LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 671, 7 January 1852, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

The Official Gazette of the two Sicilies of tbe 24th August gives a long and detailed account of tbe disasters caused throughout the kingdom of Naples by an earthquake of the 14th of August. The sl ocks experienced in the Provinces of Terra di Lavoro and Prin- • cipato Citeriore were without serious results, j but the Principato Ulteriore was severely vi- , sited, particularly in the districts of Carbonara, Lacedonia, Calitri, and Monteverde. In the latter place a lady, Donna Berenice Bonito, was buried under the ruins of a house while giving the breast to her infant. At Boviuo, Ascoli, Lucera, and Sanseverino, and other places of Capitanata, mortof the houses were seriously injured, but no lives were lost. In the Province of Bari the tewn of Canoss has suffered most; 376 houses are in a tottering condition ; two churches, tbe town bouse, and th c arch of Diomedes have been considerably damaged. But the scourge was most severely felt in the Province of Basilicata, its effects being chiefly concentrated aroaod ate Vuiiore, where the motion lasted 60 seconds ; and, according to the account, it had not quite ceased by the last advices. One half of Venosa has been destroyed. At Rionero 52 dead bodies had been dug out of the ruins oh the 16:h. At Barile the number of dead amounts to 100 ; and the town of Melfi, containing 10,000 inhabitant*, is a heap of ruins: 700 persons lost their lives there, and upwards of 200 are severely bruised and wounded. Captain Garrett, of the 46. h Regiment, now iu Preston garrison, having made a wager with the officers of that corps that . he would walk to Liverpool and back (64 miles) in 24 hours, he accordingly started I from Fulwood Barracks precisely at eight o’clock on Sunday evening last. The whole of the day was wet and stormy, and it continued to rain heavily until he got as far as i Ormskirk at night. However, he maintain- ; ed bis and he returned to the barracks i in good spirits on tbe following day, at a quarter to seven o’clock, p.m., having taken 22 1 hours and three-quarters on!y to perform the journey. I It is said that the manufactory of Colt’s j American revolving pistols, specimens of [ which are seen in tbe Great Exhibition, employs 3000 men and boys and 100,000 dollars’ worth of machinery : 40,000 of these arms will be turned out this year. The Woodville (MississipiJ Whig says that three children, on their way home from school, were set upon by a pack of bloodhounds in pursuit of runaway negroes, kiiled, and neatly devoured, The father of the children shot two of the dogs, and then shot their owner through the heart. He was arrested, tried, and dischargsd. Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce have been appointed Judges of Appeal, the latter with a seal in the House of Lords. Sir W. Page Wood and Mr. J. Parker are to become Vice-Chancellors. A vacancy is thus created in tbe post of SolicitorGeneral. It is said that Don Miguel is about ta marry tbe Princess de Lowenstein Rosenberg, a relative of Prince Schwarzenbergh, who, although not appertaining to a Royal house, is still of the very highest nobility in Germany. Lord Saltoun is to be a Knight of the Thistle, in the room of the late Viscount Melville. The recent alterations in the stamp laws now enable railway companies to receive loans as low as £lOO, at which rale many are now taking them. Formerly they could not do so in sums of less than £4OO or £5OO.