The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

GREAT STORM AND DESTRUCTION OF
SHIPPING AT COVE.

rFrotii the Cork gd.ruthern Reporter of SCttilhitiy;)
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Reporter Qffice, Six o'clock, 77turiclity Evenlmp
The following has.just been received : ,
Cori,, Three o'clock, p.m.—Within the mernoty _of the oldest
intiabitot do such gale as that of last night;..tind hill cantina,
WK. has taken place. It commenced at. tivq ,u clock. in
evening, and nearly every vessel in port here driven on *bomb
or received damage, -and some are totally loss:
The damage on the coast must be Very great': .aUtl, we
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heard.in the offing, and great alarm. prevails, Seieral of th
wharfs and Iniusen are damaged.. The sea in the harbour is so
heavy that it is impossible for a boat to put off. One boat that
went to the assistance of the Neptune is swamped.. The 'melt/
that appear .10 ride the gale, are H. N. ship Hercules; the Ma-
gistrate for Sydn4, the Alert,•for the Cape, the Foyle packet.
the Enterprise, and
,Wick ham revenue cruiser. ,
The French frigate Terpsichore, drove ashore; boat& stove
in, and firing signals of •distress.
The barque Nailer, from Africa, for Liverpool; ashore at
White Point.
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The schooner Enimd,. for 14eiffoundlatid, dismasted, and
ashore : likely to be a total *r'ecit , .
The Eliza,' for Madeira, ashore al White Point, ~ „.
The Temperance scuttled;
.siii(l aShote,on the midis; also the
schooner Julia, hence for NewfoUndlatid; and discharging on
the beach. .. . ...

The brig Henry, coal laden, is ashcit'e. ,
The Victoria and Adelaide, are yet riding safely, bat aril
very near the shore.
The, pilot boat that went off to assist the. Neptune is swamped;
and several of the pilot hosts are bilged apd,ashore,
There is a report of a French frigate from otarbon; being in
the offing ; but no craft can stir out. .
Two 'attaches stove to pieces. Two sunk.
The revenue boat is upset.
Cove, Friday; Feb. I6.—Since veiterdaY it Etas been blowing *
so hard that little assistance could be given to the vessels irk
distress. Late last evening the Alert drove foul of the Govern-.
or Douglas, and lost both her masts, bowsprit, &c. and receive 4
considerable damage besides.
The brig Henry hai sunk in the Channel.
The Albion and Isabellugot in contact former lost mixen,-.
mast, &c.; latter borisprit sprung, lost figure-heed; cutwater,
&c. All the other vesselS are oh shore as described yesterday. .
Extracts from letters received by Sir W. Daniels this morn-
ing :
BALLYCRONEEN, Feb. 16; 183 .—l.ytrite,to acquaint yod
that the schooner Tiger, of Miratnichi, last frOm Southampton,
for Swansea, in ballast,. came on snore in Kelly's Cove, at about
2a. m.; crew saved. A quantity of dead pigs have been washed,
ashore, which leads me to suppose that a vessel ha's been lost to
windward. •.

"Signed THOMAS Woob, Chief BOatmab."

"CROSSHAVaN .STATION, Feb. 14.—h is my painful duty to
inform you .of the total loss of a brig at 4.p.m. bearing S. by Et
from the Lighthouse quarter of a mile distant. Two of my men
saw her scudding for the harbour under foresail and reefed fore-
top-sail. She was struck by a tremendous sea, which threw bar,
on her beam ends, and being struck by a second sea, she
foundered. She appeared to have a yellow ribbon, painted
ports, and very white sails.
(Signed) " HENRY RICHARD GLYNN."
Saturday.—Our accounts from Cove came down to a late
hour this morning. There was no, fresh, disaster there last
night; and the weather had greatly ihoderatird.
The beach, from Sniith Barry's Quay to White Point, is
strewed with wrecks and fragments of wrecks.,
The Tereperance, also noted above, is reported to have her
keel broken, and the Henry, of Cork, is sunk off the Yacht
Battery. .
The Emma, of Hallfai, is lying at Hawlholine quite disL
abled, having lost bulwarks, topmast, spars, &c.„ and is in-
jured in the hull. The only vessels which appeared to have
rode out the gale besides H. M. ship Hercules, 74, Wickham
Revenue cruiser, and the water.guard boat—the two latter
having run up to Passage fot shelter—are the Foyle, packet,
Henneritta for London, and Hentiefitta; for Ply-Mouth, which
are Iving safely in the harbour. . .
The French frigate Terpsichore, is on the bank to the east-
ward of White Point, with her yards and topmast struck. In
the midst of the storm on Thursday, the Hercules observing the
frigate in distress, despatched in anchor ireigbing. 73 cwt. to
her, but the boat in which it was intended to be conveyed was
swamped, the hands escaping.
Four o'clock.—We have just received the following from our
correspondent at Cove :
CovE, Saturday, Two :o'clock.—Arrved=Crescefit, Ryderi
Liverpool, general cargo for Bilboa, lost sails and other
damage; Peregrine, from Newport, coals.

