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

MORNING SUN

SPORTING 'INTELLIGENCE.
lour
MARINTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
DAY KET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1841.
• Goodrnan's Isabella, 9st 71b, asrst Mr.
s
th' Colchicum, 9st ' • last three miles of B. C. 50/.
mac L'a' Gardnor's Athon, Bst 12Th, apt Mr.
Ys Viola, Bst 71b. T. Y. C. 100/, h ft.
/oro-,ll,TErtius STAKES.—
Be The following. have paid.:—
0 Strap, All-nlv-eye, Lord Lichfield's two, Lord
ntinck's three, and the Duke of Grafton's two.
~tirs, Est El
7b A.
CIAVEN MEETING, 1842.
;Y'—Duke of' Bedford's John o' Gaunt, 4
-in. 2001
, h
against Lord Orford's Bridal, 3 yrs, 6st.
ft
0,1\.-° day 4ntio.neci.---Lord Exeter's Albion, agst Lord
2°o/
d t;
ft c by Jerry, out of Petulance, Bst 71b each. D.M.
4

FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1842.
Zer "I'Ad Orfo h ft. Lord Alhemarle's Nuncio, Bst 71b, agst
rd's cby Jerry, out of Petulance, Bst 41b. D.M.
• e HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Carlisle hounds will meet on Thursday, at Armath-
watte—at ten, .
on harriers, Wednesday, at Oulton ; Friday,
an llouse—nine. •
igton harriers, Wednesday, at Brackenthwaite ;
It
4161Fria1);)0,1ait
11:arson Bridge t.
.arriers, Wednesday, Oakshaw Hill ; Friday,
talsnulah3 —half-past eigh t. dt .ont harriers, Wednesday, at Kettleside ; Satur-
at Culgaith—half-past ten.
H., Wednesday, at Plaitford Church ; Thurs.
, 3', at Rockbourn ; Saturday, at King's Copse—half-
' tinit ten.
iagtlitefield harriers, Friday, at Treddington Vil-
ten.
Parouha-son's hounds, Wednesday, at Chettle
111.ttle.yirood,
ridgy,at Up hounds
; Saturday, at Coker
°rads-halt-past ten.
IL, Fiday, at Winfrith—eleven.
'Armarthen hounds, Friday. at Abergwlly--ten.
4il ti
- lrdivyside hounds, Wednesday, at Cenarth Bridge ;
3r et, at Ln"heye h—ten
(14reeon hounds, Wednesday,. at 'Court Gilbert ;
1, at Taliven—ten.
aCowbridge barriers, Thursday, at Wick—half-past ten.
i) Earl
"d-Forest harriers Wedr.esday, Fawside ; Satur-
side—half ,past ten.

GREAT OARS' WAGER.
Go contest between the Maynards and Coombes and
th-c4`tga, fur s€l, came off on Monday, and was ono of
unc finest specimens of rowing on record. However
kleasonable a match during the prevalence of October
Prov
111 V appear, a reference to the aquatic chronology
fad
e that some of the grandest efforts have been
..ittpc after what is termed the close of the season. The
;"t on Monday was hetWeen James Maynard, of Lam-
the sand Henry Maynard, his cousin, who hails from
gteb me stairs, And Thomas Coombes, the brother of
Are„et,rt Coombes, and Thomas Goodrum, both plying at
14;1"Q-bridge. The merits and performances of the
for half ads are well known. The whole family, almost
11
'
a century, have been first-rate wagermen.
Is heir "vo opponents are mere lads in age and stature
11,5 crilPared with thorn. Coombes until this season
l'i,el:)%ved no wager of importance, nor has his partner.
the Aarrld six to four were freely laid out in large sums on
I)uth'aYnards. The distance was from Westminster to
16-a,Y, and the men came to their stations at half-past 3.
and, heavy gale of the preceding night had gone down,
tl5l ce°llllPared with the few hours before it, was a par-
exe, 42,n1 ; still there was enough wind out to produce
fives 've left-handed labour. The choice for station
the "11 an he Maynards, and surrounded by cutters
we-
itembats moved to the bridge: Maynards in Mr.
ace's oars' boat, and their adversaries in a beautiful
iivt,tery
Air. Crockford's. The start was dashing in
rowr ve3Pect, and as even as the greatest admirers of
wereoz,wl, but off
and 1)C could.wish. To the Horseferry they were oar
134411, right Chandler's Coombes and his partner
tiler: IF a length a-head. It was desperate work from
up to the Red House, but Coombes and his
iu,,,kr went through Vauxhall-bridge length a-head,
Pf-8:4:41 their advantage, and won by nearly a quarter
his bolt henry lienry Maynard took the labour forward in
4ei,htt,pand Coombes did th% same in the other. The
are or the 3.,laynards exceeds twenty stone, and they
wore
not Powerful-looking fellows. Their adversaries
Pact c•ighteen stone, and presented a striking con-
, • to their opponents.

