The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

The following account of an earthquake in Cutchee
as the 24th of January will be read with interest:
At Katsina, at 3.44 La., on the 24th of January,
three smart shocks of an earthquake, following each other
in rapid neeestion, are repeated to have been felt. The
dinetis• was tam west to east, and the time occupied in all
nestatell a about 46 semeds. There it war attended with
eati ftwewie amp of the Muses, bat is the Mann Will its
eiresteMve bees very severe, and etteeded with great lass
of lift sad pagerty. Aconite aeseeeta which have now
bees receleel. date the number ef beleging to the
Marne tdbe to semeseet rSO fadhldaue. and, se yet, sa
unkeown inanity et settle a* odor carrels. The ter
jority of the houses, sad the meter punka ef the walls
of their eapitel—Karts—fell, burying =ea, serum, sad
children to the nine, eel is a large wive a bele ado asrtk,
which was Juliann/ by a amber of families, die silos else
fell in, and aliment ell wished. The city is mew Waft
sated, and so great Is the toner pornisat ameoget them,
that they us soil to be anzioes M reams lea the kill
aftegether. The alb* of the Übe& was web *zebra
omen have fan bon Ale ameades'
_sal the Nothedt
Pan leadieg Kean hasbeam Meshed up. Amidst
Mee bane sad Asesintion, the only abamage whisk bas
won* is that as deer Lheree, whin manes nin She is
lest immediately belie its nit point bus the Ms, bus
embealy extended sew ales further them anal as this
seinen It is now Inft pmet the town of Limn, end the
inhabitants en boo eathsg tram it—Awd6/1“, II is all
the alluvial sable this essary, the rule belle gmel—es the
supply of water a ate the espabilities he growth. This
earthquake having bee* se ditties* bit at*l a
plea
Übe
Kbangliur, situated in a Assert, a* My ee ben the
nearest hills, is a plat ef oneilamble lamest, sad dee
bet that the shook use wet lb m Ithibmsgeor,
math s aay other plass to the elllMPlll4these that
the math wave cow a eery abort beam bel beam
either lota so as to be basseeptilis. hear
rate aememma of la haling beau Ai
rksisig Mt at Dabs,
a biedoelailes ihe wen by oath of the allirtua
nate mai at Chaina. day aertbema
seenthew base estemind. Those two pines,
urlist of the 12th .lin distant sleet
was lam ea* ether. and that the area
the a wan" wee peeled, nab eat west to east, sad
that a peat the west lea ibleglarewevalti strike aboat
tasty miles amiletikadave, alga se Met at this
=er be paint Mum whisk the teas* 'nodule-
twat have named ever a lbw a kindred
miles in length at Ismek As yes as lateltigenia hes arrived
of its having seem* is Yell, or ether parts in Weston
ildesebbile• ; but this, whim ressind, will fora an
isapertemt surest in lain/ he peat of origin, or
seen propeely, perhaps, the he. ener which the die-
turbine it the earth's surface was lest pseespable to the
feelings. AU accounts agree as to the *se *occurrence
at the plus.zwatiosed, viz., the Mee dam, whisk at this
ssaswis sh= j
gad telties en pe:ll2aseghle=hith I have
sutumela
aro by as. erne or two plats of mak ban* probably
esesested with this earthatake, see eimenehis. At sun-
rise. ss the penises day the lath tattherasemster stood
at di bag whereas at tile aentipeebeg paled nth* 24th,
sheet nese beers after Wee eNertellee Of die shock, we
101 l that the aaperaten is 41 deg.—en tirades of 9 de-
void' the
arc
lions The aky on
Clisprediday was perfectly , awl bp winds blew
teen the N. . bet deortly after smile em the 24th dense
earn and* their epposnace over to Me to the west-
WWI. and is less that 20 =Loess die whoa expanse
beans use mew of dial maw death ban iii-day
them Wentiroly Mama* Me anima teaperanue
ea bed' leas a mealy the are, dr,* leg. 6 on the
lied, sal II dug. ea be 24th. The bereastrie indications
Ell met seen tele naerhally abated. At nada ea the
lied, the tudimgeffle sewed SW 99.526 and 294176 at
the NM lie et the Pith. An esethonake has sew as
la 411111 be asearldiesd, ben lobes lit at Kheagiar,
bet em the 14th Desumber of bet year a Olga on marred
about II poi. at fibehner sad Oseh. seas shirty Wise due
wall lea Khalil* It is weuthy of Miss that the
eastionsite whale stemmed Yee aseth at Lahore sad ether
pOces es des Peaked% did wady ia the moraing, any
two days Maths Khanghar me.