The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

DREADFUL THUNDER STORM.

It will be seen by the following account, that the storm
on Wednesday, the 15th inst., has been very severely felt
in various parts of England and Scotland :
BRADFORD. —On Wednesday afternoon, the town and
n ighbourhood of Bradford were visited with an extra-
ordinary storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain. The
flashes were awfully vivid, and the hailstones unusually
large. Considerable damage, by the breakage of windows,
was done by the latter.
Dti RIIAM.—At Durham the storm seems to have raged
with still greater violence. Flom the account we have
received, the hailstones, or rather masses of solid ice, were
of still larger dimensions there than here, some of them
measuring from two to three inches in circumference. The
wind was nearly south, and the havoc which the hail
committed upon the glass is almost incredible. Hot-
houses and skylights were in many instances totally de-
stroyed, and the fruit•trees and gardens sustained great
injury.
D UMF RIES. —Wednesday last the sky even in the morning
assumed an appearance indicative of thunder ; and as the
day waxed, clouds negative and positive came into frequen,
Ind angry collision, anti in place of turning the war-
fare front our own gates, brought it nearer every moment.
to the banks of the Nith. Shortly after three the storm
seemed to be passing right over the town; the Rashes
were most vivid, and " iota] and long the thunder bel-
lowed," until every one became sensible of a tremulous sort
of motion. Big drops of rain were followed by the largest
h iii stones we ever examined, and which persons nearly
twice our age declared to be unparalled within the nun,
extended period of their own remembrance. The noise
.vas so sudden and undefinable, that many rushed out to
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were as white LS they are in the depths of winter. The
.ky lights, front accumulation, and the size of the hail.
yielded to the pressure, and fell from time to time with a
loud crash ; hail-stones followed, and strewed every land
ing place until such housemaids as hat been terrified In
the thunder, recovered from their fright, and lifted their
hands in astonishment. Business was suspended during tin
outpourings of the wortn, and the streets deserted by al;
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one was engaged in collecting specimens, and begging the

shopkeepers to weigh them in their scales—so much so that
curiosity usurped for a season the functions of utility. The
footrule, too, and bits of twine were in constant requi-
sition ; and, we have heard on good authority, of
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Three inches round, or an inch in diameter, was quite a
common measurement, and doubtless the size and weight
would have been greater had the specimens been exmon,,(l
the moment they fell. When broken, the hails ones
showed rings or circles; sometimes to the number of three
or four—the effect, we suspect, of hurried or imperfect
congelation at a point very near the earth's surface. In
the year 1811, a hail-storm in a more modified foam
occurred in this town and neighbourhood, one day later
in the month of May. The damage done to sky lights,
storm-windows, green-houses, and vineries, in town
and country, exceeds in amount what persons at a dis-
tance will readily believe. Calculations or guesses fix
the cost of renewing or repairing at 5001 , and perhaps
eventhis sum is under the mark, bad as it is, as an accom-
paniment toanothercholera assessment. The glaziers in the
meantime are prodigiously busy, and might appropriately
enough vote a congratulatory address to the man of the
moon, or the clouds below him for the noble windfall
thrown in their way. Fortunate), there was no bre. ze on
Wednesday, but bad the fact peen otherwise, Dumfries, to a
very greit extent might have been ri duce(' to the situation
of a glassless town. The stocks in the I ands of trades-
men are understood to be light, and ()triers must be given
and executed before the whole damage can be repaired.
One gentleman, in Castle street, lost 49 panes, another
between 30 and 40, and so on ; the churches suff-red
severely ; and in short within the range of the storm
scarcely a single individual escaped scot. free. Different
green-houses have been demoliehed almost entirely, and
from 100 to 200 panes are common enough it-ms in
the catalogue of loss occasioned by the largest and fiercest
hail which the oldest men in the country ever s iw.
Summer showers, whether of rain or hail, are generally
loci!, and often cut across a district like a knife. Wed-
nesday's storm was felt at Lockerby, and more slightly at
Lochmalten ; while at Neblehill and Brownhal, distant
little more than a mile from town, nothing in the
shape of hail was seen. At the New Quay it bisected
the lyouses, attacking the one half and leaving the other
free. A tremendous fall of rain followed the hell, and
seems to have visited Edinburgh, Carlisle, and many
other places. The rain fell in such torrents at Hutton
Hell, that-it actually leered a sloping potatoe fell of its
soil, and made a breach in a stout stone wall of 5 feet high.
It then crossed the public road and burst a second wall on the
opposite side, transporting huge stones to a distance
which it would actually require a Hercules to lift. The
soil hurried on was deposited on a rough piece of moss
land on the farm of Locherbank, and when the potatoes
grow, it will form a curious question is to whom the
property of right belongs.—Dumfries Courier.
GATESHEAD.—In Gateshead, and the neighbourhood,
the injury sustained was still greater, particularly in
elevated situations facing the west. At Bencham, we
understand, upwards of one thousand squares of glass are
broken ; in Ravensworth lerrace, 220 ; and the vineries,
&c., at Ravensworth Castle, are said to have sustained
damage to the amount of four or five hundred pounds. In
the tiet.houses at Redheugh, 2,070 squares were demo-
lished ; and in the whole of the district between the Tyne
and Wear the effects have been neatly similar—Tulip and
other flower-beds are every where destroyed, and in some
gardens the young shoots are cut Jr the trees as if it hd
been done with a knife. The 1141 storm does not appear
to have extended much to the north, for we are informed
that even at Elswick and Jesmond it was not at all refuel k-
able ; and at Morpeth, Alnwick, or Hexham, it seems to
have attracted no notice all.

