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

V ~j . DREADFUL EFFECTS OF THE LATE HURRICANE. a; We haw/ gathered the following further particulars relating to the detrttuttive results of the late awful gale in this neigh heurhood F • At Waterloo, Bootle, and the neighbouring watering places, •the storm was most severely felt. The Waterloo Hotel was unroofed, and in other respects greatly damaged. The village of Waterloo also felt the hurricane in all its vio lence. Amongst the many narrow escapes from the violence of the Storm we. may mention that of the children of Mr. J. Holme, who were only removed from bed a few miuntes be fore a stack of chimneys fell through the roof of the house, which would, most certainly, have killed them had they re mained.. ' . At Crosby the farmers have suffered severely. Whole stacks of hay have been swept away, and not a vestage of them is likely -to be recovered. All the thatched cottages and buildings in the neighbourhood are stripped, and pre sent an-aspect of desolation difficult to picture. Mr. Woodville's house, at Seaforth, is partially unroofed. Miss Hewitt's is in the same condition. The elegant resi dence of Mr. Owen Jones, surgeon, has suffered severely; the roof is partially damaged, and the palisades in front of the gardens levelled. with the ground. Mr. Haskayne's villa is much damaged, presenting a ruinous appearance, the chimneys having been blown down, and other damage sus tained. Miss Myers's house, occupied by Mr. C. Lowe, has apparently, suffered most, the west front of the roof eing almost totally , stripped, and the lead-work blown entirely off. Mr. Latbam's house has been injured in broken windows; but the roof seems to have bid defiance to the storm. A mas sive wall, with four buttresses, has been lifted from its site, and cast prostrate, though of unusual strength. Mrs. Lawe's house has been considerably damaged; also, Mr. Clement's. The church is materially injured, and a large piece of iron was carried, by the violence of the wind, over the road and the roof of an adjoining house, to a considerable distance. Property at Woodside and Birkenhead has suffered se verely, and we regret to state that one female has been killed. Almost every house has sustained more or less damage. A house in Portland-place is left a perfect skeleton, only the outer walls standing. The very handsome church now building at Woodside, and nearly completed, has had its full share of the storm. Nearly the whole of the north aide has been levelled in the ground. The daraage done cannot be repaired for perhaps less than £2OO. The Albion Hotel has been stripped of a great portion of its roof; and-Mr. Poole's stables have suffered consider ably. A stack of chimneys at Woodside, next to the Post office, also fell in, ar,d carried with it the roof and flooring of Mr. Sewell's workshops. The houses in Victoria-place have all been much shattered. The livery stables of Mr. Watts were levelled with the ground, all the horses having fallen with the other building. A gentleman in this vicinity, des cribing the storm, said its violence was such, that it resembled a West India hurricane. The roof of Lieutenant Sarsfield's house was blown in, and he with his family were carried to the bottom story of the building, but providentially they all escaped without injury.. In the village of Bebbington, and in the neighbourhood of Rock Perry, scarcely a house escaped damage; chimney-pots swept away in masses, slates and portions of roofs carried off, and in some cases the sheet lead of the gutters rolled up like paper, Ind removed to some other more conspicuous position, where it hung in festoons like ribbons. Near Bidston numerous families were driven from their houses from apprehension of danger, and many took refuge under the hedges. During the whole of the Tuesday the weather was stormy, the wind blowing a strong gale from the west, and bring ing with it occasional heavy showers of hail. About two o'clock in the afternoon the river presented a not less boisterous appearance than it had done on the preceding day. The clouds still looked wild and lowering. Several of the ferry steamers were performing their customary trips, with not more passengers, however, than necessity urged to cross the river. The north-west Floating-light, whose ab sence it was apprehended wouklecause considerable danger to the incoming craft, still lay at anchor opposite Woodside. The Cambridge, whose. safety was so much doubted on the preceding day, and which was subsequently in some peril near the Seacombe slip, bad found safe anchorage opposite the baths, and was riding gallantly in the turbulent stream. Along ,tae margin of the wall still lay the wrecks of a flat, and of the Eclipse, Runcorn steamer, apparently so much damaged that they will not be again fit for duty. .A Preston brig had alio shared a similar fate. The floating landing pier flanked the north end of this string of wrecks, the waves beating ,over the water-logged hull ; she will, however, be easily restored to her former state of usefulness. The water in the small landing basin was covered with fragments of beardi and splinters of wood, several of which were the rem natal of the Camera Obscura which recently stood on the pier. A brig, the Jane, of this port, was seen making her way up the river, nearly under bare poles. She soon passed into the basin amid the cheers of hundreds of spectators, who hailed the weather-beaten mariners back to port. She and another small vessel, the Sally, put out to sea together on Sunday last. When she brought up in the basin it was seen that her larboard bulwarks had been carried away, and her sails, torn to shreds by the violence of the tempest, were haaging about her like ribbons, sufficiently indicative of the weather she had endured. Throughout the whole of Tuesday the utmost anxiety pre veiled to learn the fate of several of the vessels which sailed ea Sunday, of which no intelligence had been heard. In the muse of the afternoon the following vessels, which had weathered the storm , and put back, arrived safely in port : The Lynx, bound for Lisbon; the Jane, fur Bristol; the Hope, for Bristol; the Sally, for Whitehaven; the Hard ware, for Lisbon; and the Lion, for Glasgow. 'rhe utmost anxiety prevailed in consequence of a report that four large vessels were aground, and in great peril, on the banks. Captain. Forsyth, of the Lynx, stated, that he had passed a lee large ship, with painted ports, and a full-length figure head, Supposed to be the Crusader, for Bombay. He did not state that she was in any danger. As the evening advanced more certain intelligence was obtained respecting the four vessels above mentioned. The eaptiju of the Hardware reported having seen the St. An drew,. New York packet, which sailed on Sunday last, on the BurbO sands, with both anchors down, the sea beating heariii,, ,The . Hardware came in through the Formby chan nel, 'Where all the buoys were adrift. Near the Rock Light house, they passed a steamer with a pilot-boat in tow. Sub sequently the steamer, Mountaineer, brought in several of the "pailengirs and crew of the St. Andrew, and at a still later our the Victory, steam-tug boat, brought in the cap. tain4lieriMOining passengers, and more of the crew. A' reoOrt *as prevalent at an early hour in the evening, that the Pennsylvania, New York packet-ship, which also sailed on.Motiday,bad gone to pieces. About eight o'clock, howitiliOlie masters of No. I, and No. 8, pilot-boats, who hadltesfeOut with the Victoria steam-tug, brought further in tellikinee a'tlie Pennsylvania, which proved the fallacy of the former report. The Victoria had brought thirty-three passetgeri fioni . the New York ship Lockwoods, which was agrcluittr on' th e banks, with a heavy sea making over her. Theffeftliary Paisengers still on board. The Pennsylvania had - ttlti Obotit half "a mile to the east of the Lockwoods, with sevgear of the' crew in - the rigging. Another vessel, with paisift fiorts,'atiparently an American, was seen on the north bank. The steamer Avon (the Dublin mail due on Monday). siatieen.going into Beaumaris to repair. It wit - rumoured on Tuesday night that the roadstead of the Menai Bridge had been destroyed by the storm, the chains having been left hanging to the supporters, uninjured. Pasymer& were crossing the strait in boats. The:Brighton, of Bombay, was seen in a helpless condition on Tuesdpy morning, in the New Channel, near the Middle Patel' Buoy. Mr. Atherton, of New Brighton, sent the Liverpool, Seacombe steamer, to the wreck fur the crew, who were - visible in the rigging. She succeeded, in conjunction with the Magaiine life-boat, in saving the captain and such of tlie crew as remained on board. The crew, on Monday, hac(madet a raft. Fourteen of them got on it, and have not since been heard of. At a late hour on Tuesday it was reported by Captain Nye, of the 'lndependence, who had just returned from Leasowe, that ke law a passenger, Mr. Thompson, of New York, who had been laved from the Pennsylvania. This gentleman re posted that himself and the three other passengers, with the mate and five of the seamen, left the ship in one of her boats. When some distance from the shore the boat swamped, and all except himself (Mr. Thompson) were drowned. He at tributes big safety to the fact of his having had a life-preserver redid his body. He left the captain and the remainder of the crew in the rigging, and, as assistance had been sent to them, it lan confidently hoped they would be saved. The ship was Mild water. She struck on Tuesday afternoon at half-past twgfUriftek. 060011IIR'S IriQuesTs.—The following inquests were held enfingeday before P. F. Currie, Esq., coroner:—On Joseph Lee, plasterer, killed by the fall of a stack of chimneys, at tbg,isuuse et: Mrs. Darlington, Shannon-street; John and Thomas Marsh, and Bessy Crane, servant, killed in like man ner liy:houte of Mrs. Marsh, Nelson-street; Ellen Bul ge' wiro it, killed by the falling of the roof at Mr. Duncan's hogs., Lord Nelson-street; William (batter, and Ellen Law- P a lied in like manner at their houses, in Sydney-street Ea4,-and Hardy-street. Likewise on John Jones, master of the : albop f Conway, *mak during the gale; and on the body of a boy ualinown, picked up on Monday evening in one of the docks. (From the Mail of yesterday.) During the whole of Tuesday and yesterday the interest excited by the effects of the storm was but little abated, and the streets and quays in every direction were thronged with persons of all grades, who hurried, in streams or anxious groups, from spot to spot, to witness the destruction of roofs, chimneys, and buildings on shore, and the wreck of vessels on the sea walls and in the basins. The damage in the town was so general, that not a street entirely escaped. Many of the higher streets were strewn from side to side with bricks, slates, broken cans, and other fragments from the roofs, and not a few of them by fallen walls of yards, gardens, &c. Lamentable as was the loss of life, it was impossible to view the .general havoc, in fallen chimneys and broken roofs, without a feeling of thankfulness and gratification that the fatalities were not snore numerous. The " hair-breadth es capes" were many, and in some instances most extraordinary. The insecure construction of many of the houses placed the lives of the inmates in the utmost danger ; and had the vio lence of the gale continued some hours longer, the list of dis asters would doubtless have been deplorably augmented; lastly of the chimneys, ill-built, and in want of pointing, be_ int left in so'tottering a condition that another blast would have thrown them down. To enumerate all the instances of destruction were impossible, and, indeed, superfluous; but it stay not be uninteresting to lay before our readers some of Oink most prominent, of which we have obtained information sineivonr last publication. T El E TOWN. lihe houses at the north end of Vine-street, and those ad joining them and rounding into Brownlow-hill, suffered se verely, there being a large space of vacant ground at the beck that gave free ingress to the gale Three windows in three of these houses were, with their frames, entirely blown in t te the alarm of the inhabitants; and many panes of glass were broken. Portions of chimneys were also thrown down, and.the roof of the southern house of the range was partly untooted. -The south part of the yard wall behind was also entirely blown down on the morning of Monday, about ten o'clock. Tile- snow ohich has since fallen serves, by the contrast of its whiteness, to show the dark apertures made in tha roofs of houses throughout the town. Ashton-street, behind the Infirmary, was severely visited. The houses, though exteriorly showy, are but of slender con struction. Several of the windows were entirely blown in. Portions of the chimneys (which are here much exposed and without