The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Directors of the British volumbia and Vancouver
Island Investment Company (Limited).

Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of
, I request uto allot me shares in the
British Columbia and Vancouver Island Company (Limited),
and I hereby agree to become a member of the Company, and
to accept such shires, or any less number that may be allot-
ted to me ; and I request you to place my name on the
register of members in respect of the shares allotted me.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
Name in full
Address
Profession or Bus'ness 'WV," •
Usual signature
Date

Application for Shares in the above form may be addressed
to "The General Credit and Finance Company of London
(Limited)," No. 7, Lothburv, and the deposit must be paid
there or the Bankers, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith.

THE WARRANr BANKING COMPANY
(Limited.)
(Foit ADVANCES ON MERCHANDISE AND SECURITIES.)
Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862.
Capital £2,010,000, in 40,100 shares of .£5O each.
F.rst Issue, 20,000 shares.
Deposit £l per share on application, and £4 per share on
allotment. Future calls will not exceed £5 per share, at
intervals of three months.

DIRECTORS.
Joseph Bravo, Esq., of J. Bravo and Co., London.
Archibald Bruce, Esq., of the late firm of Bruce and Co.,
A bchurch-lane, London.
W. J. R. Cotton, Esq., of Culverwell, Broo' s, and Cotton,
London.
A. D. De Pass, Esq., of De Pass and Sons, London.
Abet Heywood. Esq., ex-Mayor of Manchester, Director of
the Alliance Bank, Manchester.
Georcre Harvey Jay, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard, late of the firm
of Quilter, Ball, and Jay, London.
Thomas Jolly, Esq., of Thom .5 Jolly and Co , Manchester.
William M'Andrew, Esq., of William arAndrew and Sons,
London.
IT. It. Marriott, F:sq., of Henry Marriot` and Co., Manchester.
William M. Neill, Esq., of Neill Brothers and Co., London
and Manchester.
George Palmer Robinson, Esq, Director of the Alliance
Bank, London.
Albert R cardo, Esq., of A. and W. Ricardo, London.
William Rawstron, Esq., of Ralph Rawstron, Manchester.
BANKERS,
London, Liverpool, and Manchester—The Alliance Bank.
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs, ll'yson, Tathams, Curling, and Walls, Fre-
derick',•-place, Old Jewry.
„ Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane.
Liverpool —Messrs. Fletcher, Hull, and Stone.
Manchester—Messrs. Sale, Worthington, Shipman, and
Seddon.

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. J. and J. Whitehead, Mo-rgate-street.
Liverpool—Messrs. Gasquoine and Chamberlain.
Manchester—Messrs. Shore and Kirk.

TEMPORARY OFFICES.
21, Throgmorton-street, London.

PROSPECTUS._

While Exchange Banks and Credit Institusions have been
established to connect this country financially with almost
every foreign market, and to give fact Hies for conveying to
our shores every descrii tion of merchandi e, it is remarkable
that as soon as the operation of importing is performed the
monetary faeilitiei are withdrawn. The bills drawn upon
our merchants mature, and must either be met by the mer-
chant's capital unaided, or by sales. Thu., when tempo-
rarily there is an excess of any commodity imported, its
price is undu y depre.sed, and s• riou losses are incurre'%
Ordinary bankers and discount houses dislike making ad-
vances upon merchandise, having no organisation for exa-
mining the goods and correct y estimating their value.
What they want are good bills, drawn on those who, know-
ing the value, have accepted for a fair advance. Division of
labour is here as elsewhere found to be most convenient and
profitable.

