The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

LONDON. TUESDAY EVEIONG, , MARCH .15, 1864.

fIuLLAH CHORAL SOCLETY,
Storesareet, Redfordequare.—PrßLlC CONCERT, on
THURSDAY EVENING, March 17, at 8 o'clock. Part Set*
nate, The SRpplrlt of the Shell," T. H. Severn. Part 11. Concert
Stuck iPlandaetei, Weber. Part 111. Slnfonia Cantata, "A
Hymn of Praise," Mendelasohn. Vocalists—Madame Weiss,
Miss Mary Martin, Miss Emma Severn, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. Reilly.
Soto pianist, Miss Fanny Hos ell. Principal violin, Mr Carrodus.
Conductor, Mr. CONSTANTINE. Admission, Is : reserved
seats numbered', 3e.: balcony, as. Tickets to be obtained, and
places secured, at the Made-hall, Store-street.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.—In consequence of the
non-arrival of the Royal Melte of the Netherlands. the
Nanager haa provided for THIS EVININti a ItIiCaLLA NE.)l'4
I.NTRILTAINMENT. hroleding the f r st 0760Aitie• Acrobatic.
=A Comic Artists of the day.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA--FIRST WILEY of
the NEW GRAND BALLET DIVERTIVIEMENT. PHII-
- Danseuse Polonaise, DM*. KVILINE LABYDIKA, with
Forty Ladies.

THE OXFORD.—The present interpretation of
FAII'ST constitutes an epoch in the history of this hall,
already famed for the brilliancy of its operatic selections
largely augmented vocal and instrumental resources have Wen
added to reader the present selection trom this univenally popu-
lar opera worthy of the parent work. Faust, Mr. Morley:
Mephtstophiles. Mr. aftell ; Marguerite, Miss Mussel!; Director,
Mr. F. Jonghmana

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vested and, so far as practicable, remain Invested in British and
East Indian Government secnritiee, and upon deposit at call,
and it it proposed that the capital thus paid up and Invested
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THE AUTOGRAPHIC MIRROR.
Contents of No. 3, will appear THIS DAY, the Itth lut..
price LB.. by pod la Id :—A Letter from George IY , when
Prince of M ales, about the Primer Caroline; from the Due
COrleass, the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Basest' I, Baron
Inusnow. °nista, Thins. Lord Byron, Gibbon the historian',
Wawa' the author of The Lite of JOINIS"), Fenimore Cooper,
NW Foote. Madame Stator., and Two aketcbse. with Autograph,
by the late Mr. Tbsakessy.-0111ce, 110, *mad.

Messrs. Money Wigram's ship Stumm 1,000 tons,
Cassis Robert Rid:: from Port Phillip on the 18th of
December, 1863, arrived at °ravened yesterday. She
brio: 60 :bin prnmeegees, 1,300 :lee of wool, 100 make of
reoleasea, 300 hap of eatimowy. 40 bake of leather, 80 auks
of aed 17,000 of of gold, valved :68,0001.

The Water Nymph, from Melbourne, with
66,0001. in sold, arrived a Falmouth yesterday, end landed
a mail.

THE INUNDATION AT SHEFFIELD.

(TROY OUR OWN INNOWIta.)
SHEFFIELD, lIONDRT APIWINOON.

The calamity just befallen this town and neigh-
bourhood ham attracted mazy thousands of pampa to
Sheffield. Every train that has come in to-day has been
filled with people anxious to visit the scene of the accident,
and all day long omnibuses have been running between the
town and the ruins of Hillsbro% which is the nearest point
up the valley of the Looksley accessible, in consequence of
the washing away of the bridges. From various points on
the high ground by which Sheffield is Dearly surrounded, •
view of the whole coarse of the flood, from the junction of
the valleys of the Locksley and the Don, may be traced by
the ruined houses and works, and the thousands of acres of
garden ground laid waste. The seem, though touching
and mournful, is inexpressibly grand, It is one of
utter desolatioo. A vast mem of sand has bean
brought down the valley by the rush of the waters,
and wherever there was a vacant place it became
deposited, obliterating every trace of what formerly
covered the ground. The rush of the water carried away
all the hedges and uprooted all the larger trees, bat seems
to have passed harmlessly over the weaker bushes, which
bent to the fury of the flood, and they now present a moot
singular appearance, all being turned is the direction of the
enrreat, and covered with large quantities of the slimy
pas him upon the surface of the waters.
The searching for the deal still continues, and the melan-
choly spectacle of uoffies being carried on stretchers here
and there to different!parts of the river beaks, over the
dreary waste created by the flood, sufficiestly indicated
the extent of the calamity. Of the bodies already re-
covered upwards of seventy were taken to the work-
house ; others, too far off, were laid by dozens in
outhouses and stables which had escaped destruction ;
and many which were claimed have been banded
over to the relatives. The coroner has already held an is
quest over some of them, in order that no delay may take
plate in the interment, and has issued • direction to the
various registrars to grant burial certificates is all cases
where it is evident that the deceased person met his death
in consequence of the flood. At the time lam writing the
Mayor and Town Council are sitting in deliberation at the
Town-hall to decide upon when the general interment shall
take place, and an order has bees lamed directing the rela-
tives of the deceased who may wish to take on them the
melancholy office of burying their own dead to intimate it
to the corporation. Moat of the victims of this dreadful
calamity are poor persons following the occupations of
grinders, Weise machine tenders, and other branches of the
cutlery trade, and in most cases their families, where all
have not been swept away, are sot in a position to pay the
funeral expenses. In all such cases the bodies will
be buried in the Old Carr Cemetery, with those of
the unclaimed, and • large crowd outside the Tow•-
hall is waiting to ascertain when the funeral will take
place. An order wan issued this morning stating that the
unclaimed bodies would be buried to-day, but a general
feeling having been manifested in the town that it was pre-
mature a meeting took place in consequence. In the mean-
time steps have been taken to relieve the wants of the
houselme and homeless, and Mr. Jackson, the chief mutable
of the town, has been entrusted with the disbursement of
a SUM of money raised hastily yesterday by subscription, so
that the horrors of present want should not be added to
the loss of life.

