The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

THE LATE GALES.

On the night of Thursday last, a most tremendous gale of
wind from W.N.W was experienced in the Moray Frith, dur-
ing the violence of which the new schooner Fancy, of Spey,
Geddes, master, from Wemyss to Spey with coals, in attempt-
ing the harbour of For:soy, was unfortunately driven on shore
among the rugged rocks at the back of the New Pier, where
immediately the lives of the crew became exposed to the most
imminent peril. On the disaster being known, an express was
dispached to Banff for the aid of the coast-guard, with Captain
Manby's apparatus, to endeavour to preserve the crew ; and
not a moment was lost by that excellent and active officer, Mr.
Birnie, in proceeding with his men for Portsoy ; but, happily,
before it was possible fur them to reach that place, they were
met by a second express, who communicated the gratifying in-
telligence that the exhausted and worn-out crew of the schooner
had, through the great and persevering exertions of the pilots,
seamen, and others, in Portsoy, been rescued from a watery
grave, which at first, in the belief of all who witnessed the awful
scene, was certain to become their melancholy fate. The ves-
'sel went to pieces, and cargo lost ; part only of the materials
axed.--Edinburgh Advertiser.
We scarcely ever.recelleet.snch stormy weather as was ex-
perienced here on Thursday night and yeslehriv morning. For
some time it blew a hurricane, many house-roofs' were seriously
injured, and we fear that accounts from sea will prove calami-
tous. The fluctuations in the barometer were very rapid and
singular; at one time the mercury was lower than we ever no-
ticed it. Among the many instances of the superiority of steam
conveyance, we have to mention the extraordinary and safe
passage made by the Glasgow trader, the Toward Castle, Capt.
Stewart, which left the Clyde at eleven o'clock on Thursday
night, and accomplished her voyage against the greatest storm
we have experienced for some years past. This vessel arrived
safe here yesterda.y evening witkout the slightest accident.—
Belfast Chronicle, Nov. XX
DeNnez.—lntelligence has been received, that two vessels
belonging to this port have been wrecked in the Baltic. The
Comely, Straton, while on her passage to Riga, was lost on the
Island of Bornholm on the 2d current, but the crew was for-
tunately saved. The Malvina, Miller, while on her homeward
bound passage. struck on °swill, and was taken into Carisharn,
where she sunk.
AY/2, 3011 Nov.—Our town was visited yesterday by a tre-
mendous hurricane from the west, which has done some da-
mages to our port and shipping. Early in the morning, the
sloop Queen Adelaide, of Cardiff; bound from Glasgow to
Li-
verpcol, broke from her moorings in Rotnsay Bay, and about
eleven o'clock a.m. she was driven ashore here. The crew
are saved and she will be got off, but much damaged. About
three o'clock, P.M. the sloop Kitty and Maly, of Drummore,
(in Kirkcudbright,) on entering the harbour, was dashed against
the south pier by a sea, which carried away the captain at the
helm, the remainder of the crew were drawn ashore with ropes;
the captain's body has not yet been found. Another sailor was
dashed off the quay and drowned, while endeavouring to assist
the crew'of the Panmure. His name is Thomas Martin, a re-
markably sober man. He has left a wife and family to mourn
his loss. This is the extent of the damage done as far as known.
At Troon there are three or four vessels disabled ; the brig
Kilmarnock sunk, the Fame ditto, and a strange brig ashore,
name unknown. There are also two vessels ashore at Largs.
P.S.-- Martin's body has been found.
It has been again blowing a furious gale of wind all night
and the early part of the morning, from the south-west; and we
greatly fear that we shall have another calamitous account of
shipwrecks and other devastations, the consequence of the storm.
This is the most severe season with which this country has been
visited for many years.—Dublin Evening Mail, H'ednesday.
FURIOUS STOII3I AT LIMERICK.—On the 28th ult. a violent
gale of wind set in from the W.N.W., accompanied by occa-
sional heavy showers of rain, and the same evening the gale as-
sumed all the appalling characteristics of a most furious hurri-
cane. Throughout the night the scene was terrific in the ex-
treme, and the streets presented a most desolate aspect. Nearly
all the public gas-lights were extinguished, and the howling of
the storm, as it swept in pitiless squalls through every street,
lane, and alley, struck terror to the hearts of every inmate of
those mansions which suffered more or less from its destructive

