The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

7 1852.
N°. 18,527.] LONDON SATURDAY L-1,- A V,64
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alll< TPLE VOLUNTEER CORPS. THE GREAT FLOODS IN YORK-
. :There is now as much difference between the Ride of the
Chasseurs dc Vincennes and our Regulation Muskets, as between oar SHIY.E AND LANCASHIRE.
mu-ket ant the haws and arrows of the Indian.
Ily a very simple instrument' called a Stadia, di-R:1106s can be
meaured, accurately, to 5 0 yards, and the sights of the Wile can
be aljusted to the space indicated by the Stadia, so that ata di,tance
of 765 yards this Rifle woull, to a certainty, kNock down a Lite
Guardsman in spite of his cuira,s, and at 1,10) yards a front of 10
men

ONE, 11UNDRE-D- LIVES LOST.
FRIDAY,--This terrible and destrective
catastr, phe, one of the most appalling that has ever
•flaPPeri,'i! hl this part of the comer', was not at ell ex•
yegg.eettsel la the atteouteti previously given. A nacre
•cemplete wreck, a mere melancholy scene than Holm-
firte presents to the theusands who bare visited it, fins
nev.-r been beheld. The shops left stendieg aro all
(I)ted---the sue eta knee-deep in mud, and filled with
beeketi furniture, eardieg mechines, begs iron boilers,
baitS of wod, the graveyards have their dead
clietielged,.sod their dread ceatrnts borne again to the
deeirs of the living. Altogether the scene is one of
heart-to:ding misery ; numbers, who retired to rest tee
hig%t behfre last, in cornFortahle eireutnstaccea, now find
themselves hornelcsit, penniless, and so far as their im-
mediate relstiv. are exact-trued, friendless.
-The confusion and uncertainty is still so great that it
is inapessible to ascertain the number of persons who
t.ye pi-rishedebut from ail that we can learn, about 60
'bodies have been recovered, and it is thought that at
lenat 40 mere arc missing. The of ect number cannot,•
however, be ascertained for some days. Some of the
'bodies, as stated yesterday, have been found a distance
of many miles from the scene of the disaster.
;•f'i'Belote proceeding further with our narrative of this
ni)st clishstruus event, it may enable our readers to be
betta, it able to comprehend the nature of the catastrophe,
if we describe with more accuracy than yesterday the
position of the reservoirs attd the nature of the locality.
Holudirth is about 'seven miles from Huddersfield,
and is approached by the Huddersfield and Penistone
• Railway. The town is built in a deep valley, having ini-
minise .ranges of hills on each side, and tit the lowest
htevel, in. a .etenewhet circuitous course through the centre
of the-town, winds the river Helms, which is crossed at
different points by four stone bridges, called the Bridge,
thong's Bridge, Victoria Bridge, and Upper Bridge.
kroinLlohtenirtb through the valley of the .Holme for a
df-Aevi4al miles; amengst alubiest Alpine menu-
taineezon deep ,ravines, with scarcely an outlet forthree
or four miles, when they terminate on vast tracts of
moorland. Upon.the bed of these vast ravines runs a
strong mountain stream, which is increased, as it rushes
on from the moors, by the atreamlets which fail down
the hill sides, until it reaches Holme Bridge, where it
empties itself in the river Holme, which passes
through Holmfirth. On each side of this river are
erected numerous scribbling and fulling mills along the
.whole course of too valley, built there with the view of
ifOng advajitege of the water power which this water
course furnisher. As the supply of water in droughty
weather is inadequate fur the purposes required, the
idea .w.aa conceived of storing the element in huge re-
servoirs at Abe. top of - the highest hills, and it was to
the bursting of one of these reservoirs that the present
frightful destruction of life and prop: sty is attributable.
The " Helms reservoirs" are three ic.number, and are
ferreted at the top of the hills, some distance from each
other. • • They are called " the Bilberry," " the Holm-
Vye,!". and "tlie: Base shaw" reservoirs. They were made
undeethe authority of an Act of Parliament passed in
1840 ; and constructed_ under the superintendence of
Hr. Lather, C.E., of Leeds. The cost of the whole
was 70,0001. or more, 40,000/, of which was raised in