..,,, RIVALRY IN BUSINESS.
'Re riv. ! m the manufletu-
-44 of 4.l•Y' a few Yen" ago, among
that two or
thre matchless blacking was so greet,
littu_,,r the leading houses in that depa,tneent of trade
hr4""Y. retained poets of high reputation to sing the
dreZeB of their paste and liquid. It has been confi-
th, , Y,.stated that even Byron himself', before he attained
Poeticaltlight of his fame, receiv4d enormous sums for his
I)latitltatri6gi4ms on the shce polish of a well-knolln
true 0 otrer of that commodity.
I) r oterwis,, I.lThetber ars be
I am wit in a condition to say ; but
4.otne in the
practice of reading the public journalsee
strut-ft.'ea ar twenty years ago, could fail to have be
sioo:', wit the rapid succession of brilliant poetic effu-
gr,eT i)raise of the commodity in queetion, which than
'elitee' the advertising columns of the newspapers. In
_
takotetuese the jet-blacking proprietors monopolized tl e
for ti:.°f Particular poets, paying them. an annual sum
04Ys'Ir " rse," just as the proprietor of a magazine
iztiert4tgetuerieitroirel
the
ed expressly stipulating that no rival
paste or liquid should have the lal.. vote, tir their abilitie!,. In other instances, it was prhie-
OetrY I"ilatited to most of the literary men then in t
telvtrlise that poetical pieces would be gladly r:e
lib 'l' ti that those which were approved should
era 11Y re
trite of treunerated.—the remuneration being at the
tniin ;.), "e guines for every twenty lines. A gentle-
salmi ..,,e°Q)Petent taste was duly appointee, and duly
tleci,?"' to Thee judgment on the pieces submitted fore
thiiii". e were hosts of competitors, and th _
exeee of the pieces ranged from the highest order
have
Wept e.!.ce to the veriest trail,. The muses must li
ItioNj 11 their ladyships resign thrqnsc,lves to the melting
61 th't° think t.. 11 t such discreditable effusions as some
Pea t'al wee, shou'd ev .r have proceeded from this
feuletr W° °'
who but a'few moments before had pro-
-6.,/ zont')PaY their court to them.—Lights and Shadows
I.ropoii:',°,4 Life, by the Author
of " The Great Me-
•

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LITERATURE.
411 E 310112 S OF MADAME LAFARGE. 2 Vol.
These Memoirs
Co MA
London, 1841.
, which are dated from a French
Neir
gate, are from the pen of Madame Lafarge,
'who i 3 her own biorapher, and speaks
leading events of her'brief but chequered career,
vitla a frankness that is at times quite amusing
from its simplicity. Her marria...e, in particular,
with 'M. Lafarge, and all the circumstances that
i mmediately preceded. and followed it, she de-
hert ails with singular naivete, making no secret of
dislike for the man who has exercised such
in infiuence an her fortunes, Her Memoirs will
be read wit 4 interest at the present period, when
tl.ie read it
name is 6011 fresh in public recollec-
tip4 ; is
ull.:i. otherwisP, they are not calculated to
eoxfcits, attentiott,lor the incidents they relate are
ail ordiaary character; and there is a vein of
_
dentimeatality pervading the work, and a love of
Crie dtscription, that give it more the appearance.
"pr vtion than of fact.. The most entertaining
re*pters are those wherein the bio2;rapher details
We particulars of her marriage with M. Lafarge,
xv
during hich,
Ind the journey m
iinediately consequent on it,
travelling by way of proving himself a lively
Stantly- companion, her husband was con-
calling her " a duck," and, what seems to
ave annoyed her still more, "he clasped my
itra,” she
~,says,still " pinched my nose, and elin-
lrated rne Arrived at her journey's end, sae
.'fes, olutely refused to allow M. Lafarge to avail
iiauriself of his privileges as a husband, observing,
liarat that. moment I should have sickened if lie
kissed in b
perishedl„
,y, hand—in his arms I should have
lensed. • one appears, however, to have re-
afterwards, but never to have been wholly
recon6led to him; and they must have led a very
at-aud-dog sort of life, as is almost always the
ease where there is an ndue disparity of years
between husband and wife. Her account of the
lin_ ysterions death of M. Lafarge is full and cir-
jusTfcruointfautial. According to her statement, he died
fo
.I,rtrearited
natural causes; and she has been most.un-
'she adds, in bei n 0‘ consigned to prison
a c large of having poisoned calselif:°- 1 • t.'• him. The
alto a most extraordinary one ; the
lte°all,,,e adopted.by
`a one to An the biographer would certainly
--PPose that she was innocent; but
as ahe 1,
enunas be
per ea foanally condemn 'd by a jury of
--ntrY, after one .of the unst searching
there
investigations ever known, we fear that
Lucre can be little doubt of her guilt.
. _

