The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-10 00:00:00

ANTICIPATED EARTHQUAKE.

The delusion of the earthquake appears to increase as the time
approaches when it is expected to come into operation. Tester.
day two of the Irish steamers, which left London in the course of
the day, were literally crowded with passengers, and the Captain of
one of them told the writer that the only living creatures they
brought to London were pigs. Many a man, and woman too,
has turned their pretended alarm to good account, by moving
from one part of London to another in a great hurry, leaving
the landlord to reconcile himself to his loss of rent and empty
houses. The Magistrates at the Thames Police-office have been more
aen once or twice required to adjust the differences between indi-
viduals arising out of the popular delusion. Yesterday one Owen
Matthews, from Cork, complained of what he called an " an attack
of the earthquake," perpetrated by Mike Donnolly, a countryman
of his. Mr. Matthews having given some offence to Mike, the
latter took a " dthrop o' the cratur," and waited on the com-
plainant to tell him his miud, when he took occasion to hint
that it was such as him (the complainant) that the earth-
quake was coming to swallow up. At this Matthews became
very much enraged, and pushed Mike and his wife out
of the house, which operation brought the nose of the
one and the fist of the other within a very unpleasant
proximity of each other. At this moment Tim Casey was
passing, and of course could not resist the temptation of joining in
the row. Mrs. Mike Donnolly, seeing this reinforcement opposed
to her husband, took part in the melee herself, when all the lot,
either by the shock of an earthquake or some other force, found
themselves embracing tlfeir kindred mud in the street. A worthy
po' iceman then interposed, and caused operations to be suspended.
The Magistrate seemed to think the affair was no more than an Irish
row, " everybody pitch into everybody," and dismissed the case.

ENGLISH NAVY.—Captains Alarryat and Glasscock
have each given us very interesting sketches and scenes, drawn
from actual observation, of our gallant tars, but Cooper,
the celebrated author of " Tne Pilot," in his new
story, " The Two Admirals,' just published, for the first time
places before u-, in h.s own unrivalled manner, a fleet of Eng-
lish men-of-war. it. is impo sible to jrn3gine a finer theme
for such a writer. His new story the scenes of which are
English altegethtr, and the time the midele of the last century,
will possess even m ire interest than his previous far-lamed
romances, which have made his name familiar as housM.old
words in England as well as in America, as the greatest writer
of Laval stories who has yet appeared.
ALARMING EXPLOSION IN LAMBETH.—Some alarm
was created in the Lower. marsh Lambeth, this morning, at
about 11 o'clock, in conserinence of an explosion of chlorite of
potash, and in the manufacture of lucifer matches, on the
premises of Mr. Thomas flag, oil and colourman. Mr. Hall,
who was mixing the composition at the time, had his hands
burned in a dreadful planner. The fire occasioned by it was
extinguished before it had done any serious mischief.,.
This morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a
man named Jahn Concrief, forty years of age, in the employ
of Air. Williams, builder, of No. 57 Museum-street, Blooms-
bury, met with a horrible death, by being crushed between the
wheel of the cart he was driving and a
gate-post in S i
yard. The instant the calamitous coccuiree was,
by the police observed
was placed on a stretcher aud emsveyed ce to
Cb4rnig.erp.s Hospital, but life Iran found to be exto!t!
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