We- have a change of weather to-day, after the preceding
stormy weather, and some of the vessels have been able to get
off the shore, and men are engaged in recovering the inchori
and cables.

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5613101 VISHERIES.—The two very extensiVe talthon fish-
eries, known by the name of the Portrush and Portstewarc4
have, we understand, been taken by our enterprising townsmani
Mr. Joseph Newton, fishmonger; St: John's Market. It is to
be hoped that the connoisseurs In `salmon frinn "the north" wilt
no longer have to complain o. want of flavour in the salmod
which are brought to the Liverpool market.
NOVEL. EXPORTACION.—Our readers are nit, fieubt. aware
that pies are occasionally imported here from the continent,,
That the roast beef of Old England has become an article of
export will astonish them. Such, however, is the fact,' for we,
find "one box roast beef" amongst the article; of taste, if not
virttl, entered during the week, at our Custom=house; for ship-
ment to Pernambuco.
POSTOFFICE REFORM.—The attention of our readeri is Chill
to an advertisement in another part of our paper, on the mos
important subject which has agitated the public mind of late
years. It will be seen that Dr. Epps, who has drawn such large
audiences to his lectures on physiology, at the Mechanics'
Institution, has consented to deliver an address on Rowland
Hill's excellent plan for penny postages to all, parti of the
kingdom, at the Music-hall, on Thursday; tit. 6even;
As this is a reform which has no reference to pOlitieii having
been supported by Lord Ashbuttott, in the I-lOuse ut Lords, and
Lord Lowther, in the House of COmmons, and hating heed
opposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, nothing will he
introduced to offend the political opinions of tiny party. The
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proceeds will be devoted to the agitation of this question alt
over the kingdom.

DUI3I.IN AND DROGHEDA RATLiTAY.—A meeting of the,
Manchester shareholders iri the Dublin and Drogheda Railway
took place on Wednesday last, at the Corn Exchange Inn;
chiefly, we believe, for the purpose of receiving information
respecting the extent of aid which government would give to the
undertaking; this information, however, had not been obtained
by the directors; but there is good ground for the expectation
that it will be liberal. The meeting was so well satisfied that
the prospects of the company are good, acid that it is desirable
to proceed in the undertaking with energy, that a resolutiod
was carried unanimous, that the Call now dice Should be promiitlY
paid, and the directors will be fully prepared to advertise for
contracts in the course of the next Month. ,The delay which hal
taken place is expected, to be ultimately very advantageous;
having put the directors in possession of a mass of valuable in-
formation derived from the costly experience of other compa-
nies, which will cause a great saving in the construction of the.
line, engines, and carriages, as well as considerable improve-
ment from the deliberate manner in which the engineer has
been allowed to proceed.—Manchester Guardian.
A VassEt. RUN DOWN AT SEA.—By the Shit; Troy, Wood;
which arrived at this port on Wednesday, froth Charleston, we
have the following particulars of the melancholy loss of a ves
sel, name unknown, which was run foul of by the Troy, on thei
night of Saturday, the 29d ult. They are taken froth
,the
book of the Troy :—" Strong breezes from south, and rain—quite
dark. Soon alter eleven, p. m. ran foul of a small brig not
previously seen, although we had two men on the top-gallant
forecastle placed there to keel) a look out. The brig swung im-
mediately round upon out starboard or weather bow : some one
on board the brig called out to put our helm bard up, which was
immediately done, and the brig was clear of us at once. She
sank rapidly, and befote we had passed eath other, tier hull had
sunk with all on board, and before she was half Our length
astern, her topsails were out of sight, arid bothing but some
very small articles floating from her, nothing large enough to
support a man. Two men were observed struggling in the
water, but were lost sight of before we could afford any relief.
It was almost instantaneous, and could not have been three
minutes from the time we eame in Contitet before she sank en-:
tirely out of sight I—put the ship round as goon as possible, but
could see nothing. It blew quite fresh at the time, with rain;
the ship under all sail except top-gallant sails. The brig bad
topsails only. We struck stem on, but it all happened io quick
that we cannot say which way the brig was standing, W
struck her either forward or abaft her masts, for she winded
round in our starboard bow without getting foul of our jibboom.
[Judge from circumstances that she was standing the same way
with ourselves, and that we struck her stern or near it;
because our rigging to secure the bow-sprit and jibboom down
were carried away, without injuring either of them, and the
brig swung clear of them.l We lost cut-water-head and head.:
rails, bobstays, gammoning of bowsprit, &e. Tried the pump,
and found the ship did not leak. Had not,seen a sail before for
six days. Lat. 3948, lon. 50 55."

