Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

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part of' the outfit. Two
0 and 200 pounds respectively,
inZ the gas, will be attached

to the balloon. The ball,;on is -provided with an
ordinary ship's Michor;- weighing •100 pounds, to
land with; the rope. attached to it is 100. feet long and
foUr inches in circumference. Two or three sets of small
grapnels are on board, to be used when-the large anchor
is not necessary. Flags of every-notion will be carried,
and passports to every country in Europe will be ob-
tained from the Secretary. of State for the voyagers, who
are some eight in 'number. Many persons have already
applied for a- passage:nany of them offering immense
sums for the privilege—but their requests have been in-

variably denied, as the first trip -is intended to be
purely scientific, to solve the. problem whether balloon-
ing to Europe is practicable. Among the articles to
be taken on the trial trip are n 0 small parachutes,
by which to drop letterk papers, and documents of any
kind, 'to, steamers or vessels on the ocean over which
the balloon may pass. These packages will be done up
in India-rubber mail bags which will float upon the
water. Several carrier doves will be taken along, to be
despatched home on arrival anywhere, orin the event
of any accident. Roman candles and signal rockets will
be provided in case of being thrown on any shore where
it will be necessary to signal distant vessels. One
hundred copies of each daily and illustrated news-
paper in the city will be taken along, to' be" delivered
in London and Paris two clays after their publication
here. Each person will be provided with an India-
rubber suit, to serve both as a protector against the
cold, and as a life preserver in the water. The entire
weight of the balloon and its appendages is 32 tons.
Its . lifting capacity is. 22 tons, leaving. a net lifting
capacity of 19 tons. The balloon will, therefore, be'
capable of carrying a great , quantity of freight and a
goodly number of passengers when an airship line
to Europe is established: The first passengers will
be the reronaut himself; Mr. Lowe, several scientific
seamen and landsmen, and the representatives of
the Press, together with a gentlenian who will act as
the historian of alb occasiOn. The balloon is denomi-
nated the " City of New York." -A space of nine days
will be required in filling it with gas, the balloon's capa-
city being. 750,000 cubic feet, or about then times larger
than any balloon heretofore constructed. The cost of
inflation alone will be $l,BOO, and the amount expended
•so far in the construction is nearly $25,000. The balloon
will be finished in a few weeks, and it is contemplated to
start some time in October."

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ROBERT STEPTIENSON.—A writer in the Engineer,
evidently from personal knowledge, says The fore-
most man amongst our engineers has passed away.
Robert Stephenson is no more on this earth, save in the
memories he has left behind him. Pleasant are those
memories to those who survive him and who knew
him. Nothing base or unworthy clings to them.
He was a man in his own right, an Englishman of
good type and character; one fitted to make this
material world better that he found it ; one fitted
to be a chief and a leader over other men, whom he
ruled by a loving nature ; never grudging praise or re-
ward to those who did well ; never hard or harsh to
those who did badly in ignorance; never forgetting a
service rendered to him by those who worked for him,
or failing to help them when his power could be avail-
able. To know him was to love him, and mere g.old
was not the link that attached to him iose around him
with a faith not to be shaken. There was ever a gra-
cious smile upon his face that cheered the looker on.
The large wealth that accrued to him by his own work,
and that of the father who preceeded him, tested
the manhood in him by a prosperity, which is the
true trial of a man's strength. Any man may suffer
adversity; because he cannot get away from it ; he
bears the load which he cannot shake off ; but in pros-
perity he becomes a free agent, and gets full scope for
his follies or vices. Tried by this test, Robert Stephen-
son was a veritable man. He did not build churches
for the sake of finding his name in the newspapers ; he
was not known by ostentatious charities ; he dwelt in
a modest house, to which his friends were welcome ;
and few knew the extent of his income or how large
a portion of it went in acts of generosity to worthy or
unfortunate people—not peddling almsgiving—but
large and gracious impromptu gifts, not gifts seeking for
return in other favours, but gifts in a sympathetic
spirit of help when respect went with them."
MINERAL WEALTH OF NEW ZEALAND.—The jour-
nals contain interesting accounts of Dr. Hochstetter's
geographical exploration. He had just returned
from a visit to Coromandel Harbour, where the coal
was examined ara both gold-fields explored. Mr.
Heaphy and Mr. Ring pointed out a locality where
a thin bed of auriferous quarts grit was known to
exist, and the first shovelful washed yielded the
usual show of grain and scale gold. Dr. Hochstetter
then dug and washed a dishful, which yielded a
quartz specimen with a streak of gold through it of
about the size of a hazel nut, together with a consider-
able quantity of large scale gold—a most favourable
prospect, and in every panful washed the gold scales
abounded. His opinion is said to be that there exists a
great quantity of gold not far from the locality where
the specimens were obtained, but that the search should
be carefully prosecuted among the quartz veins in tb
mountains rather than by digging in the a.
deposits.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
THE LATE GENERAL HAVELOCK.--Various state-
mentsr having been made in the newspapersonl Havelock'ies
to time about the neglected state of General
present Sir Henry
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OCTOBER 22, 1859.

SECRET TRAM COMBINATIONS Thr

ENGLAND

If we are not going to speak of the old methods of
intimidation, says the Edinburg h Review, neither are we
going to preach political economy
that large numbers, we might almost say whole classes,
of our working men understand 'the truth that strikes
are fatal to their interests. The dreary

It is certainly true

Ten years

ending with 1843 proved that the Lancas
had. learned much wisdom in the course of a generation
Their patience under the hardships of those years, and
their general good understanding with their employers/.
showed that they were aware of the real causes of their
suffering, so far, at least, as not to blame the millowners.
for withholding the work and wages which they had

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