Star. — London, England, 1824-09-09 00:00:00

• tl e Turkish ...et by e Greeks ; which is, however, by so many authorities, as t o ren d er i t no confirmed longer doubtful. One of the F r e nc h P apers, on t h e aut h or ity of a letter from Corfu, states the loss of the Capitan Pacha in his expedition at 18,000 men, and lo p v essels large and small. In another article, from Zante, it is said that the Turkish fleet had beett a second t ime defeated, at the end of July, between Mitylene and Smyrna, with greater lots than the first, and obliged to seek shelter at Smyrna. The famous CANA RIS, who blew op two Turkish Admirals in 1822, particularly dis tinguished himself in this battle ; and never, it is said, did the Greeks - obtain a more decilive or brilliant success. To these accounts we have to add the following, from the Notizie di Giorno of the 19th August : ROME, AUGUST 19. We have received the following accounts of the late engagements between the Turks and the Greeks, at Ipsara, from Corfu, dated August 1, contained in ex tracts from an authentic letter: " On the 21st June, 0. S. the Turkish fleet, arrived off Ipsara, landed from twelve to fifteen thousand troops in that part which was thought the most difficult of access, and where, constantly, a landing was least expected. Both parties fought with equal ardour and perseverance: 2,000 Turks three times attacked a Greek battery, and were constantly repulsed. At length they carried it; but while they fancied themselves victorious, and drew their sabres, they met with death. A Greek soldier, who saw that all was lost, set fire to the powder, which buried under the ruins all the Turks, with eighty Greeks who defended the battery. " Notwithstanding this, superior numbers at length prevailed, and the city and the fortresses remained in the power of the Turks, who took rich booty, and made slaves of all who had not escaped with their families to hydra and Spczzia. On the following day a fresh breeze obliged the Ottoman fleet to quit the coast of the island, and stand out to sea. The troops who had been landed seeing this, and fearing that the fleet would abandon them, most of them left the town and went down to the shore. " The few Greeks remaining in the island took ad- vantage of this circumstance, fell on those who remained In the city, killed 600 of them, and succeeded in re leasing all the slaves and recovering the booty. Mean 'inn the other Greeks from the neighbouring islands, hastened, with 80 ships, to the aid of Ipsara, and on the '2sth, an engagement took place between the two fleets, in which the Greeks set fire to that of the Turks, and took four of their large vessels and many smaller ones, without losing one of their own. A few days after, the principal fort and the town were already in the hands of the Greeks, and the Turks held only two batteries and some small forts scattered about the island. But on tl:e 3d July (15th), the batteries were attacked by two Greek Generals, who made themselves masters of them, killing 500 of the enemy. On the attack of the island the women fought along with the men. Fif teen Greeks, commanded by D. Calimeri b who had posted themselves in a grotto near the sea, 'attacked a Turkish ship, which they took, and killed the crew con sisting of forty men. Thus Ipsara is again in posses sion of the Greeks, with incredible loss on the part of the Turks." Frankfort Papers to the 2J inst. reached us this morn. in g . One of them contains an article from Berlin, stating, that " It being found by experience that strangers are often proposed for teachers in the schools of the kingdom, who have not even studied in the universities and academies of the country, and of whose prin. ciples and sentiments no accurate opinion eau be &need, the Met has issued a Cabinet Order, prohibiting this Irregularity." It is generally known that the British Government has for souse time paid peuslims to several Spanish exiles now in this country. Owing to some mistake, the last month's allowance was :,ot paid on the usual day. No stiOber, however, was the tircum' 'ante known by our Government than the evil was remedied. In apt attention was paid to the subject by his Majesty's Govern ment, and a notice was yesterday, we understand, put up at New : ,o's Hotel, near Leicester-square, a place much resorted to by the refugee Spaniards, announcing that their monthly pensions, due on tit 17th uh. would be paid up this day. THE KING. yr-- WINDSOR, SEPT. S.