The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The New York packet-ship Oxford, Captain Rathbone, arrived
at Liverpool on Monday night, with New York papers to the 17th,
after a passage of twenty-one days. She brings twenty-one cabin
passengers. The news, both political and commercial, is without
interest. Advices had been received from Texas, but nothing of
a decisive nature had occurred. The country was quiet.
The New York Courier and Inquirer of the 16th June, says
—" A rumour has been circulated at Washington and Baltimore,
said to rest upon good authority, that the President has offered the
mission to England to the Hon. Louis INl`Lane, of Baltimore."
These papers bring no later intelligence from Quebec.

IRELAND.
INQUEST AT BALLINIIASSIG.
Several witnesses were examined on Friday relative to the fatal
affray. Dr. Wall, after deposing to the arrest of Sullivan, one of
the party charged with attacking the police, was asked whether the
police had considerable difficulty in conveying him (Sullivan) to
the dispensary ?—They had. Did the crowd follow him to the
dispensary ?--They did. To the door 7—To the door ; the door
was off the hinges previously. Now, before or immediately at the
time did you hear any expressions or acts at the dispensary P—The
only thing I saw thrown wr.s a stick from behind the crowd at the
police. This was at the moment the prisoner was being put into
the dispensary. Did the crowd increase ?—I should say so. What
followed ?—The crowd remained outside the door. Did the police
remain at the door 2—They came out to the front of the door
and loaded. Could you see the door or windows then ?—I could
not. How far off were you from the door 7—Ten or fifteen yards.
What next attracted your attention ?—The firing. Did anything
else take place between the throwing of the stick and firing ?
The crowd continued there. Were they peaceable P—No, roaring
and screeching. Were they
in a riotous manner 2—They were.
Did you see persons with sticks ?—I did. Were they wheeling ?
They had them up in the air. How many were there assembled 7
Over a hundred. The noise was considerable P—lt was. Words
may have been used you did not here ?—There might. Did you
see any stones thrown 7—l did not. He then described the attack
made upon the dispensary with stones, which destroyed the sashes
and glass of the windows.

Edward Duggan deposed to the arrest of Sullivan. There was
then, he said, a rush from the country people in on the police, and
the police began stabbing them off with their bayonets, and moving
them out from them ; the police then got inside the door of the
dispensary. They were not two or three seconds within when they
fired a volley. I put out my head and saw a man stretched on the
cross. I heard more shots tired, and I put out my head again and
saw another man stretched opposite Tady INl`l%facarthy's house. I
saw the police coming out and present the guns, and fire off the
shots. They moved in, and another flank came out. The crowd
ran away, and I saw some of them come back, and a few went to
the back of the dispensary and threw a few atones. The people did
not run to the back of the dispensary before the first shot was fired.
The police came out and fired three times. Were any of the
police in the dispensary when the roof was broken ?—There were.
Juror—How many shots were fired from the house at first ?
From three to five. How soon did they commence to fire again ?
Less than a second of time. At this time was the roof broken ?
—Not until some people were shot.
John O'Brien, of Cork, was also examined, but his evidence was
not important, as he did not see the beginning of the affray, and
could not say what provocation the police got The Court ad-
journed at half-past five till ten o'clock on Saturday. The inquest
will last for several days.

TERRIFIC STORM AT NOTTINGIfAm.—I he most
terrific storm of lightning and rain that has been felt here for a
long time past was experienced on Sunday. A more perfect delege
—a grander spectacle than that presented by the lightning, as it lit
up the whole horison—or one more general in the injury done to
the property of the inhabitants, could not have occurred. About
eight o'clock in the evening it became evident that a storm of no
common magnitude was approaching. Shortly before ten the
heavens seemed to open in one immense stream, and poured down
the water in a perfect torrent. The drains were filled immediately,vent,
ven
t,
the streets ran with one continuous current, and having
the water forced its way into the houses of the inhabitants, causing
the most serious damage. For nearly an hour and a half did the
tremendous gush from the heavens continue, The first effects of
the storm were felt in the lower parts of the town, where the
kitchens of the inhabitants were almost immediately flooded. In
Coldham-street, and Tyler-street, the occupants were obliged to
leave their houses, where the water had accumulated in a vast
body, But by far the most dreadful effects of the storm were
exhibited in an instance at once novel and appalling. At the time
the lightning was most vivid, a party °. f•
men and women had
assembled in the Milton's Head public-house, en Tollhouse-
hill, and, during its vivid flashes, one man mamed Alfred Green-
wood, residing at Rudford, kept continually uttering oaths, and
wishing that the lightning might strike some of the women blind.
Scarcely had he uttered the wish than a more vivid flash than
usual entered the apartment and struck him to the earth. On
being taken up it was discovered he was totally blind. His eyes
were completely turned up, and the whites only visible; he only
spoke once, which was to say, " Oh, God, my arm." Mr. Darby,
surgeon, was immediately fetched, and he soon discovered that he
was irrevocably struck blind. He was then placed in a fly and
conveyed home, where he now lies blind and dumb. The damage
done to the crops, both of hay and corn, is immense. In the
close county of Nottingham immense tracts of land exhibit nothing
but floating hay ; corn is beaten down to the ground, and stacks
drenched through. But the most singular part of the whole is
that at Leicester, thirty miles off, not a drop of rain fell, while at
Birmingham the flood was so great that fire-engines had to be at
work all night to draw the water from the houses. At Derby the
flood was very much felt, and throughout Lincolshire the storm
raged with immense fury,