COMOTIVE ENGINES.
s TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. ~ ,
dilt,""rne discussion on the subject of four-wheeinu
4411- s'l-wheeled engines, which has been hitherto con-
, hned to the profession, having been recently taken up
uhlita public press, it appears desirable to place the
bceject in a More bust point of view than it has hitherto
f
vhilnlegarded in e pub?ic in furtherance o
1..4_4.# leave to o¢r the follov‘ing remarks But 4 four-wheeled engine (as constructed. by Mr.
ow /PI Of the London and ariningliam Railway, the
this
tinlialter of eminence in England whho now i adopts
er t.e..tned of construction) the engine
Li is.aplnled inside-framings ; that is to say, tas eheyengine
4,, 't Ali,2_,lrely au
Pported by resting on the axles at points
1-14 ;1,4,..."" the wheels ; iti a six-wheeled engine the prin-
-11 ..1,1 —Pal points of support are outEi lc the wheels.
414
,;I',
t., The distince betwcel the points of support is thus
)11tri brit ¢h grocater in a six than in a f,-.11 r•wheoied engine.
with the theory
of
41,4ei1a. one at all acquainted either.
~ nr imey, or the practical construction or worki.og
inikeeines, can
• !at
rt the
ee between the bearings or points of support be ignorant that the greater the chs-
giteater the steadineis of a shaft, be it driv n in arntr.
euain
,er whatever. Ts observation is
more
Poaoth-
no
ierellati4 ttil: Wean ray disturbance of the smooth-
theexternal
motion is to be sought for, not in
o
the4tnnatances, but in the nature of the forces acting. 0
It ifi/l,aellble- Tlais is Ure case in thelocomotiveengime.
tint 6ehernnY assumed that the oscillatinc, and unP e,a-
,,,duac.iontion of a the
engine, and which is toe
ness at it': gLit.tmg th: ra,h, is c.4t.:1;,..1 by the uneven-
rue;
d bad repair canth road.
h
rue ; the real n exists in the engineitself.
This is

Were the cranks of the driving axle placed on a line
with the axis of the engine, the engine would have co
tendency to move otherwise than in a straight line;
as this is not the case, and the cranks are placed one
on each side, and the engine does not act on each
with equal force at the same instant, the engine is
dragged alternately from one side of the road to the
other; it, in fact, progresses sideways. Owing to the
reason just mentioned this motion is much less in a
six-wheeled than in a four-wheeled engine ; of this
fact any one can convince themselves by a five-
minutes' ride on two engines of different construc-
tions. There is another point in the construc-
tion of four-wheeled engines with inside framings,
which renders them somewhat objectionable. Owing
to the narrowness of the distance between the
bearings, the eccentric gear is obliged to be tiaced more
in the centre than is requisite in an engine with outside
framings. To give room for the eccentric gear in the
centre, the boiler has to be raised higher above the
axle, tendering the engine what is termed groggy, in
common parlance, top-heavy. These engines are thus
more liable to upset than the six-wheeled, as was shown
to be the case on the Brighten, and also in an unfortu-
nate and fet it accident that happened some months
back on the London and Birmingham Railway, and
which will doubtless be in the recollection of your
readers, from the deep excitement it caused at the
time in the public mind.
The greatest argument against four-wheeled engines
with inside framings is to be found in the fact, that al-
though this was the original form of engine, on:y one
maker of eminence (Bury) in this country continues to
construct this sort of engine. In the United States
only one firm, that of Messrs. Norris and Eastrick,
adopt this plan, the first makers in that country, in-
cluding Baldwin and Co., of Ph ladtlphia, adopting the
other form of engine.
It may then be asked, what are the inducements to
employ such enginns? The principal one undoubtedly
is, their greater cheapness. An engine of Mr. Bury's
build costs about 1,350/., while a :ix-wheeled engine,
constructed by Sharp and Roberts, of Manchester,
costs from 1,800/. upwards. On the London and
Birmingham line, where .100 engines are employed, a
saving is thus affected of from 40,000/. to 50,000/. ; an
inducement not to be readily overlooked by a commer-
cial company.
In conclusion, although I acknowledge that, as Sir
Roger de Coverley would say, much may be said on
both sides with respect to the merits of four and stx-
wheeled engines, yet I must observe that there is but
one opinion in the profession concerning engines with
inside framings--v z , that they arc decidedly objec-
tionable, and even unsafe

I might, p rhaps, have beggei the insertion of these
obierrations before, had I not only just now returned
'rem a profess.onal visit abroad ; should you consider
em worth inserting you will greaey oblige
Your obedient servant,
EDWARD A. SEAWARD

Bidcbtall, Oct. 17.

MARYLEBONE AN Et-CORN-LAW

ASSOCIATION.

A. public meeting of the inhabitants of St. Mary's dis-
trict, Maryicbone, was held on Monday, at Mr. Harring-
ton's, Portr.lan Arms, Great Quebec-street, for the pur-
pose of forming an Anti-Corn-law Association for that
district. The large room of the tavern was densely
crowded. Mr. Potter was unanimously called to the
Chair.

