The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-06 00:00:00

THE RECENT FLOOD IN BIRNIINOHAM.

On Friday jut, a meeting convened by the Mayor
was beld in the committee-teem of the Town Ball, at Bir-
mingham, to consider the insfristy of affording assistance to
the parer endiseers tiara We kte overflow of the RIM Rea,
is the Wow pert et the Sewn. The MAYOR presided,
• Modell KI/Onam, Aldermen Van Wart,
Hulgies. Baldwin, Phillips, Mr. George Dawson, M.A.,
and ether gentlemea.
Is adverting to this digester at the time of its occurrence,
rehreme was made is the Daily Newt to the shamefully
exaggerated 41111000111 r el the reports respecting it as regards
the extent of the milehirf dens, in the columns of some of
our contemporaries. Oa the very nest day after the inunda-
tion, the damage was hid at •• many thousands of pounds."
New, after We. men melees hegniry by the Mayor,
and ihe palm An* engaged it We duty, it turns out that
taking the silent loss of -mob sellarer at his own estimate,
the demo h pit down at 2,700 L esly ; inch was the state.
name Otis Mayer at the meets
_ea Friday. •
the la renuedluip, Woneurr announced
spun,
that poemstt the Inn who had aommbeted to the
Helrage~i. bus whose enhomiptions bad been returned
W Wane bed enseeseed their pompom in bead them over
ler the MOM sow in view; anmapt these were the Rev.
Mrs. Lea, Kr. Martineau, hie own suteeription and
the mem, raised by the mess in his employ
Mr. Guest, of Mondry, sent dl., and there wore suls-
seriptisas fres ether gentlemen. The Mayor far-
ther mid that be bed traversed some of the streets
while the inusdatlea was taking plaoe, and be
could bear beethsuay to the distress which it had
entailed apes may
prigarroons raid in smell
nazis tbeee wove et Mum= In which tbe
hews et nen pearzeple bees the=ly saturated,
they baying mien mem to puns dried nor to
remove ben nen nalesithy &NMl's. Beyond this elate
of pmerms wes mother : he Warred se .soft sheplummen
is the Meaty who had neleised eembiamble
is
dicabliess these were man men denle hoeris thtt
sullieme in when more immediate behalf be MI assembled
She meallog and sought in aid. The new et the good
spread mar somethWg Übe twenerewe ghee% mad the
geese estimmle of loseciLdhsrliee neemehes was
1.7001. ; poottottly on Wel sena glebe be
found to esieed the IMMO rir:l mean he Mind to
guard Idaselt hem belegeT le null Write esnesi.
by •
nem He ameluiled neeluties to .g abet,
that a oommitter lie formed tee _ mune erelong • sub-
scription to reftebisse those peer neme ler tie leans
theamakeid recoady sesteined.
Manson elesegly urged the mesetity of east
being When that a lie be drawn between the very poor
peruse thing ha mens, le stem the Mayor had referred,
and the elsee lbem,whe were, in all probability, many
of thin Ina maditket le beer their share of their own
loom
llse Bev. I. C. Yuma, the Rector of St. Martin's, In
eseeming the resehniss, said that in analysing the
schedule robin the Stayer bad laid on the table he found
that a nay large portion of the 2,7001. was made up of a
large somas Sr ale and spirits which publicans in the
distrist Aged they had lost ; the statements made might be
tube eseenn bat he shoul object to reimburse that
011111111/ .111111111111 ht one street alone, In Res-street, the lose
was estimated at MU, but of this sum there wee only 121.
est down es lame sustained by the very poor ; the remain.
der of the sum was put down as losses sustained, for the
most part, by licensed victuallers and well-to-do manufac-
hi-
rers. _ _

The MATOI remarked that the object in view was that
of charity ; the persona to whom:Mr. Miller had referred
were not objects of charity, they could reimburse them-
selves.

After some further digression, in which Admiral Moor-
sons, Alderman Van Wart, Mr. George Dawson, and others
took part, the Mayor's resolution passed. A committee
wu appointed to collect subscription', and carry out the
object of the meeting, baring also special instruction" to
bear in mind the suggestions of Admiral Moorsom as to the
close of persons who should share in the relief.
Some liberal donations were received at this close of the
meetinng, including 201. from the Retail Brewsn' Asso-
ciatio.

DARING COURAGL—On Saturday morning, about
half-put ten o'clock, some men employed in the laboratory
department of the Hoye! Arseual were taking off the head■ of
some old rockets (110 being done out of 114, made in 1824)
when one of them ignited in the hand of John Holliday,
who threw it down, and ell the men rushed out of the
building. Mr. James Pickering, master rocket-maker,
hearing the hissing noise, in the most daring manner and
with great presence of mind rushed in and seised the
Ignited article, and ran to the running atrium, about fifty
yards off, and threw it into the water. The shell, con-
taining old gunpowder, immediately afterwards bunt, a
piece of it striking Mr. Pickering under the right eye,
rather severely. Ruch was the force of the explosion that
nearly thirty windows were smashed, and the boards torn
ep around. But for the presence of mind displayed by
Mr. Pickering, the result must have been fatal to all
hands; and from the fact of the polder magazine being
near at hand, it is impartible to calculate the probable
effect.—YaitisA Merewy.