were appointed, it would be important that they should not lose any time. Mr. T. B. HORSFALL would move that a subscription be immediately entered into for the purpose of raising funds to relieve the sufferers saved from the wreck, and of rewarding the persons who had exerted themselves to preserve them. Mr. CitoePliti said the first consideration should be to as sist the poor steerage passengers, who had lost all they pos sessed, and the next would be to reward those who had been instrumental in saving them. Those who took charge of the subscriptions could afterwards arrange further. Mr. CHARLES LA wRENch. moved a resolution for carrying out the intentions named in the two last speeches Mr. T. B. HORSFALL seconded the resolution. Mr. AIKIN said he did hope that no individual would leave the room without subscribing liberally for the object of the present proposition. This would be a nucleus to the pro position for a permanent committee, which would be their main object. Mr. STEir.soN said many persons had been saved who wanted relief. Their lives had been saved, but that would be useless unless they were furnished with the means of preser ving them. Mr. AtKi:sr hoped the present opportunity would not be suffered to pass by vithout permanent arrangements being effected with a view to some future calamities on our coasts, by the establishment of a body ready to act in case of emer gency—a body which ought long since to have existed. The whole be thought, might be met by opening subscription papers with two columns—one for subscriptions for tem porary relief, the other fur annual contributions. Mr. TURNER hoped they would also go to the extent of re warding those whose conduct on the land had been merito rious. There had been many policemen and others who had displayed great courage and intrepidity. The MAYOR thought this did not come within the scope of the present meeting. The motion of Mr. CHARLES LAWRENCE was put and car ried unanimously. . - Mr. AIKIN proposed that the Marine Surveyor and the Secretary of the Underwriters' Room should be added to the permanent committee named in his motion. Mr. GA lit proposed that the funds raised should be placed in the hands of the committee of that room. Seconded by Mr. JOSEPH BROOKS YATES. After some conversation, the resolution was passed, with power given to the committee to add to their numbers. There was also an understanding that the subscription paper was to be opened in two columns, and further, that any surplus that might remain from the temporary fund was to go to the per manent annual fund. Thanks were voted to the Mayor, and the subscription pa pers were opened. To the fund for present relief upwards of £l4OO were subscribed in a very short time, and in the an nual subscription list a very large sum was entered. The following letters will be perused with a feeling of ad miration at the munificence of Lord Francis Egerton Town-hall, Jan. 11, 1839. " Sir,—l have great pleasure in acquainting you that I have just received a letter from Lord Fraucis Egerton, de siring me to insert his name as a subscriber to the amount of five hundred pounds to the fund raised to reward the parties who so nobly distinguished themselves in affording assistance to vessels in the late gale, and for other similar purposes; and I have to request that you will communicate this munifi cent donation to the committee without loss of time.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, “ HUGH HORNBY, Mayor. "To the Chairman of the Committee of the Humane Society.” _ . "Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of this date, conveying the gratifying intelligence that you ure authorised by Lord Francis Egerton to insert his name as a subscriber to the fund now raising to reward parties instrumental in saving lives from shipwreck during the late gales, and for other similar purposes, for ,C 500; and I am desired by the committee to request you will be good enough to convey to his lordship their warmest thanks for his princely donation. I have the honour, &e., - " GEO. JoHNSTON, "Chairman of the Liverpool Humane Society. 'The Mayor." THE NIOUNTAINEER STEAMER. The following has been handed to us by Mr. T. M. I. Tilby, to whom it was given by Captain Edwards of the Mountaineer steamer, trading between Swansea and Liverpool, and is a narrative of what occurred during Captain Edwat ds's voyage to the latter place, he having fallen in with the unfortunate vessels, St. Andrew, Lockwoods, and Pennsylvania, about 11 o'clock a.m., on Tuesday, the Bth instant :— Liverpool, Just. 10, 1839. Mr. T. M. I. Tilby, Agent for the Mountaineer Steam-boat, Liverpool. Sir,—About eleven o'clock on Tuesday forenoon last, blow ing hard from about N.W., with a heavy sea running, whilst making for the Hock Channel, saw three vessels, apparently in great distress, to the westward of the North Spit; too of them were under sail, with their heads to the southward, the other at anchor about a mile to the westward of the bank. Made our way to the ship at anchor, which proved to be the St. Andrew. Could not approach near enough to hail her, owing to the heavy sea and wind. Stopped as near as we could by her, for aboutan hour and a quarter, when she drove o❑ the hank. Finding it impossible to render any assistance whilst she was in that situation, went offtoanotlier ship riding at anchor off the north east buoy, which proved to be the Ward, of St. John's N.B. Hailed her and found she re quired no assistance, further than to desire us as see under stood, to tell her consignees to send out an anchor and cable. Afterwards proceeded towards a sloop on shore, dry on the West Hoyle. Could see no one on board, and was unable to send a boat to her from the sea and wind. Then bore down to the leeward of the bank, to the two vessels before men tioned as under weigh, but which had since driven on the bank, with a view to render any assistance. They proved to be the Pennsylvania and Lockwoods. Kept ranging to and fro along the leeward side of the bank io hopes of rendering some assistance, expecting that their boats might have suc ceeded in getting over into deep water. At this time it was about 3 p. m., and the weather a little more moderate. About 3, 30 p.m., observed a steam-boat, with a life-boat in tow, which proved to be the Victoria tug-boat. On near ap proach we made signals by waving our hands, and afterwards by hailing them to go to the Lockwoods and Pennsylvania, the outer ships, which were then in great danger, the sea breaking heavily over them ; but still I think they might then have been approached by the life-boat. In the mean while the life-boat had taken out part of the crew of the St. Andrew, which had beat over the bank into deep water,and was drifting towards the main. Again ran up to the steam-boat, which was close to the St. Andrew, and asked them to go to the two outw•atd ships, telling them that I would under!ake to rescue the remainder of the crew and passengers of the St. Andrew. I received no very courteous reply. I then said if they would not go, we would, it' they would give us the life-boat; but I heard them make no answer to the offer. However, after about half an hour's delay, I was glad to see the steam-tug, and life-boat in tow, proceed towards the two outer ships, as it was then get ting dark, and their peril was imminent. It was now about -1 30 p.m. I got my boat out, and went alongside the St. Andrew, and took off the captain and fifteen or sixteen of the crew, which I was informed by the mate were all, excepting three hands who would not leave the ship. Whilst engaged in taking out the crew with our small boat, the life-boat passed inwards under sail; hailed her, and asked where she was going ; the reply was, that she could not tow astern the steam-tug. Hailed her again,—when they said they were going in for another steam-tug. She proceeded on without offering us any assistance in eetting off the crew. By this time it was about five o'clock. The St. Andrew had drifted on the main; and the Lockwoods and Pennsylvania were still on the bank, with the steam tug near them. Bore up, and made the best of my way to Liverpool, where we arrived about 7 30 p.m. 1 was fortunate enough to have the assistance of Captain Ross, late commander of the Star, and Captain Wade of the Ann, who wete passengers with me; and I beg to return them my sincere thanks for their unwearied exertions during all the trying circumstances of a most dangerous voyage. I remain, sir, your very obedient servant, J. EDWAIWS. We, the undersigned, having been passengers in the Mountaineer, during her last voyage, and being captains of merchant ships, do confirm the coriectuess of the foregoing