The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-05-20

LONDON papers 10 the <uth OF April were
received in Boston last week. The mostim-
poFtant is annexed.
ENGLAND.
The Catholic Bill was brought Forward
in the House of Lords on the Cd of April,
1t was called up by the Duke of Yelling
ton, who supported it in speech that occu-
pies five columns in the Courier, and is
highly spoken of. On the 4th it was passed
to a second reading by majority of los
votes. On Saturday, April 10th, the bill
was passed, 2l3 being in favor and lO9
against it, leaving majority of 1O4 in favor
of the bill, The Disfranchisement Bill was
also passed the House of Lords on the same
evening without division, The ROYAL as
sent was given to these two important bills,
on Monday, April 18th. Thus have they
become the law of England, and forming
new era in its history. 1t was to 90 into
operation on the 23d ut. The following
Peers, who are Roman Catholics, may then
take their seats, viz the Duke of Norfolk,
the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lords Clifford,
Arundel, Dormer, Stafford, and Peter. The
23d, when the law was to come into opera
tion is the day on which the Kings birth
is celebrated.
II 10 lllIy years SIllCc Tic SdJtOlIC NIueS-
ton was brought forward in the English
House of Commons. On the 18th of March,
1873, and passed that House, March 18th,
1929, just so years.
In the House of Commons, Just before the
final division on the Catholic Relief BILL an old
sailor thus spoke:
Sir J. Yorke said, Sir, | propose that this
debate be now concluded with a parliamentary
toast, which is, May the sister Kingdoms, be
now united, and ever after live together like
two brothers." Immense laughter and cheers J
A meeting of nobemen and gentlemen
took place in London on the 10th ult., to
concert measures for erecting in Dublin a
statue of the Duke of Wellington.
The Duke of Wellington has lately pur-
chased an estate for 4250,000: more than
a million dollars.
Sir. Humphrey Davy had had paralytic
stroke, and was in very dangerous state,
but at the last accounts was still living.
Martin, who set fire to the York Cathe-
dral, has been tried, and pronounced guilty
of setting fire to the York Minister, in an
insane state of mind, and has been remand
ed to prison to await the will Of his Majesty.
The king of England has appointed the
Right Hon. Robert Gordon, Minister Ex-
traordnary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte
A terrible accident happened at Hyde on
the LIST of April at about half past 9 o'clock
in the evening. The cotton spinners who
turned out at Stockport, amounting in MINI
bers to 10000, have been mainly supported
by those spinners who remained in full
work in other places, particularly in Man
chester, Hyde, and the neighborhood. The
master manufacturers resolved, in conse-
quence, to reduce the wages of those en-
ployed, while the turnout continued, and
published an address to the operatives, who
met in great numbers to consider it, at the
Norfolk Arms, in Hyde. The club room in
which the meeting was held, is Is yards
long and yards wide. Six or seven hun
dred persons, including females, attended
at half past s, and in about an hour after
wards two beams gave way, by which about
800 persons were precipitated into the room
below. The floor of that room also gave
way and the whole mass decended into the
cellar. The noise was heard all over the
town. A scene of horrible confusion ensu-
ed. Twenty-Five were killed, and ten or
twelve others were not expected to recover
On the LIST of Feb, on the coast of Afri-
ca, the Black Joke, tender to His Maiesty's
ship Sybille, captured after long chase
and gallant action, the Spanish slave vessel
Almirante, with 400 slaves on board. The
Black joke carried 2 guns and had So men;
the Almirante had IA guns and so men. Tn
the action, the former had 2 killed and 4
wounded; the latter Is killed, including
her captain and first and second mates, and
ID wounded.
Earthquake IN Spain. A dreadful earth
quake was felt in Spain on the 21st March
In the province of Murcia, it was attended
with the most melancholy consequences
In Murcia itself, not one of the churches
nor single edifce but was considerably
damaged, and many houses were also dam
aged. The number of killed and wounded
by this awful CONFUSION Of nature is des-
cribed as immense. In one village alone
400 bodies had been taken out of the ruins
The earthquake was accompanied with a
fearful noise. Travellers observed a COL
umn of fire which, at the moment of the
shock, made its appearance towards the
eastward of Murcia. Since the 2lst re-
peated shocks had been felt in the province,
and great disasters were anticipated. The
Paris papers state, that the letters from
Spain, as well as the journals, are full of
dreadful details of the effects of the earth
quake. -Four towns have been entirely
ruined, viz Gaudamar, Torreveiia, Almora-
di, and Los Dolores. The number of dead
as incalculable. After 400 bodies had been
dug out of the ruins of Almoradi, 20 more
we're found. Mineral springs have been re-
moved to the distance of SIX miles from the
place where their sources originally were.
The river Segura, which flowed through
the city of Murcia has changed its course
and its mouth. Four great craters opened
at Benejuzar, and emit lava and infectious
exhalations. Two other craters, opened at
the place where Torreveija was built, pour
forth torrents of fetid water.
letter from Madrid of the I'd of April,
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