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The extent extent of injury sustained by simbakilkosts.....
Milbbank, and the surroundinkneelibblineibill►i
yond all conception. The sanktiella -the 'MVP
sea Water-works burst, which swept all before it..
Two houses in the Willow-walk were completely
gutted ; and yesterday merniF boats Were seen col
ployed in conveying away tisirsture in this quarteret-
The Back-fields, Tothill-fields, wed comAittly.
sered,. and -much danger was apprehended for the
safety of the prisoners in the jail ; the Governor had
made preparations for their removal,- in case of ne-
cessity ; but the flood fortunately only reached the
garden. The Green-coat public-house adjoining, was
inundated to the height of several feet ; and the flood
even reached as far as Williani-street, Pimlico, neer
Buckingham-gate; but in Brewer's-green and Pet-
mer's Village, many persons lost a great portion
of
their furniture. Mr. Mann, in the Horse- errydroa'dy•
had no less than 200 men employed, endeavouring to
carry the water ofPhis premises; and sluices had been
cut in the Vauxhall-road, for the purpose of draining
off the flood. One house in this place suffered mate-
rially—the flood drove the family to the attic story,
from whence their cries were heard, and by means of
ladders they were conveyed into boats, in which they
were carried away. The beer-barrels at the Roebuck,
on Milbbank floated in the cellar, and the tap-room
and lower part of the house is still boarded, to gain
access to the first floor, where the family and cus-
tomers are accommodated. The house of Mr Gul-
ston would have been entirely swept away, had not
the back door been thrown open. Mr. Child, the
market-gardener, lost much property. Part of Mr.
Cook's house has been swept away, and a vast num-
ber of other houses materially iojuied.
Near Dock-head, on the Deptford lower road, a
row of small houses, occupied by working people,
have been completely under water since Friday night:
two children belonging to Mrs. Henison, are missing,
and it is feared have perished.
The bauks of the Paddington Canal have been
overflown ; and towards Harrow, Wilsden, and on-
wards to Uxbridge, several barns are washed down.
The waters, however, have, in the neighbourhood
of the Metropolis, considerably abated—the sun shone
out yesterday full and fair, and the year closed in one
of the finest days experienced for some weeks. This
lucid interval, however, was but of short duration ;
for this morning, cold and raw till about nine o'clock,
therein began, and continued till mid-day, descend-
ing in heavy showers.
Lucerne, DECEMBER 29.—Monday, an Inquest
was held on the body of John Keates, aged 64., who
resided at St. Mary's Mills. The deceased had been
to this town on Sunday morning, and on his return
home the waters had risen to such a height that he
mistook the towing-path, and slipped into the Union
Canal : he caught at some twigs, growing on the
bank, and contrived to keep his head, for some time,
above water, till his master, Mr. Townsend, arrived,
who, at the hazard of his own life, extricated him
from his perilous situation—farther help:was obtained,
but the poor old man expired while being conveyed
home. The wives of both the individuals beheld their
dreadful situation from the windows of the mill,
without being able to render them any aid. Ver-
dict—Died by being exposedjor a length of iliac, to
extreme wet and cold.

A rise of two-pence a pound in the price of mutton
wok place yesterday, in consequence, it is said, of the
great loss of sheep in the late floods.

It has lately been found impassible to carry into of
feet several executions for distress for rent in the north
of Devon, no persons having attended the places of
sale but the auctioneers and bailiffs.
The Rev. Tony JOLLIFFR, Rector of Skelton, dis-
tributed in the village of Skelton, on the 19th inst.
six cart loads of coals; and, on the 20th, a remark-
ably fat heifer, of three years old, was killed by him,
weighing 736 lbs. of which 440 lbi. were distributed,
and the remainder reserved for the entertainment of
his neighbours—a course this worthy Gentleman has
pursued at this season of the year for 39 years past.
Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, the house of
Mr. PEARSON, of Nelson-terrace,. Stoke. Newington,
was burglariously broken into, and plundered of va-
luable articles to the amount of £lOO.

