The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-11 00:00:00

THE GREAT EARTHQUALE IN NAPLES.

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NAPLES, lax. I.
I sew give you a condeneatim of the official reports
from tile wens of ruin published eines I wrote, and
I find the semis et sixty- ans additional places
given as having steered more or less from the aoek.
Some bed so dead---other their one, two, forty, sad
400. Several thousands in one plate—in others
lees afflicted. children suffocated, people drawn out
alive after having been buried eight days. Had
prompt easistasee been rendered, how many mars
might have bees saved ! It is sickening and heart-
tending to peruse even the cautious official repoTte--.
how mash mere so those which I have from private
warms ? One place, The, was swallowed up, and
no trace left ; and a gentleman who has just returned
from the spot thus describes it :—" The roads were
rent with &sures, which had been much wider
in the first instance. The poor people were sitting
monist the ruins weeping, and in great
distress: far, six days after the disaster, they had
hone to un-bury their dead. Two country people
were searching among the dlfir se and found a body :
one threw a stone towards it, saying, ' Perhaps that
is one of your relations.' No, replied the other,
after an examinatiou. There was nothing to be
found to eat, nor any house to lodge in. One
Trattoria stood at the owner of a street in Polls. I
asked the owner fee food. ' Food there is none,' was
the reply; ' the moon has just entered the quarter,
and we shall have another earthquake. I won't go
in.' The whole time I was there, there were con-
tinual tremblinge of the earth. The only person
who was saved in the prison of Polk was a gen-
darme, confined for having murdered his uncle, and
he had been made director of the excavations." Letters
from Brienos on the 31st alt. say that tip to the
29th no Luis:sem had been received ; yet most of
the afflicted places are within 100 miles of Naples.
The latest reports from Sala say that vertical move-
meats of the earth continued, not so severe by
day as by night, and they were preceded by fearful
detonations. On the 28th ult., at 9 p.m., and on the
29th, at 6 and 71 p.m., very severe undulatory
shocks wen felt, followed by many others leas
strong. In Potensa. in the evening of the 19th, at
6 o'clock, strong undulatory shocks were felt, which
were followed by others much less intense. The
people were much alarmed, and fled into the open
spaces. " Order," says the Official Journal," was not
interrupted." Here, in Naples, up to Christmas-day,
we have had, it is said, forty-nine shocks, and
every day reveals some elision in a house, makieg
work for the architects. "On the night of the 29th,"
says a person who resides is Resins, " from two
hours before midnight to dawn of day, the shocks
from the mountain occurred every three minutes;
doors and windows shook es if it powerful hand was
trying to wrench them. I roes once or twice to see
if any window had been bunt open; and thus we are
living eerie a cauldron of boiling liquid fire."
It ie near poet time, and the following letter has
just been pat into my hands from a person to be
confided in. Lauren:am, Tito, Brienza, and Marti-
oonuovo are destroyed, and have almost entirely dis-
appeared. Polls, is one heap of ruins, and nearly in
the same state. The King himself says that up-
wards of 13,000 persons have loot their lives. From
what I have heard the number must be double. In-
deed, people talk of 40,000, and though I by no
means adopt the calculation, yet I shall not be nu-
prised to find it too true, mo much more hideous has
the reality proved to be than was at first stated.
Private reports from persons who have fled from
that neighbourhood state that for several days after
the cries of the victims under the ruins were heart-
rending, yet there was no assistance at hand, labour
could not be obtained for money, the country people
had fled in fear—the friends of the victims were
almost incapable of exertion, and the thousands of
myrmidons in the pey of government who might
have rendered good service to humanity were not
permitted to come. It will be no exaggeration,
therefore, to say that thousands must have perished
for lack of help. The official journal itself speaks of
some who were dug out after eight days' burial ; and
I hear on good authority that on some of the wretched
victims being disinterred it was found that they had
eaten into their arms. Why was not all the mili-
tary and naval force of the country put in use on this
sad occasion There are a number of admirable
steamers almost rotting in the harbour. The slightest
energy might have manned and provisioned them,
and sent consolation and life to thousands. But his
Majesty is at Gaeta, and there is but one will in the
kingdom.
I translate the following details, published in the
Journal of the 30th ult., in continuation of those
which I sent you some days since :—Sasso : Thirty
houses fallen, 100 opened,- three persons killed, 11
persona dug out alive. Spinosa : Few houses re-
main standing, and those falling. Gallichio : Sixteen
dead, very many wounded, several fractured. Gm-
:an° : Part of a church fallen, two bowies injured.
Trevigno Some hoaxes fallen. Root.: The belfry
tower and several churches fallen. Vaglio : The
church and many private houses fallen. Baragiano :
A few houses falleu, others opened. Salvia: Church
and belfry tower injured. latronico: Much damage.
Stegliano: Many houses fallen ; a woman taken out
and a child contused. Ansi : Much damage ; a
woman killed. Pietro, Parties : Churches and
hares much damaged; enormous masses of moun-
tain thrown down. Ferrandina : 16 houses utterly
destroyed; others nearly so; two persoes killed;
two children suffv-ated. Aliano : Much damage;
11 killed. Manch.; : Utterly destroyed ;42 persons
killed. Hese° : Houses damaged • 1 person killed.
Martemeollo : A ma.s of rums. 'Several thousands
of persons perished ; some drawn out alive after
eight days' burial. Marsieo : Entirely destroyed ;
400 killed, already known. Castel Saraceno : All
the homes fallen ; more than 400 ,heed. A woman,
an infant, and a girl (iged 14), had been dugout alive.
&mini : 80 dead ; houses all levelled with the
ground. Maratea : A great portion of the buildings
falling. Laurie, C'eatelnweio, Rotonda,
San Chirko, Rapallo, Culver, San Martino, Castro-
more, and Senile seriously damaged. The same may
be said of Maters, lonteecaglioso, Pomazioo,
Pis-
tioci, &reside, M ustalbano. Garagnone, Corigliono,
San Mario, Oar.) •ie.o, Oliveto, Tricarico, Nluntepi-
keo, Aorrems, Camelia:a, and Chitiamoute. Sa.
landra : 44 houses fallen, all the others falling.
Near this place fissures have been opened, and
gaseous exhalation.; hove been observed. Only one
=oe.n yet taken out of the rains. Grasaano : 100
fallen. All the houses damaged. A girl of
13 killed. A woman had her leg fractured. Grot-
tola : Some housee tallrn. One person killed.

