The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-19 00:00:00

THE CONVICT CHARLOTTE HARRIS.

RAILWAY MEETINC
YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND IsERWICK.

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PROCEEDINGS 'of
ES A THET
ILF.TINGORK. OF DELT!-
GAT Y
The dthltraM appointed se the several meeting% of share-
hoidens WS wen WM at the ander mentioned plasm on
Friday, Olio 12th wow, assembled at Lockwood's Hotel,
York,la Wirdalsolay, the 17th instant, loft the purpose of
nod determining on the proper persona to be re-
eemmended be the goamal smith' of shareholders for ske-
an ths Mow attestors of this company. The following
attended as delegates: front 14311.100, Sir John
, Bart., Mr. Alderman Sideey, M.P.; Liverpool.
IL I. Ole, Req; Hasebester, W. Loaf, Esq. ;
IL York,
. L Ibr„ Esq. • Leeds, John Joirlit, Esq. • Shelf-
11* ler IL. I. WU*. 114. I Darlington, Edward iipling,
111,4 Dab', Hoary Cox, Big.; Birmingham, Henry Bat-
loa.niq ; Newcastle, John Carers, Esq. • Hereford, Jobs
Rena; Jaws, Iraq. ; Beverley, Thomas 'Shepherd, Esq. ;
Itergby, W. Sale, Edlabargh, W. Gibson, Esq. ; Glss
W. Jamieson, Esq. • Bristol, George Thomas, Esq.;
Inverness, Jere* litteliall, •Zit ; Oxford, Charles Paul,
Poet ; also the lellawhg members of the coranaittee of Li-
ngual/atlas, Übe Lord Hew of York, Horatio Love, lisq-,
ID. li'Larem, Req., J. Leeshman, Beg , J. Kipling, Esq.
Oa the seeds& of Sir Joan Exaraorn seconded by the
Loan MATO/I, Han, B. Thempson, Esq., of heat Hall,
was sananierondy elated Chakisan.
The LORD MAYOR. as Chairman of the Committee of
hausigirlia, directed the attention d the meeting is cer-
telabereentions made by Sir John Bye, as regemed In
the arevaostik=scgi s the effect that the emamitree of In-
a scheme he main is idle for
OM elf *deem sweelne, es —'..Sher ikeske etas Com-
ma, dill the eswallise mese emwhatioally sleeted, and
ir fella ups Sk lelm Irrhers /whir authority for such
birrai.ol2f EASTHOPE, after amnion totally dia•
mewed egg imputatisa on the honour of the committee, and
any regent which oweveyed meek impression.
Tkie filewing sessmary of emerwen by shareholdrn, up to
the 1111 k fart., to the iresitions seat out by the isnjues of
laveedgelen, was Se prised.
-erns asectren rem ;OM Mir
awe'.

We lean that a petition ea behalf of Charlotte
Harris, sew lyier varier matinee of ha* a Taunton,
has boa Foamed by Mary Hewitt,amid has already
base largely doe& by the wawa of England. A
petition bee at lit. Charles Bishopgats-strmt,
who will be glad to naive the signatures of any ladies who
Indies to aid this proton against the outrage oa humanity

aumplated in tit; executiOu of this wretilsed woman.
It is suggested that mustier polities& sboald be adopted
'browbeat toe country, and be forwarded as lull as pos-
sible to 811 °seep Dry.

A BALLOON FROZEN.-A VOYAGE IN
TER AIR.

■OLDDIO 158,2*

No. or No. at No. of
B,No. ol
t~haen Share. Share,
en erred sr, aentsd.
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Approve of resammindetke M cow
lanais contalaad in Question 1, that
the =mbar of director, be eight 1,92$ 146,796
Dissigreve
Is Wow et ass smougan direstor
Ittrgar d ten dites . . 13 736
In tamer el three ditto ditto .977 63;065
Apingappointment of a managing
diredor 44 6,398
Approve of proposed allowance to cadl-
-
the pursed alllowanc•
mmiil .. 942 18,976
Aiwa •I gemmed ammo to ma-
=director or dineton 1,563 126,167
pgagoold allowance too ... 471 19,683
Aware of sudlt as proposed b 7 tb
ocumeltfte 1,959 134,178
In favour ot • government audit
Give direst spprovsl In answer to Math
antlet& 1,641 127,820
Do not give a direst 'rawer, or Map-
MOM 882 30,425