stays) were thrown down. The heavy stack of chimneys of the house, N 0.35, London road,-corner of Norton-street, occupied by Mr. North, grocer, was blown down and fell through the roof, carrying away a groat part of it. Two young ladies were in bed in the attic, when the storm came on. One of the*, being alarmed by the noise of the wind rose and left the rdolio,Only a quarter of an hour before the chimney fell; and itqa.rprnarkable that touch of the ponderous materials fell oktn*"that side of the bed where she had been lying, and dicl;not touch the other Toting woman. The whole mass first broke through a cock. loft above, and in its fall broke one of the principals of the roof. The lady who was its bed, and who was naturally greatly alarmed, was taken out by Mrs. North. We need scarcely add, that many families who had not retired to rest before the gate commenced, remained in the lower apartments of,their houses, in apprehension of some disaster; and that wherever accidents occurred, the parties were too much alarmed to return to bed. The police-constables were active inaiyinipehat assistance they could, wherever it appeared to ba ,r,equired , The back portion of the roof of Mr. North's house was entirely blown out, and, like many other buildings, thf.remainder is so open to the ele men t s, t h at another gale before it can be repaired would carry it away. The men in the ensploy of -Mr. N. were on the spot on the first alarm, and remained during the night. The walls of a timber-yard, in Nash-grove (Scotland-road), were blown down by the gale. Soon after the commencement of the storm, a young wo. Mani of sneak intellect, who resided with her sister in Mad dox-street, Scotland-road, being much alarmed by the noise of the wind, and, finally, the falling of the back part of the roof, found her way to the lower part of the house, followed by the rest of the family; hut having gone out was nowhere to be found, to the great alarm of her relatives, and the sym pathising regret of the neighbours who knew her. Inquiries were set on foot in all directions, and she was at length found, at four in the afternoon of the following day, in Toxtetn park, whither she had wandered. In Woodstock -street, out of Kirkdale-road. the whole front wall and roof of the further house at the seaward end of the street on the north side were blown down. The house is large, and a more complete ruin can scarcely be conceived. Luckily the family who inhabited it had left it but a few days before, and it was untenanted. Had it been inhabited, the inmates would inevitably have been buried in the ruins. In Addison-street many chimneys were thrown down, but no fatality occurred. In Hotham-street, London-road, the roof of a house fell in and broke through to the second flour below. The whole extent of the garden wall of Mr. Blount, facing Ashton-street, was thrown down. The house of Mr. Brocklehaoks, Seymour-street, corner of St. Vincent-street, was much damaged, the chimneys and part of the roof being blown down. A considerable portion of the beautiful stone front of the Methodist Chapel erecting in Great Homer-st., was blown in. The Custom-house—strong as is the building—also suffered. Panes of glass to the number of some hundreds, particularly those in the windows of the doom, were blown in, and the building, consequently, presented a woful appearance after the storm. The house of Mr. Bean, of the Albion Office, (top of Great Mersey-street,) was much injured by the gale. Nearly the whole of the windows were blown in, great part of the roof was blown off, and the chimneys thrown down. The house of Mr. Taylor (bookseller) of Blackfield-terrace, also suffered severely in common with nearly all those of that neighbourhood. The stable was wholly unroofed, and the windows much damaged. The rag and paper stores of Mr. Brown, Orange-street, took fire on Monday night, owing, it is supposed, to some sparks from a neighbouring chimney being carried by the wind through the windows of the store, and falling upon the inflammable materials inside. It was some time before the fire was completely extinguished, but the damage was not very extensive, amounting to only aboet The policemen had no sinecure on the eventful night of Monday. One of them graphically describes himself as wan dering about during the night in such a scene as this Chimneys and roofs of houses were blown down in all di rections, slates flew about like hailstones, bricks and sigus were tumbling, which was most awfully grand; but I have not heard of any lives having been lost in my section." At a quarter to five in the morning, Inspector Thompson was at Islington, when he heard a most tremendous crash in Wilton-street. On hurrying thither, he found that the terri• fic noise had already attracted a couple of policemen to the spot. The chimney-stack of Mr. John Pratchett's house in Wilton-street, had been blown down, broke through the roof, and forced its way into a bed room. A fire having been left in the kitchen grate, the sudden opening of the draft caused the chimney to take fire, and the flames quickly communi cated with the bed-clothes and other articles in the room over the kitchen. In addition to the terror caused by the falling of the chimneys, the inmates had now to fear the extension of the fire, lest that element should complete the destruc tion which the other had commenced. Fortunately, how ever, there was a plentiful supply of water at hand, and the fire was extinguished before any very extensive mischief had been done by it. An almost miraculous instance of preser vation of life, in the extremity of danger, (and many others nearly similar have occurred,) took place in this house. A beam fell across a bed whereon a young woman was lying, but it rested on the wall in such a manner that she escaped unhurt. Immediately after leaving this house, the inspector and his men were called to Mr. Blanchard's, 120, Islington, where also the chimney had been blown down and forced in the roof, so that three young ladies who were in bed were completely covered with the rubbish, and would shortly have been smothered under the ruins, had it not been for the great exertions of the officers, who rescued them. The policemen behaved in the most exemplary manner. The roof of Miss 'l'rueman's house, Falkner-street, fell in upon two young ladies, named Gilmer, when in bed. They were released from their perilous situation by two police officers, and the young ladies, fortunately, had only sustained a very slight injury. At twenty minutes to five the chimney of James Darling ton's house, Shannon-street, fell in, and killed a man named Joseph Lee, a plasterer by trade, who was in bed. He was got out by the police from the ruins in which he was imbed ded in about ten minutes after the occurrence of the accident; a surgeon was sent for, but life was extinct. Another man, named Gower Evans, was in bed with Lee at the time; but he, most wonderfully and fortunately, escaped unhurt. A large stack of chimneys at the west end of Mr. M`Neile's lodging-house, in Nelson-street, at the corner of Great George-square, fell down between four and five o'clock in the morning, breaking through the roof, and carrying down all the intervening floors to the cellar. Two gentlemen were sleeping in the attic, and three ladies on the second floor. They were all buried beneath the ruins. Mr. Whitty, In spector Hemer, and a party of twelve police, were promptly upon the spot, and began to remove the rubbish. The three ladies were got out without having received any very severe injuries. One of the, gentlemen, the younger of the two, was the first to be released. Immediately on getting into the open air he began to dance, whether out of joy or from wantonness we cannot say. " Give him a coat to put on," cried out one of the police. The young gentleman answered that he wanted no coat, and bounded off like a wild pony. In a moment or two he returned, and informed the officers of the whereabouts of his companion in misfortune. The second gentleman, however, could not be immediately found; but on calling out. " Where are you ?" a voice replied, " Here, in the attic." " No, you are in the cellar, not in the attic," responded the officer. " I'll be d—d if I am," said the buried man; "I am here in the attic." Having been asleep when the accident occurred, he wai not aware that the upper story had fallen into the cellar, and therefore fancied that he was still in the attic. Neither of the gentle men were much injured. We are informed that Mr. Pem berton, upholsterer, and his two sons, were mainly instru mental in saving two of the parties. The chimney of a house in Lime-street, occupied by Messrs. Horner, fell, carrying with it the entire roof, also the third floor, and completely burying two young men, brothers, who were in bed on the second floor. They with great difficulty ex tricated themselves froth their perilous situation, without any other injury than a few bruises. This may truly be considered a miraculous interposition of Providence, as the only protec tion between them and death was a piece of the floor falling in a sloping direction upon their legs and against the wall. Much mischief was done to the adjoining houses. The roof of the house of Mrs. Lowndes, in Wavertree-road, was completely stripped, and the whole of the chimneys blown down. The house is abandoned. At Mrs. Macbeth's house, in Rose-place, the roof and chim ney fell in. Upwards of one hundred of the chimney pots of the houses in Ford's-buildings, Fox-street, were completely demolished. The western roof of Christ Church has experienced the dire ful effects of the storm, several slates having been removed, and the lead curled up, leaving the interior exposed to the in clemency of the weather. Mr. Hector, surgeon, of Great Newton-street, had a nar row escape. A stack of chimneys fell through the roof on the bed where he was lying, and on his jumping up to leave the room, several panes of glass in the window frame were blown I • in. Mr. Jerrold, pawnbroker, Brownlow-hill, chimney blown down. A house at the corner of Gill-street also had a stack of chim neys blown down, and several others in Brownlow-hill, Brown low-street, and the neighbourhood, were injured. The walls and fences of many gardens in that vicinity were also pros trated. At five o'clock the roof of Mr. Tubman's house, 19, Rodney street, fell in and buried a female and child, who were extricated by the police. Eighteen yards of a wall in Oak-street, belong ing to Mr. King, of Pembroke•place, was blown across the street so as to stop the thoroughfare. A large chimney in Sparling-street, a wall in Lodge-lane, a wall in King-street, a wall in Derby-street, and a shed and two walls in Smith downe-lane were levelled. A shippon in Lodge-lane was blown down, and a cow lost therefrom. The brickworks of an unfinished building in Scotland-road were blown down, as was also a very large portion of a wall belonging to the Vulcan Foundry. A building occupied as offices, i❑ Back Castle-street, was partly blown down soon after one o'clock. The chimney of Mr. Brough's house, at the corner of St. Anne-street and Springfield-street, fell in early in the morning, carrying with it the roof into the top room. Mrs. Brough had, about five minutes previovs, gut out of bed, and gone down stairs, thus escaping serious injury, if not des truction. A considerable portion of the stone front of the Methodist Chapel erecting in Great Homer-street was thrown down. The chimney and roof of the house of Mr. Coventry, in Phythian-street, were blown in. Two children who were in bed at the time were much hurt. In Bedfnrd•street a great deal of lead and slates were stripped off, and chimney cans and pipes were thrown down ; and some are yet left in a threatening position front the ef fects of the gale. In Heath-street two new unfinished houses on the east side were blown down. All the timber is smashed to pieces. One of the houses—the outer one—was nearly razed to the foundation. The lower story of the ether remains, but much damaged. In Canning-street the panes of glass broken were nu merous. The fine range of buildings in Hope-street have also suf fered much, of which the closing of the shutters against the broken windows give dismal indication. Dr. Vose's house is partly unroofed, and much glass broken; and at the south end of the street, the cottage-built range, with projecting eaves, is in a great measure unroofed. Slaters, and plumbers and glaziers, are every where in requisition; but the weather has hitherto prevented any very extensive permanent repairs. As reported in our paper of Tuesday, a few of the trees on the north side of St. James's Church were blown down, and carried with them a part of the wall of from 25 to 30 yards in length. A few small cof fins are visible in the soil from which the wall has fallen. At the bottom of Lipper Parliament-street, a number of chimneys have been