statement; and beg to bear testimony of the able and sea manlike manner in which Captain Edwards managed his vessel under very trying circumstances, and to the humane anxiety manifested by him to rescue the crew and passen gers. JOHN WADE, schooner Ann. DAVID ROSS, late brig Star. Captain Thompson, of the St. Andrew, has, through the medium of our contemporaries of Saturday last, offered his testimony to the humane and earnest exertions of Captain Edwards, and to the ability which he dis played in the government of his vessel, in so difficult a situation. Captain Thompson considers the services of Captain Edwards to have been the more valuable, inas much as they were rendered voluntarily, and without ex pectation of reward. We are informed that this is not the first occasion in which Captain Edwards has deserved the applause of the community. DISASTERS ON THE COAST AND IN THE RIVER. The whole of the sand bankstQ the beach on the north end of the Wirral Peninsula, from the Rock Point to Hilhre Island, have, since Tuesday, presented a lamentable specta cle of the effects of the storm. On Thursday the five tine ships before noticed, the Brighton, Pennsylvania, Lock woods, St. Andrew, and Victoria, were seen aground in va rious positions, and exposed to the beating of breakers. The Victoria was stranded o❑ the main, a little below Mockbeg gar Lighthouse, and, should the weather remain moderate, she may possibly be got off after the cargo is discharged. The others will be, or are, total wrecks: touch of their car goes are already washed out, and, with fragments of other smaller vessels and portions of their contents, are strewed along the whole line of coast. In Hoylake several small craft are thrown up, and others wrecked, including amongst the latter a schooner and two flats, one of which is bottom up. The beach is full of wreck, and most of the small boats destroyed. The larboard side of the Brighton was beaten out, and portions of it driven on shore at Hoylake. Many of.the bales of cotton, with which she was laden, were washed out of her, and some of them were picked up on the shore, a small reward being offered for th e recovery of each pack age. The situation of this vessel (on the north-east of the North Bank) was such that it was difficult, and often im. possible, to epproach her, either by nteens of a row-boat or a steamer, while the wind remained high. The spot is not far from that on which is still visible a portion of the cranks, boilers, and other iron work of the Superb, steam vessel, wrecked there some years ago. A considerable por tion, however, of the cargo, tackle, &c., have since been got off, in, of course, a damaged state. From the other large vessels on the banks some of the cargo has been also saved, but in a similar condition. Steam-boats are employed for its conveyance, when they have water to reach the wrecks. Notwithstanding the dreadful visitation of the storm, and the appalling loss of life, some wretches have been found to have gone to the wrecks and carried offa considerable quan tity of property. Some of them have been taken betore the magistrates at Birkenhead, and others brought to Liverpool, and will be dealt with according to their deserts. AFFLICTING PARTICULARS OF THE WRECK OF THE PENNSYLVANIA, AND INQUEST ON THREE CABIN PASSENGERS AND THE CHIEF MATE, WHO WERE LOST. - The fine hotel, known as , Leasowe Castle (on the sea shore between Wallasey village and Hoylake), has, since the hur ricane, been the scene of ereat and melancholy interest. The situation of the hotel, imined'ately to the south of the fatal banks by which the entrance to our harbour is perplexed and endangered, has low , rendered it a pl ace o f re fu ge t o th e survivors from shipwrecks, " and of anxious and fearful resort for those apprehensive of finding, amongst bodies washed up or brought on shore, the pallid remains of some valued friend or affectionate relative. On no former occasion were these painful feelings more strongly excited, or amidst a greater number of visitors, at the Castle, than on the present: From Tuesday—when it became known that the fate of hundreds of men, women, and children, in the strandel vessels, was pending by a fearfully slender tenure —up to Friday, an un usual number of persons in vehicles, on horseback, and on foot, continued to pass front the several ferries on the Mer sey, to the Castle,, many actuated by curiosity, and several (relatives of parties in the wrecked vessels) to learn the worst, and, if needful, to do the last offices of humanity to their departed friends. The Liverpool police were early on the alert, not only on the Lancashire shore, adjacent to the town, but on the Che shire coast. No fewer than thirty constables were stationed along the Leasowe shore, for the rescue or preservation of life and property, besides twelve, who were placed, as soon as possible, on board of the stranded ships. The exertions of Mr. Whitty, Mr. Dowling, and, indeed, of all connected with the, police establishment, have been most arduous, praiseworthy, and highly efficient. On Thur;day, it being kuown that an inquisition would be held at the Castle, on the bodies picked up on the immediate shore, the visitors were numerous from the neighbouring country, as well as from Liverpool, Manchester, and other places; and amongst the vehicles from Woodside, appeared a hearse, for Awe believe) the conveyance to Manchester of the body of a gentleman who was there well known. The coffin soon afterwards followed, in a cart, from Wallasey, attended by the maker and the clerk of, the church of that village. :The interior of the Castle was crowded in almost every apartment, and many visitors sauntered about in the pleasure grounds, or strolled on the shore below, viewing the scene of devastation which there presented itself. In one of the outbuildings (a stable) lay the bodies of three of the sufferers out of theship Penns%lvania, and in an apart ment in the house lay the body of another. Those in the stable were in the wet clothing in which they bad been picked up. One was the body of Mr. Edward Lamb ['arsons, a merchant of New York, of tall, slender make, fashionably dressed. On his person lay a small Indian rubber or Mack intosh life-preserver, found in his breast, the cloth sewed in tubes, but.apparently not inflated, and too small to be effici ent had it been so. On this gentleman was found consider able property. Another body was that of. Mr. Suitor, (also a cabin passenger,) a fine-looking young man of dark com plexion, wfth whiskers. The other was the body of the mate, Mr. Blydenburgh, a stout - man, in seafaring garb, and boots. All of them had evidently availed themselves of their warm est clothing, as a protection from the cold. • . The body in the house, that of Mr. Douglas, (also a cabin passenger,) was stripped, butcovered with a blanket, attempts having been made to restore animation. Amongst those present at the inquest, was a tall, good looking young gentleman, named Thompson, the only survi vor out of the boat in which those named, and about (as is supposed) eight others perished. The following evidence, taken on the inquisition, not only details the accident by which the parties named lost their lives so late as Tuesday afternoon, but furnishes, in the evi dence of Mr. Thompson, the sole survivor from the boat, some painful particulars of the wreck of the vessel Mr. John Connor, merchant of Manchester, identified the body of Mr, ,Parsons, who, he believed, was about thirty-two years of age. He al so knew Mr. Douglas, whose body was lying in the Castle, and who was, lie believed, about thirty five years of age, and a partner in the house of Thompson and Co., of New York. "This witness, who, with another gentleman from Man chester, had been deputed by the relatives of Mr. Parsons to look after his remains, were here permitted by the coroner to take the necessary steps foi their removal.] Thomas Upton, a labourer of Wallasey, said that on Tues duy afternoon last, about three o'clock, ha was going along the shore near the Castle, when he saw the corpse of one of the sufferers some six or seven yards from the edge of the water. He went iu till up to his middle, and brought the body out. The body was carried to Leasowe Castle the same day, and placed in the stable. (This, it afterwards appeared, was the body, of Mr. Suitor.) The witness was present when the pockets of deceased were searched. He had on him a gold watch, gold guard chain, and watch key ; also eight sovereigns, and a half in gold, and three shillings in silver; a gold seal, wrapped in paper; a pencil case, a gold breast pin and a penknife. The parties who knew the deceased, on being questioned by