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for those who are destitute of shelter, and the'
Exchange has been fitted up to receive 4,000
more persons. The Emperor ALEXANDER, with
his characteristic humanity and promptness, has
given a million of roubles for the relief of these
classes, and a committee has been appointed to
superintend its distribution. Upwards of 8,000
persons, it had already been ascertained, had pe-
ri•hed, and the destruction of cattle and every
kind of provisions was immense. Fears of a ge-
neral famine were in consequence entertained,
especially as all the flour in the capital had beer
considerably damaged, and the ovens completely
ruined. The arsenal, the three bridges over the
Neva, and several public buildings have keen
materially injured, and the damage done to the
Imperial fleet at Cronstadt is said to be immense?
The loss of the commercial community is incal-
culable, particularly in coffee, sugar, twist,
hemp, potash, hemp oil, and herrings and many
of the trades-people have been reduced to ruin.

In d eed , it would seem that nothing could
exceed the alarming fury of the waters. The
whole city was at one time inundated ;
every thing in the lower stories of the houses,
and in some parts of the town in the second stories,
has been totally destroyed. At Gottenburg the
hurricane and inundation also occasioned consi-

durable injury on the night of the 18th ultimo.
Many ships were damaged, and one yacht sunk;
and several houses were unroofed. The lower
part of the town WilS under water, and one man
perished. In the neighbourhood of Gottenhurg

much damage was also done; and accounts from
Uddewulta say, that the water there rose
eight feet above the usual level so rapidly, that
many persons had not time_ to escape to the
higher parts of the town, but took refuge on the
roofs. Whole houses were carried away by the
current, and large ships thrown upon the shore
'o the distance of 4,000 feet from their anchor-
The darkness of the night augmented the
lorrors of the scene. When day-break strewed
he effects of the storm and the inundation,
the streets were seen to be filled with beams,
fragments of houses and vessels, and even a ship
of 150 tons burden. Fortunately no person pe-
rished, but numbers of cattle were destroyed.

EXCHANGES.
HAMIOUGH, DEC. 7.—London, 36. 11. ; 2 Us., 35. 106.
ST. PETERSBUILGH, Nov. 23.—London, 9. 23.32.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. Io.—London, 39. 7. ; 2 months, 39. 4.

Brussels Papers to the 12tit instant arrived

last night, but they are entirely destitute of any
political news. Mr. STRATFORD CANNINO, With

his suite, arrived at Brussels on the Bth instant,
on his route to Vienna, and thence to St. Peters-
burgh, im a special mission relating to the uffuyirs
of tireece and Turkey.

IRELAND.--Extensive preparations are =Ling
at Liverpool for the emharkution of a large
mili-
tary force to Ireland on the 28th instant.

It appears by' the Paris Papers that, in pursu-
ance of the Royal Ordinance of the Ist instant,
ninety-two French General Officers, in addition
to those mentioned in. our Paper last Friday,
have been placed upon half-pay;
'Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Secretary of State's Of-
fice for Foreign Affairs, which was attended by
the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Liverpool and
Bathurst, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary
Canning, the Chancellor of 'the Exchequer,
Viscount Melville, Lord Bexley, Mr. Wynn,
Mr. Huskisson, &c. The Cabinet did not break
up till a quarter past five o'clock.
Yesterday morning the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER arrived at his residence in Downing-
street, from" Beckenham.
Mr. WYNN gave the firkt_ Cabinet dinner this
season, yesterday,' to the Oabinet Ministers, at
his house, in White-hall-place.
Yesterday Mr. DRAFFAN, a King's Messenger,
arrived at the Admiralty and Colonial Office,
with dispatches from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, at
Corfu, dated the 26th Nov,
On Thursday last Mr. BANKHEAD, or the Flo-
reign.Office, who is attached to Mr. STRATFORD
CANNING'S Special Mission to St. Petersburgh,
left town, to join the Right Hon. Gentleman at
Brussels.
We understand that an entire change in the
Government of New South Wales will shortly
take place.—( Times.)
We hear that Lord Succount has resigned his
situation as Judge in the Circuit Court and Court

of Session.
'['he cipher of the King of France has just
been definitively ordered. The idea is as simple
as it is ingenious. It is formed by two Cs, which
cross each- other inversely,and which at the same
time present with the initial of his Majesty the
ciper which accompanies his name.--(Paris
Paper.)
HOLLAND:--The Government of the Nether.
lands is engaged in several extensive undertakings for the in-
terior improvement of that country. Among them several
Canals are to be constructed on a large scale. The New Canal,
traversing North llolland vesselsh Texel to Amsterdam, and
intended to enable large to avoid the shallows of the
Zuyder, Zee, is now in considerable forwardness, and there will
soon, we
.understand, be submitted to the States-General, a
plan for saving the detour caused by the shallows
ls at the mouth
of the Meese,• and enabling heavy laden vesse to proceed
directly to Rotterdam. This will be accomplished by a Canal,
to cut across the small island of Voorn, so as to lead from llel-
voetslitys to the upper parts of the Meese, and enable large
' vessels to reach Rotterdam by a passage of sixteen miles,
instead of fifty or sixty, as at present.
The ,;Directors of the Equitable Loan Bank
Company'have, it is said, purchaSed the College
of Physicians, as a central depot, at the price of
12,000 guineas.