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FRANCE has been visited by the most disastrous floods known for many years. In the South, it rained incessantly for three weeks; and the riven Rhone, Huveame, and Durance, overflowed their banks. On the 19th instant the lower part of Avignon was under water. At Tarascon, the Rhone had risen, on the 18th, nearly twenty feet above its usual level; and the in- habitants apprehended a recurrence of the disasters of 1840. The com- munication between Paris, Lyons, Avignon, Marseilles, and all the South- eastern region of France, was completely cut off by the inundations. In the valley of the Loire, the destruction is described as fearful. The mag- nificent bridge over the Loire at Orleans, the viaduct connecting the Orleans and Vierzon Railway with the terminus in that city, has been swept away by the resistless fury of the torrent. M. Dumon, Minister of Public Works, and M. Duchatel, Minister of the Interior, accompanied by M. Pussy, the Under-Secretary of State for the same department, have been on a tour in the provinces, and were thus eye-witnesses of the dis- astrous consequences of the inundations.

The accounts from Roanne, says the National, are terrific. Notwithstanding the unremitting exertions of the sappers and miners to raise works against the encroachment of the Loire, it carried away, on the night of the 18th instant, forty yards of the embankment, with a noise similar to that of a cannon fired amongst mountains, and the waters rushed against the devoted town. The Rae Royale and the Place d'Armes were completely flooded, and the waters rose in the latter place to the fifth story of the houses; being three feet higher than during a great flood which occurred fifty-six years since. The gas continued to burn until two o'clock in the morning; but at three o'clock, the water having reached the gas- works, the lights were extinguished, and the inhabitants were compelled to light torches. The number of houses destroyed at Roanne amount to 115; and of 400 boats laden with merchandise lying in the Loire or in the canal and made fast to the quays, 270 were sunk. Nothing has been saved out of an amount valued at 1,000,000 francs. Municipal-Councillor Merle and his son are amongst those who have perished.

It is said that the entire of the Rue Royale would have been destroyed, but that M. Boutoux, of the corps of Royal Engineers, effected a passage for the water, by which the depth of the flood was diminished nearly four feet. At Nevers, during the memory of man, the waters of the Loire had never risen to so considerable a height, even on the occasion of the lath November 1790, the most disastrous inundation hitherto experienced. The waters of the Loire and the Nievre formed an immense lake, under which had disappeared part of the faubourgs of Monesse, Nilvre, and Loire, and which extended to Plagny, after inun- dating the royal road. Here and there were seen floating, timber, trees, cattle; and cries of distress were heard at every point. Prompt succour was afforded, thanks to the efforts of the Prefect, General Lafontaine, and the Mayor of Nevers. In an instant the whole garrison was assembled at the scene of the disaster. Their object was to save the population of the Faubourg Saint Antoine, and the in- habitants of the isolated houses in the country. Two steamers, which perform the service between Digoiu and Nevers, contributed powerfully to this work. Not fewer than 600 persons were collected by the captains of these vessels from house to house.

The Loire had committed dreadful ravages between the plain of Aurec, An- drezieux, and Roanne. The St. Etienne Railway had been partly destroyed at Andrezieux. All the boats, laden with merchandise to the amount of 1,000,000 francs, lying in the canal of Digoin, had been sunk; and 1,000 hogsheads of brandy, each worth 800 francs, and 1,500 casks of wine, were lost. At Pouilly 1,700 pieces (hogsheads) of wine of the country and of Beaujolais, had been car- ried away by the floods. The swell in the Loire began to be felt at Nantes on the 21st; but the authorities had cautioned the inhabitants residing along its banks against its consequences, and no accident had as yet occurred. Fourteen hundred labourers, engaged on the railroad, would have inevitably perished, had not provisions been sent to them by a steam-boat, which took the poor men on board and brought them to a place of safety. In the Val of Orleans ten districts were en- tirely laid waste. Eighty boats and two hundred and fifty boatmen had arrived at Orleans from Paris, and were employed in carrying provisions and relief to the inhabitants of the inundated country. Near Amboise, the Loire had burst the great bank by which its course is partially restrained, and, flowing with irre-

