The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-19 00:00:00

LONDONITUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1811.

UNIVERSAL di,gpE ASSURANCE

1, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON.

A Reduction of 60 per Cent. on the current Annual Pre-
miums was declared on all Policies entitled to pal tieipition at
the First Annfial Diyision'of Profits of t,!e Society, in May,
1840, after making an ample reerve,ascertained by a complete
mathematieJl investigation of its ass••ts and
'[he continued prosperity of the Societtenabled- it to do-
dare a similar reduction et tho Second peried'of •11.% ision, in
May of the present year.
This system of an annual reduction of premiums, according
to the Profits of the Society duly ascertainei, gives to the As
sured all the advantages of original low rates, while it avoids
the evil of endangering the ability duly to discharge the pay-
ment of the sum guaranteed by the policy,
The following table shows the advantaw
assured at this Office :

s derived by fersc.ns

Age
when Date ot
Policy Policy.
was
issued.

Sum
Assured,

2u May 183
30
40
50 ••• •••
60

£l,OOO
I,lxlo
1,000
1,00;)
1,000

Original
Premium .

£l9 6 8
24 8 4
3I 10 0
42 15 0
66 11 8

Reduced

1 Annual
Reduction Premium-
payable in
13.1!.

.£ll 12 01 £7 14 8
01
14 13 0 9 15 4
18 18 12 12 0
25 13 0 17 2 0
39 19 0 26 12 2

TAONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, ,FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.

DIRECTORS.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. Kennett Kingsford, Esq.
John Atkins, Est( John M'Guffie, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq., John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth J. Alarmaduke Rosseter, Esq.
James Hartley, Esq. Alexander Robertson, Esq. ,
Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman Managirg Director.
Benjamin Ifill, Esq.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
SECRETARY.—F. Edgell, Esq.
This Company divides amongst the Mutually Assured the
Whole of the Profits of the participating branch of Assuranee,
and also guarantees the payments by a Proprietary Capital.
Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits :
Age. £- s. d. Ag►e. £. s. d.
20
25 ... ........ ••• 2 2 7 50
35
40

For the Non-participating, the scale of Premiums is as low
as complete security will permit, and a Half Premium Credi
Table has been computed, whereby ONE-lIALF of the PRE-
MIUMS MAY REMAIN UNPAID for SEVEN YEARS,
without endangering the Policy. .
Credit Tab!e to Assure £lOO Payable at Death.
Age. X. s. d. Age. X. s. d.
15. .. Ol6 1 I 40
.6

20... OlB
25
30

0 45
7 50
7 _ _
_54

Certificated Attorneys and 31
all cases remunerated by the t
Fees) are invited to communical
pany, or the Managing Director

Medical Gentlemen (who are in
usual Commission and Medical
Lte with the Agents of the Corn-
ws in London,

EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT,
4 MT., CAP. 9.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM•
PANY,
No. 1, PRINCES-STREET, BANK, and 8, KING WIL-

LIAM-STREET,.cur V', LONDON.

This Institution is empowered by a Special Act of Parlia-
ment, and is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Life As-
surance, in their fullest extent, to Policy-holders, and to pre-
sent greater facilities and accommodation than can be obtained
in other Offices. The decided superiority of its plan, and its
claim to public preference and support, have been proved in-
contestably by its extraordinary and unprecedented success.
Among others, the following important advantages may be
enumerated :

A most economical set of Tables—computed expressly for
the. use of this Company, from authentic and complete data,
and, presenting the lowest Rates of Assurance that can be of•
fered without compromising the safety of the Institution.
Increasing rates of premium on a new and remarkable plan,
for securing loans or debts, a less immediate payment being
required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any
other office.

Premiums payable either Annually, Half-yearly, or Quar-
terly, in one sum, or in a limited number of payments.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age of the Assured in erery case admitted in the Policy.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
Medical Attendants remunerated in all cases fur their reports

Premium per Cent. per Annum payable during

Age. Ilirst Five Second Five Third Five r. out th Five Remainder
11 Years. Years. Years. Years. of Lite.
-----.
20 £1 1 4 £1 sle .£1 10 11 £1 16 9 £2 8 8
50 1 fi 4 112 2 119 1 2 7 4 217 6
401161244214 6 8 7 3 4 3 4
50 216 7 3 9 4 4 5.5 5 6 3 613 7

PETER AIORRISON, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.