*cares, and, the other 30,0001. on mortgage of the works,
(he company of shareholders having power to lay rates
up,an-thernillLawnera. using the water. As a pecuniary
,4ectilation the undertakiog,has proved a failirre, owing
to heavy
,law expenses. The par-
e 'rQservjsjt eemele ere: leas , caused the- present
Irestiticfni 'le the Bilberry," It is situated three
miles from Holmfirth, at the foot of the Moors,
which extend from the Yorkshire and Cheshire hills,
and terminate in a bluff or hill, called " Good Bent."
the reservoir lies between two hills, called Hobrook-
hill and Lion-bank, the former of which forms its north,
and the latter its south boundary. The water for this
reservoir is supplied by the confluence of two streams at
the toot of " Good Bent" bluff, which drain the vast
extent of moorland in that district for many miles. The
embankment to form the other side of the reservoir is
constructed a lisle lower down, where the valley or
ravine widens, and by this means, with two natural em
haekinenb, and the one alluded to, a vast reservoir is
formed with: a surface of eleven acres or more. Tho
depth is said, to have been eighty-four feet. The surplus
Water was carried away by a tunnel, running under the
reservoir, communicated with by a funnel or chimney,
in the centre of the reservoir, worked by means of a
ehnttle; • :This shuttle, it has been alleged, has latterly
become unworkable, preventing the surplus water from
beieg let cut, and as the heavy rains have very much
the reservoir, its weight acting upon what has
tong been considered an insecure embankment, the lat-
'er suddenly gave way, and the waters pent up rushed
down the ravine, and along the valley of the Holme,
with-a force which Lutist have been perfectly resistless.
As we have inumated, the embankment of the reser-
voiehae always, feuin being leaky; been regarded,asAin-
sate, and from time to time rumours have been circulated
in Holudirth that it was likely to give way. The elm-
pany's servants were watching it on Wednesday, and, in
tr,nsequenee of something that transpired, the whole of
t"'"iii" roanezted with the Dighley Mill, which is
;war the reservoir, fortunately removed the night before.
Had they not done so, there would doubtless have been
serietti kelclilion to the present tearful loss of life. The
premises coesisted of a mill 14 yards square and four
stories high; a weaving shed, with 34 power looms at
work; steam-engine and water power; two superior
dweilifw.-houses, one occupied by Mrs. Hirst (widow of
the late Mr. GeOrge Hire: anti the other by
), and Tamil
;air, Henry Beardsall; also cottages and numerous out-
y,
buildings; making altogether quite a small town. These
premises stood in a widish pert of the valley, but not far
from a curve in the valley, and when our reporter visited
the place yesterday, there was literally not one stone left
upon another; the whole buildings were swept away,
with the exception of a tall engine chimney, round the
gurgled the still foaming and angry
bwa:teerosf. wAhmicoh still gurgled
destruction cannot be imagined.
rho engine was carried to a considerable distance down
the stream; where it remains imbedded in the mud. The
rumours which induced the parties at Dighley to re-
move were current in Holmfirth the same evening, but
unfortunately the inhabitants, from often having heard
similar report', disregarded them, and retired to rest,
hoping that all would be well. The waters burst their
harrier a little after one o'clock yesterday morning, and,
iron& the 'appearances which everywhere present them-
selves, must neve swept everything before them with
most. t-rrific fotee. From concurrent statements, it
would eeem as if the whole body of accumulated waters
tumbled:down -the valley together in ono vast over-
whelthing mass. Their passage down to Holmfirth, a
distance of three miles, occupied less than half an hour,
and in rather more than an hour they had receded from
the houses. In consequence of the narrowness between
the bluffs on eithei side, a vast volume of water was
kept together, to spend its force upon Holmfirth, after
which it got more into the open country (which was
very much under water the whole of yesterday), all the
way down to Henley, Armitage-bridge, Huddersfield,
and even below Mirtield.

