The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-01 00:00:00

THE STORM.

DESTRUCTION OF.IIAitYPORT PIER, LIGHT-

HOUSE. etc.
This town and harbour were visited on Friday
night and Christai .s morning with a violent storm front the
west, causing considerable destruction. Several houses had
slates removed from the roofs. and many panes of glass
broken, hut the injury to the shipping was unimportant,
and during the greater part of Christmas-day the wind
considerably subsided, and on Sunday the weather was
comparatively moderate. Is the •iternoosi, however,
it came on to rain, and the water fell heavily. lie
wind blew front the south, and as the n‘ght advanced
and the morning approached it increased in vialence
until at length it attained a perfect hurricane. Daring
the morning of Monday the wind blew nut from the west-
ward, causing the sea to rise tremendously, and by nine
! o'clock on Monday morning such was the effect upon the
waters that the tide ire he harberr had actually attained
a height of about sixteen feet; the height of the water at
full tide (12 o'clock) according to the ordinary calculation.
As the time of high water approached, the tide °callow eil
the piers, and the lower part of the town was completely
inundated. King-street, Strand• street, and Neleon'sslant
presented as many rivers flitting on and over them—great
destruction wan consequently occasioned to house property,
and several families were osliged so abendon theie habita-
tions. particularly those who livid in cellars. Many of the
ceVar, were filled with water up to the ceiling, shit several
of the shopkeepers hail a great quantity of their good. de.-
troyed. The toed front the lower part of the town to and
beyond the tan-yard is completely washed away, and the
fields adjuinieg the road on either tide of the tan-yard ate
utterly destroyed, presenting an appearance of so much
shore 114 if the sea had regularly washed over them. It
was feared at one time the tau-yard itself would be washed
down • the sea dashed over it wi h terrific fury, unroofing
several of the buildings, and doing great injury bosh to
the tan-pits and to the dwellingshouse. The furniture
had to be removed, and such is the injury done teat the
house is rendered uninhabitable. Mr. Stark and his
family have been obliged to quit and take up their abode
in other quarter, until the injury has been repaired. A
111 destructive storm has never been witnessed here,
not certainly since the year 179'3, when the tan-yard in
question was washed down, and a new ship called the
Harrison and 'lamb, then buildin4 in Mr. Wood's yard,
WAS washed off the stocks. But the effect of the gale
upon the harbour has been more disastrous sti:l. Several
vessels broke from their moorings and did considers's.e
damage to each other. The new wood pier on the south
side of the harbour, recently erected at the cost of some
thousands, and which formed so delightful a promenade,
is entirely washed away, together with the lighthouse at
its extremity. The vier was completely buried in the
water, and the sea dashed over it with terrific violence.
It was thought it might sustain the shock, though fears
were entertained of its stability. Notwithstanding it wee
almost iinposeible fur any one to keep their feet, a large
number of perms. were out witnessing the effect of the
sea upon the pier. At length, however, between eleven
and twelve, it yielded to the irresistible iulluence of the
mighty ocean, anti away it went bodily, crumbling to
pieces like a shell. It appears the cross-stays first gave
way, and then the pier acquired an mediatory motion,
snapping the upright spiles at the base like so many broken
sticks. The d4ris or wreck was speedily washed away
and east on shore to the wortkward of the harbour, tier
wind and sea blowing and rolling in that direction. The
railway hotel was unroofed uu Friday night, and nu
Cliristmassday the slates were replaced, but on Manilay it
was again unroofed. On ?stonily the premises or Mr.
Kelly, joiner, were likewise unroofed, and a staca of
chimneys fell through the roof, carrying away the ceiling.
of two storeys and materially injuring the staircase.
Several vessels are on shore on this and on the atilt r side
of Whiteltaven, and many of them it is feared will go to
pieces; indeed two, the Cariboo and the Jane, have both
cone to pb and not a vestige of them remains. The
Brunswick and the Atlas, of Maryji art, are amongst these
who are on shore beyond Whitehaven. The Wilson
nothery, schoaner, coal laden, was in the new harbour.
She broke from her mooring, and she and another vessel
were actually pitched into Mr. Wood's yard.
MAILYPOUT, Dee. 30.—The Atlas has gone to pieces, and
there are into the teens of coal vesselt:traiiiog to this place
sunk and ashore at Kirkcudbright, but I don't hear of any
lives being In.!. The damage is immense.
The Merchant's Quay at Wurkington, on the n wth of
the Derwent,lielonging to Lord Laneelale, is waelied down.
His lordship was extending this pier fur the shipment of
coal, and it is also upon this that the coat drops belueging
to the Cockermouth Railway are placed.