SPOONS AND FORKS, is. SI. PER OUNCE.

GM. HORTON AND CO, SILVER-
r: SMITHS and .JEWELLERS; 3G, LeDGATE-
STREET, ST. PAUL'S (opposite Messrs. Everirniton and
Co.'s), offer their elegantly-finished SILVER FIDDLE
SPOONS and FORKS at 7s. 2d. per oz ; the King's Pat-
tern 7s. 4d. ; the Victoria and other Patterns, as also Tea and
Coffee Sets, and other articles, equally moderate. A very
great variety of Dessert Knives and Forks In cases of Sets.
N.B; An immense Stock of splendid Fancy Goods and
Jewellery at 25 to 30 per cent. below the usual London Charges.

SHIPPING INTEL LIF t!:NCE
(LLOYDS.)
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Prince Albert, of Lon-
don, 11th inst., lat. 50, lon. 19, by the Beauty, arrived
at Cork. Emanuel of Bristol, for Quebec, and Amity,
Aberdeen, 25th ult., in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, by the
Sherbroke, arrived at ditto. Sedulous of Aberdeen, for
Dalhousie, 13th ult., off Bonaventure ; Elizabeth, Hull,
16th, Cape Ray, N. by E. 30 miles ; Defender, of Sun-
derland, for Miramichi, 19th, lat. 45, lon. 56, by the
Barbara, arrived in the Clyde ; Merchant, Honduras to
London, 15th ult.. outside the Straits of Florida; by the
Tyne, arrived in the River.
DAVIS STRAITS' FISHERY, DUNDEE, OCT. 16.—The
Princess Charlotte arrived here from Davis' Straits this
morning with four fish, sixty tuns, left the ice 21st ult.,
and reports as follows, viz.:—Alexander of Dundee,
three fish, thirty-eight tuns ; Lord Gambier, Newcastle,
one fish ; Chieftain, Kirkaldy, three fish ; Truelove,
Hull, four fish, ninety butts ; Abram, Hull, ono fish ;
Caledonia; of Kirkaldy, clean ; Lady. Jane, Newcastle,
ditto.

MONEY MA..KET and CITYNEWS.
TZ
FllO2l 7:1131 1110/INING PAPEPIB OF THIS DAT.
CHRONICLE. I.‘
.'aye no accosts •from the
and very accoun
United otates at five o e , this afternoon, little
bminess has bison done on the :Rock Exchange, the mem-
bers'. of the lioitse Leing ;
SU3p-ense fta• the ex-
pected tiai.g, by the Caledonia steamer; but the,impres-,
Sion entertained regardine• our position with America
does'notin thp tne,:ultHie improve, and even in circles
generally
serious misunderstanding would ensue, opinions have un-
dergone some change, rt. they look upon our affairs
with America as now so intricate and confused, that even
supposing the verdict of the Jury on M‘
"ill'Uin'alod, and hitherto confidant that no
I-Jetyl to be an
acquittal, and that the seizure of Grogan could be settled
quietly, • tney apprehend that fresh sources of quarrel
may arise during the winter.
• Tic corn-market was firmer to-day, and prices on the
advance._ The account.; of the harvest agrre, as to the
serious deficiency of the yield, and the sellers to-day from
Seotland'give a most melancholy picture of the weather
—not more than half of the oats
and barley having bten
secured in that quarter. The pot ,:toe crop has also suf-
fered materially in Scotland, and in the Highland dis-
tricts we fear tb.re must be an absolute want of meal for
food. It is to be hoped that the improvement in the
weather to-day may be general, and of some continuance,
for the land, even in England, is completely soaked, and
unless we have some da,yo
of hard blowing weather, the
seed time for the autumn wheat
will be in danger. All
accounts confirm the opinion that large importations will
be required in the spring; but it is as yet impossible to
calculate the quantity with
any pretension to accuracy.
We still adhere to 1,09,000 of
quarters, and possibly
2,000,000 before next hdrvest as the lowest computation.
If the trade knew the nature of the modifications to be
sent abroad.
attempted in the scale of. duties, orders would soon be
TIMES.---Tee - dealers in the public` fit ndS hake '
shown little anxiety to do business to-day, and this is
readily accounted for by the uncertain nature of the in-
telligence lately received from America, and a disposi-
tioirto remain quiet till the arrival of the Caledonia, the
news by which will, it is expected, give some definite
notion of our real position with the United States. Thus
-will the opportunity be afforded (for which no doubt they
are waiting) for the speculators to operate upon what
they may judo the chances of the market, which is at
present, having lately experienced such a shock, so sus-
ceptible that action to any extent is felt to be imprudent,
especially ou the news of which we are now in pos-
session.

