The Baltic, which arrived at Liverpool -yesterday, with advices from
New York to the 16th instant, brought no important political news. San Francisco, and the whole State of California, were severely shaken by an earthquake early in the morning of the 15th February. The buildings in the cities rocked to and fro ; the population of San Francisco rushed from their beds into . the streets ; the vessels in the port were dashed about ; but no lives appear to have been lost. SOme details of the earthquake at Jeddo in Japan are published by the Californian papers. There is some discrepancy in the accounts; for although it is broadly stated that "the earth ,opened and closed over thousands of bniirlingis and their inhabitants "—that fires broke out in thirty different places at once, and that 30,000 lives were lost—it is added, that "the Japanese seemed to attach but little importance to the catastrophe" and, as the accounts are all of American origin, that remark suggests doubts as to their accuracy. General Walker has complicated matters in Nicaragua by seizing the boats of the Nicaragua Transit Company, annulling their charter, and granting a new one to another company-. It is stated that lie has there- by rendered himself "liable to being 'taken in hand by the United States and Great Britain, both being bound by the Clayton-Bulwer• treaty to protect the Company in the prosecution of their business."
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