The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

OItRAT FLOOD AT LEWES.

Lewis, TUNSDAT, 3 o'ctoca r.x.
Lewes has this day been visited by the heaviest
flood it has experienced—so say competent authorities--
sine, the stemoratie winter of 1814, when the breaking up
of the frost produced so universal a deluge throughout the
country. During the pea few days • considerable quan-
tity of wet had than ; but yesterday, from morning till
night, sad throughout dmi night, the rain poured down in
incessant tons.% arroloopsadod ley. • perfect hurricane of
wind. To say dot k arme isms be backetsful is no exag-
geration. Armlike be the rata gawp of • scientific gen-
tlest= in this pion, as Ism than two inches of water tell
&Jinx the 24 Wass At as early bear this morning, the
offsets Om heavy it WI beanie evident in the rapid de.
meet seas liaise has the bilk, and its rising throughout
the asseassra that owneural the tows. By 10 o'clutk • vast
body of wailer bad sennuktall is the meadows near De-
b= and Raney, sad kir a iraddienble span bad :...,-„
seamy to • Ind week ekeNnt!!".7.;:ni tf::,;, ~awes and
/Timms, 210;"7:av, part of which. is fast, was ander water.
Alba& over the line was, very judiciously, suspeaded,
mad the trains to and from Hastings and London were seat
isued vie Brighton, la Lewes us uswonteel scene pre-'
NSW itself. At the lower perdu* et the town, in Mal-
=:t and the Cline, the war buret into the cellars
rseseehouses, and owe cram serest mmelating of from 20
Is MO lame, leading to MUM Hilloret brewery, was a
101111. MW deer, all the lower rat om(tbe bare on each side
Iningimmdsted los arairiseablellask The street itself was
sell preable by ram et pinata kit areslisurels placed on
sae ant. A little tardier es dr aria street was under
water Ikea few reds. At for bah of this part of the town
the aroodows wen inaihoirly ender water, and presented
the appearance of a era. Bear were rowing and sailing
about g bre part of • borpolok was floating off, there fag-
kz.to sea planks were aided away by the stream. At the
die ears
wall maxim down with immense force,
its way Menorah= sad warehouses, and carrying
ei , de., lying on the ailaria. At hair put 4 p.m. the
ransailms to ebb, and it Wm leaped that the li god had
is highest and would vegiay recede as the tide ran
eat. loyead the damage ear* by the inundation in the
hono= es., to bass act hard al try serious injury being
astakird. Owing to the ow* occurring in the daylight,
psi* Iraw turwaimed, sad la the town as well as in the
ilelioniag Nuaby preartiews were token to remove
prapssey eat nom it ban dosage. Reports from the
nallgienadsg yews speak at booby foods in every direc-
tion. Oak a day et iwormat terra* of rain as fell yaw.
day we saureely aver vemember.
7 o'clock p.m.—Siam I o'clock this afternoon, the waters
have gradually fallen, and the worst has evidently gamed.
Throughout the day, crowds of people have been attracted
to the bridle and other snots in its neighbourhood, watch-
ing the carts of the good; while many parties have
climbed the Cliffs Hills, in order to command a bird's-eys
I view of the sarroaadins taaadatent.....Sninty tiottfle.

ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
RAILWAY.

11 On Menday night an accident, which might have
been at Waded with very serious teams, occurred to
the Groat nerds= eve. hula. sleight Int-
, dem denisata. ma mkt Has moss Newark. About
Italie air* dot am the Great Biathcra intents th:
Midland lama hem Nottiagham to Lincoln' almost at
right maim Signals are, attearse, provided for the pee-
-1 yanks meidenie, bet It from soma muse er
I ether east as pet satisfactorily the Great Meth.
11 as memo sad Mimed goods teak arrived at the ;mist
lef letatosatio at dm seam isatamt. They were both
pies MOW sped eed the foram dashed through the middle
of um pads mit. holies am af dm Masks into the river,
whisk mob* by, and tharrwimg moral Miters of the hoe.
AU As wedgies sf the resew anis wen mid henteged,
bat huggft sat sus of the ,_sans(_ Vie maim* hut.
This. Ms hansd. was
dowing Ott the d({( the wads it
die
the engem mewed the geed, trais ; ent.s= I
at elms the anlegt which were tenewithel
e mud
tomeeed in the jemmy, end the eleenentaiste swim
de midis_ tedi Amr the amp of so
..seay
=lawith SO IMO fumyseems almost ammo-
ne only porssa as the goods train who
was at ill_ 14 the driver, who had two of
by meth Medial est. It is stated that the
he the Gnat Imam train to advance was ukikimi at
the srusskig, sad tint the driver of the Midland traia Is
however, will ba ascertained la tbe coarse
aorrtquiry, which was opened yesterday at Newark, by
Aa assts Of the two companies. The line was rerdered
tfor some time after by the debris of the two
t very little delay was experienced by the •sp.
bola{ pesosagen, as they were forwarded almost immedi-
ately shrrivanis to Peterborough, In ••train wawa had
lbws arrived from thence. The ordinary down trail was,
however, delayod for upwards of three hours.

LUNATICS IN ST. PANCIIMI WOltailOUSE.--Yester•
day, at the meeting of the dfreetoss sad guardians of the
pose of St. Pancras, Mr. Churchwarden Pearce in the
chair, the report of the medical committee, recommending
the imummliste fornsatiew of padded rooms for dangerous
female lunatics, was brought up and read. Mr. Ililles,
who bas lately brought forward the harsh treatment to
which some of the lunatics in the workhouse hove beta
submitted, was glad to find that at last the humane treat.'
meat of lunatics, which had been adopted in other places
for tie lest thirty y '
ears, was about to be introduced Into
St. Pancras workhouse, and he trusted that in
future no more would be heard of submitting those tutor-
tenets persons, who were deprived of their reason, to the
strait wauteoat, handcuffs, and padlocks.—Mr. Healey de-
nied that the poor had ever beim harshly treated, as de-
scribed. He mu totally opposed to keeping lunatics in the
workhouse at all, at least beyond the three days. in which
time the order for their removal to one or other of the
asylum scold be signed by the magistrates.—Mr. Furness
murdered that the fact of the medical committee deciding
that padded rooms were now nuemary, was a proof that
hitherto they could not have been properly treated. The
report was adopted, sad the board broke up.
AYLESBURY BOROUGH REOISTRATION.--Mr.
Worlledge concluded, on Friday evening last, the revision
of the lists of voters for the different parishes within the
Three nuadreds or Aylesbury. The following summary
gives the result of the proetediegs; Old v4tess—Total
member of whip omitted, 62; do. tonics, 46 ; whin loss, 16.
New voters—Total number of whip, 71; dn. tories, SI
Whig gain, 43; deduct l,sss, as shown above, I 6; net whip
gain on the registration, 27. Titus it will be seen that,
although the constituency numbers 72 less than in the pre-
vious year, the liberal strength has been materially in-
embed—Buda Chronicle.

PORT OF LONDON.—IIe Lord Mayor has recently
appointed Mr. llarfurd Arttild to, be ono of the• harbour-
masters of the Port in the place of Lieutenant Stone, re-
sinned. Ur. Arnold wan ee.trAl years master in the mer-
chant senior, and is well acquainted with the navtgaion
of the River Thames, and previously to his appointment
paved a most satisfactory examination by the autlwriCes of
the Trinity Roos.