Among the rumours current in the city is one that the
the old system of lotteries' is about to be revived, and
that a correspondence with the Treasury has already
commenced on the subject.
11BRALD.—Areport Of the periodical meeting last week
of the Shareholders in the Bank of Manchester, which is
very briefly gi Ven in the Manchester Chronicle, is calculated
to re-awaken- attention to the subject of Joint' Stock
of the report itself is
Bank management. The brevity
owing to no overSizht .or omission on the part of the
managers of that ably conducted journal, whose re-
porter was duly in attepee to chronicle with custom-
ary fidelity Elsa part' ularproccedings. of the meeting,
but he was refusasLadmission. -The Directors, however,
although 11:174,444 to admit a reggh.rly licensed autho-
rity-for the purpose, were not averse to laying their own
case, as draws up by themselves, before the public, and
accordingly just so much of what passed on the occasion,
and no more, was in the form of a paragraph issued to
the press of that
The amount of losses, confessed to be " serious.," and
in .the " aggregate" a lar, sum, sustained in the past
year are said to have been carefully estimated and
written off; but there is not one word or figure to inti-
mate svliat those losses svere, or the quarters where in-
curred. That information is, it seems, snugly monopo-
lized for the recatises. of the bank " sweating-room,"
where it must be left to, the chosen few who have the
keys. In respect of the reserved surplus fund amounting,
losses deducted according
,to estimate unknown, to
19,300/. only, the Manchester Chronicle inquires what
has become of the 150,0001 surplus reserve fund so tri-
mnphatly paraled a.year or two since ? The same paper-
dwells emphatically upon the necessity of an examina-
tion into the Directors' Own accounts with the bank, as
well as into the accountsgeorally, and assuredly had the
appointment of auditors been entertained, as it ought to
havfi been, thero could be no: reason why one class should
be sifted and •the other not.

POST.—The failure expzeted to take place at Ham.
burgh in consequence of that of Mr. Soares, the Purtu
guese merchant hero, has beeO advised from thence.

The relaxation of the Usury Lawwhich has taken.
place within the last two or three years seems to be cal-
culated to work. changes in oar social system extending
beyond the sphere of limitation contemplated by the ori-
ginators and prompters of the measure. Under the.ope-
raliVri of the new. principle, .the understanding between_
a country banking firm and its London agent, to the ef-
fect that. a balance arising upon a monthly rest shall be
carried...on. With,_tbainterest„accumulated from interval to
interval as rrincipermei'ety; that 'principal being again
upon each occasion entitled to a fresh computation of
interest, is held to be strictly binding. In the case
recently decided, to betTken the two insolvent firms of
Whittnore, Wells, and Co., and Daintry, llyle, and
Co. (Manchester) a, substantial question mooted was,
whether or not the debt claimed by the former upon
the latter were tainted with usury. Messrs. Whit-
more and Co. had been in the practice of making up
their account month by month, adding interest to the
balances due to them, and, by this process, including in
that account (the transactions being of an extensive cha-
racter) a very large amount of compound interest. It
is, however, held that, although the charge for
,interest
could not, prior to the late enactment, have been main-
tained, it is now perfectly admissible. The agreement
entered into,' and the course of proceeding, to the effect
stated, arising out of that agreement, are found to be
equally legititnate. The fact that, at the commencement
of the- banking transactions of the parties, it was arranged
that Messrs. Whitmore and Co. should be in the con-
stant possession of a cash balance on account of Messrs.
Daintry and Co., to the amount of 5,000/., is held to be
imbart
othl% established interest-claim
uponlahnr the
eed to of 5 per cent.
per annum,
principle ofmone wasthly
rests. It is considered that the depositor 5,00
not designed as a means or cover for obtaining more
than the ordinary rate of..interest for the loan or forbear-
ance of money ; but that it was intended simply as a re-
muneration for the trouble and expense the London
house would incur in conducting the agency of the Mat-
chester bank, wording to the usual course of such a
business.

