A new kind of blight hai just made its ap peaiance in Italy. It attacks orange and lemon trees, young ones especially. It manifests iteelf under the form of a kind of sore, if we may use that expression y a pungent ichor oozes out of it, and in course of time the plant withers and dies. No remedy has as yet been found for this disease. The year 1863 concluded in Chili with the terrible conflagration of the Cathedral of Sao titgo, where 2000 ladiea were burnt to death. The year 1864 has opened gloomily for that country. On the 1 Tth of January a dreadful earthquake happened at Copiapo. It wa9 dis tinguished for its prolonged and deafening de tonations. Simultaneously with the earthquake a new volcano burst out about 200 leagues dis tant from Copiapo, in a chain' of mountains bordering on Bolivia. A letter from Hayti gives an account of the trial and execution of several sectaries of the religion of Vaudoux, or the Serpent, a horrible African superstition, which includes human • sacrifices ond cannibalism amoirj its rites. It was supposed that the efforts of the Catholic clergy and of the government bad totally eradi cated this detestable creed, but a recent event has shown that it still has a few adherents, all of whom are ostensibly devout Catholics. In the middle of December last, at Bizotin, in im mediate vicinity of ibe capital of the republic, a man named Congo Pele was ordered by the Papa-Loi, the high priest of Vaudoux, to offer up a human sacrifice, with a promise that obe dience would make him a rich man, Pell£ communicated the order to his sister, and they together determined to sacrifice their niece, named Claircme, seven years of age. Eight other persons foined them in the performance of ihe hoi rid rite, and in the night of Dec. 30 last they cut the girl's throat, drank her blood, - and devoured her flesh while still warm. They then placed the skull on a kind of altar and •danced round it, singing a eong to their deity. The bones wete next charred and reduced to powder, to be religiously preserved. 