The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-13 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS FROM THE INUNDATED

DISTRICTS.

The waters of the Saone and Rhone continue to
decline slowly. The quays of Lyons are sow completely
clear, and persons era everywbete teively ensued in ca-
pirate the damage caused by the inundation. The beerier,
erected on the quays to p persons passing are bong
taken down and the mud carted off. In tto interior of the
hisses equal activity prevails; puerip'nx, washing, and dry-
ing is everywhere going on. Flo rings are being relied. end
Yeah painting executed whore neansary. In the plain of
the Brotteans the spectacle of the laudation, which was at
tint imposture and terrible, has become reptiliive. The w.-
taro is retiring have exposed to view more ruins than were
!anticipated, and numbers of houses which have not already
fallen will be obliged to be partly rebuilt. The public
mute's in many places present the appearance of a fair
ground the dey &fur the buipeas has terminated, where
booths of al. kto ds have bees r raved, and who re remains of
furniture, kitchen utensils, mummers, and linen are lying
about is ell dimities..
The Gazette do Lyon captains the fellowisy :—" It sow
becomes easy to follow step by step the progrets of our late
terrible scourge, and to ascertain the event of its ravages.
• somber 01 men see busily employed in filling up the
breach made by the Rhone on the dyke of the Tots d'Or in
the sight of the 30th ult., at about 160 yards from its actual
bed, sod tea width of fros eint.ty to one hundred yards.
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entirely subsided, bet in the gardens near it still remains to
some depth. Frew the corner of the embankment whist'
rues in a diagonal lime to the Coors LOW*, and which was
evokes dowa on the 31st of May, the water divided itself
late three impetuous toerenta. One carried away the Costs
Lafayette which stood in its way, and then traversed
the Faubourg of the Guillotiare; soother went to the
westward, carrying away tree, mud everything in its course,
and dashed with fiery against the hooves which stood near
the expiatory monument of the chutch of St. Poulin; and
the thitrweat to the Matteson. The courses of these three
torrents ere sow clearly marked out by the bed of sand
which they have deposited in their way, and from them
breeched forth them lenumerehle secondary streams which
inundsted all the surroseding streets. As far as the foot of
Villeurbanne, that is to say ever an extent of about a mile-1
aad•frhalf misers, oat of all the pretty mammal boon

which covered the plain, not a dozen an be feud that have
not bun considerably inland. The rustic habitations of
the gardeners and small farmers, who every day supplied
the city, with (reit; and vegetables, ere almost all destroyed.
1 The manufactories of chemical productions are very num-
!, lOU in those parts, and all of ti em have more or lees eta-
fend. In the Cite Hapeleoe' • large and hinds. me house
meet tly finished is nothing but a heap of rains, and, what
is most !MIS .rdinary, the roof has been as it were floated
away to some little distance without a single pus of
gloss being broken in the cupola which surmounted it."
The Journal du Lacret, after describieg the awful ravages
of the inundations at Janine, in that department, says
" But what is even worse than the aspect of the town, is
that of the adjacent country. All the lands, which were
worth 30fr. the perch, are ruined. An immense t sten t is
covered with a thick layer of said, a sort of vast shroud,
beneath which are interred tich and magnificint crops.
Never,' said the poor farmers to us, were the crops finer
—never did the vines promise more And yet cow all is
.yered with sand as far as the eye can reach. There are
numerous mounds of sand two or three metres high, end
engineers have had a mm I deal of trouble in fleeing lie
neath them the road to SuUy and Orleans; to get at ie,
they have had to make excavations as if they were
exploring the ruins of an cid Roman city. All the
country is in such a state that it cannot be recog-
nised ; even the inhabitants of Jargean themselves
find it difficult in the chaos to fix the site of certain
houses which have diappi and. The sand which the Loire
carries along in abundance, and with which it has covered
such an went of ground, does not, unto! lunately, merely
make a simple deposit on the ground ; tine and ps nstr tiog
it becomes mind with the soil in such a way that, so at
Acalwise alter 1846, several years of incessant efforts are
needed to restore fields to cultivation. The clime c4rried
down by the river wu also of such a destructive nature that
it his killed wheat, vises, everything that it t iuched. the
potato crops are ruined; the pots o:a have a pecu.iar
smell, and we have been told by poor people who have dug
up some that even swine would not eat them. The stench,
moreover, which emanates from the *lime and pools of
water left by the inundations is iusta;portat la, ant calls
for very great remotions '
The Journal de Leine et Loire of the 10th, in speaking
of the sad disaaten of Trelsze, states that the owners of most
of the quarries have already decided on immediately corn-
menciog works for clearing out the water. This rtiolution
does so much honour to their feeliegs of humanity as it is con-
sistent with their own interests. While waiting until the
workmen can return to their old pima of employ men',the di-
rectors of the only three quarrin that have eecopsd—Lee
Fran • ,La Poperie, mu La Oravells—hove to dived a
great number, more perhaps than they can properly employ.
In the neighboarlicod of trio desolated commune, several of
the rich proprieters have s iziwn a generous hospitality to
the persona and tne cattle who were without asylum. Hap-
pily the fell of the Loire and the Maine is going on very ra-
pidly. At Bt. Methuen' the former river has laden 2m. 40e.
At the It aim, the ground of the valley berth s to be again
visible, and although the hemp crop is lost, it is hoped that
some of the wheat will be saved. The general damage
maned by the inundations of the Loire is immense, as more
than 2,600 hectares (6,500 acne) and mtalow land
hays been under water.

SUBSCRIPTIONS BY THE FRENCH ARMY.

The following circular has been addressed by trio Minister
of Vier in Frames to the generals in c Imm:id of the dif-
ferent military divisions
" Paris, June 9.

"General,—At the news of tho disasters caused by the
inendltions, snbecriptions were opened in the assistance of
the sufferers. It is proper that eoloiers of .111 ranks who

may wish to unite in ihi; generous movement should have
every facility given tnem for so doing, but without any cote-
pulaon being exercised, or any superior authority interfer-
ing to increase the amount of the subscriptions. It is par-
ticularly important that the soldier, whose resources
are so restricted, should not consider himself com-
pelled to impose privations on himself. I beg
you to Wren recommendstioos to this effect
to the commanding officers of regiments, and th. y will take
such Measure, so they may think pro?er for c Alecting the
offerings, which will be paid into the hands of the agents
of the c.vil administration ch trged in each locality to cen-
tralise the subscriptions..—Accept, &c., " VAILLANT."
A eirculer of the rime purport ha been addrea.ed by the
Minister of Marine to the maritime prefects at the different
peril ; and Marshal Pvliseier has signified his intention to
open a subscription among the army of the East.

The Risorgitnento of Turin announces that sob-
icriptions have been opened in every pot tl Piedmont for
the relief of the sufferers by the inundations in France.

SAXONY.