The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY_ EVENING-, APRIL' 20, 1850.

men—Dragon steamer, 6 guns, 200 men. Order:el t 3
the stati_n—Supetb, 80 guns, 750 men—Terrible
strnmer, 21 guns, 300 men. The reduction, therefore,
wilt be cue line-el-bat:lo ship and one steam-frigate, or
121 guns and 1,1:30 officers, seamen, and marines.
BELFAST DISTRICT. Major-General Bainbrigge,
C.B , cot-rimer:ding the district, has designed a nsw cross
Leh, which, if sde•l ted, we understand will not fail to
give the infantry soldier more ease arid comfort than
he ever can expect to obtain from those now in use. A
small pouch is suspended from each belt below the waist,
which, although hanging near the hip, does not prevent
the soldier Cann going t trough the several motions with
the fireleck with ease and rapidity. Another belt passes
round the waist, w hich carries a bayonet of an improved
and lighter description than that now in the posession
of the infantry. The belts are black and glazed; the
bayonet is something like a Goorka's knife, or Kooltry,
but not quite so broad or thick at the back.
CFLEAP MAN-OF-WAR TRANSPORT.—The Het cules,
store-ship, Mas er-Commander Fulton, has at lengttt
cleared out Item the river, after having been the re
about te n we tics, unit ailing from, and loading for, the
Meditarra: eat,. 140 e•flicers and thee, composing the crew
of the ship, in addition to deck} and men, dockyard lumps
and light: re, au:l dockyard steamers, having be.•n en -
ploy ed in the Herculean t.ck. It i 3 expected that
in the course of an ther fortnight she will
le clear of the Channel: she NiII be at Gil,
rahar in a'out three weeks from that time,
and at Malta in the (tours() c f another fortnight.
after stopping a we: k at Gibraltar. Allowing her, then,
ten wi tits to tudoed and reload at M►lta, and giving her
eight weeks on the ; assage I.3acic to Greenhithe, in-
cluding stoppages', she will have got through nine
months e f the year most industriously. We venture to
assert, without har of contradiction, that if the passages
of the troops she carried to and from the Mediterranean
had been taken in the Peninsular and Oriental steamers,
and the stores the Hercules will bring home were pitched
overboard in the Mediterranean, the country would be
a gainer by many thousands of pounds.
COAST GUARD RETIRE3IENTS.— The following officers
hate been added to the Coast Guard Retired List:—
Lieutenant Charles Shaw (1815), of the Bomahon
Station (First Class), at 30/. per annum. Lieutenant
Thomas Andrew Gilson (1829), of the Holywell Station
(First Class), at 301. per annum. Lieutenant Martin
Bennett (1811), of the Gravesend Station (Second Class),
at 201. per annum.
MISAPPLICATION OF THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—The
Admiralty have deemed it necessary to recal the atten-
tion of the respective departments of the navy to the
Treasury minute of 1846, which states that sums voted
for works in any particular year, if unext ended, cannot
be appropriated for any other purpose after the expira-
tion of that year_
Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, John Kinnis,
M.D., is about to leave Bombay for England.
The Emperor of Austria has conferred, as a mark of
his approbation, a " gold medal" upon Captain Duckett,
for the German part of his Technological Dictionary.
We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral- Curry is dan-
gerously ill at Devonport. The gallant officer, we be-
lieve, is now at a very advanced age. He commanded a
bomb vessel in the expedition to Egypt.
EXPENSE OF THE ARCTIC SIIIPs.—The Admiralty
have demanded of the authorities at Woolwich a deta led
return of the expenses incurred in fitting the squadron
of Captain Austin, C.D., for the Arctic Searching
Expedition.
STAFF.—Captain Alexander Seton, 74th Highlanders,
Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, Dublin, has
proceeded to England on leave of absence.

IRELAND.
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL-STORM.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.--This city has just
been visited by one of the most destructive hail-
storms ever remembered here. The whole forenoon,
and down to half-past three &clock this afternoon,
was beautifully fine. At this hour rain commenced
to fall. It was accompanied by thunder and lightning.
At four o'clock, a shower of hailstones, fully as large
as musket-balls, was propelled with great violence
by a storm which sprung up from the north• west.
For about fifteen minutes the appearance of the
streets was most alarming. Horses, rendered
totally unmanageable by the severity of the storm,
dashed wildly about—thousands of panes of glass
were shattered—chimney pots and slates were
driven through the air like chaff, and the choked-
up sewers caused some of the streets to resemble
foaming canals. At the Dublin terminus of the
Kingston Railway the extensive carriage-shed was
blown down on a range of cottages in Brunswick-
street; fortunately no person received injury. The
skylight at the terminus of this railway was com-
pletely shattered. The terminus of the Great
Southern and Western—the Midland, Great Western,
and the Drogheda Railways have suffered severely in
their glass roofs. Several poor car-drivers, who lost
their hats during the storm, were cut severely by the
hail-stones. The book-stalls on the Inns-quay, and
in other parts of the city, were desolated in a few
minutes. The destruction of window glass in the
city is considered to be fully as great as in the me•
morable storm of 1839. Fortunately this terrific
hail-storm has been very partial. But three milts
from the city, in the direction of Kingston, there was
not a hail•-stone, and hardly any rain. At the Great
Southern Railway, a fireman lost his leg in the con-
fusion of the train arriving during the hurricane. A
great number of trees were blown down in the

l'hcenix-park, the College-park, and at the Mansion•
house.