—This morning, the weather be ing favourable, his MAJESTY walked after breakfast through the grounds surrounding the Great Park. The XING and suite likewise conk an airing in the pony phaetons early in the afternoon towards Sandp it ate, whe re hi s M AJESTY staye d a s h ort t i me , and afterwards returned to the Royal Lodge. At a late hour lastniglit7MVAnntxtyrox arrived from France, via Calais, with important dispatches for the /knish Government from the Court of St. Petersburgh. Letters, dated the 17th of August, were received yes terday at the Colonial OlSce, froth Halifax. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER came to town yesterday morning from Sudbrooke, the seat of Mr. Wr..xor•Hon. /ow, sad returned there in the afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD of SAYE Como, arrived at Frankfort on the Slat ult. under the title of (Vlt of Haminzao. Spa is considered remarkably full of company it pre sent, but without its proportion of English ; we have seen a lilt of persons at that place, so late u the sd of September. and the only English persons of nom were Lord fisininso, Mt. Anoziurmus, Mr. Hususson, Mr. WIIIIIIIIU1 6 Sir Grout Mame, Mr. Vasa. WELD, Lord LOUVAIN, and Mr. ELLIS. The LORD ADVOCATE of Scotland, is now on a visit at Rooney Lodge. Lord COMBILDMERE, Commander of the Forces, who bis tour of inspection, arrived la Athlone in MOT. General Sir JOHN LAsitartr, commanding the Cork district, has proceeded for a short time to England; during his ati.. !elite all the orders and returns from the district ate to Se laid be lore Sir J. &Ler, at Limerick. Friday sennight, the foundation stone of an Episcopal Chapel. to be erected in St. Andrew's, was laid with gneissic benders. lii RUSSIA, raw turnip is handed about in slices, in the lust houses,upon a diver salv t r,with brandy.as a whet before Miner. The importation into Buenos Ayres from Great Britain for the year 1823, ainounted to ,C 1,300,030. Tuesday last a man sent the bellman about North shitkis to seek a wife. He accompanied the bellman mend the town himself, to see that every effort was made, and we have not beard that be has even yet been successful. This man is surely JUVetl to the c o mpass i on o f t h e fair . 'Prom the Calcutta papers, it appears that the Tread mill ha* been applied, by an inhabitant of Surat, to the repeal( ct N , iid~ . , thisigosL-IM 1• s THE THEATRES. HAYMARICET THEATRE. The Marriage of Figaro formed the chief attraction at this Theatie last night, and amply frilfilled the ex pectations of the numerous audience collected to enjoy the comic spirit and beautiful music with which it abounds. To the first 'Astor; nave full play ; and the latter received from Madame Visvits, who appeared for the first time as Susanna, and from Mrs. GARRICK, who personated the Countess, that degree of execution, taste, and rich intonation, best calculated to display its merits. The whole gave infinite satisfaction, which was not marred by the after-touch which the audience had of Matrimony. ENGLISH OPERA-ROUSE. The attractions of this House appear to be undimi nibhed in public opinion. Last night the audience was as numerous as might be expected on a first representa tion, though there could he no doubt of the success of the performances.—Mr. Mavitaws, as Doubikin, kept the audience in a roar from first to last : but to speak of MArnews as being well received, is a matter of course; and it therefore may be . but fair to mention the subordi nate but meritorious exertions of Mr. BARTLIBY and Mr. KEELEY, who both gave every possible effect to the characters of the Alderman and the Postboy. BALLOON ASCENT. TAUNTON, SEPTEMBER 8. Mr. Gnamem, accompanied by Mr. R. Cucuta; jun. son of the Proprietor of the Afred, Exeter Paper, ascended from the Castle yard, at Exeter, yesterday, at half-past five o'clock, In presence of an immense concourse of spectators. The course of the balloon was first in the direction of the sea; but the current soon afterwards impelled the aerial voyagers towards the North-east, and the balloon was seen coming in the direction of this place. The voyagers suf fered considerably, w•i:^;1 in the higher regions, from extreme cold. Having been up one ,our and five minutes, the aeronauts judged, from the rapidity with which they were proceeding, that it would be prudent to descend; and, having carefully discharged the gas, they happily descended safely, in a field at North Petherton, three miles from Bridgewater, and eight from here. Mr. GRAHAM and his companion were kindly received by H. Cox; Esq. in whose field the descent took place; and, after taking some refreshment, they set off in a chaise, and arrived in this town at eight o'clock, where they were warmly greeted, and drswn.round the town in their carriage, and then procured a post-chaise and four for Exeter, which