The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-01 00:00:00

THE GALE OF LA' WEEK.-DREADFUL

LOBB OF LIFE.

NIWCMITLE-ON-TYSI, 151111:HDAT NIGHT.
Ere this some general account will have reached
London of the fearful loss amongst the shipping that took
place off Hartlepool and is the estuary of the Tees during
Thursday. The storm had blown with unmitigated fury
oe the coast north of &sham from Tuesday night, striking
terror into the hearts of all those acquainted with the
dangers of the sea. Oa Thursday night the seamen of the
Tyro and Wear were congratulating themselves that
the worst woe over, but the intelligence sent by
the shipping agent from the neighbourhood of Hartle-
! isool sad the Tess, to the insurance clubs in
this pert, which Intelligence reached here to-day, has put
us I. n of the particulars of a calamitous destruc-
tion life and property, which has filled the whole neigh
hourhocid with horror. On Thursday, when we thought,
we bad got the principal part of the vessels which had been
on the coast into port, or had an sccount of them, a con-
siderable fleet of vessels was observed raining towards
Hartlepool and the Tess; the sea was rolling with great
fury, and the gale blowing on the coast at the
time. A dash was made by the vessels for •
place of safety : some secured it, and got into
harbour, but for a great number of them there was
a lee shore, and to many of the crews • watery grave.
There are between 20 and 30 vessels on shore south of
Sunderland; many of those will be got off if the weather,
moderates, others will go to pieces. The following are
some of the particulars of the loss of life as well as property.
The Wenaley Grove, belonging to South Shields, split
herself on the Longleaf Rock on Thursday, and lost all her
crew but two. The Amulet, of Rochester, foundered off
the same place, and lost all hands. A laden gallica, a
schooner, a collier brig, supposed to be the St. Hilda, of
South Shields, all foundered off Seaton on Thursday, at
noon, all hands perishing.
A vessel foundered off Hunteliffe Fort about the same
time. All hands gone.
The Northern, of this place, struck on the Longscar
Rocks on Thursday, and all hands were rescued by the
Seaton life-boat but two.

The Queen Victoria, of Sunderland, foundered off Har-
tlepool on the same day. All hands but one were rescued.
A little Teasel, the Acorn, belonging to this port, has
foundered with all hands off SAnds.end. There are other
vessels on shore farther south.
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To-day information has been received of the wreck of
three vessels on the Northumberland coast. The Victoria,
from Oldenburg, is on shore at Blvth, laden with tar and
deals. Her crew was saved by the blyth lit- boat. A Rus-
sian brig is on shore at Amble ; her crew is saved. And
this morning a foreign vessel, dismuted, drifted ashore at
Hartley. She had not a soul on board, and the crew is
supposed to be all drowned. She is thought to be the
Swedish vessel Carl Gaeta!, which left this port on Mon-
day, coal lades.
The Norwegian barque Marie Elizabeth, stranded on the
Herd sand on 'Thursday, is fast breaking tsp. She was laden
with a valuable general cargo from London for Christiana,
and some of the London houses will be great losers, as but
a small proportion of the lighter goods, groceries, itc.,which
are saved, will be worth mach. If the weather keeps mo-
derate, several boxes of valuable machinery, it is expected,
will be taken out of the vessel's bottom, which she has
bucked out when she struck. The wine and spirits
have been plundered by • ruffianly mob of men end women
from the lower part of Shields, who during Thursday
night rivalled the elements in plundering and tearing to
pieces the cargo of the unfortunate vessel, and the clothes
akar hapless isaelso and grew. The police have got hold
of same of the beside, and it is to be hoped they will be
severely puuitMd by the magistrates.
The weatheals muds milder at this time (midnight), and
there is every appearance of the storm having abated. At
the lowest estimate not lase than 100 poor seamen have
perished by this dreadful gals, and the destruction of pro-
perty is also necessarily very great.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST A ROMAN
CATHOLIC PRIEST AT BRISTOL.
BRISTOL, OCTOBER 31.
A caas which excited a good deal of interest was
heard yesterday before our magistrates, at the Council
horns, in which the complainant wee • poor woman of the
Roman Catholic pennasion. named Shugwell, and the de-
fondant the Rev. Mr. Cullen, the priest of a Roman Catholic
Chapel at Pelham& road, St. Philip end Jacob (out).
The charge aplmal • the reverend gentleman was one of
assault, tln orimpialnest alleging that as she was at prayers
that morning on bar knees in the Penn well-road Chapel
the priest, Mr. C URN up to her end tried to push her
out, sad upon her he kicked her off her knees and
afterwards pubs* her y out of the chapel.
Mr. Cullen mid ha impold be ready most fully to explain the
matter to their worship. About • year and a half ago the
obl pre-
sent appliouit labeling tram • monomania of a very extra-
°Mummy kind Is saaasgesess el which she was iged to
hbt is as asylum AlVit elm had been in that seta-
t fee MN tines he aosived a notice that she had
Nan illabingok sag that she vies about to pay him another
chi& and swat wrisayasces to which she bad before sub-
joshed him. Oho dig visit him he a fortnight, and to such
an extent did she carry bee annoyance that be was corn-
ra to sive hen into the ISO* of the pollee. She was
tYo AO beiNS maidag al'igans expressions to him
of the mot illetremiag linanobw, and as they were
alWis Maisel Is before pm* ha did not know what
to do. Tor a bag time ha bore with her, but a
nem* oe wish' ego she entered his church,
sad west fats the part of it appoined for peni-
tents. When be same down and found her there,
where she had as right to be, he took hold of her
awl pot her was of the abarch. She had no occasion to
cons dams swept to annoy him, for she passed three catholic
iguanas ea her way. Yeeternay. morning she again came
to Ids ekseali,
bar
mit. and having suspicion of what she would do,
he tornsi