sistible force through the opening thus made, had made an immense breach in the Orleans and Bordeaux Railway, which is there carried along an embankment. About four kilometres of this embankment are r aid to be entirely washed away; and the line for some miles, although it would not have been materially injured by an ordinary inundation, is supposed to have received so much damage that some months must elapse before it can be again opened for traffic. The following details are giving by a traveller in a diligence which was over- taken by the flood near Feurs. " We were eleven in the carriage, ten men and a woman. We quitted Fermi at four o'clock in the afternoon. At that period the bridge was thronged with spectators watching the progress of the Loire. We were advised not to proceed; but an inspector who was in the coach said, ' Whip on the horses, there is no danger.' The unfortunate man het his life by his pre- sumption, and we must forgive him. We had scarcely proceeded a few dozen paces before the wheels were covered by the flood. Our position became most cri- tical, as we could neither advance nor return. The postillion attempted to alight, but he found that if he persevered he would be drowned. With great difficulty we succeeded in casting a rope from the top of the coach over a large tree, by which means weprevented the coach from being capsized. We

remained in this perilous position until nightfalL A boat manned with seven men attempted to approach us, but failed; and the crew were obliged for their own safety to attach the boat to a tree. We remained in the utmost consternation: the

horses could no longer maintain their position, and M. Bremond, of Lyons, one of our passengers, cut the traces of one of them, mounted him, and taking a fellow traveller behind him, attempted to reach the shore. At three yards' distance the

horse fell, but the intrepid rider raised him; and two yards further man and horse disappeared in a whirlpool. bf. Bremond disengaged himself from the horse, and swam to a tree, where he remained all night. His companion never reappeared: he was the first victim. Our position did not improve. The horses were in suc- cession carried away. The diligence leaned over to the right, forced by the flood.

We were only kept from falling by our rope; when the lady who had remained in the coupe, with the rector of Sail-sous-Couson, screamed to us to raise her up to the roof of the coach, as she was drowning. The conductor and inspector threw her a rope, which the priest tied round her waist; and we then commenced the de- plorable change of position which caused the rope; by which the coach was at- tached to the tree to break, and the diligence rolled over. The lady, and the two

men who were raising her, disappeared, and were seen no more. The priest, when the carriage was turning over, jumped from the door, and seizing a leather strap, succeeded on obtaining a position on the side of the diligence. Another traveller

from Limoges grasped the priest's leg and supported himself. I was holding by a slight strap of leather, and was being carried off by the flood, when the priest laid hold of me by the arm, and lifted me, with the assistance of the postillion, to where he stood The young man from Limoges, exhausted by fatigue, loosed his hold, and was carried off by the current. He was the fifth victim. We who re- mained on the coach were carried on towards the Loire, by the force of the waters; and after the diligence had struck against a tree, which was torn by the roots from the earth, we were almost miraculously saved from inevitable death by two trees which resisted the weight of the coach. I passed this dreadful night on my knees holding the postillion and the priest." " On Wednesday," says the Journal du Loiret, "in the direction of Les Mentes, and at certain points of St. Denis, the inundation rose to the height of seventeen

feet; covering many houses so completely that boats passed above the tops of their chiumies. We know not by what means the inhabitants saved themselves. In other houses the water rose to the roofs, and whole families remained perched upon the beams, waiting every moment that death which seemed to be inevitable from the still rising of the flood. When the boats came to their deliverance, a passage for them to come through was necessarily made by making a hole through the roof. Astride on the ridge of one house, were found a father, mother, and four children, the youngest scarcely five years old. They had been sitting in the water up to the knees; and, had their release been much longer delayed, their powers of endurance would have been exhausted. We cannot relate all the hor- rors of this night of agony. The barracks of M. Blot received within it, during Thursday night, more thou three hundred persons, deprived of house, and food, and raiment, by this deluge."

At Roanne 33,000 pieces of wine and 3,000 hogsheads of spirits of wine, valued at a sum of 2,000,000 francs, have been lost.

At Guerin, in the Nievie, in the branches of a poplar was found the dead body of a woman, who had taken refuge there from the inundation. In a house, a young girl had retired to the garret, where she remained without food or aid. When discovered she had fainted. The utmost care was afforded her; she was placed in bed and warmed with hot cloths, and at last began to re- cover. When the vital warmth had been fully restored, she sat up in bed and hegan to sing—she was mad !

