The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

THE INUNDATIONS IN F

The Moniteur of Thursday records the 11.1
progress of the Emperor of the French air,
the districts which have been lately in 111:")

and says_
The Emperor's visit to the sufferers by th

dations of the Rhone has produced on
"A-
s,
bitanta of these devastated distriets an iniPre
that cannot be described. The ErriPer°r
appeared to them like a second Providence.
0;
progress takes place amidst tears of gratitgavol
public blessings. The love and mutual de vol
between a people and their sovereign Was
displayed in so signal a manner• and
throughValence.Lyons,
through Avignon
Monteliliall'rat
gnon,
inhabitants had hurried forth to rneet his it 1,
and again salute him with repeated cries 0' c
the Ely:
livea the Emperor!" " Long live
Long live the Imperial Prince!' " l'°13;„
friend and benefactor of the 1001% at
on his passage, theligaie
Emperor arrived at Lyons this eVe'n'l,:vieci
o'clock. Here his Majesty passed 10 fr; 01
troops assembled under the c0n3.511111-0•7
Marshal de Castellane. During the,r,e,„,alts v
acclamations of the soldiers and inhau'it e
again heard with fresh enthusiasra' f; areo'clock the Emperor left Lyons on his .-L
Paris.

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Majestye
sufferers
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s Empress
y the has t,,,,0, 5,i0
favour Her
of th
2tlole,ooOfr in her own name, and of Ip,o Sp
naivemoifuitehteerlemepferisatlatPerinacued. :ffileifrifvgeorn-efl
er Household,ier,, ef ofr
Public
Justice,
Interior,
andtheillor3sc',.
War, ot lijos
Colonies, of Instruction uausteieice,n,ostfof Foreign .Aso.,irs,
and
Agriculture, Trade and Public IVorks, ,
‘,10.1 -
President of the Council of State, have "'jell
scribed 1,000 francs. The governtnefat has 10
on
purcreating a central committee of stleceal,,'rect
purpose of giving one sole and uniforrn u. ~,
flctiv
to thei produce yielded by the public aubse' 13' itif
both in Paris and the departments, in be.ooo
those whoij have suffered from erredreceliut A 1 fief
tions subscription list is op 11 t; flog
lativ tions.
Corps in behalf of the sufforatebY im-,,41)0
The Count derMorny, the P 'd t► is a o°ll'-
, resi en ,
of 5,000 f. ~:,acessl
We read •
in Gaiigna • • o (1,-• ,
nt the followin,
A tS 03
details :—" The conductors of some IL°°' try
ago'
wood on the Seine, seeing three dais --fag
the
the suddeno rise of the water and the °I-1.01:
rrent, that it would not be safe
atostops.,
at theu wharf at Coudray at which theYll4„„roel3,
resolved to proceed to Paris; but on ail's° or'
Choi le-Roi, they found frora the violeofiide i
CUM' SY-
floatent that it was almost impossible to 01:to0
After struggling for some time, t,
to their
moored
eir dismay, ran into several others weie of 1
near the Ile Paulette. Theref°,,freoltea
shock was so great that the floats Tteo,l 01
and 1 wood and timber comp
tdsiastl
parriediein a mass to the bridge of lirrY,‘", 11
piers violently' oss
of which they struck
then passed through the bridge in lame
to the 6de Quiquengrogne, where a ,13,03, i,
other floats into tea-ret t.
were moored, and ran
pressure on these floats soon becanie 9° :0111%1
the
posts_ to which they were fastened gav-sblo '',
thefuaiotats got mixed together in inOtrielot fe
A huge mass, !consisting, 13f of tifal
than sixteen.ten rid 0
floats of firewood and
was
consequently formed, and Was ear tosi's
almostparis irresistible force down the Seillogg°
ad it reached the city' tile, woolde
would. have --for i. estiP
done is incalculable
only have
swept' away all the bat es 01l
as ing boats, and other editie a 1
river, but would have datosge P
greatly t ate ,s
perhaps destroyed the bridges. gci boats
bell was rung,
of the and all the labourers an rooes
ports were collected, and theY Poicaiti
under the orders of the inspectors ef,„11'.0011/t
and at the risk of their own. lives, to ' forts;
'compact mass of wood. After immense e.ooioo
fearfulsucceeded in doing this, and so savdecal.
