The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
Saturday :—]

FRANCE.

During the course of the sitting of the Assembly
yesterday the following discussion took place on the
subject of the orders alleged by the Pctrie to have
been issued to the troops by General Changarnier :
The Algeria Commerce Regulation Bill having
been read a second time,
The President announced that M. Napoleon Bona-
parte demanded leave to address interpellations to the
Minister of War, relative to instructions given by
General Changarnier to the army under his orders.—
(Cries of " In three months ;" others "Immediately.")
The Minister of War asked that they be postponed
until Monday.
The delay of three months was put to the vote and
rejected, Generals Lamoriciere and Bedeau and about
40 members voting in that sense. The immense
majority of the Assembly, however, rose against it.
The proposition to fix the interpellation for Monday
was similarly rejected, and the Assembly decided that
they should take place immediately.
M. Napoleon Bonaparte then rose and said, that he
had read with surprise and disgust an article inserted
in the Pctrie on the liberation of M. Mauguin by
order of the National Assembly, stating that if the
director of the Debtor's Prison had refused obedience
most serious consequences might have ensued, inas-
much as it declares positively that the following are
among " the general and permanent instructions "
given by the Commander-in-Chief of the army of
Paris to the commanders of troops under his orders :
—" 1. Not to obey any requisition until after having
received the orders of the Lieutenant-General ; 2.
Not to listen to the Representatives; 20. Every order
which does not come from the General-in-Chief is
null ; 21. Every requisition, summons, or demand
made by a civil, judicial, or political functionary, shall
be rigorously rejected."
M. Bonaparte observed that if such instructions
were signed by Windischgratz or Radetzky he would
find it quite simple, but a French general's name
should never have figured at the bottom of such a
document. He expected this morning to read in the
Moniteur an article communique, denying the
existence of those instructions, which violated the
spirit of the Constitution and wounded public con-
science. The Assembly, he added, disposed of the
military force for its protection, and yet the troops
were enjoined not to obey any requisition that did not
emanate from the General-in-Chief. Traitors were
to be immediately shot, and who was to discriminate
between loyal citizens and traitors ? In presence of
such instructions, which he had every reason to be-
lieve real, it was important that the Assembly should
assume an energetic position. It was sovereign and
should be obeyed. He thought that every power
should be reminded of the respect due to the Consti-
tution, and he accordingly proposed the following
resolution :

" The National Assembly, blaming the instructions
given to the troops under his orders by General Chan-
gamier, invites the Minister of War to modify them,
and passes to the order of the day."
The Minister of War replied that he never refused
the combat, and that if he had asked that the interpel-
lations be fixed for Monday it was to have time to
make inquiries respecting the existence of that docu
ment. On reading the article in the Patric he had
ordered research to be made in the War-office, and no
trace of it could be found. He was only told that
such instructions had been issued 29 months ago, but
he could assure M. Bonaparte that they were no longer
in existence.

General Changarnier, who followed, declared that
the alleged instructions inserted in the Patrie were
not the textual copy of any permanent or temporary
instructions issued by the Commander-in-Chief.—
(Bravos throughout the hall.) In no case could it
enter his mind to question the constitutional right of
the Assembly to dispose of the military force for its
protection.—(Redoubled bravos.) When his comrade
General Cavaignac invested him with the command of
the National Guard, he had thought proper to frame
instructions which were to guide the officers under his
orders in case of a collision. He held them in his
hand, and if the Assembly wished—(No, no)—he
would read them to it. The Patrie might have found
them in the journals of the time. Tney had since been
approved of by all the Administrations that had suc-
ceeded each other since that period.
The discussion being afterwards closed, the order of
the day, moved by M. Napoleon Bonaparte, was re-
jected by an almost unanimous vote, and the simple
order of the day was adopted.
The Assembly subsequently adjourned at half•past
five o'clock, amidst the greatest agitation.

