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, no casualty of any importance has arisen from
the phenomenon.
Commencing from the shores of Dublin and Wicklow
and taking nearly
.a circular direction, the shock appears
to have been sensibly felt as far aa Gloucester, where,
from our present information, it seems to have been ex-
hausted. The disturbances, upon a comparison of time,
were 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 ware\ 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 have been some electric fluid at the
ob-
servable a very
-umlbous appearance in the atmosphere.
1
trrimhee,laasst
sahboocukt
otfhe Period of the shock there was a 8
emewhat similar description, which
WAS experienced with various degrees of intensity in
Lancashire,. throughout the greater part of the county,
and ithe 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, Meech 17,
1843. On that occasion, as
on the present, 89aeswhat varying statements were made
es to the duration and severity of the visitation, but
there was a 'pate slat difference in the state of the
weather and of the
atmosphere. On that occasion the
barometer was very low, not more than 29.75, having
been gradually rolling for two days previously, and
the day was fine, the wind being north-west. The ther-
mometer
material difference from the state of the atmosphere to
Mondaye
ldaustring the night was then 39, showing a
last.
After the last shock in 1843, accounts
were received ceived from the West Indies announcing that a
severe earthquake had taken place there about the same
time,e
ficed. Many are inclined to think that there has again
bnaannodththesrt a great number of lives had been sacri-
ficed.
fearful earthquake in one of those countries
most liable to such convulsions of nature, whilst others
feelgreat series of eruptions lately gong on in Etna, and
consider osl to attribute the present
i phenomenon to the
that place as the local seat of the convulsion.
Meanwhile we may call attention to a paragraph in
another pert of our paper, stating that about tbe begin-
ningand another was expected. As to the relation
between
of
place there,
intimate
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 was felt along the whole course of the shock.
the extensive district affected by
.the convulsion; but it
It is Premature to ascertain the exact boundary lines of
is certain that the area was considerable, and we have
, reason to be thankful that the shock was, comparatively,
so slight. Three sharp shocks of earthquake, preceded
by u teed rumbling noise, were experienced eight days
ego at ;Malaga. All the houses and public buildipgs
*ere shaken, but it is not stated that any were thrown
) dovn or injured. The inhabitants assembled in the
public oguares, and many of them went on board vessels
3 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 :2 t h ult., taken
out of the river Thames, near Sutton Courtney, Berks, 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. r 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 " Wilful
murder against some person or persona to the jury un-
known."