The Press. — 1855-06-02 (London, England)

TOWN.—Mr. Baron Martin.  wards. htaddison, a policeman, is in a very precarious condition. ONE of the most violent hurricanes ever known in India is said to have visited Hurryhur on the evening of the 12th of April. The winds blew with such fury as to tear away the roofs of houses, prostrate stately trees, and demolish solitary sentry- boxes. Tiles are said to have been flying about in every direction, glass windows smashed to shivers, and the plastering of walls sadly impaired by the hailstorm. The hailstones which fell are described as being as large as good-sized marbles, some of them between two and three inches in circumference. No mention is made of the loss of human life, but the day after the storm a gentleman is said to have picked up upwards of 270 parroquets in his compound quite dead, and a considerable number besides these maimed and in• jured. The river also was covered with dead fish, some two feet long, but how these met their fate is not found easy to explain. The natives assert that, mistaking the hailstones that fell into the water for grubs, the fishes swallowed them and were killed by the ice not agreeing with them.  JOHN BROOME, the well-known pugilist, committed suicide on Thursday at the Wrekin Tavern, Broadcourt, Drury-lane, a betting-house, by cutting his throat. There are various rumours afloat among the unfortunate man's acquaintances with respect to the cause of the act. Some attribute it to betting, while others assart that it was in consequence of unsuccessful attempts made by deceased to get the Government to try a new gun for which he had taken out a patent. CHARLES MARLOW, the jockey who met with a severe accidelit while riding Nettle for the Oaks, is going on very favorably. The subscriptions on his behalf at Tattersall's already amount to upwards of 4001. AN APPALLING ACCIDENT took place on Wednesday morning at the reservoirs of the South Lambeth Waterworks, adjoining the old House of Correction on Brixton-hill. The reservoirs, four in number, occupy an area of nearly four acres, and are some twenty-two feet in depth, 700 feet long, and 200 feet broad. A recent act of parliament having compelled the metropolitan water companies to cover in their reservoirs, the South Lambeth Company contracted with Messrs. Lock and Nesham to arch over their reservoirs at Brixton by a series of bricked arches each being about thirty feet wide, and twenty feet in height. On Wednesday morning, while about thirty men were engaged striking the centres, almost with out any warning about twelve or fourteen of the arches gave way and fell to the bottom of the reservoir with a loud crash, burying beneath them the men who were below at work ; some twenty labourers, who were levelling the earth outside on the top of the reservoir, also falling with the mass. The shock alarmed the whole neighbourhood, and prompt measures were taken for the purpose of extricating the sufferers, but it was not until close to eleven o'clock that the whole were got out. Four of them, unhappily, had ceased to live, being crushed to death ; and eeven others were found to be so injured that they were at once sent to Guy's Hospital. A FIRE, attended with a great loss of property, broke out on Monday night in the extensive range of premises belonging to Messrs. J. Lyons and Son, wholesale clothiers, Nos. 10 and 11, Wilson-street, Finsbury.—Another fire took place in the premises of Mr. Thomas Harper, No. 6, Cleveland-row, St. James's, which was attended with a great destruction of property.