The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-05 00:00:00

In Kelso, on Saturday evening, the appearance of an ap-
proaching storm became very apparent about eight o'clock.
Towards the south and south-west the clouds became highly
electrified, while the atmosphere was murky and oppressive.
Tho storm gathered threateningly as the evening auvanced,
and at about ten o'clock the elemental war of thunder and
lightning had reached its climax, though the rain did not
fall in such heavy torrents till an hour after that period.
The sheet, but more especially the forked lightning, played,
in rapid succession, with fearful brilliancy and intensity.
The corn was very much laid in several fields in the neigh-
bourhood, but beyond this no damage was done.
At Jedburgh brilliant flashes of lightning and loud peals
of thunder followed each other in quick succession; while
the rain poured down i❑ torrents, followed by strong gusts
of wind. The injury done to the grain crop• by the heavy
fall of rain mast have been considerable, while the turnips
have also suffered iu some quarters. A large ash tree grow-
ing down the roadside at the footpath which leads up to the
Bonjedward House was blown right across the road and also
the line of railway, stopping all passage for horse or gig.
It was, however, removed about nine o'clock, and it being
Sabbath morning little inconvenience was cau.e.l by it. The
Jed was very much swollen en account of the large quan-
tity of rain which had fallen.

In Berwick about midnight the storm commenced, and
continued with terrific violence for several hours. The
thunder pealed incessantly and awfully loud, while the
flashes of lightning which glared athwart the sky, illumi-
nating at short intervals the fearful blackness of the heavens,
rendered the scene one of the wildest and most sublime
imaginable. The wing also swept in violent gusts, and rain
poured in terrentQ, flooding the streets to an extraordinary
degree. The wind and rain together have had the effect of
partially laying considerable quautities of grain in this
neighbourhood; but the injury thus sustained, it is hoped,
will not prove permanent, since a good deal of it has again
been raised.

The storm appears to have raged with great violence over
the greatest portions of the counties of Durham and North-
umberland In the latter county it was the most severely
felt. The stone arch which carries the North-Eastern Rail-
way over the river near the Locker station was partly dis-
troyed by the force of the cerrent. A communication was,
however, soon formed, and the traffic of the line was not at
all impeded. The brooks and rivers became very muck
swollen, and the rush of water on the turnpikes has in some
places done considerable damage by washing away the road.
The storm seemed to begin at about twenty miles to the
southward of Newcastle, and to move in a northerly direc-
tion, passing through Northumberland along the east of the
Chillingham hills. The lightning was most terrific, and so
vivid and long-continued that occasionally objects could be
seen at a distance of a mile. The quantity of rain wiiieli fell
must have been most enormous, no les than 26,000,000 ef
gallons having fallen into the Male Dean Water Com-
pany's reservoir at Whittle Dean alone; which accounts for
the turbid state of the water. The amount registered at. the
Literary and Philosophical Society's rain-gauge was 74.100,
or as nearly as possible three-quarters of an inch. That this
was a large fall for a few hours may be judecd from the fact
that it takes a steady ordinary rain of '24 hours to produce
a depth of kalf-an-inch.
The thunderstorm was severe alone the range of the
English border, from Carlisle round by Whitehaven. At
Carlisle a huge bail of fire, which lighted up the whole
town with a lurid glare,
fell, but did no mischief. Near
Whitehaven a one-masted fiat was wrecked in the tempest
of wind which accompanied the thunder, and the crew
perished. The storm of wind seems to have been general
over the kingdom, and a good many ships went down, and
orchards of fruit were terribly devastated.--Kelso Mail.