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PENANG. MAY 29.
Oss SaturdaT, the ind of May, the Moo. Sir
Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Ben-
coulem with Lidy Raffles and wife, embarked
from Penang Its the indiums. under the clime due
to his rank. Sir Stamford will proceed in the first
instance to the New Settlemeut-ou his way to Ben-
cook°. _ .

04 the 4lst of May, as three Mislay women we,.
fishing in the Somghy Drake, on the tintonsite shore,
within the Company's limits, one of them was soil-
drolly seised by son uncommon huge tiger ; the
t ries of her companions, it appears. Suillllll.lntril the
f.roctoo• at 1111 l al, when he quilled his victim semi
made off for the woods. The trofortunate woman
enpated dowdy sober.
ANO ru ER EARTHQUAKE._

Mtilitleous.—Letters from Chimer and MI leprire Owe.
lion, that about eight o'clock is the evening of ,thee lath
the shock °fan egrasquake was experienced at i)ereer placer.
We ought to bare noticed in our last, 'bat the save effect,
in a alight degree, was remarked about the Wiree lime at
Co!tulle. At Choose the motion' aro accompasied by a
noise is site ilow•Phtret which resembled that occasioned
by the rapid Bight of birds. •
Jtontoan —The shock of the earthqtalke that war felt is
Calcutta, on theleressing of Wednesday the lath instant, about
ltalf-pant eight o'clock, was exPerienes d also At Joinpoor,
wetly steady short the saute time, as will appeAr by the fol-
lowing maid of a letter transmitted to us (ruts that statique,
which reached us by yesterday's daub:—
" A Wow, shuck of an rastiqitalie was felt Isere us the
night of the 16th of Jose instant, at a quarter mist eight
u'elock 1 *twee wrre three distinct 'vibrations (rum west to
east, with the usual aecompastimaitsofiattling wall•shailes,
swinging punkahs, and datipaan alnois. There are dilferent
opium** as 10 its duration, which "tippeored to toe about
twenty-awe *retools ,• the itaterwits sere my distinct. It
was met actouipanied by Ale rowthatig uoltsc I hare motally
hated us ant h occasions, and which there hitherto iniaitbsal
to be Ike earth's ribratiou. gotls ihe noise sod woman, must
be separate effects of some woksawis rause.
" The raise base net yet comitsesced, amd the weather bas
bees unusually hut."
Sourtausons -Ealesell of s letter, dated Sullefipete,
Code, 17th "sine, 16155 :—" A severe sod **MI showk of earth-
quake wan fell at this statism lasi night at I, minutes past
eiett, which lasted *some nine, and occasioned very coosiders
able alarm. Tire Buocalows actually nicked, particolarly
the Mesa of use sAf the la bellefillil Itbth recinseni, in which
the ()tracers Were at dinner at the time and Ibr bats of the
soldiers were a good deal danoincel. Ttw heat to. the Iwo
Inns ur three slays has been excessive, and sot a drop at raiii
Ms yet fallen."

* MO*
best Shiite'
"ersuiteerth WINO of bilk* setivityle
rather. eruption of the nab of flemenhee
pas much greater than say for the lasi two years. It elrabe
Amend dories a terribly.im, mold slieseses d reisi allow,
arid accompasiedby a isstriessehhidiSChweb asedi:
and peals of 'Mader. lfs ihe previsme MI strew,
eaplesiess, which excited *nisi is IM seighbotarhsod,
were heard I. the Crater. About fear ego* is Me sters.
big they were strosigest, mid a sessel sheet of as errequpealte,
which was Pitt as .fiF as Naples, acassuodesied them. At
the sense time there rem from the slosith d the.nrame as
Withrow pillar of An, and a powerful stream of tables, laws
tallied slows the dark 'idea 'ut site moostais with sorb vele.
ray, that it traversed • epees of Matra dim a mile is less
than as hour; and being divided iutir tee stream% snivel
le• fore masa al the Net Lir the asountein, where ii Heresies-
eel with destreFtios Idrre del Greets mod Torre del tAsows.
Leta. In the latter place are singolarly sitnatbd the miens.
factory of guspaiwiler and the fuloriery whit* the kir,.
dem costae's. ,Lsettlly the eliesthe it labs, which had pre.
Piously bees cooled by their long pussy from their source,
were lost II 'Waterless ravines, awl did sot reach the vise.
yard' of the district, sis that too damage was mietabsed.
" M. de Ginsbeessat, wbu followed the regrew eldest ea.
traurdivary rousse of 'captious which begas on the lota of
October, ISIS, observed the puma one form a seek point
of view. He ehavved, that the stream of lairs buret forth
hum a sew chasm, which, like that of the 111th or July
tut, had brew Nested upwards of oie hiindeed feet
from the rims of the crater by the rUbwg I. of • emu
siderable portiou of its southern side. The breadth
of the Any stream which bent thesegh this sipmaing
amounted to twenty-Ire fret ; bltl Id deafest Its breadth wee
dirobied; It then divided itself lute two braseises; the
tartest kriipitated itself into as abyss with high walla,
emit formed ► cascade of liquid ire, of TS het is height,
and sweaty feet in breadth. After this fall, the Hyoid lava
was collected in the hollow voter the old lava, like aloud
under a bridge. It then descended from this Ira stage, is
precipitate itself into another revise, where it formed
a secuad fiery easea4c,.uot au high as the former, hol
broader. Here it wee' hot for a "Pieter ass Mit in a ea.
vity, which it thru Irk, to fang a Wird fall of limes thew IS
perpendicular descent, and of thirty feet is breadth.
—After this hitt cascidi, His fiery turret anitissed rolling
as sn a straight Ilse for a quarter of ass hoar, weer it rough
warfare; and Whew it arrived at a small hill, at the foot of
the great Vessel's' pyrassid,it separated itself late branches,
which again astbdirided thrower.* late sliest. rills, sod
were lost is hollows at the fowl of the woostais. Sect Is
the wunderful view which Vesssviss presented fur the list
11 days; fur altlioutli the irelocity and quantity of the boa
have been snitch donisished 'nee the 'lath of Noweesher,
it still coulee's to flow from She cleft of the crater, mud
lon widish, these tseridaysndvaecedstill lower. The activity
in the iutrrior of the volcano. 10 judge by the thanderiog
Reim which is heard upon approaching it, appear. se great
as ever. A few elate before the last eraptitra M. de Giddier-
oat carried • hareaseter to the highes point ad Vessels's.
He foam' by wrests of this lasts Sweat that the height .f the
isisatitaia snore last Jana:try had dissiiitshed mere thaw 114
feet by the few viral fs!liug of the crater: Atter Ibis sharno.
Sims it became still further ilassisialsed, as eves the risme',
us which the barits;trurr was thew Geed has talks lists the
i .... • is•r of she realer winkle these tee days.
" It is remarkable, thst, soiwithetanding the estrenrJi.
nary activity of Vesuvius, end its uswasing ersplioas, the
fmintaius which %1: de Goisberriat discovered • year scs
outer the caverns of the uld crater, eaunisse raclitaitged to
yield a pure and drisikalde water. Os the other Mail, •
errand fount sits which he sitter discovered 'lO pares from the
former, yields a water powerfully inspregasted with titlark
arid, the cupiussuess of which varies from day to day, ac-
cording to Stir activity of the voles's.*