The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

[Stamped, id. AdditiasaL)

officer of the boat on being asked what the firing moat,
replied—" We bad an =pigment with a Confederate
privateer and sank her." The boat returned to the steamer,
which then seated olf westward.

A despatch from Memphis, dated Augusts, states
that General Hence and the army under has com-
mand had landed on the seat side of the Missis-
sippi river, five miles below Port Nucleon. A few
cases of yellow fever have occurred in New Orleans,
but the health of the for the season of the
oity
year is reported good. Vicksburg is said to be
very unhealthy, typhoid fever and diarrhcea pre-
vailing.

A Washington telegram says :
It is Mated by thee• who protest to keow much of the
programme of the robe leaden, that the cep aimation of
ammo in the rebel armies has been determined upon. The
Degrore thus employed are to be compensated by donations
of land and emsnaipation ►t the end of the war. They are
also to be allowed five dollars for each United States
musket, 25 dollars for each United Slates bon►, 50
dollars for each United States nepo soldier captured
by them, and 50 dollars for each scalp of •
United States white officer commanding espo soldiers.
It is not believed here that the rebel authorities will per
/at in the execution of Captains Sawyer sad Flynn, at
Wellman& kuowing that such execution will be promptly
Moored by that of General W. H. lon and Captain Witham.
The ripened remonstreten "et thooral R. H Loa, and his
threat to throw up his aommiesion and retire front the Con-
federacy if the mention is carried out, owns from each
widely different secrete that it is believed to be entitled to
full credit. . .

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The trial of the New York rioters was being con-
tinued in that city. The leader of the attack on
the Tritium office was tried on the 12th and found

suety•

THE FATAL BALLOON ACCIDENT.

The inquest on the body el the unfortunate mutt
James Clambers, ea sosoust of whose death we published
reeterelsy. was held se the Holds Hood lota, Athokl, east
Nottaghsui, at Tuesday, when the followingsmoupt other
widows was Won

