The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

LINLITIIGOWSIIIRE.

Mr. Mill, of MiHeld, has resolved, we understand,
not to offer himself as a candidate for the county,
owing to having found the ground to a large extent
pre-occupied by Mr. M'Lagan. An understanding
seems to have got abroad that Mr. M'Lagan is to
stand as a Conservative, which must, at least until
he confirms the statement himself, be held as a mis-
take, seeing that there is now a large majority of
Liberal electors on the roll, and that many of them
have biped Mr. Mlagan'e requisition.—Scotsinan

The mansion is situate within a short distance of
the main road between Sevenoaks and Westerham,
and behind it, on the south side, the land rises for
nearly three miles, the most elevated part being
known as "The Chart." The house is surrounded
by pleasure-grounds, most tastefully laid out, and
the meadows at the south front are separated from
these grounds by a ha-ha, the wall being about five
feet high and of considerable length. The basement
of the house is composed of the servants' apart-
ments, &c., and there is a considerable slope from
the ground above to the windows, for the purpose
of freely admitting light and air. On this base-
ment there are three levels, and the butler's pantry
and plate closet ; two of the female servants' sleep-
ing-rooms being on the second level. After the
storm had raged for about half an hour, Mr. Price,
the butler, left his pantry to go to the servants' hall,
which was on the lowest level, to see if the rain had
penetrated it, as had been the case about a fortnight
previously. On his return to the pantry, as he was sit-
ting on the side of his bed, an immense volume of
water poured into the room, striking him at the side
of the head, it having effected an entrance into the
house by pouring down the slope to the window
adjoining the pantry, which it broke, and forced the
door opening into the pantry, which it began rapidly
to fill, and Mr. Price was knee deep in water in a
few seconds. Fearing for the safety of one of his
fellow-servants, who was in a room on the same
level, he hastened thither, but before he could arouse
her the water had found another entrance, it hav-
ing extended to the south-west side of the house,
where it fell like a cataract into a small yard, and
with sufficient power to break glass in the back door
nearly half an inch in thickness, and at length the
door itself was forced open and broken. By this
time the basement was rapidly filling with water,
and the servants had to wade through it destitute of
all but their night clothing to effect their escape.
The family whs in London, but Mr. Tipping was
immediately apprised of the sad affair, and on his
reaching Brasted the scene which presented itself
was of a very desolate character. The beautiful
grounds, on which so much labour and expense had
been lavished, were covered with a thick deposit of
mud ; flowers and shrubs were uprooted, and the
lower part of the mansion inundated. On the first
level there was about three feet of water, and here
the copper in the scullery had been lifted by the
water from the brickwork which surrounded it, and
laid on the floor, and a flour-bin containing about
two and a half sacks of flour was floating about. On
the second level a quantity of plate, the chest con-
taining which had been broken by the fall of a large
cupboard, was found in the deposit of mud, which
was at least one foot thick throughout the basement.
On the level the water rose to about four feet and
a half. On the lowest level were the servants' hall,
footmen's sleeping-room, store-room, &c., and in all
of these rooms the water rose to over seven feet, and
here the destruction of property was the greatest in
consequence of the abundance of perishable stores.
Fortunately there was no one in this part of the
house at the time, as escape would have been impos-
sible from the great rush of the water.
To remove the water the fire-engine from Wester-
ham was obtained, and after some hours' pumping
it was sufficiently lowered for the workman to get
at the drains, which, after being opened, were able
to carry off the remainder of the water. It was
evident that the immense body of water which found
its way to the house could not be the result of rain,
and it is most probable that a waterspout burst in
the high ground, as for a distance of more than two
miles the course of the water'is distinctly visible,
its width being from 40 to 50 feet, and the crops
along the route are considerably injured or de-
stroyed. The water having rapidly filled the ha-ha
at the south side must then have swept across the
lawn, and burst the windows, through which it ob-
tained ingress. It would also appear as if the
original body of water had been separated shortly
after leaving the source, one part taking the route
to Mr. Tipping's, and the other going towards
Hever wood, the lodge-gate of which was carried
away, and thence down into Brasted-street. The
road from that place to Sandridge was all under
water, some of which found its way into the cot-
tages, and the traffic was interrupted for some time.
We understand the damage sustained by Mr. Tip-
ping exceeds £5OO.
We understand that W. Tipping, Esq., of Bras-
ted Park, is a candidate for the representation of
Stockport, Lancashire, as a Liberal Conservative.

The London and Provincial Turkish Bath

Company (Limited).
---.4.-

The usual half-yearly meeting of this company was held
at their establishment, 76, Jermyn-street, on Monday, the
29th inst., at two p.m., J. E. Rolland, Esq., chairman of the
company, presiding.
The report, which recommended a dividend at the rate
of six per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, was laid on
the table by the chairman, and its adoption was proposed
by Mr. Crawshay, seconded by Mr. Banting, and carried
unanimously. _ _ _

Besides the dividend, amounting to £643 10s. 3d., the
sum of £357 17s. 3d. was appropriated to the indemnifica-
tion of shareholders who had paid up their calls previously
to the company commencing business, and the sum of
£357 4s. Gd. was written off for depreciation.

The report also shows the company to be entirely free of
debt, with a considerable balance at their bankers.

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Yesterday afternoon a very fully attended meet-
ing of the directors and guardians of the poor of St.
Pancras took place at the Vestry-hall, Camden
Town, for the purpose of considering a motion of
which notice had been given in reference to the mas-
ter of the workhouse.