A SHIP BLOWN UP.-LOSS OF THIRTY

.....
TWO LIVES.
The Honda Herald, of Wednesday last, gives the
particulars of the stranding, and substquent•:plosion Is)
gunpowder of the brig Lily, of 180 tons. The vessel in
question is owned by Means. Hatton and Cookson, of Mer-
sey-street, in this town, and left the Mersey yesterday
work, under the command of Captaiu John Owens, fur the
sou'h-west coast of Africa. The cargo consisted of about
50 tons of gaopostder, 20 puncheons of rum, a quantity of
arms, and some bale ((Ouch, containing articles for barter on
the coast. The vessel was beating about the Channel till
Monday m 'ruing last. when she was driven by the siolehce
of the storm to the Sound of the Calf of Man. The sea was
running mountains high at the time, and, despite all the
efforts of the crew, about 11 o'clock the Lily was stole on
Kilterland Island, which lies between the island of the
Calf of Man and the mainland of the Isle of Man. With
a desperate effort, most of the crew (thirteen in number)
reached the rocks by the aid of the boats. The waves
beat furiously upon the wreck and the rocks. Captain
Owens and three of the crew got on the ledge of a rock,
from which two of the seamen sprang to the land; but the
captain, in attempting to du the same, was drowned. The
cook and two laic also met with a watery grave. The
carpenter was killed by the mast falling upon him. Thus
five of the crew were lost.

Early on Tuesday morning, Mr. Euos Lace, grocer and
ahipbrcker of Port St. Mart, being sub.agent for Llcyd,
repaired to the wreck with 31 men, to see what could be
saved. At a quarter before eight a violent shock was felt
throughout the southern district of the island ; and a
sheet of fire and pillar of smoke were seen to be hurled
into the air, hundreds of feet high, from the wreck. It
seems that a large portion of the powder was placed so
high in the vessel that it did not get wet by the waves
breaking on it. The eapl•sion dashed the Teasel to atoms,
and blew to broken fragments some thirty human beings.
But one individual near the fatal scene escaped to tell the
story, James Kelly, who is still alive, although cne cheek
and ear are taken off, and he is otherwise much contused.
Hopes, however, are entertained of his recovery.
Among those who perished were Enos Lace, William
Lawson, William Taubman, Edward Qualtrough, John
Collister, John Collister, 2nd, Samuel Collister, William
Watterson, George Costane, Hugh Couen, Thos. Turnbull,
Thomas Collister, John Watterson, William Ki rmode
Edward Gale, Edward Watterson, Heist, Gale, John
(Jell, Charles Clugston, Robert Collister, Thomas Witted,
Thomas Nelson, John Fell, Daniel Lace, Thos. Hugeon,
William Cowley, and Thomas Cubbon, all of Port St.
Mary- John Creggs, chief constable of Cas!letown, John
Wright, constable of the same place, and another, name
unknown. Many of the deceased were the active, crier-
vatic men of business of Port St. Mare, and were engaged
in the fishing and other nautical pursuits. Thirty-two mew
(besides the five of the crew that were lost on Monday) were
killed, leaving twenty-three widows and seventy-three
fatherless children.