GREAT FLOOD AT CARLISLE.
(From the Carlisle Journal.)
It is not often tbat we have to record a circum-
stance of so extraordinary a character as has happened
in this district within the last forty-eight hours.
During the whole of yesterday, about a thousand
acres of ground in the neighbourhood of this city
were completely under water. Since the year 1822,
the waters of the Eden, the Caldew, and the Pet-
teril have not risen to such a height, and we ques-
tion whether at that memorable period the waters
were higher, though unquestionably the storm was
much greater, and the damage done to property
very much more. The weather, which has been very
changeable since our last, assumed on Wednesday
night a very serious aspect. The wind rose in the
afternoon, the rain came on and poured down in
perfect torrents, and storm and rain continued till a
late hour. The rivers, which during the day were
about their usual limits, gradually rose, and it was
evident that the waters were rapidly rising to an un-
usual height. At ten o'clock the rain cleared off for
a time, but the wind continued during the greater
part of the night, and passengers on the West Walls
could scarcely keep their feet. A gentleman who
was going home with his wife in that direction, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, had his
hat blown off and carried to a great distance; his
wife was blown down on the footpath, and it re•
quired every exertion to keep himself up. An
hour or two after midnight there was a heavy fall
of rain again, but the howling of the blast began
somewhat to diminish, and its strength seemed on the
wane. By daylight the atmosphere was compara-
tively placid, and the rain had altogether ceased. The
sun, howexer, rose upon a sight of the most astonish-
ing description. The whole of Rickerby Holme,
Stoney Holme, the Swifts, the Willow holme, the
Sorceries, and other low-lying lands, were com-
pletely under water. The currents of the rivers were
merged and undistinguishable in the vast expanse.
We are glad to find thot the loss of sheep and cattle
has been very trifling compared with what might
have been expected. Mr. John Irving had eighty-two
sheep at pasture in the Far Sorceries. Orders had
been given to have them removed on Wednesday
night, something like high water being anticipated,
though not a deluge such as it proved. The
orders given seem to have been either misunderstood
or neglected, and Thursday morning at eight o'clock
found them surrounded with water, and perched on
the sheep mounds. The water was fast rising, and
the most energetic measures had to be adopted to
secure them. A boat was obtained, and two men
(one of them naked) set to work. By dint of the
most persevering exertions, seventy of them were
brought over in the boat to terra firma. Four of
them swam across to Etterby Scaur end saved their
lives ; two were carried through the rail way arches and
ware brought out at Etterby. They were thus all saved
but six, which fell a prey to the flood, and have not
been recovered. The exertions of the naked sheep-
catcher excited considerable merriment amongst the
on-lookers at the Castle Bank. On the near Soceries
the Messrs. Dixon had seventeen sheep. They were
taken of? by means of boats, about nine o'clock yes-
terday morning, and during the day they were to
be seen quietly
grazing on that portion of the Bitts
which was now under The number of animals
lost cannot bwe at
lail>ireeistentbt exactly ascertained. 'We
do not, however,
Cal-
dewgate a number of the houseseycan be many. In
lower stories. At the
Ir were flooded in the
s
Damside .
the people
had to go into and leaveih
of planks placed across the their houses by means
be kept out of the lower stories.water which could not
Holme the water got into theimln the Willow
houses, to the great
discomfort and alarm of the
Castle -bank the flood was seen to stns.
far abdisove
From the
short -
the floor of Simpson's mill, and within
ap tance of the windows. The wheel
fourths submerged, and the block of buildsinasgs 3
1y
1111,arsehee.
neighbourhood appeared as if fully environed
flood. The whole of the ground up above tbhee level
of the moat round the castle was flooded. T
pets of the bridge leading into the Sorceries onlyp a-
P apeared above the water. The cricketers' tent door.
was burst open by the flood, and the building was
more than half under water. From the Castle-bank
across to the foot of Etterby Scaur was one continued
watery expanse, and scarcely broken even by the
insignificant top of a hedge-row. Had the Devon-
shire and other banks been as law as they were not

many years ago there is little question that a lar,
portion of the lower district of Rickergate would
have been deluged. The scene from Etterby Scaur,
at four o'clock, was one of great beauty and gran-
deur. The whole of the vale 1;Qlow was one broad
expansive and placid lake, or rather resembled some
model bay for the anchorage of an extensive mvy.
The view towards Iticktrhy from Eden-bridge was
lovely in the extreme. As far as the vlsion could
penetrate there was one wide expanse of water, only
broken by the uprising plantations. From Eden-
bridge the water on both sides would not be less than
an area of a thousand acres', Along Botcherby-road
the fields were flooded. The gardens at Warwick-
road were submerged, and the water reached up to
the road at the toll-bar. At Petteril.bridge, in place
of the usual rippling stream, we had a river of such
volume that it could scarcely get through the arch.
The road up to Botcherby-mill was impassable.
The road a little beyond the bridge was flooded

