EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN.—The province of Murcia has suffered severely by
one of these terrible convulsions. Front half-past six in the evening of the '21st March, when the first shock of earthquake was felt, till six o'clock next morn- ing. forty-eight shocks were counted : the first was the strongest, and it lasted two seconds. It was accompanied with a subterraneous noise resent- Ming that of several divisions of cavalry put to flight and followed by their camp trains. The shocks and oscillations were so strong that all the bells of the churches sounded of themselves. Several individuals who happened to be in balconies at the time were precipitated into the street. The confusion, the cries, and the tears of the inhabitants who ran through the streets without knowing where to direct their steps, formed one of the most appalling scenes that has ever been witnessed. The greater part of the inhabitants who escaped are encamped in the fields. The consequences have been most afflicting. In Murcia, the provincial capital, not one of the churches nor a single edifice but has been considerably damaged. The bridge of Legura, which unites the two portions of the town, has been sadly shattered. Many houses have been thrown down, and a number of individuals perished. The river Segura, which flowed through the city, has changed its course and its mouth, and now joins the sea by a new channel. Carthagena, the quarter of la Sevieta is com- pletely demolished. St. Fulgencio has altogether disappeared. Rojales, La Grange, Lox, San Miguel, Callosa, and several other towns and villages, have suffered. greatly. La Alata is a heap of ruins. The earthquake has dried up its two salt lakes. Not a single house has beenieft standing in Torrevieja; and the number of dead and wounded of its inhabitants is very considerable. Two craters have been opened where the town stood, and pour forth torrents of fcetid water. Orihuela—Some of the buildings are overthrown in this place. The number of lives lost amount to only seven: the remainder of its inhabitants are encamped in the fields. Guardamar is no longer in existence: only two of its windmills retain their position: the village has entirely disap- peared. Majado, and several other villages in the neighbourhood, have suf- fered greatly. Rafal---The village is totally ruined: the number of dead and wounded is immense. Aix-Garres—Several houses have been overthrown by a mountain adjoining, that village having given way : a number of indivi- duals lost their lives. Benejuzar—The most of the houses are thrown down, the number of wounded is considerable; the number of lives lost amount to 250. Four craters are opened at this place, two of which throw out lava, and foetid exhalations which are felt at more than the distance of a league. Los Dolores and Ahnoradi, are entirely in ruins. In the latter place, not a building remains; and how hundred and seventy bodies have been dug out. At Buzut the mineral waters disappeared, and burst forth again at more than two leagues distance from the town. This is a mere outline of the detailed statements published in the different French 'papers. It further appears that a shock was felt at Madrid the same evening, at a quarter past six o'clock. The King of Spain has ordered all the revenues of the province of Durcia to be employed in relieving the persons whom this misfirtune has reduced to misery. Since the 21st, repeated shocks have been felt in the province.
• hies Warren, the Irishman, who was accused of culpable homicide, ill basing wounded and kicked a Mr. Fraser, in a coffee-house hi Paris, so as to occasion his death, has been tried at the Court of Assizes of the Seine, and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment. II appeared, in evidence, that Fraser was perfectly intoxieated at the time vvhell the scuffle took place ; that there were no external wounds, or bruises, found on his body after his decease; and that his death was occasioned by the bursting of one
of his intestines, probably from a hill. When a medical malt was sent for to administer relief, after he was carried Incee, he would not allow him- self to be bled ; and the former 'a as reduced to the necessity of applying the lancet, by stealth, to his foot, as he lay extended drunk on his bed.
Boat' ACctnENTS.—Soon after six o'clock on Wednesday menthe', three shipwrights and six riggers embarked at the Dog and Duck staiN,'Rother- 'lithe, in a skill; for the purpose Of being commit to two Russian traders, the Atlantic and Pacific, lying in the Limeheu-e tier, on board of which they were engaged to perform some repairs. On reaching the centre of the river, the strefun and title flowing rapidly, and a strum wind blowing against it, a heavy surf arose. This the skiff, which indepen'tlently of the passeegers was heavily laden with iron-werk, was unable to resist ; and, upsetting, precipi- tated all on board into the water. The accident occurring in sight of seveed -vessels, they lowered their beat, and hastened to the assistance of the sufferers. Their exertions, owing to the heaviness .1 the 511-eti, and the unfortunate ince being encumbered with their heavy working clothes, were but partially, suc- cessful, two only being saved. The preservation of one of these is principally to be attributed to the gallantry of a Spaniard, who leaped overhotual and res- cued him as he was sinking. All the seven men who were drowned have left wives and families.
