The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-01 00:00:00

CREMORNE.

BALLOON ASCENT WITH THE DOUBLE
TRAPEZE PERFORMANCES.

Cremorne and its neighbourhood were the scene of
much excitement last night an announcement
having been made that those intrepid performers, the
Italian brothers, would again surprise the visitors to
these delightful gardens by a double trapeze ascent.
By five o'clock the b.lloon-ground presented a most
animated appearance ; and such was the anxiety dis-
played by the public to get a close inspection of the
preparations, that the usual barriers were invaded
not only by gentlemen but by ladies, who, on
ordinary occasions are too timid to venture near
a balloon, but on this occasion were wonderfully
courageous, and pressed rather inconveniently
upon the new Royal Cremorne. Owing to
this in some respects, and in some measure to
briskness of the wind, the balloon drifted to the trees,
and the lower part of the trapeze caught firmly in the
boughs, from which it might have taken some time
and trouble to have extricated it, had not courage,
coolness, and determination of no ordinary kind been
displayed. The difficulty was felt, and overcome as
soon as felt by the active and powerful gymnasts, who
holding each firmly by one hand, tore away in a most
surprising manner the resisting boughs with the
other till a slight sway of the balloon enabled them
to clear all obstacles, and proceed rapidly on their
voyage to a round of cheers wt;iich their admirable
conduct elicited. So little did the untoward stoppage
affect them, that the instant they appeared clear of
the trees they commenced and continued as long as
they were in sight those wonderful twists and twirls
for which in the Cirque they are so much admired.
Before nine o'clock they put in a re-appearance at the
gardens, having safely descended at Woolwich, and
were most cordially and enthusiastically received.
For this advanced period of the year the gardens
may be said to have been crowded.

BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
The new company, known by the name of the
British Electric Telegraph Company, have nearly
completed, and are about to open, a considerable
length of wire uniting some of the most important
northern towns of the kingdom. This chain of towns
includes Liverpool, Manchester, Halifax, Bradford,
'Wakefield, Barnsley, Leeds, Harrogate, and Stockton-
upon-Tees, with acme other of the the intermediate
places. The people of Liverpool and Manchester
were rather agreeably struck with the rapidity with
which this company succeeded in laying down their
wires
stations and the company's offices.
There is no greater annoyance in large towns than
t
that which Parliament has granted to private compa-
nies of ripping up their pavements at all times and.
rgisitwr ryes , to complete the connexion be-
tween i
hon the
places where it may be necessary for their in-
terests. The authorities of a town pave the streets
at great expense, and then comes a gas
company, and then a water company, and
then a telegraph company, to open deep trenches in
some of the leading thoroughfares, interrupting
the traffic and creating great inconvenience. We
have seen these trenches open in some cases six or
eight days; but in the present instances we are glad
to perceive that a great improvement has been intro-
duced. Mr. Charles Bright, the manager of the
British Electric Telegraph Compaq, we were in-
formed, bad the merit of inventing a new mode of
laying down wires in the streets, which goes far to
remove the objections we have nave pointed out. The
method adopted by the old company has been to lay
down a line of round cast metal pipes through which
the insulated wires are passed. This is necessarily a
long and tedious operation, because considerable time
is occupied, as each
. length of pipe is laid down, in
passing the i
wires through it; but Mr. Charles
Bright 's plan' to wie pipes split longitudinally into
two halves' The under halves of the pipes are laid
down in_th e trench, and then a large drum, on which
the insulated wires are wrapped, is rolled along
over the trench, and the wire is paid off easily
and rapidly into its I p ace—the upper parts of the
pipes being put on afterwards, and secured in their
places by means of screws through flanges left out-
side for the purpose. So well has this mode suc-
ceeded, that in Liverpool the whole lengths of the
streets, from Tithebarn Railway station to the British
Telegraph Company's offices, in Exchange-street
East, were laid down in a single night (11 hours),
end in Manchester, the line of streets from the Salford
Railway station to Ducie-street, Exchange, in twenty-
two hours. This was the whole time occupied in
opening the trenches, laying down the telegraph
wires, and relaying the pavement ; and while great
credit is due to the company, on the ground of the
little public inconvenience occasioned, no doubt they
would find the benefit of it in economy of time and
money. The company, it is expected, will be in a
condition to open business now in about three weeks,
having only to complete a short link between Wake-
field and Leeds to make the line complete from Liver-
pool as far as Stockton. T:le Magnetic Telegraph
Company have their line at work hetween Man-
chester and Liverpool, and are said to be making pro-
gress
with their extension towards the metropolis.—..
Morning Paper. A
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a linendraper's, and with the most excrucial log
drawl she into
ecotild effect, inquired if they had any "subdued
mouse-coloured silk." No," replied the draper, with a
suddenand expressive twirl, of the yard stick, " but we IMO ;
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