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London, England, 1824-12-17 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

SOLtM aUIR nicEnE FALSUM JUDNA

LONDON,
FR11).11- EVENING, DEC.I7,

From the remainder of the French Pavers at
Tuesday which arrived last night, we cannot
extract any intelligence of the least political Ile
terest. All parties seem to be looking forward
with much anxiety to the meeting of the Cham-
bers on Wednesday next.

By the Dutch and Flanders Mails which ar-
rived this morning we have received Hamburg!'
Papers to the 11th, Dutch Journals to the
lath, and those of Brussels to the 15th
instant. The further details they give of the
late calamitous events at St. Petersburgh are
much more deplorable than the last accounts; and
the losses suffered in those articles which conga'
tute the necesltiries of life, are found to be 50 "I
extensive, that serious apprehensions are eater'
tained that the inhabitants, in addition
to their
present disasters, will have to suffer. mall! end
great privations during the winter. ft le "t a
little remarkable that, within the space °fa
felt
years, Russia has seen her two WI
lois &vas.
water. Titio
tated, one by fire and the other by
e
following are the additional particulars of t?
recent inundations at St. Petersburgit and within
five leagues of its neighbourhood :--
ST. PETERSBURGIi. Noy. 27'
over the
The inundation having destroyed all the bridges
Neva, and made the communication between the different
parts of the city very difficult, his Majesty has, by a Decree of
the 22d, appointed military Governars pro.tempore for the 9ersi
veral quarters of the city, under the chief Governor, Gene n
a
31iloradowitsch, for the purpose of affording more speed)! a

efficacious succour to the sufferers.
The Conservatenr reports that, of all the establishments .10
which a great number of workmen' were employed, it
that the Imperial Foundery, on the road to Peterhof, ra.eie:
the most, and is great many pi;rsons xerished. It id in/P°''6.
to paint the Oct that overpowered his Majesty, when he YL
ru
the spot. On the 23d the Emperor visited the seen" dtle6th:
lation in the city and neighbourhood, walked about among t
ruins without attendants, condoled with the suffllerit n 134

sured them that they should be relieved. out• •
Entire villages are swept away ; the Sailors' • laland'
newskoi Island, Erailianowka, Olawa, Liachts, and
rinenhof, and the thundery and iron anufactory at •s"--
mwersts from the city) are entirely devastated. The G fuelicin
Harbour in Wassili-Ostrow is so ruined that it cannot be en
whether houses or streets ever stood there. The imperial islar
Xllof Yelagin and Kammenoi-Ostrow have suffered very
most of the country-houses are in danger of falling. .all d;
wooden bridges are broken down. Gostinoi-Door was moorsT
than an arsheen under water, and consequently all the 614° I
shops in the Newski rsectine.
At Cronstadt the seaPe risipng over the great battery laid the
whole town under water, and the inhabitants were forced ,iot°
take refuge in the second story. Many merchantmen of
perished; the Imperial navy suffered extremely, and a shiPo
the line, of 100 guns, stands in the great square. Above 1A
'
persons are missed there. The Isaac's Bridge is destroy
e'