blown down, and other injury dune to the houses; but we have heard of no serious accident. An immense number of the lamps in various parts of the town and suburbs were broken by the storm, and the lights extinguished. The wood-stands in Cleveland-square 'market were blown down and many of them dashed to pieces. In every quarter, windows, and even window-frames and doors have been blown in, and other minor damages inflicted. In fact, the wind, during the night, extinguished the greater portion of the lamps, which, though often re-lit, were as often blown out again. TOXTETH PARK. The effect of the storm in this direction has been very se verely felt. Mr. Stephens's house, corner of Wellington road, had the chimneys blown down, also a house on the opposite side. Mi Dutton, at the Potteries, had a stack of hay entirely dispersed; likewise Mr. Lamb, miller, sustained a similar loss. Grove Cottage and buildings, presenting a range of about 10 yards in length, and with walls upwards of two feet thick, although its gable end only was exposed to the west, trembled to its foundation throughout, the beds rocking in every room. One of its chimneys was blown down, and the spouts carried away; the extensive yard and garden were covered with slates, and a large pigstye had its roof raised en masse, and carried some distance. A ponder ous gate, belonging to a coal-yard in Mill-street, was lifted from its hinges, and carried a distance of 12 yards into the road. The premises formerly occupied by Mr. James Aiken, in Wellington-road, have been seriously damaged by the falling of a stack of chimneys, which penetrated through the roof at the west end ; several of the windows were also demolished. Mrs. Clarke's residence in the same road has also received great injury, by the chimneys being forced through the roof; the staircase window was blown in and several others broken. Mr. Tomlinson, living opposite, had a stack of chimneys carried away, but foi tunately they fell into the garden with out doing further injury to the house; several slates were removed from his roof. In Park-terrace, the devastation was awful, not one of the houses escaping. The destruction amongst the glass was immense, and the roofs suffered in equal proportion. Several of the railings, surmounting low partition walls, were borne down, carrying with them the large stones into which they were inserted, which, together with the coping-stones of the roofs, and the curling lead, presented one general wreck. Mr. K,eyzer's house is nearly stripped, his windows, in several instances, completely blown out, and roof on the west side destroyed; one of the lights of his hot-house was raised, and has travelied too far for him yet to trace it to its hiding place. In Thorton•place the damage is immense, the west roofs of the houses of Mr. Bradley, Miss Fletcher, and their adjoin ing neighbour, are completely destroyed—the coping-stones and lead removed, and scarce a vestige of glass left in the windows. Mr. Bradley, we under►tand, was so much hurt by a fall, that be was obliged to be carried out, and took shelter in a cottage in the neighbourhood, but we are happy to learn that he is not seriously injured, although obliged to vacate his house, it being no longer tenantable. We believe Miss Fletcher was also compelled to accept a retreat offorded • her by a neighbour. In Dexter-street the effects of the storm were visible throughout, scarce a house escaping its devastating influence. The premises of Mr. Searisbrick suffered considerably, the 'slates, bricks, &c., falling through his skylight in great pro fusion, obstructing the passage up stairs, and causing great alarm to the family. In South Hill-street a stack of chimneys belonging to Mr. Budd were blown down, but providentially they fell outwards into an adjoining piece of unoccupied ground. The windows of Mrs. Hardman suffered much, as also did those of Mr. Keightley ; the loss of that gentleman alone in glass will be ver . considerable. The back, or west front of Mr. Harmood Banner's house evinced forcibly the terrific effects of the ruthless element, as, notwithstanding the storm shutters were closed, the wind forced its way through the interstices of the laths, and cut the glass in strips, corresponding with the di visions, almost as neatly as if effected by the diamond 'of a skilful practitioner. In South Hill-grove two large stacks of chimneys belong ing to Mr. T. Smith, simultaneously gave way, and fell upon the roof. _ Park Hill-road experienced the direful effects of the storm to a considerable extent, the houses of Mr. William and Mr. Thomas Jevons were both deprived of their chim neys, the former having experienced a very providential es cape from destruction. Alarmed by the falling of some fragments of the ceiling, he arose, and had left his room a very few minutes, when the ponderous mass fell upon his bed, and penetrated into the room beneath without injuring any member of the family. This is one only of many instances, within our knowledge, of the wonderful interposition of Di vine Providence during the late awful and melancholy visi tation. _ The mill in Park-road was partially damaged, the regu lating wheel being nearly blown away, and other injury done. Two new houses higher up on the right side, and which ap pear to have been built some time, but left unfinished, were nearly demolished, one of them, overhanging a foundation, was completely wrecked, and the materials launched into the hollow ; the whole presenting a fearful picture of devastation. The Church of St. John the Baptist sustained considerable damage. From fifteen to twenty feet of the summit of the spire fell during the gale, and penetrating the roof, did havoc in the gallery below. A large extent of the roof was driven in, and many of the pews in the gallery were demolished. The organ barely escaped—being saved by the woodwork of the gallery of the choir. Seven or eight of the pews were demolished by the large stone that fell through the roof, in which there was an aperture of probably thirty feet in length. The wood-work of the roof of this church appears to be rather slender—though it must be allowed that no roof, however strong, could have withstood the falling of so heavy a body of material from so great a height. It is stated that the spire is insecure to a considerable distance below the fracture, and that it will have to be pulled down, and will not probably be re-erected. We think it somewhat lamentable that in this age of mechanical and architectural improvement, the inferior materials used in building spires and other lofty and decorative buildings should form an excuse for their continued construction. Why not use metal, zinc, bronze, or copper, for the upper parts of spires, tosbe supported lsy a strong rod terminating in a perpendicular beam of wood reaching to the bottom of tne spire, and secured by cross-stays. This would, we think, render the overturning of the top a matter of im possibility, unless, indeed, the tempest were so fierce as to throw down the tower itself. On the west side of the steeple we notice a large portion of the battlement of the tower (in tended for the clock) has been thrown down against the base of the spire. The roof of the church is also much damaged throughout, the lead and slates being stripped of its many places. The clerk of the church politely pointed out to our i reporter the damage done to the spire and n the church. At the house of Mr. Hargreaves, in High Park-street, the destruction was most alarming, and the escape of two females truly extraordinary. Between four and five o'clock in the morning a stack of chimneys, together with the ornamental wall united to them, on the west side of the house (which is so large and lofty), gave way under the force of the hurri cane, and descended with a tremendous crash upon the roof, carrying down a balk 14 inches square through the cock-loft, and into the attic below, whence a considerable portion of the materials were driven through the floor into the bed-room on the second floor. In the attic, one of the female servants was asleep, nearly the whole roof of the room was driven in, the bed crushed to pieces, and that part of the floor on which it stood pressed down by the weight of the bricks and mate rials (nearly six tons) some inches below its level. Part of the materials burst through to the bedroom in which Mr. and Mrs. Hargreaves slept, but without doing them any injury. The escape of the female above was all but miraculous. Three police constables were in attendance on the alarm be ing given, and succeeded in rescuing her in a state of insen sibility, but, it is since found, not so much injured as to pre elude hopes of recovery in a few days. Her fellow-servant slept in the adjoining room, and the falling materials burst through a portion of the roof near her bed, and blocked up the door, so that she could not escape. The doors of both apartments were forced open, and the sufferers extri cated as speedily as possible. Luckily Mr. Hargreaves' two daughters were on a visit to Manchester, otherwise they would have been in the room where the servant who was in jured slept. We regret to say that an infant child of Mr. Hargreaves was frightened into fits by the noise of the gale and the destruction, and, after being carried to a neighbour's house, soon after expired. The stables attached to the pre mises were completely snipped. The premises of Mr. Joyn son, adjoining, and the same size as those of Mr. Hargreaves, were also much injured—the chimney being thrown down; but as it was at the east gable of the house, it fell clear of the house, but upon the coach-house and stables, carrying away the roofs. From the exposed situation of Mr. Alexander Smith's re sidence opposite, it is not at all surprising that he should have felt the effects of a hurricane without its parallel in these parts in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. A great por tion of his roof was stripped, many windows destroyed, and a heavy stack of chimneys fell into the bed-room of one of his servants, and from thence into the room beneath. She bad, luckily, gone down stairs a few minutes before the occurrence took place, which otherwise would, in all probability, have proved fatal, her bed being broken to atoms. Such was the alarm of Mr. Smith and family at the shak ing of the house and the roaring of the wind, that at four in the morning they sent to the coffee-house for a car to convey them from it. Such, however, was the violence of the gale at the time, that no vehicle would have faced it without a certainty of being upset. At about eight o'clock, Mr. S. and his lady went in a car to the house of his,father, Fullwood Lodge, and on the way narrowly escaped another disaster. Whets near Mr. Kay's, at the end of Lark-lane, a huge tree fell into the road, so nearly upon the car, that had it been a moment later in its progress, the parties would probably have lost their lives. In Park-road, the coach-house of Mrs. Brookfield was blown down, and other damage done in the back part of her premises. Mrs. Webster's roof, chimneys, and windows, as also those of Mrs. Lowe, adjoining, suffered greatly. A wooden building, on the opposite side, occupied as a shop by a shoemaker named Arnold, was carried into the middle of the road, notwithstanding his fancied security in having, as he thought, had it firmly fastened in the ground. It was for tunate for him that the storm raged at an earlier hour than that at which he was accustomed to resume his avocation, otherwise those sons of Crispin might have been treated to a ride more expeditious than pleasant. He has succeeded in re-placing his shop in its former situation. The chimney of a beer-house, at the corner of North-street, fell on the roof of Mr. Felton, who lives adjoining, but with out any serious injury. An unfinished house of some mag nitude, belonging, we believe, to the family of the late Mr. Watson, and situated a little to the north of St. John the Baptist's Church, was blown down: fortunately it was unat tended by any other injurious consequences. Mr. Edgar's chimney, in Park-street, was blown down, and entered the room below. Three other houses in the saute street ex perienced a similar calamity. The upper house of a range fronting Mr. Francis Jordan's cottage had a chimney blown outwards, which carried with it a portion of the wall forming the gable end, and caused a crack to the extent of several feet. By this occurrence the upper room is exposed to the inclemency of the weather. The destruction of windows in the range is very great, whole sashes, in some instances, have been beaten in. Several small houses situate in Jerry-hill have suffered considerably, as, from their exposed situation, they were completely open to the gale—indeed it is a matter of surprise they were left standing. Although the backs of the houses in South Ches ter-street are afforded little, if