• SUN.—PriceS were a shade easier to-day. Consols for
present transfer were 87=k to 87k, and for Account 874 to
88. Exchequer Bills only brought 11 to 13 premium,
and India Build; Ito 2 premium. Bank Stock receded
to 163 i, and 1644,-stnd India Stock to 2431 and 244. The
New Three ands Half per Cents. wwe 97i to 97-11 ; the
Reduced Throe alnd a Half per Cents. 964 to 961; and
the'Three per Coat. Annuities 86 to
The niarkoS As* Spanish Stock was nut so brisk to-day,
and it would lA. well if more caution were exercised
with regard to speculations in such a security. The
money purchases, however, we are glad to state aro
very limited just now. The Active Bonds were
quoted to-day at 20 to 19a for Money, and 20 to 19}
for Account. Portugueie .New Five per Cents. were
dull at a decline to 293-,.and 29k. Brazil Stock still de-
clines to a serious extent, neither the buyers nor sellers
being in any number. The price to-day was 53i to 51,
a sufficient proof of the unsteady condition of the secu-
rity. Chilian Beads were marked 66k to 67 ; Colom-
bian were heavy at 19 ;. and Mexican at 244 to 231.
Russian Bonds were firm at 112 to ; and Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. quirt at 50i.
The few bargains in shares were at barely previous
rates. Brighton declined again a little, ranging from
111- to 101 di-count. Great Western were 94 ; the New
34-- to 1-4 -London and Birmingham Quarter, 16a; and
South Western 12ii premium. 11Ianehester and Leeds
were 13i, and North Midland New 71 discount. Pro-
vincial Bank of Ireland shares 16 premium.

OVERFLOW OF THE THAMES.

• Qne of the highest tides for many years took place yes-
terdayafternuon, about an hour or more before high water,
half-pa:A four o'clock, caused by the violent gale of last
night and -this morning, and the great fall ot• rain in the
interior-Of the country. The river was in full flood, and
must. have overfhwed its banks for many miles, it
. may from the appearance in the me-
tropolis. Ua tho. Surrey side the streets a!org the
river were covered with water, and some of them
close to the banks, such as Pedlar's:acre, and the streets
in continuation of it to- the cast, were inipasaa!ih', the
water in many places being several feet deep. In Can-
non-row, Westminster, the scene was the _same., The
water rushed with great force, not Only into the cellars,
but the ground floor. The Gazette office, and all
the houses in that locality, were completely flooded.
At Westminster Bridge great crowds collected
„,he. The piers on which the arches rest
were completely immersed ; the water was within about
halt a foot of the terrace in front of the new Houses of
Parliament_; and at Hungerford-market it flowed fully
half way up the wharf. A vast destruction of property
all along the•banks must have Wen caused by this ex-
traordinary and unexpected event.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
•

Yesterday afternoon, the buildings on each side of
the river were visited with one of the most destructive
inundations within the memory of the oldest of their

