The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-06 00:00:00

THE LATE GALES.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—During the severe gale on
Saturday morning, a Scotch smack, bound to London, with a
number of passengers ,on board, was wrecked on the Norfolk
coast, and every person, with the exception of seven, perished.
Among the sufferers was Mrs. Hamilton, the wife of a respect-
able tailor in Nicholas-lane, Lombard-s'reet, and, it is supposed,
her three children, who were on board with her. Yesterday
morning the melancholy tidings of the unfortunate occurrence
were conveyed to Mr. Hamilton, in a letter written by one of the
survivors, and he at once left town to reach the scene of cala-
mity. The letter conveying the melancholy intelligence to Mr.
Hamilton appeared to have been written under strongly excited
feelings, and did not enumerate the number of persons on board,
or many particulars of the unfortunate occurrence.
DISASTERS ON THE COAST.—The weather, during the latter
part of last week, was extremely boisterous, with heavy falls of
rain. Several vessels have been wrecked on the adjacent coast
by the violence of the gales. On Thursday night the Thothas
Burrows, Dawson, from Tortola for Lancaster, came to anchor
off Sunderland, near that port. During the night, by some ac-
cident, she drifted, and, striking on a bank, overset. The crew
escaped in the boat; but Captain Dawson, who was anxious to
save the ship's papers, was unfortunately drowned ere he could
quit the cabin. On the following night the wind blew a strong
-gale from the northward, and the rain fell in torrents. The
mercury in the barometer fell very low. The vessels at anchor
in the river rode out the gale with difficulty, one or two of them
having dragged their anchors. The inward-bound vessels kept
out at sea, and ran in with safety on Saturday forenoon, with
the exception of the barque Beverley, from St. John's, N. 8.,
which, after showing signals of distress, ran ashore on the Dove
Point, to the westward of Leasowe Lighthouse, and near to the
entrance of Chester river. At low water the vessel is high and
dry. One of the river steamers was driven on shore not far
from the spot where the Beverley struck. Part of the wreck
of a large sloop or schooner was floating near Hilbre Island,
the vessel is supposed to have been wrecked, during the night,
on the banks. Her cargo appeared to have been grain. A
sloop was also discovered to have been wrecked on Puffin
Island, in Beaumaris Bay. In the course of Saturday a smack
sunk near the Voryd, and all hands perished. The gale con-
tinuing on Saturday night, the Russian ship Richard Brandt,
which was at anchor in Bootle Bay, drifted and ran foul of the
Princess Victoria, whose bowsprit was carried away. The
Richard Brandt brought up in the Sloyne. ' These are all the
disasters we have as yet heard of; we fear, however, that several
more must have happened during the gales.
THE WEATHER.—WC do not recollect a greater or more
sudden change in our variable climate, than that which occurred
on Friday last. The weather previously hail been beautifully
fine, and remarkably warm for several days; but towards noon
the wind chopped round to the north and brought with it a cold
and uncomfortable rain. Towards evening, and the whole of
the night, the wind blew a perfect hurricane from N.W. by N.,
and we fear it will be found -to have done considerable damage
not only to the shipping, but to the crops. The tide in the Dee
was considerably affected by it, and it will be seen by- another
paragraph, that about 170 sheep belonging to Mr. Congreve, of
Burton, were destroyed. The wind continued remarkably strong
and cold during the whole of Saturday, Saturday night, and
part of- Sunday, resembling more the month of December than
the termination of August.—Chester Courant.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—We regret to have
occasion to relate the particulars which have reached us of an
accident that occurred in or near the Channel on Thursday
night, and which has proved fatal to Mr. and Mrs. Pring, who
kept the hotel at Portishead, as well as to several other persons
who accompanied them. The party embarked at Rownham
ferry, in Mr. Pring's boat, about eight o'clock.. It was his
usual custom to be attended by two boatmen, but on this occa-
sion only one had worked the boat from Portishead; and this
man not being on the spot at the hour appointed for returning,
Mr. P. set sail without him. The night was dark, and the
wind blowing in sudden gusts; on arriving at Pill, between
nine and ten o'clock, the pilots there, to whom he was well
known, represented to him the danger lie incurred in venturing
into the Channel unassisted, at that late hour and in unfavourable
weather, and one of them, named Dibbins, requested that he
might be allowed to assist in navigating the boat to Portishead;
but this offer was unfortunately declined, Mr. Pring expressing
his opinion that there was no danger, and that he should not
require assistance. The party accordingly pursued their voy-
age; and we regret to add that the boat was swamped on its
passage, probably by a sudden squall of wind, and it is feared
that all were drowned. The body of Mrs. Piing was washed
ashore yesterday afternoon at a place called the " English
Grounds," near-the HolmeS, and was conveyed from thence to
Portishead; the bowsprit and other parts or the boat, together
with a bt.ri in which Mr. Pring was in the habit of carrying- a
change of clothes, have been picked up at Pill. The other
bodies had not been found up to last evening, and great anxiety
has been caused by the uncertainty which exists as to the per-
sons who were in the boat with Mr. and Mrs. Pring. Mr. P.
was well known in the city, and was much respected.—Felix
Farley's Bristol Journal.
The Britannia, Metherell, from Liverpool to Newfoundland,
was run down by the American vessel Ajax, on the 26th June,
15 miles N.W. of Bardsey, and immediately sunk. The crew
and passengers were all drowned, with the exception of one
man, Wm. Ivory. We are concerned to state that among the
sufferers was Mr. Thos. Thorne, second son of Mr. 'l'. Thorne,
Newfoundland merchant, of this city.—Felix Farley's Bristol
Journal.