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broke in two. She escaped uninjured, and spent
the night in Cranston's Hotel.
Mr. Lamb, a traveller for Simpson and Co., of
Oxford-street, was a passenger in the train, and
escaped with a gash in his brow, and was able to
walk to Cranston's Hotel.

James Baird, the guard in charge of the train
from Glasgow, escaped without a scratch. He
states that as soon as the collision occurred he
jumped off and ran along the line with his lamp in
his hand, to prevent any other train coming up.
The cause of the accident was undoubtedly some
misunderstanding as to the signal at the single line;
but nothing is positively known at the time we
write as to who is in fault.

The eleven dead bodies removed to the police-
office are laid out in two rooms for identification,
and present, as may be imagined, an appalling
spectacle.

Some who arrived in Edinburgh last night esti-
mated the number of dead bodies at 20, others at
15, but the exact number is not known ; and the
following is as complete a list of killed and wounded
as we could obtain up to going to press :

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Last week the births of 901 boys anditrACi..
in all 1,757 children, were registered ift4411,4:7?',.;W:":„-
In the ten corresponding weeks of
1852.61 the average number (corrected) witt
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the—triterl
height of the barometer iu the week was 29.980 in.
The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on three
days of the week. The highest reading was 30.30
in. on Sunday, and the lowest 29.71 in. on Satur-
day. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 56.3 deg., which is 4.2 deg. above the arcrage
of the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaishet). The mean daily temperature was
above the average on every day of the week except
Tuesday. The lowest night teMperature was 47.7
deg. on Sunday. The highest day temperature was
70 deg. on Monday. The range of the thermometer
in the week was therefore 22.3 deg. The difference
between the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 3.4. The mean degree of humidity
of the air was 89, complete saturation being repre-
s,nted by 100. The wind blew generally front the
north-east. At the end of the week it was in the
south-west. Rain fell to the amount of 1.22 in. It
fell on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, but chiefly
on the last-mentioned day, when the account was
seven tenths of an inch. There was a thunderstorm
between 3 a.m. and 430 a.m. on Saturday, with
vivid flashes of lightning. The mean of the highest
temperatures of the water of the Thames was 60.1
deg.; and the mean of the lowest, 57.9.

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MILITARY BALLOONING FROM WIN-
CHESTER BARRACKS.

A writer in a contemporary says :
A most successful aerial journey has yesterday
been accomplished from Winchester to Harrow,
travelling at the rate of a mile a minute.
Colonel M'Donald and six officers of the Rifle
Depot Battalion accompanied Mr. Coxwell in his
mammoth balloon. Before this could be realised
great anxiety had been felt by all concerned, the
distance from the gasometer being half a mile and
the last hundred yards of piping having to be laid
above ground through the passages to the inner
quadrangle. As the pipe was only four inches in
diameter, the filling had to commence at 9 on Mon-
day morning. The weather was tempestuous, strong
equinoctial gales blowing from the south-west,
bringing heavy clouds with rain, almost precluded
any hope of our aerial voyage being either pleasant
or safe. Owing to the zeal of Mr. Timney, the gas
manager, who spared no labour in providing
the 90,000 cubic feet of gas—no ordinary task—and
also to Mr. Coxwell's knowledge of the char geable-
ness of the weather, the enterprise was not aban-
doned, and all the arrangements made with calcu-
lation and forethought by Colonel ADD onald were
successfully completed ; every preparation for the
convenience of spectators had been made, and the
ancient Palace of Charles 11. assumed the appear-
ance of a Roman amphitheatre. It was hoped that
a large sum of money would have thus been collected
for the Lancashire Distress Fund, but on this point
we were somewhat disappointed, as some thousands
preferred to keep their shillings in their pockets
and enjoy a surreptitious view from a distance.
Still, owing to frequent squalls, it was undecided
at three o'clock whether the ascent should be made
this day or postponed. A large crowd was, as
usual, clamourous, and foolishly careless of any risk,
but it would have had no effect in inducing Mr.
Coxwell to " proceed" had not the sun come out
and the heavy clouds dispersed. Then he decided,
and the soldiers, obeying his signals with military
exactness, drew the balloon to the windward side
of the square, and at five minutes past four let go
the rope, when we instantly rose in a majestic man-
ner, clearing the corner we had so much feared by
150 ft., to a height of two miles. By passing over
the Grange (Lord Ashburton's) eight minutes later,
we perceived that we were going at the rate of a
mile a minute. The white and broken clouds were
on this occasion between three and four miles from
the earth. Our direction was E.N.E. We left
Aldershott Camp two miles to the S.E., Virginia
Water a mile to the N.W., and with great pleasure.
recognised the friendly shelter of Harrow-hill for a
quiet descent. This, however, we passed by a
mile, and landed in a grass field belonging to Mr.
Henry Hill. Here, in the gentlest manner pos-
sible, the grappling iron anchored us in the centre
of the field, and, thanks to Mr. Coxwell's judgment,
without the slightest concussion. With the hearty
goodwill of the villagers, and the obliging assistance
of Mr. Hill, we packed up and carried our balloon
to the railway station. It was 5 15 o'clock when
we descended, and the distance we had travelled in
one hour and ten minutes exceeded 70 miles. As
we reached the ground Mr. Coxwell was kind
enough to show us the manner in which he per-
formed the almost incredible feat of opening the
valve with his teeth when 71 miles above the
earth.

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