The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Aug. 10.

The Queen of Spain has received a letter dated
Lisbon, signed by the Duke and Duchess of Mont-
pensier, energetically protesting against the order
for their exile.

HUNGARY.

PESTH, Aug. 11.

At yesterday's sitting the Upper House of the
Hungarian Diet passed the Army Bill unanimously.
The Lower House has terminated its sittings, and
will reassemble on Sept. 16.
It is thought highly probable that the lowa
Tribunal of Peath will find Prince Karageorgewitch
guilty of complicity in Prince Michael's murder.

AMERICA.

GREENCASTLE, Aug. 12.

The Allan Company's steamer Hibernian, from
Quebec on the 2d inst., arrived in Lough Foyle at
4.50 a.m. to-day with mails and passengers. She
landed the mails for London and proceeded for
Liverpool.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Augustll.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cont. lOl 90
Ead of month_ --
3 per Gent
End of month_ 70 30
Credit Mobilier
End of month 275
Credit Foncier _l4lB
End of month —

RAILWAY

Bank Shares 3160
ItaFan Loan
Eud of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Dome Debt —
Deferred -
Cash
890
1160
940
575
573
560
421
550
405
55
641
40

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.....
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman....

TIIE GREAT FLOOD.

(From the Baltimore Mirror.)

Friday, the 24th day of July, 1868, was a day
which will be remembered in Baltimore as long as
the city endures. At Ellicott City, Howard
county, it will be remembered for ever as the most
terrible day which ever dawned on that once
smiling and prosperous community. During the
night of the 23rd ult. Baltimore was visited by a
rain which the soil, dry and arid from the extra.:
ordinary preceding heat, drank up as soon as it
fell. About eight o'clock on Thursday morning,
the whole heavens put on a twilight hue. About
nine o'clock the darkness was wellnigh eptal to
that of the same hour at night. The streets were
almost deserted. Many an alarmed and anxious
face was turned heavenward to catch a glimpse of
light, but in vain. The whole air was charged
with electricity ; lightning gleamed sharply and
vividly over the city, and at times was rapidly fol-
lowed by terrific peals of thunder. But still the
rain had not fallen to any unusual extent. In Oc-
tober, 1866, it rained for two weeks continuously
and hard, and although much damage was done,
those two weeks of incessant rain did not work a
tithe of the calamity which last Thursday's rain
brought upon the State of Maryland in less than
two hours. It is the opinion of judges that this
terrible calamity was the result of one or more
water-spouts (the dread of mariners) having
broken in their upward course.
A little after nine o'clock in the morning the
rain fell in torrents, " the big drops " following
each other with alarming rapidity. At eleven
o'clock the entire section of Baltimore through
which passes the Jones' Falls was one unbroken
and constantly increasing sheet of water. Houses
yielded before the onward rush of the torrent,
wagons and other vehicles, lamp-posts, awnings,
and thousands of dollars of wrecked materials,
came surging through the city in their rapid flight
to the basin.

The city was almost given up to a panic. We
will attempt no description of the terrible scene.
Several lives were lost, but the density of the
population in the unfortunate section of the city
visited by the flood led us to fear that the loss of
life would have been much greater. Commendable
and noble efforts are now being made by the city
authorities and private individuals to alleviate the
immense suffering which the flood has brought
upon thousands.
At Ellicott City, mills, houses, everything in
range of the fearful and swollen Patapsco, went
down in wreck and ruin. Terrible to relate,
nearly fifty lives were lost by the flood. Some of
these, as in the case of the lamented Mrs. Owings
and her young family, having been swept to their
watery graves under circumstances of heart-rend-
ing pain. The splendid Granite Mill went down
in the roaring torrent, and from that moment the
deluge poured with resistless fury over everything
that opposed an obstacle to its mad course. We
visited the scene of the disaster a few days ago,
and the whole country, Ellicott City and neigh-
bourhood, was converted into a universal scene of
misery and woe. We earnestly hope that the
poor sufferers who are left by the flood may expe-
rience that assistance which it is in the power of
our people to render them. Never did a more
powerful and touching charity appeal to the human
heart.

At a meeting of the Catholic clergy, held at
Castlebar, on Thursday, to consider the representa •
tion of Mayo, the following resolution was pro-
posed That, having met to confer together on
the respective merits of the candidates for the re-
presentation of Mayo, in connection with which we
deem most necessary for the prosperity of Ireland
and her people, we hereby pledge ourselves to give
our strenuous support to those candidates only who
shall advocate the fullest measure of tenant right,
unqualified freedom of Catholic denominational
education, the disestablishment and disendownient
of the Protestant Church, and, above all, the re-
peal of the legislative union, and who likewise shall
not enter into coalition with any candidate not
holding those principles or who shall decline to co-
operate with the candidate who maintains them."
The Catholic Archbishop and many ecclesiastical
dignitaries were present, and the reading of the
resolution was received with loud applause.

Sergeant Armstrong, M.P., has been for some
days past labouring under a severe illnes3, at his
residence, Greenfield, Sutton. The learned gentle-
man has intimated to the electors of Sligo that, in
consequence of his failing health, he will not seek
re-election for that borough. He continues dan-
gerously ill. _

Referring to Mr. Disraeli's recent declaration
that the condition of Ireland is satisfactory the
Northern lVhig says :—" Whether we look to the
south, or observe the condition of the north here,
we see that there is something radically wrong in
the social and political condition of this country.
If there have been manifestations of a better spirit
during the last three months, they have arisen, not
from :he suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, nor
from any system of repression, but from the effect
of the earnest manner in which Mr. Gladstone's
resolutions and the Suspensory Bill have been sup-
ported in the two Houses of Parliament. It begins
to be seen that justice can yet be obtained from the
British Legislature; that there are statesmen ani-
mated with a determination to grapple with the
evils at their source, and to leave nothing undone
to rearm the wrongs Qi many generations.''