To meet this want, which every merchant must acknow-
ledge, the Warrant Bank ng Company is formed. The bu.l-
- of the Company will mainly consist in making advances
upon deposit of the staple articles of produce, represented by
dock warrants or other means of absolute assignment, duly
inspected and valued on behalf of the Company, and with a
proper margin to allow for depreciation.
These advances will be male in a ceptances by the Com-
pany of the drafts of its customers, and as every bill will re-
present mer•handise readily convert ble, and b' at the same
time secured by the whole ca ita! of a powerful Company, the
exact position of which will be patent to al', there can be no
doubt that the whole Dis ount Market will be available when
it is desired by th holder to turn the bill into cash.
It will be readily apparent that the existence of such an
institution, while it will be of great service to merchants, and
increase the stability of the entire class, will be an equal con-
venience to bankers and discount firms, furnishing them with
a class of bills rarely obtainable. In order to render the due
payment of the Company's acceptances certain, the Directors
undertake that the entire paid-up capital of the Company
will be invested, and, so far as practicable, remain invested in
British and East Indian Government securities, and upon
deposit at call, and it is proposed that the capital thus paid
up and invested within the first year shall reach the sum of
at least £200,( 00.
The field which exists for such an undertaking will be at
once apparent from a glance at the Board of Trade returns of
foreign impor s for the past year, which amounted (not to
speak of home produce) to over £200,(00,000. If we estimate
the average stock of foreign goods held in warehouse, as
equal to three months' o,nsumption, it would represent an
amount of £50,000,000.
Advances may also be made when deemed advisable u on
Stocks and Shares, in permanent undertakings readily con-
vertible.

A re,sonable proportion will always be maintained be-
tween the extent of business undertaken a d the cared-up
capital. Should it be necessary, the latter will be increased
to one million sterling, to be invested as already indicated,
mnly as a guarantee fund.
Branches will, in due time, be established at Liverpool,
Manchester, Glascrow,&'• (tc.
Tie Directors will not rec ive any remuneration until the
shareholders have been p tid £5 per cent. by way of dividend
on their paid-up capit,,i. Alter payment of 5 per cent. the
Directors will receive one-fifth of the nett profits.
No promotion money will be paid for originating this un-
dertaking*. The preliminary expcnses will be confined to the
necessary disbursements

Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be
obtained of the brokers, bankers, solicitors, and at the tem-
porary offices of the Company, but no application for shares
will be considered un'ess a deposit of LI per share has been
previou-ly p,id to the bankers of the Company.
In the event of no a lo!ment being mado the deposit will be
returned without deduction, and should the number allotted
be 1 'se than the number applied for, the payment in excess
will be applied towards the balance of the deposit.

FORST OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES.
To be retained by the Bankers.

No.—
To the Director] of the Warrant Banking Company
v d to your Bankers the sum of
IL rafted).
Gentlemen,—Raving P
being a Depo it of £1 per share on shares in the above
ompany, I hereby request that you will allot me that num-
ber, and I agree to become a member of the Company in re-
spect of such shares, or in respect of any less number you may
al'ot me; and to pay on allotment the further deposit of
p r share thereon, awl I regent that my name may be placed
on the Register of Members for the el area so a lloted.
Name in full
Ites•dence
Profession or business
Dee "....011P1445eL.••

ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
_

During the eveninz an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open et Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission is.

Manager, M. GRENET.

44A, MADDOX-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may be seen the
Astecs ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant ;
Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000
Models, Natural Preparations, &o. Egyptian Mummies,
unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling (tor
Gentlemen only).

PECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Ki Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

S HORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC) MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d.

H 0 H THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO
► GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably
the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir
Rowland 11111.

IT THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any
one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or
Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS.
Thcir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling. merit.
Of all medicine vendors at is. 10. a)nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by
post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist
Lincoln.

MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber-
well-park

N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup.
Address—BoTT and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine
tores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN
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coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. it frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
it, effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King-William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address ae.
engraved on the stamp.

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PRIZE MEDA L.--INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., dm,
To the Queen and the Pzinoe of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862.
testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,
says :
" I have found them fully equal to the recommendation
which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, ',I com-
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Finest quality, with Flatted Wicks, patented.. Is. 2d. per lb.
Ordinary quality .. • • • • • • • . 'is. Od. per lb.
VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax.
Best quality .. • • • • •• • • .. is. sd. per lb.
Second quality .• • • • • • • • . is. 3d. per lb.
Third quality. .• • • ' • • • • . is. ld. per lb.
Carriage paid In London on Orders of Five Pounds in value.
FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory—
Kensington (Established 1730).
The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture
Wax Candles for the use of the Altar.