• Mr. Churchwarden Lawford occupied the chair,
and a letter was read from Mr. Morrison, the mas-
ter, asking for a committee of inquiry into his con-
duct before the resolution of which notice had been
given was carried.

It was moved and seconded that the master be
permitted to be present during the discussion, which
was carried.

Mr. WATSON said it was with very painful feelings
he felt it his duty to bring forward the motion of which
he had given notice. He then went into a series of
charges against the master, in reference to his con-
duct with regard to the recent pauper will case ; as
to his supporting the two paupers, Grant and James,
in their misconduct against the orders of the board,
and endeavouring to make it appear that the board,
before the Poor-law inquiry, had issued orders for
their incarceration ; that he had caused the robbery to
be compromised in which they were alleged to be con-
cerned ; that he was a party with the editor of a local
newspaper in publishing untruthful and scurrilous
attacks against the members of the board, and
finally, that whilst he had made an investigation into,
and was fully conversant with, all the facts relating
to a series of criminal assaults made by an inmate,
he did not think it worth his while to report the
case to the board ; that he allowed the culprit to es-
cape, but who was afterwards captured and prose-
cuted by the board, and sentenced to four years'
penal servitude. With reference to these, and other
matters connected with the management of the
workhouse, Mr. Watson moved " That Mr.
Morrison, the master, had forfeited the confidence of
the directors of the poor, and shown himself unfit
to be continued in the office. The directors, there-
fore, recommended the Vestry to call on Mr. Morri-
son to send in his resignation within seven days, and
failing in doing so that due notice be given to deter-
mine his appointment."

Mr. WINTER seconded the motion.
Mr. STOCKTON moved as an amendment to refer
the matter to a committee to investigate all the
charges, but not to report till after the report from
the Poor-law Board had been received.

This being seconded, on conditioikof withdrawing
the latter part of the amendment, Mr. Watson
assented to it, and it was carried.

UNIVERSALITY OF THE DELUGE.—And this reve-
lation brings us at once to the disputed points as
to the extent and nature of the Deluge. As to the first,
one thing is clear. Even if the words of Scripture
were not so decided, the consent of all the tradi-
tions of all the races of mankind would proclaim,
beyond the passibility of reasonable doubt, that
the universality of the Deluge was co-extensive with the
universality of human life, that wherever man had spread
over the face of all the earth, over that spot the waters of
the great Flood flowed. But it is clearly another question
when we are called on to consider whether we are
not only allowed, but obliged to believe, that the
universality of the Deluge includes, not only the universal
destruction of human life, but the universal submergence of
the earth. Of course if Holy Scripture plainly tells us it is
so, as a matter of faith, there is nothing further to be said ;
it then becomes a question with which probability and human
reasoning have nothing to do, and of which we can but say
that all things are possible with God. Yet the words of
Holy Scripture seem scarcely such as of necessity imply a
general submergence. The words are decisive as to
" man whom I have created," and the animals which
were joined in fellowship with him. But such pas-
sages as " all the high hills that were under the whole
heaven" are paralleled in many places of Holy Writ by
equally strong expressions, in cases where a certain dis-
trict is all that can possibly be meant.—Readings on the Old
Testament.—The Englishman's Magazine for June.

MURDERED WHILE BATHING.—M. Lombard, of
Montgeron, has been murdered while bathing in the
Yeres at Villeneuve St. Georges, Seine et Oise, France.
It appears that he tried to prevent the plundering of his
clothes by two individuals on the bank, who knocked him
back into the river with stones, and afterwards dragged
him out and strangled him. The younger of tho assailants
came forward, and, declaring that his companion alone' was
guilty, gave information which led to the immediate arrest
of the other man,

Marshal Magnan, who had been suffering for
some weeks past from peritonitis, died yesterday
afternoon, in his 74th year. He was born in Paris
in October, 1791. He enlisted as private soldier in
his 18th year, in the 66th Regiment of the Line, and.
went through nearly all the campaigns in Portugal'
and Spain. As captain of the Imperial Guard, be
took an active part in the last campaign in France ;
he was also present at the battle of Waterloo. Ili°
fidelity to the Imperial cause to the last moment
did not, however, interfere with his promotion.
Owing to the protection of Marshal Gouvion St.'
Cyr, he was incorporated in the Royal Guard under
the second Restoration in 1815. He served in Spain
during the invasion by the French in 1823, and as
Colonel of the 49th of the Line took part in the
expedition to Algiers in 1830. He was in garrison
at Moultrison, in France, in 1831, and being ordered
to Lyons to assist in putting down an insurrection
in that city, instead of pushing men forward, he
entered into a parley with the insurgents. For this
military fault he was put on the half-pay list. He
solicited and obtained permission to enter the Bel-
gian service the same year, and remained there till
1840, when he returned to France with the rank of
Major-General, to which he had been promoted in
1835. He commanded at Lyons in 1848, when be
put down the movement got up as the contre-coup
to the rising attempted in Paris on the 13th of
June, 1849. He was then named to the command
of Strasbourg, and while there was chosen by the
electors of the Seine as one of their representatives
to the Legislative Assembly. As Commander-in-
Chief of the army of Paris, a post he held since
July, 1851, when General Changarnier was removed
by the President of the Republic, he took a promi-
nent part in the coup-d'etat of the 2d of December,
for which he was rewarded with the baton of Field
Marshal, the dignity of senator, and the import"! •
office of Grand Huntsman, vacant by the death 01
Marshal St. Arnaud. Marshal Magnan is the third
of the prominent actors in the coup-ditat who has
died. The others were St. Arnaud and De Mord'