Sidney Smith, Esq., on entering the room, was re-
ceived with loud cheers.

The CHAIRMAN said they were pretty well aware of
the object for which they were assembled. It was to
combine for the purpose of forwarding the movement now
going on to obtain a repeal of a law both obnoxious and
unjust.—(Hear, hear.) He meant the Corn-laws.—
(Cheers.) He was confident that they would agree
with him in opinion that it was only by union, by
union assisted by kindness and good will, that they
could look for sucetss.— (Cheers.) They had met for the
carrying out of a very great measure, and if they acted
peaceably but firmly, their work would be successful.—
(Hear, hear.) Their opponents were indeed powerful,
but he recollected no instance in which the people of
England had firmly and nniteclly expressed their opi-
nion, that it had not had its due influence. The aristo-
cracy must be worked upon through their fears, and then,
as on former occasions, they would succumb.—(Hear.)
- lie had now the pleasure of introducing to their notice
Mr. Sidney Smith—(Loud cheers)—a gentleman who
had done much to assist and enlighten the public mind
on this important question, and to do away with the mys-
tification in which it had been so long involved.
Mr. SMITH then came forward amidst loud -cheers,
and, in the course of a powerful address, ably expatiated
on the advantages which England would derive from a
free trade in corn. He had that day met with an extract
from M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary, of the deepest
importance, and which could not be too (Alen impressed
on the public mind. Holland . was the only country in
the world in which the rulers had the wisdom to leave
the trade in corn entirely free, and what had been the
result ? They should hear, in Mr. M'Culloch's words.
—(He then read an extract from the work, to the effect
that in Holland, where there were no Corn -laws, a scarcity
was unknown.) The only country which was depend-
ent upon the whole world for its supplies WAS the only
one in which there had never been a scarcity of corn.—
(Cheers.) And, not only had they never had's' seer-
eity themselves, -but • they actually profiteal by the
occurrence. of a scarcity in other --countries—Cßenewed
cheers)—and that even to the extent of enriching them
for seven years.—(Cheers.) If such were the advan-
tages that had accrued to Holland, what would be the
gain to England if we had a free trade in corn ?. For
every port that Holland had, England could point to a
dozen. For every article of barter that the Dutch pos-
sessed, England could point to a hundred. For' every
quarter of .corn that the Dutch could store up, England
had capital large enough-to store up a thousand. There
was no advantage which the Dutch possessed
in which this country was not immeasurably supe-
rior, and the beneficial consequences which would
result if we pursued the same line of enlight-
ened policy would be incalculable.—(Loud cheers.)
London would be the granary of. England. For every
one vessel of grain that now appeared in the Thames,
we should have ten, and for every ton of shipping now
employed in that traffic, we should have a hundred
(Cheers.) But the blessings would not be confined to
the metropolis ; they would be extended throughout the
kingdom, and England would quickly become the gra-
nary of the world.—(Cheers.) We should then have
corn seldom or ever above 30s. a quarter, whereas now,
when it was at that price in the market of the world,
there was a tax on it of 555. Bd., or 180. per cent.—
(Hear, hear Mr. Smith concluded an energetic lecture
amidst great applause.
Mr. linrenixo rose to move the first resolution, and in
doing so he felt it unnecessary to enter into detail in
consequence of the able manner in which the subject had
already been treated by the able Lecturer.—(Hear.) The
resolution was, " That the present Corn-laws are oppres-
sive and unjust, and therefore ought to be wholly and
forthwith repealed."
Mr. WALKER St conded the resolution. It was then
put from the Chair, and carried unanimously.
Mr. FRAMPTON moved the next resolution. The
landed aristocracy, and those who opposed the repeal of
the Corn-laws, were answerable for the misery which
was so prevalent in the country.—(Hear.) He was one
who thought that the. poor man should have cheap
bread. - (Hear.) As he was coming to the meeting
he called at a poor man's to leave a pair of shoes to
be mended. He went to that man because he had a
large family. On entering the kitchen, he found three
of the young children crying, and on inquiring what was
the matter, the mother said that they had had only one
slice of bread, and were crying and unwilling to go to
bed without another, which she had not to give.—(Hear,
hear). He thought that the children would be able to
get another slice if the Corn-laws were repealed, and
therefore he begged to move the following resolution :
" That should the landowning aristocracy continue their
opposition to the repeal of the Corn• laws, a measure
both reasonable and just, this meeting earnestly recom-
mend to their fellow-countrymen to adopt every practi-
cal measure to obtain compensation from the estates of
the landowners in conjunction with the repeal of the
law."
Mr. .AnsTre seconded the resolution.

