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& _â€"of c â€" Miles of her boulevards, one of the city‘s chief points of pride, have ‘been washed away; many of the most notable structures in the city, to see which travelers have been wont to come from the corners of the earth, have already suffered Lheavy loss and are in danger of colâ€" lapse ; fiity thousand are homeless and subsisting on scant provistons furnished by the city, the irdusâ€" trial life of the city is completely suspended, and the one thought in the minds of the people is the imâ€" = minence of a staggering calamity that may yet come, if the Seine conâ€" tinues to rise. DEATE AND DESTITVTNON Despatches From London and Paris Tell of FTearful Havoc of Gale and Wind. ‘A despatch from London _ says : Partial returns received on Thursâ€" day from European seaports show that fully 200 vessels, mostly small fishing craft, have been lost in the storm of the last 48 hours, and that there has been loss of lifo in the sinking of at least half of these Boats. Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Ecandinavian countries all report tremendous loss in property and life, with a greatly increased death roll feared from the isolation of many towns by high water and snow blockades. The situation is the most appalling that Europe has known in many yeRrs. PARI§ PARTLY AFLOAT. ‘A despatch from Paris says: SYith the thermometor below freezâ€" ing point and the relentless river Seine continuing. its . devastating progress toward the top of the reâ€" tainingâ€" walls, Paris awoke on Thursday to what may prove the most terrible day in â€" her history, aside from the crisis presented by war. For once Parig has been sobered. ‘The gay mood that permitted the people to look on the flood in its early stages as a spectacle for their entertainment has departed, and ‘grim fear is now in the hearts of everyone, and is plainly written in the faces of all. ‘Every subway in Parisâ€"and Paris has more underground tunnels of one sort and another, than any city in the worldâ€"is now flooded. "This is the cause of the enormous damago, a damage that in Paris aloneo is likely to run over $100,000,â€" 800. _ These subterranean rivyelrs m o es e sys ts â€" have caused the collapse of scores oft streets, and are responsible for the water that now _ stands in varyâ€" ing depths over nearly half of the Police and soldiers are literally driving hundreds of the poor from tBHeir homes in the inundated seoâ€" tions. Scores of these houses have already tumbled in. . Public halls, churches, school buildings, and even such magnifiâ€" gent structures as the Pantheon are being converted into refuges for the poor. Through the coâ€"operation of city. Engineers declared on Thursday that if the waters imnmediately subâ€" side, it will take two years to reâ€" pair the damage done in Paris‘ unâ€" derground world. @apias s Ne en e se e N 2+ os Q%e police, soldiers and Red Cross sOcieties the thousands of destitute are being fairly well fed. Owing to the scarcity of food, coffee and rdfl_ls are the principal items in the rations. â€" Huge coffee boilers are steaming on many â€"of the street _ Early. on ‘Thursday the police found a woman, driven insane by the flood, and her five small chilâ€" dren almost frozen on the top of the Butte Chaumont in Park Hill. Her case is but typical of hundreds Future provision for the thouâ€" sands who have been rendered abâ€" solute destitute by the flood preâ€" sents a serious economic problem, though just now the authorities are concerned. wholly with the present. It is a question of saving life now. "~A WEIRD SPECTACLE. _ _On EFriday night the city preâ€" gented a weird spectacle, the solâ€" diers, sailors, firemen and police hastily _ constructing _ temporary walls by the light. of camp fires and torches in an endeavor to keep out the invading floods, while