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to the
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THE SUPPOSED MURDER IN MARYLEBONE._
Yesterday afternocn Dr. Lankester opened an in-
quest at the Marylebone Workhouse respecting the death of
Joseph Duck, aged 62 years, who was found lying on the
ground in Little Chesterfield-street, Marylebone, on Friday
Evidence was given as
toni night,
the identityinsensibleoft e d
body,c on itthi oen .....-P
ing of the deceased in
an insensible state by Police-conretable D 122, and the post
mortem examination by Mr. Fuller, the house surgeon of
Marylebone Workhouse, who gave it as his positive opi-
nion that the deceased hrd died from wounds inflicted by a
second party, and that they were not occasioned through:a
fall. While the deceareed was in the hospital he asked for
two sovereigns, but they could not be found, and as one of
his trousers pockets was cut out, it was supposed that he
was robbed besides being ill-treated. The inquiry rag
adjourned.

SHEFFIELD, Monday Night.
It is only now, when the first agony of alarm is
over, that people begin to realise the full extent of
the disaster which has inflicted such destruction on
this neighbourhood. Even yet, however, the actual
loss and damage done to property can be but roughly
ascertained, for even the loss of life occasioned by
it is but imperfectly revealed. Scarcely an hour
passes which does not bring intelligence of other
bodies found, or, what is almost the same, of per-
sons missing of whom no tidings can be gained.
The greater number of the bodies have been re-
moved to the wards of the Sheffield Union, and up
to Sunday night 92 had been identified. Very
many were lying there, however, of whom nothing
is known, and there is scarcely a pubiichouse which
has been spared in the neighbourhood of where the
greatest damage has been done which does not
contain one or more bodies waiting identification
or removal. Six it is known have been recovered
as far down the river as Doncaster, a fact that
seems conclusive as to many being still beneath the
long extent of stream between Doncaster and this
town. From various sources it can be gathered
that apparently not less than 200 bodies have been
found, and time alone can tell how many more will
be added to this fearful list. Certain it is that
many more are missing, and to be missing after
such a fearful calamity augurs the worst that can
be feared. Those identified in the wards of the
workhouse include males and females of every age,
from children of 14 days old to men of nearly 80.
Almost one-half are persons between the ages of 20
and 40—adults in the prime of life, whom we
may fairly presume possessed physical attributes
of strength and courage sufficient to have saved ,
themselves if any merely human means were of
avail against the tremendous catastrophe which

came unon them. Nothing, however, but those
providential accidents, if we may so term them,
seems to have averted the common fate from the
occupants of all the houses which the flood reached.
A few who by terror or instinct climbed to the roofs
of the submerged houses were thus saved ; many
who no doubt succeeded in gaining such temporary
asylums were afterwards drowned as the increasing
might of the waters swept walls and all before it.
There are instances of almost miraculous preserva-
tion from the flood, but none of escape from those
who were caught in its tremendous rush. For

,hose once in the flood there was no hope. They

were whirled away in what for the time was the
cataract which whelmed old and young in one fear-
ful death, and tall powerful men and unweaned
children are now lying side by side in the wards
devoted to the reception of the dead at Sheffield
Union. We subjoin the names of those who have
been identified, and from this it will be seen at a
glance that many more have yet to be recovered.
Only four of the Armitages have been found, though
10 are said to be missing, while only two of the
Tricketta have been recovered, though it is thought
certain that at least 10 were in the farmhouse on the
night when farm and homesteads were swept away
to the very foundations :

