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The shock extended many leagues. The
towns were q heap of runs, and, awful to
relate, nine tenths of the inhabitants peri.
shed! Nothing had been heard from 10
rusalem or Jaffa. All the new buildings
n, Acre were destroyed At Seldc, the
French Consul's wife was dragged from
the ruins with her leg crushed.
Great damage had been done about
SMYRNA by the rains, which inundated the
fields, blew down trees, &c. Col. Chcs
new and his steamboat were at Basdad
New EXPEDITION TO AUsTRALIA.--Th
Beagle surveying ship, which has lately re.
,urncd, in company with the Adventure,
from the South Seas, after n surveying cc
pedtlon which lasted five years. is now fit.
ling out at Woolwich for voyage to Tor
res Straits and the northwestern coast o.!
Australia, where she will proceed in the
course of few weeks. under the com
mand of Captain Wckham, who acted as
| Lieutenant on the last occasion. The land
expedtion, consisting Of Lieu,cnnnts Gray
and Lushing, and Mr.. Porter, as surgeon
and naturalist, will proceed in the vessel
TO their destination to the Swan River,
where they will receive the aid OF the
troops from Captain Stirling, the Governor
10 prosecute their researches in the IN
terror
CENSUS OF RoME.-Accordng TO CEN
sus of the population of Rome, taken in DC.
tober last, that capital contains l53,678
souls. without comprising the Jews. 10
the above number there are Al bishops, 1853
secular priests, 1923 monks, and l476 nuns
Recard for character after death.-Ser
rcant Weir, of the Scots Greys, was pay
sergeant of his troop,and, MS such, might
have been excused serving in action, but
on such day, as the battle Of Waterloo
he requested TO be allowed to charge will
the regiment. 10 one of the charges nc
fell, mortalv wounded. and was left on the
the field Corporal Scott, of the same
regiment twho lost a |eg.) asserts thai
when the field was searched for the woun
ded and slain, the body of Sergeant Wei
was found Nth his hume ,criten on his fore
heal ,ciM his o,cn hand dipped IN his orc'
blood! This his comrades said he was sup
poscd to have done that his body might b.
found and known, and that it might not b.
imagined he had disappeared with tn
money of the troop.-Guide TO Kno,oledg
"A discovery has been made in Gimme
building, which is likely to put stop t
the building these lofty stalks is, that tn
increased height gives an amazingly in
eresed draught. But it was found that
chimney of the ordinary height, or at mos
5 sixty or sevety feet, which is so constructe
as 10 have the inside of the flue narrowe:
a, the bottom, and gradually widening q
: it ascends, has the effect of increasing III
. draught, and burning the smoke in
much greater degree than tall flue on tn
= old principle. A ward of a tower, as
{ stands upon large has, and carries 4
Z width on the outside to the very top. Tf
G cost is not one third Of that of one of tt
!, lallest ch,mncys, and the danger from fall
y ing is comparatively small. Messrs. Clar
u cotton spners in Glasgow, have complete
u proved the superiority of the new system
. having recently built chimney on TIT
Z principle about seventy feet hgh.-Lire
mol DTniI