The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

VIOLENT GALES AND DISASTERS AT SEA.

The severe gales which have prevailed along the
meats since Saturday last, have been attended at sea with
great loss of life, and destruction of property.
The Eris, which left Southampton on the 3rd, with the
Indian mail on board, and which, as we stated on Tuesday,
put into Dartmouth in consequence of the storm, we learn
was struck by a sea on the Port Beam, off Ushant, carrying
away tilt) bulwark and paddle-box, and doing other damage,
which obliged her to put back into Southampton yesterday
morning. The mails and passengers will be transhipped on
board the Pasha, which vessel will start this morning, unless
the Admiralty give contrary orders.
Accounts from Sheerness, dated Tuesday night, state that
the fate of the Magnet (Rotterdam) steamer excites
much interest. She was laden with a number of horned
cattle, and nothing has been heard or seen of her sines
Saturday morning. She left Rotterdam on Friday nearly
about the same tune as the City of London steamer, which
put into Harwich on Swarday, haring had a very narrow
escap*f foundering. The Magnet was due in the Thames
early on Sunday, and her non•arrival was the cause of much
alarm. Fresh arrivals from Rotterdam were looked for
with anxiety. The complete loss of the Northallerton, be-
longing to Stockton, is reported. At daybreak on Monday
morning she was discovered off Winkerton, Rear Yar-
mouth. She had gone to pieces, and the coast was strewn
with fragments of her cargo and wreck. Every soul on
board of her perished, numbering probably ten, with the
master, Mr. Claudia. None of the bodies have been found.
On the Yorkshire and Northumberland coast the shipping
suffered severely. The entrance to the Tyue was the scene
of several disasters. The wind blew fearfully from the
N N E, and an immense sea was running over the bar. The
Sylph of Dundee went on the Head Sand, and the crew were
preserved by the life-boat. The St. Lucia, also of Dundee,
and the Montreal of South Shields, in attempting to make
the harbour, not upon the same sands, and were wrecked.
The crews ware preserved. The Scotch traders at Sheerness
reported many sad losses along the more northern portion of
the coast, and upwards of forty fishing vessels are mining.
At Berwick the storm ,ppears to have effected much mu-
chief. Three visuals were lost in the district, the John
Whale, belonging to Shields; the Tyne, bound to Port
Dundas; and the Thomas, from Seaham to Dundee. In
each instance the crews are stated to have been saved.

From Milford we learn that the Circassian, bound to
Swansea from Cuba, anchored in the Mumbles Roads, with
a view of riding out the gale, but was parted from her moor-
ings, and was driven as►ore to the eastward of the harbour,
when the master and five seamen perished.
On Tuesday morning the storm continued to rage at
Liverpool with unmitigated violence, and the greatest ap-
prehensions were manifeated as to the fate of the vessels
about the coast. About ten o'clock it was reported that a
brig was standing towards the mouth of the river Dec with
signals of distress flying, and soon afterwards she drifted on
shore, and has been ascertained to be the Mary, from St.
John's, New Brunswick. In the course of the forenoon it
was stated that a large vessel was lying onside the river,
dismasted, and also a barque aground, with a lifeboat
alongside of her, and a brig with signals of distress flying,
standing to the westward. One of the Liverpool steam.tuga,
with a life-boat, went out to the assistance of the vessel,
but returned into port about twelve o'clock, without haying
been able to render any servile.