Star.
London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

EFFTCT.S OF THE LATE HEAVY RAINS.

The late heavy rains have done considerable damage
in vai ions places on the banks of the Thames, and espe-
cially on the small 'jeers leading into it ; the whole of
the low grounds on the Kent side of the aver Are over-
flowed, and a number of housei situated near Deptfozd
Creek have been desttoyed, with propetty to a consi-
derable amount, in consequence of the Creek having
washed away their foundations, and numerous parties
of people, horses, and carts, were employed the whole
of yesterday in that neighbourhood, securing what
could be collected horn the flood.

Saturday last the low grounds near Stratford and
Hackney were completely vet flowed, so much so that
people were employed can ying passengers through the
marshes at Stratford and Lea Bfidge, with carts and
horses, at the rate of sixE•ence each. The bridge itself,
at the latter place, was covered with water to a con,i-
derahle de}•th. The Green \lan, near Stratford, was
surrounded by the flood, and the occupants, as well as
those of several adjoining houses, were taken out of the
first floor windows.

The ancient water-cnu•se named Turnmill-brook,
communicating with the Thames from the vicinity of
Highgate and II unpstead, in that part between St.
Pancras and Ow Moose of Correction, overflowed the
banks, inundated the gardens, and did considerable in-
jury to the inhabitant) and their dwellings.
he Edinburgh and Boston Mails did not arrive in
town until past twelve o'clock yesterday. The Fakenham
and Cambridge Mail, and York Wellington Coach,
were also detained by the fl sods. The first delay caused
to the Edinburgh and Yin k coaches was at Caton, in
Huntingdonshire, by the waters being out to a vast ex •
teat. On the arrival of the four at Wades Mill, the
whole place was inundated to a dreadful degree, and
three-fourths of the bridge was washed away. From
that place to Ware the water presented a devastating
appearance, and the houses were in some instances
three and four feet under water. At Ware, between the
two bridges, the railing or a timber yar d had given way,
and the whole street was blocked up with many floating
pieces of the paling, and large masses of timber; the
delay caused at this place was four hour s. On their
artival at Waltham Cross. it was ascertained that the
bt idge at Enfield Wash was carried away by the cur-
rent, and the waters so deep that a passage Was impos.
Bible; consequently the coachman proceeded by Enfield
Town, and came into the main road at Tottenham.
During last night the Fakenham coach teas over-
turned, but no damage was caused by the accident.
Near to Edmonton, two carmen were drowned, and
four cart horses; and in many places carts and wag-
gons lay overturned in the ditches.
Thursday the neighly,urhood of Chelmsford wal
visited by a violent storm of thunder, lightning, and
rain, which at some places came down in such for renzs,
as to wash many fields so as to leave the grain lately
sown uncovered. At Cold Norton, upon the farm oc-
cupied by Mr. George Abrey, a short distance from
Danbury, a large oak tree was shivered to atumc, the
bark forced off, and scatteted, with the branches of the
tree, to a considerable distance.
The rain, on Saturday last, caused a greater flood on
the river Cohn, near ltickmansworth, than has been
witnessed for the last twenty-nine years. The waters
rose on Sunday morning so rapidly as to undermine and
.blow up the Highway-btidge over the river, near tie
Church, and to endanger the premises and lives of the
inhabitants residing in the neighbourhood.

SUFFERERS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE•

GLASGOW, MAY 13.