Extract from a letter in the " Times," Jan. 3, 1852 :
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Taking, then, the reservoir as our starting point, we
will now proceed to give some details of the sad havoc
which it has mud?.

. A few hundred yards below the reservoir stood a small
building two storeys high, called Bilberry Min. It was
in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Broadhead, asd used
as a scribbling and dressing mill. This was built on one
side; and rather out of the direct course of the torrent,
as it rolled in its leviathan proportions down the valley.
The end of the mill was caught by the sudden swell,
and about ten feet length and its gable washed down the
valley. A man at this mill stated that he witnessed the
overflow of the embankment when the ordinary channel
out of the reservoir had become two small for the out-
pouring—that the water rolled over the embankment
until a large breadth and depth had been washed away,
and then the puddlebank and the inner lining of the re-
servoir to the depth of fifty feet gave way in one im-
mense body, and down went masses of rock weighing
several tens, and everything else that offered the slight-
est olßtaclc,‘ to its onward course.

At a short distance down the valley, and on the tame
side as Bilberry Mill, stood Digley Upper Mill, lately
occupied by Mr. John Furniss, woollen manufacturer,
whose affairs are now in the hands of the Leeds Bank-
ruptcy Court. This building was a block of stone
work, consisting of a factory, a largo house; with farm
building and outhouses. The end of the mill is washed
away, a quantity of machinery, and a large amount of
property in the shape of pieces, warps, &c., destroyed,
and the gable'end of the house, which is comparatively
n a Iv, and the whole of the farm-buildings swept away.
In the latter were twelve tons of hay, three mulch
cows, a horse, a goat, and several heads of poultry,
which were carried down the stream. In the house
was Mrs. Furniss and her two children, and in a bed in
one of the chambers were two messengers from the
Bankruptcy Court. They were alarmed at the rapid
rise of the water about half-past twelve o'clock, and left
the house. One of the messengers, named William
could land on terra firm
Crompton, had barely time to put his clothes on, and get
bursting7o;
17ethheadrising ground, before the final burst took place.
wtandoe
bank,
p kt oa.atnh
de
dmiddleeserib
eisnitwater h
eber
rising
he
f
like reverberating thunder.
Mrs. Furniss says she saw the
this factory hhai2.ftrlicornefir.ned
an immense sheetan of
t accompaniedb€d fo r s b.,
vye
na
wseoeuknsd,
morningained in the hotne at one
endat' ofli' twieithmill until YtheemThe miller employed at
wseoroe rescued in a cart.
any personal injury, when they were without sustaining
A short distance, perhaps
hilts,
iv
was
irrasdises and here stood
valley narrows between two loft.
Digley Mill, upwards of 60 yardys s
an attic used as workshops above. lint
substantial stone-built factory, iongrusatre.'
F.t.ge water-wheel (as were the two
men-
tioned), and a steam-engine. The property of before 3
mill
vrasjs,,ely valttett.at upwards of 12.0001, and it.
the 'hand)vef, abtLexecutora or its late owner, Me.
Hirst:.: ' The whole of this Mill, with extensive farm
•
buildings, and seven cottages, were swept down with the
torrent, and with them four valuable cows, and a horse
worth forty guineas. Fortunately, the inmates of the
seven cottages escaped with their lives.
Bank End •Mill was the next building in the valley.
Its gable end and one window from the top to the bottom ,
of the building washed away. The lower rooms are
stories
Thisohf l driveng v
below,b with
y the
aa

