was in town during Hie evening, and th# officers present with the Artillerymen were Major Grieve and Captain Byron. It is not improbable that the services of the Defence Force will be asked for again for this evening.A good deal of diversity of opinion exists as la the levels of previous floods as compared with the present one. A lecord marked on the old Government stores, and verified by Mr. NY. Pettigrew and other old residents, gives tiie levels of the floods of 18V7. 1H«*4. anil 1887. the latter two being the same. The present flood at 11 o'clock oil Wednesday morning was Hit. bin. above the floods of lth4 ami 1878, and Min. below that of 1857.