The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-20 00:00:00

equal to the claims against the institution now pyable on
demand.

Under these circumstances, the effort on the part of
the Bank to resume specie payments, and on the part
of the other Philadelphia banks to assist in doing so,
is preposterous. The Bank cannot continue to pay
specie, nor to pay at all, and it is a shame that the
currency and business of the country should be again
agitated and put in jeopardy for its sake. Its proper
course is liquidation. Justice to its stockholders and
the public demand that it should make no more sacri-
fices to maintain appearances. The Philadelphia banks
have yet one chamee to save themselves. We fear it is
their last, and if their eyes are not clesed with scales which
no exhibitions of truth can cause to fall, they must see
their danger, and try to escape. In Philadelphia, although
there are more men who think as we de tlein dare to tell
their thoughts, yet it is the way with the newspapers end
with too many of the bank directors to answer fill such
statements by crying Hostility to Pennsylvania and her
itistitutions.' But we beg to remind them, that 1.1 months
ago we sent them the history of the present position, and
declared all the prominent facts which this analy,is con-
We beg them also to remember that ali our state-
ments and predictions concerning the course of this bank,
and the cud of that course, have turned out as true as if
they had been spoken by inspiration ; and we ask
them to inquire whether, if an enemy tells us the truth,
it is the part of a wise man to reject it because of its
source. But it has been the lot of all who have predicted
events disagreeable to their fellow men, to be cadet' ene-
mies. Yet, when all their predictions hate been verified,
ir irs been common to allow thorn a Hester motive.
Bet what is thought of our motives in this matter, we can
tell our neighbours of Philadelphi ot more serious ire-
pertauce to them than to u'. We have lost a good deal
by our resistance to the bad administration of the United
States Bank. But we do not wish to retrace our steps,
nor to stop until it shall cease to wrong the business of
the country. IL is of great importance to the whole nation
that the resurretion .about to take place in Philadelphia
should he scampi. :Ind permanent. It is especially import-
alit to Philadelphia. If the other banks resume without
the United States Bank, the resumption will possess in
some good degree the public confidence, and will bi a
comparatively easy thing. But if the United States
B ink is included, the pub:ic distrust will , draw
every dollar of money out of Philadelphia im-
mediately, and place it in situations more secure, and
most of it will come to New York. To sustain such a
resumption will require that money should be made
and kept intensely scarce in Philadelphia. For once, the
interest of every Poiladelph;a merchant, whether be be a
debtor to the United States Bank or not, is obviously op-
posed to the plans of the bark. The interest of every mer-
chant in the whole country is also against the bank. New
York, and Providence, and Boston, secure as we all are,
not behind cotton bales exactly, but behind principles of
truth and honesty, all these places will he agitated end in-
jured by the proposed resumption. We know that the
Philadelphia banks have negotiated their loan on the plan
of including the United Settee Bank in the resumption.
But there was no pledge tint this should be the case, nor
do those who loan the money care, we think, to have it so.
They are therefore not shut out from the liberty of turn-
big which way they please."—Times.

EXPORTATION 01., WINE FROM

THE DOCRO.

Daring the last year 3-1,1901 pipes of Wine have been
exported from the river Douro to the undermentioned
parts ; viz. :
Great Britain 25,6781
Jersey
and Guernsey
Gibraltar

Canada
Newfoundland
Australia ....

2854
1081
262

Kingdom of Portugal . .
Azores
Caro de Verds
Angola
Brazil
Monte Video 9O--
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United States
Danmark
Iceland
Prwsia

1,40(4
1391
4

Sweden and Norway
Russia
Hamburgh
France
Hglland
Genoa .. .
Spin

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THE LATE FLOODS.