pickets patrol those sections of the city which are plunged in darkness by the bursting of the gas mains and the stoppage of the electric light plants. â€"â€" & The situation in the Place de: MOpera is grave. The entire terriâ€" tory has been roped off as unsafe. Tt is said also that the new Equitâ€" able Life Assurance building is in aanger of collapse. : BLOWING UP THE STREETS. The devastation has now penetraâ€" ted the very heart of Paris; the gorges, rivers and sewers underâ€" reath are literally blowing up the streets, and the area of the sutrâ€" face overflowed by the water of the Seine has been doubled. Twelve of the twentyâ€"five bridges over the rier have been closed, and the gquays on either side from one city o the other are either inundated or lave been ropeqd off as unsafe. The Esplanade Des Invalides is a sheet ofâ€"water. The turgid flood has crept back almost to the Jarâ€" din du Luxembourg on its left bank and invaded the Place de l& Concord, which is closed and guardâ€" ed by soldiers, and the lower Champs Elysses on the right ‘ba.pk.» Disaster followed disaster during the day. A gaping chasm opened in the lower Champs Elysses, enâ€" gulfing a cart and two men. One of the men was resceued, but the Papers are filled with pages of pitiful and terrifying details. War would hardly play such havoc. The city of light has become a city of slime filled with muddy waters. Business is almost at a standstill, and the hotels are crowded with persons who have fled from inunâ€" dated homes. other with the horse was swept away to his death. The prices of necessities are adâ€" rancing by leaps and bounds as the paralysis of transportation faâ€" cilities entering the city extends. Within the city there is practically n> means of transportation except by cabs and taxiâ€"autos, the owners of which charge fabulous prices. FLOODS REOEDE s While the most imminent peril is over, the fall of he Seine since Sunday morning â€"s only measurâ€" ed 15% inches. _ At this rate it would require a fortnight for the river to reach its normal level. Fortunately, tidings from the floodâ€" ed sections above Paris give hope of a more rapid subsidence. In the meantime, the situation in Paris and in many places throughout the country, shows little improveâ€" ment. Indeed, the ravages of the flood within the city seemed actuâ€" ally to increase on Sunday. The water was higher in some parts, while the situation at the inunâ€" dated towns between Paris and St. Germain was distinctly graver. A Bad Wreck on on English Railâ€" n â€" way Line. _A despatch from London says : One of the most serious railway acâ€" cidents in England since the disasâ€" ter to the steamer train at Salisâ€" bury in July, 1906, occurred at Stoat‘s Nest Station, near London, on the London and Brighton Railâ€" way on Saturday afternoon. Eight dead and about thirty injured were taken from the wreck. Two thirdâ€" class and a Pullman of a train from Brighton, travelling at a speed of forty miles an hour, crashed into the station. The thirdâ€"class . cars were completely wrecked and a part of the building was demolished. The Pullman was thrown violently into the air, but was comparatively litâ€" tle damaged. _ Its passengers esâ€" caped with minor injuries. A stream of water 12 feet deep was rushing through Grennevillierâ€" es and Colombes, making the work of rescue more difficult. _ Several of the houses collapsed, and many persons were taken off the roofs of their homes, where they had been clinging for days. : _ Hundreds are reported without food or shelter, and all day an army of troops and civilians worked in the flooded territory distributing provisions by boats to the thouâ€" sands of victims who refused to quit their homes. _ â€" Geo. Tees, Bsreaved by C. P. R. Bisaster, Loses Wife. â€"A despatch from North Bay says : On Friday morning a casket left North Bay for Bruce Mines, ac companied by George A.