The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

GREENWICH ELECTION.-THE POLL.

The polling of the constituency of Greenwich com-
menced yesterday morniag at eight o'clock, when the
friends of the respective candidates assembled in strong
force. The several towns presented the uses! appearance
of a contested election, but the moat perfect good feeling
prevailed throughout the entire morning, and beyond the
parade of bands of miter, with a few tags of the colours of
the candidates, and occasional cheering and counter-cheer-
ing as the voters presented themselves at the hustings, there
was no strong ebullition of feeling on either aide. The first'
impermion of yesterday's Ezpress contained the polling up
to half-past one, and the second edition to the close. The
following is a statement of the number of votes to the clogs
of the proceedings:
Stewart. Chambers.
Two
Half-put Three
Pour 2,961 .... 1,249
Showing • majority of 1,715 in favour of Admiral
Stewart. It appeared that the gross number of voters from
the respective towns of Greenwich, Deptford, and Wool-
wich, were u follows: _

Stewart. Chambers.
Gmenwich 6 t 5 .... 523
Deptford 938 .... 391
Woolwich

2,964 1,249
Majority
At the aces of the business, Captain thilloway and Mr.
Pomace endeavoured to address the people, but their ob-
servations were not listened to, and AdmirdBtewart made
an equally unsuccessful attemptto speak from the window of
the White Hart Motel. ILA voice was drowned by the
clamour of the multitude, and by the drecordant 1110110 of
the musicians, who seemed determined to avow the caw
of the defeated candidate.
_ _

The returning officer ultimately gave notice that the
numbers would be of declared at ll o'clock this
morning.

NoIaHAMPTON. —Yesterday, the Right Hon.
Robert Vernon Smith, the newly appointed Becretai7-at-
War, was elected for the borough of Northampton by a
large majority.

WEST KESIT.—Tho illitatfono Gime& cautions
the liberal electors whist placing relianee on certain
rumours whirl hare been emulated as to the probable
retirement of Mr. llodgos, and announces that that gentle-
man is gaits prepared again to content West Kent on the
part of the liberal electors.

The employers having opened their workshops for
the operatives, on condition that they sign the agreement
Sled apes by the committee of the Central Association, it is
reported that • number of them have gone to their employ,
that • proportion of the unskilled labourers have also been
Wren es. At the committee-room of the employers we
were assured that the number who had taken work on these
tonne w quite egad to expectation. From the committee
of epondives • very illferent account is received; they
deny that MOOD *PI • few have gone to work,
and them stem who will have to he dismissed.
They stets Met Me men lately working at Meson. Nu-
llities ssishm, Peraterett, have received natice to quit
Mohr atlsgw mat week, and the following is •
espy of a iw4 odes Issued to one of the workmen
et Mum ?Weer at Newton-le-Willows Vulcan
ressdry. seer Warrington, Feb. 4, 19.52. air,—Not har-
ts. say msly le my note of yerterday Mr. Tallest. desires
=a will give up your cottage by 10 us., es
y next.—Sir, your obedisat servant, Joenvx Las."
—The workmen of Messrs. Tayleur, living in their cottages,
to lama them whet were addressed, had thus only three
dale Men they we turned out of house and
lam them lave gone to reside at Manchester.
The of workmen, on Saturday Last, to the
amelipmeted Ileshily, were MEW., being SA Oyer the
amount eabesellied in any previous week.

At a meeting of workmen last evening, held at the
Comper-eareet Wesehooms, City-roed, to isonekler what
MON Ie Wept esesequence of the dispeis.between the
lad /1111rien. reselatioss wise nisgi to the
riot lies meeting. esnigneed of workmen of nd
various
wades, hit thestrieellea between the terglacere and
their lies had a epos the rlghie of all indigent •
thee dle meeting wee 'plaits SIM the emplyen of thi
operative miaow; having madated the right of each to
do as he liked with his own, and denied the right of the
operative to do as he liked with his own, smelt conduct
was wastrary to Justice and humanity, and an %swamis*.
able attempt to prevent the itemise of a right universally
recognised by law • and a third, pledging the meeting to
Milli the most 44:R00m efforts to aid the Society of Anvil-
wasted lingineen. Mr. Newton was present daring the
proseediage.

