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in 1550, by King Edward VI.; but in the beginning of able circumstance was the agitation of the horses in the 
Mr. Leader, and Mr. 
Moore, all of whom spoke at great length on the prospects 
of the Corn-law Repeal. 
Woolwich.—On Saturday morning Woolwich presented 
a very animated scene, in consequence of the visit of the 
Duke of Wellington to inspect the 7th Dragoon Guards, 
previously to their embarkation for the Cape of Good 
Tope. The troops assembled on the Common shortly 
before 12 0’clock, at which time the Duke arrived accom- 
panied by the Marquess and Marchioness of Douro. The 
7th Dragoon Guards formed in line, and his Grace, as he 
viewed them in parade order, was received with all the 
honours. After parade, the public were allowed to close 
in to the inner square, to witness the evolutions of the 
troops, who passed in close and open review order, and 
afterwards went through the sword-exercise. Atthe con- 
clusion of the inspection, his Grace rode up to the line, 
and complimented the officers on the efficiency of the re- 
giment, bidding them a hearty and soldierlike farewell. 
fis Grace returned to his carriage, accompanied by a 
numerous suite; and it is much to be doubted whether, at 
any period of his career of glory, he met with more spon- 
taneous or general expressions of respect. The square 
was formed of carriages, private and public, and thousands 
arrived from London by steam-boats, railroad, and on 
foot. No accident occurred, save one private being 
dragged off his horse, his accoutrements entangling with 
the next horse, but he escaped uninjured, 
Mortality of the Metropolis.—The following is the 
number of deaths registered in the week ending Satur- 
day, Mar. 18 :—West districts, 149 ; North districts, 226 ; 
Central districts, 177; East districts, 228; South dis- 
tricts, 260. Total, 1040, (528 males, 512 females.) 
Weekly average for the last five years, 903, (males 461, 
females 442,) and for the Jast five winters, 1004, 
WBrobincial News. 
Liverpool.—We briefly noticed in our last the occur- 
rence of an earthquake which visited Liverpool on the 
previous day, and extended to both sides of the Mersey. 
The particulars had not then reached town, but the 
following details since received will show that its effects 
were much more extensive than was at first imagined. It 
commenced in this town about five minutes before 1, Am. 
The most precise narrative is that of the head constable, 
who was in the parlour of his house at the time, when he 
suddenly heard and felt a violent agitation of the windows 
and of the floor. Being accustomed to hear Joud explosions 
from the works in Albert dock, now excavating, he was 
not much surprised at the noise ; but in less than a minute 
afterwards another shock followed, more violent than the 
first—the house shook from top to bottom, and a rumbling 
Noise was heard under the house, as if a dozen railway 
trains had been running through a tunnel underneath. 
The shock and the noise were so loud and violent as to 
Awaken all the family, who assembled on the stairs in a 
State of great alarm. After this, the house was examined, 
and it was found that the windows on the second floor 
had been forced open by the shock, and some furniture had 
received a trifling displacement ; but no damage was done, 
and the alarm scon subsided. The head constable adds, 
that the shock appeared to him to proceed from east to 
West, and that nothing could be more distinctly per- 
Septible. ‘The policeman on duty at George’s Dock-bridge 
Was leaning against one of the pillars there, when sud- 
denly he thought he hearda carriage run rapidly across the 
ridge, and the ground rumbling and shaking around him. 
his officer perceived two shocks. The policeman on 
duty at the north end of Canning Dock stated that he 
first observed some casks, lying on the quay, move as if they 
Were alive : they tumbled and shook as if some men were 
oncealed in them. The first shock lasted from three to 
ve seconds; the second from seven to ten seconds ; and 
at first it appeared asif the tower of a church at some dis- 
tance had fallen down at one crash, Not the least remark- 
stables throughout the town, particularly in the south 
division. The shock is variously described by different 
individuals. Some felt the bed rise like the heaving of a 
vessel, and heard a noise resembling that of a coach run- 
ning along the street ; others describe it as like the report 
of a cannon, ne man compared the noise to that of a 
large dog running round the room; but the accounts 
generally agree that it lasted for about four seconds, and 
was accompanied by a buzzing or rumbling noise, like the 
starting-stroke of a] ive st gine. The motion 
was vibratory, horizontal, and vertical, lifting those who 
were sufficiently awake to discern it, like the motion of a 
coach in swift movement on unequal ground; and many 
persons arose from their beds in great fright. In the 
Custom-house, decidedly the heaviest building in the town, 
the keeper of the house, who sleeps at the top, felt it 
severely, and became alarmed, but could not account for 
the shock. The watchman stationed in the building 
below also felt it simultaneously, and states that it made 
the windows and the doors shake and rattle in a violent 
manner. The shock extended to the Cheshire side of the 
Mersey, and was felt more severely there than in Liver- 
pool; the inhabitants of New Brighton, Egremont, Sea- 
combe, Woodside, and Birkenhead, were much alarmed by 
it, and its effects were strongly felt in Manchester, Wigan, 
Preston, and their immediate neighbourhoods. The 
guard of the London mail, when waiting at Parkside, saw 
the line undulate very visibly, and remarked upon the 
circumstance to another person in the employment of the 
company. 
