The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

FLOODS IN FRANCE.

LYONS, Nov. 4.—A1l communication being stopped by
the increase of the waters, I do not know when you will re-
ceive this letter ; our courier is going by the Bourbon-
nais ; I do not know whether he is more likely to arrive
than yours. For three days past we have received no
letters from Paris. Some parts of the Brotteaux belong-
ing to us are under water ; the Rhone has increased thirty-
five centimeters higher than the year 1812. A hundred
houses, some of tour and five stories high, have fallen.
The desolation is general ; a number of families are reduced
to the greatest misery—without bread, without asylum, at
the beginning of the cold season. The waters have to-day
partly decreased ; but the inhabitants of the houses which
have not yet fallen have met with other misfortunes.
Robbers have assembled to profit by the confusion. They
attack, by night, in boats, the houses half thrown down
by the waters, but measures have already been
taken by the military authority to check their career,
although it is rather d;fficult at present. Thn
ravages of the Saone are much greater, and so serious that
those of the Rhone are forgotten. The Saone is much
higher than it has ever yet been; the bridge of Sarin is
quite under water. The bridge of St. Vincent has tieen
carried off; that of Feuillce is half so. The stone bridge
is cracking, and the houses adjoining it are disappearing
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The bridge of Chazourace has been carried away, as
well as the bridge of La Mulatiere. The Saone rushes
into the Rhone by the Rue Pont Charlet on the Pont des
Cordeliers. There is a very strong current on the ;Place
do l'Herberie. The Saone COMICS there by the Rue Tete
de Mort, and a boat is necessary to reach the Port de
Pierre. You may judge whether the boats of
every description have been able to resist this.
They have almost all been knocked to pieces against
the Pont de Pierre, and as they only arrive at the Pont
Seguin in a complete state of wreck, it is to be hoped
that it will resist. Vaise has been completely evacuated.
The forts and barracks were open to all those who wished
to take refuge there. One hundred or one hundred andfifty houses have fallen at Vaise, and a great manyhe Tapia
to have
also fallen at Serin. This wentmorning
to look, and every minute I beard the noise
ling of houses like that of the avalanches
for me to tell
sight you how my heart yearned at the s:w
so frequently in the Alps. It is impossible h° tfcob thet
are c r
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and .the
opposite the bridge of Serin took
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when lelse stories high, has been burnt from top to bottom.
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ColNrts.
Yesterday ai
gang of Koners, who
had been carrying ~
. on their trade in St. Giles, was appre-
In the expectation that a determined resistance
wouldappre-
hended.
made, the officers acted with every precaution,
and reparre
• dto the house without their uniforms. On
their arrival they immediately burst into the house, and
proceeded through to the back part, where they understood
the coiners were in the habit of working, and on their
entrance, in a kind of closet, they found three rough-look-
ing fellows sitting on a stool, before 'a large fire, upon
which there was a pot for the purpose of melting, and
they were surrounded by all the paraphernalia of coining.
The officers instantly took possession of the crucibles, a
great quantity of Queen's metal spoons, and some of it in
a liquia state, and they immediately handcuffed the wholn
of the party. A great mob collected, and a cry of
"rescue" was raise(?, but they were safely lodged in the
' ttation-house.

EVENING EDITION.,

RULES OF THE PROPOSED NEW

CLEARING HOUSE.

Z. Any joint-3tock bank, private bank, or the Bank of
Falgland, may send a clerk to the new clearing-house.
2. The times of meeting shall, if possible, be different
from the time of meeting at the old clearing-house, so that
the same clerk may attend both ; say the morning meet-
ing at eleven, and ftie afternoon at half-past four, the
money to be paid at a quarter past five.
3. Those banks that have branches may or may not pay
through the new clearing-house the cheques drawn on
h eir branches, as may be arranged. It seems most ad-
v s able that all branch cheques should be received at the
morning clearing, butnot at the afternoon.
4. As soon as the clearing banks amount to ten, a Com-
mittee of tire ehall be chosen for the government of the
new clearing-house, and the rules shall be the same as the
rules of the old clearing-houses, or as near as circumstan-
ces will admit.
The following are the advantages of theproposed plan :
1. The joint- stock banks will clear among themselves
(as well as with such private banks as may be disposed to
join them), and thus have all the advantages of the clear-
ing house so far as regards their transactions with each
other.
2. Any private banker that wishes to clear with the
joint-stock bank; may do so, without relinquishing his pre-
sent position in the old clearing-house. Although the
committee of private bankers are against the admission of
the joint-stock banks into the old elearing-house, it is be-
lieved that many of the bankers themselves are otherwise
disposed. These bankers might thus avail themselves of
all the advantages of both the old clearing-house and the
new one.

3. It is said that the Bank of England has twice applied
for admission into the old clearing-house, and been refused ;
the private bankers fearing that the Bank would then lag
able t'a take mercantile accounts. The Bank of England
will be invited to join the new clearing-house.