The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.
THE RECENT GALES.—The Liverpool Standard of
yesterday says : " During the last seven days he weather in
this district and its neighbourhood has been unusually severe
and stormy for the season of the year. The quantity of
water that has fallen must be great, for the fi. Ids and roads
not on acclivities, or imperfectly drained, were in most parts
flooded. The wind varied from N.W. to W.N.W., and
sometimes \V. The grain crops here having, happily, been
nearly all secured, but little damage has, we trust, been occa-
sioned in an agricultural point of view. The Mersey has
been unusually rough throughout. Seldom have wo
seen its waters more crowded with vessels, including
many of large size, many being obliged to put
back, unable to weather the gale and the heavy sea-
way in the outward channels, and from many others,
ready for sea, deeming it prudent not to weigh anchor. To
this may be added the difficulty of docking. The casualties
to shipping near the port have not, happily, been great,
thanks to the efficient lighting and buoying of the channel.
The barque Henry Ewbank, Cooper master, parted one of
her cables abreast of the rock ou Thursday, and dragging
the other anchor went sahore in Bootle Bay. She is laden
with cotton and oil-cake, which will be partially damaged
by leakage. Two small sloops and a large schooner got
ashore same day, a little to the westward of Leasowe Castle,
on the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula. The
schooner was bound to Most)n, is Wales, and was quite
empty. Shortly before one o'clock, p.m., she dropped
anchor, but, being in danger of capsizing by heavy rolling,
slipped her cable and took to the shore, where she grounded
on the stone embankment, still rolling heavily. She was
left high and dry when the water fell, and but little damned.
Luckily for these vessels the tide was a low one that day
(17 ft. 7 in.), so that all of them, if the weather la;inme any
way moderate, will be got off by Friday (if not before), when
we shall have a twenty feet tide. A barque got ashore at
Southport; and another large vessel on the Horse Bank,
with a subsequent lose of six of the crew. The Maguire,
which sailed from New Orleans with the Mamlouk (the
latter lost some time ago), was towed into port on Thursday,
with loss of topgallant-masts and other spars. She has been
on her beam ends, and six feet of water in her hold. An-
other ship was brought in totally damaged, having been on
Great Bubo Bank; and another, which had left a few days
before, returned, after having been cm shore at Dundalk,
with the loss of great pert of her canvas."
DISASTERS ON TILE HORSE BANK.—The Preston
Guardian says :—"Wo regret to have to record the loss of the
barque Hillsborough, the property of Mr. It. Dickson,
timber-merchant, Preston. What makes the matter still
more lamentable is, that it is feared 11 of the crew have met
with a watery grave. The following are the full particulars
supplied by our Lytham correspondent. The Hillsborough
left this port on Wednesday last, for North America, with
coals; she was towed out of the river by a steamer from Li-
verpool, which left her about the No. 1 buoy ; she then pro-
ceeded towards the north-west, and attempted to get a good
offing, but the wind coming up from the south-east to the
western points, and raging with terrific violence, she was
obliged. to put off and on, and put about in every direction that
art and skill could suggest to keep her from the shore. In this
situation she was tossed the whole of Wednesday night and
Thursday, up to the time of her atriking on the Horse Bank.
The weather had been so furious, and the waves so terrible,
that the poor seamen had to be continually at the pumps,
and were not able to see any object to point out the position
they were in. About four o'clock the cease' struck. As the
tide was receding when the vessel came on, Swan, the pilot,
was apprehensive that the next tide would break her up, and
consulting with Capt. Lamb, they ordered the boat, to be
got out. They remained with the tenet till about six or
seven o'clock ; when darkness was coming on they, as a last
resource, slipped away from the lee side of the vessel with the
long and jolly boats ; before they bad proceeded far, however,
the boats grounded. The night had now become very dark, and
the wind blew with such fury that the pilot advised that
every one wishful to save his life should leave the boats and
follow him, as he trusted he could walk the hank and find
his way to the shore. The captain and eight others of the
crew followed his advice ; the others, however (five in num-
ber), being wet and fatigued, they huddled together in the
long-boat till about one o'clock on Friday morning, when
the tide assisted them, and they again roused every nerve for
the peat trial of life or a watery grave. They succeeded, and
although not knowing the place, landed at Warton Bank. One
of the five landed was the first mate, who immediately accom-
panied a boat's crew to again visit the vessel, to see if they
could find the remainder of the crew, thinking that after a
vain attempt to reach the shore they might possibly have re-
turned to the vessel ; but sad to relate the boat has returned,
but no tidings of those that are missing, and it is greatly to
be feared that they have all perished. It is deeply to be re-
gretted
that the captain was pressed upon to go to sea
against his with when such forebodings of a storm were evi-
dent.—The same correspondent add., to the above informa-
tion that a fine vessel of the rig called a galliot has also been
cut on the said bank not far from the ill-fated barque."
ALLEGED RETIREMENT OF COL. WILLIAMS.—
The Liverpool Mercury contradicts a statement which ap-
peared in the Mail, that Col. Williams was about to retire
from the bench, adding—" the gallant colonel was not pre-
sent at the sessions when the notice of retirement is alleged
to have been given. It cannot be correct, therefore, that he
gave such notice on the day in question ; and we have the
best authority for stating that at no other time has he ever
intimated his intention of retiring from the bench."
THE FEVER AT LIVERPOOL.—We lament to learn,
says the Liverpool Mercury, that another catholic clergyman
has been attacked by that dreadful malady which has al-
ready been so fatal to his brethren in this town, no fewer
than nine baring fallen victims to its ravages. The gentle-
man to whom we allude is the Rev. John Fielding Whittaker,
incumbent of St. Joseph's, Grosvenor-street. Oa Sunday
week he preached a most eloquent discourse, on the duties
of man towards God and his fellow-creatures, contrasting the
death-bed of the humble and pious. Christian with that of
the impenitent ainner, and contending that a virtuoso Mg
day the preacher himself was taken ill, and we art* , '
learn that his disease has since Lammed all the symptom,/
typhus fever. He remains in a very dangerous an* r •
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