>From London Chronicle ( Semi-Annual ) ( London, England ), June 23, 1764 - June 26, 1764; Issue 1172. COUNTRY NEWS. Reading, June 23. This afternoon, about two o'clock, we had a tempest of thunder and lightning, which was very remarkable. The claps succeeded each other incessantly for near an hour, and seemed to run into one another like the ignited flashes of Aurora Borealis. During the tempest, we had very heavy rains; and in the middle of it a violent storm of hail, in which the stones, or rather pieces of ice, were so large as to measure from two to four inches in circumference, and some of them flat, and almost as broad as a half crown. We hear from Shinfield, in this county, that the house of Farmer MEARING received very great damage by the heavy storms of hail, that fell there this day; the windows being almost all broke to pieces: the house of Mr. CREASE , in that neighbourhood suffered the same fate; and the corn round that part of the country is almost entirely destroyed, so that we apprehend many of the farmers will be ruined. At Whitley, about two miles from hence, the storm was so violent, and the hail stones so large, that the corn on the land occupied by Mr. KNIGHT, as well as on other farms, is almost entirely cut in pieces. Many of the stones, we are told, measured from five to seven inches in circumference.