Star.
London, England, 1806-07-25 00:00:00

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MARK LANE.

CORN EXCHANGE, JULY ic.
To-day there art not many arri►als of Wheat, but
the quantities on hand are rather conliderable ; tam-
pies of the bell quality fukpnrt their price, and of in-
ferior but few falls are eficded—Barley in (bort fup-
ply and inclines upwards—afficl.Malt keeps its price—
few White Peas—Grey and Beans in plenty, and ra-
ther lower—Oats are tolerable fupplies,ancl this trade
nearly at lall quoted prices—and karce any variation
in the prices of Flour.

O! CUIRCNCT AS UNDER : '

Wheat, 661 768 85s per. qr. cirri Pezie 401451 od
Floe Ditto, 86s 89. od Btan.. 42147$ od
Rye, 381 erir • - • Tick Ditto, 331 391 od
Buityoss 3111 s 04 Oat., 141{ 16$ ;is
Met 63. 70 od Poland ditto 3u 33s 6d
White ?cattalos 63s Rape Seed, 261 301
. FRICR 01 FLOOR. •
ries Mow phs to 75s fleeced' 6os to ?co per fact.

The money raifed in the ward of Cornhill under
the DefcneeAd, has been very haadfomely returned to
the inhabitants of that Ward, in confequence of that
ad having been repealed during the prefent Seffiun,
which we hope will be followed by every ward and
parilh throughout the kingdom.
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The Earl of Ctioxmoavaxiv has pnrchafed Egre.
moat Hoare; Piccadilly. for moon!. which is to un-
dergo a thorough repair, and when finifised will be
the future town refidence of the Caoxisomvaxar
Family.
On Friday fe'nnight, a barn at Framlingjiitm, in
Suffolk, belonging to S. Kilderbee. Efq. of Ipeorich,
was burnt down by the lightning.
Scarcely a day has paired fierce the above-men
tioned, without fame revere tempeft, in one part or
other of the fame county. On Thurfday fe'nnight,
twelve lambs, grazing in a field belonging to
Mr. Thomas Parfons, of Great Barton, were (truck
dead. And on Monday the form feemed to have
been one of the moll extraordinary ever remembered
in that part of the ifland. From a quarter pall one,
for three hours, the fky was uniformly and deeply
clouded, and the rain and hail, with few and limit
intervals, came down in torrents. A mare, in a paf
tore belonging to Mr. Beeton, of Hardwicke, was
(truck dead under a tree, which was alto fhivered to
pieces; a poplar ire:, in the meadows near Stam-
ford Bridge, which Rands between two flacks of hay
and clover, was (tripped, of its bark, and nearly fplit
in halves, bnt not thrown down, and molt probablx,
by its attratlion, preferved the flacks from fire. ft

Yetierday, loon after two o'clock, one of the molt
terrific (forms of thunder, lightning, and rain, which
has ever been experienced, commenced in the me-
tropolis.--"Phe wind blew a bra breeze from
the S. W. while the cloud. rofe rapidly in a fouth.
eatierly direBh,n, and croffing the corm* of air, at
length burti immediately over the town in a fuccef-
tion of tremendous explofions, Come of them exally
refembling regular difcharges of artillery. The in-
tervening periods of time between the different &Iles
of lightning, feldrim exceeded two or three minutes
duration. for the (pace of an hour, at the termination
of which tie eleetric fluid teemed exhautled, as nearly
the laft clap of :Minder and flails of lightning were
as fevere as any that preceded them. The lightning
was uncommonly vivid, and famed to descend along
with the Hail and Rain in torrents. At the hnufe of
Meffis. Hodfon and Sterling, bankers in the Strand.
two fervants were dallied from a front window to the
oppofite fide of the room. Their hair was ringed, but
they received no material injury. A man was (truck
with the lightning in Drury-lane, and carried to the
(hop of Mr. Skillet, but he did not futlain any material
injury. Part of the elearic matter fell near the Ship
public-honfe, London Bridge, into the Thames, and
fltivtred one of the polls where the mooring chains
of the barges are fixed, to pieces. The malts of fe.
veral (hips in the River were (Livered from top to
bottom. A number of trees were (truck by the light-
ning at Lambeth, and the foundations of feveral new
buildings were completely undermined and detirnyed.
—The rain fell in fuch torrents as to refemble in a
great degree thole " periodical defcents of the deluge"
fo common in the Weft Indies. The water rote fo
high in the lower parts of the City and in Well-
mintier, particularly in the Strand, in the neighbour.
hood of St. Clement 's Church, as to fill the kitchens
and cellars of the houfe., and in fome parts of the
Borough, bridges of boards were confirueed for the
foot paffenger.. It was not till after four o'clock that
the violence of the rain fubfided. It recommenced
this morning, betv.Tenone and two o'clock.and poured
down in torrents for a cnnfiderable time. All the'
kitchens in that part of Oxford-greet which lies be-
tween Bond.fireet and Islanchefter-fquare, are corn
pletely inundated. In Bird court, in James.flreet,
and other flreets in the fame neighbourhood, the dib
trees of the inhabitants is inconceivably great. Moll
of them are people in middling circumflance,, who
fleep, or car, y on fome little traffic or the ground
floors of their hnufes. In thefe houfes the wa.er is at

prefent at leaft four feet deep; and this awful vifita-
tion coming upon them ticket), and in the night, num.
hers of them, wet and naked, were, with the g,reatelt
difficulty, extricated from their perilous iituattoo.--
The foundation of a houfe in Bird-court, and of ann.
Cher at the entrance into Davies•ftreet, ale fo much
injured, that carpenters have been empl,yed all the
morning, propping them up. In the lower part of
Piccadilly, oppolite to the houfe intended for Lnrd
Barrymore, the water role to the height of three feet,
and was impatfahle fat feveral bouts, afttr the Storm
' of yeaerday afternoon.
A Gentleman, who has failed round the world,
and travelled in various parts of the globe, autho-
rifec us to fay, that in the whole of his life be never
witneffed a more tremendous (form than that of yd•
terday—the molt terrific Storms are ',Talented be-
tween the Trnpics, on the Cosa of Africa and to the
Southward of Cape Horn.