American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-21
CONCISE SUMMARY.

CONCISE SUMMARY
The political news from the European States
is not very interesting. The hopes of France
are now centred on a new ministerial arrange
ment, which we have before noticed as in pro-
gress This, in connexion with the debates on
the revision of the constitution, still keeps the
gay capital alive with hopes and apprehensions.
Business had revived with the anticipations of
a more settled ministry, and the great mercan.
tile houses were preparing for any contingency
that might arise from the discussion on the
constitution.
In England, the chancellor of the exchequer
has introduced second budget, which has been
tolerably received. 1t is quite modification
Of the first, and the ministers are holding on to
office only till the dissolution Of Parliament,
which, it is said, will take place before the close
of the Great Imposition, as the English journaN
now admit the Worlds Fair to be. The case Of
Miss Augusta Talbot continues to occupy pop
ular attention. The decision of the Lord Chan
cellor has been made in the case, and he de-
clared, under the circumstances, that the lady
ought to be withdrawn from the convent at
Taunton. Accordingly, we find that Miss Talbot
is now in society, having made her first enuee
into the gay world, since the decision, at the
residence of a noble lady, introduced by the
Countess Of Newburgh, in whose care she re-
mains.
Miss Augusta Talbot, it will be remembered,
was ward in Chancery, now nineteen years of
age, who had been placed by noble relatives at
the convent, as pupil-but as the fortune of
eighty-fve thousand pounds, due when at her
majority, would go to endow the convent,
friends interposed to rescue her property and
person from the establishment, against the cha
racter of which, however, Lord Chancellor took
occasion to say there was not n word Of detrac-
ton. The case is.quite an interesting one, and
we shall endeavor to present, in day or two, a
complete history of it, as given in the Court of
Chancery.
So far as the general prospect Of Europe is
concerned, we can perceive nothing that dimin-
ishes the anticipations which we have often ex-
pressed with respect to grave political commo-
tons during the summer. London may furnish
many mad spirits, who will attempt any diff
culties to carry out their favorite theoretical
projects; while it is not too much to suppose
that on some parts of the European continent
one or two deeply-designed and well-digested
revolutionary plans may be worked out, to
attract more than common attention, and to
have a very great influence on the future of
European politics.-N. T. Herald Of Sunday.
FEARFUL RAyAGEs OF THE EARTHQUAKE.-A
paragraph recently appeared in our columns
announcing shocks of earthquake throughout
the western world, Hindostan, &c. Fuller &C
counts from the Levant disclose frightful de-
gree of havoc resulting from the phenomena.
Letters from Rhodes, Of the 9Th ult., furnish
details of the great earthquake which took place
on the 28th Of February. Rhodes has suffered
considerably; the Notifications were completely
destroyed, and several even have completely
n
laid PROSTATE. At Makri all the stone build
ings have been knocked down Two hills have
met and swallowed up the village of Melaskjik;
and at Egendjik mountain was removed into
the port The casualties are estimated at about
1000 souls. 1t is stated that earthquakes took
place at Satalia and Tarsus. A letter from
Rhodes, in the Venice Gazette, states that the
terrible effects of the late earthquake were not
limited to that island alone, but were severely
felt on the Asiatic continent opposite. The
towns Of MaRri, Levissos, Doveri, Sene, Cara
sola, and fifteen villages along that coast says
the correspondent are now heaps Of ruins; not
house has been left standing; from 500 TO
600 persons have fallen victims TO the scourge:
the summit of the mountain of Iginkik has given
way.
Olive plantations to an immense extent have
been utterly destroyed. Springs Of potable
Whter nave peen urleu upJ anu Dolnng sulphur
Gus springs have appeared in several places.
The soil around Makri has cracked in every
direction, and the crevices exhale fumes of btu
minous vapor. The European colonists of Makri
have taken refuge on board the Austrian ship
Isidoro. The inhabitants of the coast and
islands are in o state of the utmost despon-
dency, as the shocks continue daily, and the
few houses left standing are in lettering con-
dition. From India we learn that the earth
quake had been felt pretty extensively over the
Punjaub, or the northwest provinces, on the
18th and 3lst of January, and on the 4th 9th,
and 14th of February. No injury of any note
has been occasioned by them. Letters which
have been received from Martinique and Guada-
loupe, of the 1st ult., report that rather sharp
shock Of an earthquake had been felt on the
I'D February at st. Pierre and Port de France
Martinique, but it did no damage worth speak
ing of. Letters from Mexico, of the 10Th ult.,
state that at Guerrero, on the 26th Of January,
there was an earthquake. At the same moment
there appeared in the heavens most luminous
meteor, which passed from east to west, ac-
companied by terrific thunder.-Ib,