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London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

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conclude wits TURNING THE TABLES. Mr. Compton.

BRITANNIA.
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THE GREAT GHOST EFFECT. LADY AUDLEY'S sa.racr•
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7.

OF course, the subject of Earthquakes will
be looked up now by the British public with
something more than the curiosity of An-
dents of physical geography. It has become
a personal question to us all. And we shall hardly
be reassured by the discovery of the simple fact
that Groat Britain lies " within the earthquake
" district of Iceland." Physical geography divides
the Old and the New World into earthquake dis-
tricts—such as the Mediterranean, the Central
Asian, or the Central American district. The
Icelrnd district, which includes some portion
of the North of France, and the Scandinavirn
kingdom, is that in which it is our good or
evil fortune to exist. Hitherto, we must in gra-
titude confess, the inhabitants of these isles
have been—(as the philosopher, who inspected a
drop of water through a microscope, observed of
man's place in creation)—" by no means the worst
" off." But it is well that we should at least un-
derstand our liabilities. Earthquakes, indeed, are
apparently an accompaniment of human " pro-
" grass." Though the fiercest "fever of the earth,"
as Gieeox calls it, ever known, the Earthquake
of Antioch, in which 250,000 human beings
perished, and of which the whole Roman Em-
pire felt the shock, happened in the year
526 of our era, it has been remarked that
these convulsions of nature have become more
frequent since the twelfth century, and particu-
larly within the last two hundred years. Such an
earthquake as we record this morning is
a stupendous novelty in England. It is
a novelty so excessive and so strange
that it is to be feared, in the interests of
science, it may not have been observed with
sufficient accuracy. It will be a rare occasion
lost, if the reports which must be made of it,
and which, in accordance with the law of
supply and demand, are sure to be
lengthy and circumstantial, should be for
the most part dexterous adaptation, There
will certainly be no lack of exoneration and
confusion in the impressions of panic-stricken minds',
and nerves. There will have been imaginary
shocks felt by persona, and even by towns and
counties, honourably solicitous of the honour and
distinction. Let us hope the disturbance will have
been noted with more trustworthiness in

the Mersey. Earthquakes, the geographers
assure us., most frequently occur along the sea-
board. Liverpool seems to have Brat felt
the shock the night before last. Were there any,
premonitory symptoms ? any sudden retiring and
returning of the water T any peculiarly electric
condition of the air On land were there signs of
disturbance among cattle ? Had the sun set red and
fiery- in a hazy atmosphere t Were there sudden
and violent changes of the weather f What were the
indications in Admiral FITZBOVIS forecast tables
Then as to the shook itself, which was
felt from Liverpool to Derby, and from Derby to
Hereford ; was it quite or nearly simultaneous at
these places, and were the intermediate neighbour.
hoods conscious of it f For the course of these con-
cussions of the earth, like that of the great storms
which met( orology forecasts, are " linear" in direo-1
tion ; in the present instance apparently S.S.E.
and S.S.W. But the course of these tempests
under the earth is more rapid than that
of hurricanes in the air. The great com-
mercial city and the quiet country town may have
been shaken from their slumbers at the sans,
moment. The vibration of the terrible earthquake
of Lisbon, in 1775, was felt over an area of four
thousand miles—in the Alps, in Sweden, in
Bohemia, in Scotland, where the lakes rose
two feet. Was this earthquake of ours
a minelike explosion from below, or an
alternate rising and sinking, or wont of all—was it.
a whirling movement, in crow directions, or am
working outward from centre to circumference!
These are questions which we trust may be an-
swered with sufficient accuracy by some calm and
capable man of science. Bat, at all events,
not only those portions of our island which
felt the shock, have good cause for thankfulness.
We have but to read a chapter on Earthquakes
to learn how mercifully they have been spared.
At Lisbon sixty thousand people and a flourishing
city were swallowed up in six minutes ; in Java, in
1772, forty villages and 2,957 inhabitants were
lost; in Southern Italy, in 1857-58, thirty thousand
men and women, and several towns, destroyed.
We take these cases almost at random from •
fearful catalogue. These things are not judg-
ments. The Divine Founder of our faith bade
His own disciples beware of such interpretations of
GOD'S ways and works ; but they are mysteries
which should at least teach us humility.

