The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-11 00:00:00

THE EARTHQUAKE ON TUESDAY.

The earthquake shock, which we described yesterday,
seems to have been felt over a wider extent of country
than was known at the time we then wrote. The sensa-
tions and noise caused by the vibratory motion appear to
have been nearly the same at the different points where
they were perceived ; and so far as we are at present
informed, importance has arisen from
Commencing from the shores of Dublin and Wicklow
the phenomenon.
no
casualty
of any
and taking nearly a circular direction, the shock appears
to have been sensibly felt as far as Gloucester, where,
from our present information,
it seems to have been ex.
hausted. The disturbances, upon a comparison of time,
wore as nearly as possible simultaneous ; at least there
is no appreciable difference in the times they are re-
ported to have been perceived in different places. The
course taken was across the Irish channel—where, how-
ever, the passengers in the ordinary packets, running
between Kingstown and Liverpool and Kingstown and
Holyhead, did not perceive any indications of the phe-
nomenon—along the Coast of North Wales, through the
principal districts of
South Lancashire, and along the
edges of Cheshire and Shropshire into Gloucestershire.
The weather, for several days previously had been wet
and sultry, with a warm and unseasonable atmosphere.
On Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, the thermo-
meter, particularly in the neighbourhood of Liverpool,
ranged between 50 and 60 degs., and, during the night,
it rose, although
much heavy rain had fallen. There
must evidently hive been some electric fluid at the
time, as about the
period of the shock there was ob-
servable a very luminous appearance in the atmosphere.
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The last shock of somewhat similar description, which
was experienced
with various degrees of intensity in
Lancashire, throughout the greater part of the county,
and ;the adjacent districts of Westmoreland, Cumber-
land, Cheshire, Flintshire, and the Isle of Man, took
place a few minutes before one o'clock on the morn-
ing of Friday, Mrtrch 17,
1843. On that occasion, as
der and severity of the visitation, but
on the present,son.ewhat varying statements were made
as to the stion
there was a 'mate vial difference in the state of the
weather and cf the atmosphere. On that occasion the
barometer wes very low, not more than 29.75, having
been gradually falling for two days previously, and
the day was The, the wind being north-west. The ther-
mometer airing the night was then 39, showing a
material diTereece from the state of the atmosphere to
Monday kat. After the last shock in 1843, accounts
were received from the West Indies announcing that a
severe earthquake had taken place there about the same
time, and .hat a great number of lives had been sacri-
ficed. Many are inclined to think that there has again
been another fearful earthquake in one of those countries
most liable to such convulsions of nature, whilst others
feel disposed to attribute the present phenomenon to the
great
series of eruptions lately going on in Etna, and
considep that place as the local seat of the convulsion.
Meanwhile we may call attention to a paragraph in
another
ning of this month an earthquake had taken place there,
part of our paper, stating that about the begin-
and another was expected. As to the intimate relation
between earthquakes and volcanoes, physical philo-
sophers are pretty generally agreed.
The reports hitherto received from the various seats
of the phenomenon concur in stating that no material
damage has been done. As may be expected, consider-
able alarm wes felt along the whole course of the shock.
It Is premature to ascertain the exact boundary lines of
tilt extensive district affected by the convulsion; but it
is certain that the area was considerable, and wo have
reason to be thankful that the shock was, comparatively,
so slight. Three sharp shocks of earthquake, preceded
I by a loud rumbling noise, were experienced eight days
ego at Malaga. All the houses and public buildings
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Were shaken, but it is not stated that any were thrown
down or in. The inhabitants assembled in the
public squares, and many of them went on board vessels
in the port. The temperature was suffocating, and the
' sky cloudy.

SUSPECTED MURDER.--The body of a young man,
named Stephen Hook, was, on Monday, the :2C3th ult., taken
out of the river Thames, near Sutton Courtney, Barks, after
having been in the water for the space of three weeks. The
deceased had been missing since Abingdon Michaelmas fair
night, when he was last seen in company with some women
of questionable character, and in a condition rather the worse
for the merry-making of the day. An inquest was sum-
moned to inquire into his death. The medical testimony
went to show that the effusion of blood on the brain of the
deceased had resulted from violence, and the jury, after a
most patient investigation, returned a verdict of '6 Wilful
murder against some person or persons to the jury un-
known."