Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

MI2II-8 77E11E4E_ RE-ELECTIONS

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.-IST DAY'S POLL.-Mr. Gladstone
was generally from ten to twenty above his antagonist; at
the close of the -poll the numbers were
Gladstone....
Lord Chandos . .

Majority

2ND DAY'S POLL.
Gladstone
Chandos

NEWCASTLE. —Mr. Headlam's re-election was opposed,
and a poll was demanded. The following is the close:vfitlie
poll :
Fleadlam . 2.170.
Cuthbert

Majority for Headlam 1,079.
The Right Hon. Edward,Cardwell, Secretary for Irelariat
was returned on Monday, for Oxford City, without oppo
sition.
HALIFAX. Sir C. Wood was returned yesterday without
being opposed.
Lord Palmerston, Sir R: Bethell, Attorney-General; Sir'
H. Keating, Solicitor-General ; the Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, Vice President of the Couneil; Sir G. Lewis, Home
Secretary; and Sir George Grey were yesterday returned
without opposition.
The return of Mi. Whitbread; the new Lord of the
Treasury, is opposed at Bedford. The poll takes place
to-day.
NORWICH..—Three candidates were nominated yesterday
morning—Lord Bury, Sir S. Bignold, and Colonel Boldero.
The show of hands was in favour of Viscount Bury.

THE THUNDER-STORM, ON SUNDAY.

The thunder-storm, in London, on Sunday, was much more
serious in its consequences than was at first supposed. At
about half-past seven o'clock in the morning the storm burst
with the greatest fury over the south side of the water, and
occasioning the greatest damage to property, and was
unfortunately marked by one of the most terrible deaths by

lightning ever remembered. It happened to henry 0 ulton,
a groom in the service of 'Mr. Herbert, of Cavendish-road,
Clapham-common. About twenty-minutes to eight o'clock,,
the deceased, a fine young man, aged • twenty-eight, who
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has left a wife and four children to -mourn his anti
it would appear, met a friend, a servant, in the _
a genteman named Ferry, residing. close to Mr. Herbert,
After some conversation, the storm increasing, and the rain
coming down in torrents, the'two 'men. parted, the deceased
taking refjige under a gigantic poplar tree,, and in about five
minutes afterwards, a lad, who was endeavouring to keep
a herd of affrighted cattle together, perceiVed the deceased
lying on the ground' under the tree, and immediately
gave information to police-constable 103 V, who
was on duty close by. That officer gives the following
description of the dreadful sight which met • his view on
arriving at thb spot indicated by-the lad. The deceased,
whom he at once recognised, was lying on his back with
his feet towards the trunk of the tree, the heel of tbe left
boot resting in a rut formed by the roots. His face was
perfectly black and the grass around him for some distance
was burnt and blackened as though by fire. The crown of
his hat was torn away, the electric fluid having evidently
struck him on the head, passed down the front of his body,
the leg, and out of the toe of hii boot,• the sole being ripped
from the upper leather. MS shirt, coat, waistcoat, and
trousers, were burnt and rent in tatters, and his stockings
absolutely torn in shreds and- stripped from his legs, and
two bottles which he had with him were smashed to
pieces. The tree under which the poor fellow was
lying had evidently been struck on the left side, being
completely -split nearly to the ground, and otherwise
shattered, the bark also hoing stripped off, and such was
the. curiosity of crowds of persons to obtain- a piece of
the tree as a relic, *.hat -it had to be surrounded by
hurdles. The scene during - the storm was truly awful
branches of trees being torn away, an('

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