The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

TUN LATE ',ALE.

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etrear of the ode of W...11..e,-.!ny utJ Thurs-
day hay.. been aa we feared would turn out to he un
.4 .t ammo. maitre both as rept* life awl property. Ns-
to. low uto uoeurred Loth L..04,,e awl the pro.
Inures. not the pressure moo oar this morning pre-
cludes us foam marring more than a low of the moat he-
joitant.
At the ellurvh oVit. Mary, taml.etb, which adjoins the
Aribboilior4 the damage has been most extessive.
About : in are eveiieg of Thunalay the inhabitants
.4 the Were throws jab a state of great alarm a
•errili, :rash. though a great portion of the ancient tower
• but fortunately this was not this ease.
It WO ultimately found that the wind had stripped
or! about 3.1 feet of the mein leaden covering over the
save drag4,iug with it a parties of the roof. lite lead of
the south aide was also tent off for about IS feet, as well
as on! airing the roof. Ifibortly after this a lofty stone
chimney was limbed from tire roof of the vestry and
burled with terrible violence into the Falvey:mi, where
pm-tion4 of the stone 44 very 'wavy weight wenfoowl
I oned in the e.ti th wveral inches below the surface.

During the night of the gale the large meanest directly
aMive the well.ktiown clock .fare .4 St. Magnus Church,
Luudou• linage. was blown nut and to bed b piano.
A "cry large portion of the giipoww picture of Venice, at
the Maurer Csriless, extending to Malty the centre towards
She west end, Was caught by the hurrWsue and hurled to
the gr,unil„ including the massive saffolding. The mass
fell towards the Like awl was tura and damaged to& serious
salad. Th whole the bawdier: at the back of the
udios, sew the Flee Hive Tavern, was ale, blown down,
tad the trees and shrubs in the ground mock injured.
t mons the must severe sufferers by the ,pole are Menus.
eerie and Harvey, the well-known eciopowiler manufac-
toren, at Hounslow -tor at their rocoufseteriee at Hatton,
aleut two miles from that place. tire buil.liegs, used as
" green mills,- have been destriord by explosions, rue.
ionately, owe: to timely Mots being taken of the probable
seventy of the "toot, precautions were used, and the work.
aw rnor.e.l fnuu the buildings before the implosion tech
teso that. :la Lusa can le acertsinoil, ivo lies of life Ism
e: place.
nes bratv, gale which minded on Thoroduy night causal
aulaarous "Moisten to venous ileseriptions of craft in the
altar. la the Lower Hope two collier vessels were blown
Oh *NM, and below Woolwich Reseli a heavily laden hoe
Wag anak. but fortunately no lives were lout. Two barges
tweedy Laden were sunk opposite the Brunswick hew,
Hlo Beall, and a whole feet of barges and lighten might
b.,ve slowed the same fate bat for the prompt measures
taker by tbr suthurities at the F.s.t India Docks, who
oolere.l the rosin gates to be opened, real all craft in danger
were ttnuttc-1 into miork. tt Wnulw tdi Dockyard a con-
u,.terahls pot! .00 of the roof of the twwly.erecteil church
w,s blows off, and also the corrugated cow roof of the
nicat.hotise aest the river._ _ _ _

IL. gale elude prevailed during Thurvilay afternoon and
vvemog. Listing Dearly the whole was one of the moot
feerful ever known at Chatham, and more resembled a tor-
nolo than an' thing usually experienced in these latitudes.
The damage dune to tbe shipping at this port, as well as to
property is theneighbourhood, ha. been very considerable.
During the time the hurricase 11101 at its height, two of
sew go, eminent lighter.., lying alongside the dockyard re-
ceiving the • ergo of the Elisabeth, from Monlineio, with
timber, wink, each of them having • portiou of the csrgo of
that yowl on board. Every precaution to prevent acci-
dents was taken as board the various vowels of war is
harbour, the whole*f which, in consequence el the good
anchorage, eels out the pills safety. A tarp windmill at
the top of Friedmann, dull, is the occupation of Mr. Kim-
mins, was partially swept away, the heavy nee"' falling
with a trenvendesis crash. Th. roof of the new buildings at
liromptim Wracks was also injured, and several houses in
that neighbourhood ware woofed. A number of flee trees
are lying spoiled in all directions, sonic of them after
being t•rs up Wag hurled a govt diitaave.

