Star.
London, England, 1825-11-11 00:00:00

MIRA MICHI.

By the Lydia, whlkh arrived at Liverpool on Wed-
nesday, accounts have bean received from this unfor-
Innate settlement to the 21st ult. The greatest misery
and distress, as might be expected, prevailed among the
miserable people who had escaped with only their-lives
from the dreadful calamity of the 7th October. They
continued to arrive from the mere distant districts
which had been ravaged by the awful conflagration
which laid waste the country. The inhabitants of Mi-
aruichi had, much to their credit, raised a subscription,
and the wretched people had received every succour
which the hand of pity could bestow. Exertions wile
using to send off the sufferers to Halifax and other
British settlements. Many of them had embarked on
board the ships bound to Bngland ; fourteen arrived at
Liverpool in the Lydia.
With respect to the number of lives lost by this awful
visitation of PROVIDENCE, we still have merely vague
estimates, and it is probable that we shall never ascer-
tain the exact amount. The number was estimated
on the 20th of October, 13 days after the calamity, at
between 200 and 300 persons. Some lumbering parties
had come in from the interior; but it was feared that
many others had perished, and of whose fate we shall
never receive any intelligence. We cherish the hope,
however, that the loss of human life in this dreadful
conflagration will be found not to have been near so
great as the fears of the settlers have made it.
An eye witness describes the scene as having been
the most terrific he ever beheld. The masses of fire,
borne on the wings of the wind, were very large. So
intense was the heat that the fire communicated from
the north side of nramichi River (which is about 1000
feet across, and wooded down to the water's edge), to
the trees on the opposite bank, involving the forest in
one terrible conflagration, and spreading death and de-
solation far and wide. This further account of one of
the greatest calamities that has occurred for a very long
period, arrives at the moment for producing a proper
impression is behalf of the sufferers.

EAST INDIES.

PROM TUE CALCUTTA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 9.
The Sepoys of the Chittagong Provincial Battalion,
who escaped from Ava, and returned to our provinces
through the track of country occupied by the Nagahs,
were hospitably received by that wild tribe. The
Nagahs accommodated them in their houses, gave them
food, hewed them the road, and even made rafts, and
nn these accompanied them to the British camp at
Banskandy, there seeing them safely delivered over to
their fritods.--(Here follows a long account of these'
wountaineers.) _ _

THE PONT -ROULANT MILITAIRE.--Zy one of those
expert mandates that have ceased to excite our sur-
prize, this novel portable structure, seen in full play at
the close of Friday evening, was in the course of that
night, notwithstanding the occurrence of a squall and
a heavy fall of rain, taken down, and removed from'
its position over the basin, on the Race-ground', where
it had been viewed, and tried in every way cipriag the
two past months, and during that time had also been
exposed to several very severe gales., which tore up
large trees, and levelled many a dwelling, yet not the
least impr.ssion was made on the Rope Bridge, even in
its exposed situation, although of 250 feet span, and
the framing altogether superficial.
In England the scheme of this experimental military
structure is yet unknown ; but we have heard that the
original Shakesperian, of which a model was sent home,
has already, at Chatham and Woolwich, beers considered
of great importance as applicable to the military.
The curious foot bridge, constructed entirely of cane,
or ground rattan, of'one hundred feet span by five and
a halt, is still standing at Allipore.

Tim EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 11, 182.5.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Everything appears very gloomy this morning, Consols opened
at ei for the Account, and are now 117 i sellers, with a Leary
Market.

In the Foreign Market little is doing. There was a panic in the
earlier part of the morning. Colombian and Mexican fell 1 per cent.
Current Prices: New Spanish Isi 1, OM Spanish 163 17, Aus-
trian 941 95f, Mexican 6111, Brazil Scrip 94 11 disc. Mexican Scrip
104 10 disc. Colombian New 711, Greek Bonds 24* 1.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Red. 86% 14 86
S per Cent. Cons. 87% 86%
Si per Cent. 94% 94
Si per Cent. Rod. 94% 93%
4 per Cent. New 103% % 102%
Lora Ann. 20% %
k.dist Stock 265
£l.OOO Exclieq. Bills 1 2 prem. par.
£5OO ditto 1 2
4:100 and £2OO ditto 4 6
Cons. for Acct. 8714 86%
FRENCII FUNDS, PARIS, NOVlDtlia 7.
Five per Cents. . 99f. 60e.
Three per Cents. . . 70f. 90c.
Bank Stock • 2150 f.
Neapolitan Five per Cents. . . 85f. 85c.
Spanish Ditto . • • • ISU.
F.:change on London, One Month 25E Se.
'flues Months . 24f. 83c.

The Loan recently negotiated at Paris, by the Depu-
ties from St. Domingo is the subject of much discus-
sion in the French Journals, and it is openly asserted
by one of them that an unfair advantage was given, by
a private manoeuvre, to the Contractor. Be this as it
may, it seems quite certain, notwithstauding all the ex-
ertions of the French Minister to uphold the credit of
the New Republic, that confidence is very reluctantly
yielded to their national engagements. The interest
they undertake to pay is so extremely high in the pre-
sent state of capital, tbat k is more to be set down as a
premium for risk than a fair rent for money borrowed.
Thus for 24 millions of francs, or 960,0001. sterling, in
ready money, the Haytians undertake to grant an an•
amity for twenty years of 60,0001. per annum, and to
pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent. mall the unpaid
instalments in the meantime. That is, they have bor-
rowed at such a rate of interest, as is equal to 7i per
cent. per annum on the sums they owe, and they

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