The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

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by the favourite and,Deerfoot to half-way down the hill,
when Curio was disposed of, and Gunner went up to the
leader, and ran with him into the bottom, where the leader
was beaten, and Mr. \Voolcott's colt was shortly after joined
by Deerfoot, the two runn ng a close and exciting race home,
the favourite having the first run, winning at last by a head ;
a bad third, Curie beaten off.

LATEST BE rTING.
EBOR HANDICAP.
sto 1 agst Clarior (offered)
100 to 8 agst Golden Pledge (taken)
16 to 1 agst Welcome (taken)
ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst The Ranger (taken)
6to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
7to 1 agst Avenger (taken)
,000 to 1,000 aget Lord Clifden (taken)
33 to 1 agst Judex (taken)
40 to 1 agst Dr. Syntax (taken)

DEATH OF DRENV THE JOCKEY.—We regret to have to
announce the death of this promising jockey, who died last
evening at the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. It will
be remembered that in our report of Tuesday's races it was
stated that Drew met with a fearful accident while riding
Pellucid, in the Marine Plate. His horse struck into the
heels of Topsy, and rolling over him inflicted such dread-
ful injuries upon the poor fellow that he had to be at once
conveyed to the hospital in a state of insensibility. He
never rallied, and died at half past six o'clock yesterday
evening.

A GREAT THUNDER STORM.

