The late incessantrains h...
The Times, 1824-12-27T00:00:00

-ille late incessantrains have preduced one of the greatest floods of the river Aire which has occurred for the last thirty years. The watcr began to rise rapidly in the forenoon of Wednesday, and continued to increase until nine o'clock in the evening, when it reached its highest elevation. At that time the whole of the streets on the south side of the bridge were undor water in some parts of Water-lane it was upwards of two feet, and in l{unslet-lasne, which if more eleyated, it was fourteen incies in depth. All the cellars and most of the shops and houses on the ground floor were filled with water. The strength and impetussity of the current In the channel of the river vas so great as to wash away the embankment wall for the length of fifty yards in *ater-lane, bv which means the road has fallen in nearly seven feet in breadth. The toll-bar and wooden house at Waterloo-ford were swept away, as was also a bridge erected over the Aire, near Kirkstall, called Redcot-.bridge. A sand-boat belongingto MIr. Teal was driven from its mnoorings,, and a great number of trees were floated dowvn the river : but we are glad to state that this alarming inundation has not been fatal to life, so far as wTe have been able to learn, in a single instance.-Leeds Mer- Car. n additioni to the extensive iron-tradle carried oni at Slerthyr Tidvil, a spirited individual, connected with a verv large brewery at that place and at Bath, has purchased most extensive mi. nral propertyin the neighbourhood, whereoni he intends to build three or four blast furnaces and forges, which will be the meanS of employing trom 1,500 to 2,000 hands.-Shrewsenrty Clronicle. GAasE CoNvicTrio.--Thomas Preston was convictetl before Sir Thomas flesketh.Bart., and Henry Hoghton, Esq., a fevw days ago, on the information of Thomas ,itling, and compelled to pay the penalty of five pounds, for having a game-net in his possession. NVhen brought before the magistrates, Prcescott alleged the informer'limself dropped the net in-his house, when he and two others came, under ihe authority of a search-warrant to examine his premises, on thc 23d of November last. A girl of 15 years of age swore to the trath of this statement ; but the magistrates did not consider themselves warranted in giving credit to it, in opposi- tion to the oaths of the lnformners.-Prestogn CVi ronicle. CATHoLIcjuBii.Er....-'he Pope, Leo XI] , lias issued a Bull of Indiction," appointing the vear 1825 a year of jubilee for the whole of.thc Catholic (lhturch, and inviting the faithfuil sons of the chn7ch to make a pilgrimage to Rome. The followiing is an ex- tract :-" We proclaim and publish the Universal and Great Jubilee fo oommience in this Holy City, front the SirFt vespers of the next eve of the Nativity of our rnost Holy Savtour, Jesus Christ, and to continue through the whnle of the year 1825. During this year of jubiJee, we mercifullv in the 1iord grant and impart the nost plena- ry and complete indulgence, remission, and pardon of all their sins, to all the faithful in Christ. of bath sexes, who are truly penitent and have confessed, and who have likewisc refreshed lhenselvcs with the Holy Communion ; provided (if Romans or inhabitants of the city) thicy shall have devoutly vit,ted tliese churches of the city_ that of the blessed Peter ant) Paul, of St. John liateran, and that of St. Mlary MAljor, at least once a dav for 30 days, whether euccessive or tlinterpolatos] intcrrnpted,naturaf,or even ecclesiastical, to be corm- puted fromn the first vespers one day, to the complete evening twi. light of the succeeding day; but, if they be foreigners, or in any re- spect strangers, they must have visited these churches at Icast 15 days, as already described; provided also, that they shall have poured forth pious prayers to God for the exaltation of tlh'e oly Church, ithe extirpation of heresies, the concotd of Catholi6 Princes, and the salvation and tranquillitvs Clnris!ienipopnli] of Christendimi. WIIRE' TO LEAVE OFF DtiNXING.n%rrheti you feel par- ticularly desirous to have another glass, leave off; you have had enorghd. When you look at a distant object, anl(l ppear to see tr1o, leave off; yosl have had too much. WVhen you knock over your glass, spiU your wine upon the table, or are unable to recollect the words of a song you have been in the habit of singing for' the last doaze years, leave tIe conmpany; you aregetiirgt trouwblesone. Wheti ytou nod ia the chair, fall over the hearth-rug, or lurch oni your icigh. bour's shloulder, go to bed , youz are dr7unk.T ETW &otOtaot. A *voman died at Lindifferon, in the vicinity of Lctham, qf ptlerp-ral fever, nbout three weeks since, and then medical attend- ant having pern?ission to open the body, did so, in cotopany with a surgeon of' Ca~r, Fife, three days after Mer death. A female rela. tion of the deceasc', who gave assistA.s during the examination, happened to receive a pric'k in her little finger, and died in a few days afterwards; thc inlanimiiatien. proceeding fromn the finger im. mediately to the shoulder, a .very rapid termination ct' Ilib took plnce. Report sa)sOathat anotler-'teuusJe relativc, who had vyashed the clothes, has als.,8sice dieoi One of. the surgeons wVho hlad re- ceived a scratch in his hand Drevious to the difssection, no6wjith.. sitanding sonic carehe.h-ad t3kento eoyer-the place, has been since eei2ed w1ithin vcry.severe infliJanttiot1 SPxendinfien tpe arib.pit along the shloulder, and: sonp wiay Qwihthelback, acd.mpnie-d vith a very alarming feyct. WVe are hippy to state, that his medical gJsbea)JQ as Qjos gJaet3i 'oUt QfRdangr.-Fi/e1Ierld,