The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

TERRIFIC HIINDER-STORM

(in
Sa•urday week the met( opols and, indeed, near!y
all the south of I ngland, was visi td by one of the be"
verest and most maiming storms of thunder, lightning,
hail, ant ram that has been experienced tor many years.
For some days previously the heat had been irrense, In
the neighbourhood of London threatening clouds rongre:
toted in the afternoon. in the 8.5•14:., !:sough the wind
(helow) was ft om the N E. About twenty minutes after
three o'clock, the storm burst over the met s °Win and the
westrin suburbs with awful violence. Tile rain, which
[(mired down in t mrents, was accompanied at intervals by
hails ones of v ty large s'ze, nasty of those picked up
weighh.g from an ounce to an ( utter and a half. The
storm was at i•s gr(abst tury hetween tour and five
0.0( ck, an I lasted from twenty minutes past thrt e o'clock
till half-past six in the evening--,hree bouts and trn mi-
nutes.
Amongst the puhPc buildings in the metropolis whiek
have suffered most severely by tl e fracturt s • f skylights
and domes. tom the hsidstot es. are Borkit,Rharn re' ace,
Somerset House. Burlington A cad.., the Bazaar (3;1:17';
street) the British Institution. Pall mai, and the Pad-
dington t••rrnio us of the Great Western it..ilogY• The
liorticMtural Geodens ielli•wiek) the Botanic Gardens
(K-a ). and those in the Regent's Park have also suffered

severely.
At buckingham Palace the Picture Gallery, in which
are some of the mo-t sid, ndid productii-ns of the old
masters, was at one time in itnti inert clahger, fsr when
the large hailstohes. or rather irreLularly shaped pieles of
ice, had removed all opposi,ion to the ingress of the rain,
the gallery was 11,1,ded to the depth of sever. 1 inches.
Toe Houses of Lords and Commons were 1.-undatedr
from the destruction of the tan-ligh,s. Tne total num-
ber of squirts dernolishrd in the two houses of Patti merit
and 4Vestiron-ter 11a11 's upwards or 7,t 00. At Messrs
( übitt's factory, Millbank. from 12,000 to 14,000 squirei
of glass were denttlished. At Mess:, BrOlidWol.(e. piano-
forte inanur-.ctory in the Hors. -ferry road, Westminster,
nearly 8.000 squeres of glass were broken.
The nu,serv-grounds se-tward of town suffered re.
verely. At Walhani-green during the 0004
there was a heavy shower of small frogs, which wt retake"'
up in shove, fills t.y some of the inhshitan.
s The (410,00
done to the hanks of the Thames. by the rush of water
especially about Chelsea gad Mi lb.tik. Is very esten•ive'
The skylights .1 the Surrey Theatre were entirely de"
mooshed, and A -Iley's nestle shared the same tote.
Etery large t•tablishro,nt havit g roof-lights was equ.ll;
unfortunate. At Bermondsey the 10.8 of p overtY
gre t. especial y amongst e tent era, %hose pits,
were fl ioded, tr, rath. r, washed out.

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At. Cleikenwell the cellars were all fl oiled. Wig'
nail's-place the it mares were seen at ti e first fl or will',
d ws, imploring assistant: , nomy of the supplialit, h. I iing
children in their arms. Mt. Hunt• r. bawl, rI of the 'I Ito
Brewr rs. swam to their aid. and rescued severrl
A matt named Smith, a Freni h poli•her, followed btu
example, and sa%e.l some. Ladders were a'so brought to
the spo'. by me•,ns of which the women wt re extricated•
The pr• misea of M r God-on, carcase-hutch, r. wet
swell away. It is impossible to state with anything It°
precision the amount of proprr•y destroyed it, thi. t•eigb'
ut hood by the disastrous event. Some prep ices Vs"
way Iron, the pressure of the water.
At Duton Park. Winds •r, the n-sidence of tie flasks of
Bucolench. uowar of 2AO r•anes have been heokro;
nearly the whole of the extensive hot and gr enh,
have bee,. totally detnolisl,ed. A great portion of ills
standing corn has b ,eir beaten down. sod much ii.jory.haS
been sustained by the market gal &tiers in every direc
Through ur the whole di•tnct of Blaokhraih the hail-
str nes fluty averaged the s'ze of larze h, z I nuts.
Several persons were sit tit% d, %yr' by the effec's of the
eipewr fluid ; hut. though rsndered fur the tune insenSf-
ble, soon recosered.

