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

NAY DIANLIEZITO.

SMITHTIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 Is; Clover
ditto, 111 Os to 41 es ; and Straw, 11 Es to 1/ 8s per
load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 Is to 31 10s; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 6s ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 9s per
load. Supply good, and trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 85 ;
Clover, ditto, 31 Os to 41 8s; and Straw, 112 s to 1/ is per
load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.

VAST FLOODS IN NORFOLK.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
INUNDATION OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES or LAND.
During the last few days the banks of the Rivers Wensume
Yare,Waveney, and Burc 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, tares, &c., forcing
the game from their natural corers, besides doing inn.
nito damage in gardens, homesteads, &c. In those parts
lying on the level in the parishes of Reedham. Blundell,
Thorpe, Buckenham, Somerleyton, Mutford, Haddiscoe,
Stokesby, Filby, Caistor, and, throughout the hundreds
of East and West Flegg, so great a Hood has not been
witne.ssed since the opening of the railway from Norwich
to Yarmouth and Lowestoft—the line but just peeping
atove the expanse of waters. Great and increasing
exertions are b ing used night and day to keep the trains
in their track, and to prevent the rails being washed
trim their proper position. Many extra hands are en-
gq,ed 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 hare been
necessarily bt hind time. Up to the present time pro-
videntially not the slightest accident has occurred, and
it is hoped that the increased diligence of the raillval
company will pre vent such.
We heard of several losses in the parish of Reedham
one grazier had 25 sheep drowned, and another 10 sheep,
several stacks washed away, and the sheaves floating Oa
the water. All the flock-masters for miles around have
had to send their beasts and sheep to grass on the high
lands, or to take them into their farm yards and home'
sheds. In several parishes in the same district some
thousand acres of young wheats are under water, and id
the parishes of Buckenham, Bundall, and Mutford, (0r
miles in different directions, ricks of wheat, oats, htil'
&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. Cottage*
and de ening' of larger size, with barns filled with
thrashed and unthrashed corn ; granaries and rnal‘;
houses entirely surrounded, the inmates imprisoned, si'
forced to live in their upper apartments. Gardens, where
floods were never before known to reach, are OW
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 mote
than forty miles), nearly two-thirds of the land is 110
ing under water, passengers travelling by the rail
appearing to be running over interminable Hopi°
creams.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following arc the Total Receipts of BS'
ii
s for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which th
espective returns are made, together with the rueelpts of the 10i
~eelt in the previous year:

*r
al,
•
re:
a 75
1,21
a 46
673

Week
ending

Last
week.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

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