The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-20 00:00:00

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_EY _,NNG StiN.

G od, is likely to prove, by the accounts which are
in. g• in, as disastrous as any on record.
The venerable Stowe, after announcing the pt.& tuval tide which occurred in 1564, thus ventures to
los ophise upon the causes of the phenomena, and a:
the, following reasons:— . .Me Thames overflowing its banks proceeds fro.
ver: a causes.
}:'rest—From' great rains, by which the fresh IN
rah ie• up the river, and going down to the sea are sty
by ;th e floods, whence they must needs swell above
heigti t. . There was a notable example of this in the
155: i„ when, by reason of excessive rains that had f
all I itt. George's-fields, in Southwark, the Palace- •
and even Westminster-hall, were overflowed.
S econdly,—lnundations of the Thames may be
slot: ed by boisterous north-west winds, which gen,
not only cause very -high tides at the mouth e
Thr ones, but on the coasts of Holland, Flanders, Pie
and the shares of England opposite to them, an,
this -reason, that this wind blows with equal, force i
tide; of flood, at each end of this island, both wash.:
alit northwards.
'Thirdly,—There is another cause -of greater tides
imradations in the Thames, not commonly taken n
of„ which is the moon's being in her Perigee, or in
pal of her orb which is nearest to the earth; for, if
s I)! :ing tides are made by her coming nearer the cart'
I ie r full and change, and her withdrawing farther 1'
t ite earth at her quarters occasion the neap tides, it i
I c llow, that if to the proximity which the moon ha
%lie earth, by moving in her ellipsis, there is added
p. eoximity which she has in het' eccentric or opf,
a ngles-, she should operate so Much the more extra:,
t arily upon the sea, and make the higher spring tid'
4 uch full.and change. - .

HOLBORN BRIDGE VIADUCT
TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Silt-4 read with much pleasure, and perfect appro.
baties3, your objection to a toll in the heart of the city
It would be a greater nuisance -than Kennington-gate
on a, Derby day, and that all the year round. But be
until rno apprehension ; the plan reqUires an Act of
Pariliament, and I shall demonstrate to the House of
Cot means that it is a piracy, and a DAD one, of a part.
.of plans I have had before Government, the Partin ..
met it, and the City authorities for several years, l',.ir
the improvement of Railway,, to prevent the possibility
of a ngines and carriages running oir the rails, and for
the erection of Colonnade Railway, in London, to clear
tberstrcets of the omnibus nuisance, and other ev;.:s.
Thee-afore, whatever may be the ultimate fate of ray
plaiis, I rely on the justice and common sense of Par-
liannetit net to let Mr. J. A. Galloway's piracy pats,
into a law.—l am, Sir, your obliged servant, and core_
gni: admiring readuri R. T. WEBB TURGIN.
If 3, Wyndam-street, Bryanstow square,' Oct. 17.

DISTRESS AT LEEDS.,
TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN:
Sint—The- transcript yen gave in The Sun. %An
stirring. It distressed me, as one would suPposl it
could. scarcely fail to do any breast of corttnon hu-
mar.ity, deeply • and an immediate contribution for:_
war ded to tue place was a token of the sincerity of the
fecting. But, wide and indisputable as the suff-ming
mu st we not, on a little calm consideration (anu, truly,
sue h is the magnitude and momentousness of the sttbo
ject , that it demands consideration equally patient and
into nee), come to the painful conviction that the cause
has not been wholly in
,external circumstances ? That
the parties, if they will look borne, must amit thew
have themselves more or less to blame. However
work may have become short, provisions become dear,
and. wages been reduced, must not multitudes of fami-
lies. confess that, when in the receipt of ample earnings,
lotl ge part was squandered that would now form a
reserve?—that pounds have been thrown away in drink,
and others, perhaps (by the wife, perhaps), in foolish
dritts or indulgences, that they now vainly look for in
the, shape of food and necessary clothing ? Do not the
palpable habits of artizans almost everywhere show us
ha w fearfully they are agents of their own woes ? If it
be rievous on any one occasion to see God's means
proxtituted thus to the mischief of the body, disquiet of
the mind, and general distress, what must be the emu-
' mulitted sin and misery, where it is the practice, week
after week, by hundreds of parents, its a thousand
pla,tes ? And the consequences are inevitable. And
among the many lessons of the present crisis, there is
non t more imperative the working classes can draw for
then 2selves than that, henceforth, intemperance, lavish-
ness,, and folly, shall not, by their system of acting, lay the
foundation for overpowering want and distracting misery.
With the truest commiseration for them, and a pa-
tient eye of attention to the continuance of their embar-
rassments, I am, Sir, your frequent reader. S.

