HEAVY 'LOODs.-Shrewsb)ury,Sunday, 730 pn.m -The warm veather which -prevailed dtuing last week has effeetnallythawedtheheavysuowwhichlayonthehrnswhere the Severn rises, and the consequenco hasi been a glood over the whole of the country through which the river flows, higher by nearly two feet than that recorded in The Times of the32th uilt., and wliceh was then consideied to be the hi,ghest since the memorable overflow of 1852. On Wednes-

day afternoon andl du-Ling Thursaay t'he flood began to gather force abovo Llauidloes, and on Friday the district between Nevwtown, Welhhpool, andl Butlinoglon was uinder water. RIelverley, avillago unhappily situnted on the border of the counties oftialopandMont-omery, and which,from the frequency of its vistations from floods, is known as "1 Godhelp-us ,Ielverley " was mnore completely swamped than ustisl, the houses 6,comin; quite isolatea by water to the depthaofsome feet. On Friday afternoon the Severn begau to rise between the bridges in Shrewsbnry. and rapil gathered bulk uip to about 12 o'clock Isat night. This mnorning the country adjoining, the river banks, both east and west of tho town, as seen from the railway bridge~, presentea an exttaordinaLry siht, the fields being entlirey hiddlen from view, and in such as immediately skirt the river the hedges also having disappeared. In the towa itself the districts whicli chiefly suffer are the two suburbs of Fratikwell and Coleharo, -which lie low, and are crowded with the, dwellings of the pooreir classes. In all. these the cellars and 'kitolhens are uinder water, and the damage to property andi the inconvenience to the poor people is very serious. Inone street awhole row of' houses is cut off by the flood, which reaches above the basement floor windows, and has driven the inhabitants to the upe storis aysimilar cases arenoticeable at the ther

edof the town. InforniatI6n of the state of the country at' Welshpool reached Shrewsbury yesterday, and with the knowled,ge that this town was certain to suffer next many persons riving in the threatened quarters observed the precaution of removing all goods out of the lower stories, and thus escaped loss. Accounts from down the Severn Valley say that the flood had reached Iroubridge and Bridgnorth. aind that at Oressage the waLter is on the line of the Severn

VaeRailway At theotimaeour parcel wasdespatched the fodad-reached its height at Shrewabury,and wae subsiding as rapidly as it had risen.

THz Quxnno rELnm 'FUND.-The Itelief Comnsmittee of Quebec, baving stil in band the sum of $248,879' have resolved to apply $200 000 in aid ef the reocnnstruc-I tioea of dwellings, aud' to &evoto the balance to meetiug the immnediate 'wants of the sufferers during the romainder of the winter, and making reasonable allowance to tenants who have lest their furniture 'andl effects. The Quebec ChroniZe esthuiatea that the proposed scale of assistanes in rebuilding will give the parties ona an average about one-fourrth the amiount of their loss, b ut the assistance is to be confined to indigent perons resY7l needing it and unln. sured, and the...