CORINTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 586, 16 June 1858, Page 4

CORINTH.

The " Standard" of the 9th March says that | on Sunday, Feb. 21, about eleven o'clock at night, Corinth was visited with an earthquake that destroyed nearly every house in the city, and was further afflicted by the outbreak of a fire which. consumed a large amount of property. The shock of the earthquake was felt in all the surrounding villages. Kalimachi, the place of embarkation for Athens, has suffered in like manner, as well as places of less note situated on the road to Argos. Eighteen persons lost their lives, and about sixty were wounded, a greater unmber than suffered on any former similar occasion. This event has involved the inhabitants in much distress. In addition to their usual poverty, they are not only exposed to the horrors of starvation, but suffered much from the unsual severity of the weather, the thermometer often falling to 20 Fahr., an uncommon circumstance in that quarter of Greece. The central government have sent tents to the unfortunate victims of this calamity, aud also rendered them pecuniary assistance, but there is reason to fear many willperishfromcoldandhunger. The pillars ofthe Temple of Minerva Chalcisecus have been injured. This was one of the earliest specimens of Doric architecture in Greece. One was split from top to bottom, and others defaced. The duration of the shock was nine seconds, and its first movement was in a vertical and horizontal direction. Its centre seems to have been at the isthmus, extending north and south and then east and west. Neither Costizza nor Lutraki have suffered. The vibration was felt at Athens, but did no injury to life or property. The oscillations at Corinth continue, but no further shock had occurred.