Inundations In Hanover.
The Times, 1824-12-27T00:00:00

a&ne oamc.gzc pirieq by Lte recoett intUtndation3sn inMaypartp of the icingdomjtre' moreE xtens'ive t;ua repr.rsented in ourereport of 'tbe:23d last. '.,i. J.1 .* a* .dno "rero I?rom Ahi 3d 20"thei' sq Iii h tte 'ie has leen o.ver- iaowillg ehikes A'soiii piapeS c1heie 6ffie fifet., apid, the. xvhble of the low country 'ilt the wayb dowiifoin Artiemburgj,. to Altenubruc1t, isati.eof,0 .le,s,ir.ttaoiated. Durin' this timne the situa'aon.'m ' all the. .ln,iab tant& ef.the vilagea.'!pid farms, their houscs being mo ily but.one,tery high, was dread- ful. Signal-guns were fired, riid 'iign s oP d tess exhibited in every direction. Thousands of the male ieutry being, obliged to work night and day on the dikes were exposed .o the. moat,inminent dan- gems, and could render no assistance to their fairdlie. In the night and morning of the 15th, theEllbe hnid risen to near. ly 20 feet above its usual level, The dikes biAng already soaked, could no longer withstana the immense masses of the -waters press. ing against them. Nearly at the same time thc'y gave way in thirty differenst places;' the floods raged tbrough the open)nga, some of them being 500 teet wide, tore up.tbe meadowv and fields in many parts, to the 'depth of from 30 to 40 feet, washedl away whole houses and barns, and in a few hours the whole countiyresembled one vast soa. The inhabitants1 thoutgh warned'of the approaching danger, could hardly escape with theii live, many were saved as by a mira- dC but not without the loss of their whole property. In immense number of houses were so much, damaged as to be rendered uninhabitable; the provisions for the. winte; are either washed away or spoiled; many thousand acres of corn.land are laid waste. Large districts are still under water, and will remain so through the vehole of the vwinter, and exposed to the still greator dangers in the spring, on the ice of the Elbe breaking up. No leIS laImentable and extensive are the destructive effects of the inundations in the districts of the Lower NVeser, the dikes having been broken through and torn from their foundations in many places. In East Friesland, most fortunately, the dikes have been consi- derably raised during 'he last summer, but still in many places the 7avres rolled over thems, and in some parts they gave wav. These devastating inundations altogether have-done 'incalculable misclhief. The repairing and resEtoriig of the dikes' alone will -be attended with immenseexertions and expense. Only for securing the dilte near Norden on the Ems, in East Friesland, 82,000 bun- dMe of straw have been required. 'A committee lias been formed at Hanover to collect subscriptions for alleviating the distresses into which many thousands have been plunged by these events at this season of the year. It is a most lamentable coincidence, that' while the country was visited by these calamnities, destructive fires have taken place in dif- ferent partb of the kingdom. During the last month several villages, and the whole town of Elze, havebeen neariv burnt down. While the Rame6 raged at the latter place, the greKater ,tet of the Immedli- ate neighbourhced wan under water, 'which' prevented many from coming to.lts assistance.' YNUNVDATri6s Iz A4??,UOPvBR. EXTRACTS FROM OFFCIAL 4,0rjnlw,- D4TzD HXAOVEYD, - -EE;: