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:Miss Moorns, the lady who was brought. berme the
magistrates on Prillay• last week, my a summons for the
priv of her coffin, width she had ordered before her death,
was interred in the coffin which was the subject .of litiga-
tion.on Monday morning.—Limerick eltronicle.
.A.Sum of £l,lOO has been stolen from.a cash-box depo-
sited:at the Angel Inn, Grantham, • the-head-quarters .of
Colonel Sibthorp's Militia Regiment. A discharged ser-
vant .of the colonel's has:been apprehended with a consi-
derable,quantity of the property on bis person.
SEARCH FOR COALS IN AIITSTRAXIA.--By private letters
received by the last overland Australian mail brought to
Southampton by the Simla, intelligence has reached
reached home that a Mrs. Thomas, formerly of Lyndhurst,
Hants, is.digging for coal shout five miles from Geelong ;
she has dug 300 feet deep and expended £3,000, and come
across several seams of coal, but not thick enough to pay

for working. She has been offered 823,000 fox': her coal

pit, which ;he has refused, as she:is in expectation of corn.
ing across a 'earn that will realise•alandsome forinne.
_

Tns EARTHQUAICE.—ACCOttritB tfrom Guatemala to the
3d of May confirm the recent report of• the total 'destruc-
tion of the city.of San Salvador, in .the state of that name
forming one oftthe petty republics.of Central America,
from a series of earthquakes, which commenced on the
a3th of April, andlasted to the 16th, when the whole city,
,which contained 28,000 inhabitants, was, withoutthe ex-
ception of a single building, levelled to the ground.
Multitudes bad beenicilled, although a great number fled
after the first shocks. Others had been blocked up for
three or four days among the ruins, and many had died
from exhaustion. Of those who escaped, all were totally
destitute, and the suffering experienced was such as
has rarely been paralleled. Several of the refugees had
reached the city of Guatemala on foot—a distance of 66

leagues, and the Government of that state had immediately
sent $6,000 for the general relief._

WEIKNN6S OF TUE RIISSIA.N POSITION IN MOLDAVIA
AND WALLICRIA.—The position of the Russians in
Moldavia and Wallachia is singularly open to serious dis-
aster. Spread out over an extent of three hundred miles
in breadth, from the Euxine to the frontiers of Austria,
it is accessible to attack, from a concentrated enemy, along
the whole course of the Danube ; and if defeated by a
powerful army, crossed over near Brnhilov, a disaster as
great as that at Marengo would await the Russian forces.
A blow directed at Focksana, the vital point of their com-
munications with Bessarabia, would compel them to fight
their way back to the Pruth, with their faces to Moscow,
and ruin, if worsted, in their rear. The Crimea, with the
Russian naval establishment at Sevastopol, lies open to
attack by a,power having the command of the sea—for
thirty thousand men could hold the neck of the peninsula
against any force which would in all probability
aid of a fleet,itybebrought
against it ; while twenty thousand, with the
would with ease reduce the fortress itself, which, though
impregnable
on the land rmoefans equally defended
Turkey arises, not
side.ou the
ns
icea
from the strength of its enemies, but its internal weakness;
'reels bydannoge
and the proofs of it are to be found, not in the triumphant
march of Diebitch across the Balkan, but in the annals of
the Greek revolution. Human thought can Scarcely dis-
cern what is the probable issue of the contest now com-
mencing in the East, in reference to the belligerent
powers ; but Providence is a iser than man, and can educe
good out of the most apparently inextricable elements of
confusion and discord. Whatever the result of the con-
test may be, the triumph of Christianity is secure, and the
days of Ottoman dominion in Europe are numbered. If
the Russians prevail, the ancient prophecy recorded in
Gibbon will be realised, and the Cross will be replaced on
the dome of St. Sophia ; if the Western Powers are suc-
cessful, and wrench the protectorate of the Christians in
Turkey from the Czar, the triumph of the religion they
profess is equally secure, and the government at Constan-
tinople must pass into the hands of the great majority of
the inhabitants of European Turkey. Unable to defend
itself, the Ottoman empire must fall under the rule of one
or other of the potentates which have entered the lists for
its defence and subjugcation. Power in the end must
centre in the portion of mankind which is advancing, and
pass from that which is receding ; and the fact attested
by all travellers, that the Christians are rapidly increasing
in Turkey, and the Osmanlis is rapidly diminishing, points
to the future destiny of those realms as clearly as the hand-
writing on the wall did to the fate of the king of Babylon.
—From the new Volume of Sir Archibald Alison's
" History of ,Europe,lBl6-1852."

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when the forced admixture with the English and
French troops shall have still further weakened
that prejudice against foreigners which is 'a striking
characteristic of the followers of MOHAMMED. The
late Sultan, MAIIMOUD, laboured hard to break
down this wall of partition, and to introduce reforms
which might have paved the way to an assimilation
of the Turks with the rest of Europe ; but he was
prevented from doing much by the strong preju-
dice of his subjects, the genius of Islamism being
averse to all change. The present Sultan, ABDUL
MEDCHID, who is far in advance of those whom
he governs, has also laboured in the same direction,
but has had similar difficulties to contend with, for
the plain and simple reason, that any improvement
implies conversion, because it would be its neces-
sary result ; and this, by the law of Turkey, is
death. With no other aid than his own will, the
SULTAN is powerless ; for he is sworn to obey the
laws of the Prophet in unquestioning obedience ;
but it remains to be seen whether the assistance
which he is now compelled to seek from his western
allies may not also prove to him a powerful auxiliary
in reforming his own dominions. Were Turkey
once brought under the civilising influences of
Christianity, it is impossible to foresee what an
important position she might hold among the
nations of Europe ; and the disposition evinced by
the present SULTAN, if he were free from the
tyranny of his own subjects, renders such an event
by no means an improbable one. An important
step in advance has been taken, by admitting
Christians to equal privileges with Mohammedans
in judicial proceedings, through the influence of
the English Ambassador ; further progress will no
doubt be made by the introduction of railways into
Turkey ; and the recent intercourse with the Eng-
lish and French, who came with arms in their hands
to help them against their Russian invaders, must
also have a great effect in removing those barriers
of exclusiveness within which the followers of the
Prophet have ever been shut up from the rest of
the world. The Patriarch of Constantinople, who
is at the head of the Greek Church in that portion
of the SULTAN'S dominions, enjoys far more real
authority and liberty than any similar officer in
Russia ; and events which are in the hand of Pro-
vidence may prove that while we are apparently
fighting, the battle of the Moslem against his
Christian invader, we are in reality giving the
death-blow to that false faith which, for more than
twelve centuries, has held the greater portion of
the human family in slavish bondage.