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MISS HIGGINS, the 'lady 'Who was brought before the
-magistrates on Friday last week, on a summons for•the
rice of her coffin, which she'had ordered before her death,
-was interred in the coffin which-was the subject. of litiga,
4am on Monday morning.--Linicrick Chronicle.
. A Sum of £l,lOO has been.stoleu 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.
SIKSCII FOR COALS IN AtTATE,AZIA.—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 about ,five-miles from Geelong ;
she haadug 800 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 .£23,000 for her coal
pit, which she has refused, as she is,in:expectation of com-
ing across a seam that will realise a handsome fortune.
TUE ELLTHQUAKE.--ACCOlintS fromt 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 of the petty republics.of Central America,
from a series,d earthquakes, which COMTaerCed on the
13th of April,,and lasted to the 18th, when the whole city,
which contained 28,000 inhabitants, was, without the ex-
ception of a single building, levelled to (the ground.
Multitudes had-been killed, although a great-number fled
after the first shocks. Others had been ,bletked up for
three or four days Among the ruins, and -many had died
from exhaustion. cOf those who escaped, all ,were totally
destitute, and the .suffering experienced was such as
has rarely been paralleled. Several of the xefogees had
reached the city of •Guatemala on foot—a distance of 66
leagues, and the Government of that state hadimraediately
.sent $5,000 for the general relief.
WEAKNESS OP TUE lIKSSIAN POSITION IN MOIMATIA.
AND WALLACHIA.—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 concentrated enemy, along
the whole course of the Danube ; and if defeated by a
powerful army, crossed over near Brahilov, a disaster as
great as that at Marengo would :await the Russian forces.
A blow directed at Focksana, the aital point of their corn-,
inunications 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 be brought
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its weakness;
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 u 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 Archiala Allison's
" gistory of Zur0pe,1815.1852,"

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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 MOHA3IMBD. The
late Sultan, Runfoun, 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. •