The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

HAIL STORM.

While accounts of the state of the crops and of
vegetation generally have recently been so favourable,
we regret we have this week to record the effects of
lightning and hailstorms of unprecedented severity, ex-
perienced by the inhabitants of Outwell, Upwell, Em•
neth, Watton, and Warple. On the afternoon of Friday
the 28th alt, between five and six o'clock, the state of
the weather threatened a thunder-storm, which, about
half•-past five o'clock, broke over the district of the
country embracing the above-narned places:, the storm
was indeed of unusual violence, accompanied with
hail, or rather falling ice, which has proved most
destructive to the crops in this district, and also to
other property. At Outwell the electric fluid did con-
siderahle damage to the house of Mr. Booth, the female
servant receiving much injury. Glass in all direCtions
has been demolished, including a conservatory at Braupr 6
hall, the residence of the Rev. W. G. Townley. The
storm proceeding on to Emneth, raged over that village
with terrific violence, evidences of its destructive power
extending for about a mile, much of the wheat is cut
down, and the fruit trees are actually cut to pieces; in
the south of the church the windows are entirely de•
stroyed, the residences of Mr. Samson and Mr. T. Bird
having not a single pane of glass left entire: the cot-
tages of the humbler residents in the village have also
suffered. Large pieces of ice were picked up, of un-
usual weight an size. The storm passing onward to
Watton and Warple, left Wisbech, subject only to
heavy rains, accompanied with much thunder and light-
ning. A ship, which has subsequenly come into port,
encountered the storm as it passed from the land, and
its severity may be imagined from the circumstance of
its being impossible for the men to keep the deck with-
out shelter from the cutting ice and hail which fell.
Throughout the district subjected to this awful visita-
tion we fear much injury has been sustained. Goslings
and live stock of that description have been killed in
numbers, and the trees present an appearance as if they
had wantonly been destroyed with musketry. We re-
gret to add that a man was killed by the electric fluid at
Guyhirn.—Cambridge Chronicle.

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telligence yesterday from Rome, announcing the demise
of their second son, the Hon. Captain Augustus Villiers,
at Rome, at the close at last month, after a long illness.
'1 he deceased was .❑ his thirty eighth year, and served
the Hon. Miss Mercer Elphinstone,
for some years in the Royal Horse Guards Blue, and
married, 1831,
youngest daughter of the late celebrated Admiral Lord
Keith.
The mackerel fishing has set in, in real earnest, at
all quarters on the west coast. Last week the take was
immense, and myriads were sent to the various markets.
The fish were large and fat, and, upon the who;e, the
finest that have been seen in the market for several years.
Our fishmongers seem to have made extensive arrange-
.ments for supplying our markets with this fine fish, if we
',edge by the quantity exposed for sale last week, espe-
cially on Saturday, when they were sold at 3d: per lb.
The mackerel ffihing has rather taken off during the last
few days, but the fish continue good, and as large as last
week. As this fish is the precursor of the herring, it is
anticipated that that fishery is just at hand. We learn
that Messrs. Gallocher and Kelly, the tacksmen of the
fish market, have already made arrangements for bring-
ing to this market the first fruits of the herring trade.—
Greenock Ackertinr.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.
COMMITTAL OF MARY ANNE 11IINT FOR THE MURDER
OF MARY STOWELL.—On Saturday Mazy Anne Hunt Was
brought up for final examination at the Marylebone
police court, and placed at the bar, before Mr. Rawlin-
son, the sitting magistrate. The court and the avenues
at
thereto were crowded in every part. When placed
the bar the prisoner aeared much paler than when
first examined on Wednesday last. During the whole of
the proceedings the placidity of her countenance was
remarkably apparent ; she betrayed no emotion what:
ever, except in one portion of the evidence, which bad d
reference to the coagulated blood found near the WV*
when a slight quivering of her lips was perceptible, an
tears stood in and ran down from her eyes.
Mr. Phillips, the clerk, read over the evidence taken
on Wednesday last, and added portions to the evidence
of Mr. Moat, the surgeon, and that of the policeman.
Battersby, who produced four letters which he had found
in the prisoner's reticule at the station house. One wall
from her brother, in which he had inclosed her a Post-
office order for 2/.
The whole of the evidence was a repetition of that
given at the inquest. At its conclusion,
Mr. I.l...wilrisori asked the prisoner if she had any
thing to say, at the same time telling her that any state-
ment she might think fit to make would be taken down,
and might be used either for or against her at her trial.
He was about to send her to Newgate, and he thought
it right to inform her that a coroner's jury bad returned
a verdict of Wilful Murder against her.
The prisoner said, " I shall not say anything now"
only this, that I did not do it; lam not guilty." ,
.
She was then fully committed to Newgate for trial
and at
and was taken from the bar to one of the cells,
half-past two o'clock was conveyed in the Government
van to Newate.
The prisoner it appears is an illegitimate daughter of
a gentleman who formerly resided at Havant, in Mal"
brother. She lived with Lady Parsons, at
shire, and who left a considerable deal of property to*
for five years, with much credit to herself, and after-
wards went to Colonel Wyndham's, Connaught-lcs
where she conducted herself well, and was looked upon
as a very feeling and humane person. She has bee.an
subject to fits, and it is supposed that she has not been 1
full possession of her reasoning faculties. twelve
Inspector Tedman has also ascertained that twe
, months ago she lived as servant with Mrs. Richardson.
Harley-street, and wnile there was accused of stealing
Brighton,
ten sovereigns ; but she protested she knew nothing
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F about the robbery, and it afterwards transpired that any I
was innocent.