‘ Tees, of Cochrane. _ The casket contained the body of his wife, who died in North Bay hospital on Thursday, and as the train passed over the Spanish River bridge his mind was torture«@ by . memory of the calaâ€" mity which happened at the same hour of the same day, one week ago, when his little daughter, Clara and his fatherâ€"inâ€"law went down to death with other victims of the wreck. Unable to attend the funâ€" eral of his only daughter or fatherâ€" inâ€"law, he sat by the bedside of his dying wife till the end.. Mrs. Tees was only twentyâ€"five years of age and was operated upon only a few days before the accident, of which ;shc was kept in ignorance. Great Britain‘s Naval â€"Estimates Provide Large Additions. A despatch â€" from Portsmouth says : In wellâ€"informed naval circies f\is understood that the next Britâ€" ith naval estimates will provide for fdur Dreadnoughts, two _ armored crpisers, twentyâ€"four torpedoâ€"boat destroyers, ten submarines, and 5,â€" 000 additional mevr. ECHO OF RAILWAY WRECK. MAXY MORE WARSHIPS. EIGHT WERE KILLED. CITY OF SLIMLE. GONDENSED NEWS ITEMS York County Council propose to reforest waste lands. Ayrshire breeders say cattie are needed in the west. Telegrapalio Bricts From Our Ows aad Other Countrics ol Recent Events. CANADA. The unifform for the Provincial police has been selected. A new radial railway from Orilâ€" lia to Toronto is proposed. HRAFPENINGS FROM ALL OVE THE GLOBE. > The ‘"abstainâ€"fromâ€"meat‘‘ moveâ€" ment has been inaugurated in ‘Foâ€" ronto Many new mining concerns for the Porcupine district have been formed. Arnold Shoebotham of London township was killed by falling through a trapdoor in the barn.. The Manitoba Legislature has been summoned to meet on Febâ€" ruary 10. 7 % A large body of excellent coal is reported to have been struck at the north end of Vancouver Island. The Provincial Government wall secure part of Lord Strathcona‘s grant for physical training in schools. Mrs. W. Oulton was burned to death in a fire at Amherst, N. S., that destroyed the Black printing establishment on Friday. : Mr. Willizsm L. Grant, son of the late Principal, has been appointed to the new chair of colonial hisâ€" tory at Queen‘s University. Mr. A. W. Campbell, Deputy Minister of Public Works for Onâ€" tario, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Railways at Ottawa, to succeed Mr. M. J. Butler. Henry Rumple, T., H. & B. enâ€" gineer, was killed at Hamilton when his engine jumped the track on Sunday. â€"The engine and tender were burned. Through the reindeer going north into Alaska instead of to their usual winter grazing grounds near Hudâ€" son‘s Bay the Mackenzie River Inâ€" dians were left on the verge of starvation. The family of J. Kurtzman of Hamilton had a narrow escape from their burning house on Sunday morning. Three hundred dollars in money and some jewellery was inâ€" cluded in the loss. The. Unionists now have 270 memâ€" bers, the Liberals 272, the Laborâ€" ites 40 and the Nationalists 82. Frederick Marx, who discovered the process of making paper out of wood pulp, is dead near Utica. Two Buffalo women captured a kurglar after a fierce fight. A woman was murdered in Cinâ€" cinnati by being roasted to death on a gas stove. : 2 Lightning struck a barren spot on a Texan farm and revealed an oil well that has a flow of 200 barrels a da/y. 8 Plans are in the process of comâ€" pletion for the creation of a copper merger, which will control the enâ€" tire output of copper in the United States. * President Taft has decided to press the suit looking to the dissoâ€" lution of the Union Pacificâ€"Southâ€" ern Pacific merger. The St. Paul mine at Uherry, Ill., in which over three hundred minâ€" ers lost their lives in November and which was sealed up in an attempt t> extinguish the flames, will be opened this