The Thames has been spreading disaster and distress through- out
his course by overflowing his banks, under the influence of these protracted and heavy rains. At Lambeth the distress is general, and at Kingston, Shepperton, Staines, Datchet, and Windsor, very great mischief has been done. On several parts of the South-Western line to Windsor the trains have had to travel through two or three feet of water for stretches of many yards, and at Richmond Station the water has not only been deep, but foul with sewage forced back from the Thames by the high tides. As the train passes through the station, and sends a refluent wave over the planks on which the intending passengers are mounted to keep their feet dry, a stench rises up such as reeks of typhoid fever. We fear that the time during which these floods will be evaporating, will be a time of sickness succeeding a time of loss.