PHOTOGRAPHS soa Tin Qrzim.—Photographs of
the interior and exterior of St. Thoaaa's Church, Nev.
port, in the Isle of Wight, have been recently takes foe Use
Queen. The church contains mocnriente to the Priam
Consort and a daughter of Charles the

- CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen has been
groiously pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, now
Attaches at the nodsrmestioned places, to be Third Secre-
taries is her Majesty's Diplomatic Service:—The Hoe.
Edmund Jobs Moue" Hanover; Edmund Constantine
Henry Phipps, Stottgardt ; Mr. Robert Homy Hildyard,
Paris ; Mr. Charles Calvert Eden. Lisboa ; Mr. Georg*
Francis Birt Jennsr, Athens. The Queen has bees plated
to approve of Doe Bruno Baden as Consul at Kinston.,
Jamaica, for her Majesty the Queen of fipsie.—GatrUe.
FRXALE SCHOLARSHIPS IN ART.—We IIbdIHELAIId
that, with the sanction of the Treasury, the Ces.jm.. of
Council on Education propose to establish two scholarships,
to be held by the two most eminent female students of the
schools of art throughout the country, the sodomites; for
such scholarships having been provided by the fees titan for
inspecting the wedding presents of their Royal Higinesses
the Prince sod Princess of Wales at the South Remington
Museum in May lam.

PUBLIC Si:1100/31 COMMUNION. —The commis.
sinners held a meeting yesterday at No. 2, VietorM•atrest.
Westminster. Present—The Earl of Clemedno. K.G.. the
Lord Lytteltoe, Sir & H. Nordics* Bart. ILP.. the Rev.
W. H. Thompeen, end the Hot. Rebrud Twisletee. The
aecretary atteoded the meeting.

ght COUtl,

BALMORAL, Ocr. 4.

The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prince
of Panda and Princess Helena, walked in the grounds
yesterday morning.
In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by Princess
Louise, and attended by Baroness Schenck, drove round the
Lion's Face.

The Crown Prince and Princes' of hyena visited her
Majesty yesterday. All the keepers, servants, and tenants
of the Balmoral and Abergeldie estates were drawn up neer
the bridge to welcome the Orono Princess on her return to
the Highlands.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena
went out riding.

OCTOBER 5.

The Queen, accompanied by Pliocene Helena, and attended
by Lady Churchill, Lady A Bruce, and Lord C. Fitzßoy,
attended divine service in the parish church of Create yester-
day at teracior
The Rev. A. Anderson officiated.

The King of Greece and the Prince of Wales, attended by
Captain Grey, rode oa horseback yesterday rooming.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mn. W.
Grey, took a ca-riaze drive.
In the afternoon the King of Greece, in company with the
Prince and Princess of Wales, took a drive in an open
carriage.
The King of Greece visited the Duke of Cambridge at his
residence, Gloucester-house, Park-lane.
The Printed Wales had a dinner party to inset the King
of Greece last evening at Marlborough-house. The com-
pany consisted of his Majesty the King of Greece, the Prince
and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, M. De Bill.,
the Spanish Minister, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Aileebury, Countess Henrietta and: the Countess Amy
Danneskjuld, Count Sponneck, Baron Goldman:me, Lieu-
tenant French, Lieutenant Loth. Dr. Philemon and Professor
Koeppen in attendance on the King, Lord Harris, Mr. Odo
Russell, the Hoo. Mrs. W. Grey, Lieutenant-General
Knollys, Captain Grey, Mr. Fisher, sod Colonel Clifton, tint
Equerry in Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance,
and performed during dinner.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oftioe
from the Governor of Newfoundland and from the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian 1 drode.