PETERSFIELD.
ANOTHER SERIOUS FLOODING OF THE TURNPIKE ROADS.—In our last impression we recorded a rare occurrence of the flooding of a portion of the turnpike road to Alton, Alresford, and Winchester, between the town and the railway station, and also that part of the London and Portsmouth road from the entrance of the yard to the Red Lion Hotel, and onward beyond the White Hart Inn. The above took place on Saturday afternoon and evening, from the great body of water accumulated by the heavy rains of the morning, with the melting of the snow. On Tuesday a repetition of the above occurred, from the rains which poured down in torrents from early morn till past mid-day, by which the roads were to a greater extent, with the lower floors of the corn stores belonging to Mr. Chase, the alms-houses occupied by poor women, the White Hart Inn, and the cellar of Mr. Johnstone’s marine stores—in which, amongst the varied accumulated matter, large quantity of glass bottles were set in motion by the rush of water, and performed a variety of light airy antics, jumbling together with gingling sounds, so as to highly amuse the water-bound occupants in the adjoining stores. The overflow of water does not appear to have been occasioned by obstruction from bridges, &c., or want of fall, but from the banks of the rivulet not being sufficiently capacious to carry off the uncommon accumulation to the river Rother below, where, in its course downward, greater floods have not been witnessed for the last 17 years.