The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

THE LATE GALE.

EDI Nnu an tt. Ocr.l 2 —The weather has broken up. The
quantity of rain that fell last week was very great ; and on
Sunday niglit a strong gale, accompanied by heavy inter-
mitting showers, came on from the north-east. It con-
tinued to blow all yesterday with unabated violence; and
the usual demolition of chimney cans, slates, &c. ensued.
Several of the large trees in the meadows have such red
considerable injury. In the western division one was torn
up by the root--en the eastern, or Hype Park division,
a venerable willow, well known to idle boys as the toss
-
tree, was snapped in two, and only a stump remains. The
strength iv the wind bad such an effect on the water of
the Union Canal, that a perceptible diminution took place in
the basin of poet Iloperoun. In the Frith the gale was
experienced in all its fury. Yesterday no boat was able to
make the passage, and even at the Queensfcrry it was con-
sidered perilous to attempt crossing. His Majesty's sloop
Clio rode with her top-gallant mast struck. A number of
vessels took shelter under the lee of Inclikeith, and others
slipped cable, and ran westward beyond Queensferry.
One foreign brig drove, and at one time P was apprehended
that she would go ashore near Crammond. The life-boat
was launched, but before this was effected, a Newhaven
fishing-boat, with twelve venturous tnen, put off to the
' brig's assistance, and succeeded in carrying her up the
Frith. The sea broke with fi ightful violence on the pier
at Newhaven, and the 10u-house at its extremity was
battered down by the waves. About Eve o'clock in the
afternoon, a ship, supposed to he the Isabella Simpson,
from Jamaica, came to anchor under the lee of Inchkeirli,
and is stated to have inapt her cable. A great number of
vessels have taken refuge in the Frith. We are sorry to
add that a rumour prevails of a sloop, coal laden, freeing
been lost near Dunbar, crew saved ; and that another vessel
is reported to be ashore on the Isle of May. These, we
fear, are not the only disastrous accounts we shall receive
of a storm which must have been extremely trying to the
shipping on our coast. The wind continued boisterous all
last night. The smack Pilot, which sailed from Leith for
London on Friday, put hack to the roads on Saturday,
with damage. and has gone into Iturntisland harbour to
repair. Off St. .Abh's Head she experienced a tremen-
dous gale from the S.S.E. whirl' carried away her mainsail,
foresail, and stove in her starboard bow. At one time it
blew so hard, that fears were entertained for the safety of
the vessel. The Walter Scott sailed in company, but has
not, we believe put back.—Edirshorzgi Obsercer.
The effects of the storm, on Sunday night, were se-
verely felt at Derriford, the seat of J. C. Lan-mead, Esq.
A sudden and violent gust of wind, or tornado it might be
called, about midnight, which lasted several minutes, car-
rying devastation in its course, swept through the valley,
overselling every obstacle that impeded its progress. Some
:lee old oak trees which stood on thelawn were rooted from
the earth ; oth.rs of considerable dimensions were broken
short off, while many were script of their branches, which
were carried to an astonishing distance by the fury of the
storm. A large proportion of the house was unroofed and
much glass broken. It is soetewhat remarkable, that the
track of desolation appears to have been confined to com-
paratively narrow limits, beyond which the hurricane
passed without doing material Hum—Memoir/A Journal.
The very heavy rains which fell at the beginning of
the week caused a great flood from the Trent. At Newark
it rose very rapidly on Tuesday and Wednesday ; and on
the evening of the latter day, the water was higher than it
had been for several years. The flood was spreading over
the low country in the neighbourhood of Lincoln to a fear-
ful extent, but is happily checked by the cold winterly
winds which have succeeded the downfall. A boy belong-
ing to a Yorkshire boat was lost in the Fossdike near the
11 aces House, while riding the haling horse. He was not
missed, nor seen to fall into the river, as the storm pre-
vented any attention from the people in the boat.—Lincoln
Mercury. _ . . .

OLAYCOW, OCT. I?.—About three o'clock yesterday
morning, in consequence of the strong gale of wind, a scaf-
folding in Cumberland-street, Calton, 136 feet high, al-
though Axed ti ith strong ropes, was blown down with a
tremendous crash, and, falling partly on the roof of an ad-
joining factory, broke numbers of tiles, and otherwise in-
jured the roof, but did no further damage. Yesterday
forenoon, while some own were employed in making fast
n kit ropes a new stalk in Adelphi• street, llutchesontown,
the force of the wind blew off a man flirt was fixing one of
the uppermost ropes, above 100 feet high, and one of his
legs was broken, besides his being much bruistml. The
streets wPre, in various parts of the city and suburbs, strewed
with broken tiles and bricks.

