The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-18 00:00:00

NUMEROUS SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OP LIFE.

Another Bartow, gale from the eastward has swept
the north and south coast, occasioning several melancholy
shipwrecks. It oommenced early on Tuesday, and continued
with more or less violence during the night, the cold being
most severe. A sad list of disasters has been received from
Lloyds' agents. We append a notice of the more serious.
While the gale was at its height on Tuesday, between 1
and 2 o'clock, a large French brig called the Theodore, Cap-
tain Lebland, bound to Dieppe from the Tyne, which had
become disabled, was driven uhore at Skioningrove, a few
miles from Redcar, and within a quarter of an hour or so
attar she struck, owing to the sea which broke over her and
her violent bumping, she began to go to pieces. The crew,
eight in number, seeing the inevitable loss of their vessel,
took to the ship's boat., which, in endeavouring to reach the
shore, was capsized, when the whole of the poor fellows,
with the exception of the captain, were drowned. The
master when picked up was in a very exhausted state. The
brig speedily west to pima, and her cargo is strewn on the
coast. Several of the bodies have been cast up.

A heavy loss is reported to have happened on the Rear
Bank, on the out side of Dungeness. The barque Sarah
Love, bound to London from St. Vincent's, was making her
way up Channel on Tuesday when she went ashore on the
Rear Bank, end there remained. The coastguard were
Kea in attendance, and every effort was made to get her
off, but without success. The last accounta state that her
back is broken. The unfortunate ship sailed from
Sunderland.

Two colliers, named the Mayor of Sunderland, ;and the
Zephyr, of Stockton, bound to London, were wrecked on
the Swin Middle Send; two of the crew of the latter
vessel perished. The survivors suffered much from the se-
vere cold, and were received and landed in the river Coins
by the smack Queen Victoria, of Brightingsea. Another
collier, the Cockermouth Castle, honed to Dieppe from
Shields, was lost on the Inner Dowseys on Tuesday night.
About 20 miles north-west of the Humber, the mate
and mew of the collier brig Charles Henry, of
Sunderland, abandoned that vessel in a sinking state.
She had lost her rudder and was totally diemasted. The
mister, John Anson, refused to leave her, and his fate is
left in great uncertainty. The crew, who took to the boat,
were packed up by the collier brig Elimbeth Young, of
Shields, and with the exception of a seaman named Lea,
who was drowned, were safely landed.
It is feared that some mad cataatrophe has occurred
between Orfordnees and Harwich. Several bales of tobacco
and spices have been picked up, and some bags containing
black pepper, marked "8.C.L." and " J. J. kZ." A ships
topmast, lower yard, and beams have also been ant ashore.
The north-east coast has also been thescene of a
heavy pia. On Monday the wind got round to the cast,
' with a heavy sea, which increased towards night, and com-
pelled several laden vessels which had left Hartlepool a
day or two previous to return to port. Some were for-
tunate in the retreat ; but it is feared that severd have
gone down. On Monday evening, the Swedish }argue
in ballast, came into Hartlepool Bay for shelter,
and after being knocked about a good deal amongst the
broken waters she drove on to Middleton
8
previous to which her main and fore staate"l
cane down and the raison topmast also went
overboard. In the confusion of the wreck the cap-
tain was severely injured, having, we understand, received
• fracture of several ribs. The brig Blitarnia, of Whitby,
coal laden and returning, whilst making for West Hartle-
pool, struck upon the ground a short distance front the
pier: She gradually worked herself round, however, and
got into the outer harbour in safety. On Tuesday morn-
ing the brig Beulah, of Scarborough, coal laden, whilst
maxim back to Hartlepool, got on the ground at the edge
of the bar, where she remained duriug the fall of the
tide, resisting all efforts to tow her off, and rolling about
in the trough of the see to such an extent that it was
feared her masts would come out. She remained until
the tide rose, when she swung off the bank and drifted
on to the Middleton Sand, near the pier. She will become
a wreck.

EXPLANATION.
B —Barometer corrected and reduced to 12 deg. at mean sea
level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth
of an Inch diminution; and each 10 deg., above 31 deg., causing
nearly three hundredths Increase. E.—Exposed thermometer
in shade. M.—Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew
point). D.—Direction of wind (true—not magnetle). F.—Force
(I to 12—estimated). C.—Ctond (1 to 9). L—lnittabi b, blur sty,
e. clouds (detached) ; f, fog; h hall;
=Y: 0, overcast 0711); r, ruin; a. snow ; tinuten
r repeated aumnsinto—thus, re. muck rata.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.