The explosion was heard in Douglas, and was supposed,
by many persons, to hare been an earthquake. Fragments
or the wreck were thrown as far as the Bed Gap, near
Castletown, being a distance of six miles. Portions of the
ves-el and cargo, consisting of chain-links, portions of gun
barrels, swords, caps, frogmen's of wreck, shirts, &c., have
also been picked up in various parts of the parish of ltushen.
Some pieces of burning cotton were actually found at Pool-
sash, near Balladoole, at least six miles off._

Mr. Boardman, agrnt for Lloyd's, of Douglas, and
brother of Mr. Boardman, of the Sailors Home it this port,
was engaged in rendering assistance to a vessel off Lang-
nese, or he would, no doubt, have been amougat the
sufferers.

No vestige of the vessel remains ; but fragments of wood,
iron, copper, guns, end parts of human bodies are strewed
around the country for miles. A man of Craig Neigh (name
unknown) got terribly hurt by falling from the rocks in an
effort to lend aid to the sufferers. A sailor of the name of
Fanning got a compound fracture of the leg in the wreck,
on Monday, and lies thus disabled at the hotel iu I'ort St.
Mary.
It is not probable that the cause of the explosion will ever
be correctly a.certained, but it is supposed that the powder
was fired by a light from the pipe of some of the men who
were smoking on board the vessel.— Lirespool Mercury.

ENUMERATION OF DAMAGE DONE DT TIIE LATE
litattllCANlL—The old year has gone out with a violent
struggle, and has destroyed trees, ships, buildings, and life
with its dying kick. The accounts which have reached us
from various parts of the kingdom show that the amount
of damage done is immense. Chimney slacks without
number; the roof of the Roman catholic church at Clifton,
near Bristol; a new factory near Preston, 185 feet long, 64
feet wide, and six stories in height; several houses; a
chimney shaft, 160 feet high, in ',elan.' ; the steeple of
Trinity church, Stockton-on-Tees; and the great roof of
the Shoreditch station of the Eastern Counties Railway,
have beco destroyed. The latter has Wag been in a bad
state, and the directors may think themselves fortunate that
it has been put out of the way without loss of life. The
Crystal Palace at Sydenbam has sult..red, and so, too, has
the building for the Great Industrie' Exhibition of 1453, in
Dublin, but in neither case severely. Enough, however, of
this death•bed gift of '52 to the builders of the United
Kingdom.—Ths builder.
TIIE MIUSINO COLLIERS. SHIELDS, FRIDAY
MooN.—The dies iful suspense that has hung over the sea-
faring communities in this district since Monday, regarding
the fate of a fleet of deeply-laden collier vessels that left the
Tyne the tide before the Monday gale, has to some extent
been alleviated by the return t s port of shout fifteen sail in
a very disabled condition, and by a report that some ether+
are in places of safety along the coast. &men laden vessels
foundered off the Darkens coast, but by the fortunate cir-
cumstance of some light-vessel• having been nlown off the
land, all rho crews were picked of by them and saved.
The /ffeldon, London trader, foundered about thirty miles
off Tynemouth bar; and yesterday the emus of the John
White and the Albion reached Shield+, having lost their
vessels off the Northumberland roist. The John Bouts,
screw eoliii r, which was blown off the land, was the meal.,
of rescuing tome shipwrecked crews during the giro. It
will he solue days—it may be some week,--11, Eire the fate
of some other vessels that were seen in a dismasted crippled
condition, is known.