the coroner, here expres-Jed their perfect satisfaction with the account given by the witness of the property, from the knowledge. of the money, &c., he had with him on embark jug. To a question by the foreman of the jury, witness said the deceased, showed no signs pf life on .being pieked up, and that therefore all attempts to restate him would have been ineffectual. Mr. Henry Graham Thompson, of New York, (the young gentleman before alluded to, was then called, and as his tes timony, though not that of a seaman, explains the dreadful situation, of the Pennsylvania during the gale, and before she struck the bank, we shall give it in nearly his own words, the whole of which were not, we believe, noted by the co►o, Der, some portions not bearing immediately on the pending enquiry., Mr. Thompson said—l was a cabin passenger in the Penn sylvania, which was a first-class American packet ship, We sailed from Liverpool on Sunday, the 6th instant. Mr. Wil liam Douglas, who was lying dead in the house; Mr. Suitor, (a Scotch gentleman, who resided chiefly in South America) and Mr. Blydenburgh, the first mate—both lying dead. in the stable—were on board the vessel. The ship sailed down the channel till she was off Point Lynas, when the gale came suddenly on at about eleven or twelve o'clock at night. It blew a complete hurricane, and soon carried away our sails, and many of our spars. I was sea sick, and being below part of the night did not see all that. occurred. The storm continued throughout Monday, and we did not know where we were, the spray was so thick. We were, in fact, drift ing at the mercy of the wind and waves, and it was im possible. then to set any other sails, .as no man could stand on the decks. We passed another night (Monday) o❑ board, in the same dangerous state, and expected to go to pieces before morning. On Tuesday morning, we found our selves (as I heard) off the Orwsheads, and towards afternoon got some sail set, and ran before the wind.—[The witness must here bernistaken, as a lee shore was not far distant. The probability, indeed, the almost certainty is, that the ship was laid to, as close to the wind as possible, but that she was drifted to the eastward.]—We at length, (he continued) got ashore. The tight Ship was not previously to be seen. Our ship struck where. she now lies opposite the township of Wallasey. She thumped so hard that the mate said be feared she would go to pieces. Her timbers soon after gave way, Some of us in the afternoon took to the boat that hung over the stein. I think there were ten or twelve, in the boat. The Captain, J. Y. Smith, told us to take the boat,, and take out such passengers as we could. The deceased Mr Parsons, and Mr. W. Douglas, a Mr. Barrow, (not found,) myself, and about seven others were in the boat. It was about three in the af ternoon. The captain remained on board, as did most of the crew. We made for the land, distant about three miles, and when we had got within about a mile of it, the boat was swain ped. The waves rolled so high that one of them took the boat by the stern, and lifted her so high as to push her bow under water. We did not attempt to pull her with the oars, but only to keep her in the direction in which the waves run, as she would have instantly upset had a wave struck her on the side. She filled with water, and I being in the bow, was thrown by the shock into the sea. When 1 recovered a little, and found myself above the wave that had filled us, I was some yards astern of the boat, in which I saw the remainder of the men. A wave broke over me, and when I looked again, I saw the boat upset, and three or four of those who had been in her holding on by t>er keel. I saw Mr. Parsons and Mr. Suitor in the water. They both afterwards had hold of me. Mr. Suitor (as we understood the witness) held me some time; but I dove (-lived) under water, to make him let go, and he quitted his hold. I saw that be was perfectly sensible at the time, and.l pulled him under water to get clear of him. I saw nothing more of them until I saw their bodies. 1 had possession of my reason all the time; and did not swallow any salt water, I consider myself a good swimmer. John Armitage, a labourer ; saw the boat coming on shore full of men, and saw it afterwards upset, about sixty roods from the shore. It was about three in the afternoon. He followed it as it drifted, expecting to pick some of the men up if they Caine near the shore. There was another man with him. He saw two of the men from, the boat swim to wards the shore, and gain a bank ,near it; and he and his companion stood by to receive them, up to their middles in the tide-way. There was a gutter (formed by the tide) be tween witness and the men. They fought over the bank into the gutter, which was very deep, and (probably being ex hausted and benumbed) they went down, but came up again, and struggled with their arms—attempting to swim. He and his companion went further into the water, and tried to get them out, but could not, and they disappeared. Witness and his companion (a youth) walked about to see if the waves would tiring them ashore, and soon afterwards saw one of the corpse's, twenty or thirty yards from the side; went after it, anu, with the assistance of the boy, (Wm. Dodd,) drew it out. They found no signs of life, and carried the body to Leasowe Castle. It was put into the stable. (This was the body of Mr. Parsons.) The property found upon it afterwards, in presence of the witness, was £lOB. 10s. in gold, in one purse, and two half sovereigns and 18s in silver in another; also a penknife, a pencil, gloves, handkerchjef,,&c, The properly was delivered to Mr. Louis Buzard, the landlord of the castle. Samuel Armitage said, he.wentdown to the shore to assist, along with the last witness, and they had just gotMr.Thomp son (the only survivor) on shore, when they saw three men on the boat's keel. They were washed off, and two of them were alive, and stood on the bank till . they came to the gutter, where they were drowned. The deceased (Mr. Parsons) sunk out of sight several times before he altogether disap peared, and witness followed him. They tried hard to save him, by taking hold of each others hands, but could not. Witness at length saw one of them appear close to where the boat had drifted, and assisted his companion, by locking hands, to get him out. He was quite dead. He had on a jacket, two red flannel shirts, blue trowsers, and boots. They took the body to the Castle. (This was Mr. Blydenburgh.) Mr. Jones, keeper of the Leasowe Lighthouse, gave evi dence to the effect that he picked up Mr. Douglas fleeting on the shore, and finding some slight indications of remaining vitality, with assistance, carried him, with all promptitude, to the castle. He was the first picked up after Mr. Thompson gained the shore, and was quite insensible. At the inn every possible exertion was made to restore animation, by stripping him, placing him before a large fire in a blanket, and rubbing hint with hot salt in flannel ; but without any appearance of returning vitality. He was alive, as the witness believed, until they bad nearly reached the dastle. Mr. Lythgoe, a sur geon or Wallasey, afterwards arrived, and made some subse quent endeavours to restore him, but all too late. This being the whole of the evidence which it was thought necessary to adduce, the Coroner summed up in a brief and able manner, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly— to the effect that all th e deCeased had been "accidentally drowned." Mr. Thompson, the survivor from the boat, left instructions at the inn for the respectable burial of the remains of Mr. Douglas and Mr. Suitor;• and an order was, we learned, re ceived from Liverpool,for the interment of the body of Mr. BiYdenbrirgh. - The body'Of Mr. Par - sons was conveyed from the castli-in: the beanie' td ,, Seaccialtte, :_imritediately after the inquest, and !Ina s to. Liverpool. The fate of the other passengers and crew of the Pennsyl vania is stated above in detail. Fourteen, including the cap tain, and the first and second mates, were drowned; and twenty-six were saved. A considerable quantity of the cargo, &c., was on Friday brought on shore ; but all in a much da maged condition, WRECK OF THE LOCKWOODS INQUEST ON TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE PERSONS DROWNED. On Friday an inquest was held, before P. P. Curry, Esq., coroner, touching the several and respective deaths of John Cairns, Samson Worsley, of five men unknown, nine women unknown ; five boys unknoWn, and five girls unknown, all now lying dead in Liverpool. Edmund Tomkins, a mariner, was the first witness exa mined. He said, on Sunday last, about