any, protection from the wes terly winds, the whole of their chimneys are yet standing, which can only be accounted for by their stacks invariably fronting the south instead of the west, a plan it would he very desirable to follow in every instance in this neighbourhood where it can possibly be carried into effect, as the great loss of life in this town, during the late gale, has, we believe, without one exception, been caused by the falling, of chim neys presenting a broad front to the prevailing quarter, from whence we, in almost every instance, experience the severity of the weather. The inhabitants of two houses in Wellington-road, near the school, were so dreadfully alarmed, that about four o'clock, they ran out in their night clothes, and were kindly received into the house of the clerk of the church. While making their escape down stairs, the skylight was smashed in, and slates, glass, and other materials were blown down, and, it might be said, pursued them in their flight. NORTH SHORE AND WATERLOO. The houses at the North Shore and Waterloo, with scarcely an exception, were stripped of a portion of their roofing, and many of them had their chimneys thrown down, to the great alarm and peril of the inmates, none of whom, how ever, sustained serious personal injury. The \Waterloo Hotel has suffered considerably, and one of the servants (a female) very narrowly escaped with her life, from the falling of the materials of a chimney. The house of Mr. Benjamin Porter, which is in a rather exposed situation, suffered more than any other in the village. The houses of Mr. Vianna, and that adjoining Mr, Hart ley's (North Shore,) had the lead and slates stripped off to a great extent, The pleasure-grounds in frontof these houses, (to the east) and of some others in the neighbourhood, were strewed with large slates, some of which in their fall were fixed in upright and somewhat varied positions in the green sward, like headstones, giving the whole the appearance of country church-yards! In many cases the gale seemed to have directed its violence particularly to the lead, which was stripped off, and, in many instances rolled up, as if prepared for felonious conveyance. Workmen were employed in va rious directions, in making such repairs as the circumstances and the continuance of the gale would allow, by covering the apertures of the roofs with such materials as were at hand, and affixing "wooden" panes in the broken windows. Mean while the blowing of the sand, co-mingled with the saline spray, from shore and hills, was exceedingly annoying to passengers, whether impelled by business or curiosity to walk or ride along the beach or the road above; and it was some what amusing to observe the pedestrians, in their efforts to maintain their equilibrium against tne gale, leaning to one side, like so many Italic points of admiration (!,) and ever and anon turning their backs upon the sand drifts, as if en joying the prospect of the country to the eastward. At the corners of streets, buildings, or walls, not a few were fairly brought to a standstill by the violent salutation of the gale. The hedges and trees presented a dry white husky appear ance, their branches being bleached by the saline spray. Sea forth Much was partly unroofed. BOOTLE BAY. About sixteen vessels (as before stated) were thrown ashore i❑ Bootle Bay ; and during the day a vast number of persons, pedestrians and equestrians, went along the beach to witness the destruction, which, however, we are happy to say, was not extensive, if we exclude the lamentable stranding of the Ox ford. The Oxford %las seen rounding the Rock at half-past twelve on Sunday night. She was driven on shore, with all her masts standing, in about an hcur afterwards, and after grounding, never stirred from the spot where she now lies. On the retiring of the tide the passen•aers, thirteen in number, and the captain and crew, landed with their luggage, about ten o'clock, and proceeded from the hotel above to the town. The masts of the Oxford did not fall till between three and four o'clock in the morning. She kept a light up during the whole of the night. . . . In the cotton factory, a portion of the north wing of which was blown down, the number of panes broken was probably not under 300. A circumstance occurred on the north shore, near the wreck of the Oxford, showing in a remarkablemanuer the violence of the gale. A small open boat, belonging to the Mountaineer (a foreign trader) and used occasionally as a pleasure boat by her owner, Mr. Waring, was left on the shore, bottom up, near the Bootle Landmarks. This boat was lifted by the gale and carried front 100 to 150 yards up the shore, where she was left on the borders of a pleasure ground ! As before stated, the Oxford, line ship, was drive❑ on shore in Bootle Bay. Her'cargo is valuable, consisting principally, we believe, of cotton and 'tobacco. The Redwing, tier Ma jesty's tender for the mad was (as we also noticed) stranded near her. Lieut. Reid, her commander, stated that, so over powering was the hurricane, with three anchors out, and his full power of steam on, one of his cables snapped, and his vessel dragged before the wind, till at last he was obliged to let them slip to avoid running foul of the Oxford. The wind then drove his vessel on her beam-ends, and being unable to get her head to windward, with all the power he could put on, she was driven sideways on shore. CROSBY This marine village was especially visited by the fury of the storm. The houses of the humbler inhabitants, most of which are thatched, were nearly unroofed on the weather side, and the walls of two of them, nearly in the centre of the village, were thrown to the ground, to the imminent danger of the inmates, who, however, luckily escaped to the houses of their more fortunate neighbours in their night dresses. The roof of the catholic chapel was partially blown off, as was that of the adjoining house. Several hay and corn stacks were scattered to the winds; and in this particular Mr. Mawdslev was, we learn, a loser to the extent of nearly £6O. Mr. Hodgson's house suffered dreadfully. The wind-mill belonging to Mr. Westhead, was with great difficulty stopped, or, rather, its velocity was arrested before it took fire from friction; for it continued to go at a moderate speed after all possible appliances to stop it. The house of Mr. Croft, soap boiler, was completely stripped of its roof, and broken win dows were general throughout the village. On the morning of the gale (Monday), the oinibuses were delayed in starting for Liverpool, the gale being so strong that they were in danger of upsetting. One of them was afterwards very nearly overturned when crossing Seaforth bridge. WOODSIDE Amongst the many instances of injury to property at Woodside, occasioned by the hurricane, it is our painful duty to name one attended with loss of life. The violence of the wind having broken a few squares of glass in the front windows of the dwelling-house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fell, in Midge-street, near Victoria-place, thereby rendering the further occupation of the front rooms alarming, Mr. Fell proposed to his lariy that she should remove to the maid servant's bed in the att;c, and that he, Mr. Fell, with his brother, should go to rest in one of the back rooms. This arrangement was scarcely completed, when the stack of chimneys fell in, carrying the roof along with it, upon the bed where Mrs. Fell and the servant were laid, and they were both buried in the rubbish. Mr. Fell and his brother, on hearing the crash, rushed to the servant's room, when Mrs. Fell forced her hand through the ruins, exclaiming " 1 am alive!" Assistance was got in about twenty minutes, and Mrs. Fell was rescued from her perilous situation unhurt, except a few bruises on the hands; but we lament to add the maid-servant was found quite dead by her side, although no external bruises have been discovered on the body. EVERTON The yard of C. J. Middleton, Esq., of Grecian-terrace, St. Domingo, presented an appearance beyond credibility, unless witnessed. Its extent is but small, and the wind gathering within its narrow boundary, forced its way in all directions. The entrance-gate, or large double door, one-half of which was secured by a long iron stay affixed to the ground, the other extremity being hooked into an eye made fast in a strengthening-bar of the door, and to which was attached a heavy padlock to unite the remaining part, was split into ribbons, scarce a remnant of the numberless pieces exceeding six inches in breadth. The door of the coach-house, fronting the north, although fastened by two ponderous bolts, each nearthree feet in length, was wrenched from its fastnesses and thrown into the middle of the yard, having drawn a strong iron gudgeon with an immense claw, and broken the stone into which it had been inserted in a most extraordinary man ner. This was one of the most incredible instances of the effect of the infuriate element we met with, and the.only way to account for the extraordinary consequence is, that it must have insinuated itself through the crevices, and, the building. becoming surcharged, it had forced its way out iu the man ner described, and this, notwithstanding there was a lofty wall immediately adjoining and fronting the quarter.from whence the wind blew. The lawn of St. Domingo House evinced numberless instances of the resistless fury of the gale, and the great danger attending travelling during such a visitation, particularly in the neighbourhood of buildings. Slates, at the distance of one hundred yards, after ploughing the turf as with a plough-share, embedded themselves so deep that they could not be withdrawn by the hand. Here, and to the distance of three to four miles in the interior, eastward, the trees and edges were encrusted by the saline spray front the river, their briny appearance affording a strong resem blance of a hoar frost. HalliclaCs Coffee-house, from its exposed situation, re ceived considerable damage. In addition to the falling of a stack of chimneys, nearly the whole of the roof was carried away. We are happy to state that, notwithstanding the great elevation of this beautiful village, and its consequent expo sure to the prevailing high winds in this quarter, the damage it has sustained, though very great, has not been attended with any casualties, or loss of life to its inhabitants. Five windows in the house of Adam Hodgson, Esq., were blown in. Part of the brick work of a house in Albion-ter race gave way, which so much alarmed the family, that they, very prudently, left the premises, and took refuge in the inn, kept by Mrs. Stretch. All the windows at the foot of the houses in Blackfield-terrace were blown in, and most of the roofs nearly stripped. Several walls near Pluinpton-terrace were overthrown, and the houses there suffered severely. SEAFORTH Mr. Woodville's house, at:Seaford], is partially unroofed. Miss Hewitt's is in the same condition. The ; elegant resi dence of Mr. Owen Jones, surgeon, has suffered severely ; the roof is partially damaged, and the palisades in front of the gardens levelled with the ground. Mr. Haskayne's villa is much damaged, presenting a ruinous appearance, the chimneys having been blown down and other damage sus tained. Miss, Myer's house, occupied by Mr. C. Lowe, has apparently suffered most, the west front of the house being almost totally stripped, and the lead-work blown entirely off. Mr. Latham's house has been injured in broken windows, but the roof seems to have bid defiance to the storm. A massive wall, with four buttresses, has been lifted from its site and cast prostrate, though 'of unusual strength. Mrs. Lawe's house has been considerably damaged ; also, Mr. Clement's. The church is materially injured, and a large piece of iron was carried by the violence of the wind over the road and the roof of an adjoining house, to a considerable distance. EDGE-HILL. Here the storm was severely felt. A large portion of the yard wall of Miss Currie's boarding . schOol was thiown down. Some small buildings occupied as shops, near the Coffee house, were much damaged. About twenty yards of the garden wall belonging to Mrs. Bidston, in King-street, was prostrated. In Wavertree-lane, a large stack of chimneys in the house of Mr. Loudon fell through the roof, and burst through the floors. The family had, luckily, not gone to bed. Holland place and Duke-street suffered much. LOW-H ILL. Here many of the houses were injured; happily no lives were lost. In Hall-lane, (between Low-hill and Edge-lane.) a shippon was unroofed. The cattle were within, but not in jured. Several sign-boards were blown down. A house be longing to Mr. Stringfellow, near the Low-hill Coffee-house, and another on the other side of that inn, were partly un roofed. The storm began on this elevated site very suddenly, and the most violent gusts were experienced