The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-22 00:00:00

NAT PiLELICILETII.

SKITIEMELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31. is; Clover
ditto, 111 Os to 4/ ><s ; and Straw, 11 Ls to 11 8s per
load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.
CusenEßLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 Is to 31 10s; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 6s ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 9s per
'oad. Supply good, and trade dull.
WHITECINAPSL. Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 88';
Clover, ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 11 2s to li 7s per
load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.

VAST FLOODS IN NORFOLK.
(FRO3I A CORRESPONDENT.)
INUNDATION OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF LAND
Durine the last few days the backs of the Rivers Wensunr,
Yare,Waveney, and Bure have overflowed their banks, and
laid under water vast tracts of meadow and arable land,
sweeping away stacks of corn, hay, &c., drowning sheep,
destroying the young growing wheats, tarts, &c., forcing
the game from their natural covers, b-sides doing infix
nice damage in gardens, homesteads, &c. In those parts
lying on the level in the parishes of Reedbam, Blundell,
Thorpe, Buckenham, Somerleyton, Mutford. Haddiscoe,
Stokesby, Filby, Caistor, and throughout the hundreds
of East and West Flegg, so great a flood has not been
witnessed since the opening or the railway from Nt r /rich
to Yarmouth and Lowestoft—the line but just peeping
above the expanse of waters. Great sod increasing
exertions are
,bring used night and day to keep the trains
in their track, and to prevent the rails being washed
from their proper position. Many extra hands are en's.
gaged to watch, and to be ready if such should occur,
and to do all in human power to prevent any accident..
More time is taken in passing and repassing over
the flooded parts, so that the trains hate been
necessarily behind time. Up to the present time pro-
♦identially not the slightest accident has occurred, and
it is hoped that the increased diligence of the railway
company will prevent such.
We heard or several losses in the parish of Reedhant; ,
one graz'er had 25 sheep drowned, and another 10 sheep,
several stacks washed away, and the sheaves floating on
the water. All the flock-masters for miles around have
had to send their beasts and sheep to graze on the high
lands, or to take them into their farmyards and home-
sheds. In several parishes in the same district some:
thousand acres of young wheats are under water, and in •
the parishes of Beckenham, Bendel!, and Mutford, for
miles in different directions, ricks of wheat, oats. hay
&c., are to be seen standing in the midst of the rising
waters, now full four feet in depth, which cannot be
removed or even approached only by a boat. Cottages
and dwellings of larger size, with barns filled with
thrashed and unthrashed corn ; granaries and malt'
houses entirely surrounded, the inmates imprisoned, and
forced to live in their upper apartments. Gardens, where
floods were never before known to reach, are now
inundated to the depth of several feet, washing away the
soil, potatoes from their pits, and destroying all that is
planted therein. Through the whole districts between
Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lowestoft (a circuit of more
than forty miles), nearly two-thirds of the land is nog
lti ing under water, passengers travelling by the railwe/
appearing to be running over interminable limpid
streams.