The accounts from the moors in the counties of Northumberland
and Durham represent the grouse as small and rather weak on the wing,
but generally numerous. The weather has been extremely favourable for shooting since the commencement of the season. The birds have been selling in Newcastle at from 4s. to 5s. 6d. the brace.—Trus Mercury. There were heavy thunder-storms in various parts of the country last week—at Dover, Cambridge, Boston, and further North. Accord- ing to the Cambridge Chronicle, the storm there on Thursday Was terrific- " The atmosphere was heavy and sulphurous from two or three o'clock in the morning until one o'clock in the afternoon ; when the most frightful tempest ever remembered here broke upon the place, which for the space of an hour was en- shrouded in a gloom approaching to darkness. During the time, the lightning burst from the clouds in continuous flashes almost without intermission, and the thunder rolled in awful and uninterrupted grandeur ; whilst the rain came down in torrents, quickly deluging the streets, and finding ingress into the shops and cellars, where the common sewers became checked by the sudden irruption.
The proceedings of a Coroner's inquest on the body of Margaret Moore, who was killed at the Wakefield election-riot,
were brought to
close on Monday. The Halifax Guardian, a Tory paper, says the object of those who protracted the inquiry was to implicate Mr. John Hardy, son of the late Member for Bradford, in the death ofththaet
woman; but the attempt failed, and the verdict was "Manslaughter against persons unknown."
The man Hill, who took it into his head to confess himself the Tnturderer of Elizabeth Trump, as stated last week, after having been again brought before the magistrates of Chard on Wednesday and Friday, without any effect, has been liberated.—Dorset Chronicle. A correspondent of a London paper gives the following account, the only one we have seen, of a shipwreck off Sunderland, on the 20th instant. " I have just returned from witnessing the total loss of a steam-boat, which proves to be a vessel called the Splendid, from the North, which, on passing the bar, unfortunately struck. The confu- sion on board was dreadful. The majority of the passengers appeared to be females, whose shrieks and cries brought off some boats to their assistance. It is not yet ascertained if many lives were lost, but I trust not. The boat, after being struck with a few seas, soon parted, as she appeared to be a very badly constructed end old vessel. Some of the lower orders, immediately this occurred, gave one or two cheers, very discreditably to themselves ; and the tide rapidly making in, soon strewed the coast with the timbers and other portions of the wreck of this unfortunate vessel."
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