The show-yard of the Royal Dublin Society W S
devastated. The temporary sheds were prostrated,
the poultry coops scattered about, and their,ifeathered
inhabitants set flying about terror-stricken. Leinster
Lawn looked like a field after a battle. A servant of
Lord Plunket's was so injured by the fdl of the
,heds as to be obliged to be sent to the hospital. Se-
veral trees were blown down.

A great number of persons sought shelter at John-
stou's, the silk mercers, in Sackville-street. The
whole of these extensive premises are covered in by
glass, the smashing of which caused the greatest con-
sternation, and many ladies fainted with terror from
the lightning. At one time a strong smell of fire in-
creased the alarm, which speedily subsided. The de-
struction amounted to about 1,000 panes of glass.
The Mansion House, the ancient seat of civic
authority, experienced in an unusual degree the seve-
rity of the hurricane. The two fine old elm trees in
the lawn, near the statue, which have stood since the
reign of Charles 1., and contributed so much to
beautify and ornament the building, were blown down
by the violence of the storm, and in the space of a
few minutes torn up by the roots and completely
riven asunder. The Mansion House itself received
considerable injury, the roof being stripped, and al-
most all the windows broken.

A most extraordinary scene was presented in the
Law Library of the Courts, at four o'clock, when
the hailstones burst over it. There were sixty or
seventy barristers writing in the inside room, which
is almost entirely lighted from the roof, when a sud-
den flash of lightning was succeeded by a shower
of hailstones, some as large as grapes. Instantly
every pane of glass was shivered, and the frag-
ments dashed down on the learned heads. The wig
proved itself a helmet, but, notwithstanding this pro-
tection, briefs, books, and bills were instantly deserted.
The narrow gallery afforded but little shelter. Some
were protected under the old folios, spreading these
capacious volumes over them, whilst others wrapped
their gowns turban wise round their heads, whilst the
hail pelted in and glass flew about in every direction.
But when the storm passed over the destruction was
visible, and many a forsaken wig had received the
contents of folios of drafts, which were wholly washed
out and obliterated.
In the course of the evening two patients were ad-
mitted into Mercers' llospital, who had received in-
juries in consequence of the storm—one an old woman,
whose temple was severely cut by a fall in the street ;
and the other a woman, who was crushed by the fall
of a ceiling in one of the houses in the Liberty. Seven
elm-trees in the College Park were prostrated, and a
part of one was broken off.
The destruction of glass will amount to several
thousand pounds.
GLASSNEVIN.—The storm appears to have raged
with much greater violence here than it did on the
south side of the city. The devastation it has made
on the roofs of the conservatories is indescribable ;
scarcely a whole pane in some of the houses remain.
The roofs of the new range have not suffered nearly
so much ; but, altogether, the spectacle is a very me-
lancholy one at present, and the damage done very
extensive.
THE MURDER OF MR. O'DoNNELL:—The Clare
Journal states that through the exertions of Colonel
Vandeleur a clue has been obtained to the murder of
Mr. Arthur O'Donnell. The object of the murder is
alleged to have been robbery, and that it was effected
through a conspiracy, in which the servaut-woman of
the ill-fated gentleman was a party.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
'BANKRUPTS.

William John Alfredl;re, shipbuilder, Deptford-green, to
surrender April 27,
at half-past one, and May 23 at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street Teague, Crown-
court, Cheapside.
Samuel Jacobson Jackson, picture dealer, Richmond-
buildings, Soho, April 26, at half-past twelve, and May 31,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee, Basitighall-street ; Tayloe, Buoklersbury.
George Winter, merchant, Granville-square, Pentouvil!e,
April 25, at half- past one, and June 1, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-
street ; Jones and Co., Crosby-square.
Sarah Pattison, plumber and glazier, Winchester, April
30 and May 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee; Allen and Nichol, Queen-street,
Cheapside.
John Arnett, tobacconist, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, May 2
and June 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed-
wards, official assignee, Satnbrook-court, 13asitighall-street,
Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby, Old Fish-street.
John Stormont, iron manufacturer, Shitfnal, Shropshire,
April 29 and May 27, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Mot-
teram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
William Stormont, iron manufacturer, Shiffnal, Shropshire,
April 29 and May '27, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram,
Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
James McEvoy, grocer, Hulme, Lancashire, April 30 and