The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-10 00:00:00

DISASTBOIN ,FLOODS THE MIDLAN,D
COUNTIES

NOTTINGHAM, RATIJEDAY.
More rain fell this morning, and the Trent, the
Scar, the Dement, the Leen, and the Skit* have all over-
flowed their banks and the meadows adjoining are all sub-
merged in water. The food rose very rapidly last night,
sad the adjacent Gelds this morning were covered with
water. In all pantie of the low lands considerable dump
has been sustained. In some parts of Leicestershire, a •
the district round Market Harborough, the cut oorn is
Mending in water, and a great deal irretrievably spoilt.
There are else hundreds of acres in Notts and Derbyshire
where the damage to the outstanding corn will be very
considerable. Barley is sprouting in all district', and the
samples yet to be gathered will be of very inferior qua-
lity. The sheaves are black and otherwise discoloured,
and cannot, under the most favourable eirenzassiumes, be
carted in isms than a week. A good deal of wheat has been
cut green, and although the harvest in many parte el the
midland counties commenced under premistog prospects
there is now no doubt that the conclusion will be MOTO
disastrous than it has been for a number of years past. In
the neighbourhood of Nottingham the meadows on each
side the line of railway from that. place to Derby are in many
places covered with water, injuring the crops now lying in
the fields. The flood has also made its appearance on some
of the turnpike roads. On the Derby turnpike, near
Wellston-1 ark Lodi", the land is submerged. The over-
flowing of the Soar in Leicestershire has also caused con-
siderable injury to the grain crops. There is a great food
in the &elvish Valley, and consequences of a very Mau-
trona nature are expected. In the neighbourhood at
Burton Joyce, Gunthorpe, and Hoveringham, in the vale
of the Treat, the harvest has been backwarded by the
untoward weather, and now the grain is in many places
in the water. The potatoes are beginning to suffer frog
the moisture, and e disease has made ite appearance in
001118 districts.

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SUNDAY, 10.30 A.Y.
The water hu been slowly receding all zught, and the
barometer is rising steadily.

Till CHOLIB4.-

The following is tho official return of deaths from
*bolero and dim:rho:a registered ea Friday:
Massa.

West districts
North district+ .......
Central districts
But districts lO
South districts 6

Denham
3
4
3
6
4

Total in London
The returns for the sob-districts of St. George the
Martyr (Holborn) and Lewiabaiu wan not received
in time for publication.

CNOLIBA IN CUNBNIMANP.—WO regret to state
that cases of Asiatic cholera have shown themselves at
two of the Cumberland seaporta—Parton and Workington.
The fiat fatal ease reported was one at Parton, near
Whitaavea—the victim being Captain John Landon,
master of a collier brig, if we mistake not, from Dublin.
The vessel arrived ou the 30th—the captain at that time
showing signs of the fatal malady, to which be succumbed
a few days afterwards. The disease does not appear to
have spread further in that neighbourhood ; but from
Workington, a port six tulles lower down, two or three
oases have been reported. On Monday a woman named
Douglu was seized with the inal:ely, end is still dan-
gerously 111. Two little girls, her daughters, had been taken
ill on the previous day, and died in the course of the after-
noon. As every precaution leis been taken at all the
porta, pursuant to the recent instructions issued by the
Privy Council, in the way of ship inspection end hospital
sopummodatios, these isolated outbreaks have not yet
occasioned any considerable amount of alarm.—Scotswgra.

