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Miscellaneous.
to prove , by this act , that it did not grant greater privileges to Russia than to the other powers . —French Paper . EARTHQUAKE AND FAMINE IN THE EAST INDIES . —Extract of a letter from the Rev . A . Leslie to the Rev . F . Franklin , of Coventry : — " Monghyr , East Indies , Oct . 10 , 1833 . AVe have latterly been exceedingly
disturbed by earthquakes . On the 26 th of August last , at eleven at night , we had a most fearful shaking ; almost all the houses of the British inhabitants have been more or less injured , and several ruined . Among the latter is our poor unfortunate dwelling , nearly every wall is split . It has been , hy a committee of gentlemen , pronounced unsafe as a place of residence , and is consequently condemned to be taken
down . AVe had , during that night , about twenty shocks , two of them most awful . The earth literally ' reeled to ancl fro , and staggered like a drunken man . ' There was one simultaneous shout of consternation throughout the ivhole city : every person ran to the open plain . I , in my night clothes , rushed out at the first door I found open , and jumped over a high wall . Poor Mrs . Chamberlain was lying in the other side of the house in the agonies of death , attended by her daughter , another lady , ancl two native women . I had just lain down to rest . AVhen I had jumped over this wall at the back of the house , my first thoughts
were of dear Mrs . Chamberlain and her attendants ; as soon as I was able , I ran round to the side where they were . AVe pulled the bed on which the d y ing woman was out of the room , under the veranda which protects the house from the sun , and there we had to keep her amidst the awful shocks , until the morning light , when they became less frequent . Poor woman ! she was only once , and that for a moment ,
sensible of what was going on . She died the following night . Since that awful night we have had many shocks , though none of them so severe as then . The last we had was on the 4 th of October , when we , in common with all the other inhabitants , had to fly from our house . No injury , however , was done beyond the rents in the houses being made wider . AVhen or how they will end who can tell ? A little higher up
the country the earth opened , hut to no great extent . The earthquake has been felt throughout India , but , with one exception , in no place so severely as at Monghyr . Many of the poor natives have had their houses thrown down—happily no lives have been lost . But in the other place to ivhich I have alluded , many , from the buildings being hig her and more crowded , have been killed . Several of the English residents here have slept out , under light and temporary erections , ever since the first grand shock . 'Tis an awful time in India ; in addition to the earthquakes , the people are dying in different parts of the land
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Miscellaneous.
to prove , by this act , that it did not grant greater privileges to Russia than to the other powers . —French Paper . EARTHQUAKE AND FAMINE IN THE EAST INDIES . —Extract of a letter from the Rev . A . Leslie to the Rev . F . Franklin , of Coventry : — " Monghyr , East Indies , Oct . 10 , 1833 . AVe have latterly been exceedingly
disturbed by earthquakes . On the 26 th of August last , at eleven at night , we had a most fearful shaking ; almost all the houses of the British inhabitants have been more or less injured , and several ruined . Among the latter is our poor unfortunate dwelling , nearly every wall is split . It has been , hy a committee of gentlemen , pronounced unsafe as a place of residence , and is consequently condemned to be taken
down . AVe had , during that night , about twenty shocks , two of them most awful . The earth literally ' reeled to ancl fro , and staggered like a drunken man . ' There was one simultaneous shout of consternation throughout the ivhole city : every person ran to the open plain . I , in my night clothes , rushed out at the first door I found open , and jumped over a high wall . Poor Mrs . Chamberlain was lying in the other side of the house in the agonies of death , attended by her daughter , another lady , ancl two native women . I had just lain down to rest . AVhen I had jumped over this wall at the back of the house , my first thoughts
were of dear Mrs . Chamberlain and her attendants ; as soon as I was able , I ran round to the side where they were . AVe pulled the bed on which the d y ing woman was out of the room , under the veranda which protects the house from the sun , and there we had to keep her amidst the awful shocks , until the morning light , when they became less frequent . Poor woman ! she was only once , and that for a moment ,
sensible of what was going on . She died the following night . Since that awful night we have had many shocks , though none of them so severe as then . The last we had was on the 4 th of October , when we , in common with all the other inhabitants , had to fly from our house . No injury , however , was done beyond the rents in the houses being made wider . AVhen or how they will end who can tell ? A little higher up
the country the earth opened , hut to no great extent . The earthquake has been felt throughout India , but , with one exception , in no place so severely as at Monghyr . Many of the poor natives have had their houses thrown down—happily no lives have been lost . But in the other place to ivhich I have alluded , many , from the buildings being hig her and more crowded , have been killed . Several of the English residents here have slept out , under light and temporary erections , ever since the first grand shock . 'Tis an awful time in India ; in addition to the earthquakes , the people are dying in different parts of the land