completely gutted, and
.th machinery in the upper
stories thrown together in. heaps. The dye-house and
store, about sixty yards long, sere completely destroyed,
leaving nethieg of theta standing above the ground.
This property belonged to M;d'John Roebuck.
The valley then evidses, until it reaches Holm-bridge,
a small village Composed of a few hundred inhabitants.
The stream at this Place is crossed by a bridge of one
'oh, about 40 yerL on ono side of which stands
Holm b:idge Church, in the centre of a graveyard,
and eb er., the same distance on the other vide stands
e tollgate and a number of dwelling,. The fsunda-
thus of the bri3ge were washed completely bare.
The wall surroundteg the church was swept away by
tha torrent, and the few trees planted in the yard were
fiprooted cod carried enisvu the stream. 'The interior of
tee church and the graveyard soon presented a most
awful spectacle. lodide the building the water bad risen
about five feet. The floor was torn up-the pews were
floating, and the floor covered with sued and mud sew:-
rsl inches thick. In the ceetre of the aisle was laid the
body of a goat that had Fe:re washed Wore Upper Digley
mill, and within a few feet of it,, resting on the scat f
one of the pews, lay the remains of an infant, and on the
top of the stairs leading into the gallery icy a coffin con-
taining the remains of a lull grown man. loth these human
relics, with others not yet found, had been washed up
from their graves by the whirlpools formed by the head-
long current, as it paesed over the...churchyard. The
road and fields from the reservoir downwards are still
covered with huge masses of atone. tied other substeuces,
of which the bank of the reservoir had been formed.
Hincheliffe Upper Mill was the next Place reached by
the rushing water; and here, as the stressixt was more con-
fined in its channel by the buildings ereeted on its edge,
the devastation was immense, and thq
104 of life consi-
derable. Six houses, which forme _t,
Ise. were
hurled down by the flood, and nearlYcli Ginmates perish-
ed. Tho dwellings in this neighbourhood not washed down
were in some cases flooded into the chambers; and in one
in-
dividuals, who saved their lives by getting on an ad-
joofinthine—th
gm
roof. e elend mo
one
t loeff t
tshtearnu d inn
g 1--there were 16
the inmates were
drowned. Their names are James Booth and his wife,
and a lodger named William Healey, In the Same block
of buildings the wife of Joseph Brook, clothier, while
endeavouriug to save herself and child, perished with her
infant in her arms The following is a list of the occu-
pants of the houses that were taken down at Hinchliffe
Mill, as nearly as could be asertained from the neigh-
bours, who were all busy with mop!, buckets, and bar-
rows. clearing their houses from the refuse of the
floOdt—The first house was occupied
- by Miss Marsden
and three others; the second by Joseph Dodd, steam-
tenter, his wife, and two children; the third by Jonathan
Crossland and seven others; the fourth by James Mef-
ternich, clothier, and nine others; the fifth by Joshua
Earnshaw, master clothier, his little girl, and two sons;
and the sixth by John Charlesworth, clothier,
and nine
others—out of the whole of whom only seven were
saved, leaving thirty-two to be accounted for. At the
New Inn, at Hinchliffe Mill, seven of the bodies of those
who were drowned in their houses were laid out. The
damage in the mill seemed to have been confined to the
lower story, the windows of which, and those of the se-
cond story, are blocked with broken machinery, heavy
pieces of timber and furniture.
wider below this point, and in the
The country grows
centre of' a wide valley stands Bottom's Mine From the
open country here offering little resistance to the stream,
this factory, which is a very large one, sustained com-
paratively only trifling damage.
Ina cottage on the hill-side opposite to Bottom's
Mill was• laid the son of James Metternich, of Hinchliffe
Mill, just mentioned, from whom we obtained the fol-
lowing statement He is about 24 years of age. He
said—here were ten of us in our house, my father,
step-mother, and eight children. Somebody came
and
roused us just after one o'clock. I put on my trousers.
My step-mother and I stood on the stairs. We looked
out of the windows and saw a large quantity of water
and sticks coming down. From their appearance we
knew the reservoir had burst. I and my step-mother
came down stairs, then stood on the stairs, and my fa-
ther handed us the children who were asleep in the
house for us to lift into the chamber. The water burst
in at the window and through the door, filled the lower
room and half filled the chamber. I ran with the
rest into the garret, except my father and one child,
who we expected were drowned in the house.
About half a minute after we had got into the
garret the whole house gave way, and we were all
swept down the stream, and I saw no more of any of
them. No part of the house touched me that I know
of, When I got into Harpen's (Bottom's) dam I caught
hold of a piece of wood and sprang up. I got a sob of
breath, and then went under the water and lost my hold
of tho plank ; on coming up again I got hold of an-
other and again rolled over; at last I got hold of a large
piece of timber and kept my hold. I got hold of a
small piece of wood and paddled it towards the side.
A gust of wind then came and blew me towards the land
on thwAustonley side. I leaped off the tisrissereandetell
up to my neck in water, but. I mana bgeren sevfitilblo out
of the water, and after falling several times I got into
Hannah Barry's, and stripred my trousers and shirt
(all I had on) and went to bed. I was nearly exhausted.
Tee next building in the valley is Victoria Mill,
which bad sustained little damage beyond the disar-
rangement and partial breakage of the machinery in
the lower story. In the yard of this factory three
houses were swept away, but no lives lost.
Within a stone's throw of Victoria Mill stands
Dyson's Mill, which was occupied by Mr. Jonathan
Sandford. In the yard of the factory Mr. Sandford re-
sidod. His house was swept away, and with it weretaken himself, his two childreu, and his servant. The
andfactory also sustained very serious damage in its walls
machinery.
Prockleton, or Farrar's Upper min, is the next, the
large dyehouse of which was com letely destroyed, with
its huge pans and fixtures. ,Thezep were the property of
Mr. John Farrar. The factory known as the Lower
Mill is situate a little lower, and was built across the
stream. The torrent carried the greater portion of the
factory along with it, leaving
O! the two endstanding.
This factory was filled with vyaluable machinery and
woollen material, and is the property of Mr. Hobson
Farrar. In the factory yard two
children named Wood-
cock were drowned, and a little further down a third
was discovered dead.
At the George Inn, near this pl nine bodies, prin-
cipally recovered from the streatice4 are now laid.
Amongst them were Jonathan Crossland, of Hinchliffe
Mill, and his scn, a Young man, the latter of whom had
been taken out at Upper
Mill where he had been so
tightly wedged into the
Wall that two men had hard
work to drag him out. Among these unfortunates was
a
woman
named
ilellsw6d and her three children. They
had
George e
In ta
n.ken out of a house within 30 yards of the
_

