The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1851.

received at their hands only increased his anxiety to remain
in their service. (Loud cheers.)
The other toasts on the list having been disposed of, the
1 company separated.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND SHIPPING LN
THE HEAVY GALES•
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The heavy north-easterly gale which set in on
Thursday evening, and continued without the least inter-
mission for nearly 48 hours, led to the most calamitous loss
of life and property. In addition to the sad events detailed
in this journal on Monday, Lloyds' agents report upwards
of 100 vessels stranded, and the number which foundered
with all hands was painfully numerous.
On no part of the coast was the mischief greater than
in the vicinity of the entrance of the Humber. With
the slight south-westerly breeze in the early part of
Thursday, the coasters were wending their way ckea
under the land. Suddealy the wind veered to the
north cut, and speedily increased almost to a hurricane, ear
tirely preventing many of the ill-fated vessels beating of
the coast. Many of them were driven ashore and dashed to
pieces, while those who managed to run were carried up as
far as the Yarmouth Roads before they could be brought to.
The sea on this range of coast was strewed with portions of
wreck and cargo, too clearly showing the disastrous results
of the storm. Several coasters appear to have been blown
over and to have gone down with every soul on board,
without the slightest chance presenting itself of saving the
unhappy creatures.
During the height of the gale on Friday, a brig, which h
supposed to be the Venus, of Arundel, was seen to founded I
about ten miles north of the Dudgeon, and every one be.
longing to her met with a watery grave. About the same
period a large-sized craft was seen by the Favourite,
of Shields, to go down • short distance frost Cro-
mer, with all on hoard. A third one was seen to
meet with a similar fate in the neighbourhood of
Boston Deeps. The master of the Ann and Eliza-
beth, from Newcastle, since arrived at Gravesend,
reports seeing a brig disappear on that part of the coast. '
Her bowsprit, bulwarks, and sails, were carried away. Her
name could not be distinguished, but the letter T was seen
on her stern. She was believed to have belonged to Blythe.
The City of Hamburg steamer, on her last voyage from
Laudon to Newcastle, was obliged to put into Bridling
ton, in consequence of the formidable character of the
weather. She sighted a French brig in great distress °tithe
Humber. The state of the sea entirely prevented assist-
tancu being rendered her, and from the quantity of wreck,
and certain description of cargo which had subsequently
been seen floating about, there is too much reason to believe
that she was unable t %collier the gale. In one instance
there was an extraordinary preservation of life. The brig
St. Catherine, bound to Hull, on entering the Humber bay,
was bloats over. The crew contrived to chug to the side of the
hull, stud so continued for nearly 2t hours when with one ex-
ception they were taken olf, although suffering from
exposure ;wit want of loud. A lamentable casualty took
place on the Lemuuc Shoal, while the gale was raging with
all its might, on Friday night. The brig Seven Brothers.,
Mr. Alexander Sibbatd, master, of South Shields, was
driven on the sand and immediately capsized. The master
and four of the crew took to the Jolly boat, but unfortu-
nately, before the wife of the master, who was on board, and
the remainder of the crew (eight) could be taken off, the
wreck gut adrift, and every one on board, it is supposed,
perished. As it was, those in the boat had a narrow escape.