RAILWATiI ARO TRLRGRAPRII IN VICTORIA.— ••etr •
M glad at lent to Red that the railway question, which hes
szajbl agitated public uptake to Victoria, is
and the pflociple has at length been affirmed by both
breathes of the ho that two truck linos ere to be
eoneerneted—we lean hielimstrue to the Stormy, the other
trom Geelong n, lialheat, earrying out them works
esaMrarat will be fount 4 r every roan who wishes to work ;
ea each sole in leo,rth is eoinpleted fertile triune of this
great country will be brought into Immediate coanetion
with the esabcord ; fecilities will be afforded for transit of
merchandise to the interior, and for colonial produce Wrestled
for eels or shipment , soli while a adithty impetus will thus
be given to the producing powers of the the con-
firms lands will become the homes of those who infer
agricultural pursuib and the plasma of a country life to
the uncertain chanced of labour on the gold fields. TIN
elleetric telegraph mutinous to extend its operations and ite
influence alreedy the features of trade hare keen greatly
roolined by its UMW, sad when the lbws sow being con-
structed to Sydney and Adelaide an flaiehed, and a math*
amble memos Tetrushia with the Australian continent, a
revolution will be eft reed In beldame matters and a tie of
otos lomat that malt be productive of happy results.-
41offirdtrie wad New Zaalaad NNW.
TLAMINATION Or THE WEAR Sll I WRIG REV
SYLERS.—At • meeting of the Wear ShipLullderi Anaocus•
dee, bell to flus.tertaad at Friday it was unanimously re-
solved to empty with the denim& of the m. n, and pay the
ebl wages ef se. per day. The striker (which, it win be re-
intrabered, was ceu.sd for • preposed m42'06011 of the pay to
le.) is sow at as PEA, slier 1,400 MPG have walked strut
Ws tar flee weeks. Since the yew yaw al net 1,000 teas of
=aghave bees launched, tbe sperethas Liming bass
esadamsd by the appresticon.
Commas roR Moans'. -- Tux AaIIiSLIT
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watestas Jebe Draper wee breast hare teed Bewn sad
eastay bract of merstrates, at lots eitire-balk Nettlec-
las% ehormei with flu wilful esesolor et Opp Wiaglg,
Amy Wood (the panted's* of whke bare already at.
pesall.) John Gelethoeps. ham Gelethteak W
hadagea, Pratscla Hardy. Want Toadialse, Janes
Heyde* sad Joseph Burton, Dymper's soram
oilh the latter, committed to labstbetr trial et thus
on the espital charge.

MINN