occupiers or owners. •
The extraordinary spring-tide of March, 1828, which
did so much damage to the contiguous wharfs.and fokced
down embankments and walls was at' least 18 inches
lower than that of yesterday, and was much less disas-
trous in its effects. It was not exceeded,. even by the
inundation of the year 1821, when a most frightful loss
of property occurred.
RISING OF THE WATERS.—In the morning, atatleoll4,
half-past eleven- o'clock, the time of low water, the
river had ebbed so low that at parts it was nearly ford-
able, and some of the smaller steamers above bridge
were actually for a time prevented from proceeding up
the river by getting aground. , At about half-past one
o'clock the tide was observed to rise in the must rapid
manner.. At three o'clock the river had flowed above
its common level, and the water began to rush into the
cellars-and underground apartments.
WAPPING.—At four o'clock the whole of the High-
street, Wapping, from Wapping Old-stairs, opposite the.
Rectory-house, to New-lane, Shadwell, presented the
appearance of a canal, and he water flowed along the
numerous courts and • alleys. Several boats commenced
plying for hire, and the watermen conveyed a number of
passengers to and from various houses.
BANKSIDE.—AII the approaches to the Thames
Police-office Court were cut off; and Mr. Broderip, the
Magistrate, directed wherries to be- put in requisition to
convey suitors and witnesses to and from the Court, and
several boatloads were brought from different places and
taken back again in the same way after their cases were
disposed of. The whole of the cellars, parlours, and.'
shops inWipping-street, Great Hermitage-atreet, Gravel-
lane, and about 100 other streets and- alleys leading
oat of the main street, were under water suou after
four o'clock, and Merchandise .of the most valuable de-
scription, ships' stores, furniture, and other property,
floating about, involved in one common disaster. At
Harrison's wharf; St. Katharine's, the inundation has.
made sad havoc, and washed away 'much.• of the new
work, and injured, the buildings lately • erected on this
fine property. The Leith and Glasgow wharf was for
the first time for 41 years inundated, and property to a
large amount damaged and washed away. The houScs
which have suffered most in 'Wapping are the Town of
Ramsgate Tavern, at Wapping Old-stairs ; the Water-
men's Arms, Wapping New-stairs ; the Black Boy,
kept by Mr. Brown, opposite, whose -gas-meter was
destroyed ; the Ship, Execution Dock, where Mr.
Johnson, the landlord; and his family were. obliged to
retreat to the lead roof over the parlour ; • the White..
Swan opposite, and numerous others. The ship biscuit
bakers and granary-keepers in this quarter :are also great
sufferers. Tha water:extended to the house of lir. Pel-
ham, the solicitor, in Old Gravel-lane, 400 yards - from
the river ; and it appears that an infant child of Mr.-Pel-
ham, which was left in a cradle in one of alio'parlours,
had a very narrow escape. The mother. saved it. Corn-
ing doWn stairs about half-past four o'clock, she fotind
the water had entered the parlour, and the .cradle , was
afloat, with the child in it aileep; and quite, uncon-..
scious of.its danger. A poor iiiman.Was drowned in
Plough-alley, Wapping. She was bed-ridden,.
_and' the
inmates of the house where sbeliVed forgetting her, iii
the confusion which prevailed, the water, rushed, iii, filled
the apartment where she was confined, - and :she was
:drowned. It was reported that another female.. and her'
child were drowned in a house near the same_ place. A
young woman,-. named Caroline Hur.ter, on the
ground floor of No. Plough-alley; . had :a narrow.
escape. She remained so-long in the house that retreat
by the door was rendered impracticable, awl she cliing
to the upper sash of the window fur upwards of half an
hour screaming most piteously, the tide being rapidly -
gaining on her. At length a lad named John Brander,,
aged fifteen years, with a humanity that does him groat
credit, stripped himself and instantly entered the water,
and speedily broke open the window and got_ out the
poor girl. At high water the depth at the entrance of
the St. Katharine's Dock was 31 feet 3 8-10 inches.
The followiug wharfs were more or less flooded :
Aberdeen, Beal's, Black Lion, Carron, Chamberlain's,
Cotton's, Downes; Dublin, Fenning's, GriffinV Gun
and Shot, Harrison's,' Hartshorn (Excise),- ?Hay's,
Hore's, Leith and Glasgow, Leith and- Berwick, Sco-
vell's, St. George's, Stanton's, Stanton's Lower, and •
Topping's. Owing to the flood, Tyrrell, the general-
postman, was unable to collect letters in Wapping in
the evening.