The tishing.boat, Julia, belonging to a deep-sea ;fishing company of Edin- burgh, and manned by six men belonging to Coekenzie, Vileshire, was lost in the tremendous gale of Thursday List, iutil the whole crew drowned. By this disaster live widows and twenty-four children, zdinost all under age, have been left in a state of poverty and li.elplessness.
On Thursday night, a sloop hound from Lynn to Leith, was wrecked on the rocks at Hudshead, near Spittle, Berwick-mem-Tweed. The mate and a pas- senger were washed loan the wreck and drowned. ExPLosios—On Thursday morning, the corning-house of the powder-mills at Tunbridge blew up With a divaill'ul explosion, which was heard as far as Maidstone, a distance of fourteen miles. Two wen lost their lives: one was killed on the spot, and the other survived about an hour. One of the sufferers leaves a widow and six children, the other a widow and two childreu.—Maid- stone Gazette.
A dreadful accident happened on Tuesday, near Aldeate Church. A Mr. Braasch, a commission agent, slipped his foot off the pavement at the moment a waggon laden with coals was pausing ; the fore-wheel of which passing over his head, literally cruslifel it to atoms, and his de ti
a_a wan instantaneous.
On Sunday night, as Mrs. Knightbridge, a rich widow lady of eighty, who resided in Berkeley-street, was looking over a box bill of papers, some of which she was about to take with her to Ireland, the lighted candle fell down, and set lire to them. In attempting to put out the light the lady's clothes communicated with the flames, ;mil though assistatice was immediately rendered, she was so much scorched that she died in three hours.
On Monday morning, two houses in the Walwortleroad were destroyed by fire, and plundered by thieves, who pretended to aid the sufferers.
During the service in the Methodist chapel at Heeknemilwike, on Sunday evening, the pressure of the crowd displaced the stove which is in the body of the chapel, and caused the pipes to fall, but without iii try to any one. Sonic part of the congregation began to retire, the alarm became general, and a belief was induced that one end of the chapel had failen down. The rush to the door became general; and the shrieks of females, the cracking of the wood-work, and the leaping of the people over the pews, heightened the alarm. The passage which led to one of the doors, when it was forced from the outside, was literally eleiked with males and females, heaped together ou the floor; and when it was cleared, it was found that four young women anti two young men had been crushed to death. The number bruised and other- wise injured is very great; and several, it is feared, are wounded beyond recovery.
A crowd filled the Baptist chapel at Exeter on Sunday, to witness the ceremony of hnmersion. When it was supposed the ceremony was to com- mence, decency was forgotten,—the strung trampled on the weak; partitions, seats, and pews, presented no obstacle; wailings and cries began to be heard, coarse epithets stunned the ear, and at last a cry " The gallery is giving way," intermingled with shouts of ••• Fire," completed the disorder. The rush to the door was tremendous; many of both sexes were trampled down; and during the confusion the pickpockets, to whom all places are alike, were freely exer- cising their vocation. A large portion of those present were at last disgorged without loss of life,—though numbers are suffering from their bruises. During all this tumult, the baptismal rite proceeded ia a room underneath the floor of the meeting-house.
On Saturday morning, a woman ill Leeds mixed about a teaspoonful of what she supposed to be magnesia with a little water, and after taking a pur-
tion of it herself, gave the remainder to her eldest daughter, a girl above seven years, and to her infant child, about six months old. It was soon discovered that it was arsenic that the unhappy mother had unconsciously administered; and medical aid mune too late to save the life of the infant. The other child and the mother have recovered. The poison had been provided to destroy mice, and had been in the house for several years.
FALL OF A Rocs.—About half-past six o'clock on Monday evening, the people of Nottingham were alarmed by the fall of some hundred tons of rock at the back of the Loggerhead's public-house. In about three minutes the whole extent of cliff gave way, and five houses were crushed into one general wreck. The street was completely buried in the mass of huge rock stonN, and buildings crushed down with their weieht. When the clouds of dust arising from the ruins had somewhat sulfsided, every hand was ready to render aid, in endeavouring to ascertain whether any person had been buried tinder the immense heap of rubbish that spread itself for the extent' of about one hundred and twenty feet. Near the spot whine the first portion which broke away fell, the llaRs of a coat were visible, and, in a few seconds, a young man was dug nut in a state of ; but shortly afterwards he recovered, having only received tt row hruises. It (hies not appear that any lives were lost bytee accident. theiteli some individuals in one house very narrowly escaped being crushed in the ruins. The kill of the rock was aid- (*tied, from its dismemberment from the main burly; and the Magistratei, apprehending the cmase ipu sees, bad prevailed, though with difficulty, upon the people of some of the most obvimaly in danger to abandon them that day. The people compla1mel of tlie shortness of the notice they received to quit.
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