SPORTING.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—YESTERDAY.
STRETFORD STEEPLECHASE.
1 to I apt Flying. Bock (tauten)
4 to 1 Simple I'eter (taken)
4to I Widow Machree (taken)
sto I Pilate (taken)
All the horses for each race have arrived.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.
25 to I apt Contentment (token freely)
25 to 1 Galvanism (taken)
30 to I Richmond (taken)

EPSOM JANUARY Si
WE:GHTi fur the FREE H.
10 sore. each, O it, sod (10 :add

at lb
Peter Simple, aged 11 4
Half and.lialr, aged lO 8
Quick Stip, 0104 lO 4
The Brewer, ugel lO 4
Aleoraa lO 0
Simple Peter
Maria B.muttt 9 12
Berrien
dam Hood
Brave Buck 9 12
Young Lottery 9 10

RICIliTel lOU TILE iitktlJ
of 5 VIYs. each, and Madded
it. lb.
11.1f.and-half ll 3
Sir Robert
Caurire lO S
Onassis lO 6
Tomboy
Marchioness
Quick•tep
I,,xeley
Maria Bennett
Simon the Collator 10 4
British Consul
liulaure

'EEPLE CHASES, &c.
NDICAP STREPLII CHASS of
ed. 4 milts.

at lb
Ilarriott
Ottoman
Tr:e 11
Robin Hood V 8
Forest Lad
Th Legacy
Screw
br g by The Cardi-
nal (h b), 5 yrs
Harkuver 9 4

R RACE FREE HANDICAP
Twu miler.

at. lb.
Forest Lad
/Cast Hood
Cashier lO 0
Perjury
Statuf.od
Harriott
Lady Isabel 9 10
Tons Ourney
Lady Ilibina
Little Lizzie
Hayford

• HUNTLNO APPOINTMENTS.
Br&e HouNDS.
Iler M+jestra, Tuesday, Msideuhead Thicket ; Friday,
liver lleath—at 11.

Bch Sulueriptiun, Tuesday, Atworth ; Friday, the Fir
Tree, Writhlingtun—at half•past 11.
Honourable F. Tutee's, Tuesday, High Easter—at half-
past 11. _

}ox Hoc ND!.

Allmighton, Tacad,:y7tE:7l::::: Shipley ; Tharsdav,
Whitrinwria ; Saturday, Whiatutea Crum —at hail=
part 10. _ _

Atheretone, Monday, Red O'te; Wednesday, Hint
Hall ; Friday, eChure..over ; Saturday, Twyeross--at a
quarter to 11.
Duke of Beaufort's, Monday, Lower Woods; Wednes.
day, Hullavington ; Thursday, Quernerfurd Turnpike;
Saturday, Worcester Lodge.
Old Berkshire, Monday, Longeott ; Wednesday, Fril.
ford ; Friday, Goo•ry Green—at half-post 10.
Braorham Moor, Muli.lay, Stuttun Mill; Wednesday,
Milford; Friday, the Wild Man; Saturday, Muriek Wind-
mill—at half-past 10.
Bsdsworth, Tuesday, Kirkby Guide Post; Thursday,
Purston Bar; Sat ur.lay, Brampton Bull Head—at ha f•
past 10.
Lord Henry Bentinek'o, Monday, Linwoodby Rave,;
Wednesday, Similby ; Thursday, Blankney ; Friday, Dod-
dingtoa ; Saturday, Newbold C.ntii.on—at 11.
Cambridgeshire, MAiday, Eltisley Green ; Friday, Sandy
Warren—at half-past 10.
Cottesmore' Monday, Iruham Park; Tuesday, Brooke
Hall—at II ; Thursday, Norniantun Park—at half-past 11 ;
Fei.lay, Belton—at 11.
Craven, Monday, Bedwin Braila; Wednesday, Green-
ham Cowmen • Friday, Mare and Hounds, Lambourn
Woodlasda; Saturday, the Fir Tree, North Heath—at a
quarter to 11.
Cranky and Ilor.harn, Monday, Balcombe Village ;
Wednesday, Broi.dbridge Heath; Friday, Raver Village
—at a quarter to 11.
Colonel Conyers's, Monday, Willingtle; Wednesday,
High Itouthing; Saturday, Hatfield Town—at 11.
Cheshire, Monday, Peeklorton ; Wednesday, Saighton;
Thursday, Tarporley ; Saturday, Crewewuod hill—at hall-
post 10.