It was then put and carried with only four dissentients.
Mr. COOK moved the next resolution, that au Asso-
ciation be now formed for this district to act in conjunc-
tion with those already, formed in other districts of this
parish, and also with the Anti-Corn-law Associations
throughout the kingdom. He felt convinced that the
inhabitants of that district would do their duty.—
(Cheers.) They had been late in the field. but that was
only a reason for acting with greater energy.—(Cheers.)
The time was Come for every man to take this great
question to himself. Such a time, he was satisfied,
never was seen, and greater distress never existed in
the country.—(Hear, hear.) There were strong
indications that a scarcity. of bread would be soon felt in
the country, as well as a scarcity of employment. He
had been told lately, by a friend of his engaged in tit 3
'corn trade, that a vast quantity of corn was now ;
imported, on speculation, into this country, althow h the
duty was now so high as 16s. Bd. per quarter. They
might judge for themselves at what price corn mi st be
before they let it out of their hands again.—(Hear.)
Mr. CARR seconded the resolution.
Some opposition was attempted by a few Chartists, an
an amendment was moved to the effect, that to extend
the suffrage was the best way of obtaining a repeal of
the Corn-laws. The original resolution was carried by
an immense majority.
e,i
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman
for his able conduct in the Chair.
Several
t cametheir
r n forwardames aasn dme paidmb e theirrs
of
the subscriptions,:
Association.getal en
iinie enteredmeeting
then
then broke up.

BELGIAN RAILROAD,-Ihe southern line
will be further opened, on the Ist of November, to
Jurbise ; and en the 16th of December (the King's
birthday-) to Mons. Important changes in the service of
the other t7reat lines are announced by a Liege journal,
the Tribu:.c, as intended to take place neNt month.
Two fait trains are to run daily between Liege and
and wh will Brussels, in which there will be no carriages but dili-
gences, which will net stop at any intermediate stations,
hours. 'j'o other trains will stop at all the usual
11 consequently make the journey' in two
stations. It is also said that the carriage of small parcels
will be charged much higher than at present ; but. we
hope that statement is incorrect.—Brussel Paper.
The net fishing for salmon in Tweed closes this
bnt co,nsistr.cl prinoirally
day (Friday). The take during the week has been good,
out oi se.,-on as a. wh.:lc has., -.; we have
of tr,,uts, which are now getting
stated en &Muer occasions, been considerably abOYe an
average.—eßerwick Advertiser.

THE SUN, -LON

OVERFLOW OF THE THAMES.

On Monday 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 forced
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, at about
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 most rapid
manner. Al three o'clock the river had flowed above'
its common level, and the water began to rush into the
cellars and underground apartments.
_ _ _

WAPPING.—Ai 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 the 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 inWapping-street, Great Hermitage-street, Gravel-
lane, and about 100 other streets and alleys leading
oat of the main street, were under water soon 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 tine for 41 Sears inundated, and property to a
largeamount damaged and washed away. The houses
which have suffered most in Wapping are the Town of

Ramsgate Tavern, at Wapping Ofd-stairs ; the Water-
men's Arms, Wapping New-stairs ; the Black Boy,
kept by A*. Brown, opposite, whose gas-meter was
destroyed ; the Ship, Execution Dock, where Mr.
Johnson, the landlord, nnd,hia„-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. .The water extended to the house of Mr. 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 lefein a cradle in one of the parlours,
had a very narrow escape. The mother saved it. Com-
ing down stairs about half-past four o'clock, she found
the water had entered the parlour, and the cradle was
afloat, with the child in it asleep, and quite uncon-
scious of its danger. A poor woman was drowned in
Plough-alley, Wapping. She was bed-ridden, and the
inmates of the house where she lived forgettinee her in
the confusion which pie:railed, the water rushed in, 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 Hurter, living on the
ground floor of No. 9, Plough-alley, had a narrow
escape. She remained so long in the house that retreat
by the door was rendered impracticable, and she clung
to the upper sash of the window for 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 great
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 in,les.

The following wharfs were more or less flooded :
Aberdeen, Beal's, Black Lion, Carron, Chamberlain's,
Cotton's, Downe's, Dublin, Penning's, Griffin's, Gan
and Shot, Harrison's, Hartshorn (Excise), Hay's,
Here's, Leith and Glasgow, Leith and Berwick, Sco-
yell'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.

BLACK WALL 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 many vague and unfounded rumours. The neigh-
bourhood of Blackwall and the adjoining marshes were
under water to a groat extent. The ship-buildity, yards
of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, Wigrain aneGreen,
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 run the trains
With any degree of safety.
.The Tower and Custom-
house wharfs were under water. Darkhouse-kne,. Bil-
linsgate, and Nicholson's-wharf were also overflowed.
ROCHESTER AND STROUD.—At Rochester and Strond
the coast appeared like a fair, crowds of people being
employed in bailing water out of 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.
GREENWICH.—The extensive rope grounds of Enderby,
at East Greenwich, were completely under water, which
had forced the embankment.- The Greenwich marshes,
in the occupation 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 throngh in boats. Deptford-creek,
Deptford-bridge, and the houses on the south side of
Blackheath-road were inundated.