The Nam faqalred whether she behaved improperly at
all? _ _

11r. Oman aid sh• did not, as she bad not time to do so;
however hauggwahended that eh* would. She seemed to
have a !Lied Ms that he was the rude appointed to guide
her to selvielsop. . _

—Ties- Misr, Inquired whether she had eves interrupted
Ship doom li 1,
the virmead privet In the public discharge of his duties in

—ideTTOlSilin said she had net, but he apprehended that she

Mr. Williams irked whether the woman was not on her
knees at prayers at the time that he seised her.
Mr. Callas replied that she was, bat added that he
wanted proteeticia spinet her.
Mr. Coates said it was clear that Mr. Cullen had exceeded
his duty, sad had acted with much indeeency. If he bad
been saasyed he could have complained, but when the
mom went to perform her private devotions is the church
neither be nor any other person had a right to remove her.
He should ban thought a catholic priest ought to have been
the last parses la the world to here done so.
Mr. CulMa inquired whether he might not protect his
akaoel intresien ?
toeless
said, in this country catholic chapels as well
as other chapels we open to all who conducted themselves
Ir. P"eg.
r. allea—There an ether chapels besides mine.
Mr. Williams said she might chose where she would p
to as, her prayers.
With reference to the allegation of his having kicked her,
Kr. Cullen mid he only did it when she tame in the last
time, to show his catnap.
Mr. Ceske said no doubt the rye. father had, in law,
Mantitted an resit; but, ander the circumstances, the
would content themselves b 7 cautioning him
the repaities of such conduct in future. The
mama mast ales understand that she had no right to cause
anneysine to any sae.
The ease then terminated. It was stated in the court
that the wemaa was under a blasphemous delusion with
points. reopen to hermit and Mr. Cullen, although sane on other

FM AND LOSS OF LIFE AT PUILLIPS'S FIRE
AMOIDIDwroa Wow.—Yesterday the premises of Die
Ammihilator " Company, in Battersea-fields were Ya-
mpa he two hours by a destructive the. Mr. Braidwooi
Ile Melt drew apes following official report of the occur-
mem :—" Oet. all, Ma lle a.m., called to a fire in Batter.
Ina4slde, near the,Waterworke. On arriving found the pre-
*Bee known as the mores and oven houses of Phillip's
Patent Fire Assails/at Company 012 fire. The flames were
ortiogulehed by Imam Engines that attended : Five
Ole OElhe pada, and that of the West of Eng-
. The promisee and their content. destroyed.
Moe of fire 'opposed to be from a defective flue." Unfur-
-1 woody it Is to be added that a poor woman, named Gar-
eged 616 the wife of the watchman, lost her life in the
GUNN M bed pose to a cupboard for some domestic
pwrpmA whoa be we orertsksn by the llama, the outbreak
of ogobablv were accompanied by the generation of
some mairatiag gas, which disabled her from retreating in
time M sam her life. When found after the extinction of
the its the logy WU shockingly disfigured. .t large
amber et " somOtilators" were on the premise., which
wen NM keg age the scone of a number of experiments
cd2stlea la Malik the enamel of the invention in cases
THE CRYSTAL PALACE OF 1861.—Tho ploughman
is bully at work in Hyde Palk, where the palace stood,
preparing the ground for grass seed, which will be sown in
a few days. Except some pillars of granite and lumps of
coal, wpm whieh the Noisome word " Lot " may be seen,
netliwg romeles the stream or its contents. Will
them be se memeriel swell*M mark the spot whore it
stood ?
P,

_IT AID TO SAILORS' HOMEL—Thc
following reply to an application to the Board of Admiralty
fay their aid towards the enlargement of the Portsmouth
Sailors' Home, has been received by the committee of that
institution from the secretary of the Admiralty :—" I em
commanded to acquaint you that their lordship., having
taken the subject into their consideration, they are deeply
Impressed with the importance and value of such institu-
tions, and propose submitting to the consideration of
parliament a vote for a sum of money towards their sup-
port."
OPENING OF TUE SUBTERRANEAN TELEGRAI'II
To DIOTIR ALONG THE OLD COACH Roam—To-day this
telegraph, which has been laid along the old coach road to
Dover, and attached to the submarine telegraph which
crosses the Channel to Calais is to be thrown open fur pub-
lic use, and will give a second line of communication with
the metropolis and the Continental telegraph. It is the
property of the European Telegraph Compaisy. It is
quite independent of the South Eastern Railway Company,
and will be shorter and cheaper.