NAVAL NISCIIFTS AND EIPXNDITsar----Yestza-
day a rebut was rutted albowlag that for naval services I
11150-51 the sum received was 6,672,688 f., sad the sum ex-
pended 6,186,2761. 12e. Ild., leaving a surplus of 487.3111.
for " ways sad means." Surely for them Ma sailboat
stiwilag we ought to have ships enough for dodoes la the

Tat CORPORATION or LONDON.—Yesterday some
totem the City of London, obtained by Sir
Were printed. la the 26 wards of the City
sire 28 aldermen and 206 common coun-
cilmen. 0. as register of parliamentary electors within
the City. Y tie 1116041, there were 20,842 persone—
, 13,218 Itenadinl and 7,312 liverymen, whereas in the
yew 1•4441 IM ismatter was 18,993, of which 11,324 were
kowlmildlus awl 7.871 were liverymen. The number of
persons on the register of municipal electors last year was
as follows in the following wards :—Aldersgato, 173 ; Ald-
gate, 222 ; Bassishaw, 86 ' • Billinetrate, 163 ; Bishopegate,
474 ; Broad-street, 120 ; Bridge, 134 ; Broad street, 361 ;
Candlewick, 116 • Castle Baynard, 202; Cheap 163 ;
Coleman-atreet, 223 ; Conlwainer, 11l ; Combat', 128 ;
Cripplegate.within, 258 ; Donate, 90; Farrineon-within,
476 • arringdoa-without,F 783 • Langboarn, V 7 ; Limo.
street, 82 ; Portaoken, 203 ; Qu4shithe, 72 ; Tower, 670;
Vicar', 86 ; and Wslbrook, 88.

THE INUNDATION AT HOLMFIRTII.

The weather on Monday was much more favour-
able for carrying on the *earth for the dead, and in the
forenoon the body of a female, about 14 yeses of age, sup-
posed to be a daughter of Richard Woodcock, was dis-
covered by scan labourers employed to repair and cleanse
the Hohnfirth Mill dam nob .dy of a boy was also dis-
covered in Whittaker Mill dare, Dalton. The hody of a
youth was also discovered on Monday at Dalton Lee, who
appears to have been blind of one eye, or to have sustained
of Use eye, as • green shad; was still tied over it
when the body was picked up. The coroner's jury meet
for the further identification of bodies on Friday.
A curious circumstance occurred in the identification of
the bodies of the deceased on Saturday. When the jury
visited the bodies lying et Bury Brow, a little intelligent
girl, daughter of Sydney Hartley, ono of the deceased,
came forward to identify an infant as the body of her
sister Ellen. She was asked bow she knew it, and replied,
because it was "calf-licked," like herself—pointing to a
peculiarity of the hair on the forehead—so denominated in
Yorkshire. The coroner took her deposition, but
afterwards the same child was claimed by a man
named Bailey as his daughter, and he ultimately obtained
possession of the corpse, and interred it. The little
gin's narrative of the horrors of 'Thursday night is a dis-
tressing picture of such a scene. She waft' that her
I mother, Mrs. Medley, had heard on Wednesday night that
the reservoir was likely to burst, and resolved not to go to
bed. She, honorer, put her family of eight children to
bed, and sat up to await the issue, hoping to get sufficient
warning to enable all to escape, it the report should prove
correct. She sat up until ono o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing, and then went to bed. The alarm reached almost im-
mediately she hail retired to net. The girl states that the
water burst upon them before they could get out
of the chamber, and, when her mother found they
could not escape, she held up her infant child
alcove the water outride the window, hoping to
save it, but finding the front of the house giving way she
turned and bade her family farewell, and wag swept away
with the babe in the foamnig torrent. So also perished the
father and four other children; hut thin little crea-
ture, ssith two sisters and the apprentice boy, who
bed also been sleeping in the house, being suddenly
floated up to a part of the roof which yet re-
mained, caught hold of the rafters and clung to them.
When the flood began to abate, the apprentice, John
Dearnley, got out upon the roof and assisted the three
girls to do the same. Here they remained at least twenty
minutes. Ile afterwards earned them one by one into
the portion of Holmfirth Mill which had escaped
destruction, where, in their night clothes, stsnding up
to their knees in mud, they ware exposed to
the inclemency of the night air and to the falling rain.
Ultimately, however, they discovered a way into a room
nearly full of wool, and burying themselves amongst it
obtained the warmth they so much needed, and remained
there till morning. The three orpharui are now residing
with their relations.