" The scourge," says a letter in the Constitutionnel, " has committed frightful ravages between Beaugeney and Blois. The banks of the river have been literally devastated. In the Val de Mer, so renowned for its wine, the entire crop has been swept away. We have just seen a field of potatoes left dry by the water, which appears as if it had been turned up with the spade; not a single potato is to be seen in it. Opposite Blois, St. Gervais and the village Grois have vanished. The river is here three leagues across. Blois has suffered /ess in proportion than other places, owing to its situation.

The Loire has begun to reenter its banks; and a letter written at Orleans on Sunday states that the river had fallen seventeen feet in three days. The falling water left a dismal scene-

" The water in the Val is above the level of the river: it is stagnant and without issue, the embankments merely serving at this moment to prolong the inundation. The Government should have sent to Orleans detachments of en- gineers to open drains. The town of Orleans is now cut iu two: the inhabitants of the right bank are more distant from those of the left than they are from Paris, and at the moment I write many families are ignorant of the extent of their losses. The material damages, however, are but a secondary consideration. The number of funerals which traverse the streets add to the picture of desolation offered by our town; twenty-three took place this morning: the funeral services are performed in the cathedral, all the churches and cemeteries of the Val being inundated or destroyed. The Municipal Council was obliged to limit the distri- bution of provisions to the inhabitants whose dwellings are still under water. The positicn of the others, however, is not less deplorable. The water has with- drawn from their houses, but the latter are uninhabitable, and threaten ruin; the four walls, damp and tottering, alone remain; their furniture, linen, beds, money, and crops, have been carried away. The unhappy creatures, rejected from the distribution-hall, wander through the streets, and their sallow and livid counte- nances indicate their sufferings. It is greatly feared that the Val has been filled with sand, as was the case in 1789: if so, the loss will be incalculable; an entire county, the most fertile is the world, will remain unproductive for eight or ten years. After the inundation of 1789, it was only in 1806 that, by dint of ma- nuring and ploughing, those lands, so fertile and valuable, could be reclaimed." Subscriptions had been opened in the offices of the Paris journals in favour of the sufferers by the floods. The Orleans Railroad Company had subscribed 30,000 francs; the Journal des Debats, 500 francs; but it is due to the Charivari to state that it-took on Saturday the initiative in this work of benevolence.

The Moniteur publishes three Royal ordinances for affording relief in the districts which have suffered by the recent floods. An extraordinary credit of 2,000,000 francs is given to repair the injury caused by the inun- dations to the public roads, canals, and banks of rivers. Another sum of 500,000 francs is granted as a " subvention " to the proprietors of the sus- pension-bridges which have been destroyed or damaged. A further sum of 1,000,000 francs is placed at the disposal of the Minister of Commerce for distribution among the sufferers by the overflow of the Loire, Rhone, and their tributaries; 400,000 francs is devoted in aid of the hospitals and charitable institutions of the inundated districts; and the Minister of Pub- lic Works is empowered to spend 1,500,000 francs in creating employment for the labouring classes during the winter.

The preparations for the fetes in Paris and at Versailles in honour of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier have been countermanded; the as- signed reason being the sufferings of a large portion of the country from the inundations.

According to La Presse, the French Minister of Commerce had received from the Prefects their several reports on the state of the crops. " Those reports," it says, "mention that the wheat crop was in amount one-fifth inferior to that of ordinary years, but that the excellent quality of the grain reduced the deficit to one-tenth. France consumes 60,000,000 hec- tolitres of wheat annually; she consequently only requires 6,000,000 hec- tolitres to supply the deficiency, or a mouth's consumption." The state of trade in Paris is described by the Reforme as very bad. Bankruptcies were of daily occurrence. "Petty merchants continue to shut up their shops; the pawnbrokers' offices are besieged with applicants; the savings-banks will soon be empty; the hospitals are crowded; 115,000 indigent depend upon public charity in Paris; the prisons are full; and the winter will throw about 100,000 workmen out of employment. Our pro- spects are indeed very sad."

The Duke d'Aumale arrived in Paris on Monday, from Spain. He made no stay to partake of the feasting prepared for him at Bayonne; his hasty departure being attributed to an order which he had received in- stantly to join the corps of observation which the French are forming on the Swiss frontier.

The Palace of the Elysde Bourbon had been fitted up for the reception of the Bey of Tunis.

