1 FEBRUARY 1845, Page 9

The Hull Advertiser reports an extraordinary high tide and flooding

of the Humber, on Sunday evening. The water ran through many of the streets knee-deep: in New George Street it poured along like a river, eighteen inches in depth. Many warehouses were overflowed, and a great deal of property was destroyed or seriously injured. We observe no loss of life mentioned, and the personal mischances were ludicrous rather than dangerous: gentlemen were obliged to wade in the water carrying ladies— a burden, possibly, that was not in all cases grievous to bear; whole con- gregations were detained prisoners in their places of worship; fishermen went to the public-house in boats. It was a perfect urban deluge to ter- rify town and people—" orane cum Proteus pecus egit altos visere montes.' About the surrounding country the flood was wide and the damage -ex- tensive. The embankments of Read's Island, a tract of land reclaimed from the river, a mile and a half long, were broken down; the whole island was laid under water, and sixty sheep were drowned.