they reached at twelve o'cic.c.k at night, and were most joy. fuUy received by those who were anxiously waiting their return. Exeter is forty miles from where the balloon fell ; but from its course in the last pan of the voyage, it is supposed they must have traversed nearly sixty miles, which they accomplished in an hour and five minutes. JOANNA SOUTHCOTE. Someday: since several inhabitants of Pitt-street,Kent road, applied to the Magistrates at Union-hall for their interference. Their complaint was against the proceedings of a religious sect. The sect called themselves, " The followers of Joanna Southcote r and in the performance of their ceremonies, an old woman was selected from among them, who was stripped, put into a coffin, and laid out in the paraphernalia of death, with winding sheet, etc. and candles placed round the coffin. In this situation the disciple would sometimes lay for a couple of hours, to all appearance dead, until at length the spirit would operate. On the first kick of returning animation perceptible, they would set up a shout of exultation that reechoed through the whole street, from one end to the other, surpassing even the famous " Irish howl." The latter part of the ceremony, the applicants said, was the annoyance which they and their families chiefly suffered from. In compliance with the application, two or three of the officers woo sent down to Pitt -street, but the par i ty against whom the complaint was lodged, having an n timation of what was likely to occur, made a rapid movement off, in the direction of Norwood, taking with them a pig, which they intended to sacrifice to the manes of poor Joanna, whom they expect a visit from every day. The pig was to be sacrificed by fire, in the presence of the followers, to each of whom was distributed a portion of the animal, as a peace offering, to be pre sented to Joanna when she made her appearance among them.—The nuisance has not since been repeated. Private letters from Rio Janeiro state, that the Eta ezitoa was about to grant commissions for fitting out privateers to cruise against the Portuguese flag. Letters from Batavia state that the rainy season was over, but the trade of the place was in a very dull state, and in cotton and coffee little was doing. There were two or three English vessels on the point of leaving, with full cargoes for England, about the end of April. Accounts from Guayaquil, of the 10th of April, state that Martial Law was proclaimed there on the Ist ; and that every male from sixteen to forty had been or dered. on pain of death, to attend before the Governor, and be enrolled into companies. considerable con spiracy bad been discovered at Guayiqoil after the sur render of Callao. Fifteen of the cpnspirators had been taken, and seven of them immediately shot, the remain- der were banished, and their estates confiscated. Among them were several Haytians. Mercantile letters have been received from Buenos Ayres to so late a date as the 2d of July, seven days later than those received by the Walsingham packet. They do not, however, contain any news of interest.— Not any intelligence, we understand, had been received up to the above date, as to the state of affairs in Peru. Advice: have been received from Trinidad to the end of July. All remained quiet: the colonists did not seem to view the amelioration process with the same hostile feelings with which they regarded it at its first promulgation. By letters from Alvatado to the 26th of June, we learn that the robber chief, Gomez, had seized a convoy of 250 mules, on its way to Mexico, laden with quick silver and merchandize, the property of English and American Merchants, and that he had demanded 25,000 dollars fOr the release of the goods. The Government, however, refused to allow the merchants to negotiate with Gomez, and sent down 500 men against him, but who, on meeting his banditti, tefused to fight. Letters of the 10th of July, from Alvarado, state, that the mat ter still continued unsettled. These statements differ from the accounts contained in the American papers of the fate of this robbet chief; but their authenticity may, we are assured, be relied on. " Do you know what Made my voice so melodious?" said a celebrated vocal performer, of awkward manners, to Charles Bannister. " No," replied the other. " Why, then, l'll tell you : when I was but fifteen, I swallowed, by accident, some train oil." " I don't think," rejoined Bannister, " it would have done. ou any harm if at the same time you bad swallowed a dancing master !" “ THE DEAD TWINS." As in their coffin short and wide They lay together side by side, A resc.bail nearly clos'd, I found Each little hand within, And many a pbh was strewed around, And may's jessantin : Wlnd yet the dowers that round them lay ere not to me mortkfair than Ow) • *.