The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-16 00:00:00

TERRIFIC STORM:

BRIGIMN, JUNE 15.-During the week we have
had occasional showers, but of a transient nature.
Yesterday, however, the weather was very sulky, and
towards evening black clouds arose in succession, por-
tending a violent tempest. About 7 o'clock it bean
to lighten, and as the evening advanced the lightning
became more vivid. Shortly a flash of lightning il-
lumined the town, and was succeeded by a most awful
burst of thunder. The rain afterwards fell in torrents,
and in a short time " hail mingled with the rain."
The hail-stones were of such magnitude that the
stoutest heart appeared appalled ; we speak within
compass when we state that a shower of hailstones fell
as large as chesnuts, and many of the size of walnuts,
and so hard were they congealed that it was impossi-
ble to bite them asunder ; and they came pattering
down with great violence, breaking thousands of
squares of glass. The storm raged with the greatest
violence at the eastern part of the town, and scarcely
a single window on the whole line of the Marine Pa-
rade is left whole. The Royal Crescent windows ex-
hibit the appearance of havoc occasioned by a fire. In
some houses from fifty to sixty squares of glass are
broken, and in one house on the Parade every pane
facing the sea is broken. The storm raged with un-
diminished violence for about an hour and a half. We
have conversed with several old inhabitants, who say
that they never remember a storm so terrific in ap-
pearance. The above is but a faint description. The
damage done is estimated at 8,0001.

DISSOLUTION OF THE LEEDS TRADES'

UNION.

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
This union has, during the whole of the present
week, been melting away with great rapidity, and
yesterday its complete dissolution took place. On
Monday the unionists assembled, as usual, on Hunslet
Moor, abused the masters, the Leeds Mercury, and its
correspondents, and resolved never to sign the de-
claration. Tuesday, the payday, however, produced
a great change of tone. A small sum of money being
in hand, the committee paid those of the men whose
secession they most feared 2s. 6d. each, including the
men who had been in the employ of Messrs. Sheep-
shanks and Co., though these had only been standing
a week ; whilst the poor fellows who had been out a
month, including a great majority of the whole, re-
ceived not a farthing. What followed is characteristic—
the men who had got paid were the first to run and
sign the declaration renouncing the union, and
Messrs. Sheepshanks soon had their mill full of
hands. Another meeting took place on Hunslet
Moor on the Wednesday, but the rain, and a cause
still more damping, reduced the attendance to a few
hundreds. Still there were big words ; and a counter-
declaration, vowing inviolable attachment to the
union, whatever might be the consequences to the
masters, was agreed upon. But when signing was
talked about, the men ran and signed the wrong docu-
ment, namely, that renouncing the union ! In short,
Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterday, there was a race
among the applicants at the mills ; and we regret to
say great numbers who applied for work will not be
able to maintain it owing to the depressed state of
trade, and to the numbers from other trades and other
places who have been taken into the mills during the
strike. About 45 mills and dressing shops have been
standing, but nearly all are now at work again. The
masters having completely triumphed, we trust they
will use their victory generously, and not suffer the
slighest feeling of resentment towards a class or towards
individuals to sully it. They have done well to break
up a union which had acted in an insolent, tyrannical,
ignorant, and mischievous manner ; but let them not
sow the seeds of future unions, by attempting to gain
unfair advantages over their men. We trust the mas-
ters feel it a happiness to give good wages, and to see
their men comfortable and well fed. We are con-
vinced that it is the interest of masters to have work-
men who are in such circumstances, rather than to have
half-starved, listless, and debilitated workmen. The
Union being broken up, it may be hoped that the or-
ders which have been driven away from Yorkshire in
consequence of the uncertainty of having them exe-
cuted, will be regained ; and if trade should revive,
the hundreds and thousands of workmen who will now
be left out of employment may again find work.

SIR WALTER SCOTTS LAST VISIT TO

SANDYKNOWE.

