The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-03 00:00:00

DEPLORABLE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.

(F►om OskiosoOi of yostorday.)

. .
The Lyons paper motion* to give the most heart.
reading ethonste of the polm of the thandation. We
yesterday gave the priocipal details of the solemnises of
thicp on the morning of the :Ist ult., but unfortunately
they are far below the reality. When the dyke cf the Tete
d'Or near the Grand Camp mace way, the water covered the
east plains with vast rapidity. The tooth was sounded in
all the 'wounding villages to give the alarm. Many
poisons were surprised In their sleep, and could only
save th, msdae, ludfdeemed, by wetting through the
wet r, laving all their property at the mercy of the
flood. Many were eospelled to tennis in their houses,
and wait until assistance scald be brought to them.
The embankment thrown up to the north of the
I Bottoms protected the chemin de rondo in that direction,
but a little farther to the east the water broke furiously
through • breach into the part celled La Petite C..lifornie,
behind the Prd set Clercs; sad through the Rue Masons,
the water rushed like a meaner. The establishmeat of the
Petite, &ears des Peewee sou inundated, sad it was found
'seventy to remove all its tomato to the noel-Dien in
weggoas. The directors of the 11111i1011 des Bsiat-Refent-
Jesus brought all their children., one by one, on their backs,
and the Mee were laid on mattresses, and placed on rafts
hastily mails for the purpose, and thus °soled to a place of
safety. At every mosatat, hoo's and omnibuses' might
be MIS settling dews their fetish's at the Hotel de Ville
and fa the Conn Mooed, which remained clear of the
water, and where an lumens number of persona
=dthe remainder of the night. dome of them had
ebt* to save a few clothes, bat most of them had only
what they stood In, and those were &cashed with water.
Cries sad moans were heart in every direction, women
smiklag their hatbands and their children, and the children
calling for their mothers. Horses, cows, and sheep were
elm seen prowling about and tett- ring cries of burger and
alms. It appears impoesible to Una any 11011114 t idea of
whet accidents have taken place, nor the it be correctly
maintained tool the water shall have subsided, and circu-
lation be once more free. At the Brottemex several houses
were weehed down before the kbabitants could be pot oat.
At Chaspthnes, a mar, his wife, and their child wore
buried beneath the reins of their house. A boat, with
several pewees who bed bees loved from a house, upset and
ail wen drowsed. The Rhos. is constentiy bringing doss
[roans, settle, and sheep. Many small houses built of
framework and brick, have been waste 1 away bodily
from their foundstons at the protein'', and are seen
looting about with the current. The Orande Rue de la
Guillotine has the *pommies of • regular river. The
high bask used as the Palmas at the Hoed Camp has
lent:rely diseppeared. Three of the Rhein steamers broke
foil their Beni. gs and were drives down the river. The
torrent fortunately carried them into the river Chillies,
where they were brought to by letting go their eneltors.
The circulation es the Mediterranean Railway has been re-
estehlkhot The above details relate almost entirely to the
Rh us. The theme has she rims. but up to the pre
sent time its progress hes been toiling smeared with',
that of the other river. Amuses !tom Telenet
stets that altheugh the rise of the Rhone has rot eon-
pieta', stepped, it does not adonis* as rapidly as
before. Ihe quays and the low parts of the town are e'en-
pl Inundated, and ie mato of the street' le ding to the
quay, the w %ter in the ground Bo •r is six feet deep. All the
Plains dee Granges tonnes I. • appeararee of an immense
'eke. Ibe n v r t. eors'antly seen ',elusion down trees
which have bon gavel up by the roots, fettle, (unhurt,
eel • quantity of whir articles. Three large bargee,
la.let with cosi, which were moored to the quay at
Valente, were oohed away by the r tpielity of the corona,
and all of them sank at same distance down the river. One
man was drowsed. At La Pallas**, the Velure has
Arleen over Its banks, end caused c insidersble mischief.
The tnwns of Tete and Toarnon are completely under
sester team the rend ,wing of the Rhone, and Mo tehmeet
is threatened with a sitailsr fete. The small river Morgan,
which runes throneh Villefeancbe, and &foresees fells
loco the asone, has become • couplets torrent, and havieg
risen shove the arches of the bridge, which still stands firm,
has word iwed the bank,, and many of the houses have
cellars and grouted-loon under waor. The Alier, the
Doebs, and the Loire', with all their tributary streams,
moans' their upward movement sad inundateall the sur-
rounding country, but the Loire, the Garone, and the
Cher have, it ile hoped, reached their utmost height, and la
mess parts have began te fall.

A greed review of Prussian troops took place at
Berlin es Saturday, is the primate of the Emperor
Alexander. H. Imperial Majesty left Berlin this nonstop
ter Bt. Petersburg.

The following letter bas beau addressed to the
IFresels bishops : It. the Bishop of —. We shall p
to present our ems few baptism im the church of Notre Dams
et Paris, ea Bstazday the 14th of Joao. It seems to as that
the dew of Fromm, auseekted with the Joys of this emuitsy
as with its ►epes, should he represented by its leading
pastors is this solemn mt. We see snored,
moreover, that the Bpisorpsey will be happy to
salts Ito ra- an to those sspreseed I. the cams of the
somamoo Father of the Faithful, sad to assist In this neat
the reprooptstivou of hie Bedlam' Pope Pies IX. We de-
sire, the*, More. Bishop, that you will rose to Paris to
moist at thaesnisseey of the baptism of the Imperial Priam.
This totem. Imolai co ether object, we pray Dod t►at lie
will lave yea is big hely keephig.—Gfeea ►1 Its pips of
Clowd.—Naroanox."