Joha Maylisid raid—l live at Arnold, and ant • stocking
tykes. About twenty minutes before six o'clock in the
evening I raw the balloon oconiog towards Arnold. I was
then eluding is Spoutaane. I could not see that say
=was is the ear, and I could not tell bow high the
was. I saw it enter • cloud. It seemed to be
nailing ales, very needily until it touched the aloud, and
them it went out of sight. I mu down the lase from
Arnold, and in about four minutes 1 saw the balms spin.
It was thee coming downwards, and the pa appeared
to be eseapisg. The sides seemed to flap about, sad the
I toped the halloos mewed to fall down from the ear.
It relied shout la different forms, and appeared to have
but little pas in it. It then fell rapidly. to the pound.
When it lay on &aground I did not perceive that any one
was in it. I and in four companions went to the balloon
as it lay in Mr. W 'a claw When it fell to the
ground itrebounded about two yards. The balloon did sot
rebound, but fell aver the car and beside It. Some of the
net was on the oar when we got up. The helloes was
almost free of gas. I was 1501 ards from it when it fell. I
afterwards looked into the car and found the man. Re
piped two or three times after we had laid him os the
pass and Ass died. I did not see him move afterward&
1 sew awbite pocket handkerchief in his mouth. Hehad a
rope
recoiled twice rotted his wrists. I smelt gas very string.
was one mod bag in the car. I did sot see any
pepping hoes, and I could not say whether there were
say is the ear. I did not hear any shouting from the ear
when it was lapin the en. The rope retied the writhe ap-
peared to he attached to the bios—coming from the
neck of the balloon and round the car. It did not begin
to rain until the balloon bad entered the cloud. It rained
whoa the balloon fell to the ground.
Several jurymen, who saw the balloon fallicg, said the
evidence of the sniper was right that it did sot rain until
the balloon had fallen to the groued.
Berjeant Madan of the county constabulary—l am de,
timed at Arnold. I saw the baleen coming over the
town, end I sew it deacesding, but I did not MO it come
to the ground. It was descending with great rapidity. I
can across the field to where it appeared to be falling and
when I got there I saw the two last witnesses, with two
or three other persona, rubbing the feet and chest of the
deameni, who was lying on the gram. His mouth and
eyes wan open, and I sow a convulsive tremor is hie left
log. I took possession of his hat and boots, and oleo of
the balloon and the ear. Mr. Phipps and myself examined
the balloon to see if there was any rent in it, but we could
sot find any. I sound the state of the valve. Two of
the springs were detached, and the rim was broken in three
We could fled no oord attached to the valve. We
found it afterwards but we did not find it then.
Mr Colwell, to whom the balloon belonged, explained
that the aced attached to the valve would Dot be seen by
an outward examination of the balloon. It passed through
the centre of the balloon and came out at the peck.
Witosse then said be foetid the coed attached to the'
valve of the balloon, and os palling it found it would open
the valve.
A juryman, who assisted in the examination of the bal.
loon, mid the end of the cord which wu attached to the
valve was about 4 feet within the balloon.
Mr. Coxwell said the greater the strain of air epos the
valve the safer the valve would be, and it could only be
broken by mechanical violence. The deepened should sot,
properly, have had the cord round his wrist, as he ran the
risk inane of having it blows from his hold by a sudden
pet of wind, or himself altogether jerked onto( the car.
A juryman said when the balloon passed through the
good the deceased was staodisg up in the car. He had a
r:ortal gnes, and could see him plainly down to the
Hr. Winne said—l am the superintendent for the mid-
land Institution for the Blind. 1 have knower the deceased
about a year and • half. He lived on the Cultowritad,
in the garages near the Boeinton Element.. He woe a
mat maker by business, and was engaged at the Midland
Institution for the Blind, to teach the pupils inat•makieg
and weaving. He wan a married man, with five children.
I should think he was about 37 year, of age. The last time
1 sew him at the in was about three o'clock in the
thermoset, and be did not the. express any intention of
pang to Buford. He left the institution about four *Week,
but he ought not to have gone until about seven. He was
decidedly • man of sound mind, exceedingly temperate la
his habits, and a very faithful servant of the institution.
The deceased told me he had been up in a balloon twenty.sia
ar seven times. He is the son of as nesmeat, and welded
at the Trent Bridge when the last halloos &speeded from
ihmn

....
Mr. Hoary CoxwaU—l em an eamaaut, living at Totten•
hare, In Middlesex. I had aocepted an engagement to go
ap is • ballots at the Bastard fete yesterday. I arrived
on Sunday of twain& I brought my own biillooo, with
all its appendages. This was a now balloon, aed I bad
sever made an smut in it. I began to fill the balloon with
gas about 8 o'clock on Sunday evening. It was never suffi
siently filled to carry me. We cussed filling it about bail-
out 5 o'clock on Monday wooing. It was Kling at inter-
vals between thou hoses as the pa was being generated.
I did not sake the went myself, became I did not think
the balloon sufikkantly fall to carry my weight. I tried
three separate thou, and it would not lift me without my
bolted. I decidedly intended to go up. After I tried it •
third time deemed unwed the circle and spoke to me. I bed
known the deceased and his father for fifteen years, although
1 I did not movie him at first. I recognised him directly he
aid Minium was Chambers. I said to him, "I am in canal-
' derabiediMoulty. the gas is heavy and limitable for balloon
purposes, and I god it will not seise roe." He replied, " I
am • lighter man than yourself, perhaps it will just'
take me. I rid, " I know you have had some experience
to matter, of this sort ; if you have inefidelice that you can
mime the balloon I will accept your offer." He seemed
pleased with the opportunity of making an meat, and said,
I shall In very ailed to go." He this get iota the oar
his own accord, and I found that it would just nine him ;
there was sofficieot ascending power to make the ascent. I
again asked him if be bad confidence and if he wished to go,
before the balloon left the earth. He replied, " Yes,'
and 1 then cautioned hint not to go high at far, but
to get down as oat* as possible—whisk about •
mile. I observed that although the balloon was rising
steadily he immediately began to empty some ballast out.
This wan unnecessary and contrary to my instructions I
hallooed out to lino and told him not to do so, as did other
gentlemen standing in the circle. I looked anxiously and
expected to see the rising power of the balloon
checked. This could easily bay* been done by opening
the valve • little way. It would then have moved borixoe-
tally or slowly downwards. There was no agreement be-
twee. us as to toe paying
will,
any mousy. He went into
the car of his own free will, and without say persuasion on
I lay part. I knew that the deceased had ascended from
Oreatormi Gardens and other places by himself. He had I
sear amended with me, but his father had. I saw the
balloon ester the cloud and I saw it descend. I then gave
one of Mr. North's men • aovereiga to hence with • cart to '
where the balloon fell, to salt the deceased lest he should
be inconvenienced, and to being the balloon back. I seat
the sovereign for the de eased for his use when be de-
seeaded, ex • that he might be without money. I didnot
gee the collapse when it came out of the cloud, and
I did not *Minoan. shy aceideet. It was not luta an boar
after the balloon fell that I beard of the sea-ideal.
The Oereneo—Osa yea tell the jury, as a @Diann& mu,
what, fa your opiates, was the cause of the accident?
Mr. Ouwell—l believe that after be entered the heavy
cloud the balloon broke into sunshine rod a clear state of

