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THIS EVENING. will be performed the new and success-
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company of this establishment, with augmented baud and
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following, talented artistes —Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry,
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Comedy, by Mr. T. Maelagan, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson,
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London, 26th February, 1564.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ORDINARY
ANNUAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY
QUINQUENNIAL GENERAL COURT, will be held at
Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY,
the loth March, 1861, at Two o'clock precisely, for the follow-
ing purposes :

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THE CALAMITY AT SHEFFIELD.

SHEFFIELD, Monday Night.
I
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
lose and damage done to propertycan ba but roughly
ascertained, for even the loss of life occasioned by
it is but imperfectly revealed. Scarcely an hour
pulses 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 publichouse 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 o

avail against the tremendous catastrophe which
came upon 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 tho flood, but none of escape from those
who were caught in its tremendous rush. For

those once in the flood there was no hope. They
were whirled away in what for the time was the
cataract which wheltned old and young in one fear-
ful death, end 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
Tricketts 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—MaryCrump,
aged 74—Samuel Crnmp,3B—Martha Needham, 2
Thomas Petty, 34—Margaret Petty, 34—Mary
Petty, 11—Catherine Petty, 7—Thomas Petty, 3
Peter Webster, his wife, and three children—
Greaves Armitage, 28—Turton—Isaac Turner, in-1
fant—Alfred Coggan, 13—Eliza Coggan,
Coggan, 6—John Glover, 25—Sarah Ann
Glover, 25 Emma Sparks, Alfred Sparks,
Emma Sparks, Jane Peters, Julia Peters, Chris-
topher Peters, Pbcebe 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, jan., 11—Charles Armitage, Ro-
bert Greavenor Marshall, Samuel Chapman, infant
—Thomas Bullard, James Atkinson, 40—Mrs.
Jepson, Benjamin Spooner, 75—Hannah Spooner,
64—Sarah Ann Spooner, 7—John Vaughan, 64
Elizabeth Vaughan, 53—William Woletenholme,
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, 26

Dennis M'Lochlan, (38—Thomas Frarist, 47
James Trickett, 40—Jemima Triekett, 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, 53—Isabella
Fould, 3—John Fould, s—Richard Snape, 20—

Selina Spooner, 38—Betsy Spooner, 9.
As regards the condition of the embankment or
dam which restrained the waters of the great
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nary reservoir would convey but a slight idea of

he mass of waters which was pent up between the

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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

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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 some 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 Damflask and Low
Bradfield, and the people waited in terror for the
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On investigation large deep cracks were seen at the

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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 oft. or 6ft. from

being fall, 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 gave way to its entire depth, and the mass of water
burst forth with a volume and power utter;y over-
whelming. The workmen ran away in dismay, and
the stream dashed along the valley with fatal force.

THE SUPPOSED MURDER TN MARYLEBONE.—
Yesterday afternoon 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
night, in an insensible condition. Evidence was given as
to the identity of the body, the finding of the deceased in
an insensible state by Poliee-constable 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 had died from wounds inflicted by a
second party, and that they were not occasioned through a
fall. While the deceased 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 was
adjourned.

Huge rocks, strong trees, bridges, mills which with
their heavy machinery seemed completely immov-
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able, and houses were washed away as though they
were mere toys, and the catastrophe occuring in
the dead of night, brought with it a loss of life
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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 male 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 Owlerton-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 sleep
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 largo 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

at the bridge below the New Barracks. This
bridge was not upset, or rather it was only pertly
upset. The current, not to be baffled, turned the
position, and cut itself a road round its opponent,
;he bridge. Some of the stones removed are very
fine ones in respect of scze, 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,
jet it has been tossed like a cork into the middle
of one of our most public streete.'i
On the river bank between Hillsborough and
Owlerton nearly ail the buildings are destroyed.
The premises of Butler, Wilson, and Co., and Mr.
John Wilson, f0r,..-,ers 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 Mos.
Bullond and his wife were drowned here. Between
Bowers-row end 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 houses on 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 weed.
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 the next 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

the houses on the left stand like hens balanced on
one leg. About 30 houses have boon thrown down,
and some of them completely washed away in Holme
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 wore removed to the
neighbouring inns, but have since been conveyed to
the Sheffield Workhouse. The watermark shows
that 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

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Little hovel, which seemed a mere mass of stones

oosely 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 'sVardsend, 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.
tered 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 Bile
ver mi'l of Mr. Peace, the wonder was not at the
extensive devastation that had been committed, but
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
a beam 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. Marchington 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 land laid out in gardens. This space is covered
deep with mild. All the landmarks are swept away,
and the wide plain is covered with the debris of the
flood.

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 arc 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;
stroyed. 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 honse is taken and another left,
and that ono side of a street nearest the river has
withstood the torrent, while of another that was
further from the water nothing remains but broad,
flat-topped heaps of steno—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 23-ft. 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 article of
furniture—at gunshot distance from any house. Was
it the 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. i
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 Owlerton
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 bangs 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, bat 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 op the soil from the floor of what had been
their best room, and as a rule the smallest rooms
appeared capaboa of furnishing several hundred-
weights of earth for carting away. The movement
of great weights by hydraulic power Was illustrated

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
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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
Moss, five in number, were swept out of their house
into the stream, near Neepsend-bridge. They were
all drowned but Joel Moss, who saved himself by
clinging to some timber that had accumulated
against ono of the piers. The works of the Gas
Company at Neepseud suffered to a very serious
extent.

The workhouse in Sheffield was deeply flooded,
and nothing but the promptitude with which the
alarm was given saved loss of life there also. The
Sheffield lelegraph 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 &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 a re seriously damaged,
some thousands of workmer. are suddenly thrown

out of work, many orphans need help, and w© trust
help will come most liberally from. all classes of
the people of Sheffield, and also from th© leading
towns in the United Kingdom."

ONE of the oldest of French papers, Ze Nourel4
lisle, which has existed for more than 100 years, having
been founded in the reign of Louie XV., hoz ceased to
exist.

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