The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

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twiro Jibe a tres. Fortwoately. so itersuma I iniury wait
Itiitgialtd. ably child of Mr. add Sits. Phillips,
*Milli trail. bed en another room on the seine Boor,
hieliedively removed; and in *inset ten minutes
itfiellerlieds; the ternsining chimneyi fell into thdt room.
sod shattered to pieces the bed in 'Hsieh the child had
I ben lying. The hone* is at present rendered wale--
lishitible. and Use family have been compelled to grit it.
A large sew thstinishesl building at Harper-hey, in-
Waded for a silk factory, was blown down:
S•rocaroar.—We Itisderetand that a woman and her
child were killed by the falling of a chimney ii the
Hiligate, and that her husband had both his legs broken
It is said that • factory was partly blown down, between
Stockport and this town.
WARRINOTOR.—The copela of the Church near the
10eserge Inn was blown dews, awl destroyed great part
of the roof. A windmill in the neighbourhood nasals.
blown entirely down.
LiTS7RD*OI.. SATURDAY, Dec. 7.-0! all the gales
'which have visited this port and its vicinity, nflate year",
that of Thursday night and yesterday morning was the
swat ifitelues. Those who have, resides! is the West
!tidies, detlare that this storm most forcibly reminded
them of one of those hurricanes which are seldos ex-
retested hot In tropical climates. The most terrible
aid overwhelming gents were succeeded by intervals of
demeitful caltonesi, which constantly betrayed the terri-
fied listener into a hop* that the gale was beginning to
abate. The wind had blown fresh from the north-west
daring the greater pert of tht evening, but towards nine
shim* •it I to • stoma, reached its greatest Cory
Wore ten, and leontinord with little rensisston till near
four Is the evening. Those parts which are particularly
exposed to the ravages of the northwest *ind, have suf-
fered the most ; tech as Ilverton, Lowish],
Linnets., the neighbourhood of Brunswick-place, Lo.
As elderly woman, of the manse of Mary Hughes, met
amy instantaneous death. lier daughter was s t
with a family in Seel-street ; and they being from home,
she invited. her mother to keep her company. They
were both in the kitchen, when suddenly a stack of
whimseys fell, and forced their way through all the inter-
vening stories into the cellar flour. The daughter leaped
'oat of the window, and the mother was in the act of fol-
lowing, when a beam struck her on the hark, and killed
her on the spot. Her body was not extricated from the
rains for a number of hours afterwards. One elderly.fe-
male, in the Luolon.road. was overwhelmed in the ruins
of a &hooey, which fell throng!. the roof of a house,
and hod her thigh broken. A woman in Strand.street
was also dasgeroutly hurt by a similar accident. Part
of the roof also of a house in Erakine.street, fell in. an 41
bruised the mistress of the borne so that she is still

