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spirit on starting, or at 56 degs. ; at every examina-
tion of each of these instruments, a space was
found between its index (which remained unmoved)
and the end of the column of spirit, indicating a
temperature closely approximate at all times to the
temperature of the air. Finding this, I removed
and replaced the silver caps from the dry and wet
bulb thermometers, but could not find their pre-
sence or absence influenced the readings at all.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the ther-
mometer for terrestrial radiation read from 6 deg. to
7 degs. below that of the temperature of the air
during the whole time the balloon was in the air.
The temperature at which dew was deposited, at
the height of 1000 feet, in the early part of the ascent
was from 2 degs. to 3 degs. below that of the air,
and at about the same elevation was from 3 degs. to
4 degs. at the later part of the ascent.
At Greenwich, the depression below that of the
air, at 6.30, was 2f degs., and at 8.30 was no less
than half a degree.
The degree of humidity of the air, considering air
completely saturated represented by 100, at the
beginning of the ascent, in the balloon was 95, at
Greenwich was 84 ; towards the end of the ascent,
was in the balloon 85, and at Greenwich 97.
The state of things was completely reversed, and
would indicate that the water in the air had descended,
its amount at the beginning of the ascent was 51
grains in a cubic foot of air, and at the same eleva-
tion towards the end of the ascent was 4f grains in
the same mass of air.
No ozone was registered at the Royal Observatory,
but in the baloon paper tests were coloured to 4, on
a scale where the greatest intensity is represented
by 10.

The readings of the instruments were taken very
slowly, owing to the difficulty of directing the light
on the instruments, the small size of the car, and the
painfully constrained position necessary to read
them at all. I failed entirely in my attempts at
magnetical experiments ; and, indeed, of all, except-
ing those relating to temperature and humidity of
the air.
My best thanks are due to the officers of the Ar-
senal for their courteous assistance, and particu-
larly to Mr. Wallace, the gas engineer, for the light
gas prepared under his immediate superintendence,
and which was so well adapted for my purpose.—l
am, Sir, &c., J. GLAISIIER.
Blackheath, Oct. 6, 1865.

The Attempted Murder of Two Persons a'

Hascombe.

GUILDFORD, Saturday.

This afternoon James Oliver, aged 67, was brought up in
custody, charged, under the 24th and 25th Vic., cap 100,
sec. 11, with stabbing, with intent to murder, William
Underwood and Mary Ann Underwood, at Hascombe, on
the evening of Thursday, the 7th of September.
The magistrates present were the Hon. W. Brodrick
(chairman), Messrs. Guildford Onslow, M.P., IL L. Long,
Duncan Macdonald, A. S. Mathison, and J. Bradshaw.
The prisoner, as already stated, has been remanded from
week to week in consequence of the illness of the injured -
persons. The evidence taken was as follows :
William Underwood, a grocer at Hascombe, who also sold
table beer to be drunk off the premises, said he knew the
prisoner, who worked for Mr. Hockley as gardener, and
took his maals at witness's house almost every day. On
Thursday, the 7th of Sept., he came in in the evening at
about a quarter past eight o'clock. He then had a piece
of bread and some cheese and some tea, and began to
swear when he came in, and continued to do so as he had
his meal. He did not mention any name, but said he would
do for the that night. Witness said he thought pri-
soner had a good place to work at, and no reason to com-
plain, as he had very good pay for an old man, and often
got an easy half-crown. Witness said, " I know what hard
work is as well as you do, but I havn't done as much as you
have, as you are an older man than I am." Prisoner re-
plied, "Oh ! that's it is it." He said nothing more, but sat
a few minutes,. and then got up and stabbed witness in the
arm first and then in the neck. Witness did not see what
he was stabbed with, but prisoner had been using a knife
to cut his bread and cheese. He was sitting at the time,and
the attack almost knocked him down. He did not become
insensible, and saw prisoner turn towards his (witness's)
wife, but what prisoner did witness could not say, as he
was scrambling up. Witness had been under medical treat-
ment since the attack.

