The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-07 00:00:00

THE MARSHLAND PEN SLUICE.

KING'S LYNN. MONDAY Arri!MOON.

The second dill's" has set in is earnest.
S. lands deeded by het sigh • end this morning', tide
already smonat to fully 1,000 or 1,100 acres, of which some
50 acres are in Marshland proper, the irocalled " high-
land," which had fortunately escaped the former
inundation, and Ins rarely, far centuries past,
been subjest to such misfortunes. At present
the sluice still stands, but its walls are very seriously
'Racked from top to bottom, and large portions of the foun-
dation are washed away. The gap which the water Ins
made far itself in the southern bank is now 50 yards in
begth and half as moth in depth, and the precipitous sides
of this golf fail away at intervals in large masses. The
northern bank is also extensively fissured, and behind the
outer wing wall on this side is a large conical hollow, like
the vortex of a whirlpool, in which the earth continually
sinks, proving that the water has undermined the founda-
tions beneath, and that if the sluice does not
shortly fall, it will become quite detached, stand-
ing between two chasms, or rather forming
•solithry man in the centre of a wide and powerful torrent.
Weer the sluice baa overflowed the central bank between it
and the great Marshland Sewer, and also the northern bank
of the latter upon the farm of Mr. Peck (opposite St. Mary's
Hall), in Marshland, to the extent of 49 of 50 anat.
Running up the Marshland sewer, it has filled the internal
amine to overdone' in various places, and in particular his
flooded the stack yard of Mr. Robert Coe, at hliagton, and
MEN within • few yards of his door. (Mr. Coe was a severe
sufferer by the former flood.) Higher up the counry,
to Broad Short Fens, about 600 acres, in the ocmpation
of Mr. Little, Mr. Robert (lot, and others have become
drowned, tenether with 300 or 400 acres more.
k Marshland Fa. principally occupied by Meson John
Markham, Little, Whiteman, Hubbard, Neap, &c. The
water has Woo both on the high lands of Bladiok (or Black
Me) Laval, is Marshland, to the extent of nearly 200
acres. Thaw agastitiat mast be increased at every tide.
don ea effectual dam L nada, as the springs will rise one
',two feet between now and Friday, when they will be at
their highest. The prorpect for the comments of the whole
district in indeed terrible, and many of them (not an hour
Imo mom) are making preparations for flight by removing
furniture, thrashing out corn. fu. Several houses, mostly
(Mines, are already invaded by the flood—those of
Mr. Robert Coe's tenants, for instance, being two
feet under water. The banks of both the Fen drain

and the greet sewer are already much injured by the scour
through them, and are caving in in several places. In two
er three instanced mar tbe sluices, portions of cottage gar-
dens, with their crops of vegetables, have did down into
the rushing stream, and the poor people are hastily digging
up their potato and other crops, to realise what they can
before they are wholly drowned out or deprived of a borne
by the impends' destruction of their humble dwellings.
The sack dam at St. Mary's brick-bridge having failed,
Mr. Harding is sew commencing the °Destruction of a pile-
11k111 at the some place, for which Purpose the remaining
portion of the bridge parapet is being cleared away, and
large quantities of timber are being brought up from Lynn.
At a meeting of the Marshland, Smeeth, and Fen
sommissioners this morning, Sir John Rennie and Mr. Mar-
my. C. K (who bad been making investigations in connection
with the pending suite spinet the Middle Level commie
sinners) were called in. and under their advice the banks on
both sides are being extensively raised. A dam of sheet
piling is to be made about a mile and a half up the drain
(jest below the junction sluice, between it and the Marshland
sewer). and a permanent dam is to be struck at about 100
yards above the broken sluice. Between these two dams
Mr. Hardin's will intervene, and thus there will be three
successive banters against the tide. If all these operations
am successful the ma water will not penetrate into either
of the drains, and the danger for the present will
be at as end, but very much must be done to achieve this
greatly longed-far and hardly anticipated result. In the
meantime all farming operations must be at a stand-still ;
the recently recovered tied., which have nearly all been
ploughed, cannot be sown, and thus another season will
most probably be lost to these unfortunate people.
It may sot be uninteresting to mention that the Selma
and Wes slake (the subject of the accident) was built and
the drain itself excavated in 1832, under the direction of Sir
Jan Rennie, Mr. Dyson being, we believe, the builder.
The still erect ppomnlion of the sluice. under the cir-
anmateaciesdesstbed, is a proof that its founda-
tions and brickwork are of very great strewth. Its
weak mist is that of every such work—the *no.
tins of the nunnery with the earthwork, where
the dream matinualy seeks an entrance, and often effects
ene ia a Mese beneath the surface, and thus quite out of
Mew. The dump is oily discovered by very careful inves-
tigation. sad them, as has been seen, sometimes too late for
any remedy.
A fart whisk ought not to be forgotten in connexion
with the flooding of the Marshland proper is, that
this would probably not have occurred but that the defer-
airs beak between the two drains was some years ago'
Imply exemated and the clay used in making
balks, thus leaving holes sod low places over
which the water km found immediate vent. Such a
piece of sheatighted folly would be incredible, but that the
evidence of its 000111i•Ii011 is still plainly visible, and the
fact itself is well-remembered in the neighbourhood.
The Smooth end Fes commissioners may be said to be
tilting ea permanence at the scene of operations ; and the
Gout of Sewers is to hold a meeting this day (Tuesday)
ti decide what is to be done for the protection of their
*aim, which is seriously threatened, not only by the
inereased overflowing of the beaks, but aka by the proba-
ble destruction of their own sluice.

Charles Creighton Beauchamp Harper, 2R, clerk, was
indicted for fraudulently obtaining from Emily Faster four
bonnet., value 101., the property of Robert Hill; for frau-
dulently obtaining by like mesas from Enoch Hobbs, two
lamps, vsluel6l. its. 6d.. the rte of Leopold Warto-
trot, with intent to def ; and for obtaining front
A WOKEN EITIOIT TO DEATH AT CHEINIA.—
Wm. John Bennett., 12 knives, and other articles, value
. rei. property of Walter Holman. He phaded
6d., the
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guilt .
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r her residence, at 6, Georgestreet, Choler The odor-
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tonate meatabre wse promptly removed to St. George's
eructed by Mr. Warned.
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