About eight o'clock on Thursday evening, a thunderbolt entered the
front-room window, which was open, of the house No. 63, East Street, Lambeth Walk. A woman, named Landsdowne, her daughter, and a young man named Russell, were at work at the time, and were all struck by the electric fluid ; which passed through the stairs, shiver. lug the wood into a thousand pieces, and thence through the wall into the next house, in which four children were sleeping, but the whole of whom escaped without the slightest injury. Mrs. Landsdowne states that she wits struck on the head, Both houses are much damaged.
On Monday afternoon, the brig William was blown up, under the direction of Colonel Pasley. At three o'clock, two large leaden cylin- ders, containing a ton-weight of gunpowder each, were placed under. Death the bulwarks of the brig ; and time flexible leaden pipe containing the fine powder hose, was also fixed, and time upper end secured to it red buoy, shaped like a punt. One of the band of Sappers and Miners stood in the punt with a lighted taper ; and when the gun was fired, he set fire to the fuse, which burnt for five minutes brilliantly, and then the explosion took place. In the interim, the miners had rowed away, and were out of danger. The effect of the explosion was distinctly felt all over Gravesend, and likewise at :Milton, Grays, and Northfleet.
The journeymen bootmakers of London have " struck" for higher wages.
A large number of counterfeit fourpenny-pieces are at present in ein emulation they are well executed, and bear the date of 1816. From the smallness of this coin, it is impossible to distinguish the genuine from the spurious by ringing ; and from the absence of this usual test many of the counterfeits have got abroad.
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