A correspondent Aye, " Mr. Clypiwo, the term:nut,
being mimed by some madmen of Bedford to make an
ascent wide his silk balloon, the Royal Albert, made his bun-
dredth ascent at a quarter before 6 on the evening of Friday
leser. Some brief outline of the disengage of this gigantic
me ghbe moy be interesting to oar reigns. Near 1,800
inSof elk wen consumed ia eustruction ; the silk,
wee in narrow breadths, which se joined by • sum
mats. to give ea additional armee to the whole. It
, atm& 70 het high, is 40 het is diameter, and 138 feet
' grandsons, sad it le computed that above 600,000
witches Ism been made in sewing the seams and in-
serting the bands that sustain the oodles valve at the
drown of the balloon and the safety valve at the neck. Over
Me whole surface as the usual net-work, recently increased
siglity.iive pounds in weight to ninety-eight pounds ;
it arassilk; power, when Seated with the paned deeuip.
▪ 41/ asap% is equal to fifteen hundred weight—if in-
lets& shit pus hydro's* it would be above thirty hundred
1111016..4110 lifting power of hydrogen being above doable
OM damps. Altogether, the " Royal Albert" le the
impel s elel »hide ever constructed for the reception Ogee
In this oonatry, with the exemption of the balloon built by
order of the proprietges of Vauxhall Gardens, in the year
1836. new called the Name Balloon.
Mr. GIPS= Well asseenpaaied to his voyage by Mr. Hoary
arMks the engineer of the Bedford Gas Works, by whom
emollons the machine was supplied with an wending power
dir soposior to that generally obtained to provincial towns.
Two suidento of Bedford were candidates for aeronautic
lisassay bet the terms they offered Mr. Gypeon declined,
sad a Wee sup of ballot was deposited is the car. The
hams ass is int perpendicalar style, and acted upset by a
high whed, maedgestatripped the railway trains in its pro-
ms. to Lear The isromate shortly after quitting the
meth entemil the geode, ead bees!» invisible to their
Mesa en arra
ilkosis,piendag the desk sassy clouds that
bang espended like renames 's seen between earth and
heaven. The were slated with • sharp
shower of sleet, or ise mow, that drifted over them
in all dbeadania, end he se as fast as it fell, till the aero-
stats Memo encased la a spangled shroM of ice. The
beams winged Its way with the rapidity of lightning
thumb the menive bodies of sew-charged vapour with
whist it was susteanded, still seeseding. It was at this
time the asesseMe witnessed the remarkable phenomenon
the see, whist hare bane they lit the earth, arum-
log a hilsomade seder. The met preeses blending of red
wit purple stretched saes the sky, as slowly and proves
duly the settles sea rose to the west, an thin air,
and saltlessd m the re eof • glorious snailaw The gee
that had been to • ees state the whole of the day was
New two Who end a hail Mere the else s, sealed by a
sapid sad powerful sagession, so that kbeemme necessary son
spar the valve nod relieve the balloon of the ratreme prawn
that was thus blasted upon the whole serfage of the
silk. But here arose an extraordinary iseidest—
the hose of the safety valve, which had hem
tied up before leaving the earth to prevent the Waged=
of atmospheric air, we. found to be frozen quite hard,
so that it became impossible to extend it to allow the
supinfiaous gas to blow off. Under those circumstances
Mr. Gypeon a ndeavoured to open the valve at the crown of
the balloon; but that, too, from the peculiar demvipirn of
luting with whisk the valve was luted, was found to be in-
separably frozen. As such Mr. Gypeon had but one alter-
native—he quickly paned himself through the hoop, and,
with his knife, made a large incision in the lower part of the
balloon ; the gas streamed forth in one continuous stream
through a two-foot opening, and, singular to relate, the gas
that had been pared into the silken globe an invisible
vapour, rushed out an white as the steamer= astumongine,
such was the effect of the frogy air upon the gas. Aid thus
the aeronauts wen rescued from the jaws of destruction ;
for had not such an expedient as the knife been adopted,
nothing could have prevented the silk giving way
to the extreme force then acting upon it, at three
and a half miles above the earth, for such was then
their altitude, as shown by the sinking of the mercury in
the barometer. The mercury at starting was 28 2-10, andrat
the highest altitude 14 1-10. The escape of the gas in the
spertare made by Mr. Gyps= with his knife was the dis-
missal of danger; and • the adventurous voyagers, regaling
themselves with • little cognac, congratulated themselves OR
their providential *soaps ; true, they had an &headsets of
ballast in the car, but with the silk frozen as hard as • wet
linen cloth on • winter's night, it would have availed them
but little had the silk been beyond the reach of an boa.
sloe. They had now a tendency downwards, and began to
shake off the glittering ice or frozen um that had res.
dined their garments a coat of mail. The mercury now
roes to 19 3-10, which showed a mile lower than their
highest elevation, still descending, bat very little
warner. They again tried the valve, but could not
open it ; and in their efforts to accomplish the object,
reposedly brought down the crown of the balloon, the
valve obstinately refusing to give wy. The rays of the son
were now lost ; el had taken his final departure for the night,
and a rapid condensation of the gee was the consequence.
Ballast we. brought in requisition and the downward ten.
dewy asked, as it became highly necessary to have fall
command over the valve before the flail descent was at-
tempted. Mr. Gypeon and his friend describe the immense
sasses of clouds over which they were floating in appear-
ance as mon magnificent, undulating like hill and dale, here
a silvery tiny as the higher mese of the mow-like mown.
tales, and there the frowning mewl es Wes resembling
dingy, dirty ice—in some Flees dairy named and displayed
the beauty of the scenes below. The travellers were now
within • mile of the earth, the temperature of the air much
warmer, ao that the silk /11111110141 a aseustomed softness,
the valve opened with a very ashe abet, the grappling.
bow nod cable were ettemded ; the wind carried
the balloon maces the eseeby with great velocity, the
grappling-iron took held of a imorkeetArdge. tore
it up by the roots Say enmeshed the buildings a a
farmhouse ; bees, sad a were Amos eat to amid
it. and the bases en elleirmiesiereesdiair
A mead desserit wee made and with tan.
themeh set althea seem 'Wiest -wasOvine,.
Oahaddre, OD tam hem Saba, and dem occupied
le lbeleursey wee 44 Wham Not s esti wee te be sem.
ma Or imam bat emptied their amid yaw.;
ohm a pbeshmes. smuts el do des . ask
adr peep. mid Web to hestentreaty sad pew
man wereless, wunless, weft would la;me him to mere.
nr, Gyres sad his Madt am mash delay, succeeded in
=al::=Eas mho them tee railway station, and
at edema Vets* the sent marning. Ater
assponissides mid hoer& et the trip, the sergeants
dist weal glee bellies lemeillag the preference by
kr Or skim oak er miL"