Ellen Chapman—William Halbert—Henry Gan-
non—Peter Gannon—George Snape—Mary Crump,
aged 74—Samuel Crump,3B—Martha Needham, 2
Thomas Petty, 34—Margaret Petty, 34—Mary
Petty, 11—Catherine Petty, 7—Thomas Petty, 3
Peter Webster, hie wife, and three children—
Greaves Armitage, 28—Thrton—Isaac Turner, in-
fant—Alfred Coggan, 13—Eliza Coggan, 8—
William Coggan, 6—John Glover, 25—Sarah Ann
Glover, 25 Emma Sparks, Alfred Sparks,
Emma Sparks, Jane Peters, Julia Peters, Chris-
topher Peters, Phcebe Meadwood, 38—Christopher
B. Arculus, 3 John Hudson, 40 George
Hudson, s—Christopher Calton, 46—Mary Calton,
30—Richard Hazlehurst, 70—Eliza Crownahaw,
Thomas Spooner, jun., 11—Charles Armitage, Ro-
bert Grosvenor Marshall, Samuel Chapman, infant
—Thomas Bullard, James Atkinson, 40—Mrs.
Jepson, Benjamin Spooner, 75—Msnnah Spooner,
64—Sarah Ann Spooner, 7—John Vaughan, 64
Elizabeth Vaughan, 53—William Wolatenholme,
74—Thomas Ellstone, 34—Elizabeth Ellstone, 33
Thomas Ellstone, 14 days—Elizabeth Pickering,
23—Eliza Bright, 9—Alfred Bright, 4—George
Mills, 62—Caroline Okeley Watson, 9—Sidney
Varney, 21—George Tingle, 21—Susannah Gill-
yet, 53—Joseph Dyson, 40—Mary Dyson, 25
Dennis M'Lochlan, 68—Thomas Frarist, 47
James Trickett, 40—Jemima Trickett, 17—Mrs.
Armitage, 60—Mrs. Price, 28, and her son—Thomas
Atkinson, 14—Joseph Crapper, 14—Mrs. Snape,
Eliza Mappin, Thomas Spooner, Mrs. Pickering,
23—Alothea Hogue, 14—John Frith, 34—Thomas

Winter, 70—Sarah Bisby, 43—Arthur Doyson, 11
—Ann Armitage, 42—Ann Miles, 59—Isabella
Feuld, 3—John Fould, s—Richard Scrape, 20—
Selina Spooner, 38—Betsy Spooner, 9.
As regards the condition of the embankment or
dam which restrained the waters of the great

reservoir at Bradfield the most contradictory state-
ments are in circulation. To speak of it as an ordi-
nary reservoir would convey but a slight idea of
the mass of waters which was pent up between the

hills of Stannington and Loxley. It was, in fact,

a small lake formed by building a dam or em-
bankment across a narrow valley, which collected
the watershed of the hills around. The area of water

hus enclosed was nearly a mile and a quarter in

[ength, and about a quarter of a mil© bro id, with a

depth varying from 60 to 70 feet in its centre, and
probably averaging about 40 feet throughout.
The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, which gives a most
clear and graphic narrative of the disaster through-
out, says, with reference to the dam, that to all

appearance the towering embankment intended to
confine the water. within the prescribed limits was

powerful enough to bear whatever pressure might
be brought against it; but the result proves that,

strong as it was, the water was far mightier. The
reservoir had been filling for same time past, and
on Friday it was full. The body of water was im-
mense, and before the strong wind which prevailed
on that day it rolled on to the embankment with
terrific force. These symptoms created fear in many.
The embankment was looked upon with some dis-
trust, and its power began to be silently questioned.
The fear spread, and Mr. Gunson, the resident en-
gineer, and Mr,Craven, the contractor, were sent for.
A warning was conveyed to Damfiask and Low
Bradfield, and the people waited in terror for the
The navvies laboured on ;
coming signal. all hands
worked with a will to avert the impending calamity.
On investigation large deep cracks were seen at the
top of the embankment, and this was considered of
sufficient importance to warrant speedy and deter-
mined efforts to let off the water, and so reduce the

