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-SHREWSDtYy, No 21.- Afterohaving been submerpeifor an entire week, ' a l& proportion of the 650 hou"es anundated by the Severn have' at ength obained relief. The waters began io absto orn Wednesday, snd have cotinued to do so ever since, The higher districts of the towi that were flooded, xiad the inore plominent portions of the towing nath, are now passable,

though thegroundis stillvery slippery. Yesterday strio - fears were entertained that we shoiLd have'a recnces jf: the disutrous flood, owing to the hay appearane of thbatmosphere and the smaldrizzliDng ami setting in, which continued throughout the day aun the greater psro-la-7r might. The latest scoounts from the upper arts of Montw gomeryshlire have very much stfengtheneEthose fears, for the weather there has been very unsatisfactory for the lIsti several days; and as the Severn takes its ise at the foj,4of Plilimnmon, in Montgomeryshire, the rain there afts Ur more than any fll that we may have in our ;Jnmediatneighbourhood. At presenit the river appear I beneither risiag sior falling. The lowlands for miles round Shrews. bury present large sheets of water, an1 as the drainage ire

lmany V,hcea is very defective, jr wui be a consider able time before the earth can absorb the molsture, even though we shoul&, Thave fine weather, of which thera is not the LAIt prospect at present,. Btween 'uton mazaa aua waicot, and the latter plao.e and A aston, scores of acres of pasture land are under 'water. A. large quantity of arable land is also flooded, and, ulesA the water subsides coon the tenant farmers wil suffer very much. At Uffiogton, and thence to Atcham, the lind is pretty clear of the water, and tbsa Severn in those parts is almost co1fiued to its matmraT limits, though even there it is brimful, and if the present. rain should continue much longer there cau be no doubtv that theso places will suffer again from flood. Ironbridge, Bewdley,andaBridgnorth have been considerably relieved. from the water, and at each of these places the more wealthyclasses have come forward nobly to the relief of their lessa fortunate felow creatmres. At Shrewsbury, as before. stated, large exertions have been made, and the poor sufferers of all sects and creeds have beea most liberally reheved. The members for the borough have contributed largely to the fand, and it may-not be uninterestiDa to state. that on Wednesday morning last the mayor received a com. munication from Dr. Brown, the titular Roman Catholic biehop for Shrewsbury, in which was enclosed a check for 51., to be appropriated for the above purpose. From the. present subscriptions a reserve find wiU be formed ia case of future emsrgencies-a courGe which it is much to, be regretted was not taken in February last, when the town was visited with a sinilmar calamity. Much doubt exists in the public mind as to tbe feoasibility of the scheme propounded by the Rev. J....