power. A spring tide, raised with the storm beyond its usual
boundaries, dashed with desperate force against the quays,
rolling a vast mass of waters over them. The strong banks en-
closing the Abbey river (Island and Sahnon-weir) were broken
up, and the waters rushed in, deluging the fields on both sides
to a wide extent. The cattle grazing there, cows and sheep,
were saved with great difficulty. The long pavement or cause-
way, from Quinpool to the Thornond-gate distillery, was inun-
dated, and the fields around flooded. In Bridge-street a chim-
ney fed iu, and tore away the roof and-Ceiling, but without fur-
ther damage. The yards of the city gaol were full of water,
and the tide came up to its very gates, as it did also to the verge
of the flagging on A.rthur's-quay. The underground kitchens in
houses adjacent to the river, were two feet deep in water. It
is worthy of remark, that a very few hours before this dreadful
commotion of the elements, the quicksilver fell rapidly, and to
a degree so low as we scarce exer remember. The lowlands
on the Upper and Lower Shannon must have suffered severely
by this extraordinary invasion of both wind and water. The
horses of the Mini; coach arriving yesterday, had to wade
knee-deep several miles of the road, especially about Cratloe,
without a vestige of the ordinary landmarks, but under the care
of an experienced and skilful driver. The Salmon-weir re-
ceived considerable damage, a great portion of the large timber-
- work having been torn up and sent adrift. Some of the strong-
est houses in the city literally rocked in the blast like a cradle.
A house building off William-street, towards Thomas-street, by
Mr. P. M`Namara, of Thomond-gate, which wanted merely the
roofing to complete, was hurled to the ground by the ungovern-'
able element, and became a pile of rubbish. A turf-boat
swamped off Coonah Point, when two persons perished, one a
Krown lad of 16 or 18 years, the other a boy of 10, Thaddy
Spellicy and Michael Lynch ; the remainder of the crew, with
two females, clung to the mast until the flood subsided, and
were thus saved. The Derwent merchant vessel also, which
arrived the same evening from America, after anchoring in the
Pool, lost one of her hands, who was blown off the yard and
perished in sight of his messmates.--Limerick Chronicle.
On Thursday night week we were visited by a most terrific
storm. During the whole of Thursday the appearance of the
clouds, as they drifted in wild confusion through the air, seemed
to portend a hurricane; and about eleven o'clock, p.m., the
hollow moaning of the wind announced its approach, blowing in
a south-easterly direction, and in a short time the river of this
town was swollen to an unusual height, entering the back yards
of various houses. The tempest continued with unabated, fury
until five o'clock on Friday morning; however no serious in-
jury occurred in this neighbourhood.—Boyle Gazette.
For nearly forty-eight hours past we have had severe weather,
with wind that at times amounted to the violence of a strong
gale, accompanied by heavy rain. About three o'clock on Fri-
day morning, the night being almost entirely one storm, several
large vessels made fast to the mooring ground at the Abbey,
opposite the city, were torn from their station, dragging the
moorings, but fortunately sustained no damage, When break-
ing. loose, they snapped a ponderous chain, each link of which
weighed forty-seven pounds!- A very unusual and most extra-
ordinary circumstance, probably the effect of hard weather at
sea, was observed in this river about one o'clock on Thursday;
the particulars of this case are very well stated in the official
report of the deputy-pilot master at Passage, which we subjoin :
'PASSAGE, Nov. 29.—The first part of yesterday, (Thursday,)
there were extremely heavy gales, which gradually increased
until noon, when it blew a storm from the southward. Shortly
after it became more moderate, and the tide began to flow re-
gularly. At one p.m., a heavy squall came down from the west-
ward, accompanied by a most strange return of the ebb tide, and
in one hour the water had fallen perpendicularly about four feet,
but at two p.m. the flood again returned, and the tide rose ra-
pidly. This is the most remarkable irregularity of the tides
that I have ever witnessed here."— Waterford Mirror.
The weather has been most unsettled during the present week.
On Thursday the wind blew strong from the south-east, but
during that night, and on Friday morning it blew a hurricane
from the north-west. We fear we shall hear bad consequences
from sea. Several houses have sustained injury through this
city and neighbourhood; we heard of one house having been
blown down in Bishop-street.—Derry Sentinel.
The weather on Thursday night, and nearly the whole of
Friday, was of the most boisterous description. We anticipate
melancholy intelligence from sea. A correspondent in the
neighbourhood of Gilford informs us that on the morning of
Friday, between the rain and the storm, which blew from the
north-west, the waters rose over the low grounds nearly six feet
above their summer level, an occurrence unprecedented in the
memory of the oldest inhabitant of the country along the Bann.
—Newry Telegraph.
WRECK OF THE MINERVA FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO LIVER-
POOL.—For some days past the gales here have been unusually
violent, although we have as yet heard of but one casualty of
any consequence. That one was in the instance of the Minerva,
which, having encountered the storm at sea, had become water-
logged,• and was driven into Youghall on Sunday. She was
then a complete wreck. For a fortnight previously. she had been
buffetted about by the tempest, and during this period the suffer-
ings of the crew were extreme. From the time that she became un-
manageable they were obliged to seek for safety in the rigging,
where they were exposed to all the severities a the weather.—
While in this situation the mate died—one of his arms lied been
broken a di: y or two before, and he was unable longer to bear
up against the multiplied miseries by which he was surrounded.
One of the others unfortunately lost his life by a fall from the
mast-head to the deck, but this was occasioned, we believe, by
his having drank too freely of a cask of rum which they had
taken up with them. The captain, whose name was Muid, died
through privation and fatigue, having previously, in anticipation
of his approaching fate, consigned his watch and papers to the
care of one of the crew, named Hanlon, who is a native of
Y oughall. The vessel was boarded on Sunday by some of the
inhabitants of that town, by whom the exhausted crew were con-
veyed to shore, where every attention which their destitute con-
dition required has since been paid to them. The vessel, which
is supposed to have been an American, was on her way from
Newfoundland to Liverpool. When she first encountered the
gale, she was only off the banks of the former place, where the
sea ran so high, that besides the casualties we have mentioned,
three of the crew were washed overboard. Three others, who
had had their limbs fractured during the voyage, have been taken
into the hospital at Yougjeall, where, notwithstanding the se-
verity of their sufferine, it is hoped they will recover.—Cork
Constitution.

