DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY IN JAMAICA.—The following estimate ofloss sustained in

the parishes of St. James and Hanover, is given by a correspondent of the Globe.

80 sugar works, averaging 200 hogsheads of sugar, and 100 puncheons of rum, each at 101 £ 20,000 Say two crops £ 4S0,000

80 sets buildings, slaves killed, stock and utensils destroyed, say

averaging each 12,5001. 1,000,000 100 smaller settlements, say pens, coffee and ginger plantations,

slaves killed, stock and utensils destroyed, 2,5;101. each 250,000

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Loss of property £ 1,730,000

Supposed expense incurred by martial law 270,000 £ 2,000.000 To pay which, by a tax on slaves agreeable to law, will increase the poll-tax to 81. per head, exclusive of contingent expenses. Tice above calculation is made, taking the number of slaves at 300,000 From which deduct onesixth for deaths during the rebellion and those

belonging to properties destroyed, not able to pay any tax 50,000

250,000

The only members of the Peerage who possess estates in the island of Jamaica are—the Marquis of Sligo, who possesses 221; the Earl of Harewood, 332; the Earl of Balcarras, 256; the Earl of Dudley, 636; the Duke of Buckingham, 388; Lord Onslow, 24; Lord Holland, 457; total, 2,314. The following is a list of the proprietors of the greatest number of slaves--Mr. Watson Taylor, 2,543; J. and H. Dawkins, 2,189; Sir Simon Clarke, 2,366; Mr. Beckford, 2,077 ; Sir Alexander Grant, 9.57; Mr. Hibbert, 720; Mr. J. Wedderburn, 2,449; Ms. C. Ellis, 934; Mr. C. N. Bayly, 1,016; Mr. Thorpe, 3,031; and Mr. Bernal, .594. To Mr. Dawkins's estate we may add that of Mr.

i Pennant, whose name be has assumed. This will increase the num- bet' of 2,189 slaves by 1,023, making this gentleman the largest slave- owner under the Crown. The greatest number of negroes on one estate is 617; but instances of above 300 are not very common.

A great religious change is taking Once in Germany. The Bible is read with avidity by the Roman Catholics ; and the clergy of this religion are in many parts of the country making strenuous efforts for the abolition of celibacy, and for liberty to read the Mass in German. In various instances they have turned Protestants, with a great portion of their flocks. But the most important event is the formation of an anti-papal Catholic community at Dresden; which is likely to become the nucleus of a very numerous sect. If we couple this with a growing desire among the Protestants of that country to introduce inure cere- monies in their religious worship, a reunion of the two churches seems not among impossible things.—Correspondent of the Globe.

The Neapolitan Gazette of the 0th instant contains long details of the ceremonial of the espousals of the Princess Maria Amelia, the King's sister, with the Inflint Don Sebastian of Spain. The Prince of Capita officiated as proxy for the Royal bridegroom.

A third grand rail-road is about to be commenced at Altona, which will pass by Hamburg, and proceed to Lubeck, a distance of about thirty-six English miles.

The celebrated English missionary, Wolf, has set out for Timbuctoo, after leaving at Alexandria his wife, who had wished to accompany Min. —French Paper.

Rena Caille is living neglected, on a small pension assigned him by Government after inurii and earliest solicitation. Ilis health has been entirely broken by his African travels. After the boasts which the Institute made of his discovery of Timbuctoo, he had reason to look for more generous treatment.

The Rev. Mr. Colton, author of Lacon, shot himself at Fontainbleau 071 Saturday.

Professor Gazzani, of Naples, having been frequently appointed by the Government to give professional evidence on trials where the ques- tion turned On the detection of the traces of writing fraudulently erased, instituted experiments on the subject ; the result of which is said to be, that the best method is the exposure of the suspected paper to a mo- derate fire : the paper, which in C011F.eqUellee of the corrosive effects of • the ink, was in those parts altered in its nature, was unequally acted on by the process of carbonization ; and then the number and length of tl e lines, and often the whole of the erased portion, were distinctly marked. A curious exposé took place in one of the courts in Paris a few days ago, on the trial of a Pole named Zaba, and an Italian named Miran- da, on a silly charge of conspiring to raise young Napoleon to the throne of France. The charge was immediately abandoned as un- founded and untenable. In the course of the examination, the Pole, Zaba, was asked to explain the meaning and object of a dictionary of ciphers. " The dictionary," be answered, " was necessary only to enable me to conceal the purport of my correspondence from the Prussian and Austrian police, who, as is well known, opened all letters addressed for Poland. What I have before said on ;his point has been tortured into an acknowledgment of a plot, and I am not surprised at it. I had an interview with the President of the Council, and wished naturally to give him explanations as to the suspicions entertained against me ; but it was impossible for me to get him to listen to me. When I attempted to speak, he said, You are a conspirator—you cannot deny it. You may lose your head. But come, come, be sincere ; you are young and have been misled : I know your accomplices—Lafayette, Mauguin, Lamarque, Marchand, conspire with you. Belmontet is one of them, I know. If you confess, I will send you over to England, and supply you with means.' " Here the President of the Court, thinking that he had had quite enough of tine secrets of M. Perier's suspicions, hastily interrupted M. Zaba, by dismissing hint from the bar, and calling for his companion Miranda.

Among the curiosities which are shown to travellers at Cologne, is the -first animal that drew blood, and thus broke the general peace— namely, the flea that bit Eve the night after her fall. This antedilu- vian flea is nearly as large as a well-grown prawn.