Much attention has been excited by a violent paper in La Prase for- merly one of the hottest of the War-party journals: it has now been let loose to rail at England. The Presse exults, on the part of France, in having acquired Spain as a friendly ally on the Southern frontier; boasts that, without violating public law or diplomatic courtesy, an English in. trigue has been discomfited; avers that England's odious policy, of main- taining her power by keeping the states of the Continent within a net of internal embarrassments and doubts as to the future, has been entirely ex- ploded. The alliance which placed France at the tail of England and cost the Government so much unpopularity is also at an end: France returns to her natural alliance with the states of the Continent- " We wish to sum up in a few words our entire opinion on that subject. We are convinced that, sooner or later, a contest will take place between the Continent and that Power which uses it for her own purpose under favour of its divisions. This contest will be particularly a maritime contest; and now that the naval power of Spain is destroyed, we see only Russia that can lend us that efficacious support in Europe which the United States are reserving for us in America. It is our opinion, in a word, that for the repose of Europe it is necessary that the colossal power of England be reduced; and that this power will not fall except under the triple alliance which her three natural enemies will one day form— namely, France, Russia, and the United States."

Srsix.—Madrid letters to the 22d instant contain little that is interest- ing. The Duke d'Aumale took his departure on the 19th, after a perform- ance at the Circus Theatre. The Duke and Dutchess of Montpensier set out on the morning of the 22d, with an affectionate and tearful leavetaking between the two sisters.

At the Queen's ball a grave offence was committed by the Queen-mother; which is thus stated by the Times correspondent. " It seems two of the daughters of that worthy matron, the pledges of her love for Munoz, of the respective ages of twelve and nine years; (Sing Ferdinand died in 1833,) were at the ball; and, horreseo referens! the chairs on which they sat were by several inches higher than those which sustained the limbs of down- right royalty in the persons of' the Infantes of Spain1—they were actually on a level with those of their Majesties Queen Isabella and King Francisco! The consternation of those respectable pillars of the state, the grandees, was a thing not to be described."

The Duke of Rianzares [Munoz] has been created " Prince of the Ane tiles," with the style of "Highness "; and his children have received titles as Counts and Countesses.

The long-expected amnesty has at length seen the light It applies to all political offenders who have actually been banished, or have legal pro- ceedings hanging over them, or have been sentenced. The favour is limited, however, among the military, to those holding rank from that of Colonel downwards; among the civilians, to the chiefs of provinces and all other employes of inferior rank; and among private individuals to those who have not been members of Revolutionary Juntas, or filled the offices of Poli- tical Chief, Intendant, Commandant-general, or those in analogous posi- tions. Others not comprised in these classes are to be admitted to the benefit of the amnesty after special consideration of each case. Followers of Don Carlos are to be required to take the oath of fidelity.

By another decree issuing from the Department of Grace and Justice, all offenders, not political, whether in Spain or her Colonies, are to participate. There are, however, some pretty sweeping exceptions- " Are not comprised in the present pardon, those whose offences date sub-

sequently to the promulgation of this degree; those guilty of parricide, traiterous homicide imam:holism, sacrilege, blasphemy, sodomy, bribery, and taking money under false pretences; coining, forgery of paper money and public documents, of bills of exchange, though of a private character, forgery committed by a no- tary, resistance to jultice and the armed force, rape, violence, robbery, theft, and swindling, embezzlement by public functionaries, and grave abuses in the exercise of their office, insults offered to superiors, and insubordination of military men."

The Heraldo states, on the authority of a letter from London, that Don Enrique has written a letter to General Espartero, in which he expresses his regret at his name having been used to promote discord in Spain, and solemnly declares that the revolutionists must never hope for his support or cooperation. The Foment() of Barcelona of the 20th reports, that an attempt in favour of Don Carlos had been made in the province of Bergs, by the old Colonel Juan Caballeria, better known by the name of Ripoll; but that it was at once suppressed, the Colonel having been killed. According to the Bayonne correspondent of the Times, the Carlists ap- peared to have abandoned all intention of raising the standard for the present in the Northern provinces of Spain. The officers of that party; prisoners in the citadel of Blaye, had published a declaration disclaiming all idea of the kind; but they added, that, as faithful subjects of Charles the Sixth, they were " now and ever ready to obey his Majesty's orders." The Madrid correspondent of the Times mentions, that a Council of Mi= nisters had been in deliberation on the demand for assistance made by the Portuguese Government, and that an armed intervention had been decided on. The great difficulty, however, was a certain 20,000,000 of reels re- quired to put the necessary troops in motion.