Monday se'nnight, as Mary Garraway, aged seven-
teen, one of the girls of the Red-coat School, Bristol,
was passing through the passage which leads to the
College-green, her umbrella became entangled with
the wheel of a coal-waggon, which had just turned
under the archway ; she was thus drawn from the sill
of a door on which she had stepped, and crushed be-
tween the waggon and the wall. She was taken back
into the school, and medical assistance procured, but
too late, as she died almost immediately.
A caricature is shewn about Paris, representing
the young Napoleon, with the aid of Bertrand and
Moutholon, rolling a snow-ball. Behind there are
seen bodies if armed men, and on the ball is written
46 d se grouira."
Acoizas.—Extract of a letter, dated September 22,
" The Greek Insurgents had so hindered and inter-
rupted the communication between the Levant and
this part of Barbary, that the Turkish Authorities at
Smyrna, in order to send to our Dey the Erman of the
Sultan, were obliged to apply to the Commander of
the English squadron for protection. He imme-
diately granted a frigate for this purpose. It brought
the Firman, containing, as is well known, an urgent
summons to the Barbary States to send all their ships
of war to the aid of the Turkish fleet. The Algerine
squadron lay at that time ready equipped in the har-
bour; it consisted of two frigates and seven small'
vessels, and sailed in the beginning of this month.— '
' It seems, however, as if the Dey would rather have
desired to avoid this expedition. The crews when
they embarked did not spew any great willingness.
The Commander of the squadron has strict orders
not to venture into the Archipelago, but to limit his
cruise to the neighbourhood of the Channel, near
Malta, and the entranc% of the Adriatic Sea. We
have lately received the news of the great victory
obtained by the Greeks near Samos and Scala Nuova,
which has thrown the Dey into the greatest alarm.
We expect here a Prussian Agent, who has been
for some time at Marseilles. This Agent, it is said,
is to enter into negotiation with this Regency. The
Tuscan Government is also seeking to renew its ne-
gociations for peace, and has applied for this -pur-
pose to the English Consul."