Manchester.—The earthquake was felt severely in this 
town and neighbourhood. A slight shock was experienced 
about 20 minutes after 8 o'clock, on the morning of Fri- 
day week, through a considerable part of the district to 
the north-eastward of Manchester; its centre apparently 
eing in the chain of hills which separate Yorkshire and 
Lancashire, but it was felt by several families residing in 
this immediate neighbourhood, and more particularly at 
Cheetham Hill. The shock on Friday last was somewhat 
more violent, and appears to have been generally felt 
throughout the suburbs, particularly in the neighbour- 
hoods of the Cheetham Hill-road and Crumpsall ; Strange- 
ways, Higher and Lower Broughton, Kersal Moor, and 
Prestwich ; Ardwick and Longsight; Greenheys and 
Rusholme, Moss Side, the Stratford New-road, and Stret- 
ford; Pendleton, Pendlebury, Eccles, and Barton-upon- 
Irwell. Almost all the persons who noticed the time 
concur in stating that it commenced from five to three 
minutes before 1 a.m., and, in one or two instances, 
a sensation is said to have been experienced for an 
hour previously of an oppressive heat and closeness in 
the atmosphere. There was but. little wind, and that 
rom the south-east ; the barometer exhibited no remark- 
tuati The Manch uardian states, that 
about an hour previous, the moon, which was full at 6 
A.M. on Thursday, although shining unclouded, presented 
a dim and filmy appearance, as though a thin veil of cloud 
were drawn over her whole disc. In connection with this 
fact, they also mention that, perhaps an hour before the 
earthquake which caused so much alarm in this town in 
September, 1777—occurring about eleven o’clock on a 
Sunday morning, and causing the people to rush affrighted 
out of the churches and other places of worship—the sun, 
though shining in a clear unclouded sky, was observed to 
be so dim as to be looked at steadily with the naked eye 
without dazzling the vision, and immediately after the 
earthquake the sun shone out again with great brilliancy. 
Lancaster.—About one o’clock on Friday morning, 
this town and its vicinity experienced several smart 
shocks of the earthquake, which continued for about 50 se- 
conds, and created considerable alarm. The force of the 
shocks was such that many persons were shaken in their 
beds, whilst windows and furniture rocked to and fro in 
every direction, and the houses trembled to their founda- 
tions. The river is likewise reported to have been con- 
siderably agitated. No personal injury has been sus- 
tained, though considerable damage has been done amongst 
the china, glass, and other brittle materials. The fetters 
and other prison implements hung up in the gateway 
tower of the castle, clanked against each other with great 
violence. 
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was intimated by an unnatural buzzing noise, gradually 
increasing louder and louder until the moment when the 
point, and then the sound and 
the effects produced on the instant became very alarming ; 
windows and doors rattling—and the very houses appa- 
rently staggering to their foundations. The watchmen of 
the town and the public officers on duty describe the sen- 
sations which it excited as appalling, the ground appear- 
ing to them to be sinking under them, and themselves 
as though they were descending to a great depth. 
lls rang in several houses, and great alarm was 
experienced in many families, 
Isle of Mam.—The earthquake was felt in the Isle of 
Man at the same time it occurred in Lancashire. The 
following letter, dated Douglas, March 18, describes the 
shock:— A slight shock of an earthquake ‘was felt in 
this town and its vicinity yesterday morning, about one 
o'clock, A.M. The shock lasted a few seconds, and, in 
some cases, produced iderable alarm to the inhabitants, 
who were awoke by the oscillation felt in their houses. It 
was preceded by a rumbling noise, and followed by a sen- 
sible vibration from east to At the time of the 
shock the wind became instantly calm, but a considerable 
It is mentioned as a 
curious fact, in connexion with this occurrence, that at the 
time of the great earthquake at Lisbon, a similar shock 
was felt in this country, and the waters of Conniston Lake 
rose to an unusual extent. 
