The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ••• ... ... ••• ••• 707
Females ... ... ... ... ... 634

Total ...

... 1,391

*ln this number are included 21 by Scarlatina, 3
by Typhus Fever, 152. by Diarrbcea, and 15 by Cholera.

A BLACK S.ROWER.'
The following letter appears in the Northampton
Herald :

iwo Inc ko Rectory,f your
readers,J ul July 1 580 .
Forventure
uponthtehedesincrfoiprßtlnioauntl of some phenomena which were
witnessed in this parish and neighbourhood.
shall allude to was that
of a shower of hail, as large as marbles, and
many of them the size of walnuts. This storm
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happened OR the day following St. Swithin,
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withoutTu rumbling,Tuesday,
ceasing,
thought it arose from thunder, others from the violent
grief and anger of St. Swithin, who wept for more
than an hour, shedding immense tears of hail, as large
o
as walnuts, breaking and smashing the green and
hot• house frames at Fineshade Abbey, at Luton
Hall, and at Tizover House, &c., and doing immense
mischief to the crops of grain. After a little pacifica-
tion of his anger, he appeared more appeased during
Wednesday and Thursday; but on Friday he again
became so fretful and irritable that, to molest our
poor washerwomen, he shed forth a great shower of
black rain. This fell about three or four o'clock,
rendering quite black their clothes on the hedges and
those spread on the grass to dry ; also rendering
their water caught in their tub: and vessels from the
church leads, and from their slated and tiled houses,
almost the colour of ink.
The above are the phenomena myself and parish-
ioners witnessed, unlike to anything we had ever
seen before; for the black shower I described as fall-
ing in this parish last year did not blacken the water
nor create a black-lead froth at top in the tubs, as this
last did ; but only left behind black particles, hard in
substance, about the size of gunpowder. The black
shower that fell last Friday came down from one par-
ticular cloud, for the rain in the morning was per-
fectly clear and fit for washing purposes; but the rain
that fell between three and four o'clock was perfectly
black, and caused a black-lead froth at the top of my
tub, so that I myself collected three or four bowls
therefrom of such froth. Three days after, two boys
loading my waggons with clover were rendered as
black as chimney-sweepers from the black sediment
the rain had left thereon; my shepherd's inexpressi-
bles, up to the knees, were rendered of the like colour
after shepherding his sheep, so that it appears the
shower was not confined to the parish.
J. T. TRYON.

The Presse says that the Government has autho•
rised a lottery of 7,000,0001 for sending out 5,000 emigrants
from Paris to California. There are to be 70 lots, amounting
in the whole to 1,120,0001. The principal lot is to be an
ingot of gold weighing 130 kilogrammes, and of the net
value of 400,000 f. ; the other lots were to be ingots of
200,000 f., 100,000 f., and of different sums down to 5,000 f.
The.tickets are to be lf. each, and a'l are to take part in the
drawing of the los.
The mills ot Nessrs. Fielden, of Todroceen, which
hive.for a lengthened-period-been Twining shbrt.f me 'about
forty hours per week) either have or are immerately to go
on fall time again.—Liverpool Mercury.