for a quarter of a mile. Here a speculator, with
horse and gig, conveyed passengers over the
road for a penny a piece, and the water
at some places took the horse up to the knees. Tne
garden of Mr. Peter Dixo❑ at Holme Eden wis
flooded, and the water was up as high as Dr. Tin-
ning's house at Warwick. We have been informed
that the Wetheral Mill, which stands on the banks
of the river opposite Corby, has been completely
washed down. At Knockupworth a mud cottage
was on Wednesday night levelled to the ground by
the violence of the storm. We may add that the
flood was at its highest at two o'clock yesterday.
After that time it began gradually but very slowly
to fall, and at four o'clock this morning it had sub-
sided very much. It was observed that the flood pro-
ceeded principally from the Eden. The impetucus
Caldew has been higher when the flood was less ;
and the Petteril, though certainly at an extraordinary
height, has not very long ago been beyond the limits
it assigned itself yesterday.
The flood yesterday caused quite a sensation in the
city. Crowds of people were to be seen at all hours
of the day on the Castle-bank, Devonshire-walk,
Eden-bridges, Etterby Scaur, and other places
whence a ♦iew of the graad spectacle could be ob-
tained.

PENRITH, JAN. 2.—This town and neighbourhood
were visited by an awful storm of wind and rain during
the evening of New Year's-day, which lasted the
whole of the night without the least intermission ;
and the rivers and the becks having been full with the
rain of Tuesday, they became perfectly full, and in
many places the banks were overflowed, and great
damage was done. The river Eden at Longwatby
overflowed its embankment, and between the Toll
Gate and the bridge over the turnpike road it ran a
perfect torrent, and was impassable. At Brougham
Castle Mill, the confluence of the Eamont and the
Lowther, the water was very high, and for a time the
premises were in great danger of being swept away.
A good deal of damage has been done, but not to the
eitent expected. At or near Shap Beck, the arch of
a bridge on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was
washed down, and the mail trains going north and
south were detained there many hours—the mail
going south ten hours, and the mail going north
thirty-four hours. This is a very serious affair, and
will cause great uneasiness and confusion. The
bridge has been temporarily repaired, and the trains
DOW pass as usual. The storm raged at Penrith from
five in the evening till six next morning, when it
cleared up, and the wind ceased. This day (Thurs-
day) has been fine, and suited to the season.
APPLEBY, THURSDAY, JAN. 2.—The heaviest flood
of the river Eden that has been known at Appleby
since the memorable Candlemas flood of 1822, which
created such vast destruction of bridges and pro-
perty in the north, was witnessed at Appleby on
Thursday morning. During the latter part of
Wednesday the rain began to fall in tor-
rents, and the wind to blow a tremendous hurri-
cane. The storm continued with unabated fury until
about four o'clock on the following morning. The
river, which was previously heavily charged, began
to overflow its banks at an early hour of the night,
and soon after midnight had completely inundated
the lower grounds in the neighbourhood, laying waste
the hedges in every direction, and sweeping with im-
petuous force every loose object with which it came in
contact. The lower part of the town of Appleby,
especially Chapel-lane, was a complete sea, and the
inhabitants of the houses in that locality had to remove
their furniture into the second story, the depth of
water in the houses averaging about three feet.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851.
The following are the present fixtures a.; nearly as
we can ascertain:—

FEBRUARY.

6 I Liverpool Spring

NARCH.

Kipling Coates
Northampton 26
Newcastle-on-Tyne S 2B

Malton l5
Newmark. First Spring 21
Abergavenny 24
Chester

York Spring
Bath l3
Epsom

Bibury
Newton
Stockbridge
Winchester..... 2O
Newcastle
[lx.

Stamford....
Nottingham
Goodwood

Let wee l3 or 14
York
Egham 27
:3111E11..

Bedford 22 or 23
Eglinton Park
Manchester Autumn.... 23
Newmarket F.O 3O

IBER.
Wrexham
Newmarket S.O l3
Newmarket Houghton 27
XBER.
, First week.

NOV