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cal resources is necessary in exciting in any
people principles of enterprize and virtuous
ambition.


We purpose also as soon as sufficient
number of subscribers to defray the expen-
ces shall have been obtained, to open Read
ing Room, where will be Kept, most of the
approved journals of the day, the best selec-
tions OF history, and works on natural sciences,
maps, sc. Such an establishment would be
the means of saving many, from the influence
Of the Porter House, and directing them in the
useful disposition of their leisure hours, and
should they come together once in two weeks,
or once month, and discuss useful topicks, it
would excite taste for reserch and lead to
useful knowledge.


DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN---
A letter from Madrid of the 3Oth March,
gives the following summary of the dam
age and loss of life sustained, by the late
dreadful earthquake 80 Murcia, capital
of the province-not a single church or
edifce that has not b zen considerably
damaged. Carthagena-the quarter of
Serrata has been ruined. st. Fulgencia
has disappeared. Tore Vejo-not a
single house is standing, the number of
killed and wounded is very great.
Orihuela-some edifces have fallen the
number of deaths here is but seven the
whole population is in the fields. Guarda-
mar is no longer in existence Raful--
this village has been destroyed; the num-
Der killed and wounded is immense. AK
UarreS-seFeral houses have rumbled; and
mountain near the town has rolled away.
and several individuals have persisted.
Benejuzar-the greater part of the houses
have fallen; the number of wounded is
considerable, and the killed amount to
25O. Almoravi-not a single house or
edifice remaining on its foundation. AL
ready four hundred persons have been
taken dead from beneath the ruins. The
earthquake Of the 2!st was accompanied
by a tremendous noise. Travellers OBJ
served, at the moment of the shock, a
column of fire proceeding from the Eastern
coast of Mureia. Nor have the shocks
ceased ever since the 18th in that province
and further evils are expected "


Next to volcanoes, earthquakes are the
most terrific phenomena of nature, and
are even far more destructive to man, and
to the labours Of his hands, An earth
quake, which consists in sudden motion
of the earth, is generally preceded by
rumbling sound, sometimes like that OF
number of carriages driving furiously
along the pavement of street, sometimes
like the rushing noise Of mighty wind,
and sometimes like the explosions OF
artiIIary. Their effect On the surface OF
the earth is various. Sometimes it is in
simultaneously heayed up in pefpenoicu'