about half-past twelve o'clock at night. About a cart load of bricks, from a stack of chimneys, fell through the roof of the house of Mr. Crowder, surgeon, a little lower down. The roof of Mr. Linch's house opposite, was partly blown off. The inmates of the butcher's shop, next door, narrowly escaped just be fore the roof was broken in. The windows of the new house belonging to Mr. M'Kenzie were blown out. WAVERTHEE, A chimney of the house of Mr. Swinden, surgeon, fell down, and the servant narrowly escaped with her life. She was much hurt. In Beckett's-terrace the lead was stripped from the roof and, hung in shreds. A glass dome was blown from the top of the range into a field, a distance of between two hundred and three hundred yards ! Mr. Davies, seeds man, sustained much injury in his nurseries. A quantity of glass in his green-house was destroyed. At Mr. Fulfours, near the Wesleyan Chapel, a stack of chimneys fell on the roof and penetrated to the weight of two or three tons into the bedroom in whice he and his lady slept, a portion falling on the bed, but without materially injuring them. He got .up and went down into the kitchen, about three o'clock, and he scarcely reached it when the window, crowded with flower pots on shelves, was entirely blown in and fell near them, yet without breaking a single pane. Had any persons been at that side of the apartment they would have been most seriously injured, if not killed. About 20 yards of Mr. Buller's garden wall was blown down. The Wavertree Tavern was stripped of its lead and many of the slates. The chimney of Mr. Thomas, a bread baker, and which was eight yards in height, was blown down and fell upon the cottage of a labouring man named Boyle. Had it been a yard larger, he and his wife and two children would have been killed. The roof floors were broken in. The wall fronting Mr. Graham's garden, though but low and massy stone, was blown down. Many trees were torn up by the roots. The church was damaged both in roof and in windows—as was the methodist chapel. . - The houses of Mr. Manifold and Mr. Frankland, in Lance lane, were stripped of great part of their roofs, and much glass was broken. The windmill was in danger of taking fire from the friction on the break ; but was saved through assistance being pro cured from the village. Peck's Hill mill (also a wooden structure) took fire from the friction, and was burned down. At the ltev. Mr. Slea's, - of the Elms, a quantity of fine trees were blown down. There was a great loss of hay in the neighbourhood, and persons were gathering it in the fields and lanes. A stack of chimneys fell through the roof of Mr. Whit tingham's house, and stones of a large size were precipitated upon the bed in which he lay. Two of them, that lodged on the tester of the bed, were of great weight; but he was not injured. At the house of Mr. Leonard Sheil, Olive Mount, the chimney fell through the roof into a small room in which were Mrs. S. then in child-bed, three other females and a child. One of the females was much injured—the mother of Mrs. Shell. The room was so blocked up with the fallen materials that they were all got out through a broken part of the window. The house is in a shattered condition through out. In Edge-lane, Mr. Jackson's rope-walk sustained much damage. About ISO yards of a new shed was blown down, and about 40 of an old one. Roofs• were also blown off, and sixteen men, employed on night-work, barely escaped de struction. Of Mr. G. Robinson's rope-walk, about SO yards were blown down. _ _ The waifs of Mr. Seddon's garden, to a large extent, were bloWn down. In the same line, a new Elizabethian-built cottage suffered severely, and two chimneys were blown down. WEST DERBY. In West Derby the damage was general, but unattended by loss of life. A vast number of trees were blown down in different directions; and we learn that the estate of Lord Derby suffered much in this respect, many noble trees hav ing been thrown down. Similar destruction was experienced on the grounds tound the Old Swan. Some stabling at West Derby was blown down, killing one horse and two pigs, belonging to Mr. Jump. woouroN. Many noble trees, oaks and elms, that had stood the storms for centuries, were blown down in the wood called "The Nursery." Mr. Fletcher, of Allerton. near Woolton, had a narrow escape. He had just left his bed-room when the whole of the chimneys came down into the apartments below with a tremendous crash. OWERSPOOL. The mill is considerably damaged, as well as a considerable deal of injury sustained amongst the neighbouring farmers and others. Two bales of cotton were thrown upon the beach by yesterday morning's tide, on the property of John Moss, Esq. From their description, being of a much smaller size than those imported from the United States, it is most probable they have been part of the cargo of the Brighton, from Bombay, reported in another pert of our paper as be ing, when last seen, in a very perilous situation. It being, when found, scarcely twilight, the marks, &c., were not ob servable. SEACOMBE, EGREMONT, AND NEW BRIGHTON. At Seacombe, a bathing.machine was lifted over a hedge and thrown into the road, clearing the fence without touching a branch of it; labourers were employed on the foll Owing day making a road through to replace it in its former situa tion. Between Egremont and New Brighton, lead weigh ing from 3 to 4 cwt. was rol!eir up and blown a considerable distance on to the beach. The lifeboat, froth the Magazines, after being out all night, returned to Half-way House on Monday afternoon, bringing with them a man and a boy taken from on board a flat, she being 'n a sinking state. The chimney of the house of Mr. Lister, . butcher, at Sea combe, was blown down,'and fell into the bed-room where he and another young man slept, but without injuring them. The materials left in the room were about seven tons weight. A very large stack of chimneys belonging to the Albion Inn was blown down on to the roof without even displacing a single brick. WALLASEY. The church is so much injured that there cannot be any service performed in it at present. Nearly all the roof and windows are blown away. The Ship Inn at Wallasey has received great damage. • ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE DISAS TERS AT SEA AND IN THE RIVER, &c. A portion of the steam tug that sunk last week near the Rock Point, was thrown up on Monday on ►he Shore near Crosbie. The Charlotte, of Conway, broke from her moorings near the Magazines, And drifted against the river wall. The master, Jones, was previously droWned. His son, who was on board, jumped off and got safely on shore. A boy at tempted to save himself in the same manner, but missed his footing, and was swept away by the relentless surf. This fatality occurred before daylight, and no assistance could be given. A schooner was sunk at the entrance of the Victoria Dock gates. The men were with difficulty saved. So thickly was the small boat basin at the George's pier strewn with floating fragments of wreck, boats swamped, &c., and several of. the boatmen were seen walking upon it, and picking their oars and other articles. THE FISHING BOATS.—Out of twenty-one boats belonging to the Fishing Company, fourteen took shelter during the storm in harbours in the Isle of Mau. On Tuesday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, one of those at sea at the time, the " Lord Exmouth," came into this port, after weathering out the gale; but with the loss of one man, H. Hodge, the brother of •the roaster, who Was washed oversmard from the helm and drowned. She had her bowsprit and gaff carried away, and lost two storm jibs in a tremendous sea, which threw her bal last so far forward that the vessel was for a time in danger of going down. Another sea, however, fortunately raised her bow, and the ballast was thrown back nearly to its former position. But for this the vessel, a remarkably fine vessel of her class, would have been lost with all on board. The mas ter 'states that so thick was the spray during the hurricane, that they never once saw a single vessel of any kind, though many must have been near them. The Majestic, for New Orleans, the Mary, for Trieste, and the Ruby, for Gibraltar, IN hich sailed before the gale, have put back. The Thalia, fur Calcutta, reported to have sailed on Sunday, is in dock. The ship Old England, which was on the gridiron during the gale, had her figure-head knocked miff against the quay, but was afterwards secured. The George, of Preston, laden with grain, had her masts carried away, and was otherwise a good deal damaged Near her lay a flat waterlogged, The Bridgewater steamer was sunk off the Brunswick pier. While she was sinking, the master and tour seen with difficulty gained the pier. Seven of the crew, in attempting to make the shore in a boat, were swamped, and perished. The John Airey, from Leghorn and Whitehaven, was totally lost near the latter port the mate and two of the crew drowned. The Hardware, which sailed on Sunday last for Lisbon, has put back. The captain (Viper) reports having passed the St. Andrew, New York packet, which sailed on Sunday, on Burbo binds, with both anchors doyen ' and beating hea vily. The Hardware carne through the New Channel, and found all the buoys adrift, and no pilot on the station. two steamers were yesterday alongside of her, and the life-boat bad taken off the crew and passengers. About hart-part three in the morning, the schooner Fox• dale, of Deusiss. bound to Flint, broke from her anchors in the river, ar..i irrittert into the Victoria Dock. The crew were with great Ir rtr Wry saved by the dock gatemen, and in less than a quarts, .•1 su hour alter going into Dock, the vessel sank. At two a.m. a Dutch seaman was brought to the Clarence Dock, who stated that he hal belonged to a Dutch gal hot, called the Anna Agatha; and that he had got on shore at the North Wall, by jumping from the end of the bowsprit. He expressed his apprehension that the galliot, with her crew and pilot, five in number, must have already gone down. Au inspector of police, who was present, took two or three men, and hurried to the spot, to see whether any assistance could be rendered. For minis time the vessel could not be found, and it was feaied that her fate was sealed; but, on further examination, he found that she had drifted into the basin outside of the North Graving-dock, near Mr. Wilson's yard, and there was not a soul on board of her. Several flatmen and a couple of police-officers get on board the gal liot, and succeeded in making her fast. The fate of the crew was still unknown; but under the circumstances, the worst was apprehended. The inspector went away to report the occurrence, and having entered the.dock-master's office, he there found the four seamen belonging to the galliot, who had stated that the vessel and one man was lost. The in spector informed them that both the vessel and their cons rade were safe, and took them on board her. She had lost both her bowsprit and rudder. The consignee gave 30s. to the flatmen, and the same suns to the police-officers, for hav ing'sectned the vessel. The following is a police-inspector's report of a disastrous circumstance, which we have already noticed:—" About half past three o'clock on Monday afternoon', a small boat which was conveying. four boatmen and four riggers to the ship Cambridge, then lying outside the Prince's Pier, was, from the violence of the gale, upset, at the time that the Dolphin, one of the Monk's Ferry Company's steamers, was in the George's Dock basin, within view of the poor men in their distress. She (the Dolphin) was not more than one hundred yards distant, and though called to repeatedly by the crowds on the pierhead, she did not give any assistance, nor left the basin until the shocking and distressful scene was over, which, notwithstanding the exertions made, ended in the loss of three or four of them. The intrepid conduct of the boatmen who went to their assistance, was highly praise. worthy, and was so much admired by one gentleman present that be gave them a present of money on the spot. Robert Jones, one of the boatmen who escaped, states the names of the ether boatmen to be Arthur Smith, James —, and Jas. Williams. The names of the riggers he did not know." From nine to ten o'clock on Monday night the wind con siderably abated. About eleven a fresh gale came on, which continued with some violence throughout the night, accom panied by hail andarccasional thunder and lightning. The Lockwoods was cast upon the North Bank, and was much damaged, her wizen-mast being alone left standing. The Victoria, steam-tug, succeeded in hoarding hersit 2 a.m. on Tuesday, and rescued o.itt of the crew and thirty-three passengers • in all about fifty. All the surviv ors on b oar d this ill-fated vessel have been brought away except one man. The wife of this person was on board in a dying