Show A CHINESE catastrophe dispatches tell of a terrible catastrophe which occurred in china on july lath for two days previous to the awl awful al outburst the bandal bandai san ban mountains emitted strange rumbling sounds and there was a succession of earthquake shocks suddenly the sky assumed an inky blac blackness kness and the volcanic disturbance burst forth in terrible fury the crest of et one mountain seemed to be thrown upward from its place and to fall with a deafening noise these phenomena were followed by showers of red mud and stones under which villages were buried to a depth varying from seven to twenty feet up to the time the steamer left hong hone kong bearing the advices advises ad vices tidings had bad been received from the ill fated villages that nearly five hundred bodies of the killed had been recovered they were so chopped cut and smashed as 88 to be beyond recognition it being impossible even to ascertain their sex the number and extent of calamities otone of one description and another that have befallen the chinese empire durco ing the last few years constitute noti tute an ap appalling pallin catalogue T they e y appear to be fulfilling fulfilling the pred predictions ct I 1 ono of the ancient prophets who d directing the |