one o'clock, I sailed from Liverpool, on board the Lockwoods, bound for New York, with emigrants. The crew, including the captain and officers, consisted of twenty-five persons: I believe there were eighty or eighty-five passenger& on board: When we sailed the wind was about S.S:E., blowing moderate. To wards nightfall, as there was every appearaiice of the wind increasing, the captain ordered the topsails to be double reefed. About ten or eleven the same night, it came on and blew a gale of Wind. The fore and main topsail was blown out of the bolt ropes. About two hours after this:, the wind chopped round from the W.S:W. to and continued to increase in violence until it blew a perfect hurriCane: There were no lights to be seen, and I, cannot tell exactly where we were; but we were lying to. At day-light our foresail was blown out of the bolt ropes. The second mate got disabled on Sunday night by an accident, and I commenced doing duty myself. Sometime after our foresail was blown away, we wore ship, and set the Mainsail. During Monday, I can not say where we were; but on Monday night we were, 1 think, off Blackcombe. On Tueiday morning we bore up for ,Liverpool, and at that time, I believe, both passengers and crew were safe: We ;got up as far as a buoy called the Spencer Gut Buoy, and Cad the floating:light buoy been at her moorings, I have no doubt all would have been safe. The mate was forward, and I was on the quarter-deck with the captain, all looking out for the lightship: About mid day on Tuesday we let go our starboard anchoi; but the cable broke. We then let go our larboard anchor: that we also lost. Soon after losing our first anchor; the ship struck upon a bank the false keel of the ship came up immediately af terwards. Several seas caine on board of us, and soon after wards - it Made a complete breach over us, and the vessel filled. There was the pilot boat No. 5 beating about, to render us what assistance she could. The captain, carpenter, steward, a cabin passenger, one seaman, and I, went on board the, pilot boat in the pilot's gig, and we were taken from the pilot boat, in their boat, to the steam tug Victoria, which was lying to, also, for the purpose of rendering as sistance. The steam tug had a life boat at her stern, tied by a rope ; but before we got on board the steam tug, the life-boat left the tug altogether. The second mate and some of the seaman of the Lockwoods came on board the steam boat in the pinnace. The pinnace was in danger of being lost, and the steam-tug picked the men up, and the moment that was done the pinnace smamped. The steam tug then went to the Lockwoods, close under her starboard quarter, and struck against her several times. Several of the persons then jumped on board the steam-tue.. There was a small line thrown from the steam-tug to the Lockwoods, and a hawser was then made fast and hauled on board the tug. Soon after it was made fast it broke. There were three or four hawsers made fast in a similar way, but they all broke. The steam.tue• remained there as long as it could render any assistance ; and finding it impossible to save any more ; then left her and returned to Liverpool, with about 30 or 35 of the people from the Lock woods on board. It was dark when the steam-tug left. The steam.:tug went' under the starboard quarter of the Lock woods several times, rendering all the assistance they could render; they put their own boat into jeopardy, and their lives also, as they were in danger of having the tug knocked to pieces. The captain and officers of the Lockwoods did every thing they colcd do to save the vessel up to the time of striking. When she struck there were three fathoms of water, for I hove the ;earl myself. The chief mate remained on board to the last. I s tyr a steam-boat about us before we struck, and I think she might have rendered us as much as• sistance as the Victoria. She did not do so, but went away. Ido not know her name. Neither the captain .nor any of the men, to my knowledge, asked for any fee or reward for taking us on board the steam-tug, either before we were taken on board or afterwards. Thomas Fleck said—l was first mate on board the Lcck woods, the burthen of which was 872 tons; there was a crew of 25. We sailed on Sunday, between one and two o'clock, the wind being moderate from S:S;E: We went down the new deep. About dark there was every' appearance of a storm approaching, and we then commenced reefing our sails. About midnight it blew a hurricane. The last land we saw was between Point Lynas and the Great Ormshead. The next morning we could not tell exactly where we were, as we had been drifting down the Lancaster coast, and about three in the afternoon, we found ourselves off BlaCkcombe. We then wore the ship round, and made for Liverpool. After leaving Blackcombe, the next land we made was about the Ormshead, the gale still blowing. It was then about ten o'clock on Tuesday morning. As we had no canvass to take the ship out, we bore towards Liverpool. We kept the lead constantly going ; and by means of that, and the run we had made, we expected to have seen the floating light about 12 o'clock, or else a pilot-boat. About one oclock we struck on a bank, which I think is called the North Bank. Not seeing the lightship to guide us, we were all abroad in our calculations About half an hour before we struck, I saw a steam-boat plying about to windward, knit I do not knaw her name. After we had struck on the bank, I saw a pilot-boat and a steam-boat, the latter of which proved to be the Victoria. I went forward to get the pinnace ready, the captain being then aft on the poop. The pinnace was lying bottom upwards, on the top of the longboat, and we had this canted ready for use. After some time I returned aft, and I then found that the captain and some men had left the ship in the captain's gig. After the captain had gone, I waited to see if the steam-tug or pilot boat would render us any assistance before I launched the pinnace. The crew got very uneasy, and the seas began to wash right over the ship. I saw the crew were determined to launch the pinnace, and I said they might do so if they would take some of the people with them. The second mate and some of the crew left in the pinnace, together with some of the passengers, and were taken up by the steam-tug. As soon as it was practicable, the steam-tug ran under our star board quarter, and many people on board the Lock woods jumped on board the tug. They remained with us untill about seven o'clock, and then left us. There were as many got on board up to her leaving us as could ; but had she re mained longer, more might he saved. If tho steam-tug had remained iu the channel until low water, the sea would then have been calmer. The steam-tug, however, could not have come alongside of us as before, but a small boat could have plied betwixt us. Had the life-boat remained with the steam tug, 1 think all hauds might have been saved. At daylight the next morning I saw the steam-tug, and about eight o'clock she came nearer to us in the channel, and the Hoylake boat was coining off from the main. To the best of my knowlege it was about three o'clock on the morning of Wednesday that the ship began to break up, and several passengers on board were washed away. Before the ship began to break up, part of the passengers were on the wizen rigging, and part in , the• wizen-top; but, fearing the masts would fall, we all came down again. to the poop. The sea was at this time washing right over us, and there was only two of the crew 'hesides'myself left "on board, all the rest, excepting one who" was drowned during the night, having been taken away by the Victeria. From the time the steam•tug left us on 'rues 4ay night, till the following morning, a great number of the missengers perished. I counted about thirty dead on the poop in the morning. all of whom, I think, died from the cold and from the sea washing over them. The Hoylake boat, on Wednesday morning, took the remainder of the survivors from the wreck. There was one of the passengers who would not leave the wreck, as his wife was then nearly dead. I did all I could to persuade him. I even got a rope tied round him and got him to the side, but after all he would not leave. Excepting him, I was the last man to leave, and before doing so I overhauled every part of the wreck, to ascertain if there was any one else alive on board; and I would not even then have left without the woman, but the boatmen said that they would not have any half-dead people on board, and that if 1 did not come they would leave me too. I was then taken on board the steam-tug, and I iinmediately informed them of the two I had left on board. They then towed up the life boat abreast of the. wreck, and the man and woman were ta ken away by the life-boat. I believe there were between 80 and 90 passengers. During the uight of 'Tuesday I went down in the cabin, and found some ale, porter, and spirits, which I distributed among the survivals. Cross-examined by Mr. Wright, who is employed on be half of the Steam Tug Company. The steamer that I saw plying to the windward, after we struck, was not the same as afterwards rendered us the assistance. When the Victoria left us, there was about twelve or fourteen feet water, and a heavy sea running. There would be from six to eight feet about the wreck at low water. 