The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

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Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, Sec.—Many stove
plants will now be in perfection ; such as Gardenias, Cle-
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Nothing is worse than irregularity with
plants ; water them, feed them with manure, and venti-
late their habitations with the same regularity as you
would animals ; if not, expect such results as the reverse
would effect upon living beings—sickliness, and various
other evils. Water a plant irregularly (in the store), and
red spider will be sure to be found upon it; ventilate it
too little, and various other pests will attack it ; give it
an irregular supply of liquid manure, and you will find it
utterly impossible to give your plant that equality of
growth which is necessary for beauty of form or healthi-
ness of foliage.

Flower Garden.—An examination of the flower bor-
ders will .shew that the late rains have beaten down the
soil to a remarkable degree of hardness, and that myriads
of weeds have made their appearance. Go over the beds
with one of Gidney's New Pruesian Hoes, which will re-
medy both evils at once. The weeds will be cut down,
and the soil loosened : this is absolutely necessary.
Shorten the shoots of those hybrid perpetual roses, which
have done blooming : this will insure a good autumnal
blooming, which is most desirable.

Kitchen Garden.—Asparagus and sea-kale plants will
be much benefited by a good watering with liquid manure,
in which a few handsful of salt have been dissolved. The
first crop of celery must be earthed up loosely, so as to
admit of being well moistened occasionally ; otherwise it
will run in dry weather.

THE FIRE IN KING STREET.—Were it not for the al-
most superhuman-exertions of the fire-police on Saturday
morning at the tire at Messrs. Buthgate and Wilson's,
near King-street, the consequences must have resulted in
the most serious destruction of property that has occurred
in this town for years. Had the fire communicated to the
interior of Messrs. Lockett's premises, nothing could have
prevented some thousands of gallons of wine, spirits, and
oils bursting in thanes of liquid fire into the streets.
Against such a casualty es this no efforts of the firemen
could have availed. Yesterday Mr. Richard Ilarbord and
Mr. J. Lockett presented to 'lie Town-clerk the following
memorial, which was signed by Messrs. Leylands, the
bankers, and forty owners and occupiers of the adjacent

property:—" We, the undersigned, being. owners or occu-
piers of premises situated between Kin;-street and Can-
ning-place, have for a period of three years been subject
to the annoyance of a large forge built ••
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TERRIFIC THUNDER STORMS AND LOSS
OF LIFE.

YORKSHIRE.--A thunder storm, of more than ordinary
severity, visited extensive portions of Yorkshire on Mon-
day afternoon, and caused very considerable mischief.
The centre of the storm appears to have been Doncaster
and neighbourhood ; but Barnsley, Pontefract, and even
Wakefield, Goole, and Howden were included within its
reach. It was accompanied with a heavy hail storm ; but
although much damage has been done to the various
crops and to the greenhoisea in several places, we do not
hear that any life has been lost.
HAMPSHIRE.—A terrific thnnder•storm burst over the
New Forest on Monday night. In the heart of the forest
the rain fell in torrents, so much so that many of the
carriages of the up-Dorchester mail train had several
inches of water in them when they arrived at Lyndhurst.
The lightning was of the sheet kind occasionally. South-
ampton water and the whole of the New Forest wasliglited
up with intense brilliancy by it.

HEREFORDSHIRE.—On Minday night, about mid-
night, the lofty spire of Ross Church, Herefordshire, was
dreadfully shattered by lightning. It is still standing,
but shakes in the wind ; and the work of repair will he one
of much danger, requiring a large outlay. The height of
the spire is about 204 feet. The electric fluid passed
through the body of the church, but did little injury
there.

