The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

. _
e following additional particulars of the progress
of the inundations in th 3 departments washed by
the Allier and the Loire :—The news of the great
rise in the waters of these rivers caused consider-
alarm at Orleans. At Tours the engineers are
on the alert, and immediately aiopted measures in
case of fresh danger. The prefects of Tours and
Angers immediately warned all theibpubEc func-
tionaries, and all the people residing near the
Loire, to be on their guard. That river has risen
fire metres at St. Just, and was still rising when
the last account was received. The railway bridge
constructed last year to noi•.e the Martra-de-Veyre
to Vic-le-Comte has been carried away by a sudden
swell of the Allier, ,which rose three metres above
its usual height; and the goods and passengers are
obliged to be conveyed across the river in boats.
TheCourrier de la Drome states that the Ardeche
had again risen considerably in consequence of the
late heavy rains. All the works going on for the
construction of the bridge at Aubenas have been
washed away, and the temporary bridge which had
been erected has completely disappeared. This is
the fourth time within three weeks that these works
have been similarly damage i. Orders bad been sent
to Orleans and all the other stations not to deliver
any tickets for Clermont ; but the engineers of the
railway have since succeeded in re-establishing the
circulation, for a counter-order has since been sent.
In consequence of the government having received
accounts of the rising of the Loire, measures were
adopted for sending assistance to the threatened
points ; and troops received orders yesterday to
proceed to the 0 rleans rail way station. They were
about to start when a telegraphic despatch was re-
ceived of a more satisfactory nature, and the order
for their departure was countermanded. They
have, however, been ordered to hold themselves in
readiness to start at a moment's notice.

During a violent thunderstorm which visited
Lugon (Vendee) and its neighbourhood a few days
since, the lightning fell on a mill at Bessay, about
five mills from that place. The electric fluid struck
the tree which supports the sails, and rent it almost
in two parts, and tore off one of the sails. It then
entered the mill, where the miller and his servai:t
were standing. The latter was knocked do 4n and
killed on the spot, and the former, who happened
to be near the door, was thrown to a considerable
distance, but without receiving any ecry material
injury. A mule which was fastened by the bridle
at the door was killed.

THE FOREIGN PRESS ON INDIAN

MUTINIFS.

The Debats thus replies to a late article in which
the Times commented in haughty terms on the un-
popularity of England in France. The reply of
the Debats is not calculated to reduce Viit bad
feeling, which does not, however, exist to the ex-
tent supposed by the Times :
" Loo ing at the groundwork of things, we think we
may say that the Times is mistaken, and judges too ix.
elusively in its own particular point of view the feeling
which manifests itself in public opinion with regard to
England. In the first place the Times is wrong in sup-
posing that there are French journals which rejoice at se(
ing E,,g'ish officers, women, and children rnmsaerel by
the .epoys. In this particular the Times is unjatt to-
wards the joernals which have shown themselves the
most violent and passionate enemies of England ;and
our impPrtiality obliges us to protest even in the lure
of the Mayers and the Gazette de France. In Frame ss
in England there are not two feelings or two opinions
with. regard to the atrocities of which India has her n
the theatre, and it is certain that the horrible recta s
which reach us by every wail have rai-ed feelinhs of
horror and indignation in every hear,. The Times con-
founds two things which public opini: n has clearly
distinguished and separated one from the other; it
confounds the cause of humanity, so cruelly outraged
in Iniia, aad the cause of English policy, which has
been blamed and censured elsewhere tha r in Fraice,
and which cannot pretend to be beyond the reach ofcri-
ticisea. The English journal is mistaken, and 1.-dnsais
under an illusion still more serious, in attributini to
envy the kind of unpopularity which England encouu:ers
in France. The Tenses might have detected the cue
of this nnpopnlarity in curtain welt-known incidmts
which hay.. so sally compromised and disturhel the.
friendly relations of France and England ; it rmikit
have been found in the limitation which the egotistical
and passionate policy of Lord Palmerston has exerted
not only in France but on the whole'of the Conti-
nent. It should alto have asked it•itlf whey her the
English press has always treated with sufficient ten-
sideration the just and honourable susceptibilities of
France. We speak without bitterness, without pas-
sion, and with all that impartiality of which wo have
so frequently given proof, but we think that the
haughty language of the English journal will not be
favourably received in France, and that it wril not
contribute to remove from the public mind those pre-
judices which it has lately conceived against England.'

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