Floods In Europe

LONDOir, Oct 24. - Politics, both foreign and domestic, jfive way in the public interest to the extensive floods, never equaled in England withln the present generation and far more widespread than the Moray floods of sixty years agc. which, however, destroyed many lives. The floods have come so gradually that nearly every one bas bad a cliance to escape, although vast plains are uuder water and rivuleU have swollen to rivers. The chief anxiety feit is as to whether the waters will a'.together retire from som ol the regions invaded, especially the lowlands near the sea, large sectious of which have been rescued for cultivation by the labor of eenturies. Should the floods, which are still rising In many places, not soon subside much surfering will be caused. In Buckinghamshire, the country in the vicinity of Newport-Pagnell, On the Ouse, is submerged and the inhabitants have been compelled to seek refuge on the upper floors oí the house The high road, running into Newport-l'agnell is 7 feet under water. A railroad cutting near Christ church undermined by the floods collapsed Friday morning and completely blocked up the railroad lines. The surrounding neighborhood is inundated so that the repairing of the damage is impossible till the subsulence of the floods. The Thames is still rising and is already 5 feet above lts normal high water mark. A portion of the royal gardens and the queen's drive at Windsor are fiooded. The flood demolished a pile dam which had bien construoted across a 50-foot gap in the erabankment of the river Parrett in Somerset. An enormous volums of water poured through the breach thus made, causing widespread damage lo the adjacent country and forcing the country people to use boats in passing from village to village. Many vessels of all kinds are reported as being ashoiv atdiñerent pointsonthe coast. in the county of Somerset 140,000 acres of land has been submerged, while the iliUc s everywhere have been swept uway. The county has assumi'd the uspeet which it presented in the time o: Al f red the (jreat, and the islaud of Athelney. wbero the monarch took ivfuge duriag the Danish invasión, has again been created. Windsor casi Ie is looming frowningly upon the vast expanse of waters which surround it on all sides. The Th&meside hoüses are being rapidly deserted by their occupants. who are to be sef n paddliug about in canoes, looking for dry land whereon to place tlu-ir families and such of their eftects as the3' liave bet'u able to suve from the devouring floods. Additional dumage to the ruilvvays in France by reason of floods is reported. The line was destroyed at several points between t. lierman des Fosses and N imes, and sorae roads are covered with water to a depth of rt feet. The plains have been converted into lakes and in numberless instances the villagers have had to seek refute in the churches.