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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

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_ 25 per cent. ; and it is most praise-
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sorthy in the noble lord, who has only recently come to
the estates, setting such a good example, although it will
s income £l2OO per annum.—Chester Courant.
Y.—On

.ENTATION TO THE REV. R. P. BLAKENA.
diday, the 6th instant, the degree of LL.D. was con-
and Board of Fellows of Trinity
.. itniway on tue vv tsv.,-,fe.- - ----- -, , _pen the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, of Christ
viate the unpleasantness and ex- Church, Claughton, on which occasion the ladies of the
. Thomas Beswick, of Berry- congregation presented the rev. gentleman with an ale-
street,F The ladies of the congregation of Christ Church, Claugh-
ng water to horses, dogs, cattle, &c. The matter was sent in a suggestion that pumps should be erected gent set of silk canonicals, with the following note :
'
in different parts of the town, for the purpose of supply-
ton, have heartfelt pleasure in presenting to the Rev. R.
eferred to the water committee.—The Town-clerk was P. Blakeney the accompanying set of canonicals, on his
istructed to officially inform the Dock Committee that taking the degree of LL.D., as a small token of their
gal proceedings would be instituted against them if they affectionate regard. Their eatnect prayer is, that the
Word, so truthfully and faithfully spoken 'by him, may,
I not construct the levels of the new streets in Wapping
arrangements come to by the two through God's blessing, ' take root downwards, and bear
conformity with the
-Armed by the Council. fruit upwards.' 2d Peter, 1, 2.—Oxton, July 6,1852."
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--The frequency of this phenome- , ,
e beauty of the display on the evening i FRIGHTFUL STORM AND Loss OF LlFE.—Alnwick
us to quote the following descrip- r town was visited, on Monday afternoon, by a thunder.
storm of unprecedented violence. For several hours the
_...,, from the ' Introduction to Meteoro- !
flashes and reports followed each other without inter.
..,y our townsman Dr. D. P. Thomson :—" There
mission, the rain poured in torrents, and the grandeur of
a electric phenomenon of peculiar character, termed
:et or summer lightning (eclairs de chaleur), unac- the storm, which resembled a West India one, was fear-
:et
by thunder, or too distant to be heard. When ful. The lightning was of a most dangerous description,
‘pear. " whole skit but particularly the horizon, is and the thunder terrible. At the new schools now build-
minated With a flickering flash. Matteucci ing for the use of the corporation, eight men were stand-
ing under the shelter of the scaffolding, when the electric
At it is produced either during evaporation, or
ccording to Pouillet's theory) in the process of fluid struck one of the poles, which it rent from top to
.Pated by chemical action in the great bottom ; it then knocked down the eight men, two of
", and accumulated in the Whom were killed and another hurt, and then rent part of
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Friday last, induc

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MEN.--SPORTING TRANSACTIONS.—In
.cchequer, on Saturday week, a Mr. Morgan
tion against Mr. Robt. Clifton, to recover the
Mr. James, for the plaintiff, stated that the
was the eldest son of Sir Juckes Clifton, Bart.;
lifton Hall, near Nottingham, and heir to a very large
4. At the age of seventeen he was allowed to have
-nand of a considerable income, was engaged in
aansactions, and had become largely indebted
before he came of age. Among his sporting acquaintances
raged at Geneva. Howard mentions was a Mr. Rowlands, the son of a surgeon, in Wales, who
m, near London, on July 31st, 1813, accompanied the defendant on a tour on the Continent,
ings towards the S.E. while the sky and his expenses were paid for him. In April, 1847, the
h stars, not a cloud floating in the air ; defendant being then just twenty-one, he and Rowlands
thunder-storm raged at Hastings, and went together up the Rhine, and while there Rowlands
ilais to Dunkirk. Arago instances the induced the defendant to play at dominoes, and won of
ion in support of his opinion, that this him at that game £2.000 ; and in the November follow-
fleeted lightning :—ln 1803, when ob- ing, Rowlands procured from him two notes for £l,OOO
ling made for determining longitude, each, one of which was now sued on. The defendant, a
Brocken , used a few ounces of gun- very youthful-looking person, with moustache and impe-
the flash of which was visible from rial, and dressed in a very conspicuous manner, deposed
genes off, though these mountains to the facts as stated by his counsel. In cross-examina-
tion he said, that his father had bought him a race-horse
.—The weekly meeting of the Dock when he was only seventeen. He had afterwards, and
held on Thursday. Mr. Charles Turner before he was of age, kept twenty race-horses with his
following gentlemen were present : father's knowledge. He attended races and betted also
Tolyneux, Evans, Chaloner, Lockett, with his father's knowledge. He had paid as much as
Barber, Nicol, Holme, Brocklebank, £150,000 for debts contracted since he was seventeen,
,11, Gregson, Royden.—John Owen many of them gambling debts. He now lived quietly
`eman in the place of Thomas Ed- abroad, as he was directed to do by his solicitor, and did
—Mr. Mason read a letter from not, ho thought, spend more than £1,500 a-year, and
stable, thanking the committee had not above £l,OOO fresh debts. This was very quiet
- of the dock gatemen at the to what he used to be. Mr. Chambers, for the plaintiff,
•ance of the men, and stated that he was a young man, the propfietor of the
% they did their dutY, Angel Hotel, at Abergavenny. Knowing lands, and
that his father a man of property, lie bad from time

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ummer lightning

mussure informs us that he observed sheet-lightning in' the corn
le direction of Geneva, from the Hospice du Grimsel
a the 10.11 th July, 1733, while at the same time a

fie thunder-store
aat from Tottent
e saw sheet-light.

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the same time

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stated that he

nd advanced Rowland