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the atmosphere, and the ps exPlodal veg .atillb
frig out of the sack, or eddy valve, tram always left
open. Being found with a handkerchief in his mouth, it is
evident he inhaled the gas, viols might have bees pre-
vented by opening the other valve a • short dietetics. I
should suppose that he became ineeasiWe from the effects
of there, and previously clutched the valve line round his
mid sod violently opened the valve. In all probability
he fell to the bottom of the oar, and as the valve cord was
round his wrist, be kept the valve open to its full dimen-
, alone. As the balloon naturally elongated by hoeing the
gas, the strain on the cord became greater until nearly all
the P 1 escaped. Had the cord not been fast to his wrist
ths gas could not possibly have escaped from the balloon
no tear or (rectors having been discovered.
A Hyman—Ezeept the rim.
Witness—And that would be done by the fall to the
grew&
By a Jurymai—lf the deeeased bad not wrapped the cord
round his head the balloon would have descended gradually,
and be would not have lost hie life. Had the gas in the
bakes beta
into
ps, purified in a proper way, that
which came into the face of the deceased wield not have
hurt him. It was gat made with more regard to quantity
thaa to quality. The works at which it was made were but
small, sod they accordingly tried to produce as much gas as
passible in as short a time as hole, therefore the proba-
bility was that cod was which would give a greater
volume of gas from a smaller quantity of ordinary goal.
The Foreman—How could you bring your mind to allow
an meet under thews oireorostanses

--Mt.6;;;;Film;ai.7ouieraTotli;•• thought that any one
herbs; the ballooning experience of the deceased, would
have so mismanaged the balloon as to allow a aufßelent
twaseigy of gm to bens hie fur to semis, Idea inslosibte.
By a Juryman—When be was abandiat In the ear the
balloon from which the gas eacapsd would be about aix feet
from the mouth of the deceased.

further mid that when Mr. /Usher sod
himself ascended to great beiglita, the gas in the balloon
proportiorately expanded. The gas that would occupy •
spin of 90,000 feet at • height of seven miles from the
earth, would not occupy more than • fourth of that space
on the earth's surface. If a balloon were to go up only half
full ft would rho and tine, miler checked, ma perfectly
fall. At three and thre►quarter miles front th►earth •
volume of gas will double its bulk, lie told this poor man
sot to go too high, but to check the balloon and come down
if it was only at the di stance of • mile.