(From Dickens's "All the Year Round.")
Long will the night between the 24th and 25th of June,
1863, be memorable among the inhabitants of the Downs
of Sussex. On that Wednesday night and Thursday morn-
ing, raged a thunder storm of an extraordinary kind, inte-
resting in an unusual degree to science and humanity ;
to science, because the electrical storm presented features
never recorded in England; to humanity, from the the do-
mestic interest of the tragedies it occasioned. On that
night a tropical storm visited England, Men whet have been
all round the world and seen the storms of every clime, say
they saw that night a storm of a hot country on the shore
of a temperate climate. The area of the storm was consi-
derable. I have seen accounts of it from Chichester in
Ito Sussex, and Cheshamilineßipi rand westward uackinanghgtetolvvsahsireeas.
two
Chichester
On the
Esoasutth
.
coast of England its pr
bourne beyond Beachy Head,
and Selsey Bill, and inland northward to Tunbridge Wells
and Maidstone.
My opportunities of observing it were limited to the
Downs and coast of Sussex. * * *
There are vast differences in the storms of different climes.
The extraordinary thing respecting the storm of the 24th
of June last was, that it was a storm in a temperate climate
with many of the features of a tropical storm.
My place of observation was near the Black Windmill
on the west hill of Brighton. About half-past six o'clock
there fell some "heat drops," heralding a shower. As the
sun descended in the heavens dark bluish-gray clouds over-
cast the sky, which, after sundown, were more and more
frequently lighted up by flashes of sheet or summer light-
ning. I went out for a stroll near home, and was soon
joined by two neighbours, one of whom delights in astro-
nomy, and the other in poetry. About ten o'clock heavy
rain-drops came drumming down upon our hats like a
shower of pebbles. Driven in-doors, I set myself to watch
the storm. The evaporation from the sea had sent up,
during many previous days, clouds of a different composi-
tion from those which had been rising from the rivers, and
winds blowing from different quarters had driven them into
collision. And then began the most magnificent battle of
sea clouds with land clouds I ever beheld. The warring
clouds did not appear to be more than a thousand feet up
whilst resting upon the land. A man who could have be-
held the whole area of the storm from a balloon at an ele-
vation of fifteen hundred or two thousand feet, would
have seen as grand a storm as the imagination can con-
ceive. He would have seen, by means of the lightning
flashes, the white-frothed sea dashing against the coast
line from Selsey Bill to Beachy Head; with the rivets run-
ning between the round hills; with copses, forests, fields,
cottages, mansions, hamlets, villages, towns, church towers,
cathedral spires, and windmills. There was an extraordi-
nary variety in the forms of the lightning. A flash of
chain lightning is said to have been seen; I myself noted
sheets, darts, forks, zigzags, and fireballs, I have never
seen, heard, or read of, lightning of such various colours;
there were flashes of red, purple, bluish-grey, grey, pale
green, milk white, and golden yellow. No human eye dare
brave the dazzling brightness of the fireballs. The un-
usually great variety of the colours shows that there was an
unusually great variety in the composition of the warring
globules, or vesicles. And the thunder was, of course, as
various as the lightning. The sheet lightnings, purple,
bluish-grey, or pale green, were followed by rumbling
noises, like the sound made by heavy artillery, when heard
rolling over rough stone-paved streets at night. The darts,
forks, zig-zags, were followed by rattling peals, resembling
the reports of musketry when heard near enough for the
hissing of the bullets to be discerned in the noise. The
fireball explosions, by their thunder, recalled to mind the
simultaneous discharge of many guns of the highest calibre.
This great variety in the colours and sounds was accom-
panied by another remarkable feature—continuousness.
From half-past nine until a quarter-past one o'clock, the
lightning and thunder were without intermission. The
storm recommenced again at about half-past two, and con-
tinued until after four o'clock in the morning.
For hours the four victims of this thunder storm lay
dead or dying during that fearful night—John Dancer on
the beach under Seaford Cliff, and the Welters and Eliza-
beth Bingham on the road, under Ranscombe Brow. What
a touch of pathos is added to the terror of these storms,
when we remember their wrecked victims, the hopes they
destroyed, and the homes they desolated 1 How are we to
characterise the foolhardiness which neglects all the known
precautions against their dangers ?
More than three hours after the catastrophe at Rana-
combo, a Lewes tradesman was driving home in a four.
wheeled chaise. It was the darkest, coldest, most eerie
hour in the morning, about half past 2 o'clock. On the road
at Ranscombe Brow, his horse Billed. He applied the whip
gently, but the horse would not advance. His son jumped
down and tried to lead the horse, and then both father and
son tried to lead the horse ; but he would not pass some-
thing on the road. It was very dark. They could see
she
of w
the as
cart dead.
was Another kicked
in. flash of lightning nothing; At last a flash of lightning showed a cart turned
on the axle, and they discerned a woman lying close under
it. The woman did not answer when spoken to, and they
discovered
re-
vealed another woman rather more under the cart. After
procuring a lantern and assistance, and while drawing the
These three victims
cart away from the horse, a man was seen under the wheel.
The
forepart
of this storm were buried in the
churchyard of Glynde on the following Sunday. A long
funeral procession, with about 30 couples of mourners,
followed them from the village to the churchyard. The
coffins, according to ancient Sussex custorA, were carried on
the shoulders of 16 men, attired in long white smock-frocks,
with black neckties. One large grave received all three,
and they were laid down in the order in which they tra-
velled. From 1,000 to 1,600 persons were in the church-
yard ; and a crowded congregation listened in the church,
in tears, to a discourse reminding us that in the midst of
life we are in death.
This great storm left its mark at other places. At
Maidstone and Herstmonceau, hailstones, or rather bits of
ice, of oblong shape and broad as pennypieces, fell, break-
ing skylights. A policeman on duty at East Peckham was
stuck by lightning and seriously injured on the left side.
A retriever dog was killed by his master's side at Hurst •
pierpoint. A poplar was shattered into splinters in the vil-
lage of Kemsing. At Cuckfield, the lightning entered a
cottage by the chimney, burned a small hole through
the bedroom floor, passed through the sitting-room
below, and left by the door, which happened to be
open. At sea, four sailors were knocked down on
board the Britannia collier, lying off Brighton. At Wil-
mington, the Eagle beerhouse was set on fire and gutted,
the inmates escaping for their lives. At Spring Cottage,
Fount Road, Tunbridge Wells, a man and his wife were
struck in bed, the latter lying for some time insensible.
None of the furniture in the room in which they were sleep-
ing was injured, but the stone sink in the kitchen was shat-
tered to pieces. In Ely Lane, Tunbridge Wells, the light-
ning struck a cottage, breaking pictures, damaging ceiling,
and smashing panes of glass and a chimney mirror. A
horse grazing upon the rocks at Denny Bottom either fell,
being frightened, or was knocked or swept down from the
rocks, and was fatally hurt. The lightning over the whole
range of the storm scorched flowers, corn, especially oats
and barley, although the damage was not considerable; and
it positively benefited the hop bines, by debarrassing them
of noxious insects."