Kendal.—The earthquake occurred in this neighbour- 
hood, and in other parts of Westmoreland, about 20 
minutes past one on Friday morning. On the previous 
evening the air was sultry and the clouds lowering, and 
the night was so unusually dark that it might be likened 
to a total eclipse of the moon, although a full moon rose 
at four minutes past seven on the same evening. After 
the shock the darkness still continued, and there was a 
yellowish blaze in the sky, accompanied by a strong rush 
of wind. The violence of the shock was so great as to 
cause the inhabitants to suppose they were rolling out of 
bed, and all agree in the testimony that the doors and 
windows of their habitations rattled as shaken by a whirl- 
wind, and the furniture of the rooms, especially those of 
a light brittle description, were violently agitated by the 
collision of one piece against enother. Numbers of per- 
sons simultaneously arose from theit beds, who had be- 
come suddenly awakened by the rumbling of the earth- 
quake and the tremulous motion of their houses. About 
two miles from Kendal, and at a village called Sedgwick, 
are extensive powder-mills, and several soothed themselves 
with the calamitous consolation, ‘that it was only the 
powder-mills that had blown up!” In several houses the 
inmates became so alarmed as to make a sudden egress 
into the street, and when the cause of their fright could 
not be ascertained, were seized with the utmost fear and 
dismay. At the Nelson Tavern the proprietor and family 
had not retired to rest, and the shock caused the greatest 
terror. The decanters and wine-glasses on the shelves began 
to dance and knock against each other. At several of the 
other inns the bells were suddenly rung, and the inmates, 
who had retired to rest, awoke in great consternation. 
The shock appears to have been felt generally with great 
severity in all parts of the county. At Kirkham, Black- 
pool, Poulton, Fleetwood, Whitehaven, Ambleside, and 
Keswick, the shock was very sharp, and caused consi- 
derable alarm. 
Guernsey and Jersey.—The earthquake was distinctly 
felt in this island a little before 1 0’clock on the morning 
of Friday. It was accompanied by a noise resembling the 
rumbling of a carriage, and is described by those who felt 
it to have proceeded vertically from the earth. A gentle- 
man residing at Mount Durand states that he distinctly 
saw the furniture in his bed-room agitated by the shock. 
The Jersey papers state that the shock was felt in that 
island nearly at the same time. 
Carmarthen.—The local papers continue to give ac- 
counts of fresh outrages committed by “ Rebecca and 
her daughters.’’ On Tuesday night, about eleven o'clock, 
they visited Nanty-clawdd turnpike-gate, between New- 
castle Emlyn and this town, and gave the toll-keeper no- 
tice to quit, which he did without any further ceremony. 
They afterwards unroofed the toll-house, demolished the 
windows, and broke the gate and posts to atoms.—On 
Thursday, at the Pembroke Assizes, Thomas and David 
Hewells were indicted for having, in company with other 
persons, riotously and tumultuously assembled together, 
and for having demolished and pulled down the toll-house 
of William Rees. The facts of the case, which are al- 
ready familiar to our readers, were stated by the prose- 
cutor, and by an accomplice named Griffiths ; but in con- 
sequence of the jury disbelieving his testimony, both pri- 
soners were acquitted. ae are 
Cardiff.—The Welch collieries are again In such an 
unsettled state, that at Aberdare, last week, it was consi- 
dered necessary to call out the military. In Monmouth- 
shire the whole of the colliers still continue on strike, to 
the number of about 5000, and continue meeting in va- 
rious parts of the hills. In Glamorganshire the works 
on strike are those of Gelly Gaer, of Pont-y-Preed, the 
Duffryn Works, and one or two others. The strike in 
Monmouthshire having now continued for ten weeks, a 
number of the Monmouth colliers, to the number of about 
700, came from Monmouthshire, and having crossed the 
Taaf Vale Railway, compelled the men of the Duffryn 
Aberdare Works and the Gelly Gaer Works to strike ; 
and from this the strike extended itself to the other col- 
lieries. Numerous meetings have been held, both by the 
colliers and by the magistrates, but nothing of a satisfac- 
tory nature has yet been arranged. A large meeting of 
Colliers was held last week at Cross Penmaer, which wag 
attended by deputations from forty-two collicries, On 
the same day some volunteers had been procured from the 
neighbourhood of Dowlais, but on their arriving at the 
Duffryn Aberdare Works, they were met by the men and 
