The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-12 00:00:00

ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT.

The following is the total amount of sales in the.
Encumbered Estates Court up to the Ist inst., as
prepared by Mr. Ormsby, of the Statistics-office:
Court auctions £12,168,485
Provincial auctions
Private contract

Total _ £18,099,350

A petition was last week presented by Mr. V.
Scully for sale of property of the annual value of
1,004(., with incumbrances amounting to 22,0001.

JAMES SIDLEII .

A local paper (the (nomad Chronicle) says :
"On Wednesday last Mr. J. Thornton, auctioneer,
received instructions from the official manager, in re the
affairs of the Tipperary Bank, to proceed to Clonacody
and take charge until further orders of all the furniture
belonging to Mr. James Sadleir that still remains there.
Yesterday Mr. Thornton had the furniture conveyed to
his auction mart and stored, and it is expected that it
will be brought to the hammer within a few days, and
the proceeds appropriated to the benefit of the estate.
The crops at Clonacody consist of merely about 13 acres
of oats, 1i acre.; of potatoes, and 1i of turnips, which, we
understand will be disposed of by public auction."

THE THUNDER-STORM IN THE NORTH.
The Northern Whig gives the following addi-
tional particulars of the destructive effects of the
thunder-storm which passed over the province of
Ulster on Thursday last :
" The m,rning of Thursday was delightful, the sun
shining out with great brilliancy and warmth, until,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, the thermometer ranged from
125 deg, to 90 deg. in the shade. Shcrtly before 12,
however, while the sky was perfectly clear, a few low
p sale of thunder were heard towards the south-wept,
where, in the course of a quarter of an hour, clouds were
seen to gather slowly on the edge of the horizon. In a
short time the volleys followed each other in rapid suc-
cession and with a louder report, accompanied with
flashes of lightning, up to 2 o'clock, when very large
drops of'rain began to descend. From this time until
nearly 5 o'clock the storm became more intense, the
rain fell in torrents, and the thunder and lightning con-
tinued almost without intermission, baying extended
over a period of five huurs, We regret to say that the
accounts which have reached us from different localities,
show that this storm has resulted in serious lose both of

Ve and property. One man at Dromore, and two chit-
dren at the Falls, are reported as having been killed by
the lightning. At Duninurry two men, named Barnett
and Green, in the employment of Mr. Hunter, were
struck by it. Barnett was seriously injured, one side
being completely paralysed, but it is hoped that both
may recover. On Collin Mountain, a bullock, the pro-
perty of Mr. Henry Graham, of Falls, and two horses
were killed. The lightning entered the house of Mr. A.
Aickin, at Malone, passing dbwn the chimney into the
parlour, and breaking a quantity of delf and glass,
which was upon a table; one of Mr. Aickin's servant
men, who was at the byre door in the rear of the house,
was injured by it. Two pikes of hay on the farm of Mr.
W. Coates, Falls, were burnt; and a similar casualty
occurred on the farm of Mr. J. Ireland, also in Falls
district. In Lisburn the storm wassevere, and the hotel
there was struck by the el, cric fluid. At Derriaghy,
about two miles from the last named place, Mr. S. Duf-
field's son was leading a horse, which was so startled
by the thunder that he became almost unmanage-
able ; the lad, however, held on by him, and, in his
efforts to restrain the animal, was severely crushed
against a wall. In the vicinity of Lurgan and Ban-
bridge there was a violent hailstorm ; and at Newforge,
where two men were killed by lightning preciseiy ten
years ago, the hail fell to the depth of several inches.
At Ardmillan the rain was very heavy, and the hail of
extraordinary size. The wires of the magnetic tele-
graph, along the line to Ballymena, have been so much
damaged that the communication with that town has
since been interrupted, and a similar interruption has
occurred in the telegraphic chain between Belfast and
Liverpool, During the continuance of the thunder and
lightning on Thursday the electrical agency in the at-
mosphere so influenced the wires that it was found im-
possible to transmit meseages to Dublin and other places.
The storm seems to have passed, for the most part, in a
south-west direction. Dundonald, Holywood, Bangor,
and other places, escaped it altogether. In the neigh-
bourhood of Moneyrea the thunder raged for more than
an hour on Thursday evening, after which the weather
became calm. About 4 o'clock yesterday morning the
storm again broke out in that district with great fury.
The electric current struck the Presbyterian meet'ng e
house, which it damaged to some extent. The wal s are
uninjured, but a few slates have been forced from the
roof, four seats are a little displaced, and all the walls
a-e more or less shattered. The foregoing particulars
aro all that have yet come to hand of this storm, which,
for duration and violence, has not been equalled in this
part of the country for many years."