Portruom,.—There are advices from Lisbon to the 17th instant. The rumours respecting the arrest of the Duke of Terceira are confirmed: there appeared to be no doubt that Count das Antas, who was in command of the troops at Oporto when the Duke arrived there, had declined to sur- render his command, and had instigated the popular movement by which the Duke was imprisoned in the Castle of Foz. Communications between Lisbon and Oporto had been prevented by the destruction of the telegraph.

Juntas to resist the new Government have formed in Beira and Algarve; and the Royal troops have been effectually withstood by a body of seven hundred Mignelites at Belles, about twelve miles from Lisbon.

The Government was vigorously preparing to strengthen itself. The Queen had addressed a proclamation to the people, expressing her deter- mination to punish the insubordinate, and announcing that the King would head the troops that were to march against the revolted districts.

The Diario contains seven Royal decrees, dismissing from their posts as many civil Governors appointed by the late Government. The Duke of Pelmella had demanded passports for France.

GEEDANY.—Accounts from Frankfort state that the Diet had closed its session, and adjourned to the 14th of January, to examine anew the ques- tions of Schleswig-Holstein and the expediency of granting liberty of the press, which were left undecided.

If we are to believe a statement in the Universal German Gazette of the 22d instant, the Pope has given great offence to the Austrian Cabinet by the readiness with which he granted the dispensations for the Montpensier marriage. His Holiness, not having recognized the Government of Queen Isabel, might, they say, have withheld his assent, and thus defeated the in- trigue of the French and Spanish Courts; instead of which, he sent off the dispensations by return of post.

INDIA.—Two mails have been received from India. The first left Bom- bay on the 15th September. The political news is unimportant. Com- plete tranquillity existed throughout India. The Governor-General and Lord Gough were still at Simla, but were about to proceed on a tour of in- spection. Gholab Singh had been engaged in " regulating " his troops. The report of the murder of Lall Singh turns out to be unfounded: some, however, choose to consider the report as merely premature.

In Scinde all was tranquil; the climate had become agreeable, and the troops were comparatively healthy. Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee; a station which is described by persons who left it in September as then far preferable to Bombay or Poonab. The report was circulated of Sir Charles Napier's becoming Commander-in-chief in India.

A writer at Sirwar gives a more intelligible account of the disorders in Kurnaul, which were cursorily mentioned in former advises-

" A rebellion has broken out, not exactly in the Deccan, but not far from it— near Kurnaul, or rather to the Eastward of that place, in a wild country, A Tehsildar, or Government revenue-officer of the Madras Presidency, had oppressed a Zemindar named Narsewha Reddie, who had formerly large possessions, which had been sequestrated and a payment in money substituted. The Reddie, on some extra provocation, took to the jungles, and at one time had eight thousand men with him. As this country borders on the Nizam's, and the people are wild and lawless on that border beyond other parts, there is little doubtithat there will be many found to join the rebellion. As is generally the case in these small affairs, a few men only were sent out at first; and one or two small detachments have had literally to fight for their lives and retreat. The rebel had got into a strong country; and his followers plundered where they could: there seems much con- fusion in a circle of eighty or ninety miles in consequence ; and at last troops were ordered (which have marched) from Bellary, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gooly, &c. I hope this little matter is not going to spread into a war, like that in the South Mahratta country; which, indeed, arose out of no more, and yet was so tedious. Where this Reddie is, is a strong, hilly, jungly country; and he may give much trouble yet. Had a whole regiment or a proper force been despatched at first, it might have been checked; as it is, five times the number of men and as much more expense will have to be incurred. A few lives have been lost in skirmishes: one with a party under a Lieutenant Watson, of forty or fifty men, seems to have been sharp enough, and reflects great credit on that officer; he expended nearly all his ammunition, charged through the enemy, and, getting a fresh supply, fol- lowed them up again; when they declined further fighting, and retreated into the hills."

