The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-31 00:00:00

On Saturday afternoon, this town was visited

by a severe thunder-storm, accompanied with heavy rain.
As a team of four horses, belonging to Mr. TDOMAS
CLARKE, farmer, Ecelesfield, was returning from Derby-
shire, conveying a waggon load of lime, the electric fluid
struck the fore horse and killed it on the spot ; the other
three horses and the driver were knocked down, the latter
very much injured. A corn-rick in an adjoining field was
it the same time set on fire r a kiver of corn, half a mile
iistant, and another near Raisen-hall, were at the sane
time burnt.— Sheffield Iris.
During the thunder-storm on Sunday, a farm-
house occupied by Mr. MArniEW LEA, parish of Skir-
beck, was struck by the electric fluid. The lightning
entered the roof, passed through four rooms, damaging
the ceilings, and setting fire to two doors ; it at length
escaped through a window in one of the lower apartments.
The only individual in the house was a man named Coon,
,vho was sitting in the lower room smoking a pipe ; he
was so much terrified by the occurrence, that he lost all
consciousness ; upon his restoration his hack was found to
he marked quite black. No material damage was sus-
tained. A toasting-fork, hanging in one of the lower
rooms, attracted the fluid, and was melted in two, as also
;in egg-slice and a pair of steel tongs. The electric fluid
+truck some corn-stacks belonging to Mr. REED, of Leas-
ingham, near Sleaford, and consumed three stacks of bar-
ley, besides other property, before it could be extinguished.
The New Police is stated to have cost three
times as much as the same number of foot soldiers, inclu+
ding officers, and all appointments.
A favourite nostrum among the lower orders
in the metropolis for the cholera is brandy and pepper,
mixed with a small quantity of hot water. Many hun-
dreds who have been seized with pains in the stomach and
slight inflammation in the bowels, which their fears have
construed into an attack of cholera, have had recourse to
this remedy at the outset, with what success it would not
be easy to ascertain, though the confidence which number:
have in the efficacy of the remedy, may go far towards
effecting a cure. The general dose is a small wine glass
of hot water and brandy, and a tea-spoonful of pepper,
continued at intervals, until the patient is either killed or
cured.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.
—On Thursday last, a man named JAMES GREGORY, a
workman in the employ of Messrs. COCKER and HIG6IN,
machine-maker, Salford, was incautious enough, whilst in
a state of considerable perspiration, to drink a large
draught of cold water. In a few minutes afterward
was observed to fall down, apparently dead. lie lived,
however, a very abort time, but never spoke. An inquest,
vas held on the body, when a verdict of (' Died by the
vti-
sitation of God" was returned.— York Chronicle,
Mr. CLAREMONT, who was for very many
years a member of Covent-Garden Theatre, made his exit
from this mortal stage on Tuesday last, at his apartments
in Percy-street. Although he never appeared in at:
higher walks of the drama, he was a useful actor, always
it his post, and master of his part. His real name was
CLEAvitit, and he was (it is believed) originally a linen-
draper; on quitting which business for the stage he as-
.umed the more dramatic congnomen of CLAREMONT.
ACCIDENT BY LIGHTNING.—Last Satur-
day afternoon, a cow, the property of Mr. THOMAS
BUCKLE, of Askant Richard, near this city, way killed by
the lightning, whilst grazing in a lane near that village..--
York Chronicle.
On Tuesday, a vessel, fish laden, reached the
Nith, from Shetland, after a voyage of nearly a month's
duration, the master of which communicates many parti-
culars of a most appalling storm which is slightly glanced
at in some of the newspapers. Shortly before be sailed, a
hurricane arose on the east side of the island of appalling
violence, and unprecedented in its effects for the last 30
years. No fewer than 23 boats, manned by six awn each,
sunk during the gale; two smacks foundered at the same
time, and it is supposed that 150 mariners in all, many
of them fathers of families, have found a watery grave. So
calamitous an event has cast a damp over the harvest of
the treacherous deep—season 1832—and converted the
industrious community of Shetland into one entire family
been
of driventen
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Theirmiles
provisions, water, and tiny suplUy of spirits, were tho-
of mourners. The crews of 30 boats were picked up by
Dutch fishermen, and most humanely treated while they
remained on board; and strange to say, three boats wea-
tc,h,esreead, the
reachedgale gale,
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fair afteris feat
having e
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roughly exhausted, and the crews completely
wuru (haul
with fatigue and pri vation,Dumfries Courier.