THUNDER STORM.—On Wednesday se’nnight, an oak tree standing in Harting Combe, near Rake, was struck with fearful violence by a flash of lightning; the electric fluid appears to have seized upon the whole tree as with a giant’s grasp, twisting its largest boughs into all manner of contortions, splintering the trunk, and finally tearing up the very roots and scattering the surrounding soil. Fragments of the tree were spread over two acres of ground, and in an adjoining field, a large limb was found with one end imbedded more than a foot in the soil. A splintered fragment of the tree has been placed in the Museum belonging to our National Schools, labelled and dated as a memento of the event.