Without a sail or an oar, they were buffetted about inaby
hours, when at last they were picked up by the Whin, pilot
cutter, and landed near Yarmouth. A sloop, called the
Madeira, for Goole, had its muster and boy washed over-
board. She then foundered, the wife of the master perish-
ing with her. The above forms but a brief notice of the
disasters on this portion of the coast. Numerous vessels
were either cast ashore or wrecked on the neighbouring
shoals.
Higher up the Channel the gale was almost as destruc-
tive. We have already detailed a melancholy list of casual-
, ties on the Yorkshire coast, especially in the vicinity of
Whitby and Redcar. Amongst the many additional dia-
gram resulting from the storm, the Triton, of Newcastle,
h reported to have been wrecked near the Kettleness, and
her crew to have perished. Sonic of the bodies have been
washed ashore. Bridlington also furnishes an additional
list of losses. Several serious wrecks occurred near Hartle-
pool, and at Shields no tidings have been gleaned of the
sables which have been misting from that port since the
commencement of the gales.
The Northumbrian line of coast also suffered from the
fury of the wind. On Holy Island a schooner, culled the
'Margaret, for Sunderland, from Cromarty, was wrecked;
and off Bamborough Castle, the Margaret and Ann tram
Newcastle met with a similar fate. Abreast of the lama.
eel Head, while the gale was blowing with all its violence,
a brig, since ascertained to hove beets the Falcon of Aber-
deen, foundered with all hands. The body of the master,
Mr. Smith, his trunk, and some of the vessels' papers, have
been cost ashore. She was laden with wheat, and is sup-
posed to have been from Stettin. About the same time, a
sloop was observed to go down in deep water off Newton,
and it is said that all belonging to her perished.
Yarmouth and its adjacent ports on the eastern coast
communicate a disastrous accuuutof casualties. Indeed, but
for the roads for the former, which appeared to have afforded
much refuge to the numerous vessels which were beating
back from the northward, the disasters might have been
of a far more numetuus and calamitous character. The
lugger men as usual displayed much zeal in going out in
the tempestuous sea and saving life and property. Several
fine vessels, through the assistance rendered them, were
after much difficulty brought safely in shore.
The vicinity of kilreish was nigh being the scene of a
most shocking shipwreck. The Owen Glendower, a fine
yacht of nearly 130 tons burden, the property of Mr. Wil-
liam Moore of Waterford, and which had on board,
in addition to its owner, /dm Moare, Mrs.
Massey, Miss Llewellyn, and a crew of eleven
men, was caught in the gale in making for the
Galway bay, and when almost a perfect wreck, as reported,
was observed off Arran Island by a Russian barque which
had left Galway a day or so previously with emigrants few
New York. The master, Mr. Hein, after going as near
the wreck as possible, had the boats lowered, and after
much difficulty and peril suceeedea in preserving all who
we,-e on board. The yacht had been in the most danger-
ous position for upwards of 30 hours, and the sufrings o
fef
those on board may probably he imagined. .rugs
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made a most magnificent donation to the captain of the
barque for the promptitude and humanity he had displayed
in rescuing them from the wreck.
The later accounts from the respective ports describe the
gale to have moderated considerably, but it is more than
probable that many other casualties resulting from the
storm are get to be made known.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND
THE 31ETROPOLITAN CHURCH UNION.

