PETERSBURGH, Dec. 8 (20th...
The Times, 1824-12-14T00:00:00

PETERS]3URGH, Dec. - (2otb).-It blew ver-Y bard en Thursday, but yesterday morning stillharder: intdic afternoon it b- camea furious tale, and the water rose several feet (three feet) bigher thaninl 777, o thatthe whole town was overflowed. In the backline, people on horseback would have been lost, bad thev not been pulled up iato the windows. The hemp-warehouss w ere overtlowed, very deep, and almost the whole ef the hemp damaged. The bridge& were all carried away, and the English line was imrpassable, from the hIrmense quantity of timber, brandy in casks, &oe., vwth which it is covered. In short tbe destruction occasioned is trenendously great, Iand must ttmeunt to sever] milHions. Already 9 bodis have been ftound in one quarter: the dwellings at the GalJy Haven are all dec stroved,and the number of people drowned there mwstbc very great. It is stated in a Frankfort paper, under thc dgte of Berlin, Nov. 39, that on Saturday, the 27t]m, ?IVessrs. Lepine and Reisinger cast, to all appesrance successfily, the colossal bSta- tue in bronze of Prince Blucher, of Wahlstadt, which his Majesty has been pleased to order to be set up in Berlin. It is clever. feet high. This isthe third statue in hmoour of the her.which l-arbeen cast in the Royal fonndrv. The Mines-a, arrired at Dartmeuth, saved the crew of the Janzus, Gaskin, of North Shields, bv taking them off the wreck on Mlonday last, in lat. 47. 46. N.. Ion. -1. kW. The Helene Charlotte, from Randers for Lundti, was stranded on the night of the 13th of November on Metmo& Thecrew was saved by the Custom.houes cutter: the cargo was washed away, and no hopes of getting the ship off A curious peny. which has beeni lately presented by a eteman to 'is Majesty, was brougbt from Carlton-pala&e, on rday last, to Curnberland Lodge; itis of a mouse, or rather a dun colour, its coat or hadr very roagh, is four years old, and stands7' 32incheshigh, beautifally formed. It was brought from Norway, nd is so dodtethat it wuld follow the geona who has the care of him up and'down stairs tike a dog, and lay itself down on the hearth- rag before the fire; it has never yet been shod, vwill eat bread and ?otatoe5. as well es corn and hay, and drink beer. It was on Sun. aat brought to the Royal Lodge in a neatly.fitted fancy-coloured co_ vernng, bounded by a gi&rth, for Elis 1hjesty's inspectioni; and was led by the groom to His la,jesty's apartment, who admired him as much on accounS of lus dsmnutlve lsize as for his dssUiy.-eewing pap8r. 1 Rumour, which always inaurnifes fact, anld delights to augment asarm, has stated that iy;Pus fever has of late been very prevalent in the neighbourhood af Aylesbury. On iuquiry, we learn toht ~he onay fatal cases that have occurred were in families manv ailes apart; 2nd that in none did the disease appear contagious. lit awmild wiieer, such as the present, typhus fever is, in certain Si. tuations, very apt to occar; but we uiinderstafid that it has been less I prevalent this winter in this neeighbourbootl than in that of Oxford f and of Berkhanlpstead,; and greatly leIs in any of thse than ir asume parts of the meiropolis.-.Bwukts Chronicle. ALA-RM or FiRE IN FLEET-STREET.-AbOUt eigbt o'dock last evening, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the Cheshire Cheese T avem, in nine-offhce-court, Pleet-street. Erom- the closeness of the biuildings, and the aspect of the flakes of fire which proceeded from a chimnev, added to the late calamnitous fits in the neighbourhood, the inhabitants, as well as the passengers, were for a time in a state of great consternation. Several of the houtekeepers in Wine-office-court and vicinity were so terrified as to make preparations for moving their families and property Srom thet apparent scene of devastation. Fortunately, however, St. l)unstea'i' antl several fire-office engines arrived in a minutes. and the sunp ply of water was so quick and plentituL, that the fire was confinea-t6 that part of the premsses where it first made its appearance. Erratunt.-.n the report of the procsedie.gs in the SbIe. riffi' Court in yesterdays T;sttes, the word fear is twice erroneously printed fee the wordfzeve; towards the heglaning of the reTit,.