30 AUGUST 1851, Page 8

The National of Paris copies from the Tribune Suisse some

particulars of a horrible event, related by a person worthy of credit coming from Carlsruhe. " At the last inundation, 320 political detenus, who were in the easemates of the fort C at Rastadt, were drowned. They were clandestinely interred in the same fosse; but at so little depth that the putrefaction of their bodies spread a smell throughout the town ; so that it was necessary to reinter them at a greater depth." "All the printers of Baden were forbidden to publish any details of the fact, under pain of losing their licence." At the commencement of the inundation, the pri- soners were not suffered to go out of their cells, already in part sub- merged ; at the last, attention was absorbed in saving the garrison ; and all the prisoners perished. They had been recently arrested, and were "the elite of the Baden Democracy." Not implicated in any insurrec- tion, some of them at least had been accused on the strength of forged letters, enclosing for example some scrip of the Mazzini loan. Such is the account in the Tribune Suisse, copied into the National of Saturday last ; but the utmost doubt is thrown upon the tale by the silence of other journals respecting it, and we do not hear that there is any mention of it in private letters.