The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-01 00:00:00

DEVONSHIRE.

THE CHOICE 'MISSIONARY MEETINO AT HONITON.—
The following letter from the 'uishop of the diocese, to the
Hey. V. H. P. Semereet, hat been made public .—Bishop.
stew., Dee. 8, 1348.—De.:r Sir,—l have received your letter
of the 7th In memoir to my iciiiieies respectieg a statement
I made, as was informed, in a newspaper, that a wetting of
the Church Mhdowery Society, on the 14 of last month,
being tco numerous ter the 1 üblic room, to which it had
been called, was tr. risferred to your church at Reuben.
The freaks= mid candour with which you relate the cir-
cumelancee ci this case are in accordacce with the uniform
conduct which you Iwo exhibited during the whole time of
oar connoting, now nearly two, ty years. Your schizo*.
lamest, too, nf your " error of judgment," on this oceso
lion, leaves me nothing to soy as respects yourself; for I am
quit. ser.aia that • similar error will nut occur
at Winton 'ltaly your incumbency. Unhappily, the
matter Ss,. rr. 'Stet you, nor .win lloniton only; a
public sandal km bees wive, which I am cot ildeat you
will perceive, 1•71'..es a public retaratinn necesswy. That
the behaviour of the persons who composed the meeting
within the chart& wee orderly and not irreverent, leay.s
the inherent ani esseatial iinpiopriaty quite untouched. It
only slows th-x thin) was uu aggravation of it from un-
seemly tumult. That the organ was played and psalms
amp, does not sppter to me to h.ore at all improved the
case. On the emstr-zy, it made the church to be, toe the
time, a ovetver,l:l--as the meet:lig Itself made it a public
mu. But I Obtain front .nlarging further cn the matter.
Any mode which out bo devised to Tooke it known, that your
dines an felt it his d,..ty to cen-ure strongly the course taken
fro o good motives, I am well assured), and so to prevent a
recurrence of each a desecration of Oon's House, oat only at
Benito°, but elsewhere, will satisfy what I feel to be due to
the good order of the di.seice on :LA occasion If Son make
this 1-ttr piablie, I shall think it s•flicient—l am, dear oir,
your faith&l friend and brother, H. Exam.
M 15817.0 NOTES OP THE lIONITON BASE.—The
Mate, vs Times says : " It will be resielketed that three one
hundr.sl pounds Bank of England notes, which came icto
the head„f the prtprteass el the Honiton Bank, the 'debt
of their soppaae, at, r be.ngp:aer d c by mo rat tafehr
away, as Lea bun cat rued, R=ae L/t, 11.1.3 nobody mull tell
trout sad booone of them. The alfacial assigssee, Mr. Hirt-

sel, being anxious to clear up the matter, instituted a yen
rigid investigation. in the COUIIO of which Mr. Charles Hill,
le. a clerk of the Exeter II ink, out of which the missing
notes had been paid to Flood sad Lott, was •nt to Londe's.
Search was midi among the cancelled notes in the Bank of
Zeeland. and the ideadeal three notes were feast. Thee
were traced to the Heaton branch et the National Pri-
viacial Beak. A young w, formerly a clerk is that seta.
Ulskinent, who was supposed to have received them,
wee brought down from the north of England to
give evidence as to how they came into the bank—he
swore positively that he did not receive them to his'
knowledge, that if he bed, he should have lurked them.
It is now stated that, after Leaving the Bankruptcy Cour ont I
kis way back, ha was taken ill at lioniton, dashed to unbar
then his mind, and sent for en attortey. on whom mowing
he le said to have confessed that the notes were paid into the
beak by a professional gentleman, whose name has occa-
sionally been seized up with these trasasetions."
A WIALTST PM:MEX.—This apparent anoiney
pears to to have been realised at Crichton, is the nes of a
woman tumid Grace Pemberthy, living in a cottage in the
owes p rt of thr town, who, until lately, recited al com
isheration. She is near 80 years of age, has been living
alone for a considerable length of time, and from her aprear.
anise :of extreme poverty and wretchedness it was thought
advis ibis to remove her to the anion wcwkhouse. After her
removal, the relieving Ober went to her house; for the pur-
pose of taking cars of the 6w trifles she had left behird. In
a chest there were found some old silk dresses, and different
articles of wearing apparel. wlreh had not ben worn from the
deys of her youth, and at the bottom, securely packed, 76
guineas, Mile the worm for wear. Having append the old
woman of the discovery which had been suat:e, she said she
knew that she bad money in the house, but she did not know
how tomb, as she had not men it for many years. She began'
to gave it in very early life, thst she might have something in
old age ; sl.e Lad cot intended to look at it spin until she
not old (she is now 80), but now supposed ahe should not
live to be old.