week. The new Imperial Legislative Council of India met for the first time on Tuesday. The Newfoundlard Government will draw a substantial revenue from the island‘s hematite mines. Trackâ€"Laying on the Grand Trunk Pacific. A despatch from Montreal says : At the G. T. P. offices figures have been given showing that 923 miles ci steel are now down on the main line west of Winnipeg. This is mure than half way from Winnipeg to the coast.. Taking off a hundred miles on the west end, where steel is beâ€" ing laid now, and adding it to the finished line, would make 1,023 miles of track down, out of 1,750 miles west of Winnipeg, leaving onlts‘-'yawlittle over 700 miles of road to be completed to open the way to Prince Rupert. Must Not be Confused With Halâ€" ley‘s Comet. A despatch from Shanghar says : The new comet discovered in Joâ€" hannesburg, South Africa, which is known as ‘‘Camet A of 1910,‘‘â€" and b; many has been confused with Halley‘s comet, was sighted by the observatory here on Wednesday night. It was seen about one hour and filty minutes before the appearâ€" ancee of the plsnet Vonus. REACHING TO THE COAST. coMET ©"Aa‘~‘ OP 1910. ‘GREAT BRITAIN: UNITED STATES. GENERAL THE WORLD‘S MARKETS REPORTS FROM THE LEADING S TRADE CENTRES. Prices of Cattle, Grain, Cheeso and Other Dairy Produce at Home and Abroad. BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Feb. 1.â€"Flourâ€"Ontario wheat 90 per cent. patents, $4.30 to $4.35 in buyers‘ sacks on track, T.oronto, and $4.20 to $4.25 outâ€" side, in buyers‘ sacks. Manitoba flour, first patents, $5.70 on track, Toronto ; second patents, $5.70 on track, Toronto; second patents; $5.20 to $5.30, and strong bakers‘, $5 on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheatâ€"No. 1 Northâ€" ern, $1.13, Bay ports, and No. 2 Northern, $1.11!%%, Bay ports. 4 Ontario _ Wheatâ€"No. :2 mixed $1.07, and No. 2 white and red $1.08 outside,. Barleyâ€"No. 2 57c outside; No. 2 extra, 55¢; No. 3 at 50 to 52¢, and feed, 48¢ outside. Oatsâ€"No. 2 Ontario white, 37 to 38c outside, and 40 to 40c on track, Toronto. Canada West oats, 42 to 42 Y%e for No. 2, and 41 to 41%¢ for No. 3, Bay ports. Peasâ€"85 to 86c outside. Ryeâ€"No. 2, 66 to 670 outside. Buckwheatâ€"53¢ high freights, and 54c low freights. Cornâ€"New kilnâ€"dried, 76 to 77¢, and No. 3 new yollow selected, 73%4e¢, Toronto freights. $ Branâ€"$22 in bags, Toronto, and shorts, $23.50 in bags, Toronto. Applesâ€"$2.50 to $4 per barrel, according to quality. j Beansâ€"Uar lots outside, $1.65 to $1.70, and small lots here at $1.90 to $2. Honeyâ€"Combs, dozen, $2.2%5 to $3; extracted, 10%o0 per lb. Baled Hayâ€"No. 1 timothy, $13.â€" 50 to $14, and No. 2 at $12 to $12.â€" 50 on track, Toronto. Potatoesâ€"47 to 50c per bag on track for Ontarios. : Butter â€" Pound prints, 22 to 23%c; tubs and large rolls, 21 to 2%0; inferior, 18 to 20¢; creamery, 2" to 28e¢, and solids, 26 to 26%%4c per 1b. C s Poultryâ€"Turkeys, dressed,‘ 17 to 18c per lb; ducks, 13 to 15¢ ; geese, 12 to 13¢; chickens, 13 to 14c, and fowls,. 10 to 11¢. f 7 Baled Strawâ€"$7.50 on track, 1oâ€" ronto. Eggsâ€"Casée lots of new laid, 33¢ per dozen, and storage, 25¢ per dozen. + T9 Cheeseâ€"12} per lb. for large, and at 13¢ for twins. Baconâ€"Long clear, 14% to 15¢ per lb in case lots; mess pork, $27 to $27.50 ; short cut, $29 to $29.50. Hamsâ€"Light to medium, 154 to 16c; do., heavy, 144 to 15¢;, roils, 14 to 14!4c; breakfast bacon, 1754 to 18¢. Lardâ€"Tierces, â€"15%jc tubs, 16¢; pails, 16!%c. j . Montreal, Feb. 1.â€"Oatsâ€"No. 2 Canadian Western, 45 to 45%e¢ ; No. 2, 44 to 44)/ic; Ontario No. 2, white 4sec; Ontario No. 3 white, 42%¢;, Onâ€" tario No. 4 white, 41c. Barley â€" No. 2, 68 to 69¢; Manitoba feed barley, 53 to 556e Flourâ€"Manitoâ€" ba Spring wheat patents, ursts, $5.80 ; do., seconds, $5.30; Winter wheat patents, $5.50 to $5.60;, Maâ€" nitoba strong â€" bakers‘, â€" $5.10; straight rollers, $5.10 to $5.20; ‘straight rollers, in bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Feedâ€"Ontario bran, $22.