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

MAJORITY-NOES, 73.

Acland, Sir T. D. Moyer, John Pakington, Sir J.
Adderley, C. B. Parties, W. • Palmer, Roundell
Baillie, 11. J. Freshileld, J. W. Rentoii, J. C.
Ban Lea, George Greene, Thomas Sadleir, John
Basing, Thomas Hamilton, Gco. A. Scully, Francis
Barrington, Viscount Hamilton, Lord C. Seymer, Henry Ker
Barrow, W. H. Henley, J. W. Sibthorp, Colonel
Beresford, William Higgins, George Smollett, A.
Booker, T. W. Hudson, G. Sotheron, T. H. S.
Bramston, T. W. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stafford, Augustus
Bridges, Sir B. Keating, Robert Stanley, Lord
13roadwood, li. Keogh, William Stewart, Admiral
Butt, Isaac Knight, FEW. Tenuent, 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. 11. Lockhart, W. Tyrell, Sir J.
Cotton, W. H. Lowther, Colonel Vesey, Hon. T.
Davies, D. A. S. Meagher, Thomas Walpole, S. H.
Deedes, W. • Mandeville, Viscount Whiteside, James
Devereux, John T. Manners, Lord J. Willoughby, Sir H.'
Disraeli, B. Mure , Colonel Wynn, 11. W.

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Dunne, Colonel Naas, Lord
.. TELLERS.
Ebrington, Viscount Napier, Joseph Chandos, Marquis of
Estcourt, J. B. B. O'Brien, Sir T. Lennox, Lord IL G.

FATAL BALLOON ASCENT.

We are now in possession of 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 boundary of that county,
after an ascent from Belle-Yee Gardens, Manchester.
Stone Breaks Hill is about eight miles from Belle-Vue
Gardens (as the crow flies), and is half way between
Moseley and Oldham. It is part of the mountainous
range which separates Lancashire and Yorkshire, and i
takes its name from 2in old disused stone quarry, near
the village of A.usterlands, or Springhead. It is
ould
a
very rough and uneven neighbourhood, where it w
be dangerous to attempt a descent in a balloon even in
the most favourable weather. At about a quarter be-
fore 8 o'clock on Wednesday night Mr. Goulston at-
tempted todescend near the town of Lees, which he had
passed over. The balloon was then very low and the rsia
was descending
fast, the wind blowing in 'heavy squlls.
Mr. Goulston was seen by some workmen to stand
up in the car and pull at a string which communicated
with the balloon. Ho afterwards stooped down in the
bottom of the car, but it is not known for what pur-
pose. The balloon passed between the houses of Mr.
Edward Lawton and Clayton-house, the residence of Mr.
William Halliwell, a millowner in the neighbourhood.
The grapnels were coping and it was thought that they
would lay hold by the -stones of one of the build-
ings, but this expectation was disappointed. The rain
and the rugged surface of the country no doubt pre-
vented people from followbag 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. • he
grapnels trailed along the third field,
which is a mea-
dow of mowing grass, still further tip the ascent, and
exactly one hundred and twelve feet from the further
side a bag of sand which had been used as 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'gentletnan fell, head-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 bag. 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 found in the field under the
wall. A portion of the scalp and some hair have also
adhered to the rough stones of which the wall is co
posed. The grapnels do not appear to have touched the
ground until they entered the next meadow, where the
soil is torn up considerably in several places. The
one side.,i andthalitemetf
wall is the boundary of the field on
stone quarry on thelasotther. he quarry
the old
has not been used for the
A quantity of blood and brains twenty-five
on this wall
years.
gioct iudiouto but too dourly where the