LIVERPOOL TOWN MtsslON.—A quarterly Meeting of the
friends of this valuable Society was held last night in the Insti-
tution Housei Slater street, W. Crosfield, Esq. in the chair.
The Rev. J. J. Carruthers opened the meeting bV prayer. A
letter was read from Isaac Crewdson, Esq. of Manchester (who
was expected to have been present), stating his deep interest in
Town Missions, and his regret that he could not itttend the
meeting. Four of the agents of the society gave an interesting
account of their labours—the difficulties they had to encounter
—the ignorance and wretchedness they met with—and the en-
couraging success which attended their exertions. The Rev:
J. Tunstall stated that he had frequently attended the weekly
meetings held by the agents, and spoke to terms of high com-
mendation of the agents and their labour* The
.Rev. W.
Bevan expressed his hearty approbation of the iecieti, and liii
willingness to co-operate with its agents, The ltei:J 3. Car-
ruthers read several pleasing extracts froth the rePert, of the
Manchester Town Mission, which, though of verY,recentOrigin;
has raised £l2OO, and is employingnineteeti agebts.,, Several
other gentlemen addressed the meeting. It appears that the
Liverpool Town Mission is able to employ only ten stipendiary
agents, and consequently to occupy only a very. small portion
of the town. The sum of £ll. Is. 10d. was received from the
ladies who had volunteered to collect subscriptioni for the so-
ciety. The Secretary read numerous extracts from the journals
of the agents describing the suffering and distress now prevail-
ing in the town. Some of these extracts appear in another
column, and to them we would beg particular atentien: The.
sum of £l7. Bs. ld. was immediately raised as a speCial fund for
alleviating the distresses of the poor, to be applied under the
direction of the committee of the society, ,Copies of the last re-
port may be obtained at the Institution House, Slater-street.
A committee meeting of the lords of her Majesty's most hon.,
privy council was held on Tuesday, at the council-office, to
consider petitions for and against granting Charters to Birming-
ham and Chatham. There were present the Lord President;
the PreSident of the Board of Trade, and the Secretary at War;

The Petersfield election committee, balloted for on Tuesday;
was composed of nine reformeri and two tories; whilst upon
the Belfast committee, hall,ted for on the same day; there are
ten tories and only one reformer.
SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWAY.—the 40T S I IS
undertaking are rapidly approaching to completion; arid in all
probability the line will be gperied for traffic about Midalinmer.
The engines are now being constructed by R. Stephenson and
Co. and the first class cart iages have been ordered from Man=
chestes: Workmen are etnploved day and night. .
We are glad to hear that Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M. P.;
has ptomtsed to attend the next AnniVersary..Dinner of tbci
Leeds Operative Conservative !Society, a•hiCh will take place
on or before Easter Monday.
TutiN-OuT AT MAcctEspiatt).—We underitand that 114
silk weavers in the employ of John Brocklehurst, Esq., the
liberal M. P., for Macclesfield have turned out against an at.:
tempted reduction of a ages._
BRADFORD COMMERCIAL BANKING COMPANY.—A diViderlet
of ii per cent. on "the paid-op capital has been declared, and
21 per cent. appropriated to the guarantee fund.
We understand that General. De Lacy Evans; M. P, foir
Westminster is, or will he appointed to i6tt6td Sir A. Han
As' elerk of the titdritotttet '