pressure. The water was turned into the by-wash
and down the pipes ; but soon after half-past 11,
when the reservoir was still only aft. or 6ft. from
being full, the evidences of danger became more
alarming. With a sudden rush, which caused a
sound similar to that made by the letting off large
quantities of steam, the water threw down the top
part of the embankment, and rolled through the
opening with frightful force. As it rushed down the
other side to the valley beyond it seemed to lick up
the materials of which the embankment was formed,
causing it to grow weaker and weaker, till at length
it gavo way to its entire depth, and the mass of water
burst forth with a volume and power utterly over-
whelming. The workmen ran away in dismay, and
the stream dashed along the valley with fatal force.

Huge rocks, strong trees, bridges, mills which with
their heavy machinery seemed completely immov-

able, and houses were washed away as though they
were mere toys, and the catastrophe °miring in
the dead of night, brought with it a loss of life
in comparison with which the loss of property, great
as it is, sinks into insignificance. The gap made in
the embankment measures at the top from 80 to
100 yards, and at the bottom about 20 yards.
Through this opening the overwhelming body of
water dashed with terrible impetuosity, and PA it

rolled along the sullen roar was accompanied by
a rapid cracking sound which seemed like a con-
tinuous discharge of musketry. It was pro-
duced by the snapping of the trees, which were
carried away and hurled with terrific force against
any object that might obstruct their progress.
Fortunately a great majority of the cottagers and
others nearly beneath the dam had been warned of
what was likely to occur, and had made their esoape
in time. Only few lives comparatively were lost
here ; but every vestige of mill, forge, or house was
swept away. But at Hillsborough, Malin-bridge,
and along the 0 wlerton-road the greatest mischief
to life and property was done. Hundreds of people
who slept in confidence on Friday night have, with
their houses, gone down the stream, and now sleeF
the long sleep of death. The great farmhouse of
Mr. James Trickett, with its 11 occupants, and two
or three cottages which were close by, are gone.
Malinbridge is gone, MrWilson's blacksmith's shop,
a scithe wheel-house, and a very large number of
dwelling_houses in Holme-lane have been swept
away with their occupants. In the centre of the
village was a large new publichouse, called the
Stag Inn, and of that publichouse there is only left
the arched crown of its cellar, under which some
barrels may be seen. Near the fragment of an outs
building that formerlybelonged to the farm some dead
horses are lying,and a number of large trees, stripped
of all their covering, lie, with their branches torn
off and their roots washed clean, about the adjoin-
ing fields. The torrent came in contact with a row
or terrace of good-looking three-story houses, and
at the back a piece is cut off as if chopped off with a
hatchet, and so large is the portion taken away that
the houses on the left stand like hens balanced on
one leg. About 30 houses have been thrown down,
and some of them completely washed away in Holmo
Lane. In some of these houses there were as many
as eleven, and in others eight persons drowned. At
the Hillsborough brick row there was further loss
of life. Nearer the Hillsborough bridges, both of
which are down, James Atkinson and two sons, one
17 and the other 12 years of age, were drowned ;
and at the Masons' Arms, which is almost com-
pletely destroyed, the landlord (Mr. Pickering)
and three other members of the family have come
to an untimely end. Near Hillsborough many dead
bodied have been found, which were removed to the
neighbouring inns, but have since been conveyed to