Smorn.—The neighbourhood of Stroud was on Mon-
day last vi,ited with a thunderstorm which, although not
remarkable for excessive violence, vet deserves notice for
the length of its duration. The heat of the morning was
intense, the thermometer standing at 82/ in the shade,
and the sky cloudless ; at 4 o'clock, however, the horizon
in the S.W. darkened, and a thunderstorm of average in-
tensity, accompanied with heavy rain, prevailed for an
hour and a half. The sky then cleared, but at 7 thunder
and rain again commenced. The rain soon abated, but
tl'e sky presented an extraordinary appearance. The ho-
rizon in the west, south, and east was as black as _Erebus,
but lighted up every instant from every quarteificith the
most livid lightning. In the west and apparently over
Bristol the clouds seemed to open and pcur down in a.
forked channel a violet-coloured torrent of liquid fire,
while the air shook with one long unintermitted growl.
At 11 p.m. a sharp breeze sprung up from the S.W., and
the storm began in earnest. The clouds hurried about the
sky without any fixed direction, and from this time till 2
o'clock the next morning the storm raged with unabated
fury. The rain was tremendous and washed the roads to
their foundations ; nothing could exceed the brilliancy of
the lightning, the frequency of the flashes, or the variety
of shapes which it assumed. It seemed, however, gener-
ally to leap from cloud to cloud, and to be high in the at-
mosphere, rather than to descend to the earth, for the
thunder showed that it was not close, although bursting
immediately over head. At about 2 o'clock a most vivid
flash followed instantly by a most terrific crash, ended this
ferment of the elements, for afterwards nothing but a few
faint gleams and scarcely audible mutterings, which pro-
c eded probably from some distant storm, were seen or
heard.

Somensnrsnißc.—On Monday last, Bath was visited
by a thunder-storm of almost unexampled violence. The
weather on Sunday and Monday was dreadfully hot, nor
was there any appearance of change until about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon of the latter day, when the sky suddenly
became overcast, rain fell in sheets, veiling every object
at a distance as if in a mist, while the lightning glared and
the thunder crashed in the sky. In the course of half an
hour, however, the rain cleared off, leaving traces of its
effect in surcharged drains, inundated roads, and a wash-
ing away of the surface. About 9 o'clock the storm re-
commenced, and raged with fearful violence. The veil of
night was continually rent by flashes of lightning, the
constant alternation of light and darkness being rendered
more terrible, while the rain fell hissing and splashing
without intermis=ion. The storm did not cease until day-
light on Tuesday morning. A large quantity of hay has
been spoiled, the corn crops are laid in many places, and
potatoes have been actually washed out of the soil. The
storm burst over Taunton about two o'clock on Monday
afternoon, Three cottages at Bishop's Hull were struck
with the electric fluid, by which they were suddenly set in
flames, and all totally consumed in a remarkably short
time. The same storm which occasioned the injury also
destroyed a fine cow in Cunn's Field, which was killed by
the electric power. On Monday night, during the storm
of thunder, lightning, and rain, the house occupied by
Mr. Graham, near Fairvrater, was struck. The electric
fluid passed through the apartment, and took .a direction
close by the chair in which a minute before Mr. Graham
had been sitting. It shattered a handsome clock, decom-
posing the brass ornaments outside, and considerably
damaging the inside work. The marble chimney-piece
was shattered, and the electric current, passing throuh
the house, took a direction downwards, and penetrated the
adjoining field, where it is supposed the aerolite is lodged.
A fine tree was riven by -the lightning at Eastbrook,
Trull. A horse was killed, and one was much injured et
Poundisford. A boy riding on horseback at Bishop's
Hull was thrown off, and had his arm broken.—Bath
Chronicle.

EDINEURGH.—On Wednesday morning shortly after
three o'clock, a fearful thunderstorm, accompanied with
torrents of rain, burst immediately over Edinburgh. The
electric fluid, in fire or six instances, struck the houses
in the Southern districts, but, very fortunately, no personal
injury was sustained, so far as we have been able to learn.
A stack of chimneys on a house in the Pleasance was rent,
and a can thrown down by a thunderbolt: in Chapel-street,
the lightning descended a chimney and carried the grate
into the middle of the floor; in another house in the
neighbourhood, the subtle element fused some metal gas-
pipes, destroyed some articles of furniture, and set fire to
the curtains of a bed ; and in. numerous other instances
slight damage was sustained from the lightning.—Ediu-
byrgh Cowytnt.

AWFUL THUNDER STORM IN STAFFORDSHIRE.-000
of the most awful storms known in Staffordsh;re took
place on Tuesday afternoon. The premises of Messrs.
Meigh and Son, large manufacturers, at Hanley, were
twice struck by lightning. It came down one of the tall
chimneys into a room where two men were working,
killed one on the spot, leaving only a blackened shapeless
mass, sent the other out at the door as with a blow,
leaving a little boy within a yard of the man killed un-
hurt, tearing off a great part of the roof, and filling the
room with sulphur and dust. It also struck a steam-mill
adjoining, tearing off the roof, and entering a room only
just left a few moments before by one of the men, fillinz
that likewise with sulphur and dust, The scene was most
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