By the Chairman—Prisoner had not been violent to-
wards witness, but he knew that ho had knocked a man
down with a fire-hoe some time back.

Mary Ann Underwood, the wife of the last witness, re-
membered the prisoner coming to the house on Thursday,
the 7th of September They all sat together in the kitchen.
She heard the conversation between her hushand and the
prisoner, which he (her husband) had justed stated. She
saw the prisoner get up from his seat and hit her husband
twice, but she could not see whether he had anything in his
hand. After hitting her husband, he then came round the
table and stabbed her in the neck—once only. She turned
round, and found the blood spurting out, and said, " Oh,
Jemmy, you've stabbed me." lie never spoke, and she ran
out of doors, and prisoner after her. There were two per-
sons, named Stevens and Giddings, who pursued him. One
of the men (Giddings) struck prisoner with a stick, and she
then saw that he had a knife in his hand.

By Mr. Macdonald—Witness never had an angry word
with the prisoner in her life.
William Giddings, coachman to Mr. Hockley, solicitor,
said prisoner worked in that gentleman's garden, at Has-
combo. Witness went to Mr. Underwood's house on Thurs-
day, the 7th of September, and while drinking some beer
with two friends, Mr. Underwood ran out at the back door,
and cried out that he and his wife had both been stabbed.
Witness was going to rush in when he met the prisoner,
who had an open knife in his right hand. Prisoner stabbed
at him, and he (witness) hit him three or four times with a
stick. Stevens came to witness's assistance, with others,
and took prisoner away. The prisoner only said, "Kill me,
you --- Jack."
Bytthe Chairman—Witness bad no reason to think the
prisoner was drunk, but thought it was all his temper. The
knife was like that produced. (A gardener's pruning knife
that did not shut was produced by Police-constable Le-
mon, 72.)
William Stevens, a labourer, at Hascombo, said, on the

7th of September ho was with last witness. Mrs. Foster,
the mother of Mrs. Underwood, ran out first, and the others
followed. Mr. Underwood begged witness to go in-doors,

as he and his wife had been stabbed. Prisoner ran out,
and Giddings hit him, and then witness rushed on him
and threw him down. Giddings said, " Have you got him
Bill ?" and witness replied, " Yes, I've got him all right."
Witness slipped his hand down, and feeling a knife, told
prisoner three times to give it up, but ho would not, nor
did he speak. Witness took the knife (produced) away
from the prisoner, and cut his (the prisoner's) hand in do-
ing so, and it bled a great deal.

Elizabeth Foster, the mother of Mrs. Underwood, con-
firmed the evidence of the first two witnesses.
Police-constable George Lemon said he took the prisoner
into custody on the evening of Thursday, the 7th of Sep-
tember, and told him the charge. Ho said, " I've had my
revenge, and I've no doubt I shall hang, but I shall laugh
as I'm crossing the scaffold." Witness had previously cau-
tioned him not to say anything unless he liked. The pri-
soner's hand was very seriously cut between the thumb and
fore finger, and bleeding profusely. The cut was an inch
in depth, and a surgeon was sent for to bind up the wound.
Frederick Yato, a surgeon, residing at Godalming, was
sent for to attend the Underwoods at Hascombe, on Sept. 7.
He found Mi s. Underwood had been stabbed in the left
side of the neck, and her dress was saturated with blood.
The wound was made with a sharp instrument, and was
about an inch and a half in length. A principal artery was
divided.
By the Chairman—The wound was likely to cause dan-
ger to life. Witness stopped the hemorrhage, and if any
return had ensued she would probably have sunk under it.
She is still weak from loss of blood.
By the Magistrates' Clerk—Mr. Underwood had been
stabbed in the neck. The wound was angular, as if the
knife had been turned, and there was also a wound in the
left arm, midway between the shoulder and the elbow. The
wounds were not dangerous, but the one in the neck was
so close to the subclavian artery that only the knife having
struck the collar-bone saved his life. If it had wounded
that artery death must have been almost instantaneous.
The knife produced would inflict such wounds as those
referred to.
The prisoner, who did not ask any question of the wit-
nesses, was committed for trial at the ensuing assizes.

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