The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

ANOTBER SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENT.

Yesterday another scientific balloon ascent was
made from Wolverhampton by Mr. Olaisher, the bal-
loon being again under the guidance of Mr. Cozwell.
The weather was very capricious, being now fine and than
' lowering again, until et the time of the meant
and afterwards an afternoon's rain appeared to be
inevitable. The ascent was commenced exactly at 1 o'clock,
and the balloon coasted off in a Routh-westerly direction.
As on previous occasions it was not quite filled, on
account of the expanding effect of the atmosphere
at a few miles altitude. The quantity of gas it
contained was about 60,000 feet. In addition
to the instruments taken on the previous occasions, Mr.
Wigglier took with him a camera in order if possible to take
photographs of the different phases of the clouds. That
gentleman also took a newly invented barometer, to enable
him to take more correct observations of the state of the
atmosphere than he was able before to make. These obeer.
ration" have been formerly taken by Gay Lwow's syphon
barometer and an aneroid, but as the correctness of the
readings of the syphon mainly depended upon having a per-
fectly calibered tube, and as the large size of the general
barometer tube renders perfect calibration impossible,
Messrs. Negretti and Zemke have constructed a barometer
expressly for the purpose of checking the observations
which have been made, in order to test their correctness.
With this view a good tube was selected, six feet in length,
and the mercury boiled through the whole of that length. A
cistern was then blown on its lower extremity, and a stop-
cock added, by which means the mercury was allowed to
decrease inch by inch from the tube into the cistern, and
the rise which took place was afterwards accounted for in
dividing the scale. The upper part of the tube was used to
construct the barometer, and by this instrument a direct
reading is obtained without any corrections being necessary
for the displacement of the surface of mercury in the cistern
down to eight inches. The difference, if any be found, will
be owing to the inequality of its tube.
Lord Wrottealey wss present at this ascent, as upon the
previous °cessions. Colonel Sykes was prevented attending
by an appointment in town.

WOLVERHAMPTON. FRIDAY NIGHT.
Mr. Malabar has landed near Ludlow. The altitude
attained was six miles ; the temperature minus 5, and very
dry. The ascent was estistactory.

VEGETARIAN SOCIETY.

The fifteenth annual meeting of this society was
held yesterday at the Crystal Palace, when the members
partook of what was described as "an elegant and ample
repast," consisting of tea and coffee, with the fruit in
an. Mr. Alderman HARVES, of Salford, occupied the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN said that he had been led to abstain from
flesh many yeah ago by the example of his father-in-law,
the late M.r. Brotherton, M.P. for Salford ; and he had
found both his health and his temper greatly improve.
Dr. TRA LL, of New York, entirely agreed with the saying
of the philosopher, that a man was to be accounted rich,
not from the multitude of his possessions, but the fewness
of his wants. For his own case, if he were robbed of his
purse, and bad nothing else to depend upon, he could live
oo the refuse of Covent-garden for three months. (Hear.)
Addresses expressing similar sentiments were also de-
livered by Dr. Roth, Mr. Houghton, J.P., of Dublin ; Mr.
Joseph Bormand, of London ; Mr. Ward, of Ross ; the
Rev. W. Sharman, of Melvero Link ; Mr. J. Gsskill, of
Manchester ; and the Rev. Jos. Clark, of Salfonl.

ANOTHER HIATT( IN THE HIGHGATE PONDS.—
Yesterday afternoon the Central Middlesex coroner held an
inquest at the Elephant and Cutle, Camden-town, on the
body of George Pritchard, piancifore maker, aged 52 years,
residing at 7, Olive-place, Armwood-street, Camden-town.
It appeared from the evidence adduced that the deceased
left his lodgings on Tuesday morning last, about half-put
six o'clock. and was discovered dead in the Highgate ponds
on Wednesday morning, between eight sod nine o'clock.
Several witnesses deposed that deceased was • sober man
and not at all likely to commit suicide. Police-unstable
Crt S stated that a stretcher was taken to Highgate ponds
as aeon as application was made at the police-station. He
searched the body, and found seven farthings, some keys,
two duplicates, and a county court summons. It did not
appear that his pockets had been picked. The medical
evidence proved that the cause of death was suffocation
from drowning ; and the jury returned a verdict that the
deceased was found dead in a pond, but how he got into the
pond there was not sufficient evidence to prove.
THE CHATH4M lidranza. —Robert Alexander
Burton, eighteen years of age, now s prisoner in Maidstone
Gaol, awaiting trial for the murder of • boy, eleven years of
age, on Chatham-line, and who gave himself up to the
police, and confessed to that mime, having evinced certain
symptoms of insanity, is under the constant surveillance of
two warders, being kept apart from ad other prisoner., and
is rarely allowed to be seen or spoken to except by the vi-
siting magistratee or the prison officers. The chaplain, the
Rev. Shirley Wilmer, is moat assiduous in his attention on
the youth, who has furnished to a gentleman who bas con-
versed with him on two occasions particulars of his pan
history and the cause of has committing the crimes re-
questing that they may be published after his trial. There
is a general feeling that the prisoner was inane at the thee
the deed was committed, and that Lis insanity is boroditory,
his mother having been an inmate of St. Luke's flosplial ow
two mahatma,