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London, England, 1824-12-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

.ANtsrino.ur, Drc. 14.—0 n London, 59. 8. 2 M. 39. 5.
ilAmmunon, DEC. 10.—On London, 36. 3; 2 Us. 36.
ST. PETORSSURGH, Nov. 26.—0 n London, 93.
Lripsin, DEC. 6.—On London, 5 M. 6. 12i.
Brni.nz, Dec. 7.—On London, 5 M. 6. 18k.
PY.ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 230%
3 per Cent. lied. 95 91.5 951/8
S per Cent. Cons. shut.
31 per Cent. Red. 1011,4 %
4 per Cent. New shut.
Lang Ann. 23 2215.16—1ndia Bonds 97 95
£l.OOO heq. Bilk (1 1/2d.) 53 5 2
£5OO ditto (114 d.) 53 5 2
£lOO and £2OO ditto (11/2d.) 53 5 2
India for Acct.. 288
Cons. for Acct. 961/4 96

Hamburgh Papers to the 10th inst. Dutch Papers to
the 15th, and Brussels Papers to the 14th, reached us
this morning. They are principally filled with accounts
of the late Areadful inundation at St.Petersburgh; every
day unfolds some new scene of calamity it has occa-
sioned. The water even reached the Imperial Palace,
where it was Italia yard deep. The EMPEROR witnessed
the awful scene; • and the Officers and Nobility exerted
themselves to the utmost to rescue the suffereu. Among
those that particularly distinguished themselves, the
IlamburAh Papers mention the Governor of St. Peters-
burgh and General BECKENDORFI, who is Aide-de-
Camp• General to the EMPEROR, and, we believe, brother
to the Countess of LIEvEN. The price of provisions
had increased prodigiously ; rye bread was sold at forty
copecs (about twenty-pence) per pound, and salt was
sold at 45 copecs the pound. The EbIPEROR had, how-
ever, issued a proclamation, ordering provisions to be
sold at the usual price. At Cronstadt the storm seems
to have raged with its utmost fury ; the town is nearly
destroyed. A ship of the line of :00 guns, and two
:team vessels, were forced over the battery into the mid-
dle of the town, carrying houses and everything be-
fore them ; here also provisions were equally scarce and
dear ; the ten copec loaf rose to 75 copecs.
In addition to the accounts from the Ilamburgh
Papers, private letters have been received from St. Pe•
ter strargh, to the 27th ult. One of them states that more
than 7000 dead bodies had been found, and the num-
ber was increasing every day ; and that in the Vassily-
ostroff quarter, %, here the principal Nobility reside,
ninety houses had been completely swept away.—
Near Catharinenhof 240 houses were torn away, and
swallowed up, with their ilhabitants. The number of
horses drowned in the streets is very considerable. The
losses of the commercial people are estimated at 150
millions. The merchandize of luxury, such as sugar, cof-
fee, and tea, have been partly saved, being on the first
stories in the stores; but the stock of provisions has been
desu o) ed. The boats and ships have been all thrown
trecin the quay,. Cloths,wines, and other foreign produce,
have been completely lost. A brig still remained over-
win( d io the street Grande Perspective, at the date of
the la• t letters. Ti.e follor.ing are extracts from the
Han burgh Papers:

immense foundation of blocks of granite was unable to
resist the fury of the waves. A large three• masted yes•
's •
set was (haven against a house, 111116 it carried away.
The loss in bank notes alone is immense, anal what adds
10 the distress is, the setting in of the frost and the dear-
ness of provisions, which threaten us. A ten copec
loaf costs already seventy-five copecs.
The schools and theatres are closed. In the churches,
relations seek each other, but often, alas! in vain. ly
order of the Governor, 400 soldiers are employed in
buryirig the dead. It is said that the cavalry of the
guard have lost many thousand horses. Many mer-
chants and public officers have even lost their books.

Count Miloradow itsch has sent expresses to Riga,
Liebau, Ecc. to older provisions of all kinds to this city.
(A convoy has already been sent from Liebau.)
Several prisoners were drowned in the prisons. A
pound of rye bread was sold at first for 40 copecs, and a
pound of salt for 45 copecs; but an order has been posted
up at all the corners of the streets, not to pay more than
the usual and established price. Five hundred oxen
were dio.tned in the slaughter-house near the Kalinka
bridge, and tho3e that are left alive, are in a very ex-
hausted state.

Count Nlilmadowitsch rowed about in a boat in the
Newski Perspective, and saved the lives of many per-
sons. Genetal Beckendorff also distinguished him-
self by his humane exertions. The water was half a
yard deep in the rooms of the Imperial Palace.