h wollar
I - " r
Coming irom Mr. le
e 2 arr ,
a place called Scar Fold" 8
, dYehOUSO to Holnafirth, is
well, his wife, and twe 7nere a person named Hell-
water burst into the houee children, resided. When the
the top of his loona,where rownee.
co Hellwell jumped to
fortunately the water did he narrowly escaped death, for,
d theY were all in bed, and his
orecarious perch until it sub-
and he remained on his n" quite reach the ceiling,
fiijr. John Haigh, grocer, in
gutted. His loss will be fro with water, and entirely
of Mr. James Charleswortbnl 300/. to 400/. The house
branch of the Huddersaid L mftuager of the Holmfirth
tbhideesda.meThleocaliatrye,
the house of Mr. Haigh, auci'3Lking Company, adjoins
two houses was washed avy the partition between the
The shop of a cooper, eameda3;, but no lives were lost.
At the end of Upper Brill (,oldwell, was also gutted.
genie end to the bridge_ thga were two houses, with a
being occupied by Eno Bail nearest the river Holm°
two children. The walls er ei,Y, his mother, wife, and
were swept off, and Baileys house attleneents of the bridge
down, and the inmates and f was entirely washed
river. Bailey himself and hraiture thrown into the
get out again, but the latter hsas mother managed to
only is left to tell the tale or Binee died. Bailey,
children baying all perished. so:7ow, his wife and
adjoining house, occupied by a she,s'ile interior of the
Hepworth, was completely expesecrisker, named John
furniture swept away. The bedst alicl
nearly all his
partly in the house and partly out, "cis are standing
over the floor, which had been partly one end projecting
stable, and coach-house, belonging to i`e'ved- A barn,
levelled. The shop of Messrs. Woodheadiss 1-CiPPax was
gutted. The shop of Mr. M'Laren, boot was completely
much damaged, the windows and doors seller, was also
ing ell disappeared, and his stock afloat* the shop hay_
stroyed. All the other shops in this 10 furniture de-
gate) suffered the same way, includie cality
(Hello w-
Haley, a greengrocer, and Mrs. Briggsg those of Abm.
family, were rescued by being taken out'a,Who, with her
house roof. On the opposite side of Reyhe top of the
the river, all the houses and shops and the "gat°, next
stree
were swept down, and in the middle of the toll-bar house
posited a huge forest tree, which had beet was de-
the roots. Mr. Robinson, a currier, 0 n torn up by
these houses, and himself and the whoeiceuPled one of
perished. The shops of Mr. Henry pirthof his family
Mre Abel Hoyle, greengrocer, are anaeugstgee
ever
and
de-
stroyed, but they did not live on the premise, those
Victoria-bridge was dismantled, like all the.
walls having been destroyed. The back part of the
dwelling-houses at the end of it are cemplet if three
viz,, those occupied by Charles B. Marples, strite Y gene'
shop, and William Martin, watch and clockeabonnet
(both of whose stock is destroyed), and
braesJ
Whiteley.maker
The houses of Mr. Johnson, tinner and ;
-z,er,
Alfred Wood, draper and grocer, were
.finect avid Mr.
ceilings with water, and the goods in them Considerably°the
dameged. Mr. Alfred Wood's damage, it is. _
8,44, will
amount to from 1,500/. to 2,000/.
Cuttle Brttom belongs to Mr. Joseph Moorhens
migistrate of the West Riding, and formerly a woollen)11
manufacturer. A dryhouse, a warehouse, a dye}, e
several out-buildings (including a warehouse occ ° 'iei
by Mr. Samuel Winpeeey, grocer), were
all upied
down. The stock was entirely destroyed. Ad.oe.wept
the back of Mr. WinpennY's house, vvhjicilieling
lower and nearer the river than the front,
there was a dwelling-house, in which a v u
man, servant to Mr. Floyd, solicitor, and a little ob
nvg
were sleeping. When the water burst into the house,n- '
the man took up the boy, and attempted to pass
up the
staircase, but, unhappily lust as he passed the threshold
, t
himself, the 'door closed by the force of the water, and
separated them, leaving the boy in the lower
drown, as was expected The boy, however room to
. , wwi borne

A small mill, called Charlesworth's Mill, was swept
down, and several houses near it filled with water, but
no lives were lost. The whole of the new goit made
by Messrs. Broadbent for Bridge Mill was torn up, and
also the embankment for the water lodge. The water
took its course right through the mill and made sad
havoc, but the building is yet standing. The mill of
Joseph Brook and Son was also damaged.
The end of Mr. George Robinson's falling mill, at
Thongsbridge, was taken down; the boiler-house and
the counting-house completely levelled, but a cottage
house, nearer the water, weathered the storm. The
occupant of the cottage, while surrounded with water,
gave himself up for lost, especially when he saw the
raging element tear up the boiler and toss it about as if
it were only a feather, but both man and his cottage es-
caped. On the opposite side of the river is the mill of
Messrs. Winpenny. and Woodhead. The water swept
through the lower part of the mill, and carried away the
dry-house and other outbuildings. The engine-man lived
in a cottage on the premises. It was filled with water
and gutted. In the moment of peril, he sprung to the
window to escape, but before he left it, it occurred to
him to look back for his child, and on turning round he
saw it just swimming out beside him; he only just caught
it by a leg or an arm, and thus saved both himself and
child.

The above are all the particulars it was possible to
gather up to last night. The mischief is too extensive,
and the loss of both life and property too vast, to get at
once at all the details. It is a serious and dire calamity
to Holmfirtb, the result of which will be felt for many
years to comp•

The inquest is fixed to be opened to-morrow (Satur.
day) before Mr. Dyson, the coroner.