1 cannot say whether the tug could have come again under our quarter with safety. I know that if she had damaged or iost. one of her paddles, she would have been useless. They treated us with great kind ness on board the tug; there were provisions on board. If any man has stated that I told him that either the master or crew threatened to abandon the wreck, unless a sufficient remuneration was given, or that they used hard and unfeel ing language to the crew and passengers (of the Lockwoods,) it is false. Cross-examined by Douglas Fraser, who was one of the passengers on board the Lockwoods.—There was a strong smell down below on Monday afternoon. The cook told me he could not go down for coals, the smell was so great. I cannot tell whether it was smoke or steam coming from the after hatch. There was an alarm got up that the ship was on fire; but there was nothing in it. This was about ten minutes before we struck. There was nothing of a combus tible nature in the cargo that I know of. Peter Roberts, an Irishman belonging to lloylake, de posed that on Thursday morning he and Others went in a boat to the wreck of the Lockwoods. On the top of the poop they found twenty-one dead bodies; men, women, and children. The bodies were in all pos►tions, some lying and some sifting up. Two other bodies were found on the main deck. They brought all the bodies, twenty-three in number. to Liverpool. They were taken to the Workhouse. When they left the wreck there were two or three more bodies in the vessel, but so jammed in the rigging that they could not remove them. Joshua Howell, clerk to the commissioner of police, stated that in consequence of orders from the police commissioner, be went on Thursday to the wreck of the Lockwoods, and found there two dead bodies, those of a woman and a boy, in the starboard mizen rigging. Owing to the tide being nearly at its height, they could not discover any more bodies. He brought the two which he found to Liverpool. They were taken to the workhouse. James Dowdall, Governor of the workhouse, deposed that on Thursday the bodies of ten males, the apparent ages of whom were as follows: —Two, from 60 to 70 years of age; one, 50 to 55; two, 20 to 25; two, 15 to 17; one, 12 or 14; and two, 6 or 8; also the bodies of fifteen males, two of whom appeared to be between 60 and 70; seven between 25 and 35; one, 14 or 16; one, 12 or 14; and four apparently be tween the ages of three and eight months—in all, twenty-five bodies were brought to the workhouse. William Hughes deposed that he was master of No. 1 pilot boat. On Tuesday he went to the Steam Tug Office to apply for a steam-boat to take the pilots round the Rock. £2O, and then £3O. were offered, but no agreement was thin made. The Victoria steamer, however, was afterwards obtained, and witness, with the master pivot of No. 4 and 13 branch-pilots, proceeded in her to the Magazines, and took the life-boat in tow. That was about one o'clock. They then went outside the Rock, and proceeded first to the packet-ship St. Andrew, from which they took twenty-six persons. Having done this, they were proceeding to the Lockwoods, with the life-boat in tow, when the men in it complained that the steamer would tow them under. The engineer was ordered to slacken speed; but the same complaint was still made by the man in com mand of the life-boat. Several of the branch-pilots, on hear ing this, volunteered to man the boat. He accordingly asked the crew of the life-boat to come out and and go on board the. tug; but the man in charge of the boat replied that he would not go out of her untit he got to the Magazines. Ile immediately afterwards let do the rope, set his sail, and steered for Liverpool. Captain Eccles then steered the Victoria direct for the Lockwoods. As they were proceeding towards her, they picked up four or five persons in the boat of pilot boat No. 5, and shortly afterwards about the same number from the pinnace of the Lockwoods. The witness then de scribed the persevering and gallant manner in which the captain of the steam-tug contrived repeatedly, after the b.:eaking of the haw sets, to get under the starboard quar ter of the Lockwoods, every time he managed to do so, saving a number of their lives, until at last the danger, both to the steamer and the persons on board became so great, that witness, with nearly all on board, begged of Captain Eccles not to maki another attempt. It was then dark; the waterwas getting very low; and they were on board the tug fifty-six persons that had been saved, besides fifteen pilots and the steamer's crew. The Pennsylvania was ashore about two hundred yards from the Lockwoods. They could not then have got near her, as they had no boat lit to approach her. • ..There was on. board one srnall.,itoat, but it was unfit for the purpoie. If they [lad had the life-boat, they could have saved many more both from the Lockwoods and Penn sylvania. They then came to Liverpool, and landed the per sons saved. The weather was so thick and boisterous that they could not again put to sea until half-past five on Wed nesday morning: Captain Eccles was anxious to have cone much earlier. When they got round the Rock, Captain' Eccles steered direct for both Wrecks; and remained waiting for daylight. They heard the people shouting from both ves sels, but could render no assistance, it was blowing sostormy, with a heavy sea. With the assistance of the Hoylake boat and the two gigs which the Victoria had taken out with her, a number of persons were rescued from both vessels. The Magazine life-boat afterwards came up, proceeded with one of the gigs to the Pennsylvania, and returned with the re mainder of her crew, in all twenty-six persons. From the Lockwoods, twenty:two persons were brought that morning. They then returned to Liverpool. Witness Of opinion that Captain EcCles acted at a prudent and humane man, on the night of Tuesday, by coming to Liverpool and landingthe persons then saved; and that Captain Eccles and his crew, together with the branch pilots: did all that men could do to save the people from the Lockwoods. ° You may go Liver pool through," said the witness, "and I do notthink you will find Captain Eccles's equal for perseverance, when the lives of individuals are at stake:" Cross-examined by Mr: Lockwood:—He knew the captain of the Lockwoods, Who was brought on board the steam-tug by a small boat belongiirg, to pilot-boat, No. 5. There were four or five other men with him. The moment he came on board he entreated them to do all they could to save the lives of the people on board the Lockwoods. He assisted in every possible way, and never left the deck. Witness considered that the captain ran a greater risk of losing his life by coming in a small boat in the way he did, than he would have done by remaining on board the Lockwoods: He went with them in the steam-tug to Liverpool; and returned With them a se cond time to render all the assigtanhe he could: Thomas Harrison, master of iiilot-boat No; 4, corroborated .he evidence of the last witness. Edward Pellow Arthur, manager of the Liverpool Steam Tug Company, deposed, that the Vicitoria, which was their best boat, was ordered by the directors to be manned and sent out without remuneration. The directors ordered him to send out the Hero, with the Victoria, but she could not go, having carried away her starboard cross head on Tuesday morning, and every exertion was made to get another with out effect. The men of the foundry were working all night for the purpose. Elias Martin, a miller, was one of the passengers on board the Lockwoods. One of the passengers, named Cearns, had with him his wife, two daughters, and two grandchildren. Witness had seen the bodies, and recognised those of Cearns, his wife, and one daughter. John Sayer, a plasterer, was a passenger on board the Lockwoods. His wife and two daughters died before he left the vessel. His two daughters died on the night of the Bth instant, and his wife about an hour before he left, on the 9th instant. Robert Brown, a