ROGATE
THUNDER STORM.—On Friday afternoon last, we were visited by one of the heaviest thunder storms that we remember for some years. A large oak tree we hear, was splintered to atoms on the wayside from Harting to Petersfield. The bark of a birch tree in Harting Coom, in this parish, was rent and found a distance of twenty yards from the tree. A very heavy hail storm occurred at Rake and neighborhood during twenty minutes, the distance from Rogate being considerably under three miles; and singularly, not a hailstone was seen to fall here. We are told that many of the stones were as large as ladies’ thimbles. We saw at Mr. Gauntlets’, in Harting Coom, the pods of peas cut asunder with hailstones, and cucumber leaves riddled as if they had been shot at. There was also broken glass, The thunder rocked the foundations of the houses, and the lightning was exceeding vivid.