The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

Descent of the Giant Balloon.

The following telegram, dated Hanover, Oct. 21,
has been received:—" The wounded persons from
M. Nader's balloon have been conveyed to this city,
and placed under the care of the French Legation.inquireui
The King
after their
Hanover sent an aide-de-camp to
their wants. M. St. Felix has sus.
tained a fracture of the left humerus, lsesides con-
tusions on the face. M. Nadar has both legs dislo-
cated. Madame Nadar has sustained a compression
of the thorax and contusions on the leg."
By a telegram received last evening, we are
M. Nadar has telegraphed from
it is unnecessary to send medical
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assistance from Paris. Although the injured per-
sons were suffering, all was going on well.
La France of last evening says, that M. Godard,
one of the passengers accompanying g M. Nadar,
opened the balloon with an axe to allow the gas to
escape.

OCCUPATIONS OF EMIGRANTS.--It appears from
the official returns that last year 2,438 agricultural
w labourers,
itu 1
,2
89 ginarldBe6nl7,
202carters,b
&c.,a enOgrated (as compared
r 8
(137 in 1861), 179 black-
smiths and farriers (96 in 1861), 27 bookbinders and sta-
tioners (9 in 1861), 300 boot and shoemakers (179 in 1861),
42 braziers, tinsmiths, whitesmiths, &c. (26 in 1861), 19
brick and tile makers, potters, &c. (12 in 1861), 499 brick-
layers, masons, plasterers, slaters, &c. (363 in 1851), 27
builders (16 in 1861), 124 butchers, poulterers, &o. (68 in
1861), 46 cabinetmakers and upholsterers (34 in 1861), 938
carpenters and joiners (626 in 1861), 10 carvers and gilders
(6 in 1861), 750 clerks (458 in 1861), 78 clock and watch
makers (78 in 1861), 17 coachmakers and trimmers (8 in
1861), 135 coal miners (69 in 1861), 46 coopers (28 in 1861),
8 cutlers (6 in 1861), 120 domestic servants (54 in 1861), 12
dyers (4 in 1861), 33 engravers (9 in 1861), 226 engineers
(95 in 1861), 4,127 farmers (3,207 in 1861), 1,667 gentle-
men, professional men, merchants, &c, (888 in 1861), 26
jewellers and silversmiths (24 in 1861), 23,549 general
labourers (17,913 in 1861), 4 locksmiths, gunsmiths, &c.
(1 in 1861), 92 millers, maltsters, &c. (26 in 1861), 26 mill-
wrights (9 in 1861), 1,720 miners and quarrymen (1493 in
1861), 378 painters, paperhangers, plumbers, and glaziers
(220 in 1861), 28 pensioners (10 in 1861), 93 printers (51 in
1861), 11 ropemakers (4 in 1861), 32 saddlers and harness
makers (10 in 1861), 7 sailmakers (none in 1861), 49
sawyers (40 in 1861), 765 seamen (245 in 1861), 90 911113 ,
wrights (13 in 1861), 1,268 shopkeepers (1,146 in 1861), 166
general smiths (83 in 1861), 568 spinners and weavers (sul2r3.
in 1861), 22 sugar bakers, boilers, &c. (16 in 1861), 25
tallow
veyors (14 in 1861), 406 tailors (232 in 1861),
chandlers and soapmakers (4 in 1861), 22
ghta
cur-
riers (21 in 1861), 10 turners (10 in 1861), 64 h
w 1861), 1,050
(21 in 1861), 9 woolcombers and sorters (12 in 1861)+
7,
728 not
other mechanics not specified (537 in 1861)
,tahe other sex,
distinguished (3,930 i.e 1861). As regards
and
tanneres:l;reli
farm
8,983 were were returned last year as domestic
,
170
g dressmakers, tiewme n and
an and
vents, nurses, &o. (4 662 in 1861),
governesses (64 in 1861), 378 milliners,
needlewomen (169 in 1861),
echanics ' not before
in 1861), 6 shopwomen (5 in 1861),
12,854 married women (9 106
(4,941 in 1861) ; of girls under
specified (38 in 1861), and 14,641 5
remainedm undistinguished
(12,568 in 1861). The number of boys under 12 taken
alb:, o7a,dl9loas(t4,772arinwlaBs
3,510 (2,224 in 1861);
- f children undistinguished as to
and the number o age or
671)5;380f infants,
sex was 15,594 (19,24 S in 1861).
DAVIS' STRAITS FISHING.-The Narwhal, arrived
at Dundee on Tuesday with one fish, remits that the Diana,
of Hull, had got four fish, and the Brilliant, of Kirkcaldy,
three fish. The Dundee ships are reported as follows :-
Canaperdown, six fish ; Wildfire, five fish ; Tay, three fish;
Erma, one fish; and Polynie, clean, No further accounts
which, when last seen, was icebound, and
had
some damage by the pressure of the ice. The
fromP e Peterhead sustainedrthoeead Dundee,
ships
therefore, unknown.