confectioner, had a wife and son on board. They both (lied early on the morning of Wednesday, the oth instant. He attributed their surviving so long to the kind ness of the mate, who gave them some strong spirit, Charles Thomas Smith, a wood -turner, also a passenger on board the Lockwoods, deposed that he was on the starboard side of the vessel when the captain's gig was lowered. Heard him order the carpenter and a seaman to go into the boat. Just-after they had got in, a wave capsiZed it. The carpen ter, by great exertion ) got hold of the boat and got ih again, and the seaman was got oh boat'd the Lockwoods by a rope. Two other seamen then Went in the boat, together with two passengers; The captain followed, and witness heard him say, " I'll have a steamer alongside of you in 30 minutes." Many of the passengers thought that the boat would be lost, from the roughness of the sea; hut in about an hour and a half the captain came alongside the ship in a steam-boat. Another witness, named Francis Benjamin Hogg, also proved that the leaving of the vessel by the captain, instead of being done merely to consult his own safety, was a judici ous though bold act for the purpose of obtaining assistance. The witness spoke highly of the whole conduct of the captain. The jury then brought in a verdict of Accidental death. They passed an encomium upon the conduct of the Victoria, its captain, the crew, and pilots, and disapproved of the con duct of the Magazine life-boat. 'The inquest did not terminate until nearly ten o'clock, On Thursday, an inquest was held on the body of a man named Thomas Easthatn, Which was found on a bank oppo site to a gut called the Chester Hole. The deceased was one of the crew of the sloop George, and along With others was in the vessel, which was mowed near to George's Dock, during the storm. About five o'clock on Monday morning the sloop dragged her anchors, and ran against the quay, and the deceased, in endeavouring to land, tell from the boom, and was drowned. THE LATE AWFUL HURRICANE. (Front the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday.) FURTHER PARTICULARS. MELANCHOLY Loss OF LIFE.—One of the most lament able occurrences of the night was the falling in of the chimney of Mr. Collins's house, in Sydney-avenue, near the railroad, causing the immediate death of two of Mr. Col lins's servants, one a female domestic, and the other a young man of the most sober and industrious habits, and the most excellent general character. So dreadful a calamity has produced the greatest affliction in the family, but we have not heard that any other person in the house was hurt. Mr. Bennett's house, in Sackville-street, was unroofed. Mr. Williams, of Helles-street, had the front wall of the attic story blown into the street. A policeman of the D Division had his arm and thigh broken, being blown down with violence. Several others were injured at the fire in Dorset-street. Sir Arthur Clarke bad his chimneys blown down, and his family had to remain on the stairs all night. A gentleman in Sackville-street was blown violently against a lamp-post, and had his leg fractured. . The house of a publican in Bow-lane was blown down, without any of the inmates being injured. The Waterloo Tavern, Pembroke-quay, was unroofed. Mr. Pint had a rick of hay nearly blown away, at his re sidence, Usher's island. Mr. Ex-sheriff 'White, in Camden-street, had his house greatly injured. The roof of .the Morning Register office was blown off, and a consequent delay took place in the publication of that paper. Abbott's Sackville Hotel, Prince's-street, received some datimyc to the back staircase; no personal injury, tier auv considerable loss. The Board of National Education had a large quantity of the lead torn from the roof, and a tree blown down. A woman and child were killed in New-row, on the Poddle, by the falling of chimneys. The splendidavenue of elms in the Phoenix Park are nearly all levelled to the ground, together with a quantity of the ornamental timber and evergreens of the Viceregal, Chief and Under Secretary's Lodges. Upwards of one hundred men were employed cross-cutting the fallen timber, to make the road passable. Woodlands, the seat of Colonel White, has had much of its fine timber blown down, as also Dro wellstown, the seat of C. 0. Keefe, Esq. Rathgar Avenue was impassable from fallen trees. The ornamental demesnes of Monkstow Castle and Newton Park were much injured from the quantity of timber blown down. The cottages on the sea side of Malahide were rendered uninhabitable by the rise of the tide. Messrs. Jameson had their malt-kiln seriously injured, so as to prevent its working. Mr. Haigh, of Ardee-street. had one of their chimneys blown down; it fell through the roof of one of the work men's houses, but fortunately no person was injured. ' A large chimney belonging to Messrs. Purser and Biggs, was much injured. THE CASTLE.—Several of the windows were broken in the Castle; but the substantial old stonework withstood the storm, and no considerable damage has taken place. MADAME STEPHENS'S HOSPITAL —The roof of one angle of Stephens's Hospital was dashed in by the falling of the stack of chimneys. The mass of materials fortunately fell over the large staircase near the church, and no personal in jury was experienced. Indeed the portion of the hospital which was damaged has not been much occupied for some time. JONES'S VITRIOL WORKS.—The vitriol works belonging; to Mr. Jones, on the Military-road , w e r e dama ge d, it is said, to the extent of £2OOO, the leaden chambers having been carried away and the liquor spilt. This accident occurred early on the morning of Monday. The houses 167 and 168 Thomas-street have been entirely gutted, and nothing left standing but the gables and wall in the rear, with the exception of part of the lower stories, in which, though they were bent out in a manner that threat ened an immediate fall, the people seemed to be still living. CARMELITE CHURCH.—The large cross, afleast seven feet high, and of immense weight, which surmounted the Car melite church in Whitefriar street, was blown down, and fell on the roof of the vestry, which it forced in. The clerk of the church, who was at the time in an apartment of the vestry, fortunately escaped unhurt. At Williamstown avenue two women were killed by the falling of a chimney; and we believe that much damage has been done in that quarter. At Marino, the seat of the Earl of Charlemont, great num bers of the ornamental trees were blown down; amongst them a noble evergreen oak ; and the neighbourhood gene rally suffered severely. The celebrated immense elm, Drumcondra Road, well known by the appellation of "the big tree," withstood the gale. At the turnpike gate, South Circular Road, near Grim wood's nursery, the fine Canada poplar, nearly three in dia meter, was torn down, the rent extending six feet diagonally across its trunk; and several of the fine old trees have been blown down across the road. The front of the Manor Court House of St. Sepulchre, is njured •' and a chimney of the Incorporated Society's School, Kevin-street, fell upon the roof, fortunately without doing more injury. In Sandymount and that neighbourhood considerable da mage was done—a hundred pounds being the estimated loss sustained by the premises of one gentleman. On the demesne of Scripplestown, the seat of William Rathbone, Esq., sixty-eight trees were uprooted—the greater part were elms of one hundred years growth. The avenue was entirely destroyed. The top of a large rick of hay was completely carried off. THE FIRE AT THE BETHESDA.