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among all classes-all ages; the number is not even to be es timated at the present moment. The inhabitants of those villages in the Department which have suffered the least, have assembled, by order of the Government, with spades and picks, to disinter the bodies. They are now hard at work, and will continue digging while necessary. People perished in the streets, in the plazas, and in the churches. All our provisions are beneath the ruins, and we are suffering a horrible state of want, which is likely to continue, for the fences having been thrown down, the cattle are destroying all they can reach. In Turidaba, Tros-rios, Cartago, Paraiso, Ujames, and even to the vicinity of Matina, there is not left a single shed, and in the villages and on the haciendas, we find a proportionate destruction. From San Jose to this place, and to Alajuela, the ruin is considerable. In San Jose, a number of edifices were thrown down, and those houses that are standing are uninhabitable. We are hardly better off in this city, and Alajuela has fared worse than we have. Tranquilino Bonilla and his family are among those taken from the ruins. They are alive, but bruised and crippled. The number of sufferers is very great. Bodies are disinterred that cannot be recognised-shapeless masses and headless trunks; everything in horrible confusion. Up to the present moment, there has been no eruption from the neighbouring volcanos; the shocks continue without cessation, and no one can tell how it will end.»

(MORNING HERALD.)

ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.-We hear that Sir J. Burgoyne and Mr. Pym are coming ever from Dublin to be present at some experiments on the Atmospheric Railway, with Sir F. Smith and Professor Barlow, at Wormwood Scrubbs. The object is to ascertain whether there is sufficient likelihood of success to justify the Directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway in extending their line to Dalkey upon the atmospheric principle, and whether the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland would be justified in lending money to the Dublin and Kingstown Railway for this purpose.

(SUN.)

A STEADY SERVANT.-He never appeared to have organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; he seemed to be simp

or «The ice has broke and master's drownded in the pond, would be uttered by him in exactly the same formal tone of voice, with exactly the same stiff and deliberate air. Never shall I forget his walking into the room one day, an hour after dinner, and fixing himself behind his master's chair while the squire was telling us one of his sporting stories, which were sometimes rather long; waiting patiently until the close for the signal to proceed, and then, when the Squire had turned leisurely round to know what he wanted, saying in his slow tone: when I went up stairs, Sir, a little while ago, the house was a-fire! It's burning now. »

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(THE OMNIBUS.)

SPITAL TONGUES COLLIERY TUNNEL.-On saturday this immense undertaking, belonging to Messrs. Porter and Latimer, was opened throughout the whole length from the colliery to the river Tyne, near the glasshouse Bridge. The extreme length of the tunnel, which passes under the town of Newcastle, is 21 miles; the total descent from the entrance at the colliery to the level of the spouts for shipping the coal is 222 feet, It is intended to work this line of railway by a stationary engine, the loaded waggons taking after them the rope to draw the empty waggons back. The power of the engine is 40 horse, and will draw 32 empty waggons back; and should the trade require the quantity, three runs, or 12 keels, could be shipped in an hour. The gauge of the rails is 4 feet 81/ inches; and the waggons contain one chaldron each. They are made of an improved form. The tunnel, from end to end, is arched with bricks, and a stone inverted arch at bottom. Dimensions inside, 7 feet 5 inches high, by 6 feet 3 inches wide. The workmen, to the number of 200, were regaled with a substantial supper and strong ale.

(DURHAM ADVERTISER.)

LIST OF NEW PATENTS.

Robert Wilson, of Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, currier and tanner, for improvements in the manufacture of leather. Dec. 2; six months. William Irving, of Princes street, Rotherhithe, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of bricks and tiles. Dec. 7; six months.

James Colman, of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, starch manufacturer, improvements in the manufacture of starch. Dec. 9; six months. William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacock Abbey, Wilts, Esq., for improvements in coating or covering metals with other metals, and in colouring metallic surfaces. Dec. 9; six months.

John Hall, of Breezes Hill, Ratcliff Highway, sugar refiner, for improvements in the construction of boilers for generating steam, and in the application of of steam to mechanical power. Dec. 9; six months.

Archibald Templeton, of Lancaster, silk spinner, for a new or improved method of preparing for spinning silk and other fibrous substances. Dec. 9; six months.

Jonathan Guy Dashwood, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, plumber, for improvements in the construction of cocks and taps. Dec. 9: six

months.

Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, gentleman, for improvements in the construction of masts for ships and vessels, and in applying the shrouds. Dec. 9; six months.

Josiah Taylor, of Birmingham, brass founder, for improvements in the construction of lamps. Dec. 9; six months.

Robert Henderson, of Birmingham, china dealer and glass stainer, for certain improvements in apparatus for heating and lighting apartments, and for other like purposes. Dec. 9; six months.

Henry Wilkinson, of Pall Mall, gun-maker, for improvements in machinery to be used in constructing buildings, and in raising and lowering weights and materials. Dec. 9; six months.

