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London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 9, 1841.

CONTRACTS FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES. FOR HOS-

PITAI, SERVICE.
DEPARTMENT Or THE PH C-GENERAL OF
'I HE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, JAN. 7, 18-11.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT-
ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on Trio itsnar, the 14th
Instant, at One o'clock, they wit be ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de-
livering, within One Calendar Month, into the Alt cUcal Stores
at her Majesty's Victualling Yard at DEPTFORD, the under-
mentioned Articles, viz. :
c:11.1C0
LINEN PILLOW CASES ..
FEATHERS
FLANNEL WAISTCOATS No.
SHIRTS 2OO „
GOWNS
BLUE CLOTH COATS lOO ~
SHORT TOWELS
LINEN SHEETS
Samples of the Articles, and the Conditions of the Contract,
may be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after one o'clock, on the day of
Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent
for him, duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac-
companied by a Lotter signed by a responsible Person, en-
gaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the
sum of 25/. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of
the Contracts.

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Drivers, are departments separated from the public

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on moderate terms.

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THE SECOND EDITION OF
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MEDITATIONS of OTHER DAYS.
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FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 7, 1841,
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William
Carwithen, D.D., to the Rectory of Stoke Clyine;land, in the
county of Cornwall and diocese of Exeter, void by the death
of the Rev. Charles Lethbridge.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 8.
13tli Regirrinit of LightDeagoons—Lieut. 11. 11. Kitchener
to be Captain by purchase, vice Rosser, who retires ; Cornet 11.
Hamilton co be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kitchener ; C.
P. Itolser, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hamilton,
Jan. 8.

Bth Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet W. T. Granville,
from the Royal Miiitary College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice 111•Murdo, promoted in 22d Foot, Jan. 8.
22d Foot—Ensign C. Dakers, from the 72d Foot, to be En-
sign, vice Smith, promoted, Jan. 8.
24th Foot—Brevet Major J. Stoyte to be Major, without
purchase, rice Stack, who retires upon full-pay ; Lieutenant
N. Leslie to be Captain, vice Stoyte ; Ensign C R. Harris to
he Lieutenant, vice Leslie ; J. H. Lutman, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Harris, Jan. 8.
36th Foot—Lieut. IL Bristow, from half-pay 35th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice A. Connor, who exchanges, Jan. 8.
41st Foot—Ensign 'l'. 1114... Farmer to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Carden, promoted in the 2d West India Regi-
ment ; H. Smith, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Farmer, Jan. 8.

45th Foot—E. Boys, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Lambert, appointed to the 62d Foot, Jan. 8.
48th Foot—Lieutenant M. Emmett to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Dalzell, promoted ; Ensign D. Fullerton to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Emmett ; W, Fetherston,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fullerton, Jan. 8.
56th Foot—Lieut. 'l. I3ateson, from half-pay unattached, to
be Lieutenant, vice H. Hollinsvvorth, who exchanges, receiving
the difference; Gentleman Cadet R. Anderson, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,_ vice Mae
pherson, promoted in the 22d Foot, Jan. 8 ; E. F. Hare, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Deshon, promoted in 2•2 d
Foot, Jan. 9.

6lst Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. F. Erickdale,f rom the
Royal Military College, te be Ensign, without -purchase,
vice Smith, promoted in the 11:1d Foot, Jan. 8.
62d Foot—Ensign C. Lainbert, from the 45th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Dane. promoted ; Gentleman Cadet H. S. 31. D.
Fulton, from the Royal Military-College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Gubbins, promoted, Jan. 8.
64th Foot—Ensign F. H. Kilvington to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lys, who retires • G. L. Maddison, Gent., to
ue Ensign, by purchase, vice Kilvington, Jan. 8.
78th Foot—Lieutenant E. IL Ftinney, from half-pay 46th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice A. Grierson, who exchanges,
Jan. 8.

81st Foot—Lieut. W. F. Nixon to be Paymaster, vice A.
Th 'topsoil, who retires upon half-pay, Jan. 8.
Rifle Brigade—W. Wake, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Law, who retires, Jan. 8.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign M. Matthews to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Lucas, appointed to the 22d
Foot, Jan. 8; Ensign S. Ballantine to be Lieutenant by pur-
chase, vice Foster, appointedto the'-22d Foot ; Sergeant-Nlajor
J. Aggas to be Ensign, vice Matt sews; J. H. Chads, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Ballantine, Jan. 9.

MEMORANDUM.—The date of the exchange of Lieutenant
T. Gaisterd, from the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant in the 79th
Regiment, is the 4th, and not 6th, January, 1841.

Quarterly Average of the Wee
Bank of England, from the
otJanuary, 1641, both inclu:
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. E
LIA EILITIES,
Circulation...... £16,112,000 Securities .......£22,362,900
Deposits 7,041,000 Bullion 3,55'7,000

?kly Liabilities and Assets of the
13th of October, 1840, to the sth
tsive, published pursuant to the

4;23,161,000 I
Dawning-street, Jan. 7, 1841.

