The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-09 00:00:00

TIIITRSDAY.

The Town Plate of 507., fOrli1;;,;,;;;rs old ; colts, Bst. 71b ; and
fillies, Bst. 31b. Last mile and a distance of B.C.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; two yrs old, fist. I Ilb ; three yrs,
9st. New T. Y. C. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., if
demanded, &c.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., for all ages (two
years old excepted). To start at the starting-post of B.M. and
run to the end of the New T. Y. C.
The Chesterfield Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft., for two years old;
colts, Bst. 51b; fillies, Bst. 21b; the winner of the July Stakes
to carry 91b., and the second horse 41b. extra. The last half
of B.M.
Lord Exeter's ch. c. by Reveller, out of Advance ; *Ld Exeter's
ch. f. Macremma; *Lord Exeter's f. by Red Gauntlet, out of Palais
Royal; *Col. Anson's ch. c. Courser, *3lr. King's b. c. Condor,
*Mr. Bircham's b. c, by Lapdog, dam by Comus, out of Scandal;
Colonel Peel's ch. c. by Vagabond, out of Margaret ; *Mr. Sower-
by's b. c. Harmodius, by Augustus, out of Lady Henry ; *Mr.
Ford's f. by llowton, out of Deception ; *Mr. R. Watt's b. f. by
Belshazzar, out of Fanchun ; *Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Bulwark,
by Defence, out of Europa ; Mr. J. Day's b. f. 13elvidere, by
Actwon, out of Belvorina; Ld Suffield's c. by Logic, out of Cuirass;
Lord Suffield's f. Alms, Mr. Bowes's h. f. Estella, Mr. Bowes's
br. f. Quadroon, Mr. Bowes's b. c. Ishrnaelite, *Mr. Smith's b. c.
Psalmsinger, Mr. King's f. Fun, *Duke of Grafton's b. f. Drogheda,
*Ld Lichfield's b. c. by Priam, out of Seamow ; *Mr. Knight's b.
c. by Rowton, out of Margaret ; *Mr. Thornhill's b. c. brother to
Munchansen.

The Duke of Grafton's ch. f. by Taurus, out of Problem, has
paid forfeit.

Those marked 4' are in training,

TERRIFIC STORM in the NORTHERN
COUNTIES.—GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PRO-
PERTY AND LOSS OF LIFE.

MANCHESTER.

During Wednesday afternoon last an extremely terrific
thunderstorm, with an almost unprecedented heavy fall of
hail and large pieces of ice, several inches in circumference,
and followed by torrents of rain, passed over a considerable
part of this county, a few miles to the north of this town.
The hail and large pieces of ice of irregular Erm, have done
great damage to gardens, conservatories, and to many fac-
tories and large works, especially to their skylights. In
many places scarcely a whole pane of glass has been left
in the upper windows of large mills, &c. ; and the damage
from this cause alone, in Rochdale, Bolton, Bury, and
their neighbourhood, will be very considerable. But the
most serious loss of life, and the most extensive injuries to
property, have been the result of the floods, produced in the
small streams and rivers which take their rise in the hills
north of Rochdale and Bolton. These seem to have been
filled with fearful rapidity, so that the bridges spanning them
were soon swept down, and in many cases the great body of
water, carrying away before its resistless torrent the banks of
reservoirs end lodges of water, appears to have speedily inun-
dated the lower lands to a great depth, covering the hay-
fields, sweeping away the newly-cut grass, and doing great
injury to buildings, machinery, and property of every descrip-
tion. Near Barnsley, in Yorkshire, twenty-seven boys and
girls were drowned in one coal-pit; three men were in like
manner, overwhelmed by the flood in a coal-pit in the neigh-
bourhood of Rochdale; a boy was swept from a stable at Brad-
ley, and drowned ; another had lost his life at Bolton ; and a
large number of cattle, sheep, and other animals, have perished.
In this town and the immediate neighbourhood but little, com-
paratively, of the effects of this tremendous storm were experi-
enced. Between half-past three and four o'clock there was a
thunderstorm and a very smart shower, which was not of long
continuance. The effect of the heavy rains pouring down the
small streams tributary to the Irwell was, however, to cause
the most rapid rise of that river ever recollected : commencing
about six o'clock on Wednesday evening, it continued rising
till about nine o'clock, and then gradually subsided. It is
stated that it rose at the rate of a yard and a half per hour fur
those three hours, being about four yards and a half above its
ususal level. A chest of drawers was seen floating down the
river, but its progress was arrested at Throstle Nest.
ROCHDALE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

On Wednesday last this town was visited by one of the most
terrible and destructive thunderstorms which ever happened in
this part of the country. 'I he weather was extremely warm,
and the atmosphere close and sultry. The stillness of the
surrounding scene forboded a tempest near at hand. About
two in the afternoon the most vivid flashes of lightning
began to dart in quick succession from the dark clouds
which obscured the face of the sky. Soon after the rain be-
gan to fall in torrents, mingled with bail and large irregular
pieces of ice. Some of the hailstones measured an inch and
a quarter in diameter, which would be nearly four incises in
circumference. Messrs. Lomax had 800 panes of glass broken
in their factory, the chief part of which were sky-lights ;
Mr. Henry Kersall, 1,850 panes in his factory,
.warehouse,
and greenhouse ; all the sky-lights and many windows in the
new mill of Mr. Brierly were broken; Mr. King, in Oldham-
road, who had an extensive loom-shop attached to his factory,
had 3,000 panes broken ; and so on in proportion to the ex-
tent of his property, has every person suffered by this destruc-
tive storm. Several buildings were struck by the lightning.
Mr. Smith's chimney, Cheetham-street, had au opening. of
about four inches wide cut into it, without displacing the adjain-
ing bricks. The bdfry of Mr. Howard's factory, immediately
adjoining, was struck by the electric fluid, without doing any
material damage, except displacing a few bricks and stones. A
pigeon when on the wing wns struck by the lightning, and fell
lifeless into the Areet. The chimney at Messrs. Petries' iron-
works received some damage from the lightning ; but the
worst yet re nains behind. The storm Lai nut raged an hour
before the river rose to an alarming height. The So Idol, a
small rivu'et which takes its rise between Whitworth and
Backup, and meets the River Roach about 200 yards below the
town, bore ev,rything down before it by three o'clock. So
sudden was its rise, that it enclosed half-a-dozen chil-
dren and some men who had gone into a field to watch
it before they were aware cf their perilous situation. Re-
treat was impossible. The field was surrounded with water,
and the ground upon which they stood every moment became
narrower and narrower, till at last all was one sheet of water ;
the little urcl)ins had cow retreated into a thorn hedge, where
their situation became truly painful; every moment they were
expected to be washed by the raging element from this last place
of refuge.
,e ds The mast lively int,rest was exc:t:d for their
of spectators, though property of every
fate in
description hu ncuarrne
floating down ; barrels, planks, trees torn
up by the roots, wool pieces, carts, skiffs, timber, &c.
yet every one seemed absorbed in the fate of these chil-
dren. '1 ire water was at its highest a little before four,
when it began to subside ;at half-past four a man plunged
in en horseback, awl brougl.t the children to land, by two at
a time; the water at the deepest part he bad to cross might