London, March ID.
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/ Shall blossom at last'


london, March H.


EARTHQUAkE.--AVe this morning re-
ccived a series Of Italian papers from which
we learn, with much regret, that the city
of Santa Maurl has been reduced to "a scene
of desolation and ruin" by violent shock
of an earthquake. The particulars of this
calamltous event are given in the following
account from Corfu:


Corfu jan. 22.--On the 18th. inst. one Of
the most violent shocks of all earthquake
ever felt in that isatd, plunged the un-
fortunate inhabitants into the utmost distress
From the most authentic reports which have
reached us up to the 2lst we announce to
the public the tremendous calamity. TIE
whole city presents to the view only vast
scene Of desolation and ruin; all the hous-
es are either entirely oyerthrown or eX-
trcmcly damaged. All the churches ex-
cept one are DESTROYED, and we say without
exaggeration, that the city Of Santa Maura
is uninhabtablc. This disaster having oc-
Cured in the midst of winter, and in cx-
tremcly stormy weather, the consequences
are, OH that account, still more fatal. The
mills and ovens being all destroyed, and the
unhappy people having no shelter from the
inclemency of the season, it is easy TO con-
ceive the difficulty OF procuring bread, and
the scene of horror which desolated the town
and the lamentations and cries of despair of
the families, who saw the streets inundated
with wine and oil, by the destruction Of their
magazines, and all their provisions spoiled.
Thousands of persons are reduced to beg
gary. The number Of persons who perish
cd up to the '21st. was "a in the city, besides
IS who had received bodily injuries. Twenty
three others are buried under the ruins Of
the village Of Zaccaladcs. The earthquake
happily spent its whole fury during the day,
so that the inhabitants, both iii the city and
the country, did not suffer in their persons,
what they would have suffered had it hap
pencd III the night. It is worthy of partc
ular notice, that in some parts of the inter
or of the island the shock was not at all felt.
1t seems that its whole force was spent on
the parts nearest the sea.


We know also that the city of Prevessa
has suffered greatly. but we hove not yet re-
ccivcd the particulars. The earthquake
was also felt here, i'll Corfu, on the same
day, and at nearly the same hour.


Marquis Lafayette has sent from America
to the Committee i'll London, appointed to
manage the subscriptions for the Foreign
Refugees, the following sums; 900 dolls. for
natives of France, coo dollars for Spaniards,
and 200 for Italians


The extreme briskness of trade last year
at Liverpool is cyinccd by an official account
inst published. The excess of 1924 over
1928 is more than I4,5O0,00o. The ex-
port of cotton manufactures and yarn arc cs-
timated at the vast sum Of thirty millions


The Chancellor of the British ExchcGuer,
i'll his estimate of the expenditures of the
present year, includes the sum Of 1850, 600 to
be paid to the United States, as compensa-
tion for slaves taken under British protec.
tion during the late war, which have been
claimed as American property.


From Germany we learn that some disqui.
etudc is felt on account of the rise of Com
stitutional principles i'll. that quarter The
King of Bavaria has allowed license to the
Press i'll his doinnions and the members Of
the Holy Alliance have made frequent COM
plants, and even employed threats OIL this
| subject, both of which his Majesty has uni
forlnly despscd and disregarded. In oppo-
stion to such holy aAianced Policy, we be-
hold, and who would believe i. the Paeha of
Egypt--he is laborring most assiduously
for the civilization OF his dominons--reform
ing his political, civil and military depart
mcnts, and establishing that horror Of Euro
| pcan princes a free press, the very engine
that Alexander and his confcderates are
labouring to overturn. This intrepid Ma
hometan laughs to scorn the fears of the
! Holy Alliance, and dares TO ALLOW to his ig-
norant subjects freedom that the confed-
crate monarchs of enlightened Europe dare
not.-BaH. .9mer.


Lar ,fnecdotr.--The petition of Timothy
Oates, in the year 1899, public crier of the
courtin Wiltshire, represented to the Judges


That your petitioner is this day 81 year.
OF age, and was a crier in this Court before
either of your honors were born. That
small as his perquistes are, his wants arr
still smaller. He, alas! can cry no longer
but ne may possibly live little longer; and
during that small period, he implores to CRY


by proxy. His son, Jonathan has sonorou


echoing voice, capable of rousing sleepin,
juror or witness, to the remotest nook of Tho
courthouse; your petitioner begs that iona
than may be accepted as his substitute; SC
, that, Of your petitioner, it may be said, whel
, he is dead and gone, that, although he crict