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Water q Remedy for Lighfning.-It will be proba- bly remembered by maRy of our readers, says the N. York Sun, that some weeks since a paragraph ap- peared in the Sun, in which It stated that free application of water upon the person of an Individual struck with lightning, efficient remedy for the shock and had been perfectly successful in res- torng life persons who had been supposed past covery from the electric fluid, We yesterday were put in possession of the facts of case in which that remedy was resorted to, after life had apparently been extinct in the subject at least ten minutes, and upon whom the remedy was most astonshingly successful, though applied under particularly unpromlsng cir cumstances.

 A few days after our publication of the paragraph alluded to- Mrs. Van B.. the wife of highly respec- table resident of Bergin, near the Corners, was struck down by stroke of lightning, and apparent ly dead without hope of recovery. She was so con sidered by her family, and hot of them, nor of the neigbbors who casd in entertained the most distant idea but that she had passed forever to sstbat bourne from whence traveller returns." Preparations were consequently made for laying her out and paying the last sad rites to her lifeess mains. Al last ten minutes delapsed after her ceying the shock, when .asr brother arrived at the scene of aflicon and sorrow; and, fortunately, the paragraph ia the Sun recommending the application oC water occurred to his mind, and though without hone. he proceeded to make the application as di- rected in the paragraph. The unfortunate lady was placed upon the ground, and water poured upon her person. pau after pailfu from head to foot; and to the astonshment and joy of a she soon began to ex hibit signs of returning animation. The process was continued and the restoration became perfect; and in an incredibly short space of time she had to all appearance fully and perfectly recovered from the effects of the shock which all had surpassed had been irretrievably fatal. She had not, however, yet got through with her difficulties. Unfortupately she was at the time far advanced pregnancy, within a. bout two months of expected confinement, and the effect of her electric visitation was miscarriage ve- ry shortly after her restoraton bu before that red the attendance of Dr. Gautier, of Jersey City, had been procured and she passed safely through the second ordeal of afiiiction; and in less than week after she had lain, in the belief of a an unanimated and spiritess corpse, she was busy experimenting the affairs of her household. apparently unharmed aud as healthy as if nothing had occurred, This is one of the most astonishing rescues from