The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Piedmontese Gazette contradicts the state-
ment made by some organs of the clerical party,
that Lord Minto had waited upon the King of
Sardinia, at Stupinigi.
A letter from Florence, in the Opinione of Turin,
of the Bth, states; that a new Tuscan loan of 70
millions of francs is spoken of, a great part of which
is to be applied to the aggrandisement of the port
of Leghorn.
A letter from Rome, in the Augsburg Gazette,
states, that the French general in command at
Rome has found it necessary to order houses again
to be searched for arms, the acts of brigandage
which daily occur, and are on the increase, show-
ing that malefactors know where to get arms when
they want them.

HOLLAND.
His Majesty has returned from his long sojourn
in Italy and Upper Austria in apparently perfectly
renovated health.
The Second Chamber is now occupied in the ex-
amination of the law for settling the Netherlands
Government in the East and West Indies. The
debates on the question will be very interesting,
and will probably occupy several days. The settle-
ment of the West Indies question gave rise ;to a
very animated.discussion in the committees.

FIRE IN SOUTHWARIC.—Yesterday, morning, between
the hours of three and four, a fire, attended with consider-
able destruction of property, broke out in the extensive
premises of Mr. Robert Brown, a basket-manufacturer,
No. 3, Gravel-lane, Union-street, Southwark. After three
or four hours' hard work, the firemen got the flames sub
duced, but not until the warehouse was burned out, and
several of the adjoining more or less damaged. The occu-
piers of three houses in Orange-street will also be serious
losers ; for their habitations, and all they contained, were
completely deluged with water. The origin of the fire
could not be ascertained. Mr. Brown was insured for the
stock in trade and buildings in the Phoenix Fire-office, but
none of the sufferers in Orange-street were insured.
HIGH TlDE.—Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon the ut-
most alarm was again experienced by the inhabitants of
each side of the river Thames, in consequence of the tide
rising considerably higher than " high-water mark." The
various wharfs and outlets again sent forth tremendous
streams of water, which entered the lower floors and did a
vast amount of mischief. Since the fearful visitation on
Friday last many of the poor people had taken the precau-
tion to dam np their doors with clay, &c., so that those who
were careful sustained much less damage than they other-
wise would. The accounts received last night by the dif-
ferent railways state that a few miles out of London the
eye can perceive in flat countries nothing but immense
sheets of water. The cattle, it is reported, in some parts
have been washed by the force of the water a long distance
away, and several horses have been drowned in Surrey.
Fortunately the wind yesterday was less boisterous than on
Friday, and did not drive the tide so fiercely up as on the
previous occasion ; but notwithstanding a considerable
amount of damage has also been done to the different craft
riding at anchor in the Thames and in the pool of London.
BIRTH IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—The passengers by a
train of the South-Western Railway had their anxieties
awakened, on Friday last, by the critical condition of one
of their fellow-travellers. A young married woman, re-
sident at Farnham, was proceeding to join her husband in
London, and had not been seated in the train many minutes
when symptoms of approaching maternity became mani-
fest. It was found impracticable to remove her from the
train before reaching London, when a surgeon was imme-
diately summoned. A practitioner ;from the Waterloo-
road promptly attended, and a fine female child was placed
au jour before the removal of the female from the carriage.
The mother and child, who are doing as well as could be
expected under the circumstances, were removed to No. 9,
Charlotte-street, Waterloo-re ad.
COMMERCE AND THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The
following facts serve to illustrate the advantage of vessels
calling for orders at ports which, like Plymouth, are con-
nected with the metropolis by telegraph. The brig,
Catharina, Captain Liddle, from Odessa, with a cargo of
wheat, bound to Falmouth for orders, being unable to
fetch that port, put into Plymouth on Tuesday night, the
26th ult. The master landed the next forenoon (Wednes-
dax), when he was advised by his agents there to announce
his arrival to his consignees in London by electric tele-
graph. He did so, and the next morning their corres-
pondents at Plymouth received instructions from there to
take and forward samples of the cargo. This was done on
Thursday by the evening mail train, and on Friday. the
master received orders by telegraph whither to proceed to
discharge.
