The Earthquakes in Turkey

■■ . . -» The cabled accounts of the earthquakes in Turkey conveyed but a faint idea of their severity and effects. The reports in the London 'Times' are as usual full and accurate, and we have extracted from them as below. Constantinople, July 10. Shortly after boon to day a violent shock of earihqn-ko of unusually long duration was felt In this oity, and spread terror among the inhabitants, who rushed panic-stricken to the streets and open spaces. The Embassy gardens and public tquaresand fields outside the city are filled with all conditions of people who fear to return to their more or less damaged dwellings and are preparing to spend the night in the open air. Many telegraph wires were broken by the falling of large stones from the oopirjga of buildings in Pera. Great damage has been done in Stamboul, and several persons bave lost their lives. All tbe publio establishment*, the banks, and the Bonnie are olosed Two fires have broken out in consequence of the earthquake. The direction of the shocks was from east to west. Several houses in the Stamboul and Galata quarters collapsed, and a portion of the Dew quays also crumbled away. A fresh earthquake shook was felt at 4 o'clock thia aftercoon. G eat damage is reported from all the villages on the shores of the Bosphorous and the Sea of Marmora. About 50 persona have lost their lives and many others have been injured. Tbe earthquake was felt in the Interior of Anatolia for a distance of 236 miles from Constantinople. Nearly all the r*ilway Stitiont have been damaged, and the town of Jalova, In the gulf of lemidt, has been . lmo.t totally destroyed. On the other hand the Important centre of Broussa e oapSd with little injury. In Stamboul Itself the destructive effeots of the earthquake were curiously partial. Ibe chief undulation apparently followed a straight line two miles in length, extending from the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed to the Adrianople gate, and all along this line great damage was done and many lives were lost. During the first shock at the island of Halki and the village of San Stephano the sea retired over 200 yards, leaving many boats and vessels high aod dry. The waters then returned with snob force aud violence tbat they overflowed the quaye, hnrllog the boats on the shore far above the sea level, and causing great damage. The village of Galaterla, near San Stephano, has beea completely destroyed. The earthquake was felt with especial severity at Princes Isles, In the Sea of Marmora. At Prinkipo, the chief town, the Greek Orthodox church and a large number of villages and country residencee were destroyed or eerioasly damaged. A portion of the Ottoman Naval College has oollapsed, six students being killed and several Injured. On the island of Antlgoni not a house bai been left intact, with the exception of the monasteries.