The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

THE THUNDER-STORM

The tetrific thunderstorm of Saturday week did mis-
chief in several places. At Bury, an infant was killed in
its mother's arms,—she escaped with a burning. Near
Middleton a wall was cast down, and several young men,
who were sheltered under it, suffered bruises or fractures.
At Rochdale, six cottages were destroyed. In the vici-
nity of Fairfield, it was very violent. One building, a
mill, had above a thousand panes of glass broken. In
other parts of the country there have been lives lost
through this lightning.
The electric fluid struck the house of Mr. Hindle, assis-
tant magistrates' clerk, in Bury-road, near Blackburn.
Mr. H. we believe was absent, beine at a meeting
of the Town-hall committee, but his wife, their six
children, and a woman were in the house at the-time. It
appeared that the electric fluid had struck the chimney,
and gone down it, until it came to a bend in the draught,
when the fluid drove through the wall into the top bed-
room, where, but ten minutes before, two of the children
had Seen in bed, in the ceiling over which bed a hole
was made by the fluid. Four of the children and their
mother were in a bed-room on the second floor, and Mrs.
Hindle says that she felt as if some one had hit her a
smart rap over the forehead with a small cane. The
youngest child, the eldest boy, and the woman, were in
a corner in the kitchen. The child was stunned, but
neither of the other two sustained any injury. All the
persons in the house were nearly choked with the sulphu-
Teo-us smell, soot, plaster, ..tke. The fluid tore the gas-
piping down, ripped it up, set fire to the gas, and at one
time, from the smoke and soot issuing from the windows,
and the strong light caused by the burning gas, it was

vu ure, ana parties rushed in with
water to extin2uish it. It luckily happened that the part
torn fell so that the blaze did not come in contact with
anything. Mr. Hindle, ,by this time, bad been fetched
home, and with his usual self possession and caution, went
into the cellar and turned the gas off at the meter. The
electric fluid had left two rooms undisturbed, and in both
of these we have beard the .wiredowe were partly up,—
one of these rooms was the one in which Mrs. H. and

tne orner rooms, including
the kitchen (in which the other three persons were),
were filled with soot, dirt, lime, and a strong sulphureous
smell. The only damage done to the furniture is to the
carpets and a few other things, which are spoiled. In
one picture frame there had been a nail uncovered; and
the fluid had seized upon it, melted it, and shivered the
frame.

At Oldham, the roofs of some houses were raised en
man; and at. North Moor, near that place, a boy, four-
teen years.of age, was so severely injured that no hopes
were entertained of his recovery. At Rochdale, a ser-
vant girl was struck while dimwit,.o mot- ge

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She remains partially delirious, and her rieit side
paralysed.

POLICE

ALLIGEN'CE N

FORGERY.-30bn Kinder, who had been arrested while
leaving the Borough Gaol, was charged at the Police-
court with having forged the name of Mr. James Craven,
of Birkenhead, to a bill of exchange for £34 45., with
intent to defraud Messrs. Cuffiey and Heighway, paper.
hanging manufacturers, Ilanover-street. The prisoner,
it appeared, had been in the empl,y of the prosecutors
as collecting clerk, and in August last, he called on
Mr. Craven fur an account due to Messrs. Cuffley and
Heighway, who paid 'him some portion of it. in cash, but
gave him no bill. The prisoner, however, gave his em-
ployers a bill of exchange for .£34 45., purporting to be
accepted by Mr. Craven. The prisoner was tried and con-
victed for a similar offence last August, and the present
case was not discovered till after his conviction. As there
were several other cases of forgery against the prisoner,
the bench remanded him, in order that evidence might he
forthcoming to prove them all. Kinder, who appeared
to suffer severely from ill health, was ordered to be taken
to the hospital of the Borough Gaol.
MOCK AUCTION6.—COMMITTAI. OF CHEW AND SMITH.
-Chew and Smith, the former the chief and the latter
\e second in c^^- mend *he ner--!--

in ...allow sham auction. I
undertaking,—the partial exposure of which has already
created so much interest—were again brought before the
magistrates on Tuesday, and fully committed for trial.
The whole system of operations we ---losed in the evi-

. . ...fin
-. •c wriTCD stoma
dance, Richard..
_as disew..._
Triggs, an accomplice, being fully exam- interpreted by the Jews and in the Septuk.,
teed as a witness Thus Gen. xii., 6, he rendered " And Abram passe..
in support of the.prosecution. " When through the land unto the place of Sichem unto the oakoi
a stranger came by,"
;" and he showed that it was in strict accordance
would call out 'A mark !' which was perfectly well tinder- with Druidical practice that (v. 7) "there builded he an
stood. This was said to the auctioneer. The stranger.. altar unto the Lord." And this eery oak is referred to in
said the ingenuous Trigge, "we `Morel, ~
knew the price which waste be realized, first from iustruc- also with the " oak" not " plain" of Mamre; (Gen. xiii:,
at the time, might be within the room or might not. 1 Gen. xxxv., 4, as " the oak which was by Sbecham." So
firms,
and then by a signal. I also knew the first cost 18,( for the late Rev. Mr. Grimahaw declared, on visiting
price, nd that the article offered was to fetch a certain the spot, that Mamre was a hilly district, and had no
price, if more, well and good. When once we got a eig- plains, though to this day it was well-wooded.... kali,
nal from the auctioneer we stopped. After such signal I same connexion between the grille -1 kpite,tlPeoti
was given, we bad nothing to do as to whether the cost was remarkably shown in Gen. sal, ashes; it is said
price MIR realized or not. Sometimes the goods. were put that Abraham sojourning for many d rallit7Mlittioe,
up at above the cost price. My instructions were princi. land, where there was little wood,
," piauted a !grove in
pally received from Mr. Chew. Mr. Chew bad latterly Beersheba, and called there on thc paint of till Lord, the
bad two chop, one io frioytb Caetle.etteet, and the other eradiating God.' : S

1 the original as

int, for oaks