• :7% ariser-"! rIZE ASNit .. _ .. • .... . . ... -.4. 0 ..... DetachMents of reeruks halts iccntly marched from the Re cruiting Depattniebt, In Wa t er, for blaidstoste, Calkorberr, Lk of Wight, and Bristol. . . Upwards of two hundred Brie recruits have been already enlisted at the Isle of Wight, Chelsea; and Cliatbarti, for the Royal Afri can,Colonial Corps. • A detachment of 50 men, bclonging,te the 20th and 40th Regi ments of Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant Curion, of the 20th Foot, will arrive on the 14th inst. at Chathani, from Ports mouth. preparatory to embarking as guards, on beard the L t dy East convict ship at Deitr o rd, w hi c h is intended to proceed shortly for New S,uth Wales. The stl and last division of the Bth Regiment of Foot, ari:ved on the sth inst. at Plymouth, on board the Surrey transport, from the island of Malta. The .sth Regiment of Fort embarked at Cork en the 30th nit. on board the Baltic Merchant and Speke transports, for Chatham. NAVAL LVALLIGENCE. The Raw India Company's otitward-bciond ship Astell put into Santa Cruz the 234 Jeir, and was ezpecied to resume her voyage on the fallowing day. The Owex Guntnowia ensi recommiesiboed on Friday hey by the Hon. Captain Rooms.. • FALMOUTH, San. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Francie Freeling packet, from Jamaica—sailed the ;cl of August, and from Crooked 14aw4 the 10th dittO ; ilsborn packet, fr om tie Leeward hlirids— sailed from Sc. Thomas `s the 14th August. Sailed the Admiral Cockburn, for Van Dieman's Lind. Pr.vmorro ' Sae. 7.—Wi n d &W.—Arrived the Georgia , Pattasr, from Fayal; Levant, Farman from Sc. KW'S; Ann, Coatlinsa, from the Brazils ; and &Wattles , Royintartiats, from St. Vincent's. 1 0ff the port, the Lady Arabella packet, from Mezico—miled the 14th July ; the Master landed, and proceeded to Lanka with die. patches. Sailed the Superb, Sstarer , for Ahura. . . Ssrr. B.—Wind S. W.—Arrisied the Mary. Tuamm i from St. Domingo. Came down from the River and remain, the David, CARGILL, for the Grand Canaries; and &akin, for 'birth'. • Liveltroor., Sart. 7. Arrived the Pacific. remelt, (Mtn Buenos Ayres—sailed 2d July; General Brock, Rani, front Pa rraib.,--sailed 24th July ; Havannab packet ..? Roston, from .llat uannah ; Peace, &LUNT ; and Pyramus, BAIRD from. Quebec Nancy, Davi e s, from Bucktush ; Ann, Flutotnion, }rpm Marseilles Fanny, and Rcho, from Sicily; arid Ilia, &menet, from LlsbOn: Off the port, the Xenophon, --, from Bay Chaleur. Doves, Siam B.—Oft' the port, the Echo, Dunzor, from &Alit-. cent's; Ceres, BrAirsnasts, from Cape henry; and Virginia, KNicur, from Virginia. SPORTING INY ELLIGENCR. --us, _ BETTING-ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, SRPT. h. The state of the odds on the St. Leger has materially altered .. since our last. Osmond is said to haie had i trial with Blue Beard, who beat him, and he is gone. Very large sums *ere adventur e d lad night, par ticularly on Streatham, who, it will be seen,, has got up to 8 to 1, and consequently become the second favourite, and there is little doubt but he will still advance. Six thousand to tbue was offered on Swiss against Brutandort The best judges appear to be all abroad, and never had more, if so much difficulr, to get their books right. The following are the most material changes that have taken place. noncatiss sr. toaaa. . 5 to I apt Swiss l6 to 1 apt Osmond 8 to 1 apt Streatham 23 to 1 apt Diadem . 81 m 1 apt Brutandorf 30 to 1 Opt Bluebeasd 14 to 1 apt Jerry I WARWICK R A CRS--SErr. 7. The Guy Stakes. Sir T. Stanley's b. e. Portrait . . I Mr. Tootees b. e. Sir Gray • . . o Woo by a head. The King's Plate was won easily at two heats by Mr. West's Sharper, 5 yrs old. The Leamington Stakes of 20 sov. each, ~15 R. Two miles Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. General Miaa, 4 yr s o ld, 8 81 . llib. 1 Mr. Mytton's Euphrates, aged, Ist. 111 b. . . 2 Ten started. Sweepstakes a &e we. eae.lh --- ;lthstSo added, was won by Mr. Mytton's br. e. Whittington. The St. Leger Stakes was walked over fur by Guy Faux; and the Itso soy. Stakes, by Neuter. PUBLIC SALES 'MR. PRICK ETT. Freehold and Leasehold.—An Estate known as Cistle Malgwyn, within three miles of Cardigan, South Wales; comprising Mansion, containing five rooms, chambers, domestic offices, cellarage; brew house, three coach-houses, stables, garden, pleasure-grounds, and enclosures, together 911 A. 1 a. 18r. freehold; subject to a thief rent of ,C 1 ss. lid. yearly to the Burgesses of Kilgenan ; also certain enclosures, cottages, gardens, and meadow adjoining, called Cefen Coed y Garth, containing 68 A. 3 a. 26 r. held by lease for 69 year*, at £3O, and let at £Bl ss. per annum. The whole including 165 A. 1a.4 r. Land-tax on the freehold part redeemed.