fronvt-r of 4,t"s
. t i Isiusinr•On Hill,
s °1; dlllls6-
At Southend, Mr. Foster's hnthnusey were broken in,
by the hail. The nute.ber of brok-ti squaresattoiunts. Ott
h sit,:titstepplalacte.e,. ihtasishatiadidth.ieto
flared, nearly all the beautiful plate-glass windows bay-
ing been hr 'ken.
The vi deuce of the storm extended itself to the neigh.
houtii g unties :—in the heighhourhood of Reading,
(Oxford, Nrwbui y, Fartiogdon, Ciieocester, %Vantage.'
&e.. the strum was of a most awful description, and obe
dannag- sustained to veto tie ion generally is inealcueable;
In Worcestershire the storm was preceded by a whir;,,
wind, which sea tered dust and light articles 'brnugh tot
air. For three hp Una there was continuou • dischair
thundi r a-d lightning. The storm had the rtfect of 61".
pending the ow-rations of the bushando en. h,glt to
At Nottirighasit. at five o'clock. the 1 glitnirg
Pli-
play, and in twit hour. the whole atmosphere be•es, tr e
heavy
v. loped in thick dark cloudy. Occasion illv peals"'
and
u.,der es', re heard. and flash atter flash of sheet,
sometimes forked, lightning succeeded, indicatingits
storm of no ordinary description was dischsrging it-elf
the heavens. From half-past right till midnight me, bo
riz in, on all aid a, was one c nttnued glare; hut durit'-hit
whole hour, commencing at half past nine o'ritn'''',•„o
storm raged with unparalleled violence. The itch"
throughout the town became terrifl d as the rain de4ren ;,4
in heavy liar rots, the ligh.niugs played incessantly• to
thunders continued one heavy and appalling rosy', 4
tiough the elements had been let loose, and w• re Wa,",.
fierce war with each other. So frightful and terrnro
.torts) for an long a period has not be-n experiertc",,„t
Nothin, ham for many yeas. Apprehensions of the ini",,-%
feartul character were env rtained, as the forked light /34g°
ennst •utly dashed through the air, but little or no dito•AL
was dote either to the inhabitants or the buildoir'lege
Nuttal , four inile• distant, a fi fell upon 'pd.,
stark in the farm-yard belonging to Mr. Joseph 17'61,00.1‘
bridge, and, although all the villagers turned on'' the
every nueket and yrs..' capable of Itoldtnz water,',,3d•
whole was soon destroyed ; and, had not the win hers
nit changed, the nth. r stacks, very la g, nu k
would have been deo ri.yed. At half-past time
Vie inidst of the heat est of the thunder and in "'All;
hree half brol horse., the property ot Mr. Coalrs firla
c ,clc, were observed to th. galloping w ildly not.r d noo•
io the oneuttat on of that get., lentant ; aod the lir 1i "Turf
jog they were found dead, in toe ceto re of • he c whe.
.100,
were valuabl • animals, tieing moth not less than
c re fluid had seizol their carcases, tivrn 11,
-he fl -iii tr 'nett andinto toe g vo
mak g row d deep hole-. A cot respondent. vv"
from this quitter, :—All uutrt # :1:001
to have her n much 'entitled. aid many of Mern:T,. kw et
they pissed thr grea r part of the tight on their
sa lys
he g api,rehrtit. ye that the day t f judgni, witp
promised horrors, was orally couitneucitigi