The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

AWFUL CATASTROPIIE.—We have been favoured
with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman
near Kenmare, which gives the following account
of a most melancholy and awful occurrence in
that neighbourhood :—" I have now to give you
an account of a most melancholy event that took
place here to-day :—I was going up to Sneem
fair about two o'clock, and just near the turn up
to the Glebe met Dr. O'Sullivan. He passed
me by, and as there was a heavy shower coining
on I ran on and got into a house at Drimina. I
had not been there more than two minutes when
I saw one of the brightest flashes of lightning
that I ever noticed, which was immediately fol-
lowed by a most tremendous clap of thunder ;
and in a few minutes- after some one passed by,
saying that a man had been killed near the
Priest's house. I ran down there and- saw the
poor Doctor stretched on the- road. At first I
did not know him, his face was so disfigured
—his skull over his forehead had been beaten in,
as if he had got a blow from a flat stick on the
head; his face was swelled and quite red ; his
lips were turned black, and the blood seemed
driven through his eyes, nose, and mouth; his
whiskers and eyebrows were scorched, and he
had several marks on his body, and particularly
on the inside of his left thigh. His hat, breeches,
stockings, and shoes, were torn to atoms, and
scattered on the road—in short such a spectacle
was never seen. There were three or four per-
sons with him at the time, but they escaped
unhurt. Mr. Brennan and John were twenty
yards behind him, but they were so dazzled by
the flash that they did not see him when knocked
down. The body is in such a state that it will
not propably keep for 24 hours. It created such
a panic at the fair, that there was not an ap-
pearance of it in half an hour."—( Kerry Evening
Post.)

MURDER.—We are sorry to state, that on Tues-
day night, as Mr. JAMES RYAN, of Kile, near
Thurles, was on his return home from his
'daughter's, he was waylaid, and barbarously mur-
dered. Mr. Ryan was above 80 years of age,
and an opulent and highly respectable farmer,
very much esteemed .—( Clonnzel herald, Nov. 24.)
On Saturday night William Collins, of Boon,
barony of Coonagh, in this county, returning
from the fair of Cappawhite, was murdered near
his own house. The perpetrators are not disco-
vered, though the Police are on the alert. An
inquest was held on the body ou Sunday by the
Rev. C. P. Coote, Michael Furnell, and John
D. White, Esqrs.—(Limerick Chronicle, N0v.23.)

CITY BUSlN,ESS.—Yestertlay the LORD MAYOR
proceeded in state from the Mansion House to
Guildhall, for the purpose of receiving the Re-
port of the Sheriffs upon the result of the Elec-
tion for Bridgemaster. Upon his Lordship's ar-
rival at Guildhall, the Sheriffs made their Report,
that the Election had fallen on Lewis Lewis;
his Lordship thereupon proceeded to the Hustings,
accompanied by several of the Aldermen, and
dissolved the Common hall. He afterwards held
his first Court of Aldermen, at which the thanks
of the Court were unanimously, voted to the late
Lord Mayor, and various ordinary business was
also transacted. The late Lord Mayor, attended
by the Recorder and the City Solicitor, went to
the Court of Exchequer to deliver in and swear
to the accounts of the Mayoralty just expired.—
Upon handing in the accounts, which a domestic
calamity prevented Alderman Maguey from pre-
-lenting on the day selected for the purpose,
the Recorder stated to the Barons of the Ex-
chequer that the late Lord Mayor felt the ut-
most gratification in having in his Mayoralty had
the honour of waiting upon his most Gracious
Majesty as Conservator of the River Thames to
the limits of the City jurisdiction, when the King
was proceeding upon his visit to his Northern do-
minions. The authority of the Chief Magistrate
over the river had existed from a period so distant
as not to be reached by the memory of man ; but
there never was an occasion upon which that au-
thority furnished matter of exultation so much
as upon the occasion to which he alluded. It
was a proud spectacle to behold the infinite mul-
titudes with which the shores of the river, and
the river itself, were crowded, to witness and
' hail the presence of their Sovereign amongst
them ; and it must be a peculiar satisfaction to the
Royal mind to know that fewer accidents occurred
on that day than upon occasions when the public at-
tention and curiosity wereattracted but slightly in
comparison with the immense attraction of that
day. That such uncommon facilities had been
rendered was owing to the activity of Alderman
Magney, who had been unremitting in his efforts
for fhe prevention of confusion, and the preserva-
' Lion of the public peace. The return of his Ma-
jesty to the Metropolis gave Aldermen Maguey a
second opportunity of exerting himself in the
capacity of Conservator of the River, and the
same zeal and activity were exercised. The Re-
corder concluded with a compliment to the late
L)rd Mayor for his conduct during Ids Mayoralty,
the Barons bowed ; and the Accounts having
been sworn to, the City procession departed.