The Holmhrth Ladies Committee met on Monday even-
ing to distribute clothing. The subscriptions raised in the
town now amount to 1,0501. At Huddersfield a goal deal
of sympathy has been manifested for the sufferers. The
Rev. J. Glendenning preached a sermon at the Indepen-
dent Chapel, which led to a collection of 201., all of which
was nest morning transmitted to Holmfirth for the relief of
the immediate necessities of the distressed survivors of the

On Monday • public meeting was held at Huddersfield,
in the Philoophical Ilall, to take into consideration what
measures should be adopted to allesia.c the destitution ace-
eioned by the late Hood. Mr. John Brook, of Armitage-
bridge, was called to the chair, and the Rev. J. Bateman,
M.A., the vicar, moved a resolution, expressing sympathy
with the multert ra end with the survivors, of whom it was
said that many had been reduced from comfortable circum-
stances in life to utter ruin, and about 2,004 operatives
hail also been deprived of work. The resolution was
seconded by Mr. 11. L. Brook, and carried. The
Rev. John Glendenning moved a resolution pledg-
ing the meeting to use every exertion to mitigate
the distress, end commence subscriptions "tor the imme-
diate relief of pressing distress, and afterwards by affording
'such further aid as the amount of subscriptions would
allow." The chairman stated that the promees of aid al-
ready brought up the subscriptions to • handsome amount
for Huddersfield, and the Earl of Dartmouth had promised
to contribute. Mr. J. D. Crossland declared that mere
local efforts, however liberal, would be utterly inadequate
to relieve the distress, and requesting other towns to aid
Huddersfield in the task. Mr. li. L. Brook stated that
the ecmrnittee had been called upon for clothing by a young
lady on behalf of a family who, prior to this accident, were
worth upwards of 10,0001. This was corroborated by Mr. J.
Charlesworth. Mr. J. La sock, in seconding the resolution,
said that the operatives of Messrs. Brook and Co., of Armitage
Bridge Mills, had commenced • subscription, and already
rai 1021. A committee was appointed, and a spirited
subscription was opened in the meeting, which in the
course of an hour or so raised the preliminary subscription,
we mentioned as having been commenced in Huddersfield
on Saturday, to 4,9341., besides 61. Ils. 101 d. collected in
boxes at the doors.

Mr. W. Willana announced that a friend in London
had also forwarded him a ■um of la