John Edwards, of Shoreditch, warehouseman, for improvements in giving signals on railways, Dec. 11; six months. JWilliam George Henry Taunton, of Liverpool, engineer, for improvements in machinery for raising weights. Dec. 11; six months. William Westley Richards, of Birmingham, gunmaker, for improvements in the construction of gun and pistol locks and primers for the discharge of fire-arms. Dec. 14; six months.

William Edward Newton, of Chancery Lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in printing and delineating patterns, and printed cloths for floor cloths, covers, and other uses. Dec. 14; six months. Francis Mar, of 81, Eaton Square, Esq., for certain improvements in the construction of ships or other vessels, and the method of propelling them. Dec. 16; six months,

William Neilson, builder, David Lyon, builder, and Peter Mc. Onie, engineer, all of Glasgow, for a mode, or modes of, or an improvement, or improvements in cutting, dressing, preparing, and polishing stones, marble, and other substances, and also in forming flat or rounded mouldings, and others figures thereon. Dec. 16; six months. Charles Edwards Austin, of Fulham, engineer, for an apparatus for what is commonly called "changing the line,» on railways. Dec. 16; six months.

James Stewart, of Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park, piano-forte maker, for an improvement in the construction of castors. Dec. 16; William Prowet, of Northamptonshire, victualler, for improvements in giving signals on railways. Dec. 16; six months.

Henry Booth, of Liverpool, esquire, for improvements in the method of propelling vessels through water. Dec. 16; six months.

John Norton, of the Junior United Service Club, Regent-strect, esquire, for improvements in sheathing ships and other vessels. Dec. 16; six months

Antoine Mertens, of the London Coffee-house, publisher, for improvements in the manufacture of plaited fabrics. Dec. 16; six months. William Church, of Birmingham, civil engineer, and Jonathan Harlow, of the same place, manufacturer, for certain improvements in the mode of manufacturing metallic tubes, and in the mode of joining them, or other tubes or pieces, for various useful purposes. Dec. 16; six months.

Thomas Starkey, of Birmingham, copper cap manufacturer, for improvements in percussion caps for discharging fire-arms. Dec. 16; six months.

John Americus Fanshawe, of Hatfield-street, Christ Church, gentleman, for an improved manufacture of waterproof fabric, applicable to the purposes of covering and packing bodies, buildings, and goods, exposed to water and damp. December 16; six months.

William Buckwall, of Trinity-street, Borough, civil engineer, for improvements in scaffolding or frame-work for building purposes. Dec. 16; six months.

Charles Loosey, of Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, civil engineer, for improvements in steam-engines, and which improvements are also applicable in raising or forcing water and propelling vessels. Dec. 16; six months.

John Bould, of Overden, Halifax, cotton spinner, for an improvement or improvements in condensing steam-engines. Dec. 16; six months.

Antoine Jean Francois Claudet, of High Holborn, glass merchant, for certain improvements in the process or means of and apparatus for obtaining images or representations of nature or art. Dec. 18; six months.

Henry Hough Watson, of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancaster, consulting

chemist, for certain improvements in dressing, stiffening, and finishing cotton and other fibrous substances, and textile and other fabrics, part or parts of which improvements are applicable to the manufacture of paper, and also to some of the processes or operations connected with printed calicoes and other goods. Dec. 21; six months. William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in lamps and burners, and in the means of supplying air and heat thereto for the support of combustion. Dec. 21 six months.

William Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for certain improvements in cleansing wool and facilitating the operation of dyeing, and also in washing and bleaching cotton yarns or fabrics. Dec. 21; six months.

Ovid Topham, of Whitecross-street, engineer, for improvements in engines, machines, apparatus, or means for extinguishing, or stopping the progress of fire in any room or part of different buildings which may have become ignited, such as noblemen or gentlemen's mansions, houses, factories, stores, and warehouses, and consequently preserving them from destruction, and preventing the loss of life. Dec. 21; six months.

George Palmer Henry, of Peckham, chemist, for improvements in apparatus to be applied to glass chimneys of gas burners. Dec. 21; six months.

John Cox, of Gougie Mills, Edinburgh, tanner, and glue maker, for a certain improved process of tanning. Dec. 21; six months.

John Oliver York, of Upper Coleshill-street, Eaton-square, engineer, for improvements in the construction of railway axles and wheels. Dec. 21; six months.

William Carron, of Birmingham, lathe-maker, for improvements in the construction of clogs and pattens. December 21; six months. William Heury Smith, of Finsbury Chambers, civil engineer, for certain improvements in the construction and manufacture of connectors or fastenings applicable to garments and other uses. 21; six months.

Dec.

PERMITTED TO BE PRINTED,

St. Petersburg, March 1st, 1842.

P. KORSAKOFF, CENSOR.

Printed at the Office of the Journal de St. Petersbourg.

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