THE GALE.

Last week, the Western alai Southern coasts of England were visited erith a storm of wind and ruin, which reached the Metropolis on Sun- day night, and has seldom been exceeded in violence or in the number of disasters it occasioned. As yet, there are but partial accounts of damae at sea. We select accounts of the more remarkable accidents from the muss collected in the daily papers.

" Intelligence has been received at Liverpool from Cork, that the fine steam- lip, Liverpool, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20th instant, has been compelled by stress of weather to put into Cove, after contending ten days with most tempestuous weather, during which, however, she had completed about a third of het voyage; but at the expenditure of so large a portion of her stock of coals—namely, 400 tuns out of 56:3—that the remainder was found not suf- ficient to enable her to complete the voyage, and there was no alternative but to turn lawk. This, we are happy to say, stie has accomplished without any seri- ous dan.age, arriving at Cork on Sunday about three o'clock. Such was the dreadful state of the weather, that the Liverpool, though one of the noblest structutes ever launched upon the waters, anti in every way admirably adapted to navigate the Atlantic, could only make four knots per hour. On Thursday last, she encountered a most dreadful hurticane. Consideriug the state of the weather, we cannot iniagine that the return of the Liverpool can throw any discredit upon the navigation of the Atlantic by steam. At sea, in tale saute weather, we expect it will prove still the superiority of steam over wind."

" Bristol was visited on Sunday night with a most tremendous gale of wind. It commenced about midnight from the south-west, and continued to blow most frightfully for about three hours, tearing up trees in all directions. The Swiss cottage, erected for the foteman of the works of the Clifton suspension-bridge, lad its Lod blown completely off. One of the large trees in Queen Square has 'hem felled to the ground ; while the chimnies, pots, and tilts of the houses, are strewed about the streets in all parts. Some idea can be formed of the strength of the hurricane, from the circumstance of the tide rising full two feet above Bigh.water mark, and inundating the houses and warehouses situated in the tawer part of city. The river is in consequence very much swollen, and pre- aents double its size.

Twenty-one men lost their lives in fishing-boats and several small -,essels were wrecked. " We have experienced a harder hurricane last night and this morning than has occut red since the dreadful gale of November 1636. For several days past, it was feared, from the state of the atmosphere, that severe weather would shortly ensue. During the whole of the night of Saturday, the wind from the east blew very stiong. On Suutlay it became moderated ; but as night ap- proached. it increased its fury ; while the rain fell in torments, and never ceased till two o'clock, when, from the south-west quarter, it came on a hunicaae. Although the town is somewhat sheltered, it was productive of much dam ue- tion of property; valuable shrubberies were destroyed, and trees torn up from their roots ; houses were unroofed, aud at day-break the streets were strewed with remains of chimnies, pots, pantiles, slates, &c. During time storm, which lasted three hours, the sea presented an awful aspect from the terrace: vessels were to be seen gluing past the place with the wind at a tremendous rate, with their rigging half carried away, and the sails apparently shivered to atoms. In the muse of the night, a large American brig, called the Grand Turk, Captain Varney, froin Antwerp, bound for New Orleans, was driven from her anchors in the Downs ; and not being able to fetch this harbour, ran for Broadstairs : unfortunately, in her progress to that place, she ran aground at time entrance of the pier, and every moment was expected to become a wreck: through the skill and dexterity of those on board, she was lightened and got off in the mum of the day, without any material damage. At daybreak, a large vessel, dismantled, lying on her beam -end'

s supposed to have been wrecked in the course of the hurricane, was observed some distance off, but was soon lost in sight. Almost every vessel that has passed this port had its topmasts lowered to the decks, and displayed the effects of the storm ; its bulwarks stowed in, and apparently other damage."

" On Thursday night, time Yarmouth steamers were engaged in towingtia diamasted vessels. There were fifteen hundred sail in Yarmouth Roads during the gale."

Time Northern Yacht, a steam-boat, with ten passengers and a crew of thirteen persons, left Newcastle for Leith on the morning of Thursday week. She is said to have been provided with very indiffe- rent machinery, and to have carried from ten to fifteen tons of iron on her deck ; which would render her more unmanageable in a storm. Nothing was beard of her for several days, and it was hoped that she might have been driven to Heligoland; but theSunderland Beacon of Sa- turday says, that thecaptain of a brig, then lying in the Tyne, saw her go down, within hail of a Scotch smack, and every soul on board perished. It is said that she had previously landed one passenger, Mr. Ray, por- trait-painter, of North Shields, at North Sunderland. The Newcastle Journal gives the following additional particulars of the loss of this vessel—.

" It is a singular circumstance, that the dog belonging to the Captain would not go on board at the time when the vessel sailed ; and, although beat and put on board, it jumped on shore, and is now in one of the other vessels plying to Leith. There is, we fear, too much reason to believe that the unfortunate ves- sel, with all on beard, went down in Berwick Ray, on the evening of the 41,ty she sailed from Newcastle. Captain Pattineon, of Spittal, was then lookiug out, as was his custom, with a glass, and observed at a considerable dietatice a steamer, apparently in distress: his attention having been drawn to so ae other object, on returning to the same point the vessel had disappeared. This was probably the awful moment when the Northern Yacht sunk, and every I vim( being site contained perished. It is stated, that when the unfortunate ves-el left the Tyne, she was not in sea-worthy condition ; and that on her preceding voyage she had had several feet of water in her hold. If this be time else, very awful responsibility attaches to the proprietors ; who are at least ealled upon to offer to the public some explanation in respect to so serious a mutter."

