The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-29 00:00:00

THE NORTH RIDING.

Tho incessant rains since Saturday last have
caused the rivers of the North Riding to overflow
their banks, and on Thursday the Rye, Derwent,
and Ouse have laid the flat country of the Vales of
Pickering and York deep under water. The fine
autumn enabled the lowland fanners to sow a con-
siderable breadth of wheat, much of which is unfor-
tunately now submerged. For miles the York and
Scarborough Railway passes through a lake, the
waters being still on the rise and likely to reach
the rails. Farmers are totally driven off their
lands, which are wet in the extreme. In Old Mel-
ton the drainage could not take the water, and the
town is flooded from end to end. The we:tther has
been very stormy and wet during the past 10 or 12
days on the coast of Northumberland and Durham,
and most of the rivers in those counties have been
a good deal flooded with " freshets." In the hill
districts of Durham a good deal of snow fell during
the first three days of this week, and on Tuesday
the Stockton and Darlington Railway was blocked
up west of Waskerley, in Westmoreland ; and on
the hills dividing North Yorkshire from that county
there has been a heavy fall of snow. Notwith-
standing the extremely stormy Weather that has
prevailed in the North Sea during the first three
months of 1862 the coasts of Durham and Northum-
berland have had a fortunate immunity from blip-
wreck, there having been no serious shipping disas-
ters upon that line of coast since November, 1861.

THE THAMES.
Owing to the rapid melting of the snow which
fell last week in the neighbourhood of Egham,
rain from the east, all the
low lands adjoiningg
and the continued
the river Thames are under
water, the lower road to Windsor rendered im-
and Runnymede, with its 160 acres
passable,
of fine grassland, converted into a lake. The cause-
way between Staines and Egham, constructed by
an Oxford merchant in the reign of Henry 111.,
" for the more safe conveyance of his wool and
other merchandise to and from the London markets
by means of packhorses," still proves itself a work of
great utility, by protecting the lands and high road
on the south side of the river from inundation.

GOLD FROM A
AUSTRALIA.—Down to Midsummcr
last, reckoning from May, 1851, the immense quantity of
25,081,468 ounces of gold had been exported from Victoria
and New South Wales. The value of this addition to the
gold in use in the world was upwards of £96,000,000.
Dover and:Calais are now within 11 hours of each other.
The " James Penn" crosses the Channel in that time. This
rapidity is due to improvements in the marine engine. Grey
hair is restored to its natural colour, and tic dolorous and
nervous headache cured by Herring's Tiggnelie Brushes.
Their undeviating success is due Inhale imprt vem. nts by the
inventor. N.B.—Counterfeits are being- made. Offices,
32, Ilasinghall-street, London.
[AnvEurrisnMENT.l—Holloway's Pills.—Watch the
Weather.—This is perhaps the best counsel that
_ could. be
circulated at this season—will all follow it every
one change his raiment as the temperature Parrs Y The
next best advice is to have in readiness allox
and of Holloway g
with them to oppos° the first intrusion, or sten
thels,
advancing symptoms of disease. No cold, catarrh, or
cough should be left to itself;, either may lay the founda-
tion of danger if not undermined by suitable mean,, and
none Holloway'ssurpass for efficiency. Influenza, bron-
chitis, pleurisy, and diphtheria make the most insidious
approaches ; but if the first apathic and uncomfortable
feelings be promptly repressed by these purifying rills
their further advance is impassible.