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 The woman and children, together with the horse, were drowned: the blind man was saved by his dog, a rope from which was fastened round his wrist. The baker escaped with difficulty. This distressing event occurred before it was dark, but the bodies of the woman and children were not found until the following morning. Upon the body of the elder child, a fine boy, three years old, the usual means of resuscitation were long tried, but without the smallest effect. It is a remarkable circumstance, that the dog, though he has been only three months in the possession of the poor man, has continually pined, and eaten nothing since the fatal accident. He is a young bull-dog.

On Tuesday afternoon a very sharp storm of thunder and lightning came on here, which lasted upwards of an hour. It was most severely felt in the neighbourhood of Monkton. There its sound and appearance are represented to have been truly terrific. During the storm a vast deluge of rain, mixed with heavy hail, fell out, which washed all the small gravel off the road in that village; but it did not extend to the Spittal Hill, four miles north-east of it. At the north end of Monkton a very singular phenomenon took place, which was observed by three