7 AUGUST 1830, Page 7

THUNDER••STOR1L—A heavy and very extended and fatal thunder- - storm

happened on Friday last week. In Scotland, in the neighbour- hood of Kilsyth, two men were struck down, and soon afterwards expired ; at Lauder, a man was killed. At Dornock, near Annan, a lad while in the act of shifting the tether of a cow, was struck dead; and far apart from the scene of both these disasters, at the Lane-end Pot- teries, Wolverhampton, on the same day and almost at the same hour— live o'clock—the wife of 3Ir. Coyney's gamekeeper was struck dead. The Chronicle says " she uttered no noise :" it is not usual, we believe, for people to do so after they are struck dead—at least it is not usual in London. In Glasgow there was a heavy fall of hail ; and " a piece of ice, of two or three ounces in weight," was brought to the Chronicle 011ice for the inspection of the learned editor : it was picked up, along with the reports of the thunder, by a Glasgow penny-a-line man. In Edinburgh, the rain seems chiefly to have attracted attention. It swept all the mud off Prince's Street, and would have carried it fairly away, but the drain at Frederick Street was choked up with sand and gravel— (where did it come from ?)—and the street-sweeping torrent could not run off, says the account—in fact it was arrested. In revenge of such delay, it inundated the low shops. Had it been a John Bull puddle, it would have run into the genteel shops as soon ; but, among our decent neighbours the very water-courses have some 'hearings. In Fife, the storm raged also; but its rage seems to have been stayed in a very extraordinary way. " A gentleman belonging to Edinburgh, while tra- velling in his gig in Fifeshire, on Friday last, from the Plasterers' Inn to Kirkaldy, was struck on the left arm by lightning, which became guile powerless. While in this situation, he called at a farm-house close by, and stated his melancholy case; when, to his surprise, he was refused admittance, and ordered away." Truly we cannot much blame the farmer ; such a knight of the adamantine arm might have proved a troublesome customer. The most extraordinary circumstauce of this storm is the wide area of its operations.

HYDROPHOBIA--On Wednesday evening, an inquest was held at the Westminster Hospital on the body of 'William South, a poor man, who was bitten about three months ago by a dog in a rabid state. The Jury returned a verdict that the man died from hydrophobia, and at- tached to it the following communication :—" The Jury respectfully and fervently hope that the Right Honourable Secretary of State for the Home Department will not be insensible to the numerous attacks which are continually being made upon his Majesty's subjects by dogs which are suffered to prowl about the streets without any restriction, and which attack always produces the most dreadful anxiety, and often the most horrible death." COAL EXPLOSION.—A dreadful explosion took place on Wednesdays in Jarrow Colliery, Newcastle, by which upwards of forty men and bop lost their lives. Thirty-five bodies had been got Out DROWNING.—On Saturday afternoon, when several men- were bring- ing stones across the river Spey, for the piumosa of erecting a salmon stream, the boat suddenly overturned,aed three of them sunk to riSe no more.

FATAL LtAr.-s-Colonel Ogle, of Brixtable Lodge, Mortlake, was accidentally killed, a few days since, between Wandsworth and Putney, by jumping from the back of a low phaeton, in consequence of the horse running away. DEATH BY' HEAT.—A shepherd, while attending his charge, a little way above Pettycur, on Wednesday week, fell asleep with his face to the sun ; and becoming sick by the excessive heat, he vomited while asleep on his back, and was found suffocated in that position.