,he Sheffield Workhouse. The watermark shows

hat some of the houses here have been submerged
nearly to the roof, others have been filled up to the
level of the second story,and in others which stand a
little higher the watermark is about shoulder-height.
The streets are quagmires, and the lower rooms of
the houses are nearly ankle deep in wet loam.
At Malin-bridge the river is narrow and bent, the
hills on each side are steep and lofty, and the build-
ings that stand on the banks of the Loxley are on
riband-like slopes of low land at the foot of the hills.
Near the water, and projecting into it, were the
water-mills, and of these the wheels alone are to be
seen. One large work is partly saved and partly de.
strayed. Placed in a position where the full set of the
current was thrown on the opposite side, it has lost
part of its walls, and its couple of cylindrical boilers,
removed from their beds, remind us of those ana-
tomical models in which the skin and ribs are re-
moved to exhibit the lungs. Near to these manu-
facturing premises are several whitewashed
houses three storeys in height, and on these the
water line is on a level with the tops of the win-
dows of the second floor. On the Owlerton side
the houses are with few exceptions either gutted
or demolished, but there still exists a wing
of Malin-bridge. A piece of street still stands,
and through the middle of this street trees, cattle,
and pieces of machinery, not to mention the
drowned of the upper village, have been driven.
Great stones have been bowled down the street like
marbles, castings from the neighbouring mill have
been floated along it like chips, and lie near a quar-
ter of a mile away from their original position, and
the appearance of the place as the inhabitants are
shovelling out sandy earth by the cartload from the
interior of their houses is most miserable. The
Sheffield Telegraph says :—" Judging from the way
in which the water spread itself out at this point
the remnant of houses at this spot must have looked
at one time like sunken arks in the middle of a lake.
The way in which some houses have stood, while
others no weaker have fallen, may be accounted for
perhaps by the set of the current from side to side.
Certain it is that one hones) is taken and another left,
and that one side of a street nearest the river has
withstood the torrent, while of another that was
further from the water nothing retrains but broad,
fiat-topped heaps of stone—heaps which must be
looked at and studied if you would understand that
each heap represents a house. In some parts a long
chain of houses has broken down, and a very low
bank of stone and lumber—a bank apparently not
more than 2ift. high—stands for what was so lately
a terrace. The stone houses appear to have resisted
the pressure worse than the slighter looking brick
ones, and their bones lie in such a manner as to give
us the idea that they had collapsed under hydraulic ,
pressure. One almost wonders how many people
are under these stones, for the dwellings look as if
they had dropped perpendicularly down upon their
inmates. Between the houses of Malin-bridge and
the hills there is a large piece of ground which the
river has spread over with its plunder. We notice
a kitchen dresser—a good, respectable artiole of
furniture—at gunshot distance from any house. Was
it th© farmer's at the bend of the river, or did it be-
long to the landlady of the spruce inn of which no-
thing but the cellar can be found ? There are no less
than three kitchen boilers scattered unnoticed
among the stones. In a pool of dirty water an iron
bedstead in emerald green—a fancy article for the
class of house to which it had belonged—lies half
buried, and its mistress is probably either drifting
down the Don, or stretched on one of those boards
where the corpses are, for greater saving of space,
laid unwashed and much bruised close side by side.

The adhesiveness of mortar is shown in the beha-

viour of some of the brickwork. There are pieces of
brick wall that have, after being carried a consider-
able distance, hung together like boards. There are
sections of brick chimneys which lie on their sides
like boxes at several hundred yards from where
they were thrown down. A solitary perambulator
stands apart, and sometimes a bit of oilcloth, a man's
boot, or a piece of broken crockery crops up among
the stones, and, but for these signs of home, you
would not suspect that the stones laid down in a
confusion like that of the small boulders which lie at
the foot of the hills had ever formed the walls of a
house. There is one large tree that has got upon its
feet again, and there is a case where several others
have fastened their arms round one living one and

held their ground. A gig and some carts and rail-
way trucks have stuck in separate corners of the
river. The carts are farmers' carts ; the gig is said
to have been carried off the adjoining road with the
horse and driver. The houses we see at 0 wlerton
are exposed as if they had been made for the pur-
pose of exhibiting their interiors. In one room there
is an iron bedstead, in another an old mahogany
one, and in a third the floor has canted like a corn
shoot, and the bed and its occupants have been sent
down the river. A picture hangs against a wall,
which itself hangs in air without supports from be-
low. We have already alluded to the adhesiveness
of brickwork, and we have now to mention a more
remarkable case. At the stone bridge there is, or
was on Sunday, a brick house which had been
brought down by the current with its roof and floor-
ing all complete. The story may seem an incredible
one, but the fact has been witnessed by thousands.
Another remarkable fact is the heavy burden of
earth which the flood brought down with it. It is
no uncommon thing to see men at work with spades
shovelling up the
soil rom the floor of what had been
their best room, and as a rule the smallest rooms
appeared capable of furnishing several hundred-
weights of earth for carting away. The movement
of great Weights by hydraulic power was illustrated

