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

THE FLOODS IN FIANCE.

The Moniteur du Loiret gates that the Allier has
risen considerably, and at Pont-du-Chateau,
three leagues from Clermont, the river had at-
tained the maximum height of 1856. At Moulins
the water was rising at the rate of 20 centimetres
(about 7 inches) an hour. The Haute-Loire and
the Cher had not risen. At Roanne the Loire,
which had attained a height of 3 metres 30 centi-
metres, had begun to subside. We have received
the following additional particulars of the progress
of the inundations in the departments washed by
the Allier and the Loire :—The news of the. great
rise in the waters •f these rivers caused consider-
able alarm at Orleans. At Tours the engineers are
on the alert, and immediately adopted measures in
case of fresh danger. The prefects of Tours and.
Angers immediately warned all the public func-
tionaries, and all the people residing near the
I Loire, to be on their guard. That river has risen
1 five metres at St. Just, and was still rising when
the last account was received. The railway bridge
constructed last year to unite the Martre-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 iu boats.
The Courrier 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 damaged. Orders had 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 Orleans railway 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
Linen (Vendee) and its neighbourhood a few days
nuts, 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 servant
were standing. The letter was knocked down and
killed on the spot, and the former, who happened
to be near the door, was thrown to a considerable
di,tance, but without receiving any very material
injury. A mule which was fastened by the bridle
at the door was killed.

THE FOREIGN PRESS ON INDIAN

MUTINIES.

The Debats, thus replies to alate.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 Cds bad
feeling,. which does not, however, exist to the ex
tent supposal by the Times :
"Low ing at the groundwork of thing 4, We tl]ink we
may say that the Times is mistaken, and judgs,s too rx
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 it see-
ing English officers, women, and children massacred by
the sepoys. In this particular the Times is unjkst to-
wards the jolrnals which have shown thomsnlves the
most violent and passionate enemies of England; and
our impartiality obliges us to protest even in thenathe
of the Univers and the Gazette de Prance. In France ss
in England there are not two feelings or two ofrnions
with regard to the atrocities of which India has been
the theatre, and it is certain that the horrible recite's
which reach us by every mail have raised fee-liras of
horror and indignation in every heart. The Timei con-
founds two things which public opinion has clearly
distinguished and separated one from the other ; it
confounds the cause of humanity, so cruelly outraged
in India, and the cause of English policy, which has
been blamed and censured elsewhere that, in France,
and which cannot pretend to be beyond the reach cf cri-
ticism. The English journal is mistaken, and labours
under an illusion still more serious, in attributing to
envy the kind of unpopularity which England encoutters
in France. The Times might have detected the cause
of this unpopularity in certain well-known incidents
which bay,/ so sadly compromised and disturbed the
friendly relations et France 'and England ; it night
have been found in the irritation which the egotistical
and passionate policy of Lord Palmerston has excited
not only in France but on the whole of the Conti-
nent. It should also have asked itself wheller the
English press has always treated with sufficient con-
sideration the just and honourable susceptibilities of
France. We speak without bitterness, without pai.
sion, and with all that impartiality of which we Lave
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 wiil not
contribute to remove from the public mind those pre-
judices which it has lately conceived against Englaad.'