The following_ letter has been addressed to the
secretaries of the Metropolitan Church Union:
" Gentlemen,—Having received a circular requesting the
akildere of clergymen to a protest against certain exprer
sisannasade use of by his grace the archbishop of Cantus
boa is a letter to a simagnusg Romanist on the subject of
orders, 1 beg that you will permit me to
,=8: reasons for refusing my countenance to such a
la SO Int place, it appears to me, to say the least, lisle
=say, masi:saly—to take advantage publicly Is I
•Issimff wbisk WM tritely intended fur n
parliaalsr sad Is am, sad &decay marked ' pri-
vate.'
"That letter was addressed to one professing himself to
be a convert from dissent to the established church—one
whose mind was said to be disturbed by reason of certain
proceedings with respect to foreign pastors,' to such ad e-
gree, that a return to dissent was contemplated. But before
taking such a step, he solicited counsel from the archbishop
and received a private note in reply, not encouraging his
return to a communion where episcopal ordination is held
to be useless, but on the centrary, endeavouring to retain
him in one where, for ages, it has been practised sad
revered.
In whatever way that letter might have been written,
whether hurriedly from the pressure of business, ur with
that earnest spirit of charity which would be ' all things to
all men that it might gain some,' be that as it may, I con-
tend that the very fact of its swing been declared pri-
vate ' ought to have rendered red and utterly pre-
cluded criticism.
" Much has been said and written of late years regard-
ing the respect and reverence duo to our superiors in the
sacred ministry, and surely an open attack upon the highest
dignitary of our church—one, moreover, of the most exem-
plary of men, cannot fail to show to the world that either
all this parade of reverence has been a farce, or that we
have, at least, derived but little benefit from it.
" Let us also recollect, gentlemen, that the archbishop's
confidence has been cruelly abused by an intriguing mem-
ber of that corrupt and unscrupulous church, which, though
fur a time has been depressed, is now eneleavoutiug by
every possible means to regain its elasticity, and is em-
ploying its subtle agents in almost all parts of the world.
Noiselessly, stealthily, and serpent-like do these emissaries
of the Vatican labour in their dark vocation, the effects of
whose labours arc discovered only_ by the convulsions of
evil which they produce, as is strikingly evinced in the in-
stance now under consideration. When we bear in mind
that our venerable primate has been the victim of such a
confederacy of evil, surely he ought rather to have been sus-
tained by our sympathy titan pained by our animadversions
That every human being is liable to err, and that none are
faultless, would be aeknowledged, I venture to believe, by
no man sooner than the archbishop himself, and well would
it have been, had his grace taken measures for ascertaining,
say, through the mealuin of the clergyman of the parish,
who this profeweally earnest and lowly-minded person—
William Fraucis Cawthorn—really was, before he ventured
on any private communication with ham. But, true it is,
that ' to the pure all thinsts ore pure.'
" One thing, gentlemen, is most certain—that the said
William Francis Gawthorn rejoices in tho evil spirit to
which his shameless deceit has given rise—the very spirit
which popery desires to see amongst us, that of dissension
and bitterness. Oh! that the members of our purer com-
munion would hear in laded the words of our exalted Read,
a huuse divided against itself cinema stand!' and, instead
of ,taking an al eztni view of the conduct of our clergy,
would rather cover with a mantle of charity and christian
love, what they think to be worthy of blame. Surely, this
coutinnal system of unholy warfare which seems to have
become of late almost habitual to us, each man being
jealous or suspicious of his neighbour's views or actions,
must be most repugnant to the mind of our Divine :darter,
and most injurious to the cause of true religion.
"That the whole of this proceeding has been an on.
blushing effort of the adherents of the papacy to cause dis-
' union amongst us, must be at once evident to every one
acquainted with the facts of the case. Instead, then, of
contending amongst ourselves would it not be a far wiser
parse to remember that we have to deal with the foe front
without—a foe crafty, subtle, dexterous—well practised is
all the arts of intrigue, and which aims at the entire do-
structiou of our spiritual Zion. And ought not such cir-
cumstances as these to cause us to evince a disposition to
compose our own differences, and to join our forces in ono
united and compact array, so that we may ha able cactus'
ally to resist the inroads of popery, if not altogether to sup-
press that pernicious superstition, which, whether reli-
giously or politically considered, is the very bane of Chris-
tendom.
" As regards the divine doctrine of the apostolic succes-
sion, it may with comfort be asserted that it is a great and
glorious fact, and, as a fact, is independent of men's minds
and opinions. A tact it is that it has been most carefully
preserved in our beloved church of England, and that fact
could not be altered were all men so regardless of its truth
as to believe the contrary. It is, gentlemen, a great reality,
which is very distasteful to the Itouniuist, simply because it
is an axe at the root of the papal supremacy ; for if all
bishops be successors of the apostles, then arc they the
Bishop of Rome's equals ; and then the monopoly of grant-
ing mission to all bishops is wrested from the sovereign
pontiff, because the Word of God declares that Timothy
and Titus derived their mission, nut from St. Peter, but
from St. Paul. The truth is, the doctrine of the apostolic
succession and the authority of bishops in the church of
God, builded upon that succession, are against papal
tyranny, and therefore Rome is against them. This suffi-
ciently accounts for the language of that celebrated bul-
wark of the papacy, Cardinal /kllarmiue, who wrote as
follows :
" Bishops are not properly the successors of tho apostle!,
because the apostles were not ordinary but extraordinary
pastors, such as from the nature of their delegation could
have no slICC0110111:
" That this same doctrine should be opposed by the advo-
cates of parity as well as by the advocates of papal supre-
macy, is in no degree marvellous, since it teaches the great
scripture truth, that schism, whether tricked out in the
gaudy frippery of Romish tinsel, its gilded mitres, em-
broidered vestments, and all the pomp and circumstance
which decoy the simple ; or whether in the person of
the deluded followers of Emanuel Swedenborg, whatever
guise it wears, is still the same blot on christian unity,—the
same foul excrescence on the heavenly vine.—l am, gentle-
men, yours most respectfully, JAMES BONWELL,
" Incumbent of St. Philip's, Stepney.

