The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

A STORM AT SPA.

For some -time past the weather here has been
extremely hot. Yesterd ty (Aug. 4) the air was
more than usually sultry, thermometer 90 deg.
Fahrenheit in the shape.
About 10 o'clock a.m. a cloud of smoke was seen
rising in a southerly direction, and it was imine"
diately presumed that a house WAS on fire in the
hamlet of Creppe, situate
11 a icing ground about
a mile from the town: The town fire engine 105
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instantly despatc!- ed, but upon. ifs arrival it WO
f and to.be petfec.ly uselt ss, ma, in consequence of
the long drought, the plate was almost absoluteli
deprived of water.
" By one o'clock 28 farm-houses and cottages, with
hay ricks, ATe., had fallen a prey to the flames. The
'church was ent;rely destroyed.
About 7 in the evening I drove out with a felt
friends to the heights; i.ear th- old race-course, ell
the road to Sart, to get a little of the fresh air (3
the hills. Halting for a w min ut-s, we were an-
mir n 4 the d.!stant scenery through a most trap"
sparent atmosphere, and a few thin c.lumns
smoke still emerging from the ruins of the cievo'ol
hamlet, when, look.ng westwards, we obserVea
coming over from the din c• ion of La Reid a dense
black clo rid, which came on spreading over Desigult
Wirianplanchl, Alarteau,. Grippe, Spa, and the
place where we had pulled up ; it was a whirlwit;o
of impalpable dust and norons exhalition ; title
passed over in th direction of Sart, having lasts"
in its course about a quarter of an hour. Tll3
atmosphere again becalhe bright, but the air re"
mained still sultry.

This morning the intense heat continued, the
sun shining brightly nut 1 about 4 o'clock, when
Suddenly the same Idact.-!ooking cloud came ovei.
Spa from the same direction, and in a few mirote°,
there fell, amid a roar of ,hander like the bootnio6
of artillery, acc:omvanied by uninterrupted shta
platoon firim.r, such a shower of hailstones as 11°,
one present in this place remembers ever to have
seen. Toe shower lasted about t9n minutes ; tGe
first hailstones that fell were of the size of graPei
shot, then lake marbles, mixed with myriadi
others of all shapes and sizes, - many of Ahern 0
the weight of several ounces, the grewer numbe:,
being spherical, nodu'ated, of a quartz-like aspoc''
and watsuriog uniformly an inch and a half 1„:
diameter. The windows were riddled, as from
discharge of grapeshot ; slated and tiled roofs vfe,f!
pecforwed as if traversed by shells. Fortunately''
the crowds of visitors who are usually in the afcer
noon riding, driving, or sauntering about the neigl:
bourhood, were just quiety 'seated "at their table
d'hote. At the Hotel de • l'Orange the hail bills,
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through the windows and broke a considerable
quautiiy of glass upon the table, indenting by tl'elt
violence the silveraish covers; at the Hotel deFlart
dre, a friend of mine standing in his bedroom, uPc)!
a travelling, trunk, to reach out of the windo;
and close the persiennes, was struck by a largr
hailstone on the head and knocked over. Otit
lovely walks, such as the Promenade de Sep
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Helms,. the Place Royale, and the Avenue '`A
Martltu are ankle-deep in twigs and branches. 1,
the English Club, the skylights over the hilliarua
room were broken in, and t'.e cloth of the billita
table cut up c impletely. It would be impossib'o
in a letter of ths sori; to d.esctibe all the ravage
committed by this truly memorable storm
are, many of us, busy in ge' ring up subscripti°°of
for the victims of the disa ter at Crippe, most
whom are uninsured.—Correspondent of the 'Lilo'.

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THE CASE OF Mss. Horrc.—Mr. and Alm tutor
after numerous legal proceedings relative to their divot'o
and to the possession of their children, before the cour,o
both of England and France, came in March, 1855, e
an arrant: that their youngest child, John Bevil
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should remain with M!3. Hope, and that the otherg,
in number, should go to their father, Mrs. Hope reSer g
ing to herself the privilege of seeing and corxespondillto
with her children. Mrs. Hope besides consented
co
abandon an application for divorce which she had 10 to
in Eogland, and rtook not only not to oppose buLe
promote the dernalnd f r divorce made by him against "4-0
ie t counts
t hay. Oil Wednesday Mr. Hope applied to p
Civil Tribunal at Paris to order that the child in otosti:e
should be given up to him, and he based his demand -,(1
the ground that the Court of Chancery in Engli'd-,t
had decided that all the children should be placed 0056,
his care, and that as the arrangement of March, 1 je
was net legal he was not bound by it. Mrs. Hope' y
reply, insisted that the infer, sts of the child, who is le
ten years cf age, required that he should be left tie
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her care ; and she represented that as her husband tot
an Englishman, and as she by her marriage to bin, 1) 00
e censidered English also, a French tribunal ho• )re
jurisdiction over them in such a matter. She also relo
rented that if the arrangement of March, 1855, wasve
binding in law, there was noshing to prevent the triLueoci
from declaring that it was equitabie, and that it elght
be acted on. Lastly, she urged that as Mr. Hope tbfutieo •
fit to live apart from her, and refuse to fulfil the uticeeo
of husband towards her, though no separation bet war
them had been pronounced France, he vvas ovier
ranted in insisting on ex-rcixing alone paternal Pat OO
over all their children. Tne tribunal decided ttl ive
the parties are English, as Mr. Hope refused to rf:ted
his wife into his house, though not legally 4er'ld
from her, and as besides the interests of the ob.', toe •
quired that he sh•iuld remain with his inothe/t•!
at! kyr,
tribunal) had no jurisdiction in the matter, and bl' •
Hope's application must be dimiasi.d viitb costa.

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