(From the Leeds. Mercury of this day.)
FLOOD AT SE TTLE.
This neighbourhood has been for some time past ex-
tremely wet. The fall of rain on Wednesday was very
heavy. Some of the oldest inhabitants declare that
there has not been such a flood of rain in the neigh-
bourhood for the last forty years. We are glad to say,
however, that the flood has not been the cause of any
damage that we hear of.
FLOOD AT KEIGHLEY.
For some time past the weather in this locality has
been very open, with scarcely a day's intermission with-
out rain. Oa Wednesday last we had a complete hurri-
cane. The rain poured down accompanied with a strong
wind from the south-west, which blew a regular gale.
The brooks in the vicinity were swollen and overflowed
their banks, and tho flood was so great that the various
mills situated below the junction of the North and Lay-
-e•oirrwaters were obliged to atrand needy' ette vihble day.
great Tiantity of roots, branches, and other wreck
passed down the Lowbridgo beck, together with a pig,
out no great amount of damage was done.
FLOOD AT TADOASTER.
Oa Thursday, the river Wharf inundated its banks,
so that the Hign-street was nearly covered with water,
and the inhabitants were obliged to occupy their upper
roofs.

GREAT FLOOD AT TODMORDEN.
In this locality during th
n—° early part of the week we
had heavy falls of rain, especially on Tuesday evening,
when many of the inhabitants residing in those parts
which are at such times subjected to be inundated, be-
came alarmed. About half-past eight o'clock a tremen-
dons shower of rain and hail tool: place, accompanied a little thunder and lightning.
The river Calder
became much swollen, which continued with little ap-
parent alteration till between twelve and two o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon, when the body of water was so
great, that it overflowed the banks of the watercourse at
Shade, running down the turnpike road, and forced its
way into the cellars and dwolling-houses, and the resi-
dents had to remove what furniture they could, and
seek safety elsewhere. The scene now presented
was one of great confusion and bustle, espe-
cially in Salford, from which pigs and other animals
had to bo removed for safety, the water extending from
Shade to Salford. Messrs. Fielden's hands had to enter
the factory by means of planks, which were floating like
boats on its muddy surface. At Toad Carr, in Btsrnlsy-
road, the body of water was so great that a portion of
the walls of the watercourse was prostrated, the stream
greatthe housesviolence;being two feet
as was also
deep in water. This portion of the town has not been
flooded for some time past, owing to regulations having
gushingthe cas e na t o the
Cobden, houses
several
o f
been made for such emergencies; but the body of water
being so large and sudden, the sewers were made up im-
mediately. The water did not subside for several hours.
The canal also overflowed in different places, covering
the fields in the vicinity to a considerable extent. At
the time of writing, our correspondent could not form
any proper estimate of the damage sustained.

were hired from Mrs. Tinning, of the Graham's Arms,
Longtewn, es were likewise the postilions. After safely
depositing the Right Hon. Baronet and attendants at the
Citadel Station, the postilions returned to Longtowu with
the carriages; 'but instead of going to the stable-yard,
they proceeded to the river Bile close by, es was _their
custom on each ocessionv, to wash the horses' feet
and the carriage wheels. In consequence of the
rain the river was swollen much beyond its usual size,
though nothil:g to what it was a few hours aferwards.
The men drove the horses inti the ;Arcata notwithstand-
ing,
but wee of them, on looking up the Liver, perceived
the water coming down in a great volume (s phenomc- i
rou peculiar to these rivers). He instantly turew himself
into the stream and swam for his life, and it was with great
difficulty he regained the shore. The other, a man named
Johnston, w;+;,not co fortunate. He was carried down
the stream with the chaise, vainly struggling to keep
himself and horses above water. For a short space he
anceeeded,
but soon the rushing torrent sweet him into
a deeper part of the river, where he perished with all four
horses. The body of the deceased was recovered to-day. It
v:as found entaegled with the harness and horses, in eu to kayo which it was evidew the unfortunate-
deavouriug
men lest his own life. Oti nearing the water in the
first
instance,. Johnston's companion objected to go into the
stream, but the deceased, who had had rather too much
drink, persisted in it that there was no danger, and
drove in before the other by way of encouraginghim. A
man was inside the second vehicle, but he, fortu-
nately, with the driver, escaped by swimming
to the
shore. Both carriages and horses were lost. One
of the former has since been recovered, hue it is
almost entirely destroyed. Poor Johnston was a Man•
much respected in the neighbourhood, and was uni-
versally known.. As the evening seta in the sky is
somewhat clearer, though there are Still seine threat-
ening clouds and almost a hurricane prevailing. Singu-
larly enough, coincident! with this invasion of water,
Carlisle is in continual fear of hydrophobia. Several dogs
have gone stark mad within the lad day or two, and no
less than a dozen persons have been bitten, some very
seriously indeed. The circumstance has created quite a
sensation. The town is in a fever, as it is known that
two of the animals are still at large. The authorities
have been appealed to, and the police have orders to
catch every stray dog they can, and shoot all that are
not claimed. The consequence is, that a great number
of dogs have been shot, the owners not daring
to
.come forward to claim their respective animals, as
the superintendent at once hands them (the owners)
over to the district surveyor to be " taxed," which, in
nineteen cases out of twenty, had not previously befallen
them. Acting upon this plan, before the end of the
week some hundreds of unfortunate curs will be de-
stroyed.

