3 MAY 1834, Page 14

There was an earthquake at Cadiz on the evening of

the 13th ult. about half-past eight. It made the houses reel, and was felt in all the towns and villages within eighty miles. Hundreds of people ran to the squares and open places ; at the theatre the attempt to escape caused the greatest confusion. There was not, however, a single accident.

Richard Lander, the African traveller, was shot at, by some men em- ployed on a slave expedition, while ascending the Niger in a cutter, three hundred miles front the coast. He was so badly wounded, that he died soon after, ou the 6th of February.