The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

THE LATE GALE ON THE EAST COAST.

Items of information continue to come to band
illustrating the fury of the late gale and its devastating
effects on land se well sa sea. The smack Royal Mir, which
arrived at Greet Yarmouth on Friday, brings intelligence
of the lass of three of her drew ; two were washed over-
board by • heavy sea, and the water broke into the cabin
end drowned the apprentice before be could escape. The
Ilea dam, constructed under the superintendence of Mr.
Page, C.E. at the month of the Marshland Smeeth and
Fen drain, is a perfect wreck, • gap having been made in
it 40ft. wide at the top and 15ft. wide at the bottom. The
expenditure on this unfortunate work was betwess 2,0001.
and 3,0001. The bank known as " Mr. Santini:Wm,"
although temporarily repaired, is likely to involve • con-
siderable outlay on the part of the Norfolk Estuary Com-
pany (who some years since assumed the responsibility of
in consideration of • fixed sum paid by Mr. Bentiock).the
fore shores as well as the bank itself, being much injured.
Another serious loss has been sustained by same company
by the gale having carried away a large portion of the
Babingleyg bank on the north side of the estuary. With
to the inroad made by the sea at Wells some mis-
apprehension has arisen. It is not the fact that the new
eat bank, constructed at great expense by the Earl of
Leicester in 1858 and 1859, was broken in, and that its
failure was the cause of an inundation which has inflicted
damages roughly estimated at 10,0001. The new bank
runs from the quay in • straight line parallel with the
harbour for upwards of a mile, and protects the
marsh which has been enclosed on the east. The barrier
on the shore boundary consisted of • natural sandbank,
which was joined with the new work and strengthened with
shingle and faggot breakwaters. The fearfully high tides
which the gale induced burst completely over the
natural sandbank, which dissolved and floated away,
opening a panne 200 yards wide, through which the tide
now ebbs and Sows. The new bank ia endangered by
the unusual pressure which it has to sustain on the
marsh side, and which it was not designed to resist. At
Clay the Salthouee Bank, which was formed • few years
since for the purpose of reclaiming 400 acres of land,
which has just had 1,0001. spent upon it by way of im-
proving it, has given way, • gap having been made in it
200 yards wide. The whole 400 acres were .floodsd to
the depth of several feet, and several houses were inun.
dated. Mr. Hardy's north bank also gave way in four or
five places, within a hundred yards of the Salt-house Bank,
but as the beach is almost as high as this work, no great
amount of water was dashed over it. At South *old, Suf-
folk, fishhottses, boathouses, boats, in feet, almost every-
thing standing on the beach, were swept away, and the
damage sustained is estimated at 2,000/.. many poor fisher-
men being reduced to ruin. At Mundesley, on the Norfolk
coast, the sea has encroached to such an extent that it has
been found necessary to quit houses as to longer habitable.
sod • granary advertised for sale has become a prey to the
waves. The sea has made such ravage* that, unless a break-
water is erected, there is some danger that the whole village
will be carried away.

THE STORM IN THE PENTLAND FIRTH.—At all
the fishing stations on the southern side of the Firth, from
Canishay to Duelist, more or lees damage has bees done to
fishing. boats, of which no fewer than twenty-six have been
totally destroyed, to the serious loss of many a poor fisher-
man. Injury bus also been done to a number of small har-
bours along the coast, hut we are not yet apprised of the
extent of the damage. The Earl of Caithness nobly exerted
himself in assisting the fishermen to save their property.
A correapondeut at John o'Groata gays :—" The late
storm has occasioned great loss of property, to
the fishermen especially of this locality. Besides
overturning several stacks of corn and bayricka
throughout the various parts of the country, it told
with dreadful effect along the shores of the Pentland.
At Mey, the sea completely swept away all the small
fishing boats, except sue, and at Gills, only two remain ;
and if it had not been for the strict vigilance of the fisher-
men, they would have been carried off likewise. Some at
Bum and Duncanshay, were afloat at different times,
and did not mowe without some injury. Sufficient
time has not yet elapsed to admit of our having intelli-
gence from the whole of the West Sutherland seaboard,
but enough has been received to assure us that the hurri-
cane has been attended with sad results. A correspon-
dent from Melvich says :—" On the morning of Friday
the tide rose so high. with a heavy swell from the north,
that it swept away eight cod-fishing boats, with all the
fishing materials which the fishermen beppened to leave
in their beats, being so much worn out the night be-
fore ; 100 lobster creels were also carried away."—Northern
Ensign.
Naw Ranwava.—Wolverhampton and I3ridg-
north Railway. —The parliamentary estimate for this new
lies is 150,0001. It is to commence by • junction with the
Severn Valley Railway, near Bridgnurth, sal terminate by
• junction with the Grand Junction section of the London
and North Western, near Wolverhampton. North and
South Staffordshire Junction Railway.-I'he estimated cost
of this new line is 130,0001. It will run from the Trent
Valley, near Replan to the Potteries line of the North
Staffordshire, near Uttoxeter, with branches to Colwich„
and from Stowe to Abbott's Bromley. Fochabere and
Garmouth Railway.—This sew Scottish line is proposed to
be constructed from the Fochabers station of the Inver-
ness and Aberdeen Junction Railway to Glarmouth, in the
county of El jin, at an estimated coat of 40,0001.
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