The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-11 00:00:00

CREMORNE GA RDENS.

NOVEL AND STARTLING PERFOR MANCE.
The wonderful and unprecedented feat performed
here on Monday evening by Edouard Boutellier, one
of the Italian brothers, whose gymnastic exhibitions
created so much interest at Drury-lane last year,
and have excited great enthusiasm in the circus and
in the garden at Cremorne this season, will be re-
peated to-morrow, as though resolved to outdo all that
bad been previously attempted. The trapeze (a light
bit of wood, about an inch and half in thickness and
three feet long, suspended by two cords twelve feet
long), is fixed beneath the car of the balloon, and as
the gigantic machine rises majestically into the air,
e daring athlete (accompanied by Mr. Chambers
and Mr. L. Mermead, the intrepid aeronauts), is seen
bangieg by his feet, and so continues, swinging with
is head downwards, until the balloon attains a con-
siderable elevation, when he swings himself up, and,
seating hi, self upon the bar, commences his amazing
evolutions, with the same fearlessness and skill as
though he had been performing in a drawing-room,
instead of being some thousand feet perched up in
air. The balloon on Monday took an easterly course,
thus traversing the greater part of the metropolis,
and eventually made a safe descent in Victoria-park.
The intrepid gymnast continued his bold and startling
evolutions throughout the whole of the aerial voyage,
and, as the balloon never attained a very great eleva-
tion, he was seen by myriads in all parts of London,
and the cheers of the multitude evidently nerved him
the more for his daring achievements. He ascended
into the car just before the descent of the balloon,
and reached the gardens between nine and ten o'clock,
in time for his customary performances in the circus.
We need hardly add that his reception on his return,
by the thousands that thronged thet erdens, was such
odgontvee to
Of
fhoaslel who
as Englishmen are
always read
display such ceurege as he hard
that have yet been attempted this is the greatest feaantds
to appearance the most daring and venturesome, but
the great muscular energy and strange presence of
min 1 of the intrepid performer take away the feeling
of fear, and make that certain success with him
which it would indeed be dangerous for others to at-
tempt. We have no doubt the gardens will be
crowded to-morrow to witness the repetition of his
bold and daring ascent.

DREADFUL THUNDER-STORM AND Loss OF LIFE
ix MANCHESTER,—Yesterday forenoon Manchester and
neighbourhood were visited by a severe thunder-storm, ac-
companied by heavy showers, which, it is feared, must have
occasioned great damage to life and property. Among the
fatal consequences already known are the death of four men
and the serious injury of another, who were employed at a
new building in Ridgway-street. The blackened corpses of
?le four unfortunate men present a horrible spectacle in the
armyard public house, near the scene of the calamity. One
,of the deceased was a fine young man, aged 19, named
roof
Dowd, an apprentice to a mason. The sashes and
of of the building were shattered to pieces by the destruc-
tive element.

• THE MILITIA.—On Saturday orders were issued
by. the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, and by
the Lord-Lieutenants of other counties, to their deputies to
take immediate steps for raising the required number of men
hi their respective districts to serve in the militia, to be em-
bodied in accordance with the Act passed in the last session
Of Parliament, and during the next week general courts of
lieutenancy will be held in most of the counties throughout
the kingdom to settle the preliminary matters.
thA PARTY OF PLEASURE FOR AUSTRALIA.—Among
e passengers who went out to Australia in the mail steamer
For passengers
which left Southampton on Saturday, were two
gentlemen of that town, who went out in her on pleasure,
and intend returning to England immtdiately. One of the
gentlemen took his wife with him; the other only made up
bia mind to go in her a day or two before she sailed, and as
n
'Pe as he did so went and paid his 90 guineas for a first-class
berth,Fancy men
ping ou a pleasure trip to the anti-
Ddes, and getting to the end of their voyage iu 10 weeks!
t 4 rulY we live in an age of marvels. The fact that is just
Inentioned is of considerable significance, as it shows that
Ppeople are beginning to think that a voyage to Australia is
%403.vey great Effort after ail. Next year, when the Austra-
lan and Pacific Company's steamers begin to run between
'-„,,_naa and Sydney, a man with a six months' holiday and
''Jut in hie pocket may the go round the world and live splendidly
a . Whole of the way. If any one had prognosticated such a
wking a century ago he w 1 ' placed in a madhouse.
ou
d have been
PaiNcE OF WALES YAen, flr T 1
match of the season came rho fourth
!roni Blackwell to Gravesend °IrY-es-t—er-day7l-111e.
q, the Valentine, Mravesend and back, and the race was won
V .B. Wallis rr —first class sailed
--' ix competitors.
or the second race • nere were s .
hithe and back, th ,T. which was' from Blackwall to Green-
proved to be ~_ Calliope,e , were three starters, and the winner
the Dir. AV
' ~. TVickyiell.