CORNWALL.
EXTRAORDINARY FLOOD AT TRIIRO.—On Wed-
'today last, an extraordinary flood took place at Truro. Rain
fell heavily daring the greater part of the day, and between
10 and 11 o'clock at night a vast accumalation of water cants
down the river lienwya, and as the arches in River-street
wen insufficient to carry it oil that street, the West-bridge
and Bt. Nicholas-street become ovetflooded. The water con-
tinued to rise with great rapidity to tie extent of two feet in
10 minutes, until the houses in Bt. Nicholas street were filled
with water en their basemcat stories, in some pAces to the
depth of 4to 5 feet. The water reached above the e,untars ;
ankle' efgrocery: drapery, and jewellery were washed about
the shops ia all directions, and the damage sustained is caleu.
lased to amount to some thousands of pounds. In the shop
window of Mr. Edwards, the stationer, several panes of
Iglus were broken, and by the force of the water the shut-
! tars were lifted out cf their places. In other houses furniture
was washed about and broken, and serious damage was done
to different premises. Many p-rsons were called from their
beds, and the flood rote so rapidly that women and children
were amt to the upper rooms, it being feared that if they
remained below they would be drowned. The water
reached as far as the intrance to Mr. Parkyies shop in Bois-
eawenrstrcet, and a tent was use to convey some Gf the in-
habitants to their houses. After considerable damage had
been dsne, the wall of a coach-house, connected with the
Royal Hotel, was washed down, and three of Mr. Pearce's
carriages were washed into the channel of the river.
This of course helped to dam up the stream; and
occasioned the deepening of the flied in places above
it; two of the carriages were washed some distance down
the river, the third was stopped by the arch of the
bridge in Lftnion-street, and all three were much clamored.
A house bed owing to Mrs. Whitford, at the back of Mr.
Pownisog's pre mists, in Kenwyn-street, was washed down ;
the party wall connected with the savings bank was
much injured, and the arch near there over the river
has sunk from the pressure of the water. In other puts
of the town considerable damage was also done. At the
bottom of sidnivesrlane the fiaod was very deep
and violent. One house there was almost demolished,
and another sea so much damaged that it has become
nearly a rules. At this spot upwards of twenty parsons,
most st them children, were in imminent clinger of their
lives, hut fortunat ly ty the exertions of people who came
to their awiatance they were extricated In m their peril ins
position. Not tar from tnis place a garden wall was washers
down, and the poor people living in the heuers sustained
much loss by their fund ore being injured, a lose which
they can hut ill of -l. In Old Bri ge street tle• arches
were insufficient `is carry off the flood, which overran the
street near the br Tige to a considerable depth, and such war
the force of the r underneath, that a large Meek of
granite, forming one of the supporters of the hridgo, w:is
' broken down, aril had others given way the bridge end thl
81. 51ery'ssiool-root above it most have been eadai•gsred:
Tree houses near Tregolls were Woo flooded with water. A
great deal of dainar• to peipirty hu been occasioned in all
the lower parts of the town, the Rood having been greater
than any that has preciously occurred at Truro within the
memory of man. Every inhabitant of the lower part of the
town, near the river, has sustains gre ter or less loss.
Some bargee woofed ..ear the Nast Bridge had from • wenty
to thirty tons of coal. was••ed out of them. Fortunately the
tide was at ebb, and tile fresh water had the whole channel
to run in below the bridge • ; had it been high water at the
time of this oecurrena, the whole of B ace:wen-street and
the adjacent ports of the town must have been flooded. tee
water in the lower pars at the town wouli have been
deepened, and the hers of property must have peen increased
to a Earful extent. A report existcl in the town that the
flood was occasioned by the sluices being closed, but this
does not appear to Lace beca the Ult.