On the night of Thursday last a man, who ap-
peared
to be under
theinfluence of liquor, went into the
Cricleti3rs public-house, on the Staines road, near
Hoimslow, and inquired of the landlord if he could be
accozr,u2o:-lated with a bed for the night. He was an-
something very odd in his behaviour, from his
de
swered in the affirmative, and while there, the landlord
observing;
that his name was Julius Ceasar, that he was
relate .in d
to the Royal Family, and had been present at
the niarriage of the Queen and Prince Albert, and was
going •to Windsor to in attendance at the accoucke-
ment 'of her Majesty ; arid seeing that he was eccom-
panied by two or three persons of very suspicious ap-
pearance, requested him, before going to bed, as
he had money about him, to place it in his care
until th e morning, the landlord at the same time adopt-
ing the caution of calling in a police constable to witness
what he received. The man then placed in Mr.
Strange's ,hands three sovereigns, three shillings in sil-
ver, a book, and some papers tied up The next mot ping the man got up and took breakfast, after which he asked the landlady ibr his money, whichet
she gave him, and told him she would go up
in a canvas bag.
stairs tn_ p.m
his papers ; but he said," Oh, never mind, I will'ln",;„wn
a present of them ;" and before she could return down
stairs with them the man had Jell the house andh asnu'
buil
been since heard of, although every search they were made for him. Upon examining the rspl,
.. i the Bank of
had been purchased
found to consist of vouchers for modi--,; One of them
England, in the name of "Julius Ceiasar.
for a life annuity of 38/. odd, whicl.
for 6751. Three per Cent. Consols, lie
h brokers' names ar,,
last); t
a eedle-street."
October, 1841," (Thursday
18, "14th of
Time _a _ _
" Kitchen and Harrison, No.
Among the papers was also a certificate
to the money shui.l:l
in the party entitled receive his dividends,
magistrate case
attend to .
Ceasar,
be unable personally to a
_o opJuhuscoach.and was filled up with the n m
maker, Egham, Surrey: the neighbourhood of
SUICIDE.--Yesterday,vs s
bletshigened by a
,I painfully excited in con-
sequence High-street, St.
of the report
thirty years was proprietor of
for above
Giles, that 11fr. Ramsay, a lieensed
victualler, who
the Angel, High-street,
proved but too true. About ten
tion. The reportprevious
evening Mr. Ramsay, who had been
had committed self.destrue-
o'clock the
nO. at the bar, left to go into his bed-
previously serving
the room, the door of which he
m As he was there a considerable time one of the
roo •
inside ; a smith was sent for, when on fore-
found locked
it
ay was found lying
door Air. ams on the floor,
nig the t
head nearly separated from his bI-ce 3. A razor
with his .
side•
Mr. Bartleraor
was lying sent
• . ?, a medical gen_
as sent for, who stated that life had been ex-
tleman, w
Mr•
Ramsay has for some weeks
servants proceeded to
past appeared very melancholy, and a late law-suit
said, added to his despondency. In his room wore found
nearly 3001. in gold, and- a cheque for above 400/. In-
formation of the distressing Occurrence has been for-
warded to the Coroner.
Last night, an Irishman was brought to the
poor fellow, on being brought to
drunk and disorderly
Police-office on a charge of being
supplied sufficient evidence of the carge ;
donseusopfouded round his neck.—
and was, of course, ordered to be confined for theirs ght.
tin6tloiefficsetr,eet. The
person,foun
Father Mathew's tern-
Edinburgh Paper.
pOenr a searching
c
wasmhiendgallslis
Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

!THE LAMENTABLE ACCIDEN 'is
• - ON THE THAMES.
The dreadfully distressing accident which- took 1,1 tc73
after the great rowing-match on Monday, has, un• 44..
the peculiar circumstances of the, case, excited I . ,I)%.
strongest feeling of regret and icomlniseration. '1 hA,,
: folloiving are the latest reports on the subject : tr- t.
appears that Mrs. Coombes and Mrs. Goodrum, 7:.? ..„
, companied by a younger sister of Coombes and ii:
infant child, and a Mrs. Philips, proceeded to. Pane a%
~ 1...
in a boat rowed by the son of Rush, a wnterman I
to
the Horseferry, and another lad, in order to wit-,1”.. ie
the match. They embarked for their return about
her f -
, past five ; and, on arriving recipe- Cheyne-wall;, elle!, -16 i Aea, they -went on.shosi-there to take somerefresliment ~
the evening being exceedingly cold. The party re. .4
ri turned to the boat in a few minutes, and were accom ... panied by a man who was acquainted with them, bin
who had not befort, been in their companv. This per
Son, whose name we understand to be ()liver, and t( lie
be a waterman's apprentice, stood up in the bow o r
the boat, and while they were determining wile h.
;should row, the wherry drifted athwart the chAir a
;which secures the floating barge at the extremity o r
. ;the new Cadogan pier at Chelsea, and swung along ..
:side. The height of the wind and the force of the eoi a
;tide pressed the boat so severely that she began to fit 4
-with water, and before any effort could be made to save t
the females, who were sitting aft, she went down stern a
;foremost, not however before Oliver, the two original j
trowers, and Mrs. Philips, contrived to spring on the 6
Z barge, but the others, none of whom exceeded the age tp-,
43 f twenty, sunk to rise no more. An immediate alarm
w as given, and within a few minutes a number of boats; ;
ca me to the spot, and, notwithstanding the darkness eA ,I
th e evening, used the most strenuous efforts to recover .
the bodies, but without effect. At the time of the .
accident Goodrum and Coombes, having succeeded .
in defeating their opponents, the Maynards, were •
at- Lambeth drawing the stakes, and first received int eltigence of the melancholy event as they were on ,
their way home, from a stranger, who, seeing them in .
wafts rmeu's dresses, asked them if they knew whether
the 'ti odies of Coornbes's wife and child had been found.
Thit-:, as may be supposed, was like a thunder-stroke t, the tr.vo young men (for Goodrum soon found that 11: 4
wife ?had shared the fate of her sister-in-law), who it a_
media tely proceeded to Chelsea, where they were , Ai_
gaged during the whole night and greater part of yep .ter.. day in dragging, but unsuccessfully, for the bodies; and
it wits not until three yesterday afternoon that they had
been. enabled to bring up that of the child, which was
found near Vauxhall-bridge.

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