â€" 50 to $23; Ontario middlings, $23.â€" 50 to $24 ; Manitoba brar, $22, Maâ€" nitoba shorts, $23 ; pure grain mouâ€" ille, $31 to $33; mixed mouille, $27 to $29. Cheese â€" Westerns, 11% to 12¢, and easterns, 11% to 11%c. Butterâ€"Choicest creamery, 25% to 266, and fresh receipts, 24 to 25¢. Eggsâ€"Selected new laid, 33 to 40¢c; selected No. 1 stock, 30 to 32¢c,â€"and No. 1 candled 27 to 28¢ per dozen. _ St. Louis, Feb: 1.â€"Wheat, May, $1.115% ; January, $1.00%4. Duluth, Feb . 1.â€"Wheatâ€"No. 1 hard, $1.13%% ; No. 1 Northern, $1.â€" 12"%; No. 9 Northern, $1.10%. May, $1.12% bid; July, $1:12%% nominal a UNIEED STATES MARKETS BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. THE DAIRY MARKETS. LIVE STOCK MARKETS COUNTRY PRODUCE. HOG PRODUUCTS. THE MNANCES OF ONTARIO A despatch from Toronto says : Ontario‘s revenue for the fiscal year of 1909 which was only 10 months, totalled $7,477,921.94, while the expenditurs was $7,545,540.40. The changing of the fiscal year to end on October 31 last year thus cutting out the two chief revenueâ€" producing months of the year is reâ€" sponsible for this deficit. Statement of the Treasurer Laid Beforo the Legislature. The chief items of revenue are subsidies from the Dominion Govâ€" ernment, $2,128,772.08 ; interest on investments,.. $102,766.22, as comâ€" pared with $64,931.68 last year. Lands, forests and mines, $2,â€" 028,224.48, as compared with $2,â€" 420,429.38. From licenses, $353,â€" 92$.06, as compared with $577,771.11 last year; from law stamps, $83,â€" 185.55 as compared with $95,695.15 last year; from game and fisheries $8,347.35 as compared with $101,â€" 052.56; agriculture, $104,956.42 as compared with $87,722.05 last year ; from succession dues, $618,049.02 as compared with $1,134,898.88 ;‘ T. and N. O. earnings, $550,000 as selling at $5.15. . Milkers and springers were steady at recent quotations. _ Calves were firm. Sheep and lambs steady, with a tendency to weaker prices for lambs. Hogs unchanged at $8.25 flo.b. and $8.50 fed and watered for selects. Money Value to Canada of Ameriâ€" can Invasion. § A despatch from _ Washington says: More than $90,000,000 worth of Americans were exported to Caâ€" nada last year. That, at least, is the effect of emigration from the United States to Canada in 1909, according to the report of U. S. Consul Conant at Windsor, Ont. The total number of emigrants from the United States for the year was 20,148, and the Canadian Immtâ€" gration Commissioner has estimatâ€" ed that the overage wealth of these American _ settlers was ~$1,000. ‘"‘There are several reasons advancâ€" eded by authorities for the large inâ€" crease of immigration into Canadiâ€" an territory,‘‘ says Consul Conant, ‘"‘but the one given the most credâ€" ence is the easy manner in which homestead lands can be obtained, and the inducements held out to prospective settlers.\‘ Ten Soldiers Have Been Arrested at Calcutta. A despatch from Calcutta, India, says: A sensation has been caused here by the news that ten men beâ€" longing to the 10th Jats, a native infantry regiment, who are stationâ€" ed here, have been arrested and placed in jail on a charge of being concerned in sedition. _ The miliâ€" tary authorities are naturally reâ€" ticent, but with regard to the regiâ€" ment, which will most likely be imâ€" mediately transferred, it is believâ€" ed that very few men are affectâ€" ed â€" Direct efforts have been made to tamper with the fidelity of the soldiers. The men arrested are now confined in separate cells, and it is Ekeped that valuable facts may be discovered. > Eleven men have been indicted in Chicago for conspiring to defraud the city on a civic improvement contract. LUIFE SAFEST N CANOA There Are