The editor of the Moulmein Gazette having displeased the authorities by the freedom of his strictures, had been fined, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment; and his printing-office was shut up. Captain Durand, the Commissioner of the Tenasserim provinces, to whom these harsh measures were attributed, had raised a nest of hornets around his ears; and the press of India was loud in denouncing " his arbitrary and tyrannous conduct."

The second mall left Bombay on the 1st instant, and reached London yesterday morning. It adds little to what is stated above; and what there i we take from the succinct summary in the Times.

At Lahore everything remained quiet. The troops were healthy. An insurrection had broken out in Cashmere, fomented, it is reported, by the Lahore Durbar; and a force sent against the insurgents by Ghohb Singh had been defeated with some loss. Several English officers who were visiting the country had been seized, and would be detained as hostages, though no fears were entertained for their safety. Cholera was still raging in Scinde; and provisions were so enormously scarce and dear that an absolute famine was apprehended.

The mail was carried from Bombay by the steam-ship Atalanta, which sailed at six p.m. on, the 1st instant, and reached Saez on the 19th, at ten a.m.

The express through Egypt left Suez an hour and a half after the steamer's arrival, reached Cairo at half-past five o'clock in the evening, and Alexandria at five p.m. on the following day. Her Majesty's ship Ardent sailed for Trieste with a portion of the despatches at half-past twelve o'clock at night; and the Ariel, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to which we are in- debted for this intelligence, started a quarter of an hour afterwards. The Ariel reached Marseilles at nine o'clock in the evening of the 26th. On this occasion, therefore, it would seem that the route by Marseilles has the advantage.

UNITED STATES AND Mitstoo.—There has been more than one arrival from America this week. The Great Western brought advices from New York to the 8th instant; but by the Hibernia they are brought down to the 16th.

The news from Mexico is highly important. The city of Monterey had capitulated to General Taylor's army, on the 24th September, after three days of severe fighting.

General Taylor arrived before the city on the 19th September, with a force of about 6,000 men; and at once began an irregular firing upon the batteries. Two days were consumed in various preliminary movements, the invading army being ultimately divided into three portions; and a battery was formed.

At eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st, the order was given for the battery to open upon the citadel and town, the troops at the same time advancing. It would be impossible without devoting considerable space to make clear the details of the attack. The soldiers on both sides behaved with great gallantry; carrying on the fight in the streets of the city, which were strenuously defended by the Mexicans under General Ampudia. By the night of the 21st, however, the assail- ants had succeeded in turning and occupying a battery which had done great ex- ecution, dislodging the artillery and infantry, and establishing aposition within the town. A shower of rain caused a suspeasim of hostilities before the actual close of the day.

Next morning, the Americans advanced in storming-parties, and successively captured more batteries and divers pieces of field-artillery; with which farther progress they remained content for the time.

On the morning of the 23d, it was found that the Mexicans had evacuated the forts and defences East of the city; but they still continued to contest possession of the town during the greater part of the 23d. The Americans had now gained the grand square; in which, with the neighbouring " cathedral fort," or citadel, the Mexicans had concentrated their strength. Throughout the night, consider able execution was done with a mortar which had been brought to bear upon the circumscribed camp of the Mexicans in the grand square. Early on the morning of the 24th, General Taylor sent a flag of truce to General Ampudia, offering terms for a capitulation. The whole day was spent in correspondence, and in discussion at a personal interview between the Generals; but eventually, about five o'clock in the afternoon, the Mexican commander ac- cepted the terms. They included permission for the garrison to march out with a portion of their arms beyond a distant line of territory; and an armistice of eight weeks, subject to the decision of the national Cabinets.

Intelligence of this success caused great satisfaction at Washington; but it is reported that the Government altogether disapproved of the very libe- ral terms allowed by General Taylor. The armistice was annulled, and despatches were instantly forwarded ordering him to advance upon Mexico. Instructions were also sent to General Wool to advance upon Chihuahua.

The elections held in the several States of the Union had resulted in favour of the Whigs. Financial affairs were not in a promising way. The Secretary of the Treasury had made an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a loan of four millions of dollars, in New York. The security he offered was United. States Treasury notes, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, and due in one year.

The price of flour had declined. The aggregate quantities of flour, wheat, corn, and barley, from the commencement of the navigation, were considered equal to 717,116 barrels of flour.

Cotton also had declined in price since the early part of the month.