The effects of the late awful floods were most severely
felt in the town of Watford, and the neighbourhood of
that place. Between four and five o'clock an immense
body of water came from the river Co!tie, which speedily
overflowed its banks, and rushed with the utmost im-
petuosity into the town ; tho rush of the flood was so
sudden and violent, that the watchman on duty at the
water works had hardly time to make Lis escape, and he
was obliged to wade up to his middle in water before he
could get to a place of safety. The whole of the tim-
ber upon the works was washed away and lost, and the
water poured with frightful violence into the High street
of Watford, and at eight o'clock there was a depth in
some places of from six to eight feet of water, which
completel; fined two leas: perte of the heesoe, and the
inhabitants were obliged to take shelter in the top
rooms, as from the suddenness of the flsod they had no
opportunity to leave their habitations. All means of
communication were of course entirely stopped, and it
was at one time feared, from the immense body of
water, that the bridge over the Coins would have been
destroyed. The rater continued to increase for several
hours, and in the middle of the day the whole of
the meadows, extending on each side of the
town of \Vat ford to the embankment of the
London and Birmingham Railway, present d the
appearance of a vast lake, and it is feared that the
embankment has received some iojury ; for, since the
water has subsided, workmen have been constantly
employed upon the embankment, and the trains pass
over the whole of that portion of the line at a foot-pace.
A great deal of property has been washed away, and a
number of pigs and sheep were also lost ; hut happily
no human lite has been sacrificed. A rather ludicrous
occurrence took place in the town during the flood. An
old man, who preaches at a place he calls Gilead Cha-
pel, near the bridge, at Watford, and who lives in a
cottage adjoining his chapel, was surprised by the ap-
proach of the water ; but not imagining that there was
any danger, he retired to his chapel, taking with him a
pipe and some tobacco. The water speedily began to
rise, and he was obliged to betake himself to his pulpit,
where he began smoking, and hoping for the speedy re-
treat of the water, that he might be able to retire. A
number of the Gileadites, as his followers term them-
selves, went to him, and one of them wished him to ride
on his back through the water ; but the old man
would not venture, and he remained in his pulpit
smoking his pipe, and surrounded by the water
for nearly nine hours. A man named Hudson had a
narrow escape from losing his life. His cottage was
situated at the lowest part of the road, where the water
would consequently be- the deepest, but he refused to
leave it, and said he knew the water could not do him
any harm. In a short time the lower room of his house
seas filled, and at length he was obliged to get upon a
table, which soon floated with him, and pitched him
into the water headforemost. He contrived to scramble
into the street, and assistance being near at hand, he
was rescued from what appeared to be almost inevitable
destruction, as the water at this spot reached nearly to
the first-floor windows. A medical gentleman narnsel
Piddock, residing at Watford, also had a narrow escape.
He attempted to drive through the water in his gig, but
when the horse got to the middle of the water he became
alarmed and would not proceed any further, and the
chaise was nearly overturned, when a waggon was driven
into the water, and Mr. Piddock was brought out, and
after considerable difficulty the horse and chaise were,
also brought nut of the water. On Sunday morning
the flood began to subside, and on Monday the houses
were left free from water, and the road was also open,
and the parish officers immediately, very humanely, or-
del cd a supply of coals and other necessaries to the
poor persons who bad been sufferers by the flood. At
Herrow a similar inundation took place, and there is
too much reason to fear that one young man has lost
his life. It appears from inquiries made by a corres-
pondent that this young man, whose name is Chapman,
had borrowed a lantern to light him home on Sunday
evcnire,,, and on his way he would have to pets the
stone. bridge, where the water was very deep. The
lantern was found the next morning, but the unfortu-
nate young man has not since been heard of, and it is
feared he missed his way and was drowned. The
seater throughout all this neighbourhood is now, we are
happy to say, fast subsiding.

" PLENTY OF FoxEs."—Our friends the fanners
in the neighbourhood of Crosthwaite, Lyth, and the Mosses
have often had occasion to exclaim, more in bitterness
than exultation, "we have plenty of foxes I" We ate
told, that within a very short period upwards of twenty Of
these wily and destructive animals have been imitated
from Scotland and Wales, and snugly located in the fast-
nesses of Whitbarrow, from whence they issue whenever
olipirtunity offers, to take a tithe of the contents of the
beoroosts, tiv,•2. of the poor farmers. This is hardly as it
ought to be. The small farmer arc prat.), well plucked
by two-footed foxes at. house, without bringing a freslt im-
portation of four-touted ones from a distance. Out of the
s-ore which havo been introduced into the vicinity of
Whitbarrow, only two or three have been captured. One
day last week, no less than three memberslodf.tiliel
AfacmoiNl.,
of Reenard were seen running abreast over Helsington
B3rro;:s.—Kendal Mercury.
NORWICH.---TRIBUTE TO R.
EcQ__The many years devoted to the public •
qervlee by
the Edi•er of the Norwich Met cur!! , Lii 1. '
. .
Ltd!. of his elan-
vary of Liberal principles, and et the riirli'ii '"cillio.Vi "I"'
Ix, tern, against fraud, factino, ,„:d
talents as a writer, and his inte,ritv niVresirio, his
primiipalbanoblemen and gentle-
called forth an expression of the J as a mat', Lave
respect entertained
towards him by the
linen on the Liberal side, win)
of a committee the sum of 2001,, collected by individual
have placed in the hand.;
subscriptions, to be expended ill the
of the estimation in which
plate, to be presonted to mr. l' the purchase of pie" of
he is held. Aineugst the con,
3acon, as a lasting memorial
Earl of Leicester, Easrei of
tributors are the Duk Norfolk, Earl of Albemarle,
E. L. Pulvivr, of Rosebery, Lord Boners, Lord
Colborne, Lord Stafford,
Bart., sz manyJoatlciovbrs.Aqley, 134r.t., Si:.