INCENDIARY FIRE IN EAST KENT.—On Friday night
a most destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr.
George Kelcey, Woollage Farm, Womenswould, about two
miles from Barham. The farm is the property of Mr. J.
P. Plumptre, of Fredville, the late representative for
the county, and consists of oo acres, mostly arable. Two
wheat stacks, two oat stacks, and one each of barley, san-
foin, clover, hay, and peas, were entirely consumed, with
two large barns, stable, and outhouses, which were also
totally destroyed, as well as the farming implements and
grain on the premises. The dwelling-house and two barns
were fortunately saved, but had not the wind been favour-
able, nothing could have prevented their estruction. A
reward of 1001. is offered by Mr. Plumptre d
for the appre-
hension of the party or parties concerned. The fire has
created a great sensation among the farmers of the neigh-
bourhood, especially those who have many stacks about
their premises, as it is evident the incendiary spirit is on
the increase, at least in Kent.
THE LATE MURDRR AT MILTON.—On Saturday, the
adjourned inquiry was held at Milton, in the parish of
Buckland Monochorum, touching the death of Mrs.
Mary White, who was murdered on the 29th of October,
in her bed. Several witnesses were examined, but
nothing was elicited to implicate any one. At the first
examination, it was proved that the murder was com-
mitted by some haavy sharp instrument ; arid, in conse-
quence, nearly every house in the village has been
searched, but nothing has been found. The jury re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown.
COLLIERS.—A meeting of the coal and iron masters
west of Dudley was held at the Talbot, Stourbridge, on
Friday last, when it was agreed to raise the thick-coal
colliers 3d. per day, making their weges now 4s. per day.
They also came to the resolution not to advance the
prices of coal or iron at present. Fears were, however,
entertained that the colliers now out upon strike would
not return to their work under 4s. 6d. per day, being the
amount they gave notice for ; but it appears that after
playing the greater part of the week, they have resumed
work at the price a_greed upon on Friday.
DEATH OF THE FOUNDER OF THE SECT OF RANTERS.
—Last week there died at an advanced age, in Stafford-
shire, Mr. H. Bowie, an individual who has had a
greater influence on his age than many a intln of whom
the general public hears a great deal mere. This obscure
individual was founder of the sect called Primitive Metho-
dists or Ranters a sect spread over the American
Union, and having its chapels in every large town of the
manufacturing districts in this county.
MURDER.—On the Ist inst., a murder was perpetrated
at Curraghmore, Roscommon, in Ireland, under the fol-
lowing
distressing circumstances :—On the night above
mentioned, a number of persons were playing cards at
the house of Patrick Mullins, of Curraghmore, amongst
whom was the deceased, Patrick Kelly. A boy, named
Thomas Keys, appears to have been annoying the card
players, and was put out of the houv, but he continued
the annoyance outside the door, when deceased went
outside to prevent him. When outside, Kelly and Keys
caught hold of each other, but some others of the com-
pany separated them, and Kelly returned to the card
table. Keys lurked about the place until Kelly was
going home, when he attackedhim, assistedby his mother
and sister. In the scuffle Kelly received a blow from a
stone in the eye from Thomas Keys, which caused his
death.
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ra g e ter than the last. The lower parts of Frankwell
Wales, and the unceasing
rain at present falling,
and Mardol, the Smithfield-road, Chester-street, Coton-
hill, St. Julian's. Friars, Coleham, and Abbeyforgate are
in a dreadful state, the water being in many places several
yards deep. As might naturally be expected, nearly all
communication between the centre of the town and the
suburbs is suspended, and provisions, &c., have to be
conveyed to the houses by means of boats and " coricles."
The first floors of many of the houses are filled with water
to the ceiling, and as there is no probability of those houses
being properly dried before the summer, the mortality of
the town likely to be fearfully increased. The
"Quarry" meadows adjoining the terminus
of 17 and Birmingham -Railway pre-
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sheets of water of immense extent. We are
sorry to say that the poor of the town will be by far the
greatest sufferers ; but it is somewhat consolatory to
know that the parish authorities intend, as soon as the
waters abate, to present the poor with coal and bread.
