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London, England, 1828-09-13 00:00:00

CHELMSFORD, Sur. 11.

On the night of Monday last, the beautiful pheno-
menon called Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.,
made its appearance again in this neighbourhood. It
will be remembered that last year, on the 25th of Sept.
these corruscations of light in the Septentrional regions
were particularly brilliant ; so much so, indeed, that
m4ny persons at Boreham could read a large print at
midnight. The Northern Lights on Monday night last
were not quite so bright as those alluded to, but were
suficiently so to attract very general notice ; and, baying
continued till three o'clock on Tuesday morning, were
followed by one of the most tremendous tempests we
ever remember to have witnessed. From three to four
o'clock in the morning, the lightning was almost one Un-
interrupted glare of blue and purple light, occasioned
by the rapid succession of the flashes, while both sharp
and ro.ling thunder was heard in several places at once..
The houses seemed to shake with it, and the rain which
shortly followed came down in such quantity at once,
that it found its way into the roofs of ,several house, by
damaging the tiling; the gutters ana drains were soon
ifiled, and the water appeared next morning to have
'washed away the sand from the roads in many places.
The thermometer during the night stood at about 60.
and the barometer fell from 29.90. to 29.74.
the storm it*regained gradually its former
At Borebam, a place which, from its peen-
I tion, is rather less obnoxious to tempests in
the storm was so violent that most persons got
some dressed themselves, while few were totally
fear. Tuesday was warm and fair, and at
re was an abundance of those small meteors
ailing stars.
such to be wished that all persons dwelling in
otherwise much exposed edifices, would secure
,ainst lightning, by what are called Lightning
'at is, metallic conductors rising above the
, and communicating with the ground. Most
ire' in France and England are now secured by
:onduttors; and in Sussex, where this precaution
leaded to, there have been an unusual propor•
lurches destroyed by the electric fluid.
storm above alluded to passed over this town
,he hours of three and four, and created great
imong the inhabitants ; but we have not heard
lamage done in our vicinity, excepting by the
,bich entered through the roofs of most hritses,
_zal persons were soaked in their beds. At High
Ungar, the sails of a windmill attracted the lightoing,
ic h passed from the top to the bottom; the damage,
I.aever, is not etaimattd to exceed 501. At Canter-
-6y the lightning presented one of the grandest, yet
orlul spectacles witnessed in that neighbourhood for
litany years; the thunder tumbled violently, and the
sand blew with the furs of a tropical hurricane.

Extract of a letter of the 27th ult. from Madrid:—
We learn from the Havannab, that during the arma•
ent cf the fleet which was to sail ter Mexico under
dmiral Laborde, several Naval Officers arrived in the
land, who had been sent by the King of Spain to take
IC command of the vessels cf the division. The Ad-
nal, who had already appointed Officers of his own
nice, refuted those sent by Ferdinand. ' The King,'
lid he,' was mistaken when he appointed you to posts
oiich you would ill fill in seas with which you are un-
,inainted, and I should consider that I should serve
111 Majesty's interests very badly by following orders
4en from himself, which would only tend to conipro.
use hit cause.' The newly-arrived Offiiers were im-
diately sent on bo4rd a sloop of war to be conveyed
'Cadis.*--Galignani's ..Vessenger.

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