stock,
to
oapet
nearly
the
or joists, up by the force of the water, and catching hold of the
,to
the
belle
clsedwi
swept
npygt t.
ahwwe
ama
was xl3O
a.
The
luss noTht
goihlpuett
of
re
water
eorri flood
rru:sposhou:db.
sided. Ile was about an hour in this position, with the
sutpth :Otoo/h.
cock, draper, in Victoria-street, was gutted, and his
d
through the premises out at the back over the grounds of
Mr. Charlesworth, and then rejoined the river. The house
of Gutteridge, confectioner,
•
son, druggist's shop and stock was also damaged. The nextl
shop to this had recently been taken by Mr. William-
son, a draper, cud was to have been opened on Saturday
(this day), it having been stocked with goods'to the
amount ol 6001. When the rush came, the window was
burst in by the root of a largo tree, which was eirried
with such force, that it passed through the shop qnd out
at the opposite end of the building, carrying part of the
wall and flooring with it. Mr. Charles Boocock, who
has just commenced as a grocer, had a quantity of pro-
visions destroyed and the back part of his premises
taken away. About 1001. damage has been done ,to the
stock of Mr. Lswson, antler, and a like ansouo to the
.stock of Mr. R. Harrison, grocer. The lower part of
the house of Mr. Charles worth, the magiatrato, was
filled with water, but no lives were lost. c The hoUse and
shop of Mr. Gareide, in Towngate, was much injured in
the lower part, the water entering in at the window and
coming out at the shop door. The damage is estimated
at from 200/. to 300/. The water also passed through
the Jolly Hatter's Inn; and a shoe-shop in the neigh-
bourhood, belonging to Elliot Brown, was completely
swept away.
In the locality of Mill Fuld the flood broke down
several houses, and all their occupants and families have
perished. S. Hartley, engineer, of Ilolvafirth Mill, and
all his family, are supposed to have lost their lives. The
house of Richard Shackleton was alsotaken dawn by
the torrent, and both be and his wife, and two children,
have ditlippeared. At the opposite side of the river, at
this point, is a burial-ground attached to the Wesleyan
chapel. Part of the vestry was destroyed, the 'grave-
yard torn up, and coffins floated away from their resting
places. The vault in which the body of the late John
Harpin, Esq , of Birks House, was interred about two
years ago, was torn open, and the coffin with the re-
mains of the deceased was carried away. Mr. Harpin
was one of the chief promoters of the "Holme reservoir'
scheme.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.;
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 6.
(Sittings in Banco after Hilary Term.)
The after-term sittings in banes) commenced this
morning before Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson,
and Mr. Baron Platt. Their Lordships sat in the Bail
Court, as the Exchequer Chamber was occupied by the
Court of Error.
BELLAMY v. MAJORIBANKS—JUDGMENT.
Mr. Baron PARSE delivered the judgment of the
Court in this case, which had been reserved for a few
days, after the announcement that the Court had con-
curred in making the rule absolute, in order that the
parties might again go to trial without delay.
This action was brought to recover the amount of a
cheque for 2,5361. 175., which, it was contended on be-
half of the plaintiff, Coutte' bank, represented in this
action by the defendant, had improperly paid to Gosling
and Co., it being a " double-crossed" cheque, with the
words " Bank of England: for the Accountant-General
of the Court of Chancery." At the trial before Mr.
Baron Martin, at the Middlesex sittings after Trinity
Term last, the plaintiff set up a custom of bankers, with
reference to cheques of this
,kind, whereby it was con-
tended that the bank ought to have exercised greater
caution before paying the one in question, in which case
the payment would have been made into the proper
hands. The verdict was found for the plaintiff, and in
Michaelmas Term a rule was obtained for a new trial,
on the ground of misdirection, and the verdicts being
against evidence.
The Learned BARON, in delivering the judgment of
the Court upon this rule, said that, as already intimated,
the Court had come to the conclusion that there should
be a new trial, on the ground that the evidence was not
sufficient to support the verdict pronounced by the jury.
If this had been an ordinary case, the Court would pro-
bably hare confined itself to merely expressing its opi-
nion; but in this controversy there was involved a ques-
tion of so much importance in the practice of bankers
with respect to cheques of this description, that it seemed
rieht to state with some particularity the neture of the
question to which the attention of the jury should be
called at the new trial. Ttn., first count was a special
count, inferring sncluty consequent, on ativr43egerl-crstorn
and usaf,e, of banktr, to too effect that tf,e Unclant
was not to pay the cheque otherwise than into and
through tho Bank of England, and teen alleging a breach
by payment of the chcque to Goslings and Co. To this
count there was a ple:, denying any such date'. Them
wes also a count for money lent, us to what the de-
fendant pleaded payment; and on the. isr.nen atistng
upon thoes two pleas, tho parti,” rested their cases re-
spectively. The objection on tho ground of misdirec-
tion Was abandoned by the Learned Counsel for the
defendant, who then contended merely that the ver-
dict a,. to the first count, tied as to the plea of payment
tb the second count, was against evidence. The
plaintiffs counsel contended that the crossing of the
cheque to the Benk of England absolutely restricted the
negotiability of the instrument in savour of the Bank of
England only, and even the account mentioned upon it,
viz., the Accountant-General, and no other person.
Evidence was given, during two days, to prove a bind-
ing custom end usages of bankers to this effect, but the
CoUrt was of opinion that no such custom was proved.
The custom alleged could only bo proved by a long and
universal course of practice clearly established; but
so far from that having been the case, many witaeases,
called from London banking-houses, denied the exist-
ence of the custom altogether. Bantling-houses in Lon-
don were in comparatively few hands; and it seemed to
the Court to be absurd to suppose that there should be
any such duty cast upon bankers as was alleged iu the
first count. The verdict on this point, therefore, was
against the weight of evidence. The Court was also
of opinion that such a custom, if proved, would be
incapable of being supported in point of law. The
Learned Counsel for the plaintiff both at the trial
and on the argument, relied with great confi-
dence on the count for money lent, and insisted that
the payment to Gosling's of a eh( clue doubly crossed,
in the manner in which the cheque in question was
crossed, was an unauthorised and negligent act, and that
the defendant had no right to credit himself with it. If
this contention were well founded, the defendant would
be wholly without a defence, as the only answer to this
count was the plea of payment. It was also alleged that
the addition of the crossing to the bank of Eaglsnd,
with the words " for the account of the Accountant-
General of the Court of Chancery," imposed a greatere
degree of responsibility upon the defendant. None
the witnesses attached much importance to this °
many
of
circum-
stance, however, as against the defendant, andwas
them even considered it to make in his favour; it
well known that the Bank of England world
a cheque for the Accountant-General so
not
receive
l.
crossed.of
An-
other point was argued by Mr. linthan on behalf
the plaintiff—that the crossing of the cheque, not by the
holder, but by the drawer, who had the power to state
any direction he pleased to his bankers, was equivalent
to an addition to the cheque of an express direction that it
should not be paid to bearer, but to the Bank of Eng-
land. He admitted, however, that in such a case the
defendant was not bound to pay the Bank of England,
as the alteration would bring the cheque within the Ope-
tion of the stamp law. At the trial ttto evidence did not
make any distinction between the meaning of the words
when written by the customer of the Bank, and the
meaning they would have when written by a third per-
son;
and the Court had before intimated its opinion that,
according to the weight of evidence, they had not the
restrictive meaning attributed to them by the plaintiff's
counsel. As had been said before, the Court felt strong]
that to carry the argument further, or to make a bankeyr
responsible to his customers for the appropriation by the
B3nk of a crossed cheque, would
render the conducting
of the business of banking very difficult, if not impracti-
cable, and would cast very serious,
dprobably •
these a
csisvons, impediments in the
course of an
the money trans-
actions of the country. For reasons the Court had
come to the conclusion that the rule should be made ab-
solute for a new trial—Rule absolute.

