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With comments on the recent disastr nflagratio 
General 5 thy has hers excite 
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are making at Vienna, 
indeed, throughout Ger 
Berlin, Frankfort, Augsburg, and, 
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their relief. It is 
ermany, to collect "subscriptions for 
feared that many of the German in- 
a have intelligence ito this city to 
vee Tecent “soak ee 7 A tad ,topic of 
ior brings 
the 13th ie” 
public fk aaedis 
their utmost zeal in endeavouring to arrest the progress 
the Senate also anno 
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Iracy.—Letters from Naples of the 8th inst. state th 
the Court of Ro 
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friendly a footing, that athe arrangement 
oe gag as probable. It wa 
made a 
and two commiss » with the negotiation, and 
that Fae English Minister in n Naples and Sir Woodbine 
—A ukase 
aot has been promulgated byt the Em: 
peror, dated ae 2 of of April, relative to the enfranchise- 
ment of serfs, which a appears to -_ produced consider- 
oe ezetement Seeman the itself thi 
kase does n 
Boy noble 
serfs by a species of contract, subject to the Baik of 
Crown 
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4 ubeck ; and it is stated that the the Ma rshal of the province and of the w 
x of Bremen have expressed their readines guarantee, to | ordinance d erfs—it 
« petition to the Cortes in favour of the introduc- | the extent of two millions of dollars, any loan vaieh might | leaves it optional as it was before ; but it dcfities the terms 
tion of English cottons [into Spain, on payment of be required for raising immediate fun recon- | of the contract, and create: ecies of copy 
_ protecting duty of 20 5 per € municipality | struction of the fallen portion of the rT. latest | in favour of the peasant who receives his freedom on th 
_ Of Xeres de la Frontera had forwarded an appeal to the details of this calamitous ons Beg man fie of interest | conditions from his lor e interference of the Crown 
2 ect to ege and the petitioners of both | whi as not repo he between the lord and the serf j 1? however, d 
_ places describe the sad dition to which the south of | under about two in the ‘after rnoon of ‘Sunday the 8thinst.; | by the aris tocracy. this ukase th vi as- 
_ ‘Spain would be reduced, if, through any delay in concluding | it exhausted itself, terminating at the N. E. my) sumes a more direc ce over, and interest in, the 
a of ce wi re itain, Spanish wines | to 2; ouses are reported to have gradual emancipation of the serf population. The 
__ Were excluded from the English markets. Su equent in- | burne jured ; a value of the property | was immediately followed by an official declaration, that it 
__ telligence to the 10th i informs us that the Chamber destroyed is estimated at 4,000,0007 sterling; the loss to | was not t r cha he exi m ; 
_ of Deputies dopted.on that day a resolution, that a the English insurance companies is s from that the most stringent precautions shou ken 
5 ogame ee into by Government with regard to | 300,000/. to 500,0007. A number of dead bodies have y the police to prevent all false interpretations of the 
Bs e Tre errant | Bots for 160,000,000 real eady been dug out of the ruins; but the exact number ordinance from getting abroad. aca care aan erie 
F of lives lost has not yet been as It 
among the pe easants ; ; _ shri accounts state that 
em 
Ww 
the churches, and | apprehensions which s ve entertained > 
the inhabitants are sen ing them provisions and clothin the Government ai a publication of the u have 
The population of the ity amounts to about 150,000 souls, | not been dispelled by th nt aspect wi ona no oie 
and by this calamity nearly 30,000 persons are said to have number of journ a wd other periodicals w published 
been rendered houseless. Assistance in money, clothing, | in Rao s page 139, being five mare ‘theese 1841; 
and provisions has arrived from the Kings of Prussia, Den- are ssian language, 22 in German, 8 in 
mark, anover. Hel i a vane Chambers of French, yr Tagihe & 3 in Polish, 1 in Italian, and 3 in 
Hanover have voted a a eTaahe 8 he Senate of Frankfort | Latin 
have voted a sum of ,000 Wate (10,0007.) a meeting Grexce.—Intelligence ‘con been ny 
had been ¢ a English Consul, C ol. Hodges, bite for ult. A dispute had arisen at Nauplia, between on paepedin 
the purpose of preparing an o her € | a regiment of artillery in gar : lere, su , part 
Sag tion in fave Pat eee an asa silerers b Le the fae population, and the Bavarian Col. I utz. This cir- 
The ap $ unanimously agree es I and our | cumstance, tone’: i" py ae , Would, it was 
amie will be pleased to learn that the hought, spe of the » Cabinet, the prc 
Y penerously responded to on the part of the British public. | expulsion of the bwin g? ren the which 
Upwar 10,0007. in dollars were sent over from agitated ep council, having produ 
in the c of three days after catastrophe was | Private letters fre Athens, of the 28th | that 
known, and the list of subscriptions continues to be in- i t shocks of an earthquake aes: in various 
ae tot ifficulties in the way | creased with numerous donations. Her Majesty has given | parts of the poaryer?- on the 18 parta, the 
_ Of signing the pe Pa treaty had been overcome, and | 200/. en Dowager i.; Prince Albert, 100/.; | shocks lasted from 25 to'30 seconds seach an 
“that the latter would be si comm: nd various munificent subscriptions have been contributed | bitants ran terrified oa eof gl On the same 
. y the public companies, merchants, ers, and private | day, and i course of the night, f four or five other 
individuals of 0 eports appear to have been | slighter shocks moe ups nd the Eurotas a 
generally circulated, and to a great extent credited by the rock fell from nelas, th of 
ower S, the fire was the work of incen 3 | Drouchas: tatineld at situate in the town of Magoules 
nd, as stated in our la hostile feeling had be - | was thrown to the ground. At Mistra the earth trembled 
cited towards nglish residents in the town, agai: with more violence than at Sparta, and a portion of the 
hom suspicions were e : Some serious out- | Hellenic C and several houses wer stroy 
rages were in consequence c: ommit by mob, by | water of the springs and wells became turbid, and a 
which Englishman ] oa his Bf foe several w were size, having detache yee fr r the summit of 
serio ju m a pro the | Mount Mistra, rolled into the. to 
Sen is oce appears to nti a of | first tock, felt at po weet 9, lasted between 40 and 50 
great regret to the authorities. A iT 8 contradiction there ten others fi our until 
iven to the rumour, aad i in idnight, vat intervals. > 3 tre-quatr of an hour. Most 
terms of commendation of the t conduct of the | of the sev in the bour- 
English during the fire, who, it is stated, gave proofs of | hood oe down. Upwards of 50 dwellings were thrown 
down at Areopolis, a pss at towers were destroyed at (Ety- 
“ hei 
of the conflagration ; an unces that} lus. Many y persons w under the ruins of 
it is resolved rosecute with all the rigour of the law | houses in the beens ae Mein. and at Androusa sev 
persons found guilty of offering any further outrage of | churches fell On 5th ult., about 4 a.m., another 
similar de: n. The exact position of the Hamburgh | shock was felt 0 at Patras, eto nda a minute and a half 
Insurance Companies is u It is hoped that |} The journals anno that a red rain ip 
three out of the four will be enabled to pay in full; but it | litza and elsewhere, and that a: Minister of the Interior 
s stated t ment inter s to inde ify them, had collected informati 
y bearing the hae or such portion as they cannot make be su 
good of the g pee sg this ‘opal ay saab not | cal 
ra for 4,800 | extending to eeroha 
SwiTzERLAN te from Geneva, of th we 
coe as state that the sittings of the Eee Bag 
were becoming aly more stormy, and that 
S aeadeecd hie Go 
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