The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND.

On Tuesday morning an alarming shock of earth-
quake was felt throughout England. The accounts
which have come to hand show thst it was perceptible
in London, Soniersetshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire,
Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, loncaahire,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Devoe.
shire Bucks, and other counties. Mr. Hind, of the
Observatory, Twickenham, states that the tremor was
very perceptible there, and that the oscillatory ruetim
appeared to be from E.N.E. to W.8.W., lasting three
seconds or less. In some places a rumbling sound was
heard—in othero no noise at aIL The phenomena de-
scribed seems to resemble what are in South America
called :tremblor, ( a or trimmer, which are the least
dangerous of earthquakes. They are likewise the most
common, but the damage does not generally extend
further than throwing down such objects ma are not well
supported, and splitting walk The surface of the
meth is put in • trembling motion, but life is safe.
These tremors occur in some countries of South America
nearly every day in certain seasons.
BATH.. A lady residing on Bathwick-hill noticed the
shocks distinctly, thought the door of her chamber was
being broken in. heard the furniture creak and crack,
and in the morning found that two doors closed over
night had been shaken open. The nurses in the
hospitals also observed the vibration. Sonic of the
policemen on night duty perceived nothing strange ; but
ten of them did—they heard the windows of the houses
rattle, heard • rumbling noise, and one or two noticed
a tremor of the earth. The officer on duty in Pulteney-
street says the noise resembled that of a rushing wind,
but there was not a breath of air stirring at the time.
In some houses the bells were rung by the oscillation.
CLIFTON AND BRISTOL —A resident in Sunderland.
place, near the Victoria-rooms, said his bed was shaken
and his windows made • noise; he looked at his watch
and observed the time was 325; and he adds that,
about ten years ago he had a similar experience. Another
reports that the washstand ins bedroom shook violently.
The residents at Redland-court give similar testimony,
and add that the servants got up, under the impression
that thieves were in the house. Another gentleman, re-
siding in White Ladies'-road, near the Victoria- rooms, was
awoke by the rattling of jugs in the washstand begins of
his chamber, eel getting somewhat alarmed, he imme-
diately went to another story of the house, to inquire if
anybody had been knocking or shaking the place, but
finding that none of the inmates were up, be was not
without some suspicion as to the poseibility of these
being burglars in the house, and, as • precaution,
removed the key of his bedroom door from the outside
to the inside, and to guard against the possibility of the
washstand ware not being in the right position, be
slightly shifted the position of the jugs, in order (to use
his own words) 'to steady them. —A gentleman
residing at Montpelier (Bristol) says :—" I was awoke
by the rattling of some spoons that were lying in the
window of my bedroom. I hunted the room to ascertain
If • cat had been the disturber, but they. was nothing
whatever to account for the noise. A gentleman from
Tewkesbury told me that where he resided, at Tewkes-
bury, his house so shook at that hour that his whole
family were awoke by the &purest nuking of their
beds, and some of the family walked their rooms for
hours." The shock was felt at Coasts, and a gentle-
man residing in that neighbourhood writes :—" About
3.25 this morning I was awoke by a sound In my bed-
room which was very unusual, viz., the glass on •
water bottle rattling against the sides of the bottle, and,
thinking there was some one in the room, I listened.
The ' increased, and a door creaked as if some
one had pushed it open. I felt convinced SOWS one was
moving about, and instantly turned up • night lamp.
The sounds continued for about a minute, and appeared
to be caused by everything being put off its balance.
CLEVXDON. —Early on Tuesday morning, about 3 30,
• shock of earthquake was experienced here, and at
Portishead. Several parties state that they were shaken
in their beds, and the effects produced seemed to pass
from east to west. It was felt principally in the vicinity
of the Lower Village, Strode-road, he., while it WM
particularly felt near our railway station.
GLoucurrsa.—Alarto was occasioned among the in.
habitants of this city and district, and many miles round
by the shock. Suddenly an intermittent subterranean
noise was heard, aocompanied by a violent oscillation of
houses, apparently north sod south. Beds were shaken
violently, bells were rung, and persons, becoming
frightened, thinking burglars were attempting to break
into their houses, flung open their windows and raked
an alarm. The surface of the water in the bash) of the
Gloucester and Berkeley Canal was disturbed, and the
disturbance was seen by the officers on duty; • bird
cage was thrown off • hook. Correspondents at
Whaddoo. Minsterworth, Ac., send similar reports, all
speaking of the shaking of beds, rattling of furniture, fa.
STROU D.—The shock was felt in this town and
surrounding district for upwards of five miles. In
every place at the same time beds and houses were
shaken 110 as to awaken people, and make them believe
that some one was breaking into their hoarsen. In one
house near Brinsoombe, • joist, where some heavy
hams hung, was cracked, and in another house • toilet
bottle was broken by the glass coming in contact with
