Star.
London, England, 1824-12-18 00:00:00

MEd ERR FRENCH PAPERS.
44 Sr. Pareasseaen, Norco= 2S.
of
"Great establishments have been made promptly in
the principal quarters of the city to afford the indivi-
duals who have lost everything, shelter, fire, provi-
sions, and clothing. Several charitable emu-
late each other in seal. The Emperor has already given
kmillion of rubles ; the Empress Maria 50,000 ; the
Grand Dukes, each 50,000; the Commercial Fund of
the Colonies 1,000,000; Count Scberemeteff 50,000;-
M. Mecheleff 50,000.
" A charitable committee has been formed, and the
Privy Councillor Alexis Kurakios who is appointed its
President, has received from his Imperial Majesty the
following rescript
Patna ALzus BiIIt3OTTLTOCIT'
The disaster caused at St. Petersburgh, by an inun-
dation equally sudden and extraordinary, has filled my
heart with sentiments of affliction.
• The decrees of the SUPREME Baum are just and
Inscrutable. Profoundly submissive to his will, and
pitying the fate of those who have suffered the loss and
minor their property, the Government cannot repair all
the evils of this disastrous day ; but I have imposed it
on myself as a sacred duty, to afford prompt and effi-
cacious succour to those, in particular, who have been
ruined, and to the indigent; they, more than all others,
are entitled to my paternal protection. I assign them
a gratuitous distribution of a million of rubles, from
the saving of the Administration of the Military Colonies.
(Here follow the names of the Members of the Corn.
tnittee.)
1. The first care of the Committee shall be to provide
shelter and subsistence for those who are deprived of both, and in
general, the relief afforded out of the sum assigned, shall be given
only to those whose complete poverty renders it indispensable.
' 2. It shall be exactly and faithfully distributed, according to
the allotment/made.
3. It shall be given promptly and without obstacle:
4 These rules will serve as the basis of the operations
of the committee. The sentiment of compassion, of ge-
nuine philanthropy, and of the duty owed to Gorr and
to your country, will point out to you, and to your col.
leagues, the path you must follow in this great work of
charity.—l remain, &c.
(Signed) ALEXANDER.' "
PRIG' ATE LETTER.
Ram' NOMMEN. 29.
4' With reference to my last of the 25th inst. (that
is,-tl.)vember) when I took notice of the inundation at
St. Petersburgh, the accounts since received here are la-
=eatable in the highest degree; some of them state
the loss of public and private property at no less than
six hunched millions of Rubles Bco. notes, (neatly
25,000,000/. staling), and the number of bodies al.
rawly brought in, upwards of 15,000! The water had
risen so rapidly and to such a height, that they had no
time.to save themselves ; a tremendous storm from the
%south-west had completely choked the flow of the river,
and aided perhaps by some subterraneous convulsion,
produced the dreadful catastrophe which ensued. Colo-
nial produce, of which the loss is as yet incalculable,
has advanced very considerably both there and here ;
and, indeed, from the magnitude of rire whole, it must
have less or more influence on almost every article of
commerce. if one looks at the loss of horses alone, it
immense I—say 60,000 head. The whole accounts,
however, which as yet are very various, you will, no
doubt, have soon in London, as correctly as we can have
them here."

THE EVEN tN(4 STAR

LOND 1 )N.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1824.

TIIE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened it 96, buyers, for the Account, bat SOOll after
they became sellers, and are new 9.1 to 96, with little doing.