NIGHT WORK IN THE BAKING TRADZ.—A
meeting of operative bakers was held on Saturday night in
St. James's-hall, for the purpose of adopting ',mammas to
carry out the abridgment of the hours of labour and the
abolition of night work in the trade. Thu chair was taken
by Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., who, in opening the proceedings,
said that, ha v been much struck, on reading a recent
report on the Wang trade, by the evidence given in it of
the injurious effects upon the moral and physical well-
being of the journeymen, ceased by the present arrange-
ments of the trade, he made inquiries on the subject, and
was told—and he believed truly told—that the night work
and the great length of hours bad a most injurious
effect upon the health, well-being, amp mental constitution
of the men. He was also told that the continuance of the
present system was due to an absence of understanding on
the part of the men, and all effort to make their claims
acknowledged by the mestere. He haul therefore come to
the meeting to ask the operative bakers three questions :-
1. Whether, as a body, they felt the present system in-
jurious to their health and well-being, and destructive of
their domestic comforts and enjoyments? 2. Whether it
was true that a change in the present arrangements might
be made—that of substituting day work for night work—
without any insuperable ditheulty ? 3. W healer they meant,
as a body, to make a united effort to obtain a fair consider•-
tion for their claims. If those questions were answered in
the affirmative, he would use all the influence he possessed
to promote the objects of the meeting. Several speakers,
including Messrs. Thomson lilackmore. Thomas Thomson,
M'Nanghten, Howe, and Bennett, addressed the meeting,
answering the chairman's questions in the affirmstive.
Two resolutions were
_passed. The first pledged the
meeting to use every legal and constitutional means to
effect a change in the present arrangements of the trade—
such change to be the total and unconditional abolition of
night work, and the regulation of the hours to be from
5 o'clock In the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon of
the same day. Tho second resolution recommended united
action among the men, and enrolment of them in the amal-
gamated association, whose object was to secure for the
operative baker his moral and social elevation. The pro-
ceedings were marked by much earnestness and unanimity,
and an almost entire absence of recrimination towards the
master bakers.
Tug ELBoriorr Comm ruSIONS. —At Reigate, on
Saturday the commisaionens
heardseveral witnesses depose
to acts of bribery and treating. One witness said that he
was put upon Mr. Moslem's committee mind received 4f. 10s.
He asked for 30s. more, and became angry because be
did not get it. On the morning of the election be got up
• Monsonite, but turned Gowerite at about 11 o'clock.
Instead of having to walk, he was picked up by a fly-
man and driven to the poll " like • gentleman." A voter
gave the following odd receipt fur money :—" For two
weeks' canvassing with horse and cart, 51." In the
course of the day several references were made to Mr.
Doulton and his candidature in 1658. One WADS'S said
that Mr. Doulton's was the first bribery election in
Reigate. He (witness) was engaged to canvass for Mr.
Doulton, and received a guinea a day for 23 days. There
was plenty of treating whenever evening meetings were
held, and, as a rule, there were three or four in • night.
A good number of people were paid 10s. or 12e. a day ;
and each Friday evening the Royal Oak, at Redhill, where
they were paid, looked like a little factory. A voter, who
joins the congenital occupations of photographer and condo
vocalist, dates his popu6rity from Mr. Moulton's election.
Another witness who voted for Mr. Doultoo, thought
that there was a deal of fuss" made about that gentle-
man, and that his sepporteni were " a bright lot." He
did not get anything for his vote. A man named Chandler
candidly confessed that at election times he looked more
to " Avers" than to political principles, and a gardener
named Pearce mid that, though canvassed by several
people, he told them that he should not vote until five
minutes before 4 o'clock. He thought that at that time
some am might speak to him about his being "setts.
fled."—At Totem, the oommiasioDers again attempted te
trace Mr. " Muni," but had Ices success than ever.—AS
Crest Yarmouth, the " illustrious stranger" of the con-
servatives—the man who carried the money from Mr.
Nightingale to Mr. Cooper—turned out to be Edward
Cooper Aldred, the junior partner in the firm of woollen
in London. He is nephew to the present mayor
odfalresonth, and the money was given to him in parcels
at his uncle's house. As 15 years bad pared since be
was • mule resident in the borough, be was compare.
tirrip, unknown, Mr. Sotterthwaite appears to be Tr
miring "conscience" nosey from voters who now repast
that they accepted bribes. He states that he will hand
OM what be receives to Mr. Dresden.