" St. Philip's, Sept. CJ,

THE COUNTY COURT JUDGE AND THE
NEWSPAPER EDITOR.

LONDON UNION ON CHURCH MATTERS.

LIVERPOOL,TITHADAY.

It was generally supposed that as the warrant
had not been executed lust night, it would not perhaps be
so. However, this morning, on the assembling of the
court, Mr. Itamshay st.ted that he had signed the warrant
last night. Mr. Lewinles intimated that Mr. Whitty was
at his office, and thereupon Mr. Stone, the superior officer
of the court, proceeded at once to enforce it.
It having been announced that Mr. Whitty would leave
the railway station for Lancaster Castle at one o'clock, •
great concourse of respectable persons assembled at Ow
Lime-street station at that hour to witness his departure.
On making his appearance in the custody of Mr. Stone,
high bailiff of the County Court, and several assistants,
Mr. Whitty was warmly greeted with hearty cheers,
shaking of hands, and every demonstration of sympathy
calculated to encourage and cheer him. lie appeared to be
in good spirits, and received the cordial demonstrations of
his friends with the utmost goad humour and satisfaction.
At half-past one the train started amidst loud cheers.
This afternoon, one of the most numerous meetings of
magistrates that ever assembled in Liverpool took place In
the grand jury room of the Assize Courts. Although the
circular calling the meeting had been issued only three
hours, there were between 30 and 40 gentlemen holding
her Majesty's commission of the peace in attendance at the
meeting. The subject was well known to be the extraor-
dinary conduct of the judge of the county court, but in the
present stage of proceedings it was not deemed expedient
to admit the representatives of the press. We have, how-
ever ascertained, from a source that is entitled to the most
implicit credence, that the presence of Dr. M'lntyre and
two other entineut physicians had been specially secured,
from which the opinion generally entertained as to the
proper course to be pursued may be more easily con-
jectured than safely predicated. Indeed, charity itself
suggests such an opinion.
At toe meeting of the court this morning,
The Judge, on taking his sent, said it was desirable to
make a few observations in reference to the disgraceful
occurrences which had taken place in the court. They
must be extremely vexing to himself, and offimsive to
every one. He had now found it necessary. to give
direct orders to the officers that every man who interfered
in an improper manner with the proceedings of the court
should be treated by him with the most severe punish-
ment. He had now come to the conclusion that it was
necessary to have the matter decided whether the court
was to be treated with proper respect, or be insulted and
rendered anything but respectable by the filthy comments
and insults of the town, lie would try whether the law or
the slanderer and the libeller shauld prevail. That question
he was prepared to try, and he would urge that trial to its
utmost limits—depend upon that. He hoped by that
course to secure that respect due to the officers of the court
and the judge of it. In the course of the proceedings on
the preceding day he had occasion to say that the course
pursued was necessarily such as to excite the minds of
ignorant persons against the judge, and against the court,
and he had a painful proof of it that morning. He held in
his hand a letter threatening him with assassination. It
was a painful proof of the natural tendency and consequence
of such proceedings as were on the previous day the subject
of inquiry. He held in his hand a letter threatening him
with assassination on this very day; but he would tell the
dirty slanderer, if present there, that he feared him not.
The usual business was then proceeded with.

Irewicu.—Tho count for tho revision of the
borough list of electors was held on Wednesday last, before
C. Evans, Esq., barrister, at the Town Hall, Ipswich. Mr.
Lawrence appeared for the liberals; Mr. Clabon, in the
absence of Mr. Pownall, for the conservatives. The follow-
ing is the result of the tley's proceedings —Liberal objec-
tions, 43 ; sustained, 31. Liberal claims, 44 ; sustained, 36.
Liberal gain, 31.—Conservative objections, 40; mutinied,
19. Conservative claims, 21; sustained, 20.