The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-05 00:00:00

Carter, Samuel liorsman, Edward
Cavendish, G. H. Jones, Captilin mum.
Cobden, Richard Moffatt, Geo rge Brown, W.

Cowan, Charles rechell, Sir 0.
Duncan, George Stuart, Lord D.

Forstei, Matthew

MAJORITY-]NOES, 73.

Adam!, Sir T. D. Floyer, John Pakington,rSir J.
Adderley, C. B. Forbes, W. • Palmer, Roundell
Retitle, 11. J. Freshfield, J. W. Renton, J. C.
Banker, George Greene, Thomas Sadheir, John
Baring, Thomas Hamilton, Gnc,. A. Scully, Francis
Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, L, n'd C. Seymer, Henry Ker
Barrow, W. H. Henley, J. V t. Sibthorp, Colonel
Beresford, William Higgins, George Smollett, A.
Booker, T. W. Hudson, G. Sotherou, T. H. S.
Bramston, T. W. Jolliffe. Sir W. G. Stafford, Augustus
Bridges, Sir B. Keating, Robert Stanley, Lord
Broadwood, H. Keogh, Willi: urt Stewart, Admiral
Butt, Isaac Knight, F. W. Tennent, Sir J.
Cayley, E. S. ' Knox, Colonel Thesiger, Sir F.
Christopher, R. Knox, W. S. Trollope, Sir J.
Christy, Samuel Langton, W. H. P. Tyler, Sir G.
Cogan, W. H. Lockhart, W. Tyrell, Sir J.
Cotton, W. H. Lowther, Colcesel Vesey, Hon. T.
Davies, D. A. S. Meagher, The proms Walpole, S. 11.
Deedes, W. Mandeville, Viscount Whiteside, James
Devereux, John T. Manners, Lol rd J. Willoughby, Sir H.
Disraeli, B. Mure, Colonel; Wynn, 11. W.
Dunne, Colonel Naas, Lord TILLERS.
Ebrington, Viscount Napier, Joseikt Chandos, Marquis of
Estcourt, J. B. B. O'Brien, Sir H. Lennox, Lord H. G.

FATAL BALLOON ASCENT.
We are now in possession elf further particulars re-
specting the death of Mr. James Goulston, of Old Kent-
road, London, who was killed on Wednesday, while de-
scending with his balloon on Stone Breaks Hill, York-
shire, near to the Lancashire 1 mundary of thc.t county,
after au ascent from Belle-Vue Gardens, Manchester.
Stone Breaks Hill is about eight miles from Belle-Vne
Gardens (as the crow flies), and is - half way between
Mossley and Oldham. It is part of the mountainous
range which septdates Lancas!aire and Yorkshire, and
takes its name from an old di iused stone quarry, near
the village of Austorlands, ,or Springhead. It is a
very rough and uneven neighbourhood, where it would
be dangerous to attempt a desce et in a balloon even in
the most favourable weather. At about quarter be-
fore S o'clock on Wednesday night Mr. Goulston at-
tempted to descend near the town of Lees, which he had
passed over. The balloon was then very low, and the rain
, was descending fast, the wind blowing in heavy swells.
Mr. Goulston was seen by some workmen to stand-
up in the car and pull at a st ring which communicated
with the balloon. He afterwards stooped down in the
bottom of the car, bet
as it is not known for what pur-
pose. The balloon psed between the bouts of .111 r.
Edward Lawton and Clayton-house, the residence of Mr.
William Halliwell, a millowner in the neighbourhood.
The grapnels were out, and it was thought that they
would lay hold by the coping-stones of vne of the build-
ings, but this expectation was disappointed. The rain
and the rugged surface of the country no doubt pre-
vented people from following the balloon to render as-
sistance. The balloon now ascended the side of Stone
Breaks Hill in a transverse direction. The grapnels
seem to have cleared the first field on the slope of
the hill, and the stone fence which bounds it ; but on
the fence at the further side of the second field pieces
of stone were chipped off, as if by the irons. The
grapnels trailed along the third field, which is a mea-
dow of mowing grass, still further up the ascent, and •
exactly one hundred and twelve feet from the further
side a bag of sand which had been used es ballast was
found lying. No one observed Mr. Goulston at this
time; but it would seem, that owing to the grapnels,
when suddenly,striking the last-mentioned wall, giving a
check to the balloon, or by some other accident, the un-
fortunate gentleman fell, bead-downwards, from the car,
and became entangled in a network of ropes underneath,
for it was clear his head struck with great force against
the next wall, a little beyond the sand Mg. A consider-
able quantity of brains and blood spattered Over the wall
mark the spot where this fatal collision took Place, and
a portion of the brains was fond in the field under the
wen. A portion of the scalp and some hair have also
adhered to the rough stones of which the wall is
com-
posed. The grapnels do not appear to have touched the
ground until they entered the next meadow, a,leer e the
soil is torn up considerably in several places. The next
wall is the boundary of the field on one side, that of
the old stone quarry on the other. Th
quarry
has not been used for the last twenty-fivee
A quantity of blood and brains on this wall
years.
also indicate but too clearly where th

to nnfi