Durham County, Monday. Lumley Castle; Wednesday,
Alain Uninge; Friday. Findon Hill—ut hulC•past 10.
Lord Elcho's, Monday, llillfleld Hill; Wednesday,
Swintournill Tot.; Friday, Duddington ; Saturday, Fish-
sick—at halr past 10.
East Essex, Tuesday, Bulmer Plough; Thursday, !sha-
ring Street; Saturday, St. Ann's Castle—at 11.
8 Eases, Tuesday, blountnessiug Hall; Saturday,
Mucking Heath—at halt-past 10.

,
Ewes Union, Wednesday, Banbury Griffin; Saturday,
Stock Ship—at half-past 10.
Ewe: and Suffolk, Tuesday, Leaden Street; Friday,
Stratford Hills—at a quarter to 11.
Mr. Farquharson's, Monday, Melcombe Park; Thurs-
day Mlborue Wood.
Earl Fitzwilliam's, Monday, Barnwell Castle; Wedees-
day, Buckworth Village; Friday, Kennol—at 10.
Earl Fitzhardinae's' Monday, Hamper Hill, Stow Road;
Tuesday, Litcombe Wood; Wednesday, Star Wood;
Thursray, Pump Bottom.
Mr. 11. 0. Greuves's Monday, Hanteringham ; Wednes-
day, Market Stainton —at 11 • Friday, Tathwell—at 12 ;
Saturday, Welton Wood—at 11.
llaydon, Saturday, Langley Tollbar—at half-past 9.
Hurworth, '1 usitday, Kennels; Saturday, High Morsel'
Tallhar—at half-past 10.
Herefordshire, Tuesday, Hampton Court; Friday,
'firewood's End—at 11.
Holdernes., Monday, Bedard: Tuesday, Blame-on-the
Weld ; Thursday, Aldborough ; Friday, Holine-on-Spald-
iag-Moor—at a quarter to 11.
Mr. M. Ingram's, Tuesday, Radbourti ; Thursday, Aston ;
Sa'urday, Blithtield—at a quarter to 11.
F. 44 Kent, Monday, Swinglield Park; Friciay, Lydden
—it half-past 10.
:,edbury, Monday, Dymock Village; Friday, Edwin's
Wood—at half-past 10.
Ludlow, Tuesday, Norton's Camp ; Friday, Mary Knoll.
Er. Lumley's, Monday, Finningley Park; Tuesday,
North; Thursday, Blyth Law Hill; Friday, Grove—at
half-past 10
Mr. Lushington's, Monday, Detley ; Thursday, Bel-
mont ; Saturday, Lynsted— at 11.
11r. Morgan's, Monday, Luscombe Plantation; Thurs-
day, Callington New Bridge—at half-past 10.
Oakley, Monday, Crantield; Thursday, Bungee Cotner;
Saturday, Melehbourne—at a quarter to 11.
Puckeridge—Monday, Patruore Heath ; Wednesday,
Langley-green ; Saturday, Bennington—at half-put 10.
Pytehley, Monday, Rushton ; Tuesday, Millington ;
WAnesday, Crick; Friday, Maidwell ; Saturday, Brock-
hall—at a quarter te 11.
Baby, Monday, Bolam ; Wednesday, Raby Kennels;
Friday, Staindrop Plains—at halt-past 10.
Lord Southampton's, Monday, Little Preston ; Wednes-
day, Shoseley Ground; Friday, Astwell Mill; Saturday,
Ever Park, Yard'. y Chase—at 11.
Mr. A. Smith's, Monday, Clatford Oakcuta ; Tuesday,
Owe Hill; Wednesday, Wherwell Wood; Thursday,
\reyhill; Friday, Portoa Firs; Saturday, Clarendon Park
—at 11.