DRAMA.
HAYMARKET.
A comedy in three acts, called Richelieu in Love;'
was produced at this theatre on Saturday evening,
and received with great favour. Though now acted
for the first time, the piece is not exactly new. It
was published several years ago, its performance
having been prevented by the refusal of the Lord
Chamberlain's license, in consectuence of something
which was deemed objectionable in the plot. Had it
not been for this circumstance, the play would have
been then (as it has been now) brought out at the
Haymarket; the manuscript having been anony-
mously transmitted to Mr. Webster, and accepted by
him.

It is a lively comedy of intrigue, resembling,
in the neatness of its construction and the smart-

nese of its dialogue, the clever pieces of this
description which abound upon the Parisian
stage. The subject is in some measure histo-
rical, being founded on the youthful adventures
of Prince Clairles (afterwards Charles the First) and
his favourite, the Duke qj Buckingham, when the
Prince went on a matrimonial expedition to Madrid,
and afterwards shared in the Parisian gallantries of
the Court of Louis XIII. So far the subject is based
on fact; the particular intrigue which forms the
plot of the piece being, no doubt, the invention of
the author. The Prince and his gay companion
go to a masked ball at the Louvre, ahem they
are attracted by the charms of two masked
ladies, who turn out to be Anne of Ault, m
the Queen of Louis XIII., and the l'rim,ss
riette, the King's sister. Buckiilghalli attaches him-
self to the (/non, whom, without knowing who sin
is, ho plies with gallant attentions. She mystifies
him as to her identity by making him believe that
she is the Countess Le Dragon, an old court lady,
who, she knows, is employed as a spy upon her con-
duct by her suspicious husband. iteckieveaer, thus
misled, addresses a Lille: dour to the real Countess
Dragon, entreating her to grant him a nocturnal
meeting in the gardens of the palace. It, the mean-
time the flirtation at the masked ball between the
Queen and Buckingham, has not escaped the keen
observation of Cardinal Richtlien, who, having a
dishonourable design upon the Queen, resolves to
avail himself of his discovery in the prosecution of
his suit, conceiving that it has placed her in hie
power. The old countess, surprised and delighted to
receive an amorous epistle from an unknown cavalier,
determines to give him the meeting he solicits, and
stealthily proceeds to the place of assignation, her
movements being all the while watched by tin;
Queen and Henriette. The pair meet, and linckmg-
ham is astounded to find an ugly old woman instead
'of his unknown charmer. The scene of cross-pur-
poses between them is exceedingly comic, and is
rendered still more laughable by the sudden appear-
ance of the Queen, who issues from her place of
concealment, to their extreme confusion. The Car-
dinal now appears—though how he comes to do so is
not very intelligible. The old lady hearing him ap-
proach, accuses the Queen and Printer,: of has ing art
assignation with two gentlemen in the garden ; and
Richelieu finding the two Englishmen on the spot,
orders them to be carried to the Bastille. The Or-
dinal, thinking that he has now got the Queen en-
tirely in his power, endeavours to compel her to yield
to his wishes by the threat of disclosing her noc-
turnal adventure to the King. She pretends
to be terrified into compliance, but intercedes
for the liberation of the two English gentlemen.
She then sends an invitation to the Cardinal to sup
with her; but, on his arrival, as he supposes, to share
a tete-a-tete repast, he finds, to his mortification, that
the Englishmen and the Princess Henrielle have also
been invited to be of the party. While they are at
supper, the King, informed by his spy the old
Countess, of the Queen's invitation to the English-
men, bursts suddenly into the room full of jealous
ire; but is confounded at the eight of Cardinal
Richelieu sitting at table in the midst of them in
the disguise of a monk. The Cardinal, finding
himself thus played upon, is fain to get out
of the scrape by pretending that he is
there in pursuance of the King's instructions, that Ilk;
may observe the Queen's conduct, and that he has
the satisfaction to pronounce her entirely innocent.
Prince Charles and Buckingham disclose their
names ; and, by way of denouement, the Prince asks
and obtains the hand of the Princess Henriette.
It will be seen from this outline of the plot that
" Richelieu in Love " is, as we have said, entirely a
comedy of intrigue, depending for its effect upon the
rapid movement of an ingeniously contrived action,
the gaiety of its tone, and the unflagging vivacity of
its style. It has nothing that can be called character;
all the dramatis persome, without exception, being
personages quite familiar to the comic stage, and des-
titute of the slightest novelty. There is no passion,
nor any approach to interest; the difficulties and
perplexities of the scene being calculated only to
produce amusement. But the piece is exceedingly
pleasant withal, and the more pleasant from the ad-
mirable way in which it is got up and acted. Mrs.
Stirling made the part of the Queen delightful by
her graceful and elegant vivacity. Miss Vining
played Henriette with delicacy and sweetness ; and
Mr. Leigh Murray was a brilliant Beekingerier. The
beet performance was Webster's Cardinal Richelieu.
The versatile character of the deep, designing priest,
(though by no means a novelty on the stage) was most
artistically delineated.
The success of the performance was complete. It
was warmly applauded by a crowded audience ;
and after the performers, on the fall of the curtain,
had received the usual tokens of approbation, a loud
and general call was made for the author, when Mr.
Webster came forward and declared emphatically
that the author was unknown to him, but was, he
understood, also the author of the popular novel of
Whitefriars."

