A shock of an earthquake felt in Lancashire, England, and on the Isle of Guernsey, produced considerable alarm. The papers teem with accounts of singular phenomena. Fearful sights are seen in all parts of the world. {302} _Saturday, 11_.--Very cold last night. The water froze in the warmest rooms in the city. At nine a. m., I started in company with Brother Brigham Young, to Ramus, and had a delightful drive Arrived at Brother McClary's at a quarter to four. Lodged with Brother Benjamin F. Johnson. In the evening, when pulling sticks, I pulled up Justus A. Morse, the strongest man in Ramus, with one hand. It is reported in the papers that the workmen employed on the _General Pratt_ (a steamboat which was burned and sunk last fall near Memphis in the Mississippi,) with a diving bell, on the 3rd of January, found the wreck in about twenty-four feet of water. On that night was an earthquake. Next day the wreck had disappeared, no trace could be found, and the water was from one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet deep, and for about one hundred feet no bottom; and in another place a bar was discovered where previously was deep water. The _New York Herald_ publishes "The Vision" in poetry, &c.; also Miss Eliza R. Snow's Festival Song--an unusual act of liberality towards the Saints, for a publisher. [Sidenote: The Prophet at Ramus.] _Sunday, 12_.--I preached to the Saints at Ramus, in the morning, taking for a text 14th chapter of John, 2nd verse:--"In my Father's house are many mansions." I found the brethren well, and in good spirits. In the afternoon, Brother Brigham preached. Stayed at Brother Benjamin F. Johnson's all night. Elder George J. Adams having been called to Nauvoo, twelve hundred inhabitants of Boston petitioned for Elders Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde to come and labor in that place. A similar petition was also sent from Salem, Massachusetts, by Elder Erastus Snow. _Monday, 13_.--I wrestled with William Wall, the most expert wrestler in Ramus, and threw him. In the afternoon, held a Church meeting. Almon W. {303} Babbitt was appointed, by the vote of the people, the presiding elder of that place. In the evening meeting twenty-seven children were blessed, nineteen of whom I blessed myself, with great fervency. Virtue went out of me, and my strength left me, when I gave up the meeting to the brethren. Mercury was three degrees below zero, at sunrise in Nauvoo. Mr. Ivins arrived at Nauvoo, and stated that Orrin Porter Rockwell came with him from New Jersey to St. Louis, when Rockwell was arrested by advertisement on the 4th of March, and put in St. Louis jail. Elder Hyde went to Quincy to preach. Newspapers report that iron filings and sulphur have fallen in the form of a snow storm in five counties in Missouri. [Sidenote: The Prophet's Explanation of "Virtue Went Out of Me."]