It is said that • majority of the Holme Reservoir Com-
missioners were anxious to make seasonable repairs to the
embankment, and that haring borrowed 40,0001. on mort-
gage, at five per cent., the mortgagees came forward and
offered to reduce their claims to three-and-a.half per cent.,
if by so doing they could enable the commissioners to raise
upon mortgage the additional sum required. The commis-
idonen went before parliament last session but one, backed
by the mortgagees, for • new bill to empower them to raise
this extra money ; but they were vigorous'y opposed by a
part of their own body, who had been ohatructives all along,
and through the influence of these men Lord Beaumont de-
feated the bill before the Peers, alleging that it was contrary
to the principles of legislation by which the house ought to
be guided, to suffer mortgagees to come before it for the
purpose of improving the security on which they had ad.
van.ed their money. The objection was not correct in
fact, but it was fatal—fatal in more senses than one ; for
probably to this objection, so successfully urged by his lord-
ship, it is that we owe the destruction of so much life and
property.
It would be dieleult for strangers, in some places, unless
familiar with the valley and its buildings, to comprehend
'the extent of devastation—so clean had- been the sweep.
The rent made by the flood in the reservoir from which the
water escaped was regarded with intense interest by all
who visited the spot. An immense chasm of 80 to 100
yards wide and 00 feet deep, removed from the front of the
clam, and cut clear out from top to bottom, leaving the
edges as sharp and square as if some vast in-
strument had been used for the incision, leaves
little room for weeder that the body of water
which burst forth should have committed such ravages.
The site of the reservoir is a deep vale or ravine
near the summit of the lofty range of bills which divide
Yorkshire and Lancashire—perhaps 1,800 or 2,000 feet
above the level of the sea. It es at the foot of an extensive
mom, which drains into it. The whole of these hills are
remarkable for the deep clefts and ravines which divide
them, and they become the drains for immense quantities
of water, which fall here, during the winter months -
cially. It is in one of them the Manchester corporaWa
have constructed their Museum reservoirs, on the same
principle as this which has buret with such lamentable
consequences. The bed of the reservoir above Holes-
firth, which is an area of somethiqr like eleven acres,
is now only covered by • dap* of black mud.
The valley below isoaotl4 in a high state of culti-
vation. The kills rise to as immure height, but
are in many places nigh pion prows and well
wooded. la many plasm the vale prase& assess against
beauty, and is highly Akag the sides of the
stream which winds the beam In the apace of the
three miles to IMO twice very Ins stone
woollen mills. Wadi sums lawless swept entirely away
others have had es- end we eft in& the remnant. of ma-
'history and shafting
_am lib ifirngling over the stream.
Most althea have had Whalr polum• windows forced out
of the first and swami elms, and here and
them yen see the idea et dims mills covered
with lushes sad heenshes of trees for two or
three Marys in height, whirl lb• leseent had brought
down in whole kedge-rows at ewe, dal pled up sad accu-
mulated there. The large iessesgen sftebed to each of
three mills, as private stone of erase, have all been burst,
with one exception—their embankments. in most eases,
tors down almost entirely, ilesiiiiMse fleeted awaLectro;
verse bunt si uapes, sad the nftep hen the
of then carried away and may bass in depth
over adjoining fields. Here sad there yes see a Geld which
was coos tine meadow Lead a barren waste—eovered with
stones, and mud, and simile, like the ea seat. Yee see
sa immense steam-bailer, the ityllader of • Fewer.
fell eagle*, the heavy senor et • arena me-
diae, a dye pea, ow
,nor deem pipe, Ohs la
the midst of • sessnik la • field far from
the tall to which they had betrayed awake et hay
sad fora have hews heated down bodily and leashed also
let remote plasm. I. the middle of liointrtit the teem of
Wordisi aeallwa swept has the ante above esea have
e meted Ilhe huge dab @obi the haulm sod ether
badly, eat laws we desks se sash assenistiss of pro-
party

THR FLOODS IN LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.—
, Mr. Bateman, the engineer for the Manchester corporation
waterworks, has put forward a statement which show, how
imams was the fall of rain that took place in the valleys
found is the range of Yorkshire, and Cheshire hills, on the
side of one of which Holmarth stands. He calculates that
the depth of rain which fell in the Crowden valley, a little
above the Woodhead Reservoir, since the beginning of the
month, is 6, inches, but that that noes not represent more
than two-thirde of the average eluantity upon the whole
district, which, es the highest hills, must have exceeded
tan inches. The quantity of water impounded into the'
Crowdea Reservoir was at one time not less than 160,000,000
gallons, though it is far from finished. For twenty-four'
ours the quantity dtsearged was the seonnous total of
1,730 cubit) feet per second, and during thb rains on Wed-
nesday and Thursday at one time the Food attained so im-
mense a bulk as to flow along at the rate of 4,000 cubic feet
per second. The pipes of the lowest reservoir were ince,.
gently dibeharging from between 600 and 600 cubic. feet
Fa swat
HULL BATH CoMPANT.—Yesterday, Mr. Good-
chap, the official manager of this company's attain, pre-
sented his balsam-sheet to the Master, Sir W. llorne, from
which it appeared that he had received, on account of the
2'21. call made in December, 2,3841., leaving but a small sum
remaining uncollected. It is expected that no further call
will be required to discharge liabilities, as to the above sum
will have to be added the amount to be realised from the
sale of the bathe.