THE CASTLE Foozi.E_tußs, MARCH.

A PARODY.
Tune--`,' The British Grenadiers."
Some talk of great King Shamui,
Who nobly-ran away—
And some of Ignoramus,
The glory of our day,
But high and low shall quickly lin 3W
The worilicof both appears
In the tag, rag, big brag brag
Of the Castle Foozh-iers.

Whene'er we are commanded
The Tories to assail, i-5,_
Forth marches Phil the Candid,
With Goosefort at his tail ;
The flag of vengeance at our head
Old Foozfe's self appears.
With his tag, rag, brag brag brag,
And the Castle Foozle-iers.

Woe to each Orange justice,
Who would our course impede,
In vain, in truth, his trust is,
Ills fate is soon decreed ;
Fair play, he cries, but we despise,
And meet the claim with sneers,
And a tag; rag, brag brag brag,
Of the Castle Foozle-iers.

But, oh I a loyal Parson
's the object of our hate,
Yet carrying still the face on
We cry " investigate"—
Strict truth pronounce the tale that once
Had cost the tellers ears
With a tag, rag, brag brag brag
Of the Castle Foozle-iera.

Your Colonels and your Carters
May raise a pretty fuss,
The chance of catching Tartars
Has little weight with us ;
Law cries forbear, we little care—
' What Whig the law reveres,
Like the tag, rag, brag brag brag
Of the castle Footle-lers.

On ribbons, caps, and flounces,
And such like " ladies' geer,"
Our ardent valour pounces,
So noble our career—
Of every gown in Portadown
The hue our chieftain hears.
Thro' the tag, rag, brag brag brag
Of his Castle Foozie-iers.

In vain th' indignant nation
Cries out. in fierce disgust—
Our word is—" Situation"—
For this we lick the dust.
We•cling tapla.ce and boldly face
A People's jibes and jeers
At the tag, rag, brag brag brag
Of the Cattle Foode-iers.

Then let us fill our glasses,
And drink a health to those
Who fly at lads or lasses,
That wear the Orange clothes ;-
May all the corps with Foozle soar,
Above thestarry spheres, '
With a tag, rag, brag brag brag
Of the Castle Footle-iers.

Dublin Evening Mail,

The Lord Bishop of St. David's has presented Mr. James
Skinner, student of Marisehal College, Aberdeen, to a Founda—
tion Scholarship in the University of Durham. Air. Skinner. is
a great-grandson of the Rev. John Skinner of Longside, in
Aberdeenshire, the popular author of " Tullochgorum," " Ewie
wi' the crooked horn," &c.
isoom or A MonnaN BAILIE.—A stately, dace, honest,
" ane o' thae newfangled bantlin
Burghs God-fearing
othe
p rsßeformonag Bill,"personage, i
happened rather unexpectedly to
be raised to the dignity of a bailie at the last election, the du..
ties of which office he knew as little about as Prester John
being better acquainted with the rules of the Kirk than the quirk;
and forms of a court. Immediately after his appointment, he
returned in triumph home to receive the congratulations of his
better half, and prepare himself for the intricate duties of his
new station. Having seated himself by a good blazing fire, the
honest dignitary began to cogitate on the important functions
which he had been called upon by his townsmen to perform,
when a loud rapping was heard at the door, and a person on
business announced, " Nirantin' the bailie." "Send him this
way (quoth the worthy magistrate) an' let's hear what he's got
to say." The stranger immediately entered, and after making
a slight cong6 with hat in bawl, proceeded to say—" I was
wushin' your honour to tak my oath anent a bit dispute in which
I'm concernt wi' twa or three o' my neighbours." " Ave, just
so," said the bailie, (with becoming dignity,) "sit yer ire's doors
there till I speak wi' a friers. anent the matter, in the idler
room." The simple reason tor the worthy's retiring at this
particular juncture was, that he never heard an oath adminis-
tered in a court of law in his life, and judging it prudent to have
better counsel than his own, applied in this sad dilemma to his
half marrow, who delivered her judgment in the following terms:
"Jamie, I'll tell ye what I would do for this time, were I the
bailie. I would just gar the man say As shure as death' to a'
that he tells ye—it's baith short and pithy, an'll do weel eneugh
for an oath till ye learn a better." The prescribed form was
accordingly administered, and the parties separated, mutually
satisfied with the legality of the proceeding—the applicantbeing
as ignorant of the ordinary form as the bailie.—Glcujou• paper.

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.