Wednesday, in pursuance of a requisition numerously
signed, and addressed to the LOPD PnovosT, a Public
Meeting was held in the Town Hall here, for the pur-
pose of opening a subsctiption to aid in relieving the
bitter distress and misery with which so many of our
fellow-countrymen and subjects are at present surrounded
in Southern Africa. The LORD PROVOST was called to
the Chair, and having shortly stated the object of the
Meeting, a series of Resolutions were, after a very short
conversation, unanimously adopted, and a handsome
,subscription immediately entered into by the Gentlemen
who were present, and which, we have no doubt, will be
followed up in a manner that will do credit to this great
and opulent commercial city.
We would earnestly call the attention of our fellow.
citizens to this work of charity and benevolence. Their
mites were never bestowed in a more necessary aod
merciful cause. The charity solicited is not solicited to
be bestowed upon Spaniards callous to their own and
their country's liberty, glory, and honour. It is not so-
licited to be scattered over and into distant corners of
the world amidst savages, barbarians—New Zealanders,
Ashantees, or other descendants of Ham—but to relieve
the unprecedented misery and starlings—poverty,
wretchedness, and despair, of our own flesh and blood
—Britons—men and Women, white and civilized—our
children, ft iends, and relations—fellow-subjects and fel-
low Christians—surrounded with, and subjected to
wants and dangers amidst the bare, wild, and inhospi-
table regions of Southern Africa, there exposed to the
ferocity of the wild beasts of the desert ; and to men as
brutal and ferocious as they. No words we can use
can adequately describe the distress of those whom we
are now called upon to relieve. Thousands who never
knew want, feel in Southern Africa its bitterest pangs.
Hundreds who moved in a superior sphere of life, ate
there most destitute and most wretched.
The sufferers who perished amidst the flames of the
Abeona were fortunate compared to those who linger
oat a misetable existence in Southern Africa. At the
Cage of Good Hope, we asset t, English women are
starving ; English women ate naked ; lingli.li women,
once young; lovely, and born to grace society, are com-
pelled to sacrifice their virtue to obtain from the rough
sailor a miserable pittance, to prolong, and perhaps but
for a moment, a miserable existence. This is misery
which cannot plead in vain to the Ladies of Glasgow ;
this is misery, to relieve which we :,hould like to see
their exertions and their colloctions applied. It is more
worthy their support and their attention than the phi-
lanthropy which lately loused them to action. It it
labour and charity which outlive the wreck of worlds,
and meet the highest approbation 4)1 the 111GDEST ; the
unerring JUDGE: " I was hungry :tad ye gave me meat,
I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger
and ye took me in, naked and ye clothed me, sick and
in prison and ye admiKisteied unto me." Such deeds,
be it remembered, weigh down the pretensions of those
who boast that they preach, prophesy, and " cast out
desils in HIS name—Glasgow Courier.

Sayings arid Doings.— A Third Edition of this amusing
Wolk vels publighed tliii t:ay, and we underatAnd the demand for
Copies tither increases than diminishes.

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TILE ARMY.
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Major-General Lord R. li. K Sometime, K. C`.l3. wlncommence
!Os inspection of the Cavalry of Great Britain, the ensuing week.:
The 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, which at Nyman is sta-
tioned at Birmingham, will be inspected by Lord Eoweito Somea-
ter, on Wednesday next.
Two troops belorreieg to the 2d IZegiment of Drientan Guards
have received orders to march from Coventry to 13irmineltain. pre-
paratory to tOe inspection of that corps on the I Nit instant.
The Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards marched front Pietshill
Barracks this day.
Tits NEW Levies.—Orders have been issued to the lifferent Re-
cruiting Parties throughout Great Britain, to iliscontieue the fur-
ther enlistment of Recruits for the 99th Regiment of Infantry, the
appointed complement to be raised, in that portion of the Cont.!
Kingdom, having been obtained.—By the latest returns which have
been received from Great Britain and Ireland, it appears, that elle
total of the Recruits raised for the 97th, amounted to 4eo ; fir the
99th, no ; and for the 99th Regiment 500 men.
Detachments of Recruits embarked on Sunday, at the Glasgow
Wharf, for Scotland, to join the 95th Regiment of Foot at Pais-
ley, and the 99th at Glasgow.
Detachments of Recruits marched on Wednesday, from the Re-
cruiting Department, in Westminster, for Chichester, Portsmouth,
and the Isle of Wight.
A third detachment of the 61st, which Regiment arrived at Cove,
in the Zephyr transport, from Plymouth, on Saturday sennight,
were brought sip the river in the Weterleo strew' packet on Surt-
day, and !rave joined the others at the hat racks its the city of Cork.
Tuesday, the 50th Regiment under Colonel STUIIT, was inspected
in the Castle barracks, Dublin. Sir JOHN ELI.F.Y appealed to be
pleased with this very well conducted corps. Wednesday morn-
ing, at eight o'clock, Sir JOHN Et.i.ev left his house for Knors, to
inspect the e. 5111 Regiment, tattler Colonel FA Mel
Tuesday, Mejor-General Sir J. LA MIIERT inspected the 15th Re-
giment of root, at Waterford.

General Ilanuts inTected the tOth Foot, at Boyle, on Thurs-
day, the detachments or which, from Cahtlerea and Drumana, have
Leen called to head-quarters.
The 73d were inspected at Castlelyar, on Tuesday, by Major-Ge-
neral HARRIS.

