1834. Castle of St. Louis at Quebec, the residence of the British governor-general, destroyed by fire. 1836. General PAEZ gained a victory over the rebels at Venezuela near Porto Cabello. 1838. Earthquake in the eastern part of Europe. Seven severe shocks occurred during a few days, by which 300 houses were thrown down in the city of Bucharest, and 60 persons killed. 1841. The shock of an earthquake was felt in the city of New York and vicinity to such a degree as to excite considerable alarm. 1843. EDWARD DRUMMUND, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel, was assassinated in the streets of London. For nearly 20 years he discharged duties second to those of a cabinet minister, because less conspicuous. 1845. ABIGAIL LEONARD died at Raynham, Mass., 101 years old. She was the fifth in descent from John Alden, who first landed from the Mayflower on the Plymouth rock. 1849. The usual convention of the two houses of congress declared that the people had elected Zachary Taylor their president and Millard Fillmore vice-president. JANUARY 26. 477. Subterranean thunders were heard simultaneously from the Black to the Red sea, and the earth was convulsed without intermission for the space of six months after. In many places the air seemed to be on fire. Towns and large tracts of ground were swallowed up in Phrygia, during this convulsion, the particulars of which would seem incredible, were they not corroborated by contemporary historians. 1564. The pope confirmed by a bull the decrees of the Council of Trent. 1630. HENRY BRIGGS, an English mathematician, died. 1679. Keel of the Griffin, the first vessel in the western waters, laid 6 miles west of Niagara falls, by La Salle. 1679. The invaluable library of Elias Ashmole destroyed by fire at his chambers in London, together with his collection of coins and other curious antiquities. 1681. Two Cameronian women hanged at Edinburgh for calling the king and bishops "perjured, bloody men." 1699. Peace of Carlowitz concluded between Leopold I of Austria, and Mustapha II sultan of Turkey, after fifteen years of hostility. 1721. PETER DANIEL HUET, a celebrated French critic and classical scholar died. He was engaged twenty years in publishing an edition of the Latin classics, which extended to 62 vols. 1730. A leaden pot containing a human heart preserved in spirits dug up at Waverly in Surrey, England, supposed to have been there 700 years. 1733. A negro for an assault upon a white woman was burnt alive in New Jersey. 1737. All the prisoners for debt in White Chapel jail, England, were discharged by the executors of the will of the late Mr. Wright who paid their debts. 1769. JOHN WHITE, printer and publisher of the _Newcastle Courant_, died, aged 81. At his decease he was the oldest master printer in England. 1779. ARNOLD sentenced by court martial to be reprimanded by Gen. Washington.