At Butlington, near Welshpool, and, also at Newtown,
the inundations were very great, especially at the former
place, where for several miles round nothing but water
and trees and a stray farm-house here and there is to be
seen. The Aberystwith mail did not arrive in Shrews-
bury until twelve o'clock last night, its appointed time
being nine ; and the coach was literally swam across the
road at Butlington, requiring no less than six horses to
accomplish the task. It would be difficult to estimate
the loss of property. At Ironbridge, Bewdley, and
Bridgnorth, the Severn also overflowed its banks, and
devastated property to a considerable extent. The river
Ony, in the south of Shropshire, has also flooded, de-
stroying a vast amount of property. A bridge, level
with the rails near the Onibury station, on the Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railway, has been partially destroyed
by the flood. Eor the last two days, through trains
have been stopped, and passengers have been obliged to
as yet, heard of any loss of life.
cross over from one train to another, by means of a tem-
porary woodeh bridge. The Kea and various other
rivers are also flooded, and when a proper estimate can
be formed, we have no doubt the destruction of property
will be found to have been frightfully large. We have
waste every thing in its way.not,
GLDUCESTR; SATURDAY NIGHT. Great alarm is ex-
cited in this town and the surrounding country in conse-
quence of one of the greatest floods in the recollection
of man sweeping over the vale of the Severn, and
laying The Severn was
very high yesterday, but rose rapidly m the night, and the
inhabitants of the lower streets in the city on coming down
stairs this morning were astonished to find their lower
floors under water, and their families swimming about.
The flood made its
appearance in places where water
had never before been known to percolate, and as the
river is still rising at sunset, the inhabitants look forward
with great apprehension to the night. Many people had
to be rescued from their houses in boats, and by means
of ladders raised to the upper windows, and there are a
a few lone louses in the fields which are perfectly inac-
cessible, and the fate of whose inhabitants cannot be
ascertained, Cattle and horses have been seen floating
down the river, and the loss through this means will be
immense. As yet we have heard of no loss of life, but
communication westward is almost put an end to. Dur-
ing the whole of the day the Severn flood has been flow-
ing into the Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal through
flaws in the " stop gut" used in the mouth of the canal
in case of flood to keep out the river water. This gate
has not been closed for thirty years, the water in the
Severn never having before, in recollection, risen to such
a height La to lead to this precaution being employed.
Should the river rise much higher, it is feared that the
bank of the canal, which just now is full of large ship-
ping, may burst, in which case the most deplorable con-
sequences must ensue to the vale country below. The
railways are suffering much. The water of the Severn
is up to L level with the rails of the South Wales Rail-
way, near the city, and it is feared the embankments
will be damaged, On the Bristol and Birmingham line
there has been a slip near Cheltenham which restricts
the traffic at that place to one rail.
HEREIFORD, SATURDAY.—The deplorable accident to
the Hereford and Gloucester mail, as reported in to-day's
papers, has thrown quite a gloom over the city. The
deceased gentleman, Mr. Hardwick, a respectable soli-
citor, of Hereford, was returning from London on some
railway business, when he met with his death in a man-
ner already described. Two of the mail bags only were
recovered ; the rest are lost beyond recovery. The coach
is completely covered with the flood, but the place is
watched,

RUGBr.—The extraordinary floods with which the
country has been visited, more especially throughout the
northern and eastern counties, have been productive of
much more mischief than could possibly have been anti-
cipated. Not only has the traffic of many of the prin-
cipal lines of railway been impeded by being covered
with water for miles, but several bridges and even via-
ducts have been carried away. The Midland line had
its traffic impeded to a considerable extent by being
covered with the flood ; and the difficulties which had
arisen in consequence were greatly aggravated by th
sudden giving way of the Cromer-hill Viaduct, near
Leicester. This occurrence created the greatest alarm,
and the traffic, which had been previously only partially
I stopped, was now entirely suspended. After some con-