The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-29 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL /NUNDA TWA:

On Tuesday night, and up to eight o'clock on Wednesday even-
ing, the lower part of the town of Carlow was placed in a state tf''
extreme distress. Daring the night of Monday, and morning e‘'
Tuesday, a heavy and continued fall of snow Lad covered the di..
tant hills and neighbouring country with a deep and abundant -
terecl for inundation—and a continuous rain during Tuesday. until
five o'clock, hail dissolved all the snow for many miles shout the
town into a thousand streams, which, situated ns it lain the centre et'
an amphitheatre, surrounded by an ample And gradually elate.;
swell of mountainous districts, fell upon us on Tuesday evening,
with a violence not remembered by many now lie ng, Every see-sant
was a torrent. It was not merely that the ricer Barrow had in 4:t
directions stretched itself beyond its banks, across the low couittu,
for miles above snl below the town, tut the Burgin, a mere sir.
let. collecting the accumulating waters from the south.eamt, threw
flood upon that division of the town, and involved its inhabitants
in extreme peril. The uncontrollable sweep of waters burst at
once upon them: while the river, dividing at the b-eakwater sbova
Bonin-bridge, flung one current towards the Court-house, thinuga
the garden. oflicis, and gateway of Mr. Haydn, and the other,
swelling through much lower ground, traversed on the south stile
of the bridge. behind the houses opmnite Ltnnon's-inn, s
Burrin-street with almost the depth of one of our canals, and rear_
ly mere Orin tire rapidity of any maintain current, immersing the
kitchens and lower apartments of all the houses in its mute. and
gushing with the force of mill-sluices through such houses as had,
for necurity, opened their hall-doors to the deluge.
Mr. Csotpion's cottage was surrotmded by the swell. which.frota
the suddenness of its approach, gave scarcely time to the inmates to
escape with life, and in many instances the inmates were Witted to
retreat to the drawing-room floors, and ul-imatety to escape by
faders into carriages for removal to a more distant quarter.
One woman we saw, • Mrs. Rollins, who, had been overeaten
and carried off by the tide that swept Lower Bonin-street. ass
taken up by two men. more than usually intrepid. as drownen. Out
she was af.erwards restored to lift.

At nine o'clock. part of Burrin-bridge. the usual passage for eits
day and mail coaches. gave way, and, but for the praiseworthy tit.
ertiotts of Captain Bsttesby, Moans. W. Wallace and J. Doc t. n,
much difficulty anti danger, which they contrived to rernyo 'r
made. would have been encountered. and. mauve, proved total.
At twelve o'clock yesterday the watus had substd.ni some., a',
anti a free intercourse between the upper and loyar pan u` 'hp
town WWI partially restored i but is is rot too n.vicb to txpect that
repair. will be quickly made in Bonin-Midge. istricrt:s of
which are shaken, and sta arch very insnitte. and that all in me.
diate peril shall be armed, as well sr a rrcurret.ce of a inir•lar
winter calamity provided against by timely precaution..—Ca
Morning Post.

An afflicting accident happened yesterday nenr Ate en-
trance to tilouceatrr.piace. 3larylebone New-road. A gcntirrran,
blirrted SillithttP. Mal, driving a high-rouraged hnrst in a g,g,
when, by some roesns. one of the reins became louse. and the horse
finding hi. herd disengaged, started off at hill sped. The cnai►a
was turned over by a lamp-post, the servant WAS removed :rest.
leaf,. and :11r. sonthera had his thigh broken. It was fteredelrooto,
the servant, would not live. _ _

%VEER" V DISP•II2/1 INLAk(all —On Sunday relit,
January 1, 1826. this celebrated Journal, which ha* been tinablish-
ed upwards of twenty-four years, and has attained an al nuat
preoedtuted extent of circulation. will be published in a,rule contd.
derably improved. and enlarged c as to errasin thirty-two efosely
printed columns, being one-fourth more 11111 MT than tt by trott.•
Veer.
and more than double that of mar.y other Weekly arr..
his important alteration will bet 6eettil %:itliout any Atitiltiell 1.)
the price of the paper.—Thetiatth O ce, 13f, lotect-atteet.