state, and he refused to spit her. The sight on board was most heart rending. Men, women, and children were lying dead over the sides, or hanging lifeless in the rigging, having perished from the severity of the weather. The vessel will, it is ap prehended, be a total wreck. The Victoria also succeeded in saving from the St. Andrew a considerable number • but it is said that in the latter from 60 to 100 souls were left on board. The P e nnsylvania was lying in the surf, about a quarter of a mile eastward of the Lockwoods, with her hull neatly covered by the sea. The captain, crew, and passen gers were seen in the rigging on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, at a late hour, Mr. Arthur, the active and intrepid massager of the steam-tug boats, caused the fuel of the Victoria to be increased. The boat proceeded under the directions of Mr. Eccles, the master. Unfortuuately, the night was dreadfully severe: a boisterous and piercing wind, with a keen frost, snow, thunder and lightning, combined to augment the sufferings of the poor creatures who were so en tirely exposed to the wrath of the elements. - It was evident that if the vessels kept togethertill morning, many of the suf ferers must perish from cold. On Wednesday morning, at seven o'clock, those on board the Victoria, and the William Huskisson, inward bound from Dublin, saw the Pensylvania and the Lockwoods, but could not render the crews and passengers any assistance. The latter were seen in the rigging, and their cries are described as most heartrending. The Victoria was at anchor about halt a mile from the wrecks, waiting the return of daylight to re new her efforts to rescue as many as possible of the survivors. The Crusader, from Bombay, was on Tuesday morning on shore at Blackpool. The crew have been saved, but the ship, it is feared, is a wreck. The Edward, from Dundee, is a total wreck on the Hoyle Bank. Crew saved. The Davies, from the port of 'Wexford, and the Arlon, from Bangor, are wrecked at Blackpool. The Ann Paley, from Lisbon, is on shore near Poulton; three of the crew supposed to be lost. The cargo washing ashore. There is a large vessel on shore near Clarke's Wharf, the yeoman, for Demerara. The Victoria, from Charleston, is on shore off Leasowe. Crew saved. Pilot boat No. 6, outside, has received considerable damage, and one man believed to be lost. The Avon, Post-office steamer, from Dublin, arrived at seven o'clock yesterday morning, all safe. The Anixihia, from Naples, is on shore, near Holyhead. Crea saved. . The cotton, per Brighton, from Bombay, is washing on shore at 'New Brighton, and floating in the river. Several hales have been landed at Monk's Ferry, marked diamond J. with N. and G at the right-hand upper and lower angles, and diamond J. Another Steam-tug boat (the Hero) has been sent outside to the wreck with riggers, &c. The Brighton, of Bombay. was seen in a helpless condi tion on Tuesday morning, in the New Channel, near the Middle Patch Buoy. Mr. Atherton, of New Brighton, sent the Liverpool Seacoinbe steamer to the wreck for the crew, who were visible in the rigging. She succeeded, in con junction with the Magazine life-boat, in saving the captain and such of the crew as remained on board. The crew, on Monday, had made a raft. Fourteen of them got on it and have nut since been heard of. - At a late hour on Tuesday, Captain Nye, of the Indepen dence, had just returned from Leasowe. He saw a passen ger, Mr. Thompson, of New York, who had been saved from the Pennsylvania. "This gentleman reported that himself and the three other passengers, with the mate and five of the seamen, left the ship in one or her boats. When some dis tance from the shore the boat swamped, and all except him self (Mr. Ttiourpson) were drowned. He attributed his safety to the fact of his having had a life-preserver round his body. In every dock the damage has been enormous, from the vessels pitching violently against each other, and thus staving in their bows and sterns. On the river and the adjacent coasts the disasters have beers numerous and awful, as our marine intelligence will make manifest. Many vessels in the river, utterly helpless, were driven about at the mercy of the tempest. About hall-past three o'clock on Monday morn ing the schooner Foxdale, of Douglas, bound for Flint, drove from two anchors into the river. She afterwards drifted into Victoria Dock, where she sunk. The crew were saved with great'difficulty. Shortly afterwards the smack Charlotte, with salt, sunk opposite the Clarence Dock Pier. There were three persons on board at the time. Of these two, John Jones and Robert Roberts, were drowned. A young man, son to Jones, was saved by the exertions of the police on the station. At half-past two o'clock the sliding-gate at the north end of the Prince's Dock was, with part of the wall, blown down. Hugh Parry, a dock gateman, was blown into the water, and would probably have been drowned had not police-officer 421 thrown him a life-buoy which kept bun afloat till he was taken out. A lauding-waiter's hut, at the Waterloo Duck was blown away. Throughout the whole of Tuesday the utmost anxiety pre vailed to learn the fate of several of the vessels which sailed on Sunday, of which no intelligence had been heard. In the course of the afternoon the following vessels which had weathered the storm, and put back, arrived safely in port. The Lynx, bound for Lisbon, the Jane, for Bristol, the Hope, for Bristol, the Sally-, for Whitehaven, the Hardware, for Lisbon, and the Lion, for Glasgow. The utmost anxiety prevailed in consequence of a report that four large vessels were aground, and in great peril on the banks. Captain Forsyth, of the Lynx, stated, that he had passed a fine large ship, with painted ports, and a full-length figure-head, sup posed to be the Crusader, for Bombay. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. On Monday morning., at half-past four o'clock, a stack of chimneys fell on the roof of the house of Mr. ltouert M'Clel land, situated at No: 1, Richmond-row, carrying destruction into the bedrooms ;ind other parts of the house. Fortunately all the inmates had taken shelter in a lower room, and were thus saved from destruction. . . 'rhe Observatory at the Mount was nearly wholly unroofed during the late hurricane; but we belive the valuable in struments it contained escaped without any serious damage. Twenty.eight trees were thrown down or broken in the gardens, . many of considerable growth; and . the house in this elevated spot suffered considerably. • . WRECK OF THE LOCKWOODS.—Last evening the bodies of five men, eight women, and ten children were brought from the wreckl of the •Lockwoods, lost on the North Bank. They were landed from . Hoylake fishing-boat, and were immedi ately conveyed to the Workhouse, there to await the inqui sition of a coroner's jury. The children are from two to twelve years of age. We understand that a steamer has proceeded to bring up the remaining bodies of the sufferers from the Lockwoods and Pennsylvania. . THE ISLE OF MAN.—We have no news from this place, excepting that great damage is done throughout the island by the gale on Monday morning, and two large ships, almost dismasted, pasted by . the southward of the island on that day. The New York packets Pennsylvania and St. Andrew are total wrecks. The Victoria steam tug has'made every exertion to save as many as possible of the seamen and passengers from the wreks. She succeeded In saving a considerable number from the Lockwoods and St. Andrew, but in the latter vessel from 8U to 100 souls were left on Tuesday night. The following is the best account we have been able to collect of the number of persons saved by the steam-tug boats : On Tuesday, the Bth, from the St. Andrew, 23 ; foom the Lock woods, 22. On Wednesday, from the Pennsylvania, 26; from the Lock woods, 22. This makes a total of 104 saved by the steam-tug boats from the three ships. Between forty and fifty persons arc said to have perished in the Lockwoods. The Harvest Home, for St. Thomas, is on shove near Liverpool. Two of the crew landed ; the rest in the rigging ; expect to be saved ; the cargo is washing ashore. The captain and about fifty of the crew and passengers of the Lockwoods are saved. The Monkey, from Gibralter, is on shore near Formby. Three peasons drowned. The Vernon, for GI iszow, is on shore near Ulverston. The Tiger, hound to Glasgow, is on shore near Ravenglass. Tun Sine SAINT ANDREW.—This ship (of which several unau thenticated accounts have appeared) left on Saturday at 2, p.m. ; at 5 a smart breeze sprung up ; at 12 a severe gale, which increased to a perfect hurricane by 2 o'clock. At this time the sails were literally torn into ribbons; these Fails were quite new, and never before bent. One of the hands was dashed from the yard-arm on the deck ; he was severely injured, hut was alive yesterday. 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 unmanreable. and in this condition she remained until the forenoon on 'Monday, when an attempt was made to relieve her by cutting away the upper parts of her masts. She was then rigged with a mi?en-sail and a foresail; early on Tuesday morning, in this crippled state, she was steering for Liver pool. About half-past 10, a.m., she struck on the limbo Sands. with both anchors down, the sea beating heavily. The life-boats were sent oft to extricate the passengers. who W eve conveyed on board the steam-vessel Victoria, and thus providenti , lly steed: The steady and admirable conduct and presence of mind of Cap tain Thompson, during the whole of this trying occasion, is be yond all praise. As soon as the ship had staid:. almost the first thing he did Was to stave in all the spirit e asks; indeed, every bottle containing wine or spirits was emptied or destroyed, he being apprehensive of the consequences to the crew. The fore going remarks embody the substance of a verbal communication, made to us by one of the passengers who was in the ship at the time. . - CORONER'S INQUESTS AT LIVERPOOL. The following inquests were held on Tuesday, before P. F. Curry, E , q., Coroner:—On Joseph Lee, Plasterer, killed by the fall of a stack of chimneys, at the house of Mrs. Darlington, Shan non-street; John and Thomas Marsh. and Bessy Crane, servant, killed in like manner at the house of Mrs. MarSh, Nelson-street ; Ellen Bulger, servant, killed by the falling of the roof at Mr. Dun can's house, Lord Nelson-street; Williattf Qualter and Ellen Law rence killed in like matinhr, in Sydney.strbet East. and [lardy street ; likewise on John Jones, master bf the sloop Conway, sunk during the gale, and on the body of a boy unknown, picked up on Monday evening in one of the docks Yesterday, an inquest was neld on the body of Thomas Eastham. who was drowned on Mon day in endeavouring to escape from his vessel during the storm. The coroner and jury passed a vote of thanks to the police for their praiseworthy exertions on the memorable night of Monday, which vote the coroner was to forward to the Watch Committee. (From Gore's Advertiser of Yesterday.) The last intelligence of Tuesday night caused the utmost anxiety, in the interim of suspense between that period and yesterday morning, as to the success of the' endeavours for the preservation of the passengers and property. The worst fears respecting the ill-fated vessels, reported to be in distress, were unhappily con firmed. At an early hour the most earnest inquiries were made in quarters where it was most likely to obtain information. I t was soon known that the New York packet-ships Pennsylvania and St. An drew were total wrecks, and that the Lockwooas, a British vessel, was in a similar condition. The Victoria steam-tug had, in the course of Tuesday afternoon, made every exertion to save as many as possible of the seamen and passengers from the wrecks. She succeeded in bringing on shore a considerable numberfrom the Lockwoods and St. Andrew, but from eighty to one hundred souls were left in the first-named vessel. Amongst those preserved, was an infant only eighteen months old, whose father and mother were left on hoard. The Pennsylvania was then lying in the surf, with her hull nearly co vered by the sea. The captain, crew, and passengers were in the rigging, and had been there since the vessel struck. The water was making a breach over her. Late on Tuesday night, Mr. Arthur, the active manager of the steam tug-boats, caused the crew of the Victoria to be increased, and sent her out to the vicinity of the wrecks, to see what assist ance could be rendered. Unfortunately, the night was dreadfully severe ; a boisterous and piercin g wind, a keen frost, snow, thun der, and lightning, continued to augment the sufferings of the poor creatures who were so entirely exposed to the wrath of the ele ments. It was evident, that if the vessels kept together until morning, many of the sufferers must perish from cold. Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, an inward-bound Dublin steamer saw the Pennsylvania and Lockwoods,but could not render their crews and passengers any assistance. The latter were seen in the rigging, and their cries were described as most heart-rending. The Victoria was at anchor about half a mile from the wrecks, waiting the return of daylight to renew her efforts to rescue as many as possible of the survivors. In the course of the morning another steam tug-boat (the Hero) was sent outside to render what assistance she could. The anxiety of those on shore to learn the fate of the vessels and the sufferers became intense. It was mid-day, however, before anything cer tain was made known, and the intelligence that then arrived was of such a nature as to make a most melancholy impression on all who heard it. About noon, it was reported that one of the steam tug-hosts had arrived, bringing with her the survivors from the wrecks. From her was heard the following melancholy particu lars:— On hoard the Pennsylvania,' Captain Smith, (a commander uni versally esteemed.) the first and s••cond mates, about seven of th crew; and four of the passengers had all perished. Fortunatel3 six had been saved. The captain, and fifty-four of the crew and passengers of the Lockwoods were saved. All the survivors on board this ill-fated vessel were brought away except one man. The wife of this per son was on board in a dying, state, and he refused to quit her. fhe sight on board was most heart-rending. Men, women, and children were lying dead over the sides, or hanging lifeless in the rigging, having perished from the severity of the weather. The following is the best account we have been able to collect of the number of persons saved by the steam tug-boats : On Tuesday, the Bth January—front the St. Andrew, 23 ; from the Lockwoods, 33. Yesterday, the 9th January—front the Pensylvania. 26 ; from the Lockwoods, 22. This makes a total of 104 saved by the steam tug boats from the three ships. Between forty and fifty persons are said to have perished in the Lockwoods. The Lock woods had on board 108 souls when she sailed, of whom one was born on that day. These consisted of 8 t passengers, and a crew of 21. Of the crew only one• man was drowned, while 5t of the hasseagers have perished. Of the crew 23 have been saved, and 32 passengers; making a total of 55. THE POST-OFFICE SrEamilas.--Two of tiles: , vessels, the Avon, commanded by Lieul. Townley, R.N., and the Shear water, com manded by Lieut. Smitnett, were Out during the hurricane of Sun day night and Monday morning last. They, of course, experi enced the gale in its fullest fury, the Shearwater being on her voy age to Dublin, and the Avon on her passage from that port. to Li verpool, Lieut. Towneley reports that it was blowing a strong gale when he left Dublin. About fifteen minutes past 'one on r, -Mon day morning, the wind began to blow in furious squalls. From two to four o'clock it was a complete hurricane, with a heavy sea. They hauled in close when near Point Lynas and laid to, but from the severity of the storm, and the heavy sea, the vessel was blown off land. They tried to wear round, but found it impossible from the heavy sea. They set close reefed foresail and staysail, and again endeavoured to wear, but the staysail was blown to rib bons out of the bolt-rope, and the forsail split immediately by the violence of the wind. The vessel, about eight o'clock, was com pletely unmanageable, with the sea breaking over her and on hoard of her. The waves stove in and washed away the larboard bulwarks, forward, and nearly all the outside rasing of her star board paddle-box, with other damage. Every sail they could set for some time was torn to ribbons. At length they managed to get up the storm jib, and close reefed topsail, and setting the engines on full speed, and waiting fora smooth between the seas, they suc ceeded in wearing her round with her head in shore. The jib was split to shreds. This .was :Wont two in the afternoon, when it was blowing as hard as ever, with the sea drift so thick that nothing near th, horizon was visible. At six o'clock in the evening they laid to for the purpose of as, ertaining how Much coal they had on board. After being " tempest test" for some time, they put into the harbour of Beaumaris; here they took in a supply of coals, and departed for Liverpool, about a quarter past four o'clock on 'rues. day afternoon. They passed the wrecks early in the morning of yesterday, and arrived at George's Pier about 5 o'clock. The en gines of the Avon, WC believe. - have suffered some slight injury. The Shearwater was also much knocked about by the tempest, on her homeward voyage; she yesterday morning passed the w rec k s on the banks. The crew heard the poor sufferers on board crying for assistance, which they were unable to render. Owing to the damage which the above boats have received, there was no mail pacßetleft for Dublin. The bags were sent by one of the steamers of the City of Dublin Company. The following account of the number of individuals who were saved from on board the Lockwoods, and of those that perished, we have endeavoured to make as correct as possible ; but owing to the absence of any official information : and the many conflietini: statements of the passengers, we are afraid that it will prove complete. SAVED. Alexander M'Donald, Edmund Toinkins, Americans; Patrick Quinn, Irish; Archibald M•Dona Id, Archibald and J ohn M•Donald, sons of the above, from the north of Ireland ; George Cutler, Eng lishman; Elias Martin, Irish; John Cairns, Margaret Cairns. Anne Cairns Belfast; Donald Mulholland, North o f I re l an d; Dennis Carnes', Irish ; William Loughran, Irish, in the Northern Hospital, frost-bitten, lost ail his family, wife and four children ; Alexander M'Donald, North of Ireland ; Samuel Moore, Robert Moore, Cole raine ;*Mary Burnes, Irish ; Paul Dettivr, American, Mr. Seville, John and Thomas Donoghue, county Cavan ; M•Leati, Scot land; Daniel O'Leary, Cork; James Tomlinson and four children, fish;En William Koran, in the Infirmary • Mr. Brown, Mr. SaYea. English ; C. S. Smith, Yorkshire ; Mr. Voncrietf, Dnndee Wm. Varley and three children, the youngest only three months old, West Bromwich ; Robert Boyd, and Margaret Humblerry, in the Northern Hospital, frost-bitten : and William and Ann Keoghan, Irish. LOST. nlr Mrnonalii. wife of Archibald M`Donald ; Mrs. Varcey, wife of Wiliam Varcey ; Elizabeth Agneau and child ; Susannah Cairns wile of John Cairns; Anne Cairns, Susannah Cairns, and Elizabeth Cairns, daughters of the above; Mrs, Laughrau, wife of William Laughran, and four childr en ; Jessie Milligan, Samuel Milligan. son of the above, from Annan, Scotland ; James Norris, Ardee, died about twenty minutes before the others left the wreck •, Timothy Kagan. Cork ;-1- Joseph Worley, Mrs Worley, Daniel Worley, John thicket, Patrick Marley, Charles S.uith, Mary Burnes, Ann Koran, frost bitten and in the Infirmary. • Father and son. The old man saved through the persevering exertions of the son. + From the communications which we have had with many of the passengers, it would be an act of injustice to Captain Sproule and his mate, were we to omit to mention their intrepidity and strenuous exertions in endeavouring to save the survivors. We understand that the mate was the last matt to leave the ship. THE LATE GALE. (From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. ) THE HURRICANE OF MONDAY.—It has been our painful duty, on many occasions, to lay before our readers the details of exceedingly calamitous visitations, arising from the vio lence of the elements; but we have certainly never had to record one so wide in its extent, or so destructive in its con sequences, as the hurricane which visited this county, and, we fear, many other districts, with respect to which no infor mation has yet reached us, early on Monday morning last, and which, we believe, exceeded in violence any storm that has occurred for many years,—perhaps in the life of any per son now i❑ existence. _ . As this tremendous visitation commenced in the dead of night, very little is generally known of the appearances by which it was immediately preceded; but we have reason to think that the ordinary indications of a coming storm, though not entirely absent, were less marked than usual. The pre ceding day (Sunday) was frosty in the morning, with a slight fall of snow; but the trust disappeared before noon, and dur ing the afternoon and evening there were occasional showers of rain, the wind being gentle, and tolerably steady, from the S.S.E., without any appearance of the rack or scud which is the almost invariable precursor of a severe storm. 'What is remarkable is, that, up to eight o'clock in the .evening, there was no striking depression of the barometer, which had stood during the day about the changeable point; but some time after night, we believe ' the depression becamb so rapid as to attract the attention of several parties whom we have seen, the mercury having descended more than half an inch be tween nine and twelve. Soon after twelve o'clock, the wind began to freshen very rapidly, veering about from S.E. to S.W., and blowing in gusts, which rapidly increased in vio lence until about half-past two, when it blew a most violent gale, and its effects began to be apparent in the falling of chimneys, and the unroofing of houses. A little after three, it somewhat abated, and many persons flattered themselves that its extreme violence had passed away. This hope, how• ever, was vain; for, about four, the storm again began to rage, and, from that time until about half-past seven, it re sembled one of those awful atmospheric convulsions, which are the scourge of tropical climates, rather than one of the storms of a northern latitude; the wind blowing in furious gusts of a few minutes' duration, with short intervals of com parative calm, that made the gusts appear even more terri ble. During the greater part of the time, the sky, instead of being dark: and scowling, as it usually is under such cir cumstances, was generally clear, and he moon shone brightly out, as if in mockery of the awful scene beneath. From what we can learn from the concurring statements of parties who had good opportunities fur observation, and From the time at which the mist extensive mischief was donsi, the greatest fury of the storm must have been experienced from about half-past five to half-past six in the morning, when it seemed, to those who heard it in exposed situations, as it nothing of the work of man could resist its ; and we be' lieve the general feeling of such parties will be an emotion of surprise, not, that so much mischief should have been done, but that so much property should have escaped with little or no injury. That this storm greatly exceeded in violence any that has visited this district for very many years, we are disposed to infer, not from the injuries done to buildings of various kinds, numerous and frightful as they are, so much as from the im mense number of trees prostrated in all parts of the neigh bourhood. The buildings erected at different periods vary so much in their strength and stability, that arty comparison of the effects produced on them by different storms is very uncertain; but the works of nature are uniform; and when we find, what we believe is strictly the case, ;hat the number of trees prostrated by the recent storm exceeds ninny times over that of any former visitation of the kind that can be re collected in this neighbourhood, we cannot resist the infer- ence• that this has been more violent than any which pre ceded it. The only ones with which we have heard it com pared are, one in January, 1802, and the great storm of the sth December, 1822 (when the cross was blown fi om the spire of St. Mary's church) : neither of which was certainly at all comparable to the one of Monday in respect to the number of trees destroyed, which may he counted through the neigh bourhood, not by ones and twos, but by scores and hundreds. We understand that in Heaton Park alone, more than 150 have been blown down and upwards of 170 others have been mutilated and disfigured by large limbs having been torn from them. Nor is this at all a solitary instance of destruction. In Flixton and Urmston, the destrnction of trees has been immense. On the farm belonging to G. L. Ridehalgh, Esq. in Flixton and Urmston, mote than 20 have been blown down or broken; on the lands of William Stephenson, Esq. of Urmston, a still larger number; and throughout the neigh bourhood in the like proportion. Indeed, so completely was Flixton Lane blocked up by fallen timber, that none of the farmel s could make their way to Manchester with their milk carts. About Worsley, and also at Al iddleton and Hopwood, a great number of large trees have suffered ; and, indeed, generally, throughout the the neighbourhood, the