—Sold for ie2550. Freehold and exempt from Land-tax.—Castle Nlalgwyn Farm, adjoining the preceding, comprising house, detached buildings, and 237 A. 3 a. 30 r. of meadow, arable, and pasture land, subject to an annual payment of £2 10s. to the Rector of Manerdivy fur the cut or canal through the glebe lands from the River Tivy.—Xs3oo. MR. JOHN BROMLEY. Leaseholds.—No. 23, on the west side of Cbarlotto.street, Bed ford-square ; containing twelve rooms, domestic apartments, vaults, and cellaring, held under the Duke of Bedford for 50 years, at a ground rent et £7 7s. per annum.—£looo. An Estate, comprising five Houses in the Old Road, opposite the Church, Stepney. Total annual rental £133, held for 50 years, at a ground rent of £lB 15s. Taxes paid by vendor, 431, who is covenanted to insure each House for the sum of £2OO in the County Fire Office.—£733. /4113SSRS. DAWSON AND CAPE. Leasehold.—Two Houses and plot of Ground, situate in John son's-place, Kensington Gravel Pits; let at rents amounting yearly to £55, and held at a ground rent of £9, for 69 years.-190 guineas. Bonds.—Fire Paving Bonds of £lOO each, of the parish of St. Pancras, paying four per cent. per annum.--£95 each. Yesterday an Inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, in the Board-room of the Middlesex Hos pital, on the body of a young man, named Robert Scott, who died from excessive loss of blood, caused by several wounds received from a cork-cutter's knife. It appeared that the deceased and a man named Brown were employed in the brewery of Messrs. Reynolds, at Somers Town. On the 19th August, Brown asked the deceased for some brewing clothes? the de l eased said he had not any but his apron; Brown then took hold of the apron of the deceased, and cut it in two, and en deavoured to cut it across, but deceased pulled it away. Brown then cut at his hands, in a very great passion, and severed the thumb and fore-finger from off the left hand. Scott cried out, " Geod GOD 1 what have I done to deserve this? If you have any towards me, why not meet me like a man, and not use that murder ing knife?" Brown, after this, cut him again, and seemed furious with passion. The Jury, after consulting together an hour and a half, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Wm. Brown, who has absconded. ADVERTISIMENTI--After many earnest solicitations from the majority of the Poyals Bondholders, Mr. Sanwa OliN ' roan has accepted the Trusteeship of the New Poyaisian itedemp fion Loao, which is now coming into such respectable hands, that a very favourable opinion is beginning to be entertained of it. The results of a scorching sun in travelling, are fre quently Subversive of female comfort and attraction, by generating a tanned skin, parched Ups, and an unpleasant heat and roughness, and signalizing a prominent featured an otherwise beautiful coun tenance with unseemly redness. To successfully oppose these inno vations, the Ladies have a powerful friend in the recently discovered cosmetic, Rowzastn's KAvromt, which precludes all disorder. In di.figuring beauty, rendering the skin delightfully cool and pleasant.—To Gentlemen, Rowt.awn's Kalydor will be found an io fallible specific in allaying the snrsrtiag irritability of the face, and will render shaving, heretofore a painful, now a pleasurable opera tion. That the Kalydor elicits these felicitous results, one trial will suffice to prove, and satisfactorily establish its reputation.--Prepared and Sold, wh olesale and retail, by the Proprietors, Bosnian and Sue, 20, Hatton Garden, London; and by every. respectable Perfumer and Medicine Vender in Town and Cuuntry.--Price is. 6d. and 81. Gd. per bottle, duty included. STORAIS IN THE COUNTIIE Boston, Sept. 7.