23 MARCH 1867, Page 3

Some details of the tremendous earthquake in Mitylene have been

received in London. It occurred at 6 p.m. on the 6th inst., when a double shock was felt, which flung down in a moment whole blocks of solid stone houses. The castle, the cathedral, the governor's house, the prison, the mosque, and all the Consular residences were reduced to heaps of ruins. Half the town was destroyed, some 800 people were buried, and in the lower part of the town the earth opened and swallowed a broad belt of building, while the sea rushed into the slope inland. Very few villages in the island have escaped, and the inhabitants are starving.