The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

THE LATE HEAVY GALES.

The furious gale, swelling almost to a hurricane, which
swept over the coasts of the United Kingdom on Satur-
day night and Sunday week, seems to have produced seri-
ous disasters. On the eastern coast, between Cromar
and Yarmouth, the brig Guide, Mr. Russell, master,
bound from Hartlepool to the Thames, sprang a leak on
Saturday. Tremendous seas broke over, swept her decks,
and carried away everything moveable. In the evening
she lost her steerage, and, catching a heavy blast of wind,
went over on her beam ends, and instantly foundered, in
some 8 or 10 fathoms of water, when all the crew, except
the master, who made his way up the rigging, and secured
himself in the cross-trees, perished. Mr. Russell was
rescued by the Inconstant, of Blyth, after 12 hours' ex-
posure, in a most exhausted condition.
Early in the morning of the same day, the Elizabeth,
Mr. Negus, master, on a voyage from the Tyne to Lon-
don, came in collision with a bark, in ballast, so violently,
that within five minutes afterwards the bark foundered in
deep water, with every sc,ul on board. Its name could
not be ascertained ; and the state of the weather was such
that the Elizabeth could render no assistance. That ves-
sel lost her bowsprit, and sustained other damage.
About the same time, the schooner Ann and Elizabeth,
from Mogador to London, beating up the channel, was
driven on the shoal called the Kentish Knock, and be-
came a wreck. A passenger, whose name has not been
given, and the master, were lost. The remainder of the
crew and a second passenger were preserved by the Alpha,
of Barking, which landed them at Harwich.
On the same day, Nenagh, in Ireland, was visited by a
fearful hurricane, which carried away the entire roots of
houses, and several chimneys at the same time. It did
not continue more than a minute, or it must have devas-
tated the whole town. The entire roof of the police-bar-
racks, a new and substantial building, was among the
wreck ; the mail-coach was transferred from one side of
the street to the other, and nearly driven through a shop.
window, and the windows smashed were innumerable.
At Southampton, the gasometer, containing 50,000
cubic feet of gas, was blown down.
At Whitehaven, 50 yards of the sea-wall and an em-
bankment 20 feet deep, were washed away from the
Whitehaven Junction Railway ; an occurrence which has
stopped for some time to come the passage of all traffic on
two miles of the line. At a short distance from the scene
of this disaster, an immense rock, which must have braved
the elements for many centuries, was torn up and hurled
to a considerable distance from its original situation.
Minor disasters occurred on several points of the eastern
and western coast. The Earl of Errol, bound to Bou-
logne, sprung a leak, and foundered near the Kentish
Knock. Her crew found refuge in the lightship there,
and were afterwards conveyed to Deal.
In the upper part of the Swin, several sunken wrecks
have been observei by mariners ; but the fate of the
crews, or names of the vessels, have not transpired.

A WOMAN BOILED TO DEATH.—On Thursday, at
Wapping Workhouse, London, a female named Sarah
Torson, aged 69 years, was discovered in a copper of
boiling water. Deceased had been in the Workhouse
several years. About seven o'clock, one of the girls pro.
ceeded into the washing-room to light the copper fire,
after which several of the other females began to prepare
for the usual day's work ; and, when they considered the
water was sufficiently heated, one of them went to put
some clothes into the boiling liquid, when she screamed
at the sight of a female's head and shoulders which were
projecting from the copper. It was afterwards ascer-
tained that the deceased must have got on the top of the
copper by climbing up with the assistance of a stool, and
when the water was cold.
SINGULAR AND FATAL. ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident
occurred the other day at Landshipping, near Haverford-
west. Mr. Owen, son of Colonel Owen, was out shoot-
ing, accompanied by a man named Mathias. In beating
down a hedge a rabbit was started, and Mr. Owen fired,
exclaiming, " I have hit her." Before a moment had
elapsed Mathias replied,—" And you have hit me too,"
and immediately fell to the ground. Mr. Owen imme-
diately got over the hedge, and, running up to Mathias,
found him on the point of death, and in a few moments
be breathed his last. On a post mortem examination of
the body no cause of death could be discovered. Two
small shots had struck him, but not apparently in a vital
part ; and the supposition is, that the spinal cord must
have been injured slightly by one of the shot.