— , Yesterday afternoon, about dne o'clock, soon after.two clnuds of peculiar shape, fraught with a tempest and heavily char gccl. had been observed to meet together in the south-west; there came on here, and lasted for some minutes, a hurricine; said to be the most tremendous ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant of Boston. In Shirbeck-quarter it seized the top of a haystack, which it whirled about spirally to a great height, and scattered far from the spot where it stood. In High-street,where its violence increased, a large pop lar treE and a hot-house we re bl own d own , an d t h e t il es forced from several buildings. A whole frame, belong ing to a peachery in a garden, near S ruthend, Was blown to the distance of SO or 40 yards, and every pane of glass broken :an elm -tree, in an adjoining g:t! den, said to be five or six yards in circumference, was also blown down, and two others which stood in adjoining pastures. An ancient thorn-bush shared the same fate, near which some cattle had just before been grazing, but were then, fortunately, out of the way. In Main Ridge and its immediate neighbourhood, where the hur ricane raged with such dread-inspiring fury as caused the utmost consternation and dismay, much injury was sustained in various directions : for there some building. were partly unroofed several windows broken ; a gar den-wall, some yards in extent, overwhelmed, and the sails of a mill, used in a brick-yard, tattered into shreds in a moment of time. This hurricane w. 45 rendered still more alarming by being accompanied and followed by a violent thunder-storm; during which the lightning, which was vivid and diffusive, scarcely ever ceased for a minute, and peal succeeded peal with little intermis sion. The re-echoed crack of several peals was by some persons compared to the report occasioned by resound ing artiller y besieging a town. Monday evening, the 30th ult. a violent thunder storm com mitted dreadful havoc along the vale of Glamorgan, whole fields of corn having been demolished by the rain, which fell in torrents for five ho'irs, besides the damage done to houses, mills, &c. which opposed its impetuous course. The (torn commenced between five and six o'clock, and so excessively heavy was the rain, that the turnpike roads in several places between Pyle and Swansea became impassable fur carriages or horses for a considerable time. The mail and Cambrian coaches with great difficuhy reached Neath that evening, about two hours later than usual, the coachmen declaring that they never experienced so violent a storm, accompanied With such vivid lightning, and terrific thunder. At Neath the rain fell in enormous drops, which quickly became a perpendicular torrent, stripping fruit-trees of their crop, and even tearing away small branches in its precipitate deshent. The flashes of lightning were almost continuous, and of intense brilliancy; the thunder-claps might be compared to the discharge of artillery, fol lowed by a fire of musketry, and the roll of drums; only all these sound, were far louder, sharper, and deeper, than their artificial re semblances. At the little mountain farm of Ty-draw, a cow-house, containing dry hay, was set en fire by the el e ctri c fluid, Ltd destroysid. The village of Melincrythan has suffered serious injury by the unwonted torrent which rushed down the bed of the Crythan, usu ally an insignificant streamlet, within ten minutes notice of its ap proach. One end of a small woollen factory was carried away, with part of the machinery, a rick of hay, and the poor industrious owner's whole stock of wool, &e. to the destruction of kis means of subsistence. Most of the cottages were inundated, some three, four, and five feet deep, and one was filled with water to within a foot of the Telling. The consternation of the poor Inhabitants may be well conceived. But the most extensive injury was sustained by Mr. Gibbins, at the Melinerythan chymical works, where a large quantity of sugar of lead, packed in casks ready for exportation, was dissolved by the water, probably to the value of some hundred pounds; while the mischief produced amongst the very valuable and extensive chymi cal apparatus, which that Gentleman had perfected with great skill and expense, cannot be readily estimated. So powerful was the flood, which completely invested the works, that it removed some very large and massive Iron pans to a distance of many yards. At the period when the lightning was most intense, a strong sulphurout smell pervaded the atmosphere, and penetrated the closest apart ments within its influente. About eleven o'clock on the forenoon of Sunday Week, the village of Campbeltown, Ardersier, was visited by a thunder storm, ac companied by torrents of rain, which lasted nearly half an hour. The thunder was heard in a circuit of upwards of twenty miles ; but the rain fell very partially. The house at Milton of Connage, which belonged to the late Wm. Bremner, and now occupied by one of his daughters, was struck by the lightning. The chimney-stack at the west end of the house was thrown down, and the gable wall rent nearly to the foundation; a large stone in the angle of the fissure was pounded into sand ; the electric fluid seems to have entered in three streams, there being so many holes in