The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

TM EARTIIQUAKK LAST WEEK

We gave in our last all the details which had re/wheel us
have now nothing
pous readers. The shock
that time of this unusual occurrence, and
of Lancashire, with
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appears to have been felt in every
far as Carlisle, eastward to Rochdale,
or at all even
and Macclesfield—the last-named tow
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limits ; and westward to the isle of
ter and Hol)well (so far as we have 'llel formeii,n,gahs,ssi,:istii)cioett:rltdre,s
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effects,the Lasundeasacititdnetdhei
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Preston papers, appear to have been more violent than al
experienced in this neighbourhood.
A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
following statement as to the phenomena which were snakes
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fested under ground during the late earthquake. lie
lie
that " very few men were down in the pits at the sir
occurred; but those who were at work stated, that the
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a slight shivering motion precisely similar to that can;
the gushing of the damp when ignited. This sensaati'
experienced in the collieries of Farnworth, KersleN
Lever, &c. No rupture took place, except the un:
of some scaly portions of soft rock, which, in('
slihtest motion would certainly effect. As far a
ascgertain, none of the men at the time suspecte
cause of the motion ; but, when they ascended in t.
ing, related the circumstance, and attributed it to a;.
effluxion of fire damp in some adjoining place. Fire
when a light is applied to it, rolls down the bay towars
aperture, and presents the appearance of flakes of cotton
&c. The shock was, of course, felt above ground in these
places."
The Guardian also says that there is pretty strong con-
current testimony to the fact, that a slight shock was felt
t
about half-past ten o'clock on Thursday evening abort
two hours and a half before the shock of Friday morning.
We have conversed with various parties who experienced
this shock ; but they all describe it as slight. One gentle-
man, residing on Kersall Moor, distinctly saw the door of
the apartment shake to and fro, as if agitated by a sudden
and violent gust of wind. It was also felt at Iligher
Broughton, Cheetham, and other neighbourhoods. It ap-
pears to have been a single concussion, accompanied by a
tremulous or vibratory motion; and of its reality we think
few will be disposed to doubt, after reading the account of a
medical gentleman experiencing a shock at Kendal, pretty
nearly about the same time. There can, we think, be little
doubt, that although insignificant in it effects,—not a single
building, or even a chimney, being anywhere overthrown by
it,—it was stronger and more distinctly marked to the senses
of hearing and feeling, than any earthquake which has been
felt in the North of England since the earthquakes of 1753,
1777, and 1795, of which some account will be found
:in
another column. The Liverpool Times of Tuesday says
" We greatly fear that it will prove to have been merely the
last vibration of an earthquake which has been felt in some
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The following are some of the places (iu addition
to those
given in our last) where the shock was perceptibly felt :
Rochdale, Bolton, St. Helens, Southport, C
ro ' kton Stock-
port, Altrincham, Bowdon, Dunham, Northwicb,Cock er-
mouth, Egremont (Cumberland), &e. The following . ac.
count, from the Whilehaven Herald, gives some curious
particulars :—" One gentleman informs us, that, at the
particulars of the first shock, his bed appeared as if rouhlye
shaken by a strong man, whilst a bunch of keys that hung '-
a chest of drawers were violently jingled at the same instanitn
Our Egremont correspondent informs us, the shock was so
violent at at that place, that some on being suddenly
m sons,
awakened, were led to imagine their houses had been broken
into. At Maryport, says our intelligent correspondent at
that place, many persons were awakened from their sleep be
a dull sound resembling the distant fall of heavy timbers, and
a violent tremulous motion of the beds and other furniture.
The earthquake was very sensibly felt at Cockerniouth ; and
in connection with the observes subject, a respectable corres-
pondent in that town —' As my father and I were
returning from Parton on Thursday night, we observed,
about half way between the village and the tunnel, two
fissures or cracks in hround, about a yard long, and one
inch and a half wide,and steam issuing from them. I put
my hand into one, and found it quite warm. I could not
account for this • but, since the slight shock of earthquake
which was felt here last night, it has occurred to me that
there might be some connection between the phenomenon I
have alluded to, and the convulsion that has frightened the
town from its propriety.' Our Gosforth correspondent also
informs us, that the shock was severely felt in that locality.
A distant rumbling noise, he says, was heard prior to the
shock, not unlike the rattling of a carriage passing with great
rapidity, and appeared to run from the S. to the N.E. This
subterranean noise continued about two minutes, and the
shock about two seconds. The convulsion was also felt at
hounds was where a similar noise was heard. The
hounds at the latter place made a mosthtful calamity approach-
terrific noise in their
kennel, as if conscious of some frig
At
ing."
Kendal the shock was very severe. About two miles
from that town are extensive powder-mills, and several
soothed themselves with the calamitous consolation " that it
was only the povvder-mills that had blown up !" au occurrence
which is by no means unfrequent. A scientific meteorologist
says he felt the motion, and describes the rumbling as of a
loaded waggon, but too short in its duration to be mistaken
for it, and immediately concluded that it was the shock of
• ' Arms Hotel, several of the
an earthquake. At the King s
inmates became so alarmed as to make a sudden egress into
the street; and when the cause of their fright could not be
ascertained, they were seized with the utmost fear and dis-
the proprietor and family bad
may. At the Nelson Tavern,
not retired to rest, and when about locking up, the shock
caused the greatest terror. The decanters and wine-glasses
which were on the shelves, began to dance and knock one
against another, causing a jingling discord, to their deep con-
sternation. At several of the other inns the bells were sud-
denly rung to the discomfiture of the fatally who had retired
to rest. A policeman says, that he was standing near to a
large carpet manufactory at the north-east end of the town,
when he heard a rumbling noise at first resembling very dis-
tant thunder, which immediately assumed a
andloudertone,
when the ground began to shake beneath him, _ the
rumbling then died away, like the cadence of a large
.drum.
The glass of the windows of the manufactory was agitated,
and the noise created by it might have been heardo a con-
siderable distance. At an extensive farm, called Oxen
and a half south-east of the town, the
Holme, about a mile
shock was felt most severely, and the inmates rose, en masse.
But here, again, the consolotary thought passed ieir minds
" that it was only the large
that hadblown up:'
manufactory at at the
The machinery of a large woollen .
were set in motion by the
southern extremity of the town
to gear.
hock throwing it in

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