The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-01 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE IN CU:';NEIITARA:

Tiw bogs which were trotting about prevtout
to the arrival of the KING in Ireland,. but. like
other perturbed spirits, were lulled into repose
during the ,Royal Visit, are again in motion.
The- fiAlOwing account is extracted from a Pro—
vincial Paper We are informed by a gebtle-
man whowsides in this neighbourhood, and
whom the circumstance was related by one of
the sufferers shortly after, that a Very calamitous
event occurred about ten days t'„ince, in Joyce
Countyi, in this,.-country, similar to the late
movements of the bogs which caused so me;:h
alarm, and, as to its extent, equally as de-
structive. Upwards of one hundred acres of
the - lands of Letterbricken, part' of the' pro.
perty of the Provost of Trinity College, prime
pasture and mountain, on which a number of c'om-
fortable and industrious tenants resided, eorn.
meneed • Moving, and after carrying before
it huge rocks, large heaps of earth, the. en-
tire crop of wheat, oats, potatoes, &c. together
with every other obstacle which -was likely to
impede its progress,- totally disappeared.—
Previous to its Moveutent,:a great noise.- was for
some time heard, resembling, that of distant
thunder, and the earth:became -convulsed.; in
consequence of which two poi,r unsuspecting
people were filled With the -Mow: indescribable
terror and alarm at the approaching danger, in
which apprehensive situation they remained,
silently gazing on each other, until the sudden
ninvernent of the *thountair4 carrying, with it
rocks, earth, and tillage, aroused thenkto. a. sense
of their perilous situation, and they then:had the
presence of mind to take the stock. from -Off the
land, and remove their little property from the
direction whiCh it was likely to take. Thus, in
the presence of an astonished and 'paralysed
people, did this terrific moving mass continue in
easy progress, until its arrival at the-brink of the
sea, into which it plunged with _rapid. motion,
leaving the whole route which it took a complete
and frightful waste, and a helpless, homeless
tenantry in, a state of wretCheduess, easier &o be
imagined than described. The only cause which
Call be assigned for this singular and awful 'revo-
lution of the earth is this, that the great drought
which we had some time ago parched'ep:the sur-
:'ace of slimy earth which covered the* immense
.rocks,-the mouldering of which caused -,sucli cavi.
lies•as to forCe the mountain v way, it then not
having a sufficient .bedding. ' l!wo days after the
above singular and destructive occurrence, a
i large tract of laud,' thickly inhabited, the pro-
perty of R. Mar-r.!:.!, Fe'sq. M.P., and in the same
neighbourhood, was visited with a like.pheno-
menon, but even of a more destructive nature,
as-the loss or the wretched Sufferers in this case
was not confined 'land ,and .crops; hut
their entire stkoet: aattAaperty were also swal.
lowed up in this dreadful and sudden ' earth-
quake."---(ruarn Gaz:tte.) •

The idea of building a new bridge over the
Liffey, to afford a new approach to the Phcenit
L.
liark, originated with the KING daring Ins resi.
dence in' Dublin.

The first toll in England for mending the high.
NI a:, s, was imposed in the reign of Elm Altri [Jr.;
it was that for <repairing the road betaieen St.
Giles's and Temple-bar.