ahEirt Tr2F7:2O; the eW tsgrr .
bridge was not upset, or rather it was onlyvjrtly
upset. The current, not to be balffed, turned the
position, and cut itself a road round its opponent,
the bridge. Some of the stones removed .ire very
fine ones in respect of size and weight, and it is
known that the tree which now lies across the en-
trance to the Barrack-road was brought down all
the way from one of the upper villages. That tree
is a very choice one in point of girth and weight,
yet it has been tossed like a cork into the middle
of one of our most public streets.'i
On the river bank between Hillsborough and
Owlerton nearly ail the buildings are destroyed.
The premises of Butler, Wilson, and Cu., and Mr.
John Wilson, forgers and rollers, have almost en-
tirely disappeared. Ten dead bodies were found in
the stream opposite these works, and were removed
part to the Yew-tree inn, and part to the Rodney.
At the back of the Stag several houses were de-
molished. Thomas Bates and his family and Thos.
Bullond and his wife were drowned here. Between
Bowers-row and Hillsborough the flood had taken a
clean sweep across the road and the fields, oblite-
rating all the landmarks, and leaving nothing but
a large tract of mud, which was thickly strewn with
trees, parts of the roofs of houses, the lighter
parts of machinery, casks, grates, fire-irons, and
hosts of other things. The sweep of the flood
seems to have been towards the left, and a
row of houseaon the left hand side of the road,
above the Hillsborough Inn, felt its full force. They
were submerged, back and front, to the top of the
ceiling of the bedrooms. The first house, occupied
by a man named Dyson, his wife, seven children,
and his brother, was entirely destroyed, with the
exception of the bedroom and attic, and the inmates,
with the exception of Dyson's brother, were dro xned.
He escaped by breaking through the slates.
In a smaller class of house at the end of this row

the loss of life was fearful. James Atkinson, his
wife, two little boys, and his daughter were
drowned. In the next two houses lived William
Atkinson and his family-, and in tho ncat George
Atkinson and his wife. Not one survives. In the
furthest house of the row Isaac Drabble, his wife,
and two children were drowned. These houses were
of older date than the others, and were rather
more strongly built. Across the road was a
little hovel, which seemed a mere mass of stones
loosely piled. The bedroom, as it was termed, was
scarcely eight feet from the ground. In one corner
was a large box, in which the occupant of the house,
an old man, had sought shelter from the flood. He
closed the lid on himself, and was found high and
dry uninjured when the waters receded. A man
named Turton and his wife, who lived at Marshall's
paper mill, were drowned. In one of the small cot-
tage houses lived a family named Dean. In one of
the upper rooms two little boys were in bed, and
they were awakened by feeling the bed floating about.
One of them, by pressing against the ceiling, pre.
vented the bed from touching, and so saved himself
from being suffocated, but his brother jumped out
and was drowned in the chamber. The stream of
water has left a clearly defined course, extending
for nearly 300 yards, upon the wall of Hillsborough-
halls, which is partially demolished.