ASSETS.

£25,919,000

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

JOSEPH FE ARN LEY, wool-stapler, Bradford, Yorkshire.
THOMAS WATKINS, grocer, '1 redegar, Monmouthshire.
GEORGE HANDIER HALLER, commission agent,
Bristol.

PRICE sd.

EARTHQUAKU AT ZANTE.

ZANTE, OCT. 31. —Scarcely twenty-fours have elapsed
since we experienced a shock of earthquake, which has
involved the loss of many lives and a considerable de-
struction of property. As yet we are here ignorant
of the full extent; of the injury; sustained; in the island.
Reports are houtly arriving of entire villages having been
laid prostrate. I should premise that all the troops (ex-
cepting 100 men quartered in the town) are stationed in
the castle, a miserably fortified inclosure on the summit of
a rocky eminence, which overlooks the !own on one side
and an extensive plain on the other.
I have not left the castle since the catastrophe, and will
just tell you what fell under my personal observation.
It was a few minutes after nine o'clock, and I had risen
from the breakfast table and was leaning out of the win-
dow with a book in my hand, when I was startled by
the rattling of tiles immediately over my head. I
fancied it was some one walking upon them, glanced
out, and was half smothered by a heap of bricks
and mortar—the whole of the chimney had fallen.
At the same instant I felt the floor tremble beneath
me. All doubts of the cause immediately vanished. I
rushed through en open door into the next room to gain
the outside of the house; the outer door was shut and
latched. In vain I strove to open it, it seemed to elude
my grasp ; the walls, the floor, windows, and doors, ap-
peared to swim before my eyes. The earth now heaved
under me, and the house seemed to be swayed from side to
side. I tore frantically at the door, which opened in-
wards, and darted into the open air just as a tremendous
crash announced the fall of a portion of the walls. Who
shall paint the scene a Lich now presented itself? A low
moaning, and then a death-like silence, followed the
thundering sound of the fall of buildings. During this
short but awful pause of a few seconds, the crowds who
had rushed from their dwellings stood as if transfixed with
horror and afright. Then suddenly arose the clangour
of human tongues, the shouts of men, and the heart-rending
screams of women, seeking their husbands and children.
Never will that minute fade from my memory, still less
can I forget those seconds during which I stood at the
threshold of the door, and as it seemed to me, of eternity.
The earth yielding under my feet—the crash of ruin over-
head and around rne, escape apparently cut off—those 15
or 20 seconds seemed protracted into hours!
The sidus of the rock on which we are perched are so
precipitous that, except from the walls of the castle, the
town below is scarcely visible ; glancing my eye, however,
seaward in the direction of the town, I observed several
dense columns of dust rising, which sufficiently told that
the destruction was not confined to our immediate quarter.
At this moment a child seven or eight years of age, the
son of one of our sergeants, was borne along quite dead—
a bruised mass. Passing on, I observed a woman in an
agony of apprehension, for her child was missing. In a
few moments he too was found, crushed to death under a
prostrated wall. Providentially these appear to be the
only fatal cases which have occurred in the castle. Bruises
and contusions are numerous. Not a house up here has es-
caped ; every wall which still remains standing is either
cracked from top to bottom in sundry places, or is thrown
out of the perpendicular. All the plastering is shaken
down both within and without. The only building which
forms an exception to the rest, being apparently unhurt, is
tb.a grand magazine, which is a well.built stone edifice.
The other magazines, ordnance, and barrack stores are
open to wind and weather.
The great shock must have been of forty seconds' or a
minute's duration. It may assist you in forming some
conception of its violence, when I tell you that the piles
of s inch shells on a mortar battery were overthrown and
scattered about.. The highest point in the castle is an
open plateau ; this is rent by fissures 40 or 50 yards long;
large portions of the parapet and loopholed wall have been
overthrown, and the stone platform in a small bastion is
broken up.
I have been in barracks in England and Ireland, and
have had a pretty long experience of them in Asia and
Africa. but never have I seen troops, men and officers,:thrust
into such dogkennels as in this island of Zante. Nay, I
have here seen some of our men in hovels such as I would
scarcely permit my dog to occupy, for two days—mud
walls and a mud floor, with huge stones projecting
at intervals of 2or 3 feet. No windows nor chimney—
one-third of their number without beds, a deficiency of
blankets, not a table nor form, and the men positively
obliged ta lift the miserable door off its hinges and lay it
on the ground to serve as a table for them to take their
meals; nor are the officers more fittingly provided for.
The inconveniences to which we were exposed on arrival
here are unpardonable. Since these islands have been
under British protection Zante has had a garrison ; there-
fore fitting accommodation should have been provided for
them. Barracks never have been built here, but these
miserable hovels have been rented for the troops to the
annoyance of all parties.
By a fortunate coincidence, the very day, and almost the
hour, which brought the earthquake, brought to our
shores the Lord' High Commissioner Sir Howard Doug..