The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-03 00:00:00

TORNADOS.

The Canadian papers contain details of the recent tor-
nado at Montreal, from which we cempile the following
facts. The direction was from west to east, and although
it only lasted about five minutes, it seemed determined
to wreak its fury upon everything within its reach.
The wind blew a perfect hurricane, and rain
mixed with hail came not in torrents, but in
huge sheets that rolled and foamed and swept
the streets with a teriific grandeur that at once arrested
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the attention of the most indifferent. When it had ceased
the streets were several inches deep in water, rushing in
every direction to find a lower level anti outlet. So far as
we are yet able to ascertain, the damage done is about
as follows :—The glass-works at the west end has
suffered considerably, the furnace and part of the
moulding-room and cutting-shop were blown down
and are a complete wreck. The damage
done cannot be much below 20,000 dols. At the rolling-
mill, a large stack was carried away with fearful havoc
into the canal. In St. Antoine-street a roof was carried
wholesale off a house and scattered in the street. In
Bonaventure-street, a roof and a good part of a house
were blown down and landed upon the railway track, so
completely obstructing it that the trains were stopped for
some time, until men were set to clear away the
dgbris. As far as we are able to learn, no
lives were lost or persons injured, although it is
reported that a boy was killed at the rope-walk across the
canal, but the statement needs confirmation. The men
engaged at the rolling-mills were working at the time of
the storm, but hurried out of the building at the first
signal of danger, and fortunately escaped unhurt. The
glass-works luckily were unoccupied, and although the
havoc there was immense, no lives were endangered.
The telegraph wires were prostrated, and communication
interrupted for the remainder of the evening.

The Hungarian Chamber has passed the bills for
granting supplementary credits to the military depart-
ment and for calling in the recruitq now voted before
October.

The ex-Crown Prince of Hanover, according to the
Liberte, has been asked by the Government of the
Emperor Napoleon to enter the service of the French
marine.

The Sultan has instructed his architects, Serkis
Bey and Agoo Bey, to prepare a plan for the rebuilding
of Pera. It will be compared with the three other plans
made by the Technical Department of the Municipality,
and a definite choice made.

On Monday Lieutenant Charles Edward 'Turner,
Royal Engineers, was accidentally drowned in the
Medway while engaged in pontooning operations at
Wouldham, near Rochester. The deceased, with other
officers and Sappers, attempted to swim ashore from the
pontoon raft, during which he was carried away by the
tide, and almost immediately sank. The body was
rocovered shortly afterwards.

Mr. Maden bolt, M.P., has made an energetic
speech in reply to an address from the Orangemen of
Bacup. Mr. Holt said the liberty wanted by Romanists
was very different from that wanted by Churchmen. The
former were the aggressqrs, for the liberty which they
wanted was to prevent other persons from exercising the
duties of thtir religion. He declared the Irish Church to

have been disestablished at the bidding of the Pope.
The Manchester summer assizes were opened on
Tuesday. Mr. Baron Cleasby, in addressing the Grand
Jury, congratulated them upon the absence of cases
" arising in any degree out of a feeling of disaffection to
the Government." He was also glad to find that there
were no crimes of violence arising out of trade combina-
tions—a state of things which contrasted very favourably
with that which had come under his observation at the
spring assizes in Yorkshire.

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Among the parliamentary papers last issued is the
seventh volume of the Report of the Royal Commission.
on Primary Education in Ireland ; report of the Meteoro-
logical Committee of, the Royal Society; an account'of
the receipts and expenditure of naval prize, bounty, sal-
vage, and other moneys • a return respecting stamps of all
kinds ; votes of credit for increased armaments ; and a
return respecting military savings' banks, which shews
that up to this date £311,967 is deposited, •
A. Yeovil correspondent states that the continental
war has had the effect of causing a revival of the glove
trade in that town and district. The supply of German
gloves, which has been obtainable at much less than
those of English make, has now fallen far below the de-
mand, consequently orders are pouring in from all direc-
tions, and the manufacturers at Yeovil and the neigh-
bourhood have already received orders that will keep
their employs in full work for several months to come,
and will put an end to all further projects of emi-
gration.
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The Venerable Archdeacon Hornby delivered his
first charge at Preston on Monday, when in reference to
church rates, he said he believed it would be found that
such rates, when laid, would be cheerfully paid; but if
tenant refused to pay, the matter should be brought
before the landlords, for payment of church rates was
really a landlord's question, not a tenant's, and he was
persuaded that when the matter was fairly brought before
them, they would take the church expenses on them•
selves, and would not desire to release their property
from an obligation to which it had been subject from time
immemorial.

A SAILOR AND HIS BOAT.—The Victoria
(British Columbia) Colonist gives an account of a sloop
called the Yellow Lane which arrived there in June from
Fort Simpson, quite a curiosity in her way. She was
built by Joseph Spence—a rugged specimen of an English
sailor—from cypress, a species of wood quite abundant
in this locality. The trees were felled by Spence ; the
planks were whipsawed by him and an Indian ; every nail
in her hull was driven by Spence himself. Alone in the
solitude of the north-west coast, remote from the sound
of a civilised voice, Spence worked seven long month,
and when he had launched his little bark successfully
he rigged her out with his own hands, and with the
Indian as his only "crew" he set sail for Victoria, accom-
plishing the distance of nearly 800 miles in 14 sailing days,
which would be reckoned good time for a well-appointed
vessel.