NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE floods of the last week have quite reached, and in some in- stances surpassed in destructiveness, the floods of three weeks 'back r and to aggravate the misfortune, there also occurred this week one of the highest Thames tides on record,—a calamity not really connected in any way with the floods, but due to the ordinary astronomical causes and the violent west winds, which have heaped the waters of the Atlantic on the waters of the 'Channel. The land-water passing Teddington Lock, the first lock in the Thamek; is, we are told, only 4,000,000 of tons daily, while the total amount going down from Teddington Weir to the sea is 100,000,000 of tons, so that the tremendously high tide of Monday was not caused to any extent worth mention by the theavy rains. Nevertheless, London and other towns on tidal 'rivers suffered, and just at the same time, even more from the high tide than the provinces were suffering from the rain- 'floods, and that was no trifle. For the high tide of Monday was one of the most disastrous on record. It overflowed the banks of the Thames in long stretches upon the Essex coast, and in the region of Lambeth did a vast amount of mischief in London. The poor found their furniture suddenly floating about in their rooms, horses and cattle in the stables were sometimes drowned, and sometimes saved from drowning only by getting their fore-feet up on the manger, and so keeping their heads above -water till they were cut free by men who swam in at their own risk -.to release them. The losses of the poor have been very great, and the cessation of wages owing to impeded work has made these losses even more acutely felt.