RAIL TV.4 Y TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles
Receipts.
o)ened. I NAME OF RAILWAY.
1857. 1857. 1856.
•
alms% £ £
Aberdeen .• • ••• •• -.•.... .. •• ..... - -
65 Belfast and Ballymena ..............• 1,010 965
17 Belfast and County Dew, ..........
32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,607 2,373
/shire ••••••••• • • • - • • • • - 2,66:1166928
26% Bolton, B lackturn, and West York -.. -
--
113 Bristol and Exeter - ............ „
.„ 6,294 6,721
198% Caledonian.- •• • • ..... ...... •.
• 14,043 12,445
26-6' :581604788
94 Jai Chester and 1101yhead............... 7,001 6,742
6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ...... 221 176
20 Cork and Barden •• • • ..........
,-741 1,702-
b 6 Dublin and Belfast) unction ..
2 4 DDuabbllinn snanddDltriongghstendwai;.::::.::: :: •:: 1,751 1,652
174, Dundee and Arbroath .... ~,
...... 638 521
31 Dundee, Ferth, and Aberdeen Junctim 1,191 1,323
35 Dundalk 1110 Enni5ki110n............ 588 460
6734 East Anglian.. •• •• •• •• .... •• •• •• .„ „ 1,056 1,195
489 Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Eastern Union •• - • • •
142
93 East Lane
.2
78 EEddilnßbbuLlrrgghh,aPnedrtGhl,asiZr Dundee.- - I 3,1 0 3,253
6 Exeter and Cred1t0n..........
~.... -
- - -
18232% Glasgow,Furn sßaanii•iwSa oYu t.l:-.W.e.s .t. e ;44: :.:: : : : 7,016 i 6 761
3 Great Northern ••• • • • ..... ,. 23,697 26,312
20354 , Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 7,620 6,821
1 465 Great Western •• • • ..... ....•.. .• .. 33,097 30,193
2514 I Irish South Eastern - - ............ - -
„99, , ' Lancaster and Carlisle...... ..
..... . 7,3 .3 6 911
4"X Lancashire and Y0rk5hire.,......., 23,954 22,43 i
- Leeds Northern .. • • • • • • •
__
161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
637674 , LondonLonaon
andan uNi0arctihwWa11.............. 1,9 14
estern.... 66,56436 6a-77895
183% ' London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 16,510 16,192
289 :14 London and South We5tern......... 15,788 17,196
60 Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 854 802
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Re. - -
173 N Manchester, Sheffleld,and Lincolnshire 11,393 10.028
9X Manchester and Southjunction...... 1,611 838
28 Maryport and Carlisle •............. 885 998
667 Midland •....- ...... ..... • ........ 32,797 31,911
177 Sildland Great Western (Irish) ...... 4,006 4,032
52 Monklands • • • • • • • • *• •• •• • • • • ...... _ -
..
78 Newcastle and Car1i51e........
_.....
149 North British •• • •
233 North Staffordshire •• • • ............ 7,532 7,020
47 North-Western •• • • ..... •••••.. • • .. 991 956
50 Aeottish Central .... ... .. • .......... 3,431 3,070
32 Scottish Midland •••••••• • • .. • . .. - -
29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ....., 1,872 1,850
48% Shrewsbury and Chester .......... •.3,110 3,123
30 Shropshire Union .. • • •• .. .......... • 85 787
11177 South Wales 57 louth Devon 1 .....• ...,,.... 2,552 '4,726
301st( South Eastern •..................;
.. 23.899 22,886
es:lnd.:l'm...et:l;c • . • .....
7,682
7'l"
••••
4,462--
10811 South York., Doncaster, and Goole • • -
35 Ulster • ............... 1,541 1,536
••• •••• ••••••
•••••••• ••••
II
(i 155
74 1,18350
410
27 West Cornwall ......... •• ••
6b1:9 NewcastleDYourtckh"Rdheni • •••• ••••••
42'93-5753 2,308
sh . .
, . ~ andf
.13.
.e.r.w. i.c.k.
.Be.
3514.32114 WTah:
Taff
i LyonsotVre York
11
and
evi
de. .Junctiono':t:l.GiN'd..
Mediterraneanl.Midland
d.: ••:••••• •
E. e'. e'. di
. -
387 Ole4,:as: dnftduLleonrethrsl..travii 1.
t }.
France
..
.. -
62 Montereau and Troyes .• .. .. .• ••• • • • - _
Namur and Liege . •- - 545 Northern of France ....• ...... •• •• 45,182 43,138
-
• • •• •• • • -
Paris_
-
Paris and Rouen. .• .:. .. .• •• ••• • • • _ _
5C6 Paris and Strasburgh -.•""' • •• . • _
._
Rouen and liavre.... ••
•• - " ' -
t 94 _
_
_ .

[AuvErtrisxxxxr.]--Du Barry's delicious Revalentz. Arabica
Food saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and cures
indigestion (dyspepsia), liabitual constipation, nervousness, biliousness, and liver complaints, flatulency, distension',
acidity, heartburn, palpitation of the heart, nervous
headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, noises in the head and
cars, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the
shoulders, erysipelas,
eruptions of the skin, impurities
and poverty of the blood, scrofula, cough, asthma, con-
-
gumption, dropsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness
during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea, low spirits, spasms,
cramps, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude,
sleeplessness, involuntary blushing, paralysis, tremors, dis-
like to society, unfitness for study, loss of memory, delu-
sions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion melancholy,
groundless fear, indecision, wretchedness. It is, more-
over, the best food for infants and invalids generally,
as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor in-
terferes with a good liberal• diet,
but imparts a healthy
relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of diges.
Lion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled.
Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors or
Chemistry, Dr. Andrew pre; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey;
Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram ;
Lord Stuart de Decies; the
Dowager Countess of Castle-
stnart; Major-Cen. Thomas King,and many other respetta le
persons;- whose health has been rest,red by it, after all other
means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with full in-
structions. In canisters, 11b, 2e. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b,
lls ; 121b,,225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, I
o r receipt of rest-Office order.—Barry Du 13arry, & Co.,
77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT Caurrox against the
fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The V ce.Chancel-
lor , Sir William rage Wood, granted an Injunction 'on the
10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper N°l4ll'
for imitating
" Du BUITY'o Revakuta Arabica Food."