Passing to the point where the Loxley joins the
Don, the flood swept over Rawson's meadows and
dashed against the hill at Wardsend, and in its
recoil carried away several of the mills and forges
on both banks of the river. The Wardsend slitting
mill was submerged, and immense damage done to
the machinery. Four bodies were found among the
ruins, but they were those of persons drowned
higher up the river. Bodies were also found scat.
terod about the fields and in the deep brooks. In
the Park-house Mill ten bodies were hastily laid
upon the mud. Lower down the stream, at the ail.
ver mi'l of Mr. Peace, the wonder was not at the
extensive devastation that had been committed, bat
that any part of the building had been left stand-
ing. A large quantity of silver which was being
rolled is missing. Ten bodies were recovered in this
locality. One dead body was found resting on the
branches of a tree, and another was jammed between
abeam and the wall of a house. It is expected that
a large number of bodies will be recovered when
the brooks and watercourses along the wood side
can be cleared. Coming down the Hillfoot, the most
serious damage to buildings seems to have been done
at the works of Messrs. IVlarchington and Makin.
A man named Wm. Simpson, who was working at
the forge with a boy named Capper, ran out of the
workshop and sought refuge on the top of a boiler
which was erected by the side of the goit. Capper
took refuge on a beam over the boiler and escaped
the fate of his companion, who was washed away
with the boiler and the brick piers upon which it
stood. Between Hillfoot and the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire Railway are about 900 acres
of laud laid out in gardens. This space is covered
deep with mud. Alt the landmarks are swept away,
and the wide plain is covered with the debris of the
flood.

In Neepsend-lane the scene of devastation was
almost worse than at any other place. In several
wretched garden houses, one storey high, whole
families have been drowned: A man named Petty,
his wife and three children were drowned in a little
building that seemed scarcely larger than a pig-
sty. In another, a file-grinder named Hukin, his
wife, and two children were drowned. Messrs.
Fawley's tannery, opposite Bacon Island, has suf-
fered tremendously. Near these works the body
of a man was found in a tree, and another was
jammed between part of a haystack and the side of
a cottage. The gardens behind the Victoria Hotel
presented the appearance of a lake of mud, the
ruins of the garden houses sticking out here and
there. Eleven bodies were found in the gardens,
and removed to Mr. Bagshaw's house: A serious
loss of life occurred in the garden houses between
the Victoria-gardens and the gasworks. A woman
named Bennett was lost. Her husband was rescued
from the roof a garden house by a man named Pos-
ton. A man named Hilston, his wife, and a child
14 days old were reported missing. A man named
Howard, and his wife and daughter, and a family
named Fletcher, got on the roofs of their respec-
tive houses, and were saved by Poston and mem-
bers of his family. In Poston's house there were
three babies alive, which he had taken in, and was
doing the utmost in his power to supply their
wants till they were claimed or provided for
in case of the loss of their parents: A house occu-
pied by a man named Jenkinson was partially
swept away, and he lost his life. A family named
n
Moss, five in number, were swept out of their house
intod
drowned
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clinging to some timber that had accumulated
The Works of the Gas
Neepsend suffered to a very serious
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extent.
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was
deeply flooded,
and nothing but the promptitude with which the
alarm was given saved loss of life there also. The
Sheffield 7elegraph, says:--" It will be noted that
the poor, and more especially the
deserving poor,
are the chief
sufferers by this catastrophe.
The knocking down of one side of a whole
row of houses has shown that many of our
operatives' wives have a pride in their
houses which
says much for their love of home. Bright tins hang
on clean walls, and it is noted that these little
cages are, :as at Neepsend, often the property of
their tenants. The smart furniture is spoilt, the
houses and their waterways are seriously damaged.
some thousands of workmen are suddenly thrown
out of work, many orphans need help, and we trust
help will come most liberally from all classes of
the people of Sheffield, and also from the leading
towns in the United Kingdom."

ONE of the oldest of French papers, Ls .21rourels
lisle, which has existed for more than 100 years, having
been founded in the reign of Louis XV., has just ceased to
exist.

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AMERICA.—We understand that her Majesty's Go.
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through British Columbia for an electric telegraph, to con-
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tended from Russia aorossßehnng's Straits, a CODIMiSSiO/1
By for the latter portion of this world-girdle telegraph having
preuiously been given by the Russian Government to Mr.
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be established without encountering the risks of a subma-
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