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The Extraordinary Extraordinary Charge of Murder in
Pentonville.

Last evening Dr. Lankester resumed at the salmon and
Compasses Tavern, Penton-street, Pentonville-road, the
inquiry respecting the death of Mary Anne Best, or Ber-
ridge, aged 37, who was alleged to have been murdered.
Mr. Beard appeared on behalf of the friends of the de-
ceased, and Mr. G. Wakelin represented Mr. Peter Best, ac-
cused by the sister of the deceased of the alleged murd,r.
On Monday week last the man Best gave an alarm, and
said that he had found deceased dead in a room in his house
at 2, Warren-cottages. He stated that ho had been cut, and
upon his return discovered her in a chair with a handker •
chief tied tightly round her neck and an n. ron stuffed into
her mouth. He ran for Dr. Sheehy, who stated that her
death was the result of strangulation, and that there was
upon her right arm a cut or stab which divided several
veins. There was a slight incision, but not sufficient to draw
blood, on the left arm. Deceased was proved not to have
been left-handed. The sister of deceased said that Best, who
had had a child by deceased, wanted latterly to renew the
intimacy, and that he was very jealous, and stated that she
believed Best had attempted to renew the intimacy by force,
and finding he could not get the better of her he had mur-
dered her. The witness also said deceased used to be shame-
fully beaten by Best, and that while she was in service she
was forced to give him her wages to keep his tongue quiet.
Deceased only left her place, from ill health, the evening
previous to her death, and she went to lodge in Best's
house, where she passed as his sister.
Margaret Lacey was now recalled by the Coroner, and
she said that she had arranged that Best should meet her
in Holborn at half-past 1 o'clock on the Monday in ques-
tion. He said he would meet her there.
Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—l knew Best for seven
years, and have lived with him two or three years. I left
my husband to live with Best. It was I that stripped the
deceased. I tore the dress on the shoulder. Ido not know
that it was torn in the front and in the back. I gave it to
the washerwoman.
The dress was produced, and was found torn down the
flout the whole way. It was also torn in the breast.
Witness said—The dress was not torn in that way when I
gave it to the washerwoman. I never said anything to the
woman about burning anything. I did not tell her to pledge
the things. I went to her to get the things back, but not at
Best's suggestion. Beat always said deeeased was his sister.
She said so herself,
Miss Emma Hobley recalled, said, in answer to Mr.
Beard, that she had seen Best go out on the Monday in
question. She always said so; she said so to the coronet
last week.
The Coroner being requested to look at his depositions,
said that he had a statement down that she had not seen
him go out.
Witness said that she heard him go out at a little before
1 o'clock. She did not know of his return until he called
out that his sister had committed suicide.
Dr. Sheehy said deceased had been dead about an hour
and a half when he saw her about 2 o'clock. Witness did
not observe spots of blood on the purse produced when he
took it from the pocket of deceased. The blood now on it
might have got on it from witness's fingers, which were
bloody.
Philip Lowther, recalled, said Best went into his own
house about a quarter to 2 o'clock on Monday. He went
in lazily, and did not seem agitated. Witness saw him go
into the house again at 2 o'clock with the doctor.
Ann Cogger, 3, Chapel-street, artificial flower maker,
produced a gown, handkerchief, and apron which she had
received from Mrs. Lacey to wash. They were wet, e s if
just out of water. The gown was torn down the front and
in the breast when she received it. It was precisely as it
was at present. Last Thursday the woman Lacey came to
her and asked her had she taken the things home. Witness
said "No." She then asked witness if she wanted any
money, and upon witness saying she did not, she said
"There is my flannel petticoat; you can pawn that if you
want money." She said nothing else about deceased's things.
Dr. Sheehy hers said that the dress was not torn when
he saw deceased lying on the bed.
Edward Bramble, apprentice to Mr. Busson, who lives
next door to Mr. Best, was called by Mr. Wakelin, and said
that he saw Best speaking to doceased about 10 minutes to
1 o'clock. Witness went out for some beer then, and on his
return met Best in the street.
Police-constable Green, 106 H, said that on the day in
question he saw Best in Gray's-inn-lane, between 1 and 2
o'clock, at the corner of Fox-court. He was coming from
Holborn, and he nodded to witness. Witness could not
state the time within half an hour.
Mr. Busson, No. 3, Warren-cottages, said that he heard
no noise of a struggle on the day in question. When Beet
called him into the room where the deceased was the carpet
was not disarranged or tossed.
The Coroner then summed up, and said that it was appa-
rently fully proved that Best was absent from the house
during the time the deceased met with her death, if, as the
doctor stated, she had been dead an hour and a half when
he was called in by Best.
The room was then cleared, and the jury, after a long
deliberation, returned a verdict, "That deceased was found
dead in a certain room from suffocation, the result of stran-
gulation, but how the said strangulation was caused there
was no evidence to show."
The proceedings then terminated.

