To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph. "Sir,--Acting on your suggestion that the 'Paris Food Fund,' which I yesterday described to you, might be advantageously united with that which has been suggested by the Bishop of Versailles, I beg to say that Archbishop Manning, Professor Huxley, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Ruskin will, with myself, have great pleasure in forming part of such a public committee as you have advised, and in placing the subscriptions already sent to us at its disposal. "I am, sir, your obedient servant, "James T. Knowles." "Jan. 11." Daily Telegraph, Jan. 12, 1871. Roman Inundations. To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph. "Sir,--May I ask you to add to your article on the inundation of the Tiber some momentary invitation to your readers to think with Horace rather than to smile with him? "In the briefest and proudest words he wrote of himself, he thought of his native land chiefly as divided into the two districts of violent and scanty waters: Dicar, qua violens obstrepit Aufidus, Et qua, pauper aquæ, Daunus agrestium Regnavit populorum. "Now the anger and power of that tauriformis Aufidus is precisely because regna Dauni præfluit--because it flows past the poor kingdoms which it should enrich. Stay it there, and it is treasure instead of ruin. And so also with Tiber and Eridanus. They are so much gold, at their sources,--they are so much death, if they once break down unbridled into the plains. "At the end of your report of the events of the inundation, it is said that the King of Italy expressed 'an earnest desire to do something, as far as science and industry could effect it, to prevent or mitigate inundations for the future.' "Now, science and industry can do, not 'something,' but everything; and not merely to mitigate inundations--and, deadliest of inundations, because perpetual--maremmas; but to change them into national banks instead of debts. "The first thing the King of any country has to do is to manage the streams of it.