confined is her bed.
A Mrs. Williams had been employed sewing the fore
part of the week in the house of the widow whose death
we have announced shove. She took supper with that
'lady sad her daughters on Thursday evening, and a
Hula before ten was preparing to return to her lodgings,
sear Ikaassick Chapel, when the lady proposed, as the
night waste very boisterous, that she shoed sleep at
at her house that night. To this Mrs. tVitliams at first
consented t
_bre recollecting that her absence on sorb a
night weild create considerable nneasiness in the minds
lathe tors ladies is whose hoes, she lodged. she doter-
lased be esters home, and bad left the house little more
than half am boar, when the accident above related oc-
eans/. -ifseasare of what banpened, Mrs. Williams
retina yesterday morning, to finish the work on
which she was employed,. sad bad reached the doer of
the lady's house, ere sloe lama the fatal catastrophe,
wheedler feelings es overran', her that she nearly faint-
ed allay., A family, is Gbristiarstreet. alarmed by the
skaisit wrairgigotemiked, a.ad, waked as
di. ikar.
Bered,re the faltiolfhlia isutaelerki°orfdebtikueonebyoss." demo.yoOaf
lady In Erskine-street had only quitted her room a few
usloutes. when the chimney fell through the roof, and
carrel her bed with the rotor.
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The meet of oar streets were yesterday mar ningstrewe
with (ragmen. of chimney cans. slates, bricks, &r. A
ipet part a the roof of the hens, of Mr. W. Dixon,
. Bessie View. fell in about midnight with autogiro-
/ow crash, aad created the utmost alarm for the safety
of the children and family. lie. Taylor, pointer and
stotioner. Ranelagh-street, has sustaised material dr
usage by lb* falling of one of the chinsseye of his prr
wises. esitemling into blitelaell-plate. sad otherwise, by
the blowtmr off of the elates. The DM nage of houses
at this'll of Stafford-street. Islingtos. were unroofed to
a great extent. and in many buildings the lead was
rolled op by the force of the wind. A hoses in I.:tarot-
square. soother in lYilliamston-square„ one in hect-
olitre. and several others, were partially unroofed, un-
shimmoyed, or otherwise injareol. A large stack of
elthinneys. belongiag to a }loose in Vauvhsll-road. was
'Sproeted. and carried entire to a considerable distance.
lab imam seighboaring premises, where it was not
SONO for some time. A large chimney attached to a
'4lesin saw-mill. in Naylor street. fell upon a stable, in
which were three fine horses, two were killed, bat the
allied was got out very little injured. From 30 to 40
yards of the wall which surrounds.the new glass-house,
Is Vauxhall-road. was blown down.
The Liverpool sod Birmingham mail-coach, that
should have arrived here at seven o'clock yestefflay
issorroisg, did not reach town till two o'clock in the after-
noon; the bass were, however, brought thy the guard
very little beyond the regular time. The Carlisle
coaches, that should have arrived at nine o'clock on
tTliareday night, did net arrive before ten o'clock on Fri-
day meeting. owing, in both calm to the number of
wee blown down upon the roads.
(For a list of disasters among the shipping at Liver-
ma, see the Shipping Intelligence, in another column.)

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M* FORQutuaties--The match for one
hoodeed guineas on BeriDllll Downs, on Wednesday last,
between+ Mr. Tamell's ehesnut mare !Motet' Lass, and Mr.
Wright's black pony Noyesu, was decided in favour of Mr.
Tamil's mare. Noyeau won the first heat with ease, but
' bolted on the two suceeeding heats. Rets at starting were
two to one in favour of Scotch fAss, and after the first heat,
ten to one in favour of Noyeau.
Bonana.-.401n. MIRROR /OM S.DLTON.—Thic
on which so math interest depends, and on which such a
variety of opinions have taken prier. will br decided on
Tuesday next, within 2t mites of London. It la for 104.
aside.
Conlon. ROISFIRRY.—During the night of the 42.1
ult. the Stewart of the Coal Wharf near the London
Road, blanchester, belonging to the Trustees of the late
Nikita liridgewater.lsad big house entered and robbed
of about Forty Pounds in money. The Robbers did not
sake their entrance at the door, or through the window,
nor by climbing over the wall, as mentioned in scrip-
ture ; but by making a hole in the wall sufficiently large
to enter at ; and, bavipg secured their boot, they de
camped, sriJout disturbing any of the inmates of the
house, who were not a little surprised in the morning on
finding out the Dew entrance into their habitation ; but
more on searching their coffers and finding that the so
verrigns bad made their escape also.
LAIIT FRIDAY was the Fourth Day of Drawing. when No.
le.M. Drawn a Prize of TWE%TY TittousAND
POUNDS, was Nohl In SHARES by CARROLL, 19,Corn-
hill, and 46. Oxford-street. This is a continuation of that
Rood fortune which less for so many years distinguished
Cenuozes Offices. The shove In the only Prize above
%MM. yet drown ; there are hut Two Days more, and the
Wheel contains VI Capitols. inewiling Twe of Two
, of MIMIC Two of 53100/. and 55 others of COWL LOVUI.
SOW. dm ie. Tu December 17, is the Last Day of
Drawing bat One.