The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-29 00:00:00

GREAT SIVZM IN TSB NORTH.

The storm appears to have raged with great
violence over the greatest portions of the conades °Muhl=
and Northumberland. In the tatter county it was the meat
severely felt. The stone sr& which curies the North
Eastern Railway over the river near the Locker station was
partly destroyed by the force of the current. A communica-
tion was, however, aeon formed, and the traffic of the line
was not at all ImPaded. The brooks and riven became very
much swollen, and the rush of water on the turnpikes has in
P M Flues done considerable damage by washing away the
road.

At Ainwiek the storm commenced about midnight with
terrific bursts of thunder and lightning. The rain bunt
down in a period dela" flooding the whole of the streets,
and tearing the very flagging trent its foundation like shreds
of paper. In Cannoogate-strest, the flood of water wee truly
awful, inundating
_bonus sad desfroyttufzitz carrying
part of the gas kOdin away, end coo destanc-
tion. In liardgate-street, the cellars of the Messrs. Purvis,
grocers, were entirely filled with water, and we hear upwards
of 1,0001. wcath of property was destroyed. The sztenave
prensises of Messrs. Welkin and Dickman, and Mr. Carr,
solicitor, were also under water; happily no lives were lost
that we hear of. The river Mu was swollen much above its
ordinary level; end one of the bridges was carried away.
At Durham the storm rivalled, in intensity and period of
duration, anything witnessed in the neighbourhood for many
years put. The weather during the day had been fine up
to a few minutes before 9 o'clocliat night, when rain began
to fall, gradually increasing in tpiantity, until it came down
in torrents, which continued until eight o'clock the follow-
Mg morning. Flashes of lightning of unusual brWiancy
followed each other in rapid succession,_ from about tan
p.m. until between two and three on Sunday morning.
Very little thunder was heard, but the wind blew with great
Very daring the morning. The crops of grain In the neigh-
bourhood, especially those in the low grounds, bays sus-
tained injury by the storm, many of them being laid com-
pletely flat. A valuable cow, the property of Yr. Lemon, of
Church-street, which was grazing in a field, was struck by
the electric fluid end killed.

The storm seemed to begin at about twenty woes to the
southward of this town,and to move in a northerly direction,
passing through Northumberland along the east of the
Chillingham hills. The lightning was most terrific, and so
vivid and long-continued that occasionally objects could be
seen at a distance of a mile. The quantity of rain which fell
must have been most enormous, no leas than 26,000,000 of
gallons having fallen into the Whittle Dean Water Com-
pany's reservoir at Whittle Dean alone ; which stomata for
the preeent turbid state of the water. The amount registered
at the Literary and Philosophical Society's rein-gauge was
74.100, or as nearly as possible three-quarters of an Inch.
That this was a large fall for a few hours may be judged from
the fact that it takes a steady ordinary rain of twenty-four
hours to produce a depth of half- an-inoli.—Nriccoade
Chroniole.