We understand an invoice has been received of ninety-five chests
of Assam tea, which may be very shortly expected in this country. This tea has been put on board ship in Calcutta in the best possible order ; and has not required to be dried a second time, as was the ease with the Assam tea received in the winter. The growth of tea within the British dominions in India has obtained additional importance in conse- quence of the present state of our relations with the Chinese empire.— courier.
Arguelles, Calatrava, Olozaga, IIeros, and Otway and Southern of the British Embassy, says a letter front Madrid, decided at a dialler that a gold medal should be struck to preserve the memory of Lord that i arendon's late speech in the House of. Lords on the Spanish question. i
in the night of the 18th of June the inhabitants of the village of Fe- &oil were awakened by a subterraneous.noise and a sort of earth- quake, which gave ci.violent shock to all their dwellings. Ignorant of he cause of this terrible shock, they hastened into the streets, and saw tto their terror that the whole valley, in which most of the houses arc situate, had become loosened from the foot of the mountain ; that it had sunk considerably, and was advancing towards the Wolga. The terror of these poor people was extreme when they saw the whole mass was moving, and that some me of their houses were tossed up, while some sank
In a short time there were formed on this sunken surface, ele- dowm
rations and depressions, and broad and very regular cracks, which gave it the appearance of a terrace : where there had btim marshes or small lakes, hills bad arisen, and the elevated spot had be- come hollow, filled with water as well as the cracks. The undulating motion of the ground contained for seventy-two hours, after which it gradually ceased: More than seventy houses are damaged, some are totally destroyed, and almost all the cellars are filled up. The fields and kitchen-gardens, which were nearest to the mountain, and considerably higher up than the village, have suffered most of all. Happily no per- sons have perished. During the confusion the peasants all lived in the open air; they are now beginning to repair their houses. The sinking of the valley is one mile and a half long and 250 fathoms broad ; it is not yet known how far the valley has moved forward.
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