In reply to questions by. a juryman the witness said the
danger of inaeosibllity cod death from breathieg pe was in
propertioe to its purity or impurity. He bad no doubt that
some parties of gas had been inhaled into the hop of the
deceased. He also said that when My. Gleisher and himself
mode their high secant about six weak, ago, the balloon was
(Lifting set to ask and they made a very raped descent.
They tome down two miles in four minutes, sad the valve of
his large Wilma, which was three times es large as this, wee
kenos is 11111111. way. The balloon came over on its aide,
sad coompletely disarranged the whole thing.
The Cormier—Thee you are of opinion thatthe fell to the
earth fractured the valve and the spring!
Mr. Cozwell—Decidedly. With ordinary gas the balloon
would lift 14,0001ka, deducting the weight of the balloon-
-3501ba or 400 Ibo —and then it' should eve lifting power
equal to three or four persons and the usual ballad. Tbe
g ire= were left out intentionally. The balloon
grappling iroes wet, left out intentionally. The balloon
would not rime with the grappling irons.
The Foremen—But would a man safely descend without
gremlin from ?
Mr. Cowell—l have frequently done it myself on calm
evenings. I have a rope in the. balloon, and by his not
lowering the rope provided for him in the balloon, it proves
to me that he was in an isseusible state. _ _

Mr. Wells—l think we may undentand from you that
this gas is deficient to the extent of at lent two-thirds of
its rising powm. You my your balloon ought to carry three
mews and would only ouvy ?
Mr. Coxwell wished to cast no reflection on the quality of
the pm. It was made from the best mai at hand, but it so
that it was sot good lifting pa.
bair Wells—lt warn had gas compared with what it ought
to be—it was deficient two-thirds of its lifting power!
Mr. Consul—lt we what scientific men would call good
pa ; but it was not adapted for balloon purpoles.
In reply to a jurymas, Mr. Cox well said that when the
billow had got clearly off the ground the gas was sufficient
to mrry it had it been properly
assuaged,
Th.Coroner—You don't attrib:ie occident to the gas?
Mr. Co:well—Oh, no ; had it been lighter pa. though, I
should lave gone up myself ; but knowing this poor fellow
to be experienced, and not wishing to disappoint the visitors,
I acuseded his offer.
The Foreman—Suppoeing the man bad not gone up, what
should you haw done.
Mr. Cozwell—l had sada ample provision in that case.
I had two tickets written, "Mr. /Doswell's Ballow from
Beaford Park," with directions to whoever should find it to
return it. One of thew tickets was written, and while the
Other was being written the dewed got into the car and
went up.
The Jury retorted the following verdict :—" That the de-
, ceased, James Chambers, amended islaoar atiaahat to s bal.
loon during fair weather ; that he ascended in a voluntary
manner and by his own free will ; that through lobalia!:
he became insowitie sad was unable to work the
propereeirth ly,
am and the balloon coming into violent collision with
thused his death."