POLYTECUNIC INSTIVCTION.—A successful attempt
was made at the Polytechnic Institution on Batonley night
to realise a happy conception—namely, the representation,
through the wag. of duwlvingg views, of the fury scenes
and (airy gambols in " The Midsummer Night's Lireem,"
the most fanciful of Shakespeare's plays. The brilliant co-
lours of the phantasmagoria and their evanescent character,
fit them peculiarly for pictures from fairy land, and there•
fore it will not be wondered at that the experiment or
Saturday night, considered as an experiment, was com-
pletely successful. For the fairy haunts, the magic glass
was all sufficient, and a beautiful succession of moonlit
glades and forest scenery it produced, such as the most ca-
pricious Puck could not choose but dwell in. But for the
fairies themselves, with their elfin dances, " under tho
greenwood tree," fitting representatives were found
in some agile little coryphees, who so arranged
their poses, as to throw their shadows on the screen,
and thus become moving figures in its terial and uosub-
stantial tableaux. The illusion was here somewhat marred
by the rather unspritelike sound of the dancers' feet ; but
this is a defect which can easily be set right by some simple
expedient. 'We would also suggest a somewhat more
copious verbal illustration from the play itself to render the
various scenes intelligible, and then we have no doubt
that the exhibition will be as successful in its results as it is
happy in its conception. A pleasing accessory is the intro-
duction of some Shaicspearean music, selected from Horn,
Bishop, and some other composers, who have adapted their
popular melodies to the text. Some of the pieces were
loudly applauded by the select few admitted to the private
view on Saturday night, especially Bishop's fine air, "Oh,
happy fair," sung in excellent style and with a remark-
ably rich and fine tenor voice by Mr. St. Albino, a pupil of
Mr. Allen's. The concerted music was also respectably
perforated, and gave completeness to a novel and tasteful
entertainment.
AFFAIR OF HONOCR.--A few days ago n married
lady, from London, on a visit to her friends in this neigh-
bourhood, having occasion to go to the east end of Holder-
nese, and as no communication as yet exists to that part
of the country be railway, was induced to intrust herself
to be escorted by one who had known her and her family
in earlier life. lie, however, it appears, betrayed hits
trust, and behaved on the journey home in the most
extraordinary manner; so much so that the lady, on
her arrival in this town, immediately took the train to
London, when, she communicated to her husband the
wrong she had received; and he, with present haste, started
by the neat train for Yorkshire, to take vengeance for his
wounded honour. On his arrival he made immediate
inquiries for the culprit, and a message was given to him
requesting his attendance at the inn; he, basing no saspi.
cion of the fate that awaited him, and no doubt dreaming
of a comfortable bottle of wine with some old crony, in-
stantly complied with the request. On his arrival, however,
at the hostelry. his vision' were most disagreeably dispelled
by the apparition of the husband with a formidable horse-
whip on the table before him. After hearing the charge
preferred against him, and having nothing to offer in ex-
tenuation of his conduct, he experienced a thorough thrash-
ing, with a promise to complete it by continuing the process
through the town, which he, however, evaded by begging
pardon, and by aignirg a paper acknowledging his conduct,
in addition to paying two guineas as an atonement, to be
bestowed on some charitable institution in the town.—
Leeds Mercury.
FUNERAL OF TILE LATE VINCENT DOwLING, Estes—
The remains of this much respected gentleman, who for a
great number of years edited Bell's Life in London, with
great ability and integrity, were interred in Brompton
Cemetery on Saturday. The funeral cortege consisted of a
hearse and these mourning coaches.