the line of the rent, enlarging inwards. A box which lay in the room near one of the holes was shivered to pieces, and a handkerchief and some caps which it con tained were burnt; the glass and gilt ornaments of a clock in the room were broken, and the works injured; the electric fluid ap pears to have escaped by the winder*, in which the greater part of the glass was broken ; there is a circular hole about the size of a musket ball in one of the panes, without a crack in the glass ; a great part of the. ceiling of the room fell, it is cupposed by the shock. The window of a room in the attic story wa s completely smashed, the brass nails in the chairs were extracted and driven into the side of a chest on the opposite side of the room with such force, that some of them can with difficulty be drawn out; the nails could not be more regularly taken out of the chairs by an upholsterer with out injuring the hair-cloth coverings of the cushions ; th e f o o t o f one of the chairs was shivered, and the splinters stuck in the door of the room ; the door posts were shattered. The respectable female inhabitant was sitting in the kitchen, between the fire place and the window ; the electric fluid appears to have conic down the chimney, ploughed up the clay floor in front of her chair, with such violence, that the ceiling is spotted with ft, passed by her side to the wall, along which it ran at her back, breaking the stones, and again rose and escaped by the window, in which there is only a single pane broken ; thus playing about and approaching dose to her person, yet she miraculously escaped uninjured. She was enveloped in a cloud of dust, and thought from the noise the house was falling. No farther trace of the lightning has been observed about the pre. tithes, with the exception of the chimney-stack of a back wing hav ing been shattered. Thursday evening, the neighbourhood of Berwick was visited by a thunder storm. Torrents of rain fell during the evening and throughout the night. The only damage done by the lightning was that a pig was killed by it, at a house near Morton-square, a few miles frdin Berwick, and a man at the same place slightly injured. Thursday last, we were visited by one of the most alarming storms of thunder and lightning we remember to have encountered. The dark and troubled clouds " gave dreadful note of preparation," and it commenced about half-past five o'clock in the evening, the rain falling In torrents. The thunder was loud and threatening, and seemed to roll Immediately above sue heads, while the rapidity, the frequency, and the brilliancy of the flashes of lightning, were at once dazzling and awful. The electric fire seemed to be both of the sheet and forked description, and was accompanied occasionally by a blue tinge, that while It made it more imposing, added to the beauty and grandeur of the sight. The storm appears to have been by no means confined to this district, for they had a similar visita tion at Sunderland, Shields, Hezham, Carlisle, and throughout that part of the country. Several balls of fire fell in this neighbourhood, but fortunately without doing any damage. Towards the Westward, however, the effects have been more serious. As Michael Ander son, herd to Messrs. Ward and Armstrong, was riding with his wife on horseback between Riddlehamhope and Westburnhope, near Hexham, both the horse and Mrs. Anderson were instantaneously struck dead, and what is remarkable, her husband escaped unhurt! She has left a numerous family to lament her loss. Mr. Ralph Foster, of Riverhill, near Barrasford, had three fat kyloes, two queys in calf, and one steer, all killed at the same moment by the lightning. A horse, the property of John Willy, at Whittonstal, in the parish of Bywell, was also struck dead. A stack of barley, be longing to Mr. J. Harrison, was, on the same evening, burnt in a field adjoining Styford bar, near Corbridge. At Sunderland, a house In the occupation of Mr. Mathews was struck by the light ning; the walls were rent in several places, the fire irons in the parlour were driven to the opposite side of the room, and partly melted, together with some skewers, which were run together into a solid mass. Mr. Mathews himself was rendered insensible for some time, during which it was feared both his sight and hearing were destroyed. He has since, however, entirely recovered. A house in Union-lame was also struck ; the chimneys and the back part of the roof were thrown down, At the same instant, near the same place, six out of 20 lambs were killed, and a butcher of the same of Merriman, echo attended them, pas slightly affected.— note Mercury. ~-~~' 7"; • f ; 1 1 .