Star.
London, England, 1825-02-17 00:00:00

TO THE EVENING STAR.

Spirit of Beauty ! that from yon fair Star
Unveirst thy silver lamp of purest ray,
Can'st thou discern from thy soft shrine afar.
The joys and sorrows of the child of clay ?
East thou no ear, amid the shades of night,
When all is silent, save the ♦oice of grief,
That still thou shinest on serene and bright,
O'er all thy hosts, enthrou'd refulgent chief ?
Suspended there, Oh, Monitor of woe,
The one, the precious Hope, in thee appears;
• Shine on, shine on, nor let tby splendour know
The transient sadness of this-vale of tears ! •
Time has not mirr'd thy brightneft, but his wing
Has rarer above thy path ; and thou mast fade,
Even as the dewy spangle of the Spring,
That revels in the flowret's purple shade !
And Hope is not immortal, but her light
Ends with our life alone ; the guiding brand,
The cloud by day, the pillar of the night,
That leads and leaves us in the Promised Lind !
Wahnwr•road. E. M.

INUNDATIONS IN THE: NETHERLANDS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Mu.s.matspear, Mummy 4.
SlR—The high winds that have recently prevailed,have
caused great ravages in the low countries, and fre-
quently interrupted all communication between the
Southern and the Northern Provinces. Yesterday, the
waters of the Meuse rose so high, that great part of
Rotterdam was under water ; and it was a curious sight
enough to see the boors wheeling the inhabitants in
barrows, from one part of the town to another. I left
it at ten at night, by the mail : we crossed the Meuse,
• not without danger. On arriving at Dort, we found
the Meuse, which we had again to cross, had over-
flowed its banks; it blew a hurricane, and the courier
hesitated to cross ; I succeeded in o eercoming his fears ;
•we had nearly been swamped, when the courier ob-,
served, in a hasty manner, " Recollect, Mynheer, if we
are drowned, it is your own fault, so don't blame me."
We arrived at Dort in safety. ; the flood had reached
the streets, which are at least ten feet above high water
mark. We reached this place at two in the morning,
but neither the skippers nor the courier dared attempt
to cross the Ilollands Deep. We made up beds of hay
in the hay-loft, and threw ourselves down to rest, the
tempest beating over our beads with extreme violence.
It is now ten o'clock, and the gale is still blowing tre-
mendously, and the skippers assure me that they have
sever known the water so high since 1765. The cou-
rier is amusing himself and our landlady in reading
Dutch poetry, to which she lends a most attentive ear.
I understand she leads the ton here, and is regarded as
an elegarte—a-nice mob cap fits close to her head; she
has a short jicket, that comes down to the loins, the
lower part bulged out with, I should suppose, a dozen
- petticoats, the outer one is a glazed black stuff, black
%worsted stockings, and black cotton-velvet slippers
complete her dress: She wears, hear it ye Ladies of
London and Paris, a black velvet reticule, surmounted
by a huge silver snap, and recollecting that it was in-
tended to replace the vulgar pocket, she wisely sus-
pends it by a hook to her a a;st, and there it dangles on
her right side, in all the pride of boorish majesty.
If the wind continues 24 hours longer it is feared that
the whole of this province will be submerged, the da-
mage already done to the dykes must be very consi-
derable. The courier, seeing me write, has made a
very shrewd observation., viz.—That if ss e cannot cross
the Hollands Deep, you cannot get the letter; so if it.
does not come you will know the reason!
A person has just arrived from Dort ; the whole of
the town is under water ; it is about four feet deep in
the -High-street, great apprehensions are entertained
for the safety of the town, the water is rising every
minute; it blows a hurricane:
FOUR o'CLocx, P.H.—The water has risen eight feet
since ten o'clock. We are completely insulated. I
write on a spot of ground forming a small elevation,
now an Isle, of not more than 100 yards in length and
about sixty in breadth. If this night resemble the last,
we shall all to-morrow have ceased to be.
The Hollands Deep communicates with the Bies
Bosch, where, in 1421, seventy-two villages were sub-
merged, and the water is now higher than at that
period : if the wind continue to blow with such violence
from the N.W. half Holland will be under water ; and
as the sea dykes run great danger, if they fail us, the
sea will soon reconquer its ancient dominion. My
companions, principally fishermen, affect to despise the
danger, but their joy is less turbulent, no jokes now set
the table in a roar, they all rush to the door every
five minutes to witness the progress of the floods:—
They say, if the worst happen they have their vessels,
which the sea seems resolved to tear from their moor-
ings ; one has broken away and sunk, with three per-
sons on board, before our eyes. The hay bed in which
I slept last night is now under .water. We are all in a
wooden house, which would not resist the torrent five
minutes.
Six, P.m.—The wind has changed and the waters
fallen two feet ; my neighbours resume their noisy mirth.
Emmy o'CLocx—The danger is past, and we are
going to cross over.

A dividend of 18s. in the pound has been declared
on the estate of Messrs. PEARCE and WILLIAPdS,
Bankers, Merthyr Tydvil, who some time since were
unfortunately Bankrupts.
"tublin is at length to be lighted with gas. The
lamps, and laying down of pipes, will be
by the middle of April.
w Churches are about to be erected, at the
Government, in the Highlands of Scotland,
. which will be appointed a Minister, with a
and a salary of Mi. a year. Some of the
parishes are from twenty to fifty miles wide,
all the obstructions of lakes, rivers, and

, a large quantity of specie was delivered
Bank, consisting of about 2,500,000 dollars,
`other valuables, which, we 'understand, was
from America by the AURORA, Captain Pam-
Portsmouth, and conveyed to Queenhithe-
the canal barges.
,resur. ACClDiNT.—Yesterday an Inquest was
Committee Room of St. Bartholomew's Hos-
the body of Frederick Thompson, wheewas in
of the Portable Gas Light Company. The
, while describing a steam-engine to a friend,
iwn into the machine, which was rapidly at
literally torn to pieces. It was purely acci-
and the verdict was Accidental Death.

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