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ClUitonatz---Murray, the Secretary ttotheßridge-
street Association, again attended yesterday, attfl ap-
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tem.adefortoa Mr.
warr AAnitdecnapanpreßheusaliVinatte sretr-
certain man, whose name wis unknown, but whose
person was well known, and who, in the capacity of
shopman at Carlile's, had, on Saturday last, publicly
sold to one Robert Duke, of Glover's-hatcli, New-
Cut, Lambeth, yeoman, a copy of the Address to the
Refortirers of Great Britain. The City Solicitorhaving
examined the information, a warrant was signed, by
the Magistrate, and delivered to Martin, one of the
officers in attendance, to execute, who shortly after-
Wards returned with a miserable-looking man, be-
tween forty and fifty years old, in his custody. Ro-
bert Duke, the informer, stated, that he went to Car-
file's shop on Saturday, morning last, and asked the
prisoner, who appeared to be acting as shopman, for
the Address to the Reformers, of the 24th of June.—
The prisoner replied he bad none then, but if he
(Duke) would call in the evening, he might have one.
That he accordingly did call again in the evening,
when he again found the prisoner behind the coun-
ter, and purchased from him the Address above-men-
tioned, for which he paid 6d. and also another small
work, entitled the Character of a Priest, the price of
which was .21 He did not know the name of the
, prisoner,. but was positive he was the person from
whom he purchased, the work mentioned and now
produced. In answer to a question from Aldermin
BIRCII, he said, there was no other customer in the
shop besides himself, either of the times he called
'there. As the information upon which the warrant
was granted, alleged that the work in question con-
tained passages upon which verdicts had been found,
pronouncing them libels, Mr. Alderman Bitten de-
sired that evidence should be given to that fact. Mr.
Murray, the Secretary referred to the pamphlet, and
pointed out a passage in which the author alludes to,
and avows its having been declared a libel by the
verdict of a Jury. This the Alderman considered
sufficient evidence, as no other testimony of the fact
was required. The prisoner, on being asked his name,
replied, that he begged to decline giving it; and
having been informed that he was entitled to give
bail for the offence charged against him ; that the
sum required would be himself in £4O, and two sure-
ties in L2O each ; and that it was necessary .for him
to give his name before any bail could be accepted '
he was committed for to jail want of sureties.
MANSION-House.=Yesterday Henry Pullen, the
driver of a hackney-coach, was brought before the
Lotto MAYOR, under the following circumstances :
On Saturday he had offered for sale, at Mr. Blount's,
in Cheapside, a misshapen lump of plate, weighing
18 ounces, which he stated he had found in his coach,
where it had probably been left by some passenger.
On examining the lump, it appeared to be composed
of embosied spoons, beaten together in such a man-
ner as to make it impossible to decypber the arms or
marks. In consequence of this appearance, and the
defendant's account of the manner in which he came
by it, Mr. Blount considered it a proper subject for
inquiry, and gave the defendant in charge to Haw-'
kins, the officer. The defendant, before the LORD
MAYOR, gave thelame account of the manner in
which he became possessed of the plate, as he had ,
given tp Mr. Blount, and he received such an excellent
character from his employer and others, as prevented
any doubt of the truth of his story. On.referring to
the Act of Parliament for the regulation'of Hackney
Coaches, it appeared that the drivers are bound, un-
der a penalty of L'2o, to return any property left by
passengers in their coaches, the owners of which are
unknown, to the Licensing Officer, four days after
it shall be found.—The LORD MAYOR toid the de-
fendant, it was only in consequence of the excellent
character that had been given him that the penalty
would not be enforced ; but he wished him, and all
others of his profession, to take warning, as in future
the law on the subject would, in every instance, he
carried into effect.—The LORD MAYOR ordered that
the plate should be adveqised, as 'the most likely
means of discovering the owner.
Bow-synzar.—Yesterdaythe five persons charged
with being concerned in the robbery of Mr. Frost, of
Arundel-street, to the amount of £2,000, were again
brought up, when some- slight additional evidence
was taken, and they were remanded till Thursday.
Harron-Gaamm.--Yesterday Ann Nicol: and
James Smith were brought up for final examination,
charged with stealing' several articles of kitchen uten-
silktrom the house of William Phillimore, Esq. of
Upper Montague-street, Russell-square. It appeared
that Ann Nicola lives as cook in the family of Mr.
Philliusore. On her being searched, twenty-six keys
were found upon her, on trying which with the dif-
ferent locks in the house, they were found to open
all, even the most private, and those of all the locks
in his chambers in Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn.—
One of the keys was found to open a patent lock to
a drawer in which all the keys wet* kept, by which
she had access to all the liquors, groceries, and other
property in the house. Both the prisoners were fully
committed for trial.

Many-LA-BowNit.—Yesterday a baker residing in
High-street, Mary-la-Bonne, was convicted'in the
penalty of 1:20, for having off his premises, contrary
to law, a quantity of ground allum. Mr.Wita.xasis,
his solicitor, gave notice'of appear at the Sessions.
UNloN.HALr..—Yesterday Michael Fleming, an
Irishman, formerly a publican at Cush, in the County
of Limerick, was brought before Messrs. CHAMBERS
and HEDGER, charged with having committed•
murder in the month of July last in that County.—
He was ordered to be brought.up on a future day for
further examination.

The following very scholastic notice appears in one
'of the windows of a house in Brighton:
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" Dye School for Younge
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THREE IV IVES.
Youth, manhood, age, lave wants, you must confess;
Three wives I've had, and couldn't do with less
The first for love, the second.for her purse,
The third, my heart elected—for a nurse

Li2DB OLD Cituncit.—Christmas-day, there were
at this Church no fewer than 79 christenings; and it
was expeced that these would be 20 or 30 mars law:s
there every day this week.
Late 'Hurvest.—A iplantity -of barley was icok at
Bank-end, in the parish of Stanwiz,' ilt Cusiitietlana,
on the 21st ultimo, St.. Thomas's Day.