The Inundation At Florence

Sonio days ugo we gave a telegrapbio memorandum fruiii Florence to the London papers, which mentioned tliat there had been an inundiition in that city, and that much iujury has been done. We nava a letter from that city which saye : " I finished my last letter on the 6th of November, duriug which day the rain continued with great violence ; night broiight us no cessation, but rather an inorease, and the river rose visibly with great rapidity. From our window we could see it in the dim light, somutimes illuminated by thu torchos of the watcheni, reap.hing ubove tho bankt", and washing the foundations of the buildings on tbs opposito sido of' the river, and beneath, coming witbifl a few inches of tho top of tho wall of the Lung, Arno ; but I was hardly prepared for such a complete overthrow iih I found nsxt morning had taken phu-e. " Notwithstandiiig the precautions taken io bricking up doorways, &c, tho nver, whcro it had rwen above ihu piirappt, which in some pluces is lower than whero we are, liad torced its way l through tliö 6treet3 and visited with destructiou stretts full of houes. In the stree'H behind us, by the overflowing of a little stream whicli joius the Arno, some two feet of water und mud had mude a morning Tall into 11 tli houses, and as the water run cti with j the subxequcnt lowering of tlio i iver, the mud remained to a conideiubk depth. The Arno rone hoirii twenty feet, flonding all tho houe.s ibove thu 1 o ti ut uji'itzzm, ana tising tnree ir Wir i'eet in the adjoiuiog streets. Thü u'esIruetion of housohold luroiiore w:.j cdüpequently immeoM, on account of the greut quant!tiea oí thick mini dtfpoitód orapkl was the riso of wutr tbal boats were usod in the Via Maggiu nul Via Guicciaidiui, and the lateral streets for the trunsportütion of pitseengers. üno gentleman toíd úia tbat in föturniog home, about fonr o'clctok, he f'jund the first floór of üis house on the lutter street, wbicti ruiii parallel wilh the river, wuist depp. Fortunately the rain ceased, or t!ie city of Florence would have had u fjood chance of beit'g wi.Hhed away. The scène was very otirious t a nötjsufferer the next rftorpiiïg-j mud two feet solid deep, soldiers on dutv tverv where - for soldiere are on duty here on the most serioua occasions - here a boat strinded iu the street, there a pilo oí bri kun furniture, and on everv ham) ganga oí' workmen and aoldiers in futigue dret;s clearing away the debris of the flood. Every shop vvaa a sight, and ome persons have been almost ruined by the destruotion of ihcir housohold gooda. " Near the Uffizzi Pahice everv house and shop was iuundated to B fearfnl extent. The suspension bridge noar uu was in so much danger, aa tha water reached nearly to the floonng, that sona vvere iorbiddeo to cross on it, and I now see the workmen aro putting np r sc&tloldiugf arouud nóê of tbe pier.", which aeems to have been woukenod. Ii such an event had takon place at horne, the papers vvould have ouuiipied columns with ,tlio account, but hore there are no ñtnvspapers publiahed, except, one or two little sheets about the size oí ordinaí-y note paper. " Oü the front of the Cmt-iui Pnlace, is a slreak of whito puiut indicuting tbe height to which the water rose jnst tweuty yers ago , thia timo even this was uuder water. Six railwuys in thi nighborhood have stopned working in coottequenco of the gro;it damngo to thoir tracks - ulmoat out ü2' Flcjreuct froin the outur world."