Southdown, Monday, Glyade ; Wednesday, Clapham ;
Friday, the Bell, Shortgate—at 11.
North Staffordshire. Monday, Drayeot ; Wednesday,
Seighforil ; Frilay, Adderley—at half-past 10.
Mr. Lee Steere's, Monday, Lee Farm ; Thursday, Kings-
park—at 11.
Suffolk, Tuesday, Finborough Hall ; Thursday, Bradley
Fox ; Saturday, Fashom Green—at a quarter to 11.
Sir It. Sutton's, Monday, Houghton uu-the-Hill ; Tues-
day, Plunttree:.Village ; Wednesday, Belton Village ;
'Thursday, Keythorpe Hall ; Friday, Old Dalby Wood—
at 11.

Sir T. Sykes's, Monday, ClarrowliT Hill Top ; Wednes-
day, Windmill, Stockton Forest; Friday, Thorpe House—
aqieltpast_lo.

Ttndale, Monday, Swinburne Cantle ; Thursday. Naffer-
ton ; Saturday, liesleyside—at half-put 10.
Tiverton, Moaday, Cadbury Castle; Friday, Bradwinch
—at half-past 10
Warwickshire, Monday, Haywood; Tuesday, Whateote ;
Thursday, Snittertteld ; Friday, Upton House ; Saturday,
Galclieote House—at a quarter to 11.
Worcestershire, Monday, Cliffey ; Wednesday, Plymouth
Arno, Tardebrigg ; Friday, Wyre Piddle—at half-put 10.
Wyeside, Monday, Lluwes Village ; Friday, Rhydapence
—at half-past 10..
Col. Wyndham's, Monday, Humber Corner ; Wednes-
day, Coster's M. 11; Friday, Teglsossl Gate—at half-past 11.
Sir W. W. Wynne's, Monday, Malpas,llloor; Wednes-
day, Buckley Lcdge ; Thursday, Brynypys; Saturday,
Styche—at half-past 10.

HASB.IERS.

B. V., Monday, Keßicei=ati;:ir-past 11.
Brighton, Monday, l'atcham; Wednesday, Racecourse;
Saturday, Dyke—at a quarter ta 11.
Brookside, Monday, Newmarket bill ; Thursday, Trill-
combe Tye.
Lord Bolton's, Wednesday, Rock Castle ; Saturday,
Ulshavr Bridge—at 11
Morpeth, Tuesday, Horsley Moor; Friday, Fritlington—
at halt-past 10.
Newcutla and Gateshead, Friday, Birtley Gate—at half-
past 10.
Stockton, Billingham, and Hartlepool, Monday, Tho-
m& Houses ; Thursday, Sheraton—at haliput 10.
Thanet, Monday, Acol—at half-post 10.
Breconshire, Monday, Pont Altarnoy; Friday, Ta:y.
bout—at 11.

FIRST SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH IN AMERICA.—
The lying down ul the first submarine cable in the United
States, oad which is ultimately intended to connect
this country and the emtinetit of Europe with the continent
of Amerim, Stu just been successfully completed. The
cable which forms the first action tt the Newfoundland
Electric Telegraph Works has been sunk between Cape
Tamentine, in the province of New Brunswick, -and
Carlton Head, on l'r:uce Edward's

LANittN ItAiLwAys.—Lettera from Copenhagen of
the 23rd state that Messrs. Peto and Co. had an audience of
the king at Frethri.k,borg on the 19th, to lay before his
majesty the plans for a railway intended to coons et Frede-
rickshssen. nearly at the eastern . xtreinity of Jutlandowith
Fleosburir in North Schleswig, and thence by the South
Schleswig line with 'binning. Tha 1.,0,r is said to interest
himself 'randy upon theh project, which, if carried out,
will be a mums of increased prosperity to the northern dis-
tricts of mntinental Denmark, and a means of greatly fa-
cilitating communications with Sweden by Golteuberg.