The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-09 00:00:00

PUBLIC SALE&

Sart. B.—By Messrs. FastlßßOTUltil, CLARK, and LYE,
at Garraway'a.—Freehold estate, comprising the site of the
House of Correction, now abandoned, at Brixton, Surrey,
occupying an area of five acres, together with the whole of
the materials forming the buildings of the prison—sold for
8,4501.
Freehold property, comprising the site of the House of
Correction at Guildford, Surrey, occupying en area of 2i
acres, with the whole of the building materials—sold for
7,9001.
The freehold and tithe•free estate of Broughton, near
Brigg, Lincolnshire, consisting of ehooting-box, three
farms. end 974 acres of land, producing 1,1111. per annum
—knocked down for 40,9001.
By Mr. GAISDIXER. at Oarraway's.—Life policy for
2,0001. in the Law Life Assurance Society, on the life of a
lady 67 years of age, annual premium 1181. 3s. 4d.—sold
for 6001.

Two leasehold houses, Watts's-terrace, Old Kent-road,
producing an improved rent of 481. per annum, for 54 years
unexpired-8301.
By Messrs. Mooau and TIMPLII, at the Mart.—Thirteen
freeholl estates and two houses and shops, King's road,
Homerton, producing 2201. per annum-1,9851.
Leasehold house, No. 44, Halseystreet, Cadogsn-street,
Chelsea, let at 381. per annum, held for 91 years, at Cl.—

By Messrs. ROBERTO and Rosy, at the Mart.—Six IBM-
bold houses near the High-street, Peckham, Surrey, let to
weekly tenants at rents producing 931. 12s. per annum, term
98 years at 181. 18s. —6901.
Three freehold houses, Besr•alley, Farringdon-street, let
to weekly tenants at rents producing 701. per annum-5901.
Leasehold house and shop, No. 36, Doswell-road, let at
6W. per annum, term 461 years, at 301.-2101.
Suva% 7.—Dy Mr. JOHN JORDAN, at the Mart.—Lease
of Woodlands situate in the parishes of Chatham and Gil-
lingham, in the. count y of Kent, known u the Sharsted
Woods, comprising 366 acres, held under the Dean and
Chapter of Rochester, by lease renewable every seven
years, upon payment of a fine, ground rent 211. per annum
—knocked down at 5,3001.

et the Mart.--Family residence,
No. 6, Windsor-terrace, Maida•hill, with stabiincr,
estimated to product 1181. per annum, held for 97 years
from 1826 at 161.7-1,1001.

By Mean. Vanua and Sote—Six leasehold houses,
Key's-terrace' liatumenznith, let at 181. each, held at 4/.
each—knocked down in lots for 8001.

Two homes., Nos. 4 and 6, Wells-terrace, Ilammerrmith,
let at 661. per annum, and held for 78 years at 7!.
knocked down in lots for 5604

DEATH PROM LIGHTNING.—On Tuesday, about one
o'clock, a thunderstorm of unexampled severity burst over
the town of Lewes. The lightning is described so awfully
vivid, the thunder was a succession of cracks, and a deluge
of rain followed. Fortunately the storm was of short dura-
tion. Shortly after its cessation information reached the
town that a poor boy who had been tending sheep on the
Spital-hill, Asheombe, was found dead. His body was
blackened all over; his clothes were wrenched from his
back, and the hobnails drawn from his boots. It is con-
jectured that the lightning was attracted by the metal end
of his shepherd's crook, acting as a connector, for the staff
bore marks of the passage of the fluid. Most of our readers
will bear in memory the melancholy catastrophe which hap•
pencil in June last year on the Fainter iniline of the Brighton
and Hastings Railway, when a train ran off an embank-
ment and killed four of the passengers on the spot, and that
at the coroner's inquest which was held to innstigate the
cause of the accident evidence was given that the cause was
a sleeper being placed on the rails, and that attempts were
made to connect the circumstance with a boy named Edward
Bodes, who was near the spot at the time, and exhibited an
unusual cu.ioaity to see the passage of the train. The boy
thus killed by the lightning was Edward Boates, and the
hill where he was s+ruck was about a mile from the site of
the railway accident.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF LUNATICS.—The neigh-
bourhood of the Ilolborn Union, in Gray's-inn•lane, was
thrown into commotion on Sunday evening, by the at-
tempted escape of a middle-aged lunatic from the No. S
ward of the workhouse. The unfortunate man, having es-
caped from his place of confinement, and traversed over
several outbuildings. at length reached the carpenters' sheds
which are in immediate proximity with Mr. Oakley's livery
and bait stables, in Little Gray's-inn-lane. Here he provi-
ded himself with a 16•Irooi plank, and having drawn it up
with the usual cunning of insane persons, lowered it on the
other side of the boundary wall, and immediately com-
menced the awkward descent. The alarm, however, was
instantly given, and Brown, the day porter, assisted by
Counter, 160 0, succeeded, after a aster, struggle, in cap-
turing and bringing him back, fortunately unhurt. Rogers
has hitherto borne the character of being inoffensive, and
probably treated with more indulgence than others. It is
not long since that a poor insane woman escaped from her
ward, and threw herself from the top of the building, hut
received no other injuries than that of a broken leg. She
recovered in the hospital of St. Bartholomew, and stow
in Colney Batch Lunatic Asylum.