Star.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURGII, NOVEMBER 24.

Respecting the dreadful misfortune which visited our
city on the 19th, the Court Gazette does not yet con-
tain any particulars, and the Consetvatettr 17artial
only the following article:
4, A dreadful misfortune, such as has not been seen

for nearly half a century, has plunged this capital into
• the greatest consternation. On the 19th of this month,
the Neva, swelled by the influx of the water from the
Gulf of Finland, which was driven up by a violent
wind, rose impetuously over its banks, and the whole
city was inundated in a moment. It was not till a quar-
ter past two o'clock that the water began to recede,
and about the middle of the night, the river subsided
to its ordinary level. The pen refuses to trace the de-
tails of this dreadful event and its frightful conse-
quences, to which the inferior classes of the people in
particular have been victims. The quays, a part of the
bridges, a great number of public and private esta-
blishments, are destroyed or much injured. The loss
of the commercial community is incalculable. It is
impossible to recount the instances of courage and hu-
inanity sliewn by a great number of persons of all
classes, under these circumstances. Every street, and
almost every house, was a scene of the most affecting
selfodegal.
" As a witness of these events, and always ready. to
molt the ends which the inscrutable decrees of Paovt..
nau now and then bring on the people of his great
empire, oar august Sovereign has already anticipated
the hopes of the inhabitants of this capital, and aka.
cities measures have been prescribed to alleviate their

'espriagt., Hie Majesty het been pls4sed to assign the
somaf a Mahe of stables to relieve the most urgent
waits of the poorest-dasses."
Besides this, we learn the following pattkulars
" The Imperial Palaces( Catharinenhof, with an its
late fine improvements, Brnilianouka, Rump*: Island,
and all the countrphouses on the great road to Riga,
to the distance of twelve versts (eight miles), have suf-
fered incredible damage. The number of persons who
have perished in this inundation probably amounts to
some 'thousands. The number of animals that have
been drowned is beyond all conception. The last great
inundation was in September, 1777, but this one was
gill greater, the water having risen an arsheen and a
quarter higher. It is supposed that about 500,000
goods (10,800,000 lbs.) of sugar are damaged, and the
half entirely melted and washed away. Next to
sugar, the loss of twist, in particular, is very great ; and
among the articles of Russian produce, hemp, potashes,
and hemp-oil, have suffered very much. In conse-
quence of these events, a great rise has taken place in
the prices of many goods, chiefly sugars, White Ha-
vannah has risen from 27 to 85, and refined from

38 to M."
A Committee, of which M. Bilikow, Counsellor of
State, is President, has been appointed to superintend
the distribution of the above mentioned million of ru•

bles among the sufferers by the inundation.
Habitations have been assigned, for the present, in
the hotel of the Military Governor, for those who are
destitute of shelter.
(In the 19th there was a terrible storm from the
S.W. at Croustade, which laid the whole island under
water. The Merchant ships suffered great damage.—
Several lost anchors, cables, sails, &c. others are leaky,
many sunk, and others are rendered unfit for service.
The crews of all, and the cargoes of most. were, how-
ever, saved.

HAMBURG'', DECEMBER 6.
FROM THE BORBEN-HALL LIST.

It is our melancholy duty to state, from numerous
private and mercantile letters, arrived to-day from St.
Petersburgh, that the disaster which visited that great
city on the 19th, far exceeds every idea that was formed
of it from the first accounts. The waves of the Gulf of
Finland, forced by the hurricane into the Neva, over-
flowed the whole city, lying nearly on one level, and its
environs, in a moment, in such a manner that it may be
said that the lower stoties of all the houses, &c. were
quitifdled : it in many cases rose into the second story,
and entirely overflowed the low habitations and booths,
of which, in many instances, not a trace is to be seen;
so that several villages in the immediate vicinity—for
linstance, Emilianouka—are no more to be found. It
was stated (and here we may justly say, the pen re-
fuses its office), that the corpses of 8,000 persons had
already been found.
The letters by the Mail before this, expressed fears of
a general famine, from the destruction of such quan-
tities of provisions, especially of all the bread, and the
ruin of the ovens. The Exchange had been fitted np
to receive 4,000 persons. Among the Imperial estab-
lishments that have suffered, all those at Cronstadt are
mentioned, which were exposed to the first fury of the
flood; the damage done to the Imperial fleet is said to
be immense; the Imperial iron manufactory, at Catha-
rinenhof, which was under water, and where 200 work-
men perished ; of eighteen barracks, fifteen were washed,
away, &c. With respect to goods, it is reckoned that
two-thirds of all the sugars are spoiled, all the potashes
destroyed. and three-fourths of the hemp have been
under water. The herring magazines, with 15,000
barrels of herrings. are washed away. It is scarcely
necessary to add, that under these circumstances, a
most alarming want of credit has ensued, and the most
ruinous consequences to trade were feared, as all the
tradespeople have suffered severely, and many of them
mutt be considered as ruined for a long time to come.