THUNDER-ST01131.—Late OR Friday night a tremendous thunder- storm happened at
Bilstan. The rain was uncommonly heavy. The water rose so irmeh above ita usual level i r consequence. ea to break a way into fele Of the shafts of the New Cross Colliery, in tliat neighbour- hood, in \which five, meri were working; and in a few hours it had rken several yardS al liVe. the place were the men had mitered the working:. Very great anxiety prevailed Inc their safety, anal it was not until afte.• thirty hours' severe exertion that they were happily rescued l'rom their imminent danger. A. repetition of the visitation temk place at Wolver- hampton on Monday; when the Iightr ni I Lt struck a couple of leetses, luckily without damage to either. The site of Wolverhampton is rather elevated, yet on Friday the water in Worcester Street, was ma less dein a yard deep. The storm of Friday seems to have been general. It raged with great violence in the neighbourhood of Bury ; where the hailstones that accompanied it are said to have been still perceptible on Staakty morning I AL, ilutaharah, near Ilvlesworth, in .6111hdk, the light- ning set fire to three houses, and killed Mr. Eveson, the Owner of one of them. At Sheffield and its neighbourhood, the rain was exceedinely heavy, and caused considerable damage. It was felt in the North of France : a friend, who has just returned from St Omer, states that on Friday night the thunder was dreadful, and the rain so heavy as to .render the roads impassable. In the West Riding of Yorkshire the storm did not cease until .Mon- day. On that day, the Leeds Intriltgenc,:r reports, a man was struck dead while mowing at Woodleslonl. " The electric fluid entered a Louse in the same village by the chimney, and so tilled the in) inn with sulphur, that a little el old, which lay in a cradle, was nearly sedfocated. The same afternoon, three jointers, who were at work at the Crown Inn, Harrogate, were struck by the ligi run rig; one of them was ren- dered speechless, and the lives of the other two were, for a considerable time, despairee of. A young woman and three children at Horsforth, were !retch burnt by the lightning-, and it deprived a young man at Horswortlewriod-side of hit. speech for several Inn arcs'' About one o'clock on Monday afternoon, the lightning descended the chimney a Mr. Joint Rhodes, of Hainswortb, near Keighley, but luckily did little damage.
At the moment we are writing, a second thunder-storrii has visited the metropolis. The lightning is yen'.' vi Gla A Sunday, as in newly-married lady, named Curtis, residing in Edgeware lload, was alt. tut to euter a gig, in witiah her hus- band was seated ; she got alarmed at the plunging of the horse, and falling, backward on the curb-storm, she sev,!relv irtim.el her lread, while the wheel of the gig passing over her leg, broke it a little above the ankle.
eke :A ex TA I. SHOOTING—Ali amiable young wornaa, residing near the town of Castle-I)ouglas, Scotland, was killed on the 2-2.nd inst., by a young lad of fifteen firing- a gun at her, in ignorance of its leting loaded. The shot entered the poor girl's breast, and instantly deprived her of life. The lad has been committed to gaol for the accident—why, the Scotch law authorities can best say.
_STARVATIOX.—A- poor boy was observed to drop down in a faint in 11'1liter:impel Road, on Thursday. Ile was immediately carried to the London Hospital; where, on living put into a warm bath, he after some time recovered his senses. It appeared on inquiry, that he had eaten no- thing, for four-and-twenty hours, but some pea-shells. His father and mother were both dead, and the boy had no recourse but begging, by
which he had not procured one halfpenny for a couple of days. .
SUICIDAL Mosoeraste.—An example of a new species of this fa- shionable and very unfortunate complaint is given in the French papers. The patient first tried hanging on a tree, but the branch broke; he next attached the halter to a beam, but the beam and the roof came tumbling in above him. His third feat was jumping out of a window; when, wonderful to be told, he lighted on a bed accidentally placed below it, and escaped with only the destruction of the frame. He then threw himself into the Soane, but was dragged out by some customhouse-officers, who took his body for a bale of smuggled goods, but found, to their great Surprise, that it was a poor Frenchman bound to kingdom come without a legal passport. On the 28th of May last, he tried the Soane again, but was suddenly plucked back, when he had reached the parapet of the bridge, by an impertinent passenger. Next day he repeated his attempt more successfully, but he did not succeed in drowning himself even then. Ile was still alive when the last accounts game away, nor had his next exploit been fully ascertained.
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