So far an I have yet heard few lives have been lost in
Sheffield itself, bat all down the valley of the Looksley,
from Bradfield to Owlertoo, there was scarcely a nook or
corner into which the w►ter bad penetrated where bodies
of men, women, and children, quite naked, and in many
came covered with wounds, were not picked up ; and below
ifillabro' bridge, when the valley of the Lockaley joins
that of the Don and greatly expands, the hrge open space of
land bore a plentiful crop of the dead. What oeoe was the
small village of Stalin's-bridge, of which there only remains at
the present moment a few dismantled and ruined homes,
counts among the dead no fewer than a hundred and sena
victims.

Words are too weak to give anything like an adequate re-
preseutation of the utter desolation of all the fertile culti-
vated ground in the lower part of the valley of the Dos, jest
where it entire Sheffield, to the Lady's-bridge in the metre
of the town. I have just returned from an inspection of the
banks of the river leading from the entrance of the Wicker
through Harvest-lane, Neepsend, Mowbray-street, acmes
the mud-covered fields which the rolling billow rushed over
to pour their boiling waves into the Don, thence passing by
the broken liillfoot-bridge to the ruined village of
Owlerton, and having crossed the dry bed of the
river—dry from the chengiag of it. course, and
the formation of a new channel, I came upon the open plain
where formerly stood the bootie, gardens, and mills q
Malice's-bridge, the largest portion of which is now literally
a sand-bank. Having thus traced the course of the river for
four miles I found it necessary to return by the high road to
Sheffield, in order that 1 might write and despatch the ac-
count of what I bad seen.

The Wicker is close to the river, and bears no slight re-
semblance to the waterside premises on the south side of the
Thames from the new Charing-mom Bailwlpbridde to
Westminster. road. It is impossible to describe adequately
the dismal plight of the roads. Most of the high and sub-
stantial brick and stone walls of the great mills had been
thrown down, and large pieces of the wall that had clung
together had been washed about apparently like chip. of
wood. Silt mid mud had been carried into the houses on the
opposite aide of the way to the depth of three
and often four feet; and in some came the
cellars were completely filled. Roadways had been
made to the neer, which was running with great rapidity,
and as fast as the mud could be carted away it was being
emptied into the stream and carried away. People in the
interior of the houses were bringing it out in barrowsfull ;
ad on looking through the broken windows or raft walls
into the interior all that could be seen was a mass of broken
mud-covered chairs, tables, counters, and other articles
while in the case of shops, all their contents were covered
with mud and strewed about in the most extraordinary
confusion. The water mark on the walls here was about 11
feet high. AU the railings ►cd coping stones of Trinity
Church ware lying across the road, and every street rendered
impassable by the immense Quantity of mud, resobieg in
some instances nearly as high as the top of the windows. A
little further on, at • place called Highbank, was
an open space once covered with mall tenements, not a
vestige of which remained, but into which the eddying
stream had carried a vast number of dead cattle, whose
distended bodies lay about in every variety of attitude. I
counted 27 head of nest cattle and 7 homes, besides which
there were several donkeys and pigs. All these had been
brought down through the river r•n one aide, and the open
street on the other, sod deposited under the high wall of
some extensive works, whose m•sive front bad resisted the
pressure of the water. A little further on I came to the
Ball•street Bridge, an iron structure which bad been swept
entirely away, a portion of the iron girders being cast over
• weir, and bent about like a piece of wire, and
other portions remaining attached to one aide of
the bask. Then having wondered through a wilder.
noes of desolation, maim by when there had bees
another bridge whose place knew it so more, I came
upon the melancholy spectacle of a ion searching for
his father's corm.* in Neepsead. Men were probing the deep
mud with iron rods, and in one place they were clearing out
the cellars of a demolished bonne, while a crowd around
them were watching with intense anxiety as first they dug
up various small articles of cullinar► and domestic use, then
clothing and shoes, and lastly the mud and filth bedraggled
bodies of the poor victims themselves.
°avant still by the banks of the river, by ruined fae-
brie■, by dismantled cottages, and through what might be
truly termed a howling wilderness. often up to my knees in
•lime end filth, often having to clamber and jump from
stops to stone over ruins as complete as any ever recorded,
1 emerged at length from this soene of terror which strong
men could not gam upon without a stymie throbbing of
the Mart, and often a convulsive sob, into the mere open
portion of the valley, where the mad torrent of the waters
bed rushed across the level plain from the narrow gorge of
the Looksley.
Hese, in • melancholy half•ruind •table, by the side of a
damaged mill, lay the bodies of 10 human Wags of both
sexes. All of them had been picked up on the level plain
after the water bad subsided, and all were quite risked. In
the haste end menace they bad been carried in and laid
down in the attitede I which they were toned, sad NA