The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH•STREET, THIS DAY.

PAYING FOR A LA.12,1.1.-Mr. Henry Mence, of 9,
Argyle-street, King's-cross, medical student; Mr. Charles
Dennison, 28, Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-road, surgeon ;
and Mr. James Russell, coal merchant, of 4, Hampstead-
street, Fitzroy-square, were charged with being drunk and
creating a disturbance by knocking and singing at doors in.
Princes-street.
Bovey, 86 C, proved at half-past three this morning,
seeing the defendants coming from the direction of the
Haymarket and knocking and ringing at the doors and.
lanuses in Princes-street and King-street. They then ran.
away, and he pursued them into Frith-street, and took
them int) custody. On going to some of the houses in
Princes-street he found some of the knockers wrenched
completely round.
Smith, 122 C, corroborated Bovoy, and said he saw one
of the defendants go up to a house and wrench the knocker
round.

One of the defendants said they had been to the Hay-
market, and all they did was for a lark.
Mr. Tyrwhitt-205., or a month.

Richard King was charged with uttering two counterfei
shillings to Mr. Thomas Surridge, of the Black Horse,
Coventry-street, two counterfeit florins and one shilling
being found in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him.
A LADY PIOXTO OriET.—RoBLiNG A CLERGYMAN'S

WlFE.—BridgerWise, a stylishly-attired female, and who
was wearing a gold watch and chain when taken into cus-
tody, was charged vita stealing a purse containing money
from the pocket of Mrs. Charlotte Josephine Vickery, the
wife of the Hey. Mr. Vickery, of 17, Charlotte-street, Bed-
ford-square.
Mrs. Vickery said that on the previous afternoon she
was leaving St. James's Hall, having been to Mr. Ella's
concert (the Musical Union), and while allowing an elderly
lady to pass, she found the prisoner's hand in her pocket.
She (Mrs. Vickery) put her hand into her pocket and
found her purse gone; and the prisoner, who had moved
away, passed something to a man, who instantly ran away
OA taking hold of the prisoner and charging her with rob-
bing her, she said, " Me, my dear." Mr. Austin, the ma.•
nager of the hall, and a constable, then came up, tad she
gave the prisoner into custody. -
Sergeant Thomas Foinett, 14 C, said the prisoner gave
an address in the Waterloo-road, but on inquiry there he
found it was false, lie found on the prisoner 3s. 7d. and a
gold watch and chain.
Prisoner, who said she had Lever been in custody before,
was committed for trial.

THE MIDDLE LEVEL CAT.AST.ROPIIF.

LYNN, THURSDAY MORNING.
The destruction of the sluice and bridge conneeir-,1
with the Middle Level Quest' (which cost £30,00()

for construction about sixteen years ago), which
was detailed last week as having oc6urred on Mon-
day, the 4th instant, has been attended with tho
most serious results. Tho entire drainage of a

vast portion of the fens between Lynn and.
Peterborough depends upon this cut, which
has been regarded as quite a feat in drainage,
and it empties itself into the Ouse, about three
miles above Lynn. On the 4th instant the
bridge and sluice were entirely destroyed (it is sup-
posed through being made on a sandy fdundation),
and a house or two engulphed. Since that time
the most strenuous exertions have been put forth
to construct a dam, for the purpose of keeping out
the tidal waters ; but all has failed, though between
20 and 30 barges filled with mud have been sunk
(only to be washed away as if they were toys), and,
about 20,000 sandbags have been thrown into the
river. The spring tides have, therefore, rushed, up
the cut with unbounded velocity and power, throw-
ing down bridges, forcing huge breaches in the
banks, and inundating vast tracts of land. On
Monday afternoon the tide washed a barge from the
moorings, capsized her, dashed, her against St.
Peter's Bridge, and broke her to shivers. During
the first tide on Monday two breaches were made
in the bank on the north-west side of the cut, about
a mile apart. One of these was successfully stopped,
but the other spread, and when we were there it
was not less than 50 yards wide, and the water
was rushing through a la Niagara, with a sound
like " the shout of a mighty cataract." The sight
here was awfully grand ; as far as the eye could.
reach was one vast body of water. Houses were
submerged eight or ten feet, and a number of stacks
were seen floating about. The line to Wisbech
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7,000
were,
productive land in England under water, and it is
feared that by Friday (when will be the highest
tide) not less than 150 acres of land will be inun-
dated. The destruction of all this property is fright-
ful to contemplate, and ruin is staring in the face, a
great many of the tenant farmers, as their courme-
nances depict. We believe that there is no expac-
tation of being able to construct the dam till the
neap tides The cost of repairs which are ren-
dered necessary, apart from the loss of property by
the flooding, it is supposed will not be much less
than £lOO,OOO. The works are being vigorously
prosecuted by about 500 men, under Mr. Leather,
contractor. The following engineers have inspected
the damage :—Sir John Rennie, C.E., Mr. Hawk-
shaw, C.E.,Mr. Fowler, C.E. Magdalen Fen, and
portions of Broad Fan, and Marshand Fen are under
water now.

At 6 o'clock on Monday evening a fire, supposed
to be the work of an incendiary, broke out in the women's
wing of the Cork Union Workhouse. It vas extinguished
by the inmates and police in about an hour and a half, but
not before a store-room was burnt and a large quantity of
clothing destroyed.
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The
annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at Exeter-
hall; Capt. the Hon. F. Maude presided. After a prayer,
the secretary read the report, which gave
the an encouraging
The
account of the society's proceedings during year. e
income from all sources had been £3,253 16s. 110, show-
ing an increase of £572 on that of the previous year. The
expenditure had been £2,675 18s. Id., and the balance left
in the treasurer's hand amounted to £B3O 19s. Dd. The
report was adopted. PARIS.—The
" PRETTY HORSE BREAXEItS"rI
Paris correspondent of the indePo'ne! says
wr
ahe iteehd,
the. withoutnot
notice
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have occurred at the Bois de 13
ii6ul,:egnaet.t
sassing any great importance,
the authorities. Ladies, who move a certain sphere,
lendid equipages, from which,
luxuriantly reclining 81) look n.
contemptuously o
with fastidious airs, they seemed to
honest overly,' have
Angry groups of Pe°Pl been hissed by the promenaders.
surrounded the carriages, and the
ladies deemed it pruient to beat a retreat with all the speed
at which the hoiscs would carry. them. Similar scenes took
ladies there met with a bad reeep-
place at the races.
lion from the people. Stones were thrown at one of them,
who seemed more cool or more daring than the others, and
whose attitude looked like a. provocation. These scenes
often repeated, and taking place even in the minor theatres,
have awakened the attention of the police. But what is to
be done; for personal liberty must be respected ? The Oka
authorities, I understand, have been studying the questiOnf
and among the reports in circulation is one which says that
lists of proscription are to bo drawn up against the most
recalcitrant of these daughters of Eve, and the t those who
have come from the provinces are to be sent hack to their
respective departments, wlkh an injunction tb.at theyh are
_
not to return to Paris without the permission of the pre'
e
fect of police. Those 'who are foreigners wilt
.beseeox,
to the frontiers with all the respect due to entieolar
wh
ci_f
_no.:
to their position. lam aware of the senrciaarrtves
in Pmie
news will produce when the .Todependar,c
to-morrow."