The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

DIVING LEI LANE ERIE.

M. Maillcfcrt and his companions returned fro=
Long Point lut evening (Sept. 19) alter a second and a
successful attempt to reach the wreck of the Atlantic,
although from unavoidable circumstances nothing hes yet
been accomplished towards raising the Express Company's
safe or commencirg operations upon the wreck. We have
been furnished by Dlr. John Green, the diver, with a very
interesting account of his descent. Notwithstanding the
somewhat unfavourable condition of the weather and
the roughness of the water, it was determined to make an
attempt to reach the wreck on Saturday morning, in order
to test the capacity of the new how. Mr. Green thereto=
arrayed himself in the marine armour and started on his
second trip to the bottom of Lake Erie. He demanded
without any difficulty and landed directly in the in-
terior of the steamer's smoke pipe, the top and sides of
which he felt with his feet and hands. He was then
elevated again some little distance and alighted the second
time at the lams, following down until he got on to the
eras brush Is did not, however, succeed in making a
Irm hods" en the duck, owing to the unsteadiness of the
mein Mama mei epos the occasion, which communicated
tee mei melba to Ow knee and ropes. There was much
risk et the leArepld diver getting entangled in the ropes
end weedweek as as to be unable to extthute himself or to
tsar the drpt air being again elevated he descended a
third time and clear of the wreck. He sow west
down harlots t below the upper deck and even with the
guards, kis bead being 139 feet and his feet 144 feet below
the surface of Lake Erie. This is the deepest dive over
made, 12G feet being the greatest depth ever before readied.
foe new hose was found to be perfectly successful; the
diver felt quite at ease and went down and up without the
slightest injury to dress, pipes, or man.
The marine armour consists of a perfectly air-tight India-
rubber dress, topped by a copper helmet with a clear, thick
plate stile's in frost. The pipes which supply and 'admit
the air, lead from the top of this helmet. The pumping
requires much labour ; four, and sometimes six men being
employed upon it at the tame time, and compelled to work
hard at that. A great pressure of air is experienced the
diver upon his lunge, equal to 75 lbs. to the inch, andby very
few individuals wauld hear it (or any length of time. When
first going into the dress, the sensation of oppression ie very
overcoming, but passes away in • great masers after en-
tering tho water. When a depth of ten feet is frothed
ire the descent, the dress becomes entirely emptied of
air and collapsed to the body, causing a pressure
all over the diver equal to the heft of a tat-
pound weight, smospting as to the hand, which is protected
by the (viper helmet. The difficulty in breathing now
becomes great, and a painful sensation is experienced by
the diver, the jaws becoming distended, and the heed seem-
ingly splitting. This continues thrill after descending
another ten or twelve feet, when the pain is relieved, the
diver feels eomatortable, and experiences no further =eon-
vesieDoo. When shoot sixty (set below the =thee, hun-
dreds of this legitimate inhabitants of the water .surreend
the diver, nibbling at their strange visitor as though he
were t, food for the Wm." After reaching seventy-eve
feet, all is perfectly darks black, impenetrable damned.
—and an electric dame plays around the inside of the
helmet, canoed by the friction of the pump. At about oat
hundred and slaty feet, the water is very cold, being in the
present MN* within four or eve degrees of freezing.
M. lilaffloffert has returned in order to obtain a larger
meresse, end* wait for settled and aim weather before
War Re has sot the slightest doubt
tliTatkiZi next sleet ell be erewued with mixer. Mr.
Green, the direr, hes proved himself capable of doing the
week effectually, sad inset rank as one of the Ant and most
amid miler water" men is the errentry. Two excellent
dives besides Mr. Gem en is 'employ with M. Maillefert.
We shall look with amishleammt See the result of the next
trial, bet that it will be memeafal we have so doubt.—
Briffolo Commercial.

AMERICAN QTALINNOZ TO BRITISH
—lt will be mmembered thetearly it the past .oath there
was wagtail OM WWI Atlantic. from the American
Nail • draw to the shipbuilders of Great
elm* ge Me interest, and which, after
the debris het gin eneeplis' bed, if the lassie richt
Seninif ems see 11Mb island craft, pre Tin to
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asadieses of lbe essise wens in the chip, be
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re:ttizate of
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they 'should sail web stip ea bona in Bag-
had to • port is Chip eel bask to port ; the
peine le" the Mania Wail ft be I est es be paid
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aglow over 1,200 le* regben. Thl.haveri-
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the sin= with elr
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to withdraw the
within 30 days. The limit tee
and it wee with no little Aryl
plainest „3- el the eminent house of Banes
and Co. wea •
New Teak a short tine ANN
wham it was keg& he bed turn[ like% ea anspiaate
of the abellese W enallataillete to the ARMAISA Cali;
but that, wee essirary. be bed to report, no inquiry
as to the
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te:ene the Proolieet of the Aniseitse Melo-
dm ash. Mr. Bonn is ant sassed, shed* the pre-
ens Asleep els be mesped within the SO bp." to
absethe Wnlivistel a art of 14 days before the &men-
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bat the lid sand einsintes be ihe Edelson. Theame-
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Tim POTATO ChM—Several reports es die ante
of the pones nip were yesterday posmated ft the peer-
law pardiama at their Mostiss, by the siallambe sivinsef
this pies, hoes whin It appears the imp is to
boarkeod is likely to enswer the eseesialles
to
them it wfli pren • fair amigo
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in the aggregate, we Mink it mey be hing pessensi that
I very fair mop will be snored, sad thus the peen nth'
I staple food of the people will be essaiderelly wider those of
lan par.—Oa/my Ihreury.