The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-09 00:00:00

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TERRIFIC STORM AT NOTTINGHAM.-1 he 1110-S
terrific storm of lightning and rain that has been felt here for a
long time past was experienced on Sunday. A more perfect deluge
—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 aoproaching. 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,
the streets ran with one continuous current, and having no vent,
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 of men and women had
assembled in the Milton's Head public-house, en Tollhouse-
hill, and, during its vivid flashes, one man Named Alfred Green-
wood, residing at Rudford, kept continually uttering oaths, end
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 flre.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.
THE THUNDER STORM ON MONDAY MORNING.—
About twenty minutes to four o'clock on Monday morning the town
of Erith was visited by a rain and hail storm, accompanied by
thunder, which, while it lasted, greatly alarmed the inhabitants.
Ihe thunder was heard at a distance, and as it approached was ac_
companied with large drops of rain. In the course of a few seconds
a shower of hailstones descended, which continued from five to ten
minntes, and was immediately followed by showers of rain, which
came down in torrents for about five minutes more. The hail.
stones in some places were the size of marbles, and did an immense
amongst the hot and green-houses. At one place,
deal of damage
Lord Saye and Sete's grounds, there were upwards of 4,000 or
5,000 panes of glass broken, which will cost from 2001. to 300/.
repair, and the fruit damaged. The most extraordinary part of
the affair is, that over the strawberry beds thick mats were placed,
through which the hailstones beat as well as through the glass.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR ARTHUR DILLON, BART.
_We have to announce the demise of the above gallant and vene-
rable Baronet, at his residence in Dublin, on Thursday last, in his
74th year. Sir Arthur was the second son of the first Baronet, by
the daughter of 11. Drake, Esq., of Fern Hill, Berkshire; married,
1814, second daughter of the late W_ Knox, Esq. ; succeeded his
brother in the Baronetcy, 1640 ; served in Ireland during the re-
bellion of 1798 ; was a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire ; and is
succeeded in his title and his estate by his brother, now Sir William
Henry Dillon, Bart.
The New York Tribune records the marriage of
a widow aged only thirteen years and a half, who was united to her
first spouse in her eleventh year.