The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

HIGH WINDS AND FLOODS.

The high wind on Monday night was productive of
much mischief westward of the metropolis. Hyde Park
and Kensington-gardens were on Tuesday morning
strewed with massive limbs and branches-of trees, while
numerous were the shrubs levelled to the ground.
Nearly opposite the Kensington-gate of Hyde Park a
house newly erected by a budder named Paine had the
roof completely carried away by the wind. In the Duke
of Devonshire's park at Chiswick much damage was
done ; and also at Sion Park, the seat of the Duke of
Northumberland, Osterley Park, the seat of the Earl of
Jersey, and in Hanworth Park, the seat of Mr. H.
Perkins, several valuable trees have been torn up by the
roots.

The heavy rains during the last few days have occa-
sioned large floods throughout the neighbourhood of the
metropolis, which have been productive of much loss
and damage, and in many places have occasioned great
alarm amongst the inhabitants. About Hanwell all tbe
low lands are under water, while in the neighbourhood
of Greenford, Nertholt, Perivalc, and the surrounding
parts below Harrow, the roads are in many places dan-
gerous, and in some impassable, some of the sergeants
of police reporting on Tuesday morning that, owing to
the height of the water, they had been unable to visit
the whole of the constables in their sections. About
Uxbridge, and the lower parts of East Bucks, the coun-
try is greatly inundated, and , much damage has been
done both to crops and cattle. At Brcntford, on Mon-
day night, the inhabitants were greatly alarmod by the
continued rise of the waters of the Grand Junction
Canal, which were swollen and increased to an alarming
extent.

On Tuesday morning the wharfs of Mr. Sims and
others on the banks of the canal were flooded, but the
damage done was not considerable.
About seven o'clock on Monday night a new shop-
front in Church-street, Borough, was blown with great
violence into the street, the panes of glass flying about
in all directions, and the whole being completely smashed
to pieces. A female who was passing by was severely
wounded by a piece of glass striking hr in the cheek.
About Line o'clock on Tuesday morning a high
chimney, belonging to an. unoccupied house in Ber-
mondsey-street, fell, and did considerable damage to the
roof of the house.

In St. George's-road, Lambeth, a stack of chimneys,
on the house of Mr. Wheelton, fruiterer, fell with a tre-
mendous crash, driving in a large portion of the roof
with it ; fortunately no person was in the attic at the
time, or the occurrence would have been attended with
fatal results.

At Greenwich several fields, as well as public tho-
roughfares, adjacent to the river Rqvenshourne, were
completely covered with water. An extent of nearly
thirty acres of meadow and, at the back of Blackheath-
road, during Monday and Tuesday, presented the ap-
pearance of a large lake. 'At Lewisham the high road
was oNerflown for several hundred yards, and foot pas-
sengers were conveyed over in carts. At Lee, South.
end, Mortingham, and various other places, the same
result from the almost unprecedented rains of Monday
ensued. At Lee Green the main road was covered
from a small stream which in dry weather a person can
step across, but in which, during a heavy fall of rain
some time since, a farmer, residing in Kent, was unfOr-
tunately drowned. He was returning home one night,
and, not being aware that the water had risen, drove
his horse into the stream, At Southend several fields
belonging to Mr. Edgerton, farmer, wore quite inun-
dated. At Brockley, Peckham, some fields near the
Grand Surrey Canal, and again i❑ places nearer the
metropolis, patches of land are overflowed, some of them
to a great extent.

The river on Tuesday morning was a terrible scene
of confusion, the craft were adrift and sinking in all di-
rections, and not fewer than one hundred barges laden
with coals got loose from their moorings and sunk
during the night. The shipping has not sustained much
damage, but many tiers got adrift, and a few vessels
received injury by the barges going athwart them. The
hurricane or. Sunday and Monday nights has been se-
verely filt in the Channel, and at Plymouth, Falmouth,
the Downs, and other places there are more than two
hundred rail of vessels outward and homeward bound
waiting for a fair wind to get under weigh. Ramsgate
harbour is crowded with vessels of all nations which have
taken refuge there. The Nelson steam-tug towed a
schooner off the sands near Margate at five o'clock on
Monday afternoon, and reached St. Katherine Decks
with her yesterday at twelve at noon. The captain of
the steamer reports that several vessels had gone ashore
or were on the sands, and that the gale was one of the
most severe he ever experienced.

A very fatal and distressing accident happened on
the river, between Wandsworth and Putney. Two
lads, of the names of Moor and Vincent, whose
parents live at Putney, were out in a skiff. When the
weather became very boisterous, they endeavoured to
reach the Surrey shore, about half a mile above
Wandsworth meadows ; but from bad management,
with the high wind and strong tide, the boat unhap-
pily swamped. Vincent almost immediately disap-
peared ; but Moor, being a good swimmer, succeeded
in reaching the shore, although in a very exhausted
state. The accident was seen from a sailing-barge, but
those on board were unable to render any assistance.
The body of the poor youth who perished. has not yet
been found. Owing to the very high witid on Tues-
day, many other accidents, in addition to the above
melancholy one, happened on the river. Three men
were upset in a boat off Rotherhithe, but providen-
tially they were all saved. Near Greenwich a man was
blown from the yard-arm of a coasting vessel, l
,but
for-
tunately falling into the river, ho sustained no injury,
and was picked up by a waterman's boat.

The Seine continues rising. Between Friday
evening and Saturday at twelve, it rose fed a font, and was
up to 14 ft 8. in. by the scales on the bridges; The water
covered the piles of the Pont du Carrousel up;to their cor-
nices. All the wharfs and cellars of the houses at Berg are
inundated, and so'are all the landing places above and below
Paris. The road between Bercy and Charenton is
no longer passable on foot, the water reaching up
to the houses. On the other side of the river, not
far from the Barriere du Jardin des Plautes, in the
direction of the Quai St. Bernard, and even to some
distance in the fields, the Ivry road in some parts is
more than eighteen inches under water, and foot passen-
gers are obliged to pay for being conveyed in boats.
Above Charenton the Marne has overflowed the fields,
so that they form a vast lake. The Plain de Grenelle,
below Paris, remains still uninvaded. The authorities
having the superintendence of the river have given or-
ders for taking every precaution to prevent accidents.