The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-02 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE AT MANILLA.

The following account of an earthquake at Ma-
nilla is extracted from the Singapore Chronicle, of
Jan. 1 :—" The Reaper, Captain Rind, arrived six
days ago, from Manilla the 12th December. The
most interesting article of intelligence by her is, that
of a rather violent earthquake, which happened there
on the 9th of last month. It occurred at half-past
six in the evening. The motion seemed to come.
from the south, and it was undulating, causing' a
rolling and creaking in the houses like that expe-
rienced in a ship at sea, though less in degree it is to
be presumed. The hanging lamps moved like pen,
dulums, swinging about four feet at each vibration.
Our informant mentions, that he was lighting
segar at the lamp, which suddenly moved away frorn
him ; he thought its motion caused by his having
touched it with the brim of his hat, but was unde-
ceived at the next undulation, when the chair on
which he stood was with himself overset upon
the floor, upon which he rushed into the street,
where he found the inhabitants (according to their
custom on such occasions) upon their knees. A
gentleman, passing through the town in a buggy,
observed the water in the gutters first running one
way and then the other, and, not feeling the earth-
quake owing to the motion of the vehicle, was at a
loss•to account for so strange a phenomenon, until
he observed the people falling on their knees, and
had himself alighted. The motion caused the Inas:
sive gates of the Puenta Granda, one of the en-
trances of the city, to swing upon their hingts, so
that a gentleman passing at the time thouf,,:'ht that
there were men pushing them from behind. The
earthquake lasted three minutes according to some,
whilst others say only two. It caused the bells
the steeples to ring as if they had been tolled by
the hands of men. After the earthquake, the river
rose to as great a height as in the rainy season,
and overflowed the low ground in its vicinity,
and the next morning it fell below its usual
level in the same proportion as the previous
evening it had risen above it. The ships felt the
shock severely, as if it were something knocking on
their bottoms. With all this, however, we ara
happy to learn that not much damage was done to
the buildings, and that no lives were lost. Arches
of two of the churches were broken, and some of
the buttresses of another thrown down; the prislsts
for debtors received some injury, and a nutra'tser.of
dwelling-houses were cracked in different places,
No subterraneous noi,es were heard 1 but for two
days previous, the weather had been more hot and
sultry than usual though perfectly clear, except see
the day on which the earthquake happened, when
a haze hung upon the horiaon throughout the bay,
similar to that which preceded the lust great earth.
quake at Valparaiso, a witness of which gives us
our present information. It was not known that
any volcanic eruption bad taken place."

STORM.—One of the most violent hurricanes
of wind we remember visited this county on Tuesday.
Each succeeding gust appeared in this town to increase in
fury, and trees, hay-stacks, chimneys, and other exposed
things were thrown down and scattered about. One al`
Cnowm and Co.'s large four-wheeled waggons, partly
loaded, and weighing nearly four tons, standing with the,
shafts towards the Welsh Bridge, was completely turned
round by one of the most violent of the gusts. A large stack
of chimneys, belonging to the house of Mrs. BURIN at
Westbury, was blown down, but pros identially fell inn:
the garden : this is :the second time the same stack has
fallen : had they been blown upon the house, the mast fatal
consequene.ea m4st have ensued. At Ludlow, Bridgnorth,
Oswestry, and elsewhere, considerable injury has been sus-
tained, although no fatal accident has occurred. At Chel-
tenham several houses were unroofed, and a heavy tile was
blown from the roof of a house in High-street, and passed
so near to the face of a little girl, that it completely cut
off the front and trimmings of her bonnet, but the child
escaped.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.