In London, heavy rain fell on Sunday evening, and till about twelve o'clock, when the wind became quite a hurricane. In various parts of the city, chimnies were blown down, windows broken, and shutters broken in. Several persons were severely hurt in the streets, but none killed. Going westward, the accidents were more frequent, stud he damage greater. A leaden gutter, weighing two hundredweight. was carried from the roof of one of the houses in Russel Square, intl., the middle of the garden. In Regent's Park, many trees were blown down. Covent Garden and the Market presented a singulur appear- ance ; the baskets, vegetables, and fruit, flying about in all directions. In Lambeth and on the " Surry side" the accidents were of a serious description.

" Five houses we completely destroyed, and the inmates had a very narrow escape of their lives. During the violence of the hurricane a large poi lion of time i e wall round the Magdalen, in Blackfriars Road, was forced to the ground with great violence ; but providentially no person was passing at the time. In the Old Kent Road, a whole family, consisting of five children, were butted ma the ruins while in bed and asleep, from the roof falling in. Although they were almost immediately got out, they sustained severe bruises; and one is reported to be dangerously hurt, and is now an inmate of St Thomas's Hospital." " A large stack of chimnies, belonging to the house of Mr. Curtis, at the corner of Stamford Sow and Bennett Street, Blackfriars Road, was blown down on the roof ; which was partially destroyed, and fell iato the street. The roofs of several other houses in Bennett Street and Stamford Street were much damaged ; and so great was the vibration of many houses in this locality, that the people left their beds, and proceeded elsewhere till the wind abated." "Between Norwood and Dulwich, two large trees were broken off at she roots. At Camberwell, the brick chimney of the Police-station was torn irum The Great Western left Bristol for New York on the 27th ultimo. She took merchandise, the freight of which will be between SOW. and 900L, about 6,000 letters, and 120 passengers. She will use Welsh coal in this voyage, which has been proved superior to the Liverpool coal. When she sailed, the wind was strong ahead ; and she afterwards encountered the tremendous weather which visited the Western and Southern parts of the island at the end of last week, and did so much damage in London and the neighbourhood on Sunday night. She bore her way against the gale in gallant style. The last account of her progress reaches to half-past two on Monday afternoon ; when she was seen in longitude 11, " outer edge of the soundings, wind North-west, with a very heavy sea, but steaming well ahead."

" On the 29th, off Ilfracombe, a gale sprung up from the North-west, and at one A.M. it blew dreadfully. The brig Harmonie, from Zette, broke from her moorings in the harbour, but it is now secured by a strong warp. Two her- tinaboats are out, with seven men ; the worst is anticipated. Another which was out escaped into Watermouth, a safe harbour, about two miles to the east- ward. Walls, chimnies, and roofs were blown down ; the set etas were covered with slates from the adjoining houses. Almost the whole of the inhabitauts were roused from their beds.'

Accounts from Swansea' Newport, Sheerness, Ipswich, and Rams.. gate, mention similar accidents and injuries by the storm. This is trom Ramsgate, of Monday's date— the next house, to which it was attached, and thrown into the road. A keel

tree in a garden at Camberwell Gr d

een was blown on to the house; and iter breaking the windows, fell sideways into the next gal den, carrying with it the wall. The gale was at its height about four o'clock."

Many trees were uprooted in Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Lord Holland's grounds, &c. At Brentford, Turnham Green, Ham- mersmith, Kew, and other places near the river, the damage was very great. The roof of a building covering two immense vats in Sir Felix Booth's distillery, at Brentford, was forced inwards, and one of the vats broken to pieces.

" In Boston Lane, leading from Ihentford to Hanwell, two very large trees in front of the residence of Colonel Clitherow, of Boston Park, were blown down, and, falling acro,s the road, forced down a portion of the wall, occasiooing for some hours considerable obstruetion. In the demesne of the Duke of North- umberland, at Sion Park, several trees have been uprooted, and others partially destreyed. In Isleworth Lane, opposite to the entrance to the park, a length of wall, to which palings were attached, was forced down by the hurricane. Toe roof of the Northumberland Arms Tavern is much damaged ; and the family of Mr. Emery, a baker, residing near the Castle Tavetn, had a narrow escape with their lives. Mrs. Emery, who had been confined within the last six weeks, was in bed with her husband and child, when a stack of cbimnies was blown down, ohich, forcing in the roof, the greater part fell in; but one of the beams which supported the roof gave way, and in falling rested on the bed-post, and thus were the lives of the family saved, the fragments of the tiles and chimney-pets lying around them. At Springgrove, at the entrance of Houus- ler v, the residence of Mr. II. Pownall, four venerable elm-trees were leveled with the earth ; and at the residence of Mr. Camden, surgeon, Hounslow, it similar occurrence to that which occurred at Mr. Emery's took place. The roof of the new church near to the junction of the Bath Road sustained con- siderable damage ; the lead was rolled up, arid one of the cornices was blown down. On the footpath from Kew to 3Iortleke, thirteen aged elms, which had stood the blast of ages, situated on the grounds of General Popham, have been blown down."

Two of the carriages on the Great Western Railway were disco- vered, on Monday morning, at Slough, and two more at Wormwood Serubbs ; having been carried by the wind to those distances from Maidenhead, where they should have remained, ready for the first morn- ing's trip. Several fine trees in Windsor Park were uprooted.