EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN.—The report of the destruction of Cadiz happily

turns out to be untrue. Direct accounts from Cadiz and from Gibraltar were EARTHQUAKE IN SPAIN.—The report of the destruction of Cadiz happily turns out to be untrue. Direct accounts from Cadiz and from Gibraltar were

on Monday received four days later than the period at which the French papers stated the catastrophe took place. The shocks on the east coast of Spain con- tinued frequent and alarming, but they had not been felt either at Gibraltar or Cadiz. The letters front Barcelona, Carthagena, and all the ports on the eastern coast of Spain, state that there had been further convulsions in Murcia, but they enter into no detail. Shocks of the same general convulsion had been felt at Lisbon and the vi- cinity. In several districts the ground had sunk, and water had taken the place of fields. Between Alcobaca and the Chaldaes, a lake of considerable size has suddenly appeared.

Accounts from Iceland mention, that en the night of the 21st of February, a shock of an earthquake was felt in the whole of Suderland. On the fol- lowing days, there were several slight shocks. Great damage was done to the buildings in the districts of Ueda.

Several shocks of earthquakes were felt at Lima in October, which gave rise to mooch devotion and sanctity, and many religious processions and vows ; but which were attendell by tie disa,crous consequences.

!Nes:CATION AT DANTZIC.—The Dutch pipers of the 22d of April contain an account of a most distressing inundation at Dantzic, caused by the Vistula

breaking through some of its dikes, by which about twenty-five miles of va- luable pasture-land has been laid under water. It is calculated that nine or ten thousand head of cattle and more than four thousand houses have been de- stroyed. The number of human laces lost has not been ascertained. but from the suddenness of the flood it could not Nil to be great. Much and severe suf- ferings were to he anticipated from the extreme severity of the weather and the destitution of the parties, even after the danger of the waters was passed. The inundation began on the 9th, and did not abate till the 12th. On the 14th it hail fallen three feet ; but even then the city seemed to be surrounded on three sides by a great lake. Letters from Copenhagen, dated the 15th. mention that the Baltic had be- come open on the Swedish side. and that upwards of 10(1 vessels had passed through the Sound. It was feared, however, that higher up they would be blocked in with the ice.

The breaking up of the weather at Baltimore has done great mischief to the canals. The damage is estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.

SHIPWRECES--The Henry and Harriet, from Whitby to Memel, was lost at Shetland on the 12th inst., and four of the crew drowned.

The late high winds have done much damage to the shipping on the coast.

Pinacv.—The Philadelphia Gazette, of the 17th March, contains the par- ticulars of the capture of the brig Atlantic of Boston, Captain Gruver, by a piratical schooner, on the day on which she sailed. The pirates murdered all on board, except one man, who contrived to conceal himself among the cargo : they then scuttled the vessel, and left her. The survivor managed to bring the vessel within three miles of the harbour before she sunk, when be wag fortunate enough to drift ashore upon a plank.

The New Providence of Salem was discovered on the 14th February, near Dog Keys, without any person on board. It is supposed that she had been captured by a pirate, and all on board murdered.

BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Sunday afternoon, as five young men were enjoying a pleasure-sail on the Thames, their boat was upset by a sudden squall, oppo. site Chelsea College. By the exertions of two watermen who were near, the lives of four of the party were saved; but the fifth was drowned before assist- ance could be afforded to hint.

On the morning of Sunday last, about a quarter after four o'clock, the boat belonging to his Majesty's Customs at Hull, went off to board the Bethel!, from Rotterdam, near the mouth of the harbour. A smack was coming in at the same time; some men belonging to which endeavoured to make a rope fast, in order to check her progress. They failed, and the smack ran direct on the Customhouse boat, which was jammed in beneath the Bethell's quarter, and instantly half tilled with water. By this accident Robert Greenwood was thrown into the sea, and drowned ; and two other men were so seriously wounded that their recovery is doubtful.

STARVATION.—On Monday night, Samuel Smith, aged about forty, was found stretched, insensible, on the pavement at the corner of Skinner.street. He was taken to the watchhouse, but no attention: was paid to hint till next morning, when he recovered a little. The unfortunate man said that he had been reduced to the utmost state of destitution, and had not tasted food for some days. Food was offered him too late to be of any avail. He was in- capable of swallowing any thing, and died in a few hours after his removal to the hospital. A Coroner's Jury found—"That the deceased died from neglect and want of common food necessary to support life."

On Thursday week, the dead body of a man was found in a remote part of the New Forest. The surgeon who examined into the cause of his death, reported to a Coroner's Jury that the deceased had died from the inclemency of the weather and the want of the common necessaries of life.

FIRE.—A fire broke out on Monday evening in the premises of Messrs?. Austin and Co., wine-merchants, in Botolph-lane. The flames communicated to the adjoining premises ; and property to a considerable amount was de- stroyed.

Yesterday morning, the smouldering embers burst out afresh ; and the flames communicating with the premises of Mr. Lowell, adjoining the large Committee-room of Butcher Hall, Pudding-lane, totally destroyed the latter place, together with a very fine and valuable collection of paintings, valued at nearly 2,0001.

Yesterday morning, too, the holm of Mr. Todd, jeweller, Shoreditch, and that of Mr. Sebastian Cossini, locling-glass manufacturer, were totally con- sumed. Neither of the sufferers are insured, and themselves and families are reduced to the utmost destitution by this calamity.

A violent conflagration: consumed, on the night of the 13th, almost the whole quarter of Brotheaux, at Lyons. The loss is estimated at 400,000 francs. An elderly female was burnt to death in Carteret-street, Westminster, on Saturday evening ; her clothes having caught fire while she sat alone in her apartment.

On Saturday evening as a caravan was leaving a stable-yard, in Cable-street, Whitechapel, to proceed to Greenwich fair, it upset on turning the corner, and fell on two females, one of whom died in the London Hospital an Monday morning, and the other is supposed to be wounded beyond recovery. On Monday night, a cabriolet-driver, named Davis, was found sitting in his cabriolet in the road at Kensington, quite dead, haying suddenly expired in a fit of apoplexy.

Captain Skinner, of York-square, Regent's-park, was on Thursday thrown from his gig in the New-road, and terribly crushed and lacerated; his horse had taken fright at the performance of some musicians.

A youth named Rider swallowed a bird-call on Wednesday week. The in- strument, which was made of tin, stuck in his throat, and with each respira- tion sent forth a whistling sound. The poor boy was for some hours in dan- ger of suffocation ; but at length a surgeon, who found it impossible to extract the bird-call, removed it front the windpipe to a lower position. The instru- ment is still in the body, frequently occasioning acute suffering. On the morning of the 8th current, a dreadful accident occurred at the bone-mill near Leven, Fifeshire. A woman, in passing the crushing-rollers

which are level with One floor, inadveefently stepped upon them, and, being instantly drawn into the engine, her legs and thighs were torn from the trunk

before she could be extricated. She was quite sensible after the accident; but her wounds were too extensive for surgical aid, and she died the follow- ing morning.— Caledonian Mercury.

A painter at Verdun having discovered that some wine had been stolen from his cellar, fixed a spring,-gun just within the cellar. 011 the 6th, the family

were alarmed with the noise of fire-arms, and on descending to the cellar, they found an Italian, who was a workman in the house, extended on the ground grievously wounded —French Paper.