BLACKWALL RAILWAY.-At four o'clock in the after-
noon the trains discontinued running on the Blackwall
Railway, in consequence of the railway being overflowed
at the Rlackwall terminus, and this circumstance gave
rise to ninny vague and unfounded rumours. The neigh.
bourhood of Blackwall and the adjoining marshes were
under water Co a great extent. The ship-building yards
of Messrs.' Ditchburn and Mare, Wigram and Green,
and otherS, were overflowed, and everything was soon
afloat. The water flowed over the Blackwall wharf on
to the railway, and it was impossible to rtm.the trains
with' any degree of safety. • The Tower and Custom-
house wharfs were under water. Darkhouse-lane,
lintate, and Nicholson's-wharf were also overflowed.
ROCIIEi3TER AND STROUD.-At Rochester and Stroud
the coast appeared like a fair, crowds of people being
employed in bailing water out c‘f their houses by pail":
fulls. Several fields were entirely under water. At
Gravesend one of the streets was knee deep, boats being
able to be rowed along ; and in this state were the dif-
ferent villageS on the banks all the way up the river.
Bromley and some of the adjoining parishes were flooded.
GREENWICIL—The extensive rope grosinds of Enderby,
at East Greenwich, were completely under water, which
had forced the embankment. The Greenwich marshes,
in the occcpation of Messrs. J. and T. Wheatley, the
extensive coach proprietors, were covered with one sheet
of water. The borough of Greenwich, from the Water-
man's-pier towards the church, a distance of 400 feet and
upwards, presented a stream deep enough to float a large
boat, and many of the arches of the Greenwich Railway
might be passed through in . boats. Deptford-creek,
Deptford-bridge, and the houses on the south side of
Blackheath-road were inundated.

On Sunday, soonafiC;l2-O'clock, a lighter, from
Grays, Essex, the property of Mr. Robinson, of Keiv,
was run into by the British Rose schooner, belonging to
Wisbeaeh. Thu wind was blowing a hurricane from the
N.E at the time. She sank in deep water, with a cargo
of 63 tons of chalk.

Yesterdly, at 12 o'clock, as four men in a boat were
weighing a kedge anchor, the boat upset, and one maxi
immediately sank to rise no more.
SOUTif SIDE: OF THE THA.MUS.-On the south side of
the Thames, every house, warehouse and wharf, from
the Platform, Lower-road, Deptford, up to Nine-elms,
Battersea, was inundated ; and in several places the
water extended to very little less than a quarter of a mile
in shore froth low water mark. From the Custom4touse
to Blackfriars-bridge about 20 barges were sunk, mid one
loaded v,ith 28 tons of coal was actually blown oier just
blow London-bridge.
.11onrEaturnE.—Shortly after three o'clock the water
at the-Platform and Paradise-row, Rotherhithe, passed
the marks of any previous high tide. Ilotherhithe, up
to Tooley-street,- presented the singular spectacle of a
deep and rapid stream, and boats rowed aboUt to give as-
sistance.. The whole line of wharfs in Tooley-street at
one time looked more like wet-docks-and basins of water

than places for the deposit of dry goods, which were to
be seen floating about and coming in contact with each
other, to the horror of the wharfingers. The same spec-
tacle presented itself on the west side of London-bridge,

and in a short time the extensive wharfs of Ald. Hum-

ph e ry, the granaries in Mon t ague -cl ose, the flour wharfs,
and the premises of Messrs. Barclay and Perkins were
approached by the water, so as to cause the sacks of
flour and pockets of hops to float about.
BOROUGII MARKET.—At one period a considerable
portion of the Borough-market was covered with water,
while every house along 13/Aside and tke numerous
courts, all of which are inhabited by working men,
were literally filled with water. In Union-street the
water filled the cellars and shops of about eight houses
situate opposite the Monument public-house. The
houses in Prince's-court, amounting to about thirty
in number, suffered very severely. The Bolvideri:.,-road,
Edward-street, Vine-street, and the York-road, wer6
from 18 inches to two feet in depth. Great injury was
sustained in Prince's-place, a new neighbourhood, con-
taining about 20 houses. Here the beds, bedding, &c.,
he York-
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411 ueral reecelahct oaotheirid:Tipnlueenrtcen apprehensions were created
was surroundtd with water.

WESTMINSTER.—The whole of the lower part of
Westminster was inundated. If Parliament had been
sitting the Members could only hare reached the two
Houses in boats. Palace-yard and . the adjacent streets
were under water, and the floor of Westminster-hall was
also overflowed. It is recorded that the Thames rose so
high at Westminster in the year 1235 that the lawyers
were brought out of the Law Courts in boats. A similar
occurrence happened in 1736.
lIUNGERFORD.—The wharfs at Ilungerford were under
water. Cannon-row had become a brook or river.