HALIFAX.—On Wednesday last, a most tremendous
thunderstorm, accompanied with hal, occurred at Hal,
f.x and its vicinity. At Southowram, the windows of
many houses were broken, and those of the Methodist
school-room nearly demolished. The hailstones were
remarkably large.
KEIGHLEY.—On Wednesday afternoon a tremendous
thunder-storm was experienced in the parish of Keighley,
and a partially surrounding district, during which h uil-
stones, or rather pieces of ice, were showered down in
proportion, larger than any we ever remember to have
seen. The damage in Keighley was very partial, but in
he out-townships many houses suffered to a considerable
extent.

LEEDS.-On Wednesday last, one of the most tremens
dons storms of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, that we
ever remember to have witnessed, occurred in this place,
and extended itself partially to many other parts of the
county. The streets, which were parched in the early
part of the day, suddenly became inunda-eil, and the hail-
stones, many of which resemble.' pieces of ice, rolled along
the streets in torrents. A number of windows wose
broken by the hail.
NEwcasri.E.—On Wednesday afternoon, this town and
nelghbourbood were visited by one of the most awful storms
of thunder, lightning, and hail, that we ever remember to
have wi,nessed. The storm appeared to he gathering in
the north west during the early part of the day, and
shortly after five o'clock an unusual darkness set in, and ti o
thunder was heard in the distance. The lightning, how-
ever, soon became molt vivid, and the flashes succeeded
each other with an almost incredible rapidity, the thund r
continuing to roll without intermission. At the corn.
inencernent of the storm the air was very calm and clo-e,
and the rain was gentle; but in a short time the wind
rose very high, and the rain and hail came down in tor-
r nts, and with a fury that we do not remember to have
seen equalled. The hailstones were of an unusually large
s.ze, and the damage which they have done must be very
great. In the dome of the Arcade abaut 70 squ►res of
gl iss were broken, several panes in house and shop win
dews, skylights, hothouses, &c., were also broken, and tee
gardens sustained great damage.
PONTEFRACT. -In the afternoon of Wednesday hat,
the 16th May, between three and four o'clock, the town
of Pontefract was visited by a hail-storm of extraordinary
severity. It was preceded and accompanied by thunder
and lightning, and continued about five minutes. The
hailstones were about the Bize of walnuts, some measuring
as much as four inches in circumference, and weighing
half an ounce, and even three quarters of an ounce real.
my were transparent, of a flat shape, with sharp edges
and angles, and in fact were fragments of ice. Before they
fell there was a singular noise in the air, occasioned by
their friction against each other in descending. The
d image done throughout the town cannot, it is thought,
he less than 1501. What is singular, it appears to have
broken entirely over this town, as the neighbourhood is
almost completely free from its effects. Scarcely any bail
fell either at Ackworth, Purston, Ferrybridge, Knottinga
ley, Glass Houghton, or Castleford. The severe storm and
heavy rain which broke over Leeds about four o'clock the
same afternoon, was quite uncannected with the hail
storm at Pontefract, as a person who had witnessed the
storm in Pontefract, afterwards saw, from Castle Syke-
Hill, near Ackworth, the clouds heavily charged with
rain and electric .matter, breaking in the direction of
Oalton and Leeds, as nearly as he could guess.
SUNDERLAND.—At this town the windows suffered
severely, and a house in Hopper-street was struck by tie
lialitnina, the door and frame split, and some of the turn,
tore broken. Mrs. Werdropper, of Bishopwearmonth4
vas struck down by the lightning, and but faint hopte
ire entertained of her recovery.
TADCASTER.—In the afternoon of Wednesday last, the
thunder-storm was felt with great severity in this neigh-
;eiurhood, and the hail-stones, or rather lumps of ice,
vhich fell during the storm, have inflicted much damage
on the recently erected and splendid hothouses at Grim-
cane Park.

YORK —On 'Wednesday last, in the afternoon, a most
twful visitation of thunder, lighining, rain, and hail, was
-xperienced in a 'great portion of this and the adjoining
••ounties of Durham and Narthumberl incl. Though much

lamage ;as occasioned by it, yet happily it does not ap.
pear to have been destructive of hernia tile. Its effects i
the neighbourhood of this city were comparatively sligh'.

MUTINY AMONG THE CREW OF A LIVER-
POOL BRIG, AND MURDER OF THE CAPTAIN.—CaptIUi
JOSEPH, of the brig IPNam, informs us that «bile ort
the coast of Africa, in December last, he learnt that an
English brig, belonging to Liverpool, cared the Jane and
Henry, ROBERT LATIMER till..ter, bound for the Cale of
Good Hope and New South Wale., put in at Loango,
;tort on the coast. A letter from a pissenger in the said
brig, dated the 12th of December, stated the vessel to have
'teen at sea 140 days ; that the crew and passengers had
teen upwards of a month on an allowance of bread and
rater, and bad only seven days' bread remaining ; that
the captain had committed several acts of piracy.; that nit
he night of the 11th of December, the vessel slipped
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,table and put to sea, leaving himself, two of th.e.scare..vf.• e
and
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