The Accident on the Lynn and Hunstanton
Railway.

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. E. M. Beloe, deputy
coroner for the borough of Lynn, opened an inquest
on the body of Mr. John Dennis, who died of the
injuries he had received early on Tuesday morning.
After the jury had viewed the body they went with
the county jury to visit the place of the accident,
and upon their return the following evidence was
given :
Mr. George Billing said he went to Hunstanton
on the Monday by the 12 o'clock train. Mr. John
Dennis, the deceased, was one of his party. They
travelled third-class, and came back by the second
portion of the excursion train. When they got
past Wootton station witness noticed a vibration
of the carriage. In the compartment of the
carriage nearest the engine were Mr. Laird,
Miss Clark, Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Laird, and
facing them were also in the same compartment
Mr. Dennis, Miss Palmer, and others. After the
vibration of the carriage had lasted a few
seconds the carriage was upset. Witness fell
to the bottom, and after clearing something from off
his feet he shoved a portion of a board down and
got out. After getting out his wife and niece, who
were with him, the first person he recognised was
Dennis (the deceased) lying on the grass. He spoke
to the deceased, who appeared to be much injured.
By the Jury—We were not travelling faster than
an ordinary train. Our carriage was somewhere
about the middle of the train.
Mr. T. M. Kendall, surgeon, said he was sent for
on Monday evening to go dawn the line. When
he arrived there he found Mr. Dennis, who said he
was much hurt. Found his leg was broken, and
ordered his removal to the carriage. Mr. Alinson,
surgeon, and his (Mr. Kendall's) assistant set the
deceased's leg. Saw the deceased again between 12
and 1, and he was then in a state of collapse, but
sensible. He died during the night of the excessive
shock to the whole system, from which he never
rallied.
After this evidence had been taken the inquest
was adjourned until Monday.
The coroner and the county and borough juries
had a special train placed at their service on Tues-
day afternoon, in order for them to visit the scene
of the fatal occurrence. With the train were also
Mr. L. Simpson and Mr. E. Self, directors of the
Lynn and Hunstanton Company ; Mr. Valentine,
engineer of the line ; Mr. Edwards, solicitor, &jive.
Upon reaching the spot, Mr. Edwards stated to
t
every
juries that the companies were anxious to give"nformation
explanation in their power, and
andthe caul ge
of the accident. The juries inspco
„es before and
which might lead to the ascertainmee:yt
and the man who examine thereTaf
each
carriage.
after a journey stated the nuuw
d of the en-
compose
The train he said was
and the break-van).
give No. 115, fifteen carriacgecesd,
.
class, ono a first-
Of these two
were
third-class. One of the
class, and the rest
appeared
in a most shat-
third-class cart loges
stopped at the. engine-house at
tared condition;
the ironwork of it left. The special
anything except indeed, there woalfs the cause
and he examined the engine.
From marks upon the engine it appears that, after
all, the engine must have struck the animal and
killed it. At the place where the bullock was struck
there is a tour-rail fence, but at the spot
where the
train came to a s top there is but a single
yinnuretsutartriii:ng,
rail slant-
ing fence, not much. more than a foot
high, and a
ttrhaeinL
dike without WPfr
ter between the railway and the