Major-General Sir C. GRANT arrived in Dublin, on SaturdaT
se'unight, and resumed the command.

IteCruning for the 97th, 98th, and 99th Regiment., rrconuttenced
On Monday, in Limerick.

Saturday's Gatette COM:lint) bis Majesty's approval of the 40th
Foot bearing on its colours and appointments, in addition to any
other badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to
the Regiment, the words " Vimeira, Talavera, Badajoz,
Salanianc:!, Vittotia, Pyremiees, Nivelle, O:-then, Toulouse," in
commemoration of the distieguished conduct of the Regiment at the
above places.
Tuesday, the whole of the troops comprising the garrison of
Chadian!, were reviewed on the Lines by Sir HOMY TOUREN%
Adjutant-General, when he expressed himself much pleased with
die proficiency made in the several evolutions accenting to the new
regulations recently is=tied to the Army. About two o'clock Sir
litraey and nearly one hundred Ladi.:s and Officers, sat down to
etjeuat a la faurchelle, given by the Officers of Royal Artillery
and Engineers, at their Mess Rooni,which was tastefully decorated
for the orcaiion. The entertainment was upon an extensive scale,
aml reflects considerable credit on Mr. WRIGHT, of the Crown Inn,
Rochester, under whose cuperinterdance every arrangement was
made, and who produced from his excellent stuck of foreign wines
eleven different sot ts. I'ines, grapes, ices, &c. were in great plenty.
Among the company present were, Col. Burgoyne and Lady-
Col. Pasley and Lady, Sir Archibald Christie and Lady, Lady Hal,
lowell, Sir John Browne, Col. Campbell, Sir Richard Williams,
Major Frazer, &c. The band of the Royal Fuzileers attended, and
played several beautiful airs; in short the entertainment is spoken
of as seldom surpassed in splendour and profusion.
Thursday last, Meer STRUT?, of Little Waldingfield, and late
a Member of the llabergh Troop c..f Suffolk Yeomanry Cavalry,
was summoned by Captain Simms, commanding the above Troop,
before the Reverend W. Poems, of Great Cornard, and con-
victed in the penalty of lot. fur neglecting to deliver up the whole
of hi., appointments; and further to pay double the value of the
articles detained, agreeably to the 521 clause of the Act of Parlia-
ment upon that head.
[For " Military Promotions," see first page.]

SPORTING IN'I ELLIGENCE.

BEN BURNS AND SAMPSON.

A fight took place between these redoubted heroes on Saturday
evening, in Golden-square, and it arose on,: of the broils of the late
disappointment of the fight between Josh Hudson and Sampson,
and it at least afforded a proof of what Sampson, full of training,
could have done with Josh, after this fight with a man in no condi-
tim. Soma angry expressions first passed, when Ben doubted
whether Sampson could beat Martin, and the latter gave him a
punch on the head, and both went to work, and well punished
each other. Five rounds were fought, when the friends of each
stopped the Chancery suit, for a trial for some bussel.
In the first round there was a rapid exchange of blows, and Ben
drew first blood from the head, and in closing both went down. 7be
claret streamed from Sampson's pimple merrily, and he waited a bit
to pull off his toggery for the next round.
2. Burn was hit heavy with the left hand, which queered the right
ogle, but he returned, and parried Sampson's right hand in a mas-
terly manner. The round finished by both being down.
3. Burn placed a left-banded hit on the head, and avoided Samp-
son's blow. Burn sheaved want of condition at the end of the round.
4. Both hit away inclined to do mischief. Ben's ogle was lumping,
and Sampson's claret was kept flowing, and both again scent down.
.5. The waist of a ring was here manifest, and after two or three
rallying hits, pressed by the people, a Mr. Sergeant got between the
Men and promoted a cessation of hostilities for the present. Each
had enough for the time and went off content. Burn offers to match
hilnself for any suns.
A new match was made for Sampson on Thursday last, at Ran.
dall's, with Jem Ward, for one hundred a-side.
A second match is stated to have been made for him with Jack
Martin, 2001. to 100/. by some of his admirers in Leadenhall Mar-
ket. A deposit has been made in both cases, but which is to take
place first has not been arranged.
Tun LATE DISAPEOINTMENT.—Both Sampson and Hudson have
been acquitted of any share in the late disappointment of the Fancy
in Cambridgeshire. The author of the mischief is stated to have
been a person who would have lost heavily if Hudson had won.
Hudson tights Cannon, the Windsor bargeman, on the 23d June.

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