NEWS OF TILE WEEK,
THE event of the week has been a harmless -but widely-felt earthquake, which shot across the island from west to east at 3.20 a.m. on Tuesday morning, wakening a considerable num- ber of British householders from their sleep. It was severest in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, at Hereford, Worcester, and Derby ; but it was felt on the south coast and on the British Channel, and struck a ship in St. George's Channel twenty miles west of Milford Haven. - It does not appear to have been perceived at all on the Continent of Europe, nor, we think, at any point further north than Southport, in Lancashire, on the west coast ; or the Vale of Pickering, in Yorkshire, in the midland region; nor at any place exactly on the east coast. But as far east as Leicestershire, Notting- hamshire, and Northamptonshire, in the north, and as Roches- ter, in Kent, in the south of England, the shock was distinctly felt. In London it was perceived, but evidently much more slightly than in the west. A shock of earthquake was felt in Normandy on the Sunday, but not on the day in question.
