1735. GEORGE GRANVILLE, viscount Lansdowne, an eminent English poet, died. Having vainly endeavored to get employment in arms for the defence of James II, to whose cause he was warmly attached, he retired to private life, enjoying the company of his muse, which he employed in celebrating the reigning beauties of the age, in imitation of Waller. 1757. Calcutta retaken by Col. Clive. 1766. JAMES BARTHOLOMEW BECCARIA, an Italian physician and professor of natural philosophy, died. His writings are highly esteemed. 1766. SUSANNA MARIA CIBBER died. She was not only considered the best actress in England, but supposed by many to excel the celebrated Madame Clairon, of Paris, her contemporary. 1805. JOHN ROBINSON, a celebrated Edinburgh mathematician, died. 1809. Assault upon Saragossa in Spain by the French under Junot, Lannes and Mortier. The Spaniards made a most desperate resistance; a corps of women even being formed for its defence. The houses were taken one by one; they were compelled to undermine upwards of 600 in order to get possession of them. 1810. Several meteoric stones fell in Caswell county, North Carolina. 1826. The mails were first carried over the Menai suspension bridge, which connects the island of Anglesey with the Welch shore. 1833. JOSEPH BLUYDENBURGE died at Smithtown, L. I., aged 101, retaining the vigor of perfect health to the last week of his life. 1834. Attempt to assassinate the president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, made by Richard Lawrence. 1834. RUDOLPH ACKERMAN, who so much improved lithography, and the first to use gas-light in England, died. 1837. Explosion of the magazine of the French garrison at Bona in Algiers, containing 12,000 pounds of powder and 1 million musket cartridges. The commandant with 108 men were killed, and 102 wounded. 1837. The town of Jaffa in Palestine destroyed by an earthquake. Of 15,000 inhabitants, only 2,000 escaped burial in the ruins. 1837. ADAM AZELIUS, the last remaining pupil of Linnæus, died; celebrated for his travels in Asia and Africa. 1841. The town of Mayaguez, Porto Rico, consisting of about 600 buildings, was consumed by fire. Loss estimated at from two to four millions of dollars. 1852. The king of Naples by decree confiscated the property of Neapolitan emigrants. 1855. HERMAN KNICKERBACKER died, aged 75; known as the prince of Schaghticoke, being the third in descent from the original settler there. JANUARY 31. 1000 B. C. It is usual to fix the finishing of the temple of _Hercules_ at _Tyre_ on this day, and the death of _Anchises_, 183 years earlier. 1574. Birthday of BEN JONSON. 1578. Battle of Gemblours, in the Netherlands, by which the Spanish recovered their superiority in the Walloon provinces which were zealously catholic.