Moved by Sir Joan EMMEN'', seconded by Mr.
PEUJAPS, and resolved unani , "That this meeting
approves of the number of direetess sight."
The delegates them petwasded to eressider theproper per-
sons to he remmmemiel m &mainsail dimmed tie quali-
fications of the wend gesdestea ibs vine peopeeed! Such
of them as were present at the amides retired during the
discussion.
At the torneinatioa of the discoed= a vote was taken,
when the following eight gentlemen were found to have
been recommended as the now board of directors, by having
the largest number of votes: Geo. Leeman, York; James
loeseman, Glasgow; Wm. Lloyd Wharton, Drybarn, near
Durham; Deccan ['Laren, Edinburgh ; John Kipling,
Darlington; Jamie Hodgson, Newcastle ; Nathaniel newt,
Darlington ; Wes. Rutherford Hunter, Newcastle.
H. 8. Thompson, Eq., having been obliged to leave the
chair to attend to another engagement, the same was taken
by the Lord Mayor.
A diacumion arose upon the question of the appointment
of mansglng director,. Some of the delegates objected to
the authority of the meeting to consider that question, and
declined voting. After further discussion it was resolved
that, with teepees to the appointment of one or three ma-
naging diadem, it is the opinion of this meeting that the
quotient demi eppelatment be delayed until the next
gemmed helfteetrb meratieg, to be held next February. (The
conembles of Inddid not vote on this question.)
It we. farther reeelved that the proceedings of this day be
printed end circulated among the shareholders.
York, Oct. 17, 1849. JAMES MEEK. Chairman.

THE BT. JOHN DEL EBY MINING COMPANY.
TO 12.1 =ITO& Or r><l 37L1113118.
Itir,—La referees, to the espy el s skeet= addressed S.
the shavitheldees tithe BR Joha dal Rey Mhder
by the lass to, whisk mews la yo pogrgar tht
day, we ere estl shde Mad die Ilkeston till fessiolt
to the shiesheidets sash Mime es wEI Wifely aboteadsta
the Ina tithe statemat pat forth by thou oe the 19th ult
Cl the andidea of the easpeajo slobs.
&Wag epos your itourtioa el this totter, we ere, Bit
yowl, Ita, SIMPSON sad COBB,
Beliebtes te the Oestpluty.
62, Komodo street, Oak 18, 1649.

FALL or A CHIIIICIL—An aceldeat oceerred
Let Thunday usessisi at Ma'am, SW Walser.
Through the etuelienss of Mr. Carling, a shards, bent
sedrely at ewe sat, bee ben studiedly:rising dotted the
pin isimair—di• wafts sad, Ida s soot beautiful carved
Tisdser, with its ben leeed„ wad aompleted, whet Wrists to
die mime weenies
het)
the walker dueled lite lisle of
1 Thetykr susleg het) the tibia erme dews with • Ire-
modem key* the wisdom sad destroying every
pawls studsailer* eel. as half hour lite ied all the
werbates yield bee beta Mt the boildlog.—Nose firra4.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1849.