The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-27 00:00:00

THE INUNDATIONS IV SWITZERLAND AND

ALSACE.

The accounts given by the Courrier du Ras-Rhin
of the 23rd, respecting the inundation'', are more satisfac-
tory. They state that the Rhine continued to subside
steadily, and that the 11l had in one day fallen 21 inches.
The breaches made in the dykes of Mackenheim and Rhi-
nut have been already repaired. The inundations in the
Lows, Rhine have been much less disastrous than in the
Upper Rhine. The German journals state that all the
riven in the circle of Schwsrtswald have overflowed their
banks. At Knielingen, Pfluz, and Rua:helm, all the coun-
try is under water from the overflowing of the Alb. On
the Quertiasel an old man was carried away by the
torrent and drowned. A part of the flying bridge
was swept away. The communes of Bur helm, Sas-
bureh, and Hauges have suffered severely from the
breaking away of the dykes of the Sponeek. At
Manheim, on the 20th, the river was rising at the
rate of nearly two inches an hour, but it had not overflowed
its banks. The waters of the Necker, at Stutgardt, had
also risen considerably, and near Ulm the Danube had
risen several feet. The overflowing of the Rhine, the Aar,
and their tributary streams in Switzerland has Caused less
damage than was at first anticipated ; although several loca-
lities in the canton of Zurich have suffered rather consider-
ably. The communicatiou between Zurich and St. Gall,
and between Frauenfeld and Schaffhausen have been inter-
cepted by the overflowing of the Thur and the Murg. The
Roams has carried away the bridge of Langnau between
Wohlausen and Schachen. At Bale the ruins of house,
large true, furniture, &c., went seen floating down the
river; fears were at one time entertained that some of the
heavy articles, by striking against the bridge, might carry
it away, mid every possible means was used to guard
against that misfortune. The pearkse of the bridge wee
interdicted to heavy carriages. The thine at Bale has on
this occasion exceeded by 2i lulus the height which it at.
Wood in 1641, and by 31 feet that which it reached in 1801.

MADLLE. WAONER.—Wo read in a letter from
Breslau, dated t►e 17th: "The celebrated singer, Miss
Johanna Wagner, appears to have a great fondness for law.
After the suit against her in the English Court of Chan-
cery, she has had two more in our city. She had entered
into an engagement for eight nights at the grand theatre of
Breslau, and had written to the porter of the theatre, de-
airing him to engage for her a furnished apartment. The
porter executed the order, but when Miss Wagner arrived
she found that the lodging which he had hired was too
gloomy, and refused to recognise the act of her great. The
porter being compelled to pay for time lodging, brought an
action for the amount against the lady, but the tribunal
gave judgment in her favour, on the ground that the porter
had not implicitly followed her instructions. Thia sentence
was confirmed by the royal court of Breslau. Miss Wagner,
in virtue of the judgment, demandtd payment of her costs,
including the fee of the counsel, but this fee the porter re-
sisted, on the ground that every party to s suit is supposed
by the law to plead in person, and that if counsel be
engaged, it must ►e at the expense of the party by whom
he is engaged. This view of the case was adopted by the
Ullman', and the dema•md of the lady was rejected. She
did not stop here, however ; she appealed to the royal court
from the decision of the civil tribunal, and produced a cer-
tificate from the Minister of the Interior, showing that she
was engaged at the Boys' Opera of Ihrlin, and that she
must, therefore, be regarded in the light of public function-
aries, who hove the privilege of appearing in courts of law
by counsel, and ate therefore entitled to the reauburssment
of the fee from the adversary, if they are successful in the
suit. The royal court, on the production of this certificate,
ordered the porter of the theatre to pay the foe of Miss
Wagner's advocate."