danger. Fortunately no loss of Itt'ilop?'
At Lyons rilt 01,
cleaning numerous workmen Are eiscoo
out the streets which had be oer,c
water.
Notwithstanding the nurnel)uto aece
which
i have been cut in every direction ets oa
ate
,e_t he running off of the water, the srehooofa,
I 1,4 bank of the Rhone are very sh9vrlicl A 131°.
r. Persons may, however, now nil deoloti
out the greater part of this vas,t ever,' :
and theof scenes which meet the 00 a:11,,,. raieli„
are the most distressing descriPtie"l,'so l''',"i
fuhouses which have fallen, heaps of brobas fa, 1
and buildings of which one loll; , ot I e
and the
the looms, curtains, and bed'nre ec-,
where different
floors , thus laid open a soffe'
toot° t, bat,
c to be seen. The unfor
annot be prevailed on to desert the sP_u,ersre,,
as the of ti
vouacseek among
at the nearest point, and
eg among the ruins some reninctlty Wl'
property. Numbers of poor weavers ' toot 0'
watching with eager eyes for the retireo,essess
ofwater, in hopes that they may ain ge ylread
the looms by which they earned _ sore'
themselves All thebsoetit
cialle
for property
and their families
property are not, however, made wlt,essiog ti
for
of scarcely a moment passes without 0 s., 09
_ falling roofs and walls All the stre.e_`_.; ocl ,
become clear of the water, tiro trans.tiu:re 00114
regular_e entrepots, where piles of furn Les at Vid
is •ted. On every side may be seen 0' cool':
,oema e poor drenched and half-nalted Ps_ Pi
a your to cook some little provisio%er of ot
1
mairie of .the G .1 •
e in lotiere and at a n0t13,, od 01,
places in the city • '• • of foot,. a. 0 P
, a distribution 000 0
is regularly made. The calm resigl3.,eo is t
appears imprinted on every c 0 huddle tote
extraordinary. Women are seen baddi , esco
with their children. but not a sob or a tin see/'
them, and aged /11 at'
among those who are eng wit 0
for their property, everything goes oil e
pute or n • •
q arielling. to I
toot .„ti
The_ 1 Minister of Public works is a'-'-copefi",.
the
engineering works in progress, i_svel dissst
mitigating so far as possible the will
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consequences of the inundations. Phe take
same time consider what means eon dojos",
tan Ile'
protect the low countries frora 1 •o
a 0 fel
future occasions when the river tog h date -.
Letters from Orleans of ThursdaY s,birti qi
numerous disasters in the t0w0.„3 aro I
houses have fallen, and many ewe' be
dap
erous state. Several lives liaVe.e 00';
Theanews from Tours and Ambroise Lost 11,t
water.ppalling. The city of Tours is aWi.o',,,
m Boats ply regularly in he.
,er'sceii'd
_ ev inmates of the Hotel de l'VV,bl,!/
do n into boats from the uPPer winos 1 de i
tied together. The office of the Journa,. Des
et Loire is inundated, and the PsPejciostr°
appeared. The railway is completed,roisc%
The__ devastation is equally great at An% bet:
_The. only communication now ordoboll,'‘
Mfarseilles and Avignon is by the roan at Si'
Nismes. Travellers leave the railway
ande a Delie
Calamitieso t 0 Avignon in carriages.
come tenfold i thoseaid, 111:11 dot'
are not surprised to add to alreateif of
n accident from which Mince Oscar opeal
_ escaped the other day. prince Oseacirtier'bool
have been placed in some danger at Cbcisites
an accident to his carriage. lie hen'a
board the Biche, the breakwater, iv his'
landed,d he got into an open carriage the
of tile, ,"die
de-cam to proceed to the hotel
prefect. The coachman, being daz7led by vo
which was shining full on his face, did Il° the s
a_kerb-stone at the side of the waY, av
of the carriage came against it with viol epee.
na
i
coachmanb was thrown from the box tit co
i-uised, and the horses, left thus wit-11'2110 01'
c dashed off at a fearful pace. The prinut 0
vo_myanion getting alarmed, jumped (La c
ethele. Both fell, but the prince recell Mc
few bruises, whilst his aide-de-cal/3.l)de, i
shoulder dislocated.
Noiseso the earl ao'
whirled along by the at full oPee to ye
sto
at last dashed to pieces against sonlo