On Sunday, soon after 12 o'clock, a lighter, from
Grays, Essex, the property of Mr. Robinson, of Kew,
was run into by the British Rose schooner, belonging to
Wisbeach. The 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.

On Monday, at 12 o'clock, as four men in a boat were
weighing a kedge anchor, the boat upset, and one man
immediately sank to rise no more.

SOUTH SIDE OF THE THAMES.—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 from low water mark. From the Custom-house
to Blackfriars-bridge about 20 bargee were sunk, and one
loaded with 28 tons of coal was actually blown over just
below London-bridge.
ROTHERHITHE.—ShortIy after three o'clock the water
at the Platform and Paradise-row, Rotherhithe, passed
the marks of any previous high tide. Eotherhithe, 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 xt
one time looked more like wet-docks and basins of water
than places for the deposit of dry goods, n hich 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 AU. Hum-
phery, the granaries in Montague-close, 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.
BOROUGH MARKET.—At one period a considerable
portion of the Borough-market was covered with water,
while every house along Benkside and the 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 Belvidere-road,
Edward-street, Vine-street, and the York-road, were
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, &e.,
were completely saturated ; and the houses in the York-
road had their kitchens and areas half filled with water.
The Commercial-road to Stamford-street did not escape.
Great apprehensions were created for the safety of the
Thames Tunnel. The shaft by which visitors descend
was surrounded with water.-
WESTMINSTER.—The whole of the lower part of
Westminster was inundated. If Parliament had been
sitting the Members could only have reached the two
Houses in boats. Palace-yard and the adjacent streets
were under water, and the floor of Westininsier-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 bf the Law Courts in boats. A similar
occurrence happened in 1736.
HUNGERFORD.—The wharfs. at Hungerford were under
water. Cannon-row had beCome a brook or river.
Along Milbank-row the road and footpath were impas-
sable ; the river made its way through the iron gate
fronting the entrance to the Milbank Penitentiary, end
the water reached under the prison-gates, and rushed
down to the stone wharfs and market-gardens surround-
ing the Penitentiary: •
VAUXHALL AND LAMBETH.—On the apposite bank of
this part of the river, namely, at Lambeth and up' to
Vauxhall, the effects were equally disastrous. The
Wandsworth-road from Vauxhall turnpike was flooded,
and only passable by carriages, &c. ; and the like was
the case in front of the station near the London and
South-western Railway terminus. Kennington-oval and
Old Vauxhall suffered extensively.
At the gardens at Brunswick-house, formerly the re-
of the river was washed away
sidence.of the Duke of Brunswick, the wall by the side
at the ebbing of the tide.
The water overflowed the gardens, and when returning
into its natural channel pressed so heavily against the
wall that it gave way, and the whole fell into the Thames.
The houses in Fore-street, Lambeth, which are chiefly
occupied by fishermen and their families, were flooded
from two to three feet deep, as were also those in
Church-street. The churchyard was also inundated.
At Stangate the flood commenced at Messrs. Searle'g,
and flowed thence to Crosier-street, Palace New-road' ,
the Bishop's-walk, and thence along to Vauxhall.
BATTERSEA.—At Battersea-bridge no craft larger
than a small fishing-boat could pass under either arch.
The Red-house suffered severely.
TEMPLE GARDENS.—The Temple gardens were over-
flowed, and a boat might be seen rowed over them. The
Duke of Buceleueh's gardens were wholly under water.
The enormous coffer-dam at Westminster-bridge was
full of water, and all labour was suspended. An old man,
employed as a watchman on boaed a barge rnooretl on
the vr•crat Eitlz: of 11.2.(1 a very narrow
escape of being drowned. The barge had been driven
by the wind and tide, about fottr O'clock in the morning;

ON, 'WEDNESDAY, OC'

against one of the buttresses of the bridge,, and almost
immediately sank. A boat was put off at great ris'c to
his rescue.
On Monday evening a man, named John Davis, was
taken to Guy's Hospital in a very exhausted state, having
been picked out of the water near Park-street, Southwark.
THE PooL.--A great deal of damage was done to the
shipping in the Pool, by being forced from their moor-
ings, and also to the coal barges moored at the different
wharfs. The Messrs. Horne, coal-merchants, of Bank-
side, are considerable losers, by three barges, coal-laden,.
having got adrift, :and sunk. Messrs. Capel and Co.
had no less than seven heavily laden barges adrift at one
time, four of which have been recovered ; the rest are,
no doubt, sunken.
SUBSIDING OF THE IVATERS.—On the subsiding of
the waters in the evening a deposit of mud and filth was
left in the streets and 'houses which was very offensive.
People in all directions were busily employed pumping
water out of their cellars and warehouses. 'Many, how-
ever, deferred this operation, in the expectation that the
wind which was from the north-west would keep
the water up Channel, and. with the spring tides
cause another and more lofty rising of the water
yesterday. On the Surrey shore myriacla of rats, driven
up the sewers by the flow of the tide, were seen running •
about the• streets to save themselves from drowning ;
men and dogs killed numbers.
The Gazelle steamer, Captain Hurst, from Hull, ar-
rived •on Saturday afternoon, at half-pest two o'clock,
with one hundred passengers on board. During the
voyage the Gazelle fell in
with the Wreck of the brig
Elizabeth, and another vessel, name unknown, which
afterwards went down. Captain Hurst reports that he
met with several other vessels in the Swin with topmasts
gone, and considerable other damage, occasioned by the
late gales, which have caused great damage to the ship-
ping