—Many and various are the rumours circulated through the city as to the cause which led to the burning of this house of worship. Certain it is that, were it not for the awful and ever-to-be-remembered hurri cane, the fire would very soon have been extinguished, or, at all events, very little of the serious consequences, which every one must deplore, would have occurred. On Saturday evening, about half-past ten o'clock, a fire was discovered in the building, but was apparently very soon got under, and everything remained in comparative security,—indeed, so much so, that the congregation assembled on Sunday even ing, as usual, to assist at the religious ceremonies usually performed. About half-past eight, or a little before nine o'clock, sparks were seen coming out of the building, and the the storn4was so terrific at the time that what would only be, on another occasion, deemed trivial, soon spread into a most awful conflagration. Nothing could exceed the awful, the horrible sublimity of the scene. In a few moments the surrounding neighbourhood seemed in one vivid blaze of light, and, coupling with this the howling of the tempest, the continued whirlpool of slates and broken glass, which were burled through the air like so much sand—the cries of those who were obliged to abandon their dwellings, and seek refuge even in the storm—the ringing of bells, and the rattling of creeks—all seemed to denote. a city in a state of siege, the inhabitants of which hail given themselves up to the most wretched despair. About half-past ten o'clock the Lord Mayor and the High Sheriffs arrived on the spot, when an order was an instantly despatched to Island-bridge Barracks for a company of artillery, with directions that they should bring with them a few pieces of ordnance, to use them if it should be deemed necessary. These gallant fellows scon arrived, and commenced operationS to prevent the fire com municating with other buildings, (for that on lire was evi dently doomed to destruction,) but in vain. The engines, and the firemen front the different insurance companies made their appearance, but all their efforts proved useless, for in directing the tubes in order to extinguish the flames,such was the height to which the hurricane had arisen, that the water was driven and scattered in the air, mixing in the torrents of rain which then poured down with unceasing violence. It was then suggested that, in order to ensure the safety of the dwelling-house attached to the church, as well as the other houses in the street, the pieces of ordnance might. be directed against the smoking ruins; but, as we understood, the officer commanding the party felt unwilling to incur so heavy a responsibility without an order from Town Major White, or from some person connected with the govern ment; and despatches were accordingly sent to the Royal Barracks, and Dublin Castle, for that purpose. Subsequent events, however, proved that such a proceeding ' even if adopt e d, world be totally useless, for the house had already caught the flames, and was shortly after enveloped in a cloud of lire Never was such a scone witnessed as at this moment. Every attempt was made to preserve the furniture from the destruction which threatened it, and for this purpose a number of persons were employed to bring..it out of the house; but such was the fury of the tempest, that chairs, tables, looking-glasses, everything, together with those who conveyed them, were driven along like so much chaff—so awful, so sittiernatbral; in fact, waS the strength bt the boisterous element. Again, in the tipper parts of the house, which was composed chiefly of bed-rooms, it *as found necessary, in consequence of the spread of the fires, to fling the beds, palliasses, pillow-cases, and other bed-room articles, out of the windows into the street ; but t.o sooner was it done than they were carried on high, and whirled about, in the storm like so many feathers, and many carried off, none knew whither. About one o'clock a house, nearly fac ing the Bethesda, came down with a horrible crash, filling the air with broken planks, bricks, and dust of every descrip tion ; and, when to this is added the livid flame ascending on high, the crackling of glass ; the rbstling of slates, the cries of the spectators, the reader Will adinit it was a scene tb.die easily conceived than described: Owing to the continued exertions, in spite of every difficulty, of the engines and the artillery, the fire towards the morning was considerably got under; but not without leaving the church and .the dwelling-house of the Rev: Mr. Gregg a complete thin; -=- The neighbourhood of Rialand-square appears tb bare suf; fered a greater proportion of damage than alinoit othet in the city. The circumstance of the devastating fire, whii•li destroyed the Bethesda and the school:house attached to, it, the House of Refuge for reclaiming females, and the five adjoining houses—all this naturally attracted troWds of per sons to the melancholy scene during the day. On entering Rutland-square, the street in front was strewed with broken glass, slates and bricks, part of the railings broken down by the uprooted trees falling from the Rotunda Gardens. Bu r t the most striking scene of injury wee that part adjacent to Lord Charlemofit's house: The Chiinneys of Lord Mount: joy's house were blown down, and carried away a great pot.; tion of that fine mansion. Report states that the rubbish actually passed through the apartment in which some female domestics were sleeping, without doing them any bodily in jury. Some of the bricks fell upon th house of the late la mented Lord Norbury, but it did not appear to have suffered much damage. Up to two o'clock on Monday the engines continued to be worked with great efficiency on the Bethesda, &c., by fatigue parties of the 42d Highlanders, and by the Artillery corps. In fact nothing could be better than the admirable arrangements of the officers under whose orders the military acted. Various little facts of interest 'could be gleaned by conversing with the people who Witnessed Ole commencement of the conflagration. It appears that wheh the fire had gained possession of the Rev. Mr. Gregg's house, situate at the corner of Granby-row, the people engaged in saving the furniture made several -ineffectual attempts to carry out a picture rated at a high value. The frame was too large, whereupon a gentleman stepped forward and at once cut it with a penknife out of the frame. There was no such thing as approaching the burning mass from the lee side; large flakes of burning matter being every moment carried down the street, and, from the unsteady point of the wind, it was absolutely dangerous to approach from any point. Under these trying circumstances, it was considered almost miraculous that so much property should have been saved from the general wreck. Would we could even stop here in our detail of the many awful calamities with which our fellow-cititens have been visited. Scarcely a house in the city that has not been in= jured, nor Will the terror which was created in the Minds of all be soon forgotten. Windows have been burst in; and whole parts of houses are left without a pane of glass. Sack ville.street presents to the YieW of the beholder one totititinell succession of houses, without a single slate on the roof bt the greater part of them. In Rutland-square various trees in the Gardens have been blown down, and, what is still more remarkable, the old trees in Portland-place, on the Royal Canal, have nit only shared the same fate, but have actually been as it were dug out of the roots, and thrown to the opposite side of the canal. It would be almost needless for us to recount the different streets where the storm has done its worst. Not one house has escaped uninjured, and although the storm has in many instances only stripped the roofs, yet others have not been so fortunate. The suburbs in like manner present one scene of devastation. In Fin glass the trees have been blown across the road. In Phibs borough every house is almost a total wreck, and at Glasne vin a portion of the wall at the Botanic Gardens is forced out, and crushed to death a politeman, Who is supposed td have sought shelter tinder it: A great quantity of timber was also blown down on Lord Charleinont's demesne: (From the Correspondents of the Evening Aftith) EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED NAVAN, MONDAY. "This neighbourhood has suffered severely from the effects of the hurricane last night. I know not how better to de scribe the sad results than by saying in one btief sentence — that the aspect of the whole face of the country is entirely changed. Scarcely a tree remains—and is will take a cen tury before the damage done in a single night can be repaired. Arch Hall, the seat of John P. Garnett, Esq., has suffered much. At Mountainstuwn, the seat of Arthur Pollock, Esq., not a large tree remains standing. The splendid plantations at Gibb's Town have been completely swept away." EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED PORTADOWN, MONDAY. " We have to thank Gud for outliving the horrors of last night. The gale began about seven o'clock, and continued to increase in fury until after twelve, from which time it blew, for about three hours, such a tornado, as the oldest man in the country never heard equalled. The houses groaned like a vessel at sea, and the beds and other furniture were visibly agitated. The roar of the wind was like an uninterrupted cannonade, and every person in this neighbourhood thought that this terrible night would have been their last. At length the morning dawned on a scene of devastation unparalleled in the annals of this part of the country. Carrick, the seat of Colonel Blacker, has suffered severely. The demesne could boast on Sunday morning of some of the finest timber in this district, but, alas! they are all prostrate. Terrible havoc has, in truth, been made all round the neighbourhood ; and, I fear the worst is not yet even over, as it continues blowing a heavy gale still, though a zephyr compared with the night's hurricane. Mr. Hicklaud's place has also suffered much; and all the fine elms which beautified his demesne have been blown down. In fact, the losses which have been sustained in this neighbourhood, no money can repair, and will take two generations to make good. The scene, alto gether, is a heart-breaking one; but we ought to be thankful to Providence for the preservation of our lives." FROM A CORRESPONDENT, DATED AIULLINGAR, JAN. 7. "It is a painful task for me to have to announce that this town suffered severely by the hurrican es of last night and this morning, toaheutter ruin of many of the inh.raitants• I have just returned from Clanhugh, where the woods and plantations are completely destroyed, with the exception of a few trees standing here and there. 