The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-10 00:00:00

CREMORNE GARDENS.

SECOND PARACHUTE ASCENT OF MADAME POl-
like beautiful ascent to that effected on
Monday evening was made by the intrepid Madame
Poitevin, at half-past six o'clock yesterday evening,
from the grounds of Cremorne. The balloon pro-
ceeded in a westerly direction, and the parachute, be-
ing detached at an elevation of about three-quarters
of a mile, descended gradually and securely, the fair
voyager reaching terra firma in Richmond-park,
where the balloon shortly after landed. Madame
Poitevin returned to the gardens a little after eight
o'clock, and was led on the stage of the theatre by
Mr. Simpson, just before the termination of the ballet,
her reception by the dense mass of spectators being of
the most enthusiastic nature.
On Monday, we understand, the immense balloon,
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termed a Railway Balloon, will ascend
to witness, affording
than
opportunity
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car.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
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BELFAST, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—The meeting of
the association at Belfast terminated to-day with the
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church.
had been agreed to by the general committee to be
confirmed by the meeting. These resolutions referred
union at Hull, and to the grants and recommendations
Secretary
held
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s Dr.t i n Cooke's
to the election of Mr. Hopkins as president of the next
proposed. The total of money grants recommended
amounts to 3551., of which sum 2001. is appropriated for
the maintenance of the Kew Observatory. The re,.
mainder is to be appropriated in small sums, principally
for the prosecution of investigations already com-
menced. Among the grants for purposes of most general
interest was 201, to Dr. Hodges for the continuation
of his researches regarding the properties of fix. A
grant of 101. was also recommended for dredging the
north-eastern coast of Ireland. The question of the
establishment of an observatory in the southern
hemisphere is again to be pressed on the notice of
the Government at the recommendation of the
Association.
The Assistant-General Secretary made a statement
of the numbers of members and associates who have
attended the present meeting, as compared with the
numbers at Ipswich. The total amount received for
tickets at Belfast has been 1,106/. ; at Ipswich it was
7111. The number of associates at Belfast has been
510, and of ladies 292 ; the respective numbers at
Ipswich were 246 and 141. It will be seen, there-
fore, that, financially speaking, at least, the meeting
at Belfast has been very successful.
The Rev. Dr. Robinson, at the request of the
president, undertook to notice the subjects which had
been brought forward in the various sections which
he had attended that he considered of most import-
ance. This he did in an address that occupied an
hour and a half. There was only one of the subjects,
he said, that had occasioned him any pain, and that
was a paper relating to the sanitary statistics of Bel-
fast, which presented a lamentable want of attention
to drainage and atmospheric purity. Dr. Robinson
strongly impressed on the influential inhabitants of
Belfast the importance of attending to this subject.
The impurity of the atmosphere in Belfast is indeed
most strongly manifest to the senses. A large
stream into which the sewerage is emptied winds
about in various directions through the town,
emitting in its course, and to a great distance around,
a pestilential effluvium. Attempts have been made
to cover-in this open drain, and Acts of Parliament
have been obtained for the purpose, but, owing to
some disagreement among the parties the nuisance
continues, and it is said it will continue until another
Act is procured. Dr. Robinson, in the conclusion of
his address, said that in his opinion, and in that of
the oldest members of the Association, the present
bad been the best meeting they had ever held, both as
regarded the subjects brought forward in the sec-
tions and the interest they had excited in the mem-
ber attending.
After thanks had been given to the President and
to the local authorities and others who had contributed
to the reception of the Association, the meeting
separated.
The excursions appointed for to-morrow are va-
rious. The most important is that to the Giant's
Causeway, the harbour commissioners having placed
a steam-boat at the disposal of the association for the
accommodation of 100 members, strangers Jo Bel-
fast, gratuitously. Other excursions comprise drives
to the many places in the neighbourhood which pos-
sess either geological, or antiquarian, or pictorial
interest. The business of the association has, how-
ever, terminated with the meeting held this afternoon,
and the return to the original order of proceedings,
of making the excursions on an extra day, has not
been generally approved.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR MACOILLIVRAY, ABER
DICEN.—We learn that Dr. W. blacgillivray, Professor of
Natural History in Dlarischal College, Aberdeen, expired at
his own house there, on Sabbath last, after an illness of some
duration. Dr. Bracgillirray wus the author of many works
on the above department of natural science, besides of bio-
graphies of men who had successfully cultivated it. He was
an ardent and enthusiastic student of nature as well as of
books, and this probably hastened the event which the scien-
tific world has now to deplore. The Crown has the patron.
age of the chair.
THE LATH WATERSPOUT AT HIGHAM.—DUTitig 1
the past week the neighbourhood of Higham has been
visited by many persons, all anxious to witness the devas-
tating effects of the recent sudden inundation. On a more
minute examination of the locality, we find that the injury
sustained by the agriculturists and market gardeners has
been greater than was at first supposed. No less than 100
loads of the soil from the gardens lying on the side of tne hill
have been washed down on to the paddock of Mr. J. llull-
e
at the Hermitage, while hundreds of cabbages and a consi-
derables.s' breadth of potatoes have also been carried away.
The fruit, too, beaten from the trees, lies mingled in the ge-
neral mass—more particularly the apples, the crop of which
has in a great measure suffered. The high read also came in
for a share of its destructive effects, more particularly the
footpath, which for a considerable distance was furrowed as
if a plough had been driven along its course. It is somewhat
singular that a similar circumstance occurred about the saw.c
spot 64 years ago, which is described by those in whoeseigs,it.
collection it is as being far more destructive than
On that occasion the inundation of the surround
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was so sudden, and to such an extent,
that aituate at a
drowned in a stable on the Stone-house Fit,r,",'!_hs
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water
stlCountry
very short distance from the shaft into
to
rushed with such impetuosity last week,
railway. —.Kentish Observer. 'the injury of the
the sth of September
Advices from Vienna of-r wAs to be opened for
mention that the new Austrian -.93r_giuit, according to the
subscription in that city on the
a9ktt..itnigu
terms already stated. PartieS tve
the the new bonds, which
privilege of exchanging
will be of 5 per cent., are to hat n
per cent any time before
each of them for two bonds a, g, per cent. in addition to
the Ist of July, 1853. by Pgmg
the subscription price.