. The damage done between London and Putneybridets
alone, is estimated at several thousand pounds. The
Market, is said to be so
coffer-damat the intended-new chain-pier of Hungerford
completely destroyed, that the
whole of the work must be done over again. The cellars
and rooms of almost every house on die Surrey side of
the Thames, from the Vauxhall-road to Waterloo-
e
bridge, are. still filled with water ; and yesterday an
extraordinary scene was witnessed, hundreds of persons
being employed in baling and
puMping out the water.
At one time the water opposite the entrance of the"
South Western Railway was six feet deep. It is
an extraordinary fact, that two watermen named Ander-
eon, who ply at-Waterloo-bridge, and who took up two
gentlemen to witness the great oars match, actually
rowed their fare to the door of a public-house in Ful-
some refreshment. A large qtraitity-of land at Green-
wich,
ham.(a quarter of it mile
_from the shore), and obtained
Woolwich, Erith, and . other places on the Kent
and Essex shores, are still underwater, and it will be
many days before anything like a correct statement of
the damage can be obtained.
LATEST PARTICULARS LAST NIGHT.
Those living in the neighbourhood of Bankside ap-
pear to be the greatest sufferers. The waters entered
the factory of Mr. A. Pellatt, and rose to a height of two
feet upon the ground floor, overwhelming that part in
which the old furnace for melting glass was placed,
and rising to within a short distance of the mouth of the
new one. Had the flooding continued much longer, or
had it entered the furnace, the loss of property and life
would have been terrific, for an explosion would have in-
evitably taken place. With the exception of the alarm
occasioned by this danger, Mr. Pellatt does not consider
his'los will be very great. It is impossible to form an
opinion, as the lower warehouses aro still inundatek-but
which was being got rid of by an engine similar to the
small ones formerly used by parishes in cases of fire.
Messrs. Doherty and Co., tUrHers, adjoining Mr. Pel-
latt's, have suffered much more severely than their neigh-
bours, having between 2,0001. and- 3,0001. of furs and
skins 'damaged ; and, had it not
.been for the exertions
used, the damage would have been much greater. Upon
finding that the water was forcing its way in, they
began to remove the most valuable furs from the under
rooms.

Mr. Dowes, baker, of Great Guildford-street, bad his
oven
,filled with water; just after he had put in a batch of
bread, besides a large quantity of flour damaged. A
similar occurrence happened to Mr. llawgood, baker, of
Park-street, who, with his neighbour, has sustained
considerable damage. -
Along the whole line of Bankside the landlords of the
Compasses, Rose and Crown, the George, Welsh
Trooper, as well as every other inhabitant, have been
severe sufferers. In some of the Public-houses the in-
mates were obliged to stand upon the bar.
Below bridge the greatest:damage has been sus-
tained by Messrs. Brown and Young, whose granaries
are loaded with bonded corn, of which about 2,500
-quarters got wetted, and which will deteriorate it in
value about 20s. per quarter. The loss .or damage done
at the various granaries of Mr. Dudin, Shad Thames, is
equally as great. Our informant heard that the loss
amongst the bonded holders of foreign corn exceeded
20,00 q, the truth of which it was impossible to ascertain.
The tide of yesterday morning, although exceedingly
high, was fortunately unattended with any disastrous
consequences, and during the day several of the barges
which had been sunk by the violence of the gale of Sun-
day night, were raised.

EXTRAORDINARY TIDES IN THE

1;117111 THAMES.

The extraordinary swellings of the waters of the
Thames, though understood in the present an as the
result of certain natural causes, were, in the early pe-
riods of our history, and by our superstitious ancestors,
regarded as prodigies, or punishments for offences against
the Chit reh. 3tierersheleas, titteir -4.nzu t-rene-: lux, always
been looked upon with fear and dismay ; .and it will be
seen by the following list, 'drawn up front early chroni-
clers and historians, as well as from the registers of later
times, that these high fi teds have neither been few nor
undestructive. The first mention of one of these dis-
asterS is in the reign of William 11., and it closely iden-
tifies itself in its details with the effects of the recent
ravages. We give them in chronological order, together
with some of the remarkable ebb tides.
1029. Shortly after Rufus became. King, Fabian has
recorded, in hip Chronicle, that
so high a tide happened
that the River Thames overflowed its banks in a multi-
tude of places, " whereby," says he, " several towns and
villages were laid under water, and many of their inha-
bitants. with an infinite number of sheep and oxen,•were
drowned," It was at this exact time that part of the
nds belonging to Godwin Earl of Kent, called the Good-
win Sands, were swallowed up. -
1114. In this year there was so great a deficiency of
water in the Thames, that the people passed by London-
bridge with dry feet.
1150. In the summer of this year, the people were able
to pass over dry-shod again, through the sluggishness of
the titles.