Maws the Dubifs Evening Herald of Tuesday.)
The weather for the last two or three days has been sin-
gularly tempestuous in the neighbourhood of Dublin.
The Mountaineer steam-packet encountered on Sunday
night a tremendous hurricane on her passage from Liver-
pool, which, however, she happily weathered, and landed
her passengers in safety, yesterday morning, at Kingstown,
but nut without imminent peril, owing to the total neglect
of one of the revolving lights at Kingstown. When near
Howth, the vessel and passengers providentially escaped a
dreadful calamity with which they were threatened, in
consequence of the imprudence of a passenger, who suf-
fered his umbrella to take fire, which communicated to the
vessel before it was discovered, but fortunately it was sera
in time to be got under without any injury.
Yesteahty the 11C4 at Kingstown presented a most
awfully sublime and imposing. spectacle. The spray, with
frothy fury, o'ertopped the highest masts : the vessels in
the Rays! harbour rede out the gale securely, but those at
the 041 Pier suffered materially. The wreck of the Dwarf
revenue cotter, and others lying in the harbour, since last
yt ar, seat to pieces.
An ueurtuttate seaman, named Hugh Corcoran, of the
Flutill I, a comer, was washed overboard, the vessel hav-
ing brokea her moorings at Ibinleary, and several pleasure
boats between that Owe and Williamstown were completely
wrecked. Two rasels laden with black cattle, were
strandtd between the Muck and Williamstown.
The sloop Sally. M‘Neilson master, bound to Dublin
with herrings, was totally wrecked oft' Howth, about six
o'clock on Sunday evening, and by the exertions of Mr.
Browne, the harbour-master, the crew were saved.

We are happy to learn from the Hampshire Chronicle,
that Dr. Hutchison, whose character, professional talents'
and attention, as Medical Superintendent of the Milbank
Penitentiary, was so clearly esiubli,lied in a Committee of
the House of Commons, is appointed by his Majesty's Go-
vernment to the Dock-yard at Sheerness.
COICINEIeg INQUUST.—SUICIDE.— Thursday evening
an inquest was held at the sign of the Neptune, in Claren-
don-street, &liners-town, before Thomas Stirling. E.q.,
Coroner for the Western Division of the County of Middle-
sex, on view of the body of Mrs. Elisabeth Laurance,
aged fifty years, who put a period to her own life by taking
a quantity of laudanum. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was the wife of a gentleman residing in
the house directly opposite ; that she had had a family of live
daughter., had lived very happily with her husband, and
they wanted for no domestic comforts. The deceased
had, for some time past, exhibited several symptoms of
mental derangement ; she became melancholy and deji ctol ;
at one time she had absconded from home, and three (lays
after was found wandering about ; and, on another occa-
sion, she attempted to drown herself in the Regent's canal.
About six o'clock last Tuesday evening she purchased two
ounces of laudanum at an apothecary, in Judd-street. all
of which she swallowed. 'When the effects became known
Surgeon Wakefield was scut for, but the dose was so pow-
erful, that it terminated her existence before his arrival at
eight o'clock. An empty two-ounce phial, labelled " Lan-
dman," was found in her pocket. Ile Jury, wider all
the circumstances, returned a verdict—" That she died
from taking two ounces of laudanum, in a 'taw of tem-
porary mental clerangetnent."

• 81;1 CI DL.—Yester-ilay morning, between trine and tcu
o'clock, Mr. Barker, builder, near the British and Foreign
School Establishment, Borough-road, put a period to his
existence by hanging himself in his own house. Ile has tell
a widow and five small children. it is supposed that matte
failures in building speculations was the cause.
Rosimar.—Wethiesday night, or early on Thursday
mo • g, the shop of Mr. Giraud, grocer and tea-dealer,
Butt-lane, Deptford, was feloniously entered, and robbtal
of Ito sovereigns, taken frem a small cast:-box, s:veral
taible told tea-spoons, and of tea. The rubbers
gut off undiscoravd.