The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-30 00:00:00

ENGLISH ESTABLISHED CHURCH AT

HAMBURG.

(From the Hani,,,ro Repor!er.)
The fallowing offici .1 notification has been made by tFe
authori'ies of this city :
" Th. mivileg.s of an es...thlshed c mgregation having
now been constitutionally conferred on the profe.sors of
the Anglo-Episcopal Church, it has also been deemed ex-
pedient to remove any douht on the sehject of the official
acts hitherto performed in this city by the clergyman of that
Church. It has therecore been constitutionally resolved—
" That all the official title hitherto performed her,
since the abolition of the Omit by the clergyman of tia,
Anglo• Episcopal Church, who has been tolerated in hi.
functions, shall he considered as if he had been formally
confirtred by the State, and shall have the same force,
which is hereby made known and recommended to the
attention of all.

" Given at our Assembly of the Senate, Hamburg,
the 20th January, 1834."

DISASTROUS EFFECTS of the HIGH TIDE.

Yesterday morning the waters n' the river Thames rose
to a most unusual height, and in many places overflowed
the hanks, and committed very great damage. About four
o'clock the inhabitants of the lower parts of Wapping,
Shadwell, Limehouse, Blackwall, and Rotherhithe, were
alarmed by the rushing of the waters into their cellars.
The tide continued rising until nearly five o'clock, at
which time the lower premises of the houses in the above
parishes, and the lower parts of the following places,—
Lambeth, Bankside, Blackfriars, Vauxhall, the lower part
of the Strand, Stangate, Blackwall, and Deptford, were
under water, and moveable goods and furniture of every
description were floating about. The quantity of
perishable articles spoil ad by the inundation must be
very great. The granary keepers on the bank of the
Thames are great sufferers by the inundation. On the
receding of the tide laree quantities of corn were carried
away from the ground floors, and many thousand quarters
of grain have been damaged and spoiled. The water
rushed into Douglas's granary in High-street, Wapping,
the lower floor of which was filled with 200 sacks of
flour, and several hundred quarters of wheat. Every
precaution had been taken to prevent the admission of the
water, but unfortunately it carried every thing before it,
and on the waters receding it was found that 200 quarters
of grain had been damaged, and the sacks of flour bad
been immersed in the flood to the depth of eighteen inches,
and converted a great portion of the flour into a paste
The cellars, bar, parlours, and tap-rooms of the Town
of Ramsgate and Waterman's Arms' public-houses, in,
the same street, were filled with water, which in the
latter house, reached as high as the settles in the
parlour. The damage done to the property of the
two publicans is considerable ; several ale and beer bar-
rels were broached by the violence of the inunda-
tion. For nearly an hour Wapping-street, from Exe-
cution Dock to the Waterman's Arms, a distance of a
quarter of mile, was under water, and watermen were
employed to take the inhabitants and passengers to and fro
in boats. The same appearance presented itself io Shad-
well. In several houses in Black wall where the kitchens
were occupied as sleeping apartments, very narrow escapes
of the loss of human life occurred, the inmates being
awoke by finding themselves immersed in water, which
had reached above their bedsteads. Some watermen heard
the screams of a family living in a small tenement near the
Orchard House, Blackwell, and they rowed their boat close
to the window, in which they found an old couple and
their daughter standing on their bed which was covered
with water. By means of a plank they were enabled to
reach the boat, and it was fortunate they did so, for in
less than a minute after wards the hovel and every-
thing in it was carried away by the force of the tide. Se-
veral walls which had been erected to keep out the water
were in many places thrown dawn. The water flowed up
the sewers wi'h such tremendous violence, that numbers
of drains were buret open. The Temple gardens were
also partially overflowed. The tide rose so high on the
Tower-wharf that the water obtained admission into the
interior part of the fortress, and overflowed the cellars filled
with Government stores. It is feared that a number of poor
families will be totally ruined by this unexpected inunda-
tion. The streets near the river presented a very animated
scene during the day, from the number of persons pump-
ing the water out of their cellars; but they had scarcely
finished the task of emptying them at considerable
labour and expense, when the tide of yesterday evening
again rose to ne irly the same height as that in the morning,
and compelled them to perform the same work over again.
A gr- at many tradesmen and householders had scarcely
rep tired the initiries caused by the extraordinary high title
of the 2,1 of Novemrter, which was erroneously said to
prognosticate a severe witrer, than that of y s•erday
visited them, and was much more disastrous in its ff as.
On Monday afternoon the river ovcifl,wed its banks,
but not to a great extent. The high tide of yesterday
has been caused by the sudden ch rnge of the wino
from the south-west to the north-east, and the additi
of the land war, rs occasioned by the heavy and long.
continued rains.