The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM IN SPAIN.

On the 28th ult., the flobregat broke its banks,
and overflowed the plain of Molins del Rey as far as
Martorell, washing away mills, manufactories, and
houses, and destroying the canal of irrigation. The
village of St. Juan d'Espe is partly submerged, and
many cattle and dead stock, with furniture' &c., were
carried by the torrent by St. Felin de Llobregat.
Fifty of the inhabitants are missing. Some fishermen
found at the mouth of the river a cradle floating with
an infant in it, well and fast asleep. At Caldas de
Monbuy there were great disasters. At Massanet
many houses and buildings were destroyed, and some
of the peasants droNN ned. In the environs of Tarragona
all the crops are lost. A part of the lower town is
said to have been washed down. This flood is repre-
sented to have been much greater than any within
the last century.
The Journal des Pyrenees-Orientales gives some
additional particulars of the inundations of the 24th
ult., ut Perpignan and its neighbourhood, from which
it would appear that the devastation was far more
extensive than was at first imagined. The centre of
the storm wifs at Canigon, where a series of water-
spouts were seen to burst one after the other. The
different streams and rivers became suddenly swollen
in consequence, and did very considerable damage.
The overflowing of the Basse, at Perpignan, laid the
greater part of the town under water, and five per-
sons lost their lives. Two of them were surprised
by the rush of the wateis in a cottage near the town,
and tried to support each other by standing locked
in each other's hold, but the current washed away
the building, and carried them away with it. One
disappeared immediately, and was drowned, but the
other was stopped by a peach-tree which grew in
a wide hedge. Although he was seventy years
of age, he managed to climb up into its branches,
but was again carried away with the tree by the cur-
rent. He again caught a cherry tree, and continued
in it until aid was brought him, some hours after.
The fatigue he underwent, however, caused his death
two days afterwards. At St. Laurent des Cerdans,
a commune situated on an eminence, but near the
centre of the disasters, forges and manufactories were
utterly destroyed by the violence of the inundation,
and a whole grove of chesnut-trees was carried away.
At Arles, the Mondoni rose to a great height above its
usual level, and at Amelie-les-Bains, the waters of the
ravine, where the baths are situated, were higher than
was ever known before. The town of Ceret was ex-
ceedingly damaged, all the property near the river
Tech being flooded, and the gardens, fields, and roads
being laid bare by the current. A number of dead
bodies have been found in this neighbourhood, but the
exact amount is not yet ascertained. At Elne every
vestige of cultivation was taken away, and loss sus-
tained to the amount of 200,000 f. The communes
of St. Felin d'Avail, Castlemon, and those adjoining,
have lost their vines and olive-trees, and been other-
wise damaged. At Rivesaltes, a young girl was car-
ried away, and drowned, in the midst of corn, trees,
and hedges, carried away by the waters. Altogether
the scene is described as both awful and lamentable.

We find the following in a statistical work recently
published at Berlin:—" The population of the States
belonging to the German Customs Union amounted in
the year 1837 to 26,048,970 souls, and the extent of the
Union to 810,975 square miles. The imports of sugar in
the same year reached 876,053 quintals, and the exports
30.844 quintals, showing a consumption of 845,209
quintals. In 1838, the imports of the same article were
1,090,805 quintals, and the exports 21,961, the consump-
tion being 1,068,844 quintals. In 1839, the imports were
1,145,997 quintals, the exports 21,456 quintals, and the
consumption 1,124,541 quintals. The consumption for
the three years gives an average of Lill). per inhabitant
per year. The imports of coffee in 1837 amounted to
531,487 quintals, in 1838 to 567,285 quintals, and in
1839 to 570,294 quintals, and the exports in three years
to 40,487, 46,052, and 53,537 quintals, giving an average
of imports of 556,355 quintals, and of exports of 46,692
quintals. The author estimates the consumption at
550,000 quintals. The consumption of tea in the Cus-
tomsaturday evening
sq !,
Union is estimated at 2oz. a head per annum.
PRESENTATION or PLATE TO T. HARMAN, EN
—The Reformers of Southampton presented [t. piece of TEASING AN ELRPRANT..'Mn S
plate to Thomas Leader Harman, E. on Thursday last, last several gentlemen went into a wild beast show at
as a testimony of the services rendered by that gentleman Sheerness, same of whom began to tease the elephant,
to the Liberal cause, at a dinner at which upwards of which forms part of the exhibition, and which is not con-
-1,000 persons, including many ladies, were present. The Oned otherwise than by a short chaiti round one
of its
inscription on the plate was as follows :—" 4 li'ihut© of
respect, from his fellow-townsmen to Thomas Leader legs ; the said gentlemen amused themselves for awhile
by offering the huge but docile animal apples and other
Harman, Esq„ for the noble and disinterested support things, and when he extended his proboeis to receive
much relishing such sort of sport, the sagacious animal,
he has given to the cause of the people during his resi- them, putting them into their pockets again ; but not
dente in Southampton. Presented September 8, 1842."
The piece of plate consisted of a silver candolabrnm, of taking an opportunity When several of his t ntors
The base one swoop laid seven of them spcawling
most chaste and elegant design; . the pedestal rested upon were in a cluster near him, extended his trunk, and with
three feet, and surmounted by six branches,
on the floor,
of the pedestal was threetsided, and on these
3 werer_eanr: who, not knowing what the next evolution of the " .
graved the inscription, the armorial bearingsof 1. H forming elephant," might he,
The began to call out i II
ust yfor
man, and the arms of the borough of Southampton. the keepers, but their presence was not n2OO ounces •I. eedsd, as Le-
foliage was frosted. The weight was nearly -
guineas. It was supplied la
have al or
and the cost upwards of 100 guin • _„. ._ Y mentors prostrate at his feet, kicking Abeut to get out of
Mr. T. Cox Savory, Cornhig, I.,oudan,—HaMpsilire in- his reach, whilst the wive .% and daughters of sof= of the
dependent, party were going into fits, and hg
t e company generally
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail. 1 rushing towards the place of egress. All the gentlemen
packet, Caledonia, Captain H. Cheesman, arrived at her who were ir 1,...1 .. —noc, uown by the elephant escaped free
moorings off the Tower, at an early hour yesterday from harm, except a good 'fright, which they will no
morning, from Hamburgb, after a fine passage of forty. doubt remember should they sailer another wild
ever
nine hours, I least show.—Rent Rerald.