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MExrco.-Lct,ers from Vera Cruz-via
Havana, by the British packet have been
received to the 18Th ultimo. Santa Ana
was anxiously expected there by his par
tisans. The Mexican authorities intended
to paw him the honors due TO a General,
agrceubly to the orders of Government, aud
not those of President Of the Republic,
as 10 the decree Of the Mexican Congress
of the 7th ul,itno it was enacted "That the
present Vice President Corro, should con-
tinuc to discharge the functions OF Presl.
dent of the Republic, until the new presi-
dental election should be effected" Nous
vcrrons.
On Thursday evening, Mr. Welles, the
American banker, gave splendid ball at
his hotel, in Paris, in the Place ST. George
The guests consisted Of the ellie Of French,
British, and American Society now in the
capital, amounting to at least four or five
hundred persons. Tho rich attire Of the
fairer portion Of the assemblage, the brii
llancy of the lights, and decorations and an
admirable conducted orchestra, produced
altogether an effect which has rarely been
exceeded a, any similarJetc Dancing was
kent I'd with great spirit till between three
and four o'clock in the morning.
MISS MARr,NEAU.-A friend in London
writes US, under date January &c, Miss
Martincau gives party 10 the Il'cratl next
week. She tells me her Jook will not
come out until May. and is not yet ,oritlen.
hear she IS to have Is 900 for the first
edition ~
Abiding to the prevalent Influenza, the
same correspondent writes us, IL am, for-
tunalely. well, though every body else is
sick or dead. The barking about me is
like the noise of the Prairie dogs, as Irving
describes it,"
SAVINGS BANKS IN ENGLAND.-rp to
the 90 of November last the deposits IN The
Savings Banks amounted to nearly E2O,
900, 900. IN the year 1922, Savings
Bank was established in Guernsey, and at
this time the depositors are the holders OF
nearly the whole of the states Cor national
deb, of the isand;j though this is not a
large sum, it serves to show how much mo
hey may be effected by small Deposits
JUSTICE SroRY.--Thc London Legal
, Examiner says-"Protcssor Story has long
been known TO the Jurisls OF every country
in Europe as one Of the few great Masters
of the science Of Jurisprudence that the
world at present possesses, anG one VINO
has been mainly instrumental in pushing
, forward those legal reforms, which have OF
, late wears done honor TO the United
States"
PLuTus vs.. HyMEN.-A rich spnster
deceased at Weymouth, Eng. has lett q
large property to five nelces, who are te
enjoy it equally so long as they remain
single. She VINO marres loses her share
which is 10 be divided among the remain
ing virgins; if they all marry, then male
relation is to succeed TO the whole.
SUPERSTITION. The sexton OF 81 Mary,
L Church, Blackburn, Eng observing an ell
cganty dressed female walking mysterious
ly up aud down the Churchyard, wat chez
her; when he saw her rake up the carl
y with her foot, and after deposling some
: thing in the ground, carefully cover it up
= Induced by curiosity, he opened the place
and found harc's heart, in which SO;
% pins were stuck, buried there. It is al
: old superstitition in this country, that if I
I person who has been forsakcn by one pro
y Tossing love for her shall bury a hare
J. heart stuck full Of pins, near newly mad
grave in a church yard, as the heart decay
}, in the ground, the heart of the faihless
u swain will decline, and that he will a.
), when it is mouldered into dust. The fai
deceived one had been insigated by re
u venge to this act of folly and credully.
.. GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA
II The Boston Patriot has advces lror
= Smyrna to Jan. 26lh. Some alarm in tn
c early part of the month was created b
l. the rumor of plague at Smyrna. Their
proved 10 be only 2 cases. From Bairou
/. by adviccs to Jan. II, we learn that III
whole of Syria had been thrown into con
sternalion by an earthquake, Jan. I, whlc
70 destroyed several towns and villages. o
rs the evening of The New Year, a little be
k, fore sunset, the towns of Tiberus, Japhe'
c and several eighborng villages, were en-
&c irely oyerthrown by this dreadful calamt,