grand metropolitan show. On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it was near
and loud. Yesterday the lightning was vivid and threatening, and the peals that followed loud and appalling. The rain, unless on Mon- day, has poured down, not in showers, but in torrents. The weather meanwhile, has been extremely warm. The lightning of Friday last week, struck a wharf in Lambeth, but without damage. The country has not escaped so well as the town. At Henley-on-Thames, on Thurs day evening last week, the house of Mr. Bullock, farmer, was struck, and several of the inmates hurt. On the same day, a bey was killed at Barrow, Lincolnshire. At Eden Bridge, Kent, on Friday, a miller named Shorey was killed ; a young man was killed in the street at Croydon on the same day ; and the church of Woolwich was struck, and above two thousand bricks displaced. At Aike, near Beverley, in Yorkshire, last week, a labourer, who had sought shelter under a tree, was killed by the lightning. On Friday the 22nd, a poor man, working in a field near Sligo, was struck, and his tongue split by the shock.
Firm—Between five and six o'clock on Tuesday evening, the drying- rooms at the upper part of Smith's sugar-house, in Dock Street, Rosemary
Lane, were discovered to be on fire. No water could be procured for half an hour, and the flames raged with the greatest violence seven stories high. The engines were at length able to save the contiguous
buildings; all of which escaped without material injury, except Mr. Hinkin's cooperage, the roof of which was demolished by a part of the parapet wall of the sugar-bakehouse falling upon it. While a poor German was endeavouring to save his master's property in one of the upper stories, the floor above him gave way, and a beam fell upon him. Re was dreadfully injured.
ACCIDENT ON THE THANE s.—On Sunday a party, which consisted of a young man named Edgar, his sister, his sweetheart, to whom he
was to have been married in a few weeks, a rnan named Sinnock, and his
three children, together with two female friends, returning from Wool. wich, where they had spent the day, were overtaken by one of the
Gravesend steam-vessels, which caused the boat to rock violently about.
Edgar, with a view of steadying her, was about to place his foot on her gunwale, when it unfortunately slipped : in order to save himself from falling overboard, he caught bold of the mast, and the sudden jerk, toge- ther with the wave, caused the boat to swamp, and all on board were precipitated into the water, and five of them were drowned. The per- sons lost were Edgar and his,sweetheart, and Sinnock and his two eldest children, a lad of ten, and a girl of eight years of age.
DEATHS IN COLLIERIES.—A fall of coal took place at Corngreaves Col- liery, in the parish of Rowley Regis, on Tuesday last; by which three
miners, Samuel Cartwright, Francis Pearson, and Edward Holt, who
were at work, were instantly killed. On Wednesday, William Jeffcock, at Ettingshall Colliery, and on Saturday, Edward Aston, at Rough Hills
Colliery, met their deaths by similar accidents. Inquisitions have been held, and a verdict of accidental death was returned in each case.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, as the locomotive engine called the Liverpool was conveying five luggage-waggons to Manchester, it was thrown off the railway at the turn leading to Colonel Fletcher's collieries, Bag Lane, near Chowbent. It ran a short distance up the bank, and then turned upside down; and the fireman, Simon Marsh, and the engineer, Jonathan Johnson, were thrown underneath the boiler. The poor fellows remained in that situation a considerable time ; and when extricated, Marsh was quite dead ; the engineer survived his in- juries only an hour and a half. Two other men, who were upon the tender, were severely injured ; but they are expected to recover.—Man. Chester Guardian. FATAL GIG ACCIDENT.■AS a man of respectable appearance was on Sunday driving his wife and child in a carriage up the Strand, the horse suddenly rushed with great violence into the archway nearly opposite Southampton Street, which leads to the River. The child and horse were killed on the spot, and the carriage broken to pieces. SUDDEN DEATH.—A cook, who for many years lived at the Cock Inn, Eaton Socon, and was highly esteemed and espected in her situation, having gone to Grantham last week for the purpose of attending the funeral of her mother, while service was performing, fell by the side of the grave and almost instantly expired.—Herts Mercury. A LAD OF TASTE.—At Lynn, on Tuesday sennight, a young man named Mickleson nearly lost his life through carelessness. His mother had a large bottle of laudanum, which by some mishap had been ranged on the shelf with some bottled ale ; the cork was drawn for dinner, and about half a pint of the laudanum having been poured out, the young man drank of it freely before he discovered the error. Emetics one after an- other were thrust down the patient's throat, and, subsequently, the sto- mach-pump was applied, till the general receiver was so far cleared of its impurities, that we believe he will yet live to remind the inmates of their want of attention to domestic safety.—Stamford News. Buns-our.—The Conjiance, Falmouth steam-packet, which brought the last Mediterranean mail, was fallen in with by a Cowes pilot-boat, when off Scilly; and as the packet had wholly exhausted her fuel, the mail was put aboard the pilot-boat which reached Falmouth on the same evening. Immediately after the arrival of the mail, the Magnet packet was despatched with a supply of coals for the Conflance ; which being enabled by this means to set her engineat work, took the Magnet in tow and reached Falmouth on Monday. We understand, that in order to reach so far as she did when fallen in with by the pilot-boat, the Conjiance was compelled to burn every spare spar, rope, cable, &c. she had on board ; finally, the bulk-heads and the cabin partitions were consumed ; but all were insufficient to enable her to reach Falmouth or Mount's Bay.— If "est Briton.
Tom or Lis:nom—On Wednesday week, while some workmen were driving a wedge in order to trace a flaw in this celebrated bell, a piece of the rim or skirt broke off, weighing six hundred weight, and about eight feet long. Tom, when entire, weighed 9,894 pounds.—Boston Paper.
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