On Thursda
(skilled Workmen
ye
THE EN ,-,
---------_ -______
kANEERS' STRIKE.
a general meeting of non-society men
sued in Conse
Lambeth, to ) took place at the Mason's Arms,
quoennseideeerf
tthheo
receoeulresteienneecfestshaeryen3topiobyeepreutre-
open their shops on Monday next to' such workmen as
might be willing to sign a declaration binding them to
renounce all connexion with the Amalgamated Society of
Engineers and similar institutions.
W. HILL, on tiking the chair. read the circular re-
cently issued by the Employers' Association, which he
slid was altogether opposed to the interests of the work-
mei", who, by signing the declaration it contained,
would become the mere slaves of their employers: and
it was their interest equally with that of the society men
to resist pretensions put forth in such a tyrannical
manner for their common oppression. Compliance with
the terms held out to them would he infamous, degrad-
ing, and disgraceful, and he called upon the meeting to
uphold their rights and sustain the Amalgamated Society
in the position which it had assumed on behalf of the
iron trade in general.
Several other workmen addressed the meeting, and the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—
~ 1. In consequence of the conduct of our employers
in sending forth a document for us to sign previous to
returning to our employment, we,
non-society men, are
compelled to consider the best means of maintaining our
of the aggres-
sive and freedom of action for the benefit of all.
,c 2, That it is expedient, in consequence
sive act of our employers, to take into consideration the
necessity, as nOn'society men, of forming ourselves into
an associated body, in conjunction with the Amalga-
mated Society, to resist the tyrannY of capital.
"3 ' MI" 4 deputation from this meeting be appointed