The floods in the Thames valley have been beyond all
experience this week, especially in the neighbourhood of Windsor, where the water rendered many of the houses of the poor quite uninhabitable on Sunday night. Ladies and gentlemen exerted themselves with the utmost energy to relieve the poor whose cottages were entered by the waters, and went punting about from house to house with food and offers of assistance. One poor lady who bad given birth to a child only four days previously, had to be removed in a boat with her child to a safer residence, and not a few of the poorer inhabitants found themselves, in the darkness of Monday morning, stepping out of bed into a shallow lake. The exertions of the Anglican Sisterhood at Clewer have been beyond all praise, and the Queen herself has been most generous in sending relief and in stimulating the exertions of others. On Ike whole, though there is a great deal of misery which cannot possibly be suddenly dealt with, arising especially from the foul mud which the falling waters have left behind them, the flood in the Windsor district has done more to draw all classes together than any less calamitous event could have brought about.
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