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London, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC ,RETURNS:

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTEM RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Aug. 23,!1856 £21,014 5 2
Corresponding week last year 23,827 14 4
Increase in 1856
- £lB6 10 10
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 23,
1856.. £16,44% 2 4
Corresponding weak last
,year- 17,459 14 8
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 148;829 15 7
Total of the half-year to this date, 1R55 141,319 13 6
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WEfiTRIIN RAlLWAY.—Traffic i 6-
turn for the week ending A . 23, 1856 £7,012 14 7
Corresponding week last ye , 6,5)3 611
Increase in 1856.,, tt'
GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffid ietfirsllo97
for'thc-:8
week ending Aug. 17, 1836 £735 11 1

THE LATE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE,

The following correspondence has passed between the
Lord Mayor and the Earl of Clarendon, upon the sub-
ject of the contributions raised in this country for the re•
lief of the augereya inundations in France.
Aug. 13, 1856.
4! My Lord,—Having had the honour., of-receiving
through your lordship the magnificent contributions of
her Majesty the Queen and of his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort to the fund for the relief of the sufferers
by the inundations in France, I deem it tny duty, now
that our labours are drawing to a close, to address a
short report to your lordship, for the purpose of enabling
you to lay before her Majesty the Queen my humble and
respectful account of our proceedings.
" The meeting at the Mansion-house was held on Fri-
day, the 13th June. It was convened on a vary short
notice, yet I may venture to say that the commercial
wealth, influence, and station of the City of London
were never more worthily represented in the Egyptian
Hall than on that occasion. About 5,0004 was the sum
subscribed at the meeting. I wrote to the Prefet de la
Seine tile same evening, placed at his disposal the sum of
100,000 f. (4,0001.), so that the same post should convey
to Paris an account of the meeting and a substantial evi-
dence of its success. I continued to forward successive
sums of 100,000 f., as money reached me. The last was
on the 25.1 July, Yesterday I transmitted a further
amount of 165,000 f. (6,6001.), making a total of 765,000 f.
(30,6001) sent to the Prefet in aid of the sufferers.
" The total subscription received to this day exceeds
32,0001. Our expenses are about 1,0001. ;of this sum
the means of giving publicity to our proceedngs by print-
rug and advertisements forming the heaviest items. A
small sum still remains in my bands, which will have to
be transmitted to Paris when all our expenses have been
finally defrayed. Her Majesty will no doubt be pleased
to learn that while her gracious and noble example of
generous sympathy has been followed by so many per.
sons of wealth and position, the humblest of her subjects
have, in very numerous instances, testified their conside-
ration by the most modest contributions to our funds. I
could quote many cases of personal offerings of swa 1
sums, together with remittances of post-office orders and
postage stamps, testifying in the strongest manner to the
kindly feeling prevailing amongst all classes towards the
French nation. The Prefet de la Seine has always ac-
knowledged to me the receipt of our remittances in terms
of the greatest warmth ; and I know from other sources
that the sympathy which has been so generally exhibited
has sensibly touched the heart of the French people.
" The example of London was followed by other
towns and districts, and their contributions swell our
general amount. ome towns have correspondei direct
with the French authorities. I know Liverpool and
Scotland have done so. As I have no details cf their
proceedings I cannot 'give any exact results ; but I
should say that the total sum sent to France exceeds
1,000,0001.
_ _

" I beg now to thank your lordship for the. kind en-
couragement you were pleased to give me at the outset
of our proceedings. I felt that, in the important step I
ventured to take, I needed every possible support ; and
tbe committee, of whom I am the humble organ, will, I
am sure, learn with delight that her most gracious Ma-
jestyapproves of the manner in which we have discharged
the duty which the generous and kind sympathy of the
British people for the misfortune which overcame a por-
tion of their French neighbours onablel us to fulfil.—l
have the honour to be, my lora, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " D. SaammoNs, Lord Mayor.
"The Earl of Clarendon,-K.G."

"Foreign-office, Aug. 22, 1856.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of the letter which your lordship addressed to me
on the 13th inst., and in which you have been good
enough to furnish me with some interesting details rela-
tive to the proceedings of the committee of the fund for
the relief of the suff,LTeri by the late inundations in
France.

"I have not failed to lay your lordship's letter before
the Queen, who has commanded me to express to you
her entire approval of the manner in which the commit-
tee so worthily presided over by your lordship has dis-
charged the duties which it undertook. Her Majesty
also desires me to convey to your lordship the assurance
of the great satisfaction with which she has ob3erved the
generous sympathy displayed by the public in responding
to the appeal made to them by the committee, and in
thus endeavauring to alleviate the calamity ;which had
befallen the people in certain departments iu France.
"I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's
most obedient, humble servant,
(Signed) " CLAMENDON.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c."