MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 654, 8 November 1851, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Earthquakes in Majorca.—We find, in the Paris journals of Friday, the following : —“ Some rather violent shocks of earthquake were felt in the night of the 14th ult., at Palma, Majorca. The atmosphere was observed to be very heavy throughout the day, with occasional flashes of lightning. Towards night there was a heavy peal of thunder, after which several shocks of earthquake, each of which lasted from four to five seconds, were felt. A number of the houses were more or less injured, and several steeples of churches were thrown down. At Soller and Valdemosa the shocks were felt more violently, and much mischief was done. The account makes no mention of any loss of life, with the exception of one man, who appears to have died from fright a quarter of an hour after the shocks had terminated.”— Liverpool Albion, June 9. Frightful Loss of Life on the Brighton Railway.—On Friday a frightful accident occurred on the Brighton line; a short train which left Brighton for Lewes at five minutes past twelve ran off the line at about two miles from Lewes, dragging two carriages with it through the side of a bridge-wall, and fell down an embankment on to a turnpike road. Mrs.' Chatfield, an aged lady, her daughter, thirty-three years of age, a young man, named Langhorn, with the stoker of the tiaiuj Wutc Kilicu Oii iiiu Spui J aiiQ Cue driver was taken to the hospital in such a state that amputation of both legs was rendered necessary —Liverpool Albion, June 9. The Loud’s Prayer.—l remember on one occasion travelling in this country with a compat.ion who possessed some knowledge of medicine; we arrived al a door, near which we were about to pitch our tent, when a crowd of Arabs surrounded us, cursing and swearing at the rebellers against God. My fiiend, who spoke a little Arabic to an elderly person whose garb bespoke him a priest, said “Who taught you that we are disbelievers T Hear my daily prayer, and judge for yourselves he then repeated the Lord’s Prayer. All stood amazed and silent, till the priest exclaimed. “May God curse me if ever I again curse those who hold such a belief; nay more, the prayer shall be my prayer till my hour be come. I pray thee, O Nazarene, repeat that prayer, that it mfiy hg rgmgrvikprnJ among us in letters of gold.”— Hay's Western Barbary.