Star. — 1825-09-16 (London, England)

DEATH /ROM LIGHTNING.—A poor man, of the name of llenness, in the employ of Mr. Body, a farmer, near Hailsham, Sussex, was, on Tues3ay, struck dead by a flash of lightning, whilst holding an ox-plough in one of his master's fields. After the flash struck him be did not move a limb, nor distort a feature. Deranfut. Ftaa.—Between eight and nine o'clock on )Monday night last, a particularly alarming and destructive fire was discovered in a thatched cottage, in Moor-lane, Hungerford, which, with seven others, was entirely destroyed; the devouring element was so rapid in its progress that Many of the inhabitants had difficulty in escaping with their lives. The whole of their clothes and furniture were entirely consumed in the short space of one hour, and a little child which had died on the preceding day was burnt with the coffin that inclosed it. This calamitous fire was occasioned by the imprudence of a woman sending a little boy with a lighted candle near some leased corn. A case of tea.bawking was decided at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday. It was anoppeal from conviction; but one of the witnesses proving that she received a quarter of a pound of tea, without the vendors taking the usual precaution of first soliciting orders, and afterwards executing them, the penalty was confirmed. At the Glasgow Police-Office, on Saturday, several cases of assault were heard, arising out of the mobbing in the neighbourhood of Mr. Dunlop's mill, by the combinators attacking the persons who were disposed to pursue their employment. All the cases against the refractory were dismissed, and the prisoners were loudly huzzaed as they came out of Court. Several persons afterwards implored the protection of the Magistrates, as they said they were in hourly apprehension of being murdered by the malcontents. Some days ago, the body of a man named Furlonger .was taken out of the Thames near Westminster Bridge, with the head dreadfully fractured. The Jury who sat on the body returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person unknown ; but a watchman who saw the account bas since come - forward, and stated, that on the last night of Vauxhall Gardens he saw a man ascend one of the balustrades to view the fireworks, and, being rather inebriated, overbalanced • hiMself, fell into the river, and was drowned. Several circumstances tended to prove this conclusion; and a . Gentleman named Tomkins, in whose service the deceased's sister lived, having made inquiries respecting the statement of a woman with whom Furlonger liabited, that two men had declared their intention of murdering him, and sending him home on a shutter, found it to be erroneous and was satisfied that the deceased had come by his death accidentally. Friday evening, as the Wellington coach, from Scarborough to Hull, was passing through Nafferton, on turning sharply round a corner, it was unfortunately upset. There were several passengers, both inside and outside. T.. Russel, the guard, was unfortunately killed. A Gentleman on the outside had his thigh, broken. Mr. Clark, of Spring-row, architect, is veryn itch bruised ; and a Lady on the outside, since her arrival at Hull, has been discovered to have her shoulder dislocated.  LtIERPoOL,  SIPPEAMER•it. .  A severe gale was *rperienced hoe ea Saturday forenoon. It was felt by the vessels in the Channel most severely, and has caused several melancholy disasters among than. The American ship Superior, which sailed hence on Friday, for New York, was on Saturday driven ashore near to Killough, oa the coast of Ireland, and she will, it is feared, prove a total wreck. The American brig Evelina, which also sailed on Friday for New York, had both ber topmasts carried away in the gale; one of the crew, we have been informed) being on the mast, was thrown into the sea, by its breaking—two others put off in the boat to endeavour to rescue him from destruction : they succeeded in getting him into the boat, but a heavy sea swamped it, and all three unfortunately perished.