The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-22 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

The Colombian arrived at Aden on the 11th of
July. H_r delay had been occasioned by damage
to machinery, which had been rectified.
These mails will be conveyed from Alexandria
to Malta and Southampton per Ripon ; and those
for the overland route per Panther, to Marseilles,
leaving Malta about the 21st or 22d of July.
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The Colombian will return from Suez with the
outward Australian mail.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamship Colombo,
Capt. Field, has arrived.

She left Alexandria July 10, Malta July 15, and
Gibraltar July 17.
The Orissa arrived out at Alexandria on the 10th.

The Colombo brings 121 passengers, 9 packages
specie, value unknown, 1,934 bales silk, and general
cargo.
She has a Mediterranean mail only.

THE HAILSTORM AT SOUTHGATE.—The village
of Southgate was visited Wednesday afternoon with the
most hail and thunderstorm known in the memory
of man. In the north and north-west direction all skylights
and glass-houses of every description are one complete
wreck, —the cornfields a mass of stubble, the corn being
either cut entirely off, or beaten down to the ground, so as
to be almost useless. Fruit and flowers all gone, not a ves-
tige of fruit remaining on the trees ; and the carriage
drives and roads covered with leaves and branches, alto-
gether presenting a scene of devastation seldom to be wit-
nessed, and of which it would be impossible to convey an
adequate idea, unless, indeed, we compare it to some poor
unfortunate village through which an hostile army has
passed, spreading destruction around, the houses not having
escaped, the windows being completely shattered, and sky-
lights one quarter of an inch in thickness broken like sheet
glass. On the lawn of Mr. Samuel Sugden, of Oak Villa,
hailstones found after the storm were the size of apples,
measuring four inches in circumference, some of which
were brought to town this morning, and 16 hours after-
wards measured fully two inches. Such a storm was never
before known, and long may it be before the peaceful vil-
lage of Southgate again present so fearful a spectacle.
THUNDERSTORMS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday.—
This town and neighbourhood were visited by another storm
early this morning, which lasted with brief intermissions,
from a quarter past 2 till about half-past 6. The thunder
was veay heavy, especially the last peal, which seemed to
shake the earth, and roused from their slumbers even those
inverately sound sleepers who were proof against the pre-
vious outbursts of the storm, The electric fluid descended
the chimney of a house in Sussex-place, occupied by Mr. T.
P. Payne, dentist, tearing the gate out of its place, breaking
the marble chimney-piece, and filling the room with sulphur
and soot. Mrs. Payne, who was in bed with her infant at
the time, was providentially preserved from harm, although,
of course, much alarmed, and none of the other inmates of
the house received any injury.. The lightning was very
fierce, and rain fell heavily. About 4 o'clock, yesterday
morning there was a little thunder lightning, and rain ;
and on Monday evening, between Sand lu o'clock, a heavy
storm passed over the town. Several places in the upper
part of Hampshire experienced severe thunderstorms during
yesterday, and at the Micheldever station of the South-
Western Railway 30 or 40 panes of glass were broken by
the lumps of ice which fell. Like damage was inflicted
upon the windows of different houses in other parts of the
country.
SIWIDE BY JUMPING FROM A WINDOW.—An
inquest was held yesterday at St. George's Hospital on the
body of Mary Abbey, aged 21, who was cook in the family
of Mrs. Phillips, of Wilton-street, Belgrave-square. The
deceased occupied a room at the top of the house, which was
six storeys high, and on Monday morning about six o'clock
she threw herself out of the window into the area. Both
her legs were broken, and she was conveyed to the hospital
in a dying state. No cause could be assigned for her com-
mitting suicide. Verdict, " Temporary mental derange-
nien.t."