The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-23 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1862.

THE GALES.

LOSS OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIP BISNOOOLEN AND
TWENTY-EIGHT LWEIL •

By the telegrams which came in yesterday from
the different outporte there seems to bare been brit little
abatement of the severity of the gales, more particularly
along the western coast, where, up to yesterday at noon, the
wind is described to have blown with the force of a hurricane
from the S.W., with a tremendous sea on, and tweaking over
the shore. In the course of the forenoon Admiral Fitzroy
communicated to the several stations round the coast that
another storm was probable. The barometer, which stood
at 29.54, wee falling last evening.
Early yesterday morning, Lloyd's egoist ►t Buds, near
Bideford. on the North Devon ooast, forwarded a telegraphic '
despatch to the City announcing the loss of • large ship off
that place, and that most of the crew had perished. She
proves to be the Bencoolen, 1,500 tom burden, bound to
' Bombay from Liverpool with a cargo of machinery, railway
iron, telegraph wire, and other goods. It appears that she
left the Mersey last week, and in making her way out of the
Channel encountered the gale, and becoming disabled
put back, and in endeavouring to make Bude Haven struck
upon the rocks and became a total wreck. Unhappily
out of a crew of 27, only five, it is reported, were saved.
The Bemioolen was built at St. John's in 1855, and was •
first-class ship.
Daring Monday and Tuesday considerable anxiety was felt
for the safety of the Clarence steam-ship, belonging to the
General Stearn Navigation Company, which left Hamburg for
London on Saturday, and was therefore sometime overdue.
Yesterday she arrived in the river, and by her report it
would appear that she had a narrow escape of foundering
in the North Sea, having last between 200 and 300 sheep
which were stowed on deck, and sustained other damage.
On leaving Cuxhaven the weather was fine, but
on reaching Terschelliog on Sunday afternoon bad
weather was encountered, and two steamers, which
were supposed to be the Leo and Planet, and were following
in the wake of the Clarence, were lost sight of, and it is
thought they were lost. The gale gradually in-
creased, and at times with thunder and lightning, the sea
running mountains high. About 11 o'clock at night a fear-
ful sea struck the ship, sweeping the deck and carrying
overboard 250 sheep, breaking away the paddle-boxes, bul-
warks, galley, and other things on deck, and flooding the
fore-cabin and fore part of the vessel. For a time it was
feared that the steamer could not outlive the storm in her
then condition, and that she would founder. The chief
officer, Mr. Marshall, who was at the wheel, bad his thigh
broken. The crew took heart and worked courageously for
the preservation of the ship, and by active pumping cleared
the vessel of ► large portion of water which she had made.
Owing to the time, however, the ship bad been kept buf-
feting about the fuel got short. The ship's spars,
&c., were made available for 'keeping up the
fires, and at length, after much trouble and
anxiety, the English land near Lowestoft was made, to
the joy of all on board. The crew and passengers were
much exhausted, some of the former having been on their
legs more than 90 hours. Another steamer which has
arrived in the river reports having lost 75 cattle of 90
which she had on board.

A sad list of casualties continues to be received from the
north-east ooest. The brig Robert and Margaret, belong.
ing to the Tyne, could not weather the storm, and
foundered a few miles from the mouth of the Hum-
ber. The captain, mate, and carpenter were rescued by
the smack Tarts:, but the remainder of the unhappy crew
(six or seven in number) were drowned. Another collier
brig, called the Amity, from the Tyne, for Rochester, went
down off the same line of coast, but the crew were happily
preserved. The crew of the schooner Thrifty, of Goole, for
ROl.lOO, which struck on the Long Sand on Sunday night,
were not taken out of the rigging until eight o'clock on the
following morning. The poor fellows suffered much by the
sea breaking over them. The captain's wife was drowned,
and the mate's wife, who was lashed to the rigging, died
from the severity of the weather. Many wrecks are re-
ported from the different coast-guard stations.
The Transit, steamer, from Hull, speaks of having seen a
large ship, apparently an Austrian, of 1,000 tons, with !sig-
nals of distress eying. No parson was seen on board, and it
was thought that a pilot boat which was near would succeed
in getting the ship into Flushing.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNISDAY.

Much pain was felt here to-day in consequence
of a despatch which was received from Bute's Bay. Corn-
wall, announcing the total lose of the large East Indieman
Bencoolen. Thin vessel left Liverpool on the 13th inst.,
bound for Bombay, with a large and valuable general cargo.
She most have met with the fearful weather which has
prevailed in the Channel and round the English and Irish
coast for the lut week or so, and been driven on to the
Cornwall coast. The Bencoolen when she left Liverpool
had a crew of 33 men on board all told, and we regret to
lay that out of this number only five have been saved. The
telegram is brief, and does not state whether the
master or officers are among the saved. The ill-fated ship
belonged to Messrs. E. Bates and Co., of LiverpooL
The foreign brig Meika, Captain Haseywinkle, bound
from Leghorn to Liverpool, went ashore to-day off Water-
loo, and at the time of the despatch of our parcel two
steam tugs were endeavouring to pull her off.
Two flats—one salt laden—sank in the river to-day, but
fortunately no person was lost.
As showing the strength of the gale from the westward,
we may state the tide rose 2 feet and more above the height
indicated by all the tide tables. Admiral Fitzroy tele-
snubs to say that another fearful g►le from the south may
be hourly expected.

PLYMOUTH, WIDNESDAY.

The prevailing gales have contiuued here up to
this morning ; but the boisterous state of the weather has
since somewhat abated. A large number of vessels have
taken shelter in the Sound, but the following are the only
accideots that have taken place amongst them The
barque Moultao, from Bahia for this port, with a cargo of
sugar, last from Queenslown,•loat her jibboom. The Place,
a small ketch belonging to Teigomoutb, laden with blue las,
from Lyme Regis, went ashore in Catwater for want of a
second anchor ; she was got off to-day, with some boles in
her bottom, after throwing over part of her cargo. The
Fitzroy weather Niguel at present stands hers at " Dan-
gerous winds from the southward expected."