6 NOVEMBER 1869, Page 3

We note, without drawing any deduction, considerable atmo- spheric and

seismical disturbance. There are earthquakes at Darmstadt and Mayence, and high tides on the coast, specially at Blackpool, where people on Thursday began to think about the day of judgment. Prophecies are rife in Germany that a volcano is to break out somewhere on the Rhine, and we are not quite sure Rhinelanders do not wish it would, so many English would go, and the English are getting very tired of the Rhine.