Kindness for old friends and old scenes was a cha-
racteristic trait in the character of the late Sir Walter
Scott. The relations that surrounded him in his in-
fancy, and nursed him in his tender years, he never
forgot, but always delighted to allude to, and remem-
ber them. In Marntion, where numerous allusions
to the friends and scenes of his childhood occur, the
kindest and most honourable mention is made of his
" grandsire." His kind old aunt Jenny, with whom,
according to his own recount, " if Watty was right
a' was right," was often present to his mind. Nor
was her memory less cherished from its being
associated with the ballads and songs which she
sung to him, and the legends which she told. Almost
every summer, during the last twenty years of his life,
while he resided at Ashiestiel and Abbotsford, Sir
Walter visited Sandyknowe with a numerous party of
friends. After traversing the localities of the place,
and surveying the old tower from the most striking
points of view, the party, with their illustrious cicerone,
sat down to a pic-nic feast upon the hill, while the
household piper of the latter, seated on the tower, or
on some neighbouring eminence, made the gray rocks
echo with the martial strains of his native Highlands.
Having passed a few days at Sandyknowe, I had an
opportunity of learning the particulars of Sir Walter
Scott's last visit to that romantic scene of his in-
fancy. He was accompanied by Mr. T—, the cele-
brated artist, and Mr. C—, the publisher. It was
only a week or two before he set out from the land
of his fathers, in search of lost health. He had been
suffering much, both in body and mind, from that
fatal paralytic affection which ultimately, and at no
distant period, brought him to the grave. After
walking round the rocky and ridgy hill, supported by
his two friends, and having pointed out to them
what was remarkable in the old tower and its vici-
nity, he entered, in their company, the hospitable
dwelling of Mr. Stewart, on the invitation of its
master, while the wearied carriage horses were rest-
ing over their hay. Mrs. Stewart, who had seen Sir
Walter in his prime, was forcibly struck with his worn
and enfeebled appearance. He walked with increased
difficulty, spoke in a low and dispirited manner, so as
to be but imperfectly heard, and seemed bowed down
with disease and decay. On entering the apartment he
observed to Mrs. Stewart, with characteristic naivete,
that she was receiving into her house three very different
characters—an artist, a bookseller, and a book-maker.
Speaking of Sandyknowe, he said, with consider-
able emotion, " I love Sandyknowe well ; every grey
rock, and every green knowe, is familiar to me ; I
have known them from a boy. I was sent out here
to die, but Providence has had more for me to do."
One of Mr. Stewart's daughters, a lively girl of four-
teen, sitting near him, he suddenly looked in the
face, kissed her, and caressing her with his hand,
and speaking in the broad Scotch dialect, of which he
was such a master, and which he delighted to
use when mingling with the tenantry and pea-
santry of his native land, he said, " You'll be
a braw lass when I am no muckle worth." There
was an air of melancholy r.nd dejection in his
whole manner, and in most of his observations ;
he evidently felt, and he even expressed his feel-
ing, that he was paying his last visit to Sandy-
knowe. He spoke, as was usual, of his grandfather
and grandmother—" the gudeman and the gudewife,"
as he said they were commonly called—and again
and again he tenderly mentioned all the kind old
guardians of his youth. On the " gudewife," as
he called Mrs. Stewart, offering him a refreshment, he
archly shook his head, and refused the proffered cup,
alleging, in excuse, the stern order of the physicians,
who would allow him, he said, " de'il a drap." After
sitting upwards of an hour, and carrying on a conver-
sation with the inmates of the house, in which a keen
sense of his melancholy situation was seen mingled
with that fine vein of humour which formed such a
charming feature in his character, he rose to depart.
He left the house and premises in visible emotion ; in
the fulness of his heart the tears stood in his:eyes ; and
in a few minutes he was borne away from Sandyknowe,
never to visit it more.
Sandyknowe, and its interesting tower, have already
become objects of attraction to tourists on the Tweed.
In the summer and autumn, I have been informed
pilgrims of every description, from the solitary pedes-
trian, carrying his coat bundle-wise over his back, to
the traveller in a coroneted carriage, hasten to visit
the favourite tower of our immortal countryman. For
the information of future visiters I may add, that the
hill which it crowns is about a mile and a half on the
south of the Edinburgh road, five miles from Kelso,
and that there is a tolerable road to the base of it,
which is passable by carriages.—Dumfries Courier.

MITH

FIELD MARKET.

This day's supply of Sheep and Lambs, was v,ry great; of
Calves, good ; of Beasts and Porkers, limited ; and the trade
was dull, at the following prices :

PRICES PEK STONE OF NE,S. TO SINK THE OPFAI.S.
d. to s. d. a. d.
inferior Beast, 2 0 2 2; 1 aree Lamb 5......... 0 0 0
Second qualit. ditto 2 4 210 Prime small ditto... 4 0 5 It
Prime la. Fe Oxen 3 8 3 8' Larizecoarseralre, 2 4 3 6
Prime Scots, 310 4 0 Prime small ditto... 4 0 4 4
Inferior Sheep 222 41 i-arge Hog; ...... 2 8 3 0
sewind quality .litto 3 2 3 4 Small Porkers 3 4 3 8
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 81S. cklink Calves 12;. t.6.•6 each.
S )uthd ,wn Wethers 21 4 0! Ouarter old Pigs 12s.

SUPPLY, AS PER CLERICS STATEMENT.
Beasts. Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs.
2,1,37 123,510248 360
Al,imit 120 at the beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about
3 0 up the other northern roads; shout 120 (including Irish)
!rain the western and midland districts ; about 14110 from Nor-
folk, Sutton:, F..sex, and Cambridgeshire ; 80 from Kt nt
an su.sex , and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
th the neighbourhood of London.