The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-14 00:00:00

I►EFECTIVE DRAINAGE IN STOKE

NEWINGTON.

Last evening a public meeting, convened by pla-
card, WU held at the Maaor Hatms, Charch.street, Stoke
wington, to take into consideration the necessity of
taking the attention of the COMMiBIiOO,II of Sewers to the
pri.eat danger..us state of the dniaags in the above locality,
wh.els is seriously affecting the health of the inhabitants,
mid of impressing upon the Commissioner the urgent need
of • .peedy remedy.
Various resolutioas and a memorial having been agreed
to a deputation wail appointed to wait upon the COMMIS-
1140oehl of Sewers with the last, and a irsee shanks having
bees passed to the chairman, the 'seethe, teeminated.

111. RECENT Sroam.—On Monday eight at mid-
aqtht large number of shooting sten were observed et
snithanipton which left tracts of light after there. The
•.other was all ' T, About aid-

u vary sultry day on-itamday.
day a heavy shower took place with a solibu7 clap of
tender. On Wednesday moraintanabneut two o'clock the
ir n.l roes and for twenty•four coutisued almost
without interminana to blowhard somempanied with beery
.towers of rain. Such weather has set been known at
floothamptrin as the mouth of Assume for seventeen years
Ike tide did not leave the shoes is its usual course. A
number of boats were swamped or destzoyed by the gale,
sod n.reral yachts and other sailing craft were seriously
'hemmed. Two men went out in a boat during the storm
!ewe the west quay to fasten on an additional anchor to a
Yw and a wave capsized the boat and one of the men
was ,iriwned. The boot was upset about 200 yards from
A. soon as the accident happened and the two
soil were nen clinging to the boat another boat pushed
eff from the shore to render assistance, and just as it came
alorigs,de the two men dropped their hold of the boat. One
sum rasped while sinking, and was restored. The other
k'irrampni at hut mimed. The Havre steam boat could not
harbour. The streets were in some places covered
wick bricks, tiles, broken chimney pots and branches of
trlm Muth damage wasdone to the roofs of houses.
Tin:
IMININTOR PRINCE. GONERGUR.—The Con-
obtmiumoel wires the following additional particulars re-
.peeting the pretended l'rinte (footage', :—" His real lame
51erzynowski. It was in Switzerland, at an hotel, at the
death hed of the real prince, that be sot pastrami of some
tinily parer., which emigrated to him the idea of person.
atm..^ the defunct. He thought also of forging ems
Paper, to complete his genea.ogical proofs, but the work of
Coast Litman the princely families of Italy, of which only'
lopy esimlo, in Paris, to the National Library, inter-
fered with his pretensions. He bad had a sheet printed, in
which be staled has filiation, and which he wanted to sub-
rave for the real one. He could not, however, succeed
Illmtethir, the surveillance of the employes at the library
brume ton time , hut the two leaves, the false one and the I
true, are now bound sin tegether in the copy in question.
Myr ti 1 ttr Inc(ilsos.—We have had shown to !
letter from R native of Linlithgow, who is now trying
to f•,rtuue 1.! the Australian diggings. Some adventurers,
ise made al much ma 3,000/. in ten days; hut the
amount pi, k, d up by each iodividtul in a d
early
;menu bi a hundred. His own luck haday varies f
been some-
spirit lel.iw the average, forty.seven ounce.' being the
"'quit he has collected in two months and a half, which,
si 'he pre bent price of gold, is not ler from 1501. ; not so
ball for a working man, when it is considered that his es-
"i-ts durinc the time he was engaged in collecting it
einounted only to 13/. Ile hail left the diggings for Oee-
lig to hay a hoer and cart, and be found that the rash to
the diggings had the tffect of raising the price of such com-
a, '4.o's—carts being up from 71 to SW. and 601. ; hareems
;,
and hones from 20/. to 401.—Falkirk