1242: Matthew Paris, the historian, mentions at this
period one of the greatest inundations of the Thames on
record. In this instance it broke over its banks at Lam-
beth, and laid the country under water for the space of
six miles, to the great loss of the inhabitants.
1411, Oct. 20. Within the space of twenty-four
hours, three tides of flood happened in the river Thames,
which, says Fabian in his Chronicle, greatly amazed the
citizens, and occazioned many to look upon the same as
portentous.

- 1437. A very uncommon low neap-tide occurred this
year, by which the Londoners 'could pass over the river
dry -sho'd.
1550, Sept. 17. Strype, in his edition of Stowe's
Survey, mentions that on this day the [Thames ebbed
and flowed three times within the space of nine hours.
1564. On the 26th of January at night, the Thames
was greatly agitated by preternatural fluxes, which
obliged the natural tide twice to recoil five hours before
its time ; the next - day these were repeated twice in the
morning and twice at night.
1564, Nov. 6. An exceedingly high tide, says Stow
in his English Annals, happened on this day in the river
Thames," and after high water, having ebbed about an
hour, a preternatural reflux returned with such an
amazing impetuosity, that it soon overflowed its banks,
and all the marshes of Lambeth, beside filling .rill the
neighbouring cellars, and subterranean warehouses, and
occasioning incredible damage.
1608, Feb. 19. On this day, in King James's tim-Aeat an
hour whiff it should have been low water at the bridge,
it was high, and then again in a short time it ebbed to a
foot in depth ; it then again, on a sudden, flowed almost
two ;'eet higher then it did before, and then ebbed again
until it came near to the proper height, so that the next
flood was in its proper manner. All this happened be-
fore
twelve o'clock at noon, the weather being inditfer,
ently calm. . .
1609. A preternatural tide happened in this year, which
flowed and ebbed four times in the space of four hours.
1622. In the morning the Thames shifted four tides in
five hours, two floods and -two ebbs, and then •kept its
right course.
1652, Feb. 2. The Thames ebbed and flowed thrice in
six hours, and the like shifting of-tides was observed in
Thames.e ebbed and
the maritime places in Kent, at the same time, and
llowed to a sur-
prising
occa-
sioned great overflowings.
1654, Oct. 3. The bb
clock at
dnsiogfhtpeaonpdle five the next
height of water, and subsequent decreaSe, twice •
of the Thames was reduced so low
in three hours.
ile7slbo7oa.tshoTnal,lbeto!lsvtaerteand below London-bridge
1660, Nov. 1. The Thames ebbed and flowed three
morning ; the convulsion of its waters was very .great.
times between
toot,t ii passed it on
, and through
most of the arches.
1730, Dec.-3. On this day happened, says Maitland,
the highest -tide in the River Thames that had been
known in the memory of map. It overflowed Wapping,
Tooley-street, and many other places, doing incredible
damage, by filling „liars,
.iy.arehonses, and subterranean
places with floods, and spoiling vast quantities of goods
t e:anrima nO.:
and merchandise.
1791, Feb. %. 011 • this, clay there was the highest
flood tide on the iLiver 'a hanu.‘s that vas ever remem-
bered. Above Westminster Bridge it overflowed the
banks of- the river on both sides. In Palace-yard it
was near two feet deep. It ran into Westminster Hall,
and . beats • were rowed up to Westminster Hall-gate.
The two Scotherl-yards, and Privy-gardens, White
hall, were entirely under water. Several poor people in
Seotiand-yard had:four feet of water in their shops, and
their, beds floating in their rooms. At Westminster
Hall the water ran .in for nearly an hour, and below
bridge the meadows and marshes were one continued
sheet of water. At Leasa.ter the sea-walls and banks
' i were broken known and washed away.
At -Whitstable
the storehouses on the beach were whirled down, 'and
at;Deal the sea-bank was washed away. Not an island
hut severe', suffered Potten, Wallace, and New Eng-
.land, were entirely overflowed, and 400 sheep were
swept off the latter. The coasts of Essex, as also those
of Suffolk, suffered more terribly than all.
. -. 1822. The tide milk so low that valuable articles which
L had lain in the Tb?bqe.s. for a long pealed were picked
' ep, while about /2 0 d0,..k the tide returned with addi-
L tional impetuosity, and rose to a great height, doing
I I great damage to the shores and craft. .