VICTORIA EMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE SOCIETY•

A meeting of the committee of the Victoria
Emigrants' AesLtsoes Society was held reemitly at the
°Moss, Boolderthwy ; Mr. if. F. C. CHILDERS, M.P., in the
chair. Om of the chief, and at the present time the most
useful, function of the society is the ;AM which it has grien
toward.; the naiveties of operative' from the distressed
manufacturing districts of Lancashire ad Cheshire, and
tree a statement made by the chairman it Appian that the
oemmittee have assisted in the emigration of 60 married
couples sod families, equal to 230 statute adults by the
Southern Ocean, 30 married couples by the (pees of the
See* 100 single females by the Robert Small. and 200
adults by the Laodaborough, making • totaled 6110itatate
adults. The goverureest of the oolooy of Victoria
entrusted to the society Its grant of 5,0001. for the
emigration of Lancashire operatives, and the so.
tasty has itself collected a sakeeriptiou of 3,3251.
The cost of forwarding the above emigrants was
7,6631., of which 4,1151. was defrayed by the Victoria go-
verement grant, and 3,4381. on the part of the society. The
total expenses of the society have hitherto bona asarly
AWOL, including 364 f. for preliminary expense., aver-
tible& travelhog &sops, leaving a balance a head of
=Subsequently • deputation, headed by H. C. K.
Eaq., /LP., sod consistiog of F J. Samoa, Esq..
tißright,_ by.. T. M. Mackay, Esq.. JUNG M'Ewee,
,111 W. Watson, EN., F. Alger, Eaq D. Benjamin, Eq.,
11. J. Cooke, Esq., E. W, &s.. q., W. IL Williams,
=kW. B. Looker, Eq., and IL R. Marauder, Eq.,
via the Manrionhouse committee for the relief of
the dLehes la Lancashire, which, after hiving received a
mod of the operations Of the Victoria Emigrants' Assist.
awe Satiety, made • capitation grant of 1,1601., to be ex.
Fended at the rats of 21. per head.
The following letter has just hese received by the hon.
treasurer of the society from Melbourne :—Town Clerk's
Office, Tovrahall, Melbourne, June 24. 1863. Dear Sir,—
In reference to your circular-letter of the 27th April ult.,
calling attention to the formation and objects of the Vic-
toria (Australis) Emigrants' Assistance Society of Loudon. I
have to lateral you that a preliminary meeting of gentlemen
was held ia the meyora room in the town hall of this city
rJ.y, at which were present—Edward Cohen, Eq.,
L.A., the Right Worshipful the Mayor ; and Messrs. the
us. P. Fawkoer, ILL.C.. the Hoc. G. W. Cole,
M.L.C., the Hoe. J. O. Francis, M.L.A., George Rolfe,
Jots King, Reginald Bright. E. F. Sided, O. Stevenson,
and E. G.litrgibbon, Town Clerk. There was =premed by
the meeting so mianimans teshog of warm Mimeos is the so-
ciety mid of obligations to the gentlemen who, in come:ion
with it, have so Libman, devotel their means and exertions
towards the relief of our distressed fellow-subjects, and for
forwarding the best interests of this colony, sentiment'
which, I may remark, find general expressiee throughout
the community. Upon the question of the tone which
practical sympathy with the idol te of the society should
assume Imre, the °pinkie seemed to be in krone of devising
mesas for assist* the immigrant+ upon arrival to find em.
ployment profitable to themselves and to the colony, and
which appeared to be the more necessary in consideration of
the preemie occupations of those who am about to arrive
from the cotton manufacturing districts. Thereupon, how.
ever, it was observed that a provision is 000taiasd to the
Immigration Bill now before the parliament for the
constitution of • committee with similar functions.
The bill in quistioe, of which I forward a oopy by this
mail, has passed the Legislative Assembly, and been agreed
to by the Legislative Council with emeoilments. which you
will observe are priated in italics, and to which the assent
of the Lower House has yet to be obtained. As this con-
currence of the two houses necessary to the passing of the
bill will be delayed by the change of ministry now taking
piece, and in the meantime it is advisable to prepare for the
arrival of the immigrants mentioned in your circular as to
be looked for by the Southern Oman and Robert Small, it
was resolved by the meet* that the gentlemen 'resent
should constitute themselves a provisional committee, with
power to add to their number, and that 1.
as honorary secretary, should forward the pre-
sent commusicatioa to you, by the outgoing mail.

The committee further resolved to wait upon the -swam-
reset, when formed, and learn its inteatioes with respect to
the immigrants whose snivel is expected by the ships
already named, and as to the oosatitutioo of the committee
proposed by the Immixratiou Bill, and also to urge the early
transunesioc of the mosey to be appropriated to the pur-
pose' of immigration, the amount of which will probably
not fall short of 150,000 f. per annum. Of the results of
such interview and of the further action of the committee,
I shall have mush pleasure in apprising you by the next
mail.—l are, dear sir, very truly yours, E. G. Frruirsoms,
floaermy Secretary.—F. J. ;Leawood, Esq.. treasurer, Vic-
toria (Australia), Emigrants' Aeursure Society.