Fewer Murders, Proportionately, Here Than Elsewbere. A despatch from Ithaca, N. Y., says: While optimistic over the fuâ€" ture of this country, Dr. Andrew D. White, former President of Corâ€" nell University, and exâ€"Ambassaâ€" dor to Germany and Russia, sees grave danger in tae prevalence of crime, especially _ murder, which continues in this country. He finds that homicide is fortyâ€"three times greater in the United States than in Canada, while it is seven times greater than in Belgium, which he considers the worst coun try in Europe. The average crimâ€" inal, he continued, serves but sevâ€" en years of a life sentence, while one out of 64 murderers is convictâ€" sEDITION IN REGIMENT. The number of felonious homi s per year per million of po tion for various countries‘is a $90,000,000 ~WORTH. Civil government for the past fisâ€" cal year of ten months cost $4B7,« $80.64 ; legislation, $221,221 ; admin istration of justice, $539,124.193; education, $1,452,162.11 ; public inâ€" stitution maintenance, $906,311.06 ; Central Prison industries, $48,484.â€" 22 , colenization and immigration, $34,2083.84 ; agriculture, $493,410.19 j hospitals and charities, $340,589.92 ; colonization â€" roads, _ $449,209.66 j charges on crown lands, $503,296.â€" 81 ; commutation volunteer veterâ€" ans‘ land grants, $8,050. compared with $350,000 last year. From corporations there was colâ€" lected in taxes $719,148.09 as comâ€" pared with $695,482.31 last year. Payments on _ open_ accounts were :â€"Hospitals for Insane, $160,â€" 906.55 ; Mercer. Reformatory, $6,â€" 656.47; Central Prison, $3,525.04 Osgoode Hall, $21,565.28; Normal schools, â€" $57,441.18; Agricultural College, $12,269.58; common school lands, $4,377.76; criminal investiâ€" gations, $3,890.18; aid to railways, $35,000. Conspirators Planned . to Establish a Government. A despatch from Lahore, British India, says: It developed at the trial on Wednesday of an alleged Irdian conspirator that the plans of the conspiracy against the Britâ€" ish Indian Government included the estap,.shment _of an independent kingdom Witn a King, an Imperiai Council of five, a Houte of Princes, and & House of Commons, the lat ter having a membership of thirty. The seat of government was to be at Delhi. Proposal to Regulate Transportaâ€" tion in Canada. A despatch from â€"Ottawa says: In the Senate on Tuesday Sir R. W Scott introduced a bill to reguys late the transportation of intoxicatâ€" ing liquors, forbidding any transâ€" portation company or individual te carty liquor into any Province, county, city, or municipality which has declared for prohibition for use in such places. An exception is made, allowing an individual to bring in liquor to the amount of five gallons for his own use. Therao is another exception in favor ef Provinces to enable liquor to be taken in for sale under medical prescriptions or for industrial purâ€" poses. ‘ Hudson‘s Bay Company‘s Shipment Tied Up at Ottawa. ® A despatch from Ottawa says: The biggest seizure of furts ever made in Ofttawa took place on Wedâ€" nesday morning at the Union Deâ€" pot, when District Game Inspector T E. Loveday confiscated a bale of furs valued at $6,000. The bale contained furs of all descriptions, and was consigned to the Hudson‘s Bay Company at its headquarters ir London. The shipment was on the Soo train, which arrived in Otâ€" tawa early Wednesday morning. 15 was shipped in the north. A despatch from London says : I% is now stated that the Earl of Carâ€" rington will succeed Earl Grey as Goveruorâ€"General of Canada. Mayâ€"Succeeed Earl Grey as Goverâ€" norâ€"General. @ARL CARRING&TON NAMED. A NEW KING FOR INDIA. Ul BIG SEIZURE OF FURS. KEEP LIQUOR OUT. a iat crime nc â€"said. orâ€" mMUraecrt t onee by the { those found id‘ littleâ€"symâ€" y the truth ument thas es not stop mnees of soâ€" ecTimie Ttle _syinâ€" illed the crimé i the