it.
BRIDGWATER. —A deckled-Almelo( earthquake was
felt in this town, and in the neighbourhood adjoining,
between 3 and 3.30 A.M., accounts varying as to the
exact time. A doctor in Eastover was so alarmed by
the noise and the melds' that he got up; while another
gintleman, proprietor of a ship's store warehouse on the
Quay, Aso got up sod dressed himrell, fearing that the
foundation of some new houses he is building next to the
one he lives in bad given way. A lady in Endorsor was
awoke by the rattle of mockery-ware below stair,-,
and the ceiling of • room in the same neighbourhood
has • large crack made in it. A tradesman in Fore-
street was sitting up attending to • sick friend, and his
felt the arm-chair he was sitting in jerk to • considerable
extent. All witnesses agree that there was only one
shock, and that that one lasted only • second.
CR ILTIN II A 11. —The shock was distinctly felt through-
out the whole of Cheltenham, and had the effect of
awakening nearly all who were asleep, and producing a
feeling of very general alarm. The character of the
convulsion is variously deecribed, though all concur in
the essential features of the phenomena, which shook
most of the houses in the town, and produced • drug
vibration throughout all their apartments.
Hutzroen.—At hell-past three o'clock the citizens
of Hereford were aroused from their slumbers by •
tremendous shook. The houses in all parts of the town
were Aitken violently, and are described as having
oscillated to Led fro. The glass in the windows vibrated
exesedingly, and those windows with sash frames which
were not tightly fixed literally rattled together
sufficiently loud to awaken all but the soundest
sleepers. Hundreds of the people got up and came out
Into the streets, supposing at first that some steam boiler
or gasometer had exploded. The policeman on duty
near the Castle-green observed the large elm trees wave
to and fro and shake violently, and the water in some
of the brooks was noticed to be greatly agitated for the
moment. Two or three chimney pots in different puts
of the town were shaken down. The policemen on duty
in the neighbourhoods of St. Nicholas Church and the
Infirmary distinctly state that they saw thorns buildiesP
oscillate perceptibly. A man who was attending •
bria-kiln states that the loose oulsand bricks were all
in a date of agitation, and that he was under the Im-
pression at the time that something passed right
through the neighbourhood, coming from a north-
westerly direction. It was felt at Eihrewsbzu7, and all
along the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. Tbe air.
which had been very cold throughout the earlier part of
the night was observed by thou who were up to get
suddenly warm just prior to the shock.
Witt.ctooros.—The room in which I waa shook
strongly for nearly a minute, and before the shook
closed there was a loud rushing noise like the falling of
• wall. I thought some part of the house had fallen,
and got up and examined it carefully, buttoned no trio;
of its disturbance. This morning we beard from •
friend, about two miles off, that an earthquake was hit
at his hoses about the same hour.—W. A. &Brow,
Ny•shasd-•3art.
VRRPOOL. —A severe shock seas felt in Liverpool
and the neighbourhood of Crosby, Waterloo, BOW.. and
Cheshire. Although there was no rumbling notre, such
as generally accompanies earthquakes, the upheaving of
the earth and oscillation of the houses ware such set.
came much astonishment and dismay to the residents of
Earemont, Liaised, and Birkenhead. The beds in the
houses were for • second or two a degree or two from
being horizontal. Several of the night porters were so
alarmed at the "uprising" that they forsook their poets
and sought refuge in the streets from, as they thought,
some catastrophe. A surgeon, who was visiting a sick
lady, near Birkenhead, distinctly felt the house shake.
and so convinced was he that it was coming down, that
be inimediately left his patient and made for the street.
At Bootle, Seeforth, Waterloo, and Crosby, th• shook
was very severe. In nearly all the houses more or lees
damage was done to glass, ornaments, he. In Liver-
pool, the publiehouses in the neighbourhood of the
, Exchange, fisekville-street, and Everton also mama •
good deal from the smashing of glass. As far as we ma
learn, no personal injury was sustained.

DIATFI OT LADT SOPHIA GIUDILIL —The familLn a
William
Mr. Wliam Frederick Windham, of Felbia
Norfolk, have been placed in mourninti the death at
that gentleman's mother, the Lady Sophie Giubelei.
The deceased lady, who warn born in 811, was the
daughter of the find Marquis of Briatol, and married in
1835, Mr. William Howe Windham, of Felbrigg Hall,
who died in 1854. A short time prior to the commission
of lunacy on her son, Lady Sophia married Signor
Giubelei, an Italian gentleman, who had been resident
In her house. For a considerable period she had been
so ill as to be unable to leave her room, and was not in
a position to attend to give evidence before U. Warren,
the comroiesioner, or before the Lords' Justices, by
whom various preliminaries of the cue were tried. So
critical. indeed, was her stets of health, that it was
difficult to ascertain whether she really did or not
sanction the proceedinp which General Windham sad
other relatives adopted in issuing out the commissies of
lunacy upon her son. By lady Sophia's death Mr. W.
F. Windham will receive a considerable aooeesion to Ids
property, much of the late Mr. Windham's persona
property having been left to lady Sophia for her use
during her life.

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