'l'o give an idea of the destruction done, would be to suppose the woods and planta tions a corn field laid after a storm and rain exhibiting here and there a few stalks standing Trees of fifty and sixty Y ears old were snapp e d i n pieces like glass, and others blown - down. Many of the houses of the inhabitants, both in the town and neighbourhood, have been levelled to the ground. some burned, and scarcely any escaped damage. Hay and oats lie scattered about in all directions, and, in fact, s uch a scene of devastation and misery was never seen in this part of the country as now presents itself to the view. The woods and plantations at Castle Forbes are nearly destroyed. The injury done to the Granard estates is enormous; but it is au injury so general in its nature that all have alike been suf ferers." , EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED SLANE, JANUARY 7. I find it impossible to describe to you the effects of the hur ricane in this quarter. •The Marquis Conynghant's demesne has suffered much; but Beau Park, the once charming de" mesne of Mr. Lambert, has fared still worse. The question is not now which tree is now blown down, but which is left whole and standing. The entire bank of trees on the north west of the house has been swept clean away, and those o n the . opposit e s id e h ave t h e i r t ops shaved off about thirty feet from the ground. Every avenue and walk is stopped, and all the plantations are impassable from the number of trees that have been blown down. As to the amount of damage done, it is impossible to form an estimate. I should not have written to you on this subject, perhaps, but fur a very curious fact that I have discovered from a twig having accidental!): gotten into my mouth, which, to my great surprise, I found strongly impregnated with salt. This turned out to be gene', rally the case throughout the place: the spray, therefore, °' the Atlantic must have crossed the island. I think it well tO make known this circumstance, as it may have escaped the observation of others ; and, to say the least of it, it is curious' FROM LOUGHREA, JANUARY 8. There was awful destruction from fire and storm in this town on Sunday night: upwards of 50 houses burned and blown down; and on the Abbey Walk, so well known, "" trees were blown down. It was also most destructive at Dalystown and Marble Hill, and Dunsandle also suffer ed much. The trees are all across the road. At Mr. Smith''" Oakwood, near Shinrone, the property of that•gentlema n, the people are cutting his oak and deal in defiance of the law, anti we are afraid to interfere with them. 'There is mor e than £2OO worth carried away, and sold openly in Rost-red; Nenagh, and Templemore It shocks any man in a civilized country to see such conduct. . . FROM COAST GUARD, GALWAY. • - a Sir,—l be g l eave t o acqua int you that this town was visited last night b y a severe ga l e f ro m the westward, al mos t artioun‘ ing to a hurricane, which has done considerable damage! the town and s hipping. Several lives have beon lost in th e _ town, in consequence of the roofs and chimneys having Wirt' in from the vi o lence or the wind, and I fear much damag e has been done in the neighbourhood. I am happy to say that the Dolphin, R. C., a..lllllChor rn h er the roads, rode out the gale, although she parted one of a chain cables, and narrowly escaped being in contact wi th ,. bria• that was drifting, and, as it was, carried away her c a ' head. '['he following are the casualties among the shinpinq • The St. Patrick , barque, with a valuable cargo, was dri ve r, f r om the docks, and now lies on shore, with all her ma sts gone; the Glenora and Lively, brigs, were also driven fr""; the cloaks, and lie high and dry inside the St. Patrick ; t h e L e il a , with timber, is high an d d ry to t h e eastwar d of t e town • the Courier and Albion, b r i gs. lying in the roads , we re both driven, the former on sh or e up M urr a,gli Bay, with br; g loss of her mainmast, and the l a tt er c l ose t o th e rocks ",„ Hare Island, where she fortunately b roug ht u p, apparen t . :( ‘ without damage. Several fi s hi ng b oa t s h ave a l so b e en sa" in the harbour, but 1 do not h ear o f an y li ve s having be en lost among the shipping. FOM ATHLONE. al The storm of Sunday night last, which hal been so geal r e . throughout the country, laas perhaps, in no other part of !pd land been more sever e ly f e lt , or more d es t ruc ti ve to life a", property than in this neighbourhood. It commenced alre":1, instantaneously about eleven o'clock, and continued 1. 11 ,, unabated fury until half-past three in the morning.. , t he town bears a m os t s i ngu l ar appearance, vast num b er! or , o f houses having be e n t o t a ll y unroo f e d , or a l mos t s t r ipped slates and windows. The artillery barracks and the la r .t, storehouses ar e great l y d amage d , t h e l arge ton s l a t e s hav l ;, been torn off, a n d h ar dl y a pane o f g l ass remains. Thed t red distilleries suffer e d severely, to the extent of many hut , r s pounds; that of M r . R o bi nson h av i ng a l ong range of ca°` o d blown away, and ot h erw i se sa dl y di smant l e d . Th e canal t., Shannob have large masses of hay and corn floating ab"., u ips the haggards of th e un f ortuna t e poor, a l ong t h e i r b an ks, ha" been entirely swept away. 0 15 The gable-end of a house at Esker, near this town, ise , blown down, killi n g a mother and three children. The h" t d r*. shortly after, c a u g ht fire, and consumed the unfortunat e :io, ferers ; the fath er , an aged man, and his only surviving c . 4 1 were dug out of th e ru i ns , d rea df u lly mang l e d a nd burnt,la are not expected to live. A poor man in the suburbs, ha v oo e saved all the me m b ers o f hi s f am ily, save o n e , a fter his h o t, had fallen in, was re t rea ti ng w i t h a y oung c hild in his a A when he was blown into a bog drain, and both perishcd•sol wake was being held at a Mr. Gaynor's, when the hous e ,, be' offices caught fire, a n d p ar t o f th e corpse was consume",_ o te fore it could be drag ge d o ut. V a st quantities of trees. u n . , been torn up, bl oc ki ng u p th e roa d s i n e very direct { the cross mails havin g t o be f o rwarded by horde; not a i . j aed stack is to be seen, and a number of cattle haVe been , ` ha d by the falling in of their sheds. Lord Castleunaine, wh o o .o' latterly been in de:irate health, attempted to fasten the hilt dow of his apartment which had been blown in, and " doing so, a strong gust of wind drove him backward —h e and instantly expired. The demesne of the Earl of Charleville, near suffered inure, perhaps, than any other place in Irelat" t h of is calculated that upwards of ten thousand pounds wort timber has been destroyed. 3 0 From Castlecorner we learn that one house was burn t ' or al the church, which was undergoing repairs, injured. Cor . o , a p hay have been scattered about the entire neighbourho od several trees blown down AS ° w:',l TREMENDoUS SIONM.-1401.SES BIoWN Do' BURNED.—LIVES Los": —The oldest inhabitants.rw ye 'boe nessed such a storm as visited this town and neighbo ur i,o o on Sunday night last. It commenced at about ten o'cl"frovi that evening, and continued to blow a perfect hurrican e . s ier that time, almost incessantly, until an artvanced bOur ) e t her e day morning. At sea, and along the coast 001 cannot but be awful proofs plits forv. We ahoy asset'wid, scarcely a person in the towu remained in bed after tbelaior had luereased td ; all Were ajp, — etcgaged it 3 tie' But been d, the w o , have IN in and thatch of t h e o wing the 87t