Star.
London, England, 1830-03-18 00:00:00

was still frozen, and the ice on the left side of the bridge, called the
Schlacht Brucke, was piled up in enormous masses as high as the
coffeehouse windows, which are usually 20 feet above the level of
the river. It is quite impossible to give you any true idea of the
honors produced by this terrible inundation. It stole upon the un-
suspecting su&rers in the night, when all were plunged in calm
repose, and advanced with such inconceivable rapidity,• that fu
many instances, only one or two members of large families had time
to escape; and even those that reached a place of safety were
obliged to remain the whole night in a state of almost entire ru.
dity, exposed to the inclemency of the air. In some houses
whole families have been found drowned in their beds ; in others
they had climbed up the chimneys to the roofs of their houses, and
many bodies have been found naked in the court-yards, caked in
ice, and bearing the appearance of crystallised corpses. The num.
ber of animals that have perished is enormous. In the Itosau,
which is the poorer suburb of the two, not a little family but hag
lost its cow, hone, and pigs--many several of eseh ; and in the
hussar barracks alone 40 horses have perished. As to the number
of human beings that have been carried off, I should be cautious iu
sending you any estimate. People talk of only two hundred, yet
this would seem but few; it is, however, impossible to form
any just notion, for the waters have as yet but little subsided,
and till they have completely fallen the ground floors of the
houses, where the greatest damage has been done, cannot be
entered. The whole of the three last dayis has been passed in
rowing about to the different houses to furnish the half-
famished inhabitants with bread, wine, and water, which you
may suppose is no easy task, if it is to be done equally and
effectually through every part of so large a district; especially
as the supply of boats is extremely inefficient. Several members of
the Imperial family have evinced the utmost humanity on the occa-
sion, by rowing round in person to the meanest habitations to dis-
tribute, gratis, such provisions as the superior houses are obliged to
pay for at an exorbitant price. Had this not been done, many of the
poorer class would certainly have perished of hunger. The Archduke
Charles, who was still plunged in the deepest affliction from the severe
loss he has lately sustained, no sooner heard of the dreadful event, than
it roused him from his overwhelming grief ; his exertions, as well as
11 those of the Prince hereditary and Archduke Louis, have been inces-
sant. If you should show this letter to any one conversant with the
localities of Vienna, it will be interesting to them to know that the
Jsgerzeil• is now one long uninterrupted canal, and the Pratert
one entire lake. At some little distance from the river, on its
right bank, is one of the wood markets, where the wood is heaped
up in logs three feet long, in masses of two or three hundred feet
in length. The water of course reached the spot, and yesterday
afternoon, when the ice by the Schlacht Brucke broke away, im-
mense quantities of wood were floated off, so that the whole sur.
face of this arm of the stream was completely covered with fuel.
It is computed that 1,000 klafter (six square feet) of wood has
thus been carried away. During the frost, the klafters fetched 40
paper florins; about lf. 12s.

Dimwit 4.—Since writing the above, I have had the curiosity to
go to the top of the Cathedral, which, after that ateStrasberg, is con.
sidered the highest in Europe. The frost has now set in again ;
the thermometer this morning at seven deg. below aero (Reaumur.)
The atmosphere was clear and blue ; not a cloud intercepted the
rays of the sun. The view towards the north, In its present
situation, beggars all description ! Not only the suburbs on that
side, but the plain beyond, lie under water. From the very foot
of the slope on which the town stands, as far as the eye can
reach to the north, is one interminable sea. The whole March
Feld is a boundless expanse of water, and as it lies uncommonly
low, the innumerable villages with which it is interspersed, espe.
daily those nearest the river, have almost dbappeared. In some
places no trace is left but the spire of the village church : in others
the roofs of the cottages are still visible. I fear the computation that
seta the loss of barium life at 200, will prove at least tieree.foutths
sheet of the truth.

Five o'clock, Thursday Evening.
There is searady any one home where some individual has not
perished la the two abwertnestiesed sabwrbs. News has also reached
us that Prabmg is in the mine audition. There can be little
doubt that the munbee of deaths will reach some thousands. A hard
frost has again set in.