The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-28 00:00:00

GALE IN THE DO WNS.-FATAL SHIPWRECKS.

IfAMSOATI, APRIL 27.
During the last forty-eight hours a succession of
gales from the north-west have been blowing in this vici-
nity of coast, occasioning a serious loss of life and property.
On the much dreaded Goodwin Sands two fatal losses oc-
curred. Other wrecks took place in the neighbeurhood of
the Downs, while several large homeward bounders, some
Indiamen, had a very narrow escape, having lost their
anchors and cables, and left to the mercy, as it were, for the
time, of the elements. While the gale was at its height,
about one o'clock yesterday morning, rockets were fired,
u if from a vessel which had got on the Goodwin, and at
daybreak, the remains of a large vessel, appa-
rently, were discovered on the sands. Nothing
could be learned of the crew ; and from the tem-
pestuous character of the night and the chsnees
of escaping from a wreck on that formidable shoal, with the
sea breaking over her, there is little doubt as to the fate of
the crew. Another fatal catastrophe took place on the
Goodwin early this morning. Between 1 and 2 o'clock, the
brig Harriet, of Hartlepool, was carried on to the sand, and,
melancholy to relate, every soul belonging to her perished ;
the vessel fast settling down and disappearing. On the
adjacent Long Sand a third fatal shipwreck happened
during the continuance of the gale. A Swedish barque,
named the Carl Johann, bound to the Thames from Dautzie
and Gothenburgh, took the shoal in the course of yesterday
afternoon, where she remained bumping, with the surf
breaking over her, despite the most spirited
exertions of the crew to get her off. Her
total loss then appeared inevitable, and the posi-
tion of the poor fellows on board became the
most trying. They took to the rioginer, and doubtless all
the unfortunate creatures would have perished but for
being perceived by the ship City of Carlisle, Mr. Storey,
master, from Newcastle. As it was, four poor fellows were
drowned, the remaiuder of the crew, including the captain
and mates, being preserved by the City of Carlisle, which
took them off the wreck.

A serious loss happened near or on the Kentish Knock,
the foundering of a London and Antwerp trader raked the
James and Emma. It ',mean that in shaping a course fer
the entrance of the Theme., the violent state of the weather
much trying her, ehe caught the Knock and sustained much
injury. However, the crew managed to get her off, only,
however, to find that she had made an extensive leakage
and was fast filling. No time was lost in preparing the boat
fur the escape of those on board, and they just had time to
leave her, when she foundered. They were afterwards
picked up, and landed near Margate.
The accounts Irons the eastern coast also describe the gale
to hstr,, been severely felt in that district.
several wrecks occurred between Orfurdneas and Yar-
mouth Roads, but were happily free from loss of life.

THE 1100 D MONIMENT.—The proposal to erect a
"Monument to Thome. Ilood " ha', we are glad to find,
met with ample support. At a meeting held lag night, at
the Whittington Club, it was announced that the Kerman-
' green Cemetery will soon contain a colossal red granite
pedestal, surmounted by a bronze bust, and bearing the
suggestive and sutticleht inscription (which the poet him-
self prayed at his death-bed should be his simple epitaph),
" Bo wrote the Bong of the Shirt."

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