destruction of timber has been to a most unprecedented extent. One very remarkable fact attending the recent storm has been the extent to which objects exposed to the violence of the wind have been covered with saline incrustations, no_ doubt produced by spray brought from the sea by the vio lence of the storm. Windows, the branches of trees, and many other objects, have been so completely encrusted with salt, as in many cases to appear as if covered with boar frost, so as to attract the notice of the most careless observers: We have now lying berme us about a quarter of an ounce of salt, which was collected in a few minutes, by means of a sponge, by G. L. Ridehalgh, Esq. from trees in the neigh bourhood of ' , listen, and a number of branches, exhibiting small incrustations in the most palpable manner, have been brought to us from different quarters. We understand that this appearance is not confined to this neighbourhood, but appears in Saddleworth, and other places to the eastward; and it would be a matter of some curiosity to determine how far it has extended in that direction, and, especially, whether it has been observed beyond the chain of the Yorkshire hills: There is another circumstance worth mentioning; as showing the violence of the slot m. Many persons in Pendleton, and other parts of the neighbourhood, have been struck with the appearance of flakes and filaments of cotton sticking upon the trees and hedges, for which they could not account. We understand that s►milar appearances are found in various parts of the country between here and Liverpool; and there ►s every reason to believe that the cotton came from the large cotton factory at Liverpool. After these preliminary remarks, we shall proceed to lay before our readers such particulars of the damage done in this neighbourhood as have come to our knowledge, which, though very far from being complete, will be found to be exceedingly extensive. We feel pleasure, however, in sta ting, that the loss of life, though serous, is not so serious as might have been expected under all the circumstances. MANC H ESTER. I❑ the township of Manchester there has been much lass -damage than the outskirts, and less shelteied parts of the town. We have noticed below, under separate heads, some of the disasters occurring in the lines of the principal tho roughfares of the town, and the roads leading to it. Besides the fatal consequences to four persons in the immediate neighbourhood, elsewhere noticed, and to two others at Sta lybridge, we have heard of several other personal casualties of a less serious character, and have no doubt that the list of these might be very considerably increased. In Liverpool Road, near the end of John-street, a long sign was blown down from the house-front of Mr. White, the Railway Inn, and it struck a man who was walking past so severe a blow on the shoulder, as to drive him several yards into the car riage -way, where he fell upon his hands and knees. He im mediately sprang up and ran forward several yards, as if apprehending further danger, before he looked round to as certain the cause of his fall. The poor fellow's aim was broken, and he is now lying at the•lntirmary . ; - we believe doing well. About nine o'clock in the morning, a chimney of the house of Mr. Sewell, Water-street, was blown over the roof of the house of Mr. Goadsby, druggist, bottom of Bridge-street, and part of it struck a man on the foot-path, and knocked him down, bruising and wounding him severely about the head. He was taken into Mr. Goadsby's shop, and thence to the surgery of Mr. Owen, Bridge-street, where he was attended. We have not yet learned whether he had re ceived a fracture of the skull, but understand that he was much relieved after vomiting a quantity of extravasated blood, and was then able to request that he might be conveyed home, to York-street, Huhne. We have not heard in what state he has been since. At the loth 'nary, there have been many slight cases of persons injured by the falling of bricks, slates, &c.; but the only two cases there, of a sufficiently se rious nature to constitute the parties in-patients, were that of the man whose arm was broken by the sign in Liverpool Road, and another man, whose leg was broken - by the fall of the chimney at the cotton mill of Messrs.,Thomas Harrison and Son, Stalybridge, which accident is somewhere else no ticed. About eight o'clock in the morning, the centres for • the Victoria Bridge, across the Irwell from Manchester to Salford, ou the site of the Old Bridge, were blown over into the river, and one of the workmen, named Jones, who was standing between two of them, had a narrow escape, suffering 'only a severe squeezing. STRANGEWAYS. — Part of the roof of the premises of Mrs. Mary Bealey and Son, bleachers, near the Flying Horse Inn, Hunt's Bank, was torn off by the wind. A chimney was blown down and through the roof of a small two-story house, between Boundary -street and the druggist's shop at the corner of Bridge-street and Ducie-street. The house is occupied by a greengrocer and his wife named Weaver ; and a man named Jackson, a relative, who lives with them, being a good deal alarmed, arose shortly before seven o'clock, and had only just left the bed, iu one corner of the room, when the chimney fell through, bringing a great portion of the roof along with it, and covered with a great mass of bricks and rubbish the bed and that part of the room. Wea ver and his wife were in bed at the time in another corner of die room, and fortunately escaped without any personal in jury, though a good deal frightened. The falling bricks and roof broke down parts of the staircase down to the next room. A chimney, in part of the erections at the Man chester workhouse, was blown down, forcing in part of the roof, but not doing any serious mischief or personal injury. In various places, the spray of the river lrwell was caught by the wind, and carried to a great height, and to a con siderabledistance from the banks. THE NEW Luny ROAD AND BnotiGuToN.—All the way up this road, from Strangeways to Broughton, the fences were blown down, quantities of slates blown from the roots, and many panes in those windows which front the west blown in by the fury of the gale. Amongst others the front window of the house of Mr. Lodge, the Grove Inn, Broughton, which, we understand, had not received any injury in the various high winds experienced during the last five or six years, were in some cases perforated, as if with shot; in others nearly the whole of the mines were forced inwards. In Broughton Lane, the house of Mr. Jeremiah Garnett was completely unroofed, scarcely a slate being left in its place.—The house of the Rev. J. It. Beard, Great Cheethatu-street, Higher Broughton, was also much damaged by numbers of slates being torn off the roof, &c.—Many of the houses in Wilton Place and Tivuli Place were similarly injured, the slates being in most instan ces carried quite across the gardens in front of them, and the road, to the footpath on the opposite side.—ln the pile of buildings a little higher up the road, called Arthur's Terrace, three stacks of chimneys were blown down, at the back part of the houses, and falling through the roofs, they did much damage in the upper floors.—The end wall at the back of these houses was also blown down. The next pile.uf houses, erected by Mr. J. S. Stubbs, being more substantially built, escaped with less damage; but the fury of the storm had rip ped the lead off the roofs, torn off many of the slates, and hurled them over the gardens and the road to the opposite footpath.—Similar effects were visible at Mount Broughton. and at the house of Mr. Armstrong, at the corner of Broin- Lane, which had a large piece of the roof blown in.—The road was in many places strewed with the large arms, as well as the smaller boughs and branches of trees, which had been snapped off by the gale.—Off the house belonging to Richard Potter, Esq., 111. P., now occupied by Mr. William Crossley , the chimney of the coach-house was blown down, and fell through the roof of the hay-loft.—The lane just above, lead ing to Broughton Park, was covered in many places with large boughs of trees; and two oaks which stood behind the house of 'J r. Slater were torn up by the roots. We took op several of the branches in this lane, and found them all co vered-on one side with what appeared to be rime, or hoarfrost , but which the taste proved to be a thick encrustation of soil -All the damage above described, as the result of the storni , is comparatively insignificant, when contrasted with the et' fects of the gale at the house of Mr. Joseph Peel, at the top of the lane last mentioned, but on the north side of the lane leading to Singleton brook. The house stands on a little emi nence, and seems to have been a mark for the fury of the g ale. —About half-past six O'clock, a stack of chimneys, in th e front pint of the roof, facing the west, were blown 'd own , ac- Wally falling towards the wind. The chimney was co verei • with mastic or cement; and this, with the cohesive quality ° the mortar, seems to have held together, in one mass, tb e greater part of the brickwork that fell. It forced its waY, through the roof, into the chamber which the servants ha d quitted,—one of them only to meet the fate she sought t° shun,—and part of it struck and broke away a portion of tn e foot of the bedln which they had slept. The falling mao , consisting of probably two yards of the chimney, burst throng ,ll the floor of this room into the one beneath, which was occ°' pied as a bedroom by the governess, who had shortly before quitted it; but the nurse, wishing to give her assistance be, - low stairs, under the painful circumstances above narrate d ' had just before brought into this room one of the children., ' 1 little boy between three and four years of age, and placed tiittt iu one bed, and in another bed in the - same chamber were ti older children. The falling chimney struck a part or the be d in which the little boy was lying, and by some means double„ or crushed it together, so as to pre s s his legs between W I ," bedding, upon which a quantity of bricks fell. The bu t of the' chimney forced its way through the floor and throub ,, the ceiling of the hall below; the mass remaining, in a Pe r ; pendicular position, in the governess's room. Th;ther th man-servant hastened, accompanied by Mr. George Ashld' and one of his labourers; and on their calling him by naio the child answered, " I'm here. Please to get me on t 'a At first, notwithstanding hi s v o ice, they were unable to li t him; hot at length he was discovered and extricated. P. had been so effectually preserved by the bedding, &c., that b a : had sustained no greater injury than a bruise on the he w occasioned by some rubbish striking him while being ex t ,, r , cated. The chimney had not fallen near the bed where t'' h other children were lying, and they were removed, ITO C t , alarmed, but unhurt. Oth e r d amag e w a s done to the 01, buildings; the roof of the stabling was sttipt of its lea ' many of the trees and shrubs were also seriously injur e ‘ l: , their boughs broken, &e., and altogether the loss will he e n siderable. At a newly erected house of Mr. Edward Slia cross's, near Kersal Moor, two chimneys were blown d"lj and, forcing their way through the roof and attic floors , damage to the extent of probably not less than £2OO. EsTwicti.—Some damage was done to the roof, and ! l e l , veral panes of glass blown in, at the house of Mr. Johlt !%' ton. 'I he mischief was inconsiderable ; and we on mention.o j chiefly in order to show that the repot t, which was curr ent some quarters Monday, that a servant or other inmate 0 the house had been killed, was without foundation. Fr ° , 4 , our inquiries on this road, we are satisfied that this has beg, the most devastating wind-storm ever known in that neig bourhood and direction. , CHEETH A IO HILL AND ROAD.—The Cheetham Hill like most others in the neighbourhood, exhibits various st r ,s • ing indications of the fury of the tempest. The roof of is Wesleyan Association Chapel, near the first mile s tone , se , n.uch damaged, the wind having blown' portions of it in• be . • vend of the windows, too, are much injured, many Pen es „ e d. log blown in; about Stocks several houses are mitch datill e s• It the house of Mrs. Parker, jun., a little beyond Sffl e Lane, a chimney was blown down, and fell on the r which, however,.it did not break through; but, when we A it, the chimney was resting thereon, in an entire state. chimney- in the house of Mr. Boardman, in Smedley 1,11.0 f fell in a similar way, and with like results. In the house of Mr. Wright, a little higher up the road. I`,l.rica , e, of six wind o w s were bl o wn in. At Green Hill, the resio of Edward Lloyd, Esq.,bl giro the banker, - a chimney wa s n rbe down, and, falling' through the roof, did some datnao