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A special messenger was in readiness on Thursday night to convey to her Majesty the intelligence that the Corn and Customs Bills had actually passed, and to obtain her Majesty's signature to the Commission for the Royal assent to them and about fifty other bills.—Times.
Ibrahim Pacha is again in London. During his stay in Manchester, an inci- dent differing from the mere routine of visits to workaimps and public buildings occurred. "In the centre of one of the squares of a glass manufactory stands a pump: round this had congregated some twenty or thirty boys, some with bowls, others with tin cans orjugs: amid this group suddenly came the Pacha. Wonder and astonishment seized the whole of the juniors, and was heightened when the Prince took from one of them a not very clean-looking jug, filling it with water from the pump, and draining its contents to the very bottom. His example was followed by his suite. The vessel from which they drank speedily rose in value; could not be had at any money; and has been canonized as a relic, under the title of Abrahim Paker's jug.'" He left Manchester on Friday, for Liverpool; where he received the attentions of the Mayor. On Saturday afternoon lie sailed for Belfast; where he arrived on Sunday morning. During the day, he visited the residence and bleaching-green of the Messrs. Richardson' of Lemberg. On Tues- day he departed for Liverpool; and on Wednesday afternoon arrived in London. Shortly after his arrival he went to Greenwich., to dine with the Sheriffs. At it late hour he visited the Reform Club; minutely inspecting its various parts, kitchen and all. On Thursday forenoon, the Puha entertained Sir Charles Napier and Colonel Campbell, at a dejeuner. During the day he visited StPaufs; and in the evening was present in the House of Commons.
Lord Harduige may be shortly expected back from India. Ile wishes to re- turn while his laurels retain all their freshness, and has written home to express his desire to come back.—Globe.
On Tuesday morning, a handsome horse, estimated at the value of 2,000 guineas, arrived at Brighton by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Mag- net, as a present to the Queen from Mehemet Ali: it was immediately forwarded to London by railway.
The intense heat and drought, occasioned by the lapse of many weeks without a shower falling, have at length been moderated by the occurrence of storms. Gravesend and the neighbourhood were visited with a 'navy fall of rain, and a thunderstorm, on Saturday. The heat in London on Monday was very great, and at night the air was exceedingly sultry. About midnight a storm commenced. The rain fell in torrents, accompanied by lightning; and when the lightning ceased the rain con- tinued to fall for some hours. The decrease ef temperature on Tuesday and Wednesday was very great. There was a storm at Winchester on Saturday; and at other places there haa been a break in the weather.
Cumberland and Westmoreland were the scene of a most fearful storm on Thursday week. It lasted for several hours, and the lightning is described as most terrific. Much injury was done. A girl was killed in a field, and her mother was also struck by the lightning. A man was so much injured that his recovery is doubtful. Sheep were destroyed, trees knocked down, and houses struck. The rain descended in streams. On the following day there was an- other storm, but not so violent. Ireland has shared in the change, and there have been storms at Dublin and in the country. In the neighbourhood of Barnard Castle, there has been a hail-storm of great violence: the pieces of ice were of a very large size, and did a good deal of uns' - chief. The storm extended to Darlington, but was not so severe there. One side of a house was entirely demolished by a lightning-stroke at Barnstaple, on Monday. The storm of that night seems to have been wide-spread; it prevailed at Manchester.
On Tuesday, a storm raged in Kent. A boy has been killed by the lightning near Kelso. Some beasts have been de- stroyed in the same neighbourhood.
There have been two terrific storms at Melbourne. During one of them, two of the inhabitants, who had gone into a garden to observe the lightning, were struck dead, as they stood under a poplar-tree. One of the men had been entreated by hia wife not to venture out, as he might be hurt by the lightning: he replied, " Oh 1 there's not one in a million killed."
A ratcatcher of Bethnal Green has advertised for a large supply of live rats— one thousand, at fourpence per head.
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