Star.
London, England, 1825-03-14 00:00:00

£A►RTHQUAKE IN SANTA MAURA.

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The following is an extract from a letter from Santa
Mania, dated 24th January :
. The city of Santa Maura (in the lonian Islands), and
several villages in the island of Leucadia, have just
been destroyed by an earthquake, which took place on
the 19th of this month, between eleven o'clock and
noon. The only house left standing in the town is that
of the amiable N. Zambelly, President of the Tribunal.
'All the other buildings have been so deitroyed that
they can neither be repaired nor be made to serve as a
temporary shelter to the unfortunate inhabitants, of,
whom twenty-four have been buried in the city ruins,
thirty-four in the villages, and by far a greater number
dangerously wounded. Immediately after the shock
an exceedingly heavy shower of rain, which still con-
tinue, began, and has completed the misery of the in-
habitants in making them more sensible of their want
of clothes and shelter, and in the perfect loss of the
effects and provisions which they might have drawn
from the rubbish. The picture of desolation which this
unfortunate country presents, is inexpressible ; no human
being can view a with a dry eye. The town of Prevesa
has also seriously suffered. This earthquake has only
been felt near the coasts.

Ma. Owax.—We have learned, from good authority,
that this Gentleman has finally resolved to remove to
the New World. His friends at New Lanark have re-
ceived intelligence that he purchased the settlement of
Harmony, in Indiana, on the first of January. He has
kft his son William, and Captain* M'Donald, to take
charge of the American establishment .in the mean
time, and, by the latest accounts, had reached Phila-
delphia on his way back to New Lanark, where he is
expected in June. The whole of the Flower family, at
present settled in Mr. Birkbeck's neighbourhood, mean
to join him at Harmony. The letters received state,
that Mr. Owen's statements have excited an estraor••
dinary zeal for the mutual co-operative system in tbe
United States. At Pittsburgh, he assembled a great
mass of the people in the Presbyterian meeting-house,
and having developed his plans to them, a number of
persons immediately declared their intention of found-
ing a community on his system, and such was the sen-
sation his arrival these produced, that the Court of
-Justice suspended its sittings while the meeting was
held. Mr. Owen, on his way westward, visited the
spinning mills of Mr. Shink, on. the Hudson, which,
are celebrated for the high perfection of the machinery,
and the remarkable neamess-trf the establishment. The
settlement of Harmony is on the banks of the Wabash,
about thirty miles below Mr. Birkbeck's property, and
'the occupants are a volon7 chiefly of Germans, who are
united by some singular religious tenets, and hold their
property in common,t4inbargh Paper.
REFORMATION AMONG tEIR CATROLICB.—The Mem-
bers of the Anglican Church frequently reproach the
(Catholics with permitting revelry and mirth on the
Sabbath ; and it is ptobably to shew the superior sour-
ness of ,Catholicism• that the Catholic Council of the
Canton of Schwik has ordained that its subjects shall
only dance on the three last days of the Carnival,
and on the Feast of the Dedication. Whoever dances,
or makes others dance, except on these four days, in the
whole year, is to •be fined two louis. It is also for-
bidden to go about the villages playing the fiddle.—
There will not be a single vice committed in the whole
Canton after fiddling and dancing are left off.—

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years past the defendant, who is brother to C. T. B,o67—Dwelling houses of a superior description to the corn- French Paper. • MATI.S.—THIS DAT.
moo Log Houses of the country, (which, not being son. . vim=
' 'rower, a gentleman of fortune at Southweald, and " I was amused," says Mrs. Graham, in her journal, Ass sum.
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endowed, and it being alleged that ceztain abuses 356—Saw milk. in talking politics or reading a newspaper, or perhaps fhb°, 1 0 Holland 0 0 "
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brought at the instance of Mr. Comber, who claimed,
as the heir of Sir Anthony Biowne, the right of up- 67,644—fil
73—Stone Horses for covering Mares, for bl,re or gain.
30,774—Horses fit for service.
6-,644—Mika cows. only enjoying a cool seat in the back of their shops, they Gostenburgh o 1 Leeward Islands 0 0
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will" often say they have not the article inquired for, ...
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rambles:a donation. .
The total valuatioe of assessed property In the province, on which rather than rise to fetch it ; and if the customer persists -WATSIt st LONDON-3114887DeaGlt TO.V0a0110:
469—Carriages for pleasure.
be also claimed as devise under the will of the last for himself, and lay down the money. Afternoon • • .31 missals, afar 10
1 : . !eir., from whom liq derived title. - The • defendant's • . • • evera inmates at the poor -house at rington, .--------
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the rate of one penny in the pound is colletted for the pubhc service.'
merietshire; have quitted it, and are living by theic
~ . ~ ..title. was founded iti long family possession and enjoy- or rather for the service of the several districts, i5t1,9617,074 13s. Id.
mist Wider conveyances irCr.m the notorious Sir Wil. —The White Population is not greatly short of foo,boo persons. ; owu means. • a No. 1, Ptckett4laro, Teseptalinr
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