Thesionsti i named at Bouthansplon at ten o'clock
da on Thurs-
day A vessel, partly Wes with potatoes.. was mask
the quay, nail another Ira. iortiv nook. Three
mien oa beard the Miter had to he draggid ashore with
emus. At Fawley, a village ems flouthernplon. 4 cote
was blows demised' wawa wamewly escaped ha aug killed.
The gateway ef Medic/ Abbey (respeeting which there
has lately hoes MIO•d• diOWIWTOS In Heading, and IK,
snail Werra& Mt is arthmelegiml sinks, the expelieocy
et
its restoraties being the positien in dispute) sustained
welch danal a from the heavy Mona of limit that
sous on Monday attention ad eastiesad throughout the
evening. • large pieties of the }restage &hues the north
arch. with • pert of the arch itself, nail the north-wed
tower. Inn; blows slows. The nocurreece would certainly
bars proved mat serious, if sot fatal, to three or four mem,
had !hey not bees called from the spot wily two or three
ni notes pre. ii melt' to Ned a bonier mane the rcad leading
to the gateway. the structure has, it appease, bean in a
very damsel...A mate for a lisp time pest, and the local
Loud of health have frequently had the subjeetof its resto-
ration imago consideration. Several bandied poem's were
nosed by public subscription. and Mr. O. Scott's services
were insigaged to prepare the plane, he. seeemary for the
earrviag out of the work. One of the towers, however,
partly pee way a week or two ago, and, in cosasquenee
of the dangerous state of the whole structure,
the pumas through the arch was barricaded,
and the heavy roof retooved, with the view of
lessening the weight upon the walls of the buddies ; but
the south will absoe the archway was partly pulled down a
few days since, and them the frontage no-re readily yielded
to the violenes of the wind About 20 feet of a lofty claim
bey at the Large iron works of Messrs. Barrett. Eta, and
Andrews, agricultural implement lookers, was blows down
daring the gale which prevailed during the sight of Wednes-
day. and other dames" has been dime to other property in
the tows and neighbourhood.
A corner admit says that theorem of Salisbury Cathedral
is out of the perpeadiealar, and seam anxiety is felt fur its
safety is coneequesee.
From Liverpool we Mars that for some days past the
weather has bees very boisterous., end on Thursday evening
the lido' gradually increased in violence, until about sine
eche* in the evening, when it blew a perfett humoane tram
the south. The damage done to shipping is very peat,
toh.ellto tb.y. "I
isarp;:zhigh'e vessels
ph' iiillte‘wi about
en ih:
storm was at it height, I her ancbore Dear the north
battery, but was peeves from running ashore by the
timely aid of the steam tug l'haverse• which lewd
the weseele clear of danger. The Conqueror tag, arm'
ap with as abandoned brig in Bootle-tay, lei
could ascertain so intelligesee of the crew. Much damp
was dose to the South landingotage au consequence'
eif the ship Mangoes dragging her anchors and
foal of the share, from which she carried away nsea=
stancheass. The Black Ball clipper ship Champ mi of the
ideas, which arrived is the Money on Wednesday night
from Melbourne, dinged her section and drifted in past the
month end of the Iloorge's landing, and commenced hump-
ing on the Roth pier. After mach trouble three Meow
tugs were secured to the ship, and she wee towed into the
stream. much injured about the hull. The shipping oat.
side suffered al.n very much. The Protector. for New Yak
with rove of naaan,yartl,maintopmast, lee : i sty of P.
for Mobile, with log of rods ; Milan, for New iirlellitt
ohm, for stettio. bare all put luck. the ('lessor fem.),
for New York, and the Douro (us.), fur Cash; ran into
liolyhend for shelter.
Ti.h David Stewart, which reached Liverpool yesterday
from Baltimore, reports that on the 20th inst., oil Belly-
collie, she experietseed an awful hurricane—the ship lying
with her upper dead lights under water fir a long time, the
see making a complete breach over her : her cargo was
shifted, and she also shipped great quantities of water.
Captain Ore, of the ship Oberon, which has put back,
states that ho has been thirty years at sea, but he never
caper:rowel anything like the late gale in his life More.
Ile left Liverpool of the 13th Febrnare, and on the 21st he
was ol Tusher ; on the 19th sod 20th be was caught in a
hurricane. the ships' sails were split and she otherwise suf-
fered roach. fhb naming leek to port he passed an lu-
mens. inantity of week. The Italian Luiz Ilheata went
ashore on Thursday en Rendre, Point, and becuir:e a total
wreck--master, mate, and six men last.
A portion of the spire of Spring I :rove Church, near Isle-
worth, was carried away by the vi01en..... of the ~ ;id. sod
at one boom, in the same locality, the lead w-s torn from
the roof and takes M a considerable distance. The !nos of
chimney pot. and tiles is very great, aid in tome of the
market ?animas the tree have been very much broken and
"rtistoneuperMare a cossiderahle portion of the spire
of the new church was blown down, awl the material falling
through the roof of the building. has reduced it :ilinoet to a
ruin. (a Thursday night the wind was quite as high for a
tLae, curl a number of aceidenta are reported.
Northampton was visited with a dreadful storm of wind,
necorepanie.l by a heavy fall of rain, which lasted from
n.idni.ht until about three o'clock on Thursday morning.
In sheep-street its revises were attended with shocking
havoc to property, and with the destruction of two lives in
a bowie occupied by Mr. John Grooms, jun.. boot and shoe
anauheturer. At about two o'clock, when the storm
raged most violently, a large stack of rhimaeys
came ilown with a terrific crash, sail carried away
the roof awl the two Soon underneath, burying ;
Mr. Oroom, his wife, their two children, awl a servant
said is the ruins. Mr. and Mrs. (tromp were in bed on the
first floor at the time, and the children and the servant
were .•.1.0 is bed ow the floor below, and it was nearly the..
boon after the accident that they were discovered lying
under beeps of bricks, stone, broken limier,. bedsteeds,-and
bedding. When taken oat Mr. sad Mrs. Gmom were fella
to have Mss seriously
_though not dangerously injured ; se
also was the eldest child. They were very much cut about
various parts of the hedy, mad scarcely alms to t..ove. The
*errant and the read wen both dead. It would
appear as if thepr awbeiss isdastaiseously killed by the
Mimeses weight of the tans. bending.
One of the and haft stems that ever occurred in
otoecemer mid an Thursday naming, horn about one
to two o'clock. The Pte as beta the south, and the
damage it has p.ebms a ens only he roughly estimated at
personal Beery tissrefier through Gloucester knows the
beg lied elegant tea of the Greet Western stations ; this
pialform was shoat 150 yards long, and the roof was sap.
pseud by ham ptllan and &dem with corrugated iron
and gin ersveriag. The platform le famed on the side
um the Ilidload station with weeds. partitions. About
hall-pset ens o'clock. when the pie wee at its height, As
met end ad the platform was seas Is sway to and fro, and
them Nada* sheet 40 yards el the roof same to the
peead with a Menlo mask the elsirts bring gaged
newt the bre at the South Weir end el the pietism