The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-14 00:00:00

Two terrestrial radiation thermometers read seve-
ral degrees below the shaded thermometers--one
when 4,000 ft. high read 18 deg., and the other 19
deg. ; the bulb of the latter was on wool, while that
of the former projected into space.
The path of the balloon on leaving was N.W.,
crossing the River Thames diagonally into Essex,
from there nearly over Stratford, at sh. 28m. ; across
Middlesex, nearly over Tottenham, at sh. 3Gm. ;
Clapton, eight minutes afterwards ; near Totteridge,
or Barnet, at sh. 52m. ; thus passing the north of
London, into Hertfordshire, near St. Albans, at
Gh. 10m., and onwards towards Buckinghamshire ;
the North - Western Railway, near Tring, was
directly under us at Gh. 18m., having travelled at a
rate exceeding 30 miles per hour, and trains looked
like continuous meteors. After this we changed our
direction, and moved nearly southward, or N.N.E.,
leaving Dunstable on our right at about Gh. 30m.
After the light went out our only course was to
descend. Looking downwr rds the earth seemed
without inhabitants, not a light was visible, and not
a sound was heard ; looking in the direction we
were proceeding there were many woods, and we
resolved thus to journey till we could have assist-
ance. Presently we saw a light, and shortly after-
wards several, so Mr. Orton, with the utmost dex-
terity, brought the balloon to the ground, without
a bump, in the nearest field to the village of Ridge-
mount, Bedfordshire, where I determined the tem-
perature to be 401-.
The results of this ascent are very different from
the preceding night ascent, but the circumstances
were totally different. In the first case the sky was
cloudless ; in the latter it was covered with cloud.
Some of the clouds were within 1,000 feet of the
earth ; one such cloud was over London, so that,
although passing north of London near to it, and
not in cloud ourselves, not a single light or any
effects of London lights were seen. This cloud did
not extend to Greenwich, for the lights at Woolwich
and Greenwich were very brilliant. Great was the
contrast in this respect between the two ascents, as
was experienced in other particulars, while passing
over the country in the first ascent the reflection of
the moonbeams lighting up the river, and many
other solitary sheets of water over the country,
suddenly bright and as suddenly leaving them in
darkness, and brightening up others. These suc-
cessive illuminations were quite wanting on the
second ascent, the moon herself was invisible, the
earth covered in many places with detached clouds
far below, some of large extent covering many miles
of country, and others of small extent ; while above
the sky was uniformly black, and kept this appear-
ance throughout even when we were one mile high.
The upper clouds must have been very high. Al-
though the moon and its effects were wanting,
there were many highly interesting views of the
distribution of cloud and of the different effects of
the diffused light on woods and fields, which prevails
over the earth ; so that the boundaries of fields could
be seen even at our greatest elevation, and enabled us
to determine satisfactorily our path by noting the
angle the balloon crossed fields in comparison with
the position of the magnet-needle.
The place of descent is more than 50 miles from
Woolwich. The balloon must have passed over
more than GO miles. The anenometer at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, registered in the same in-
terval 15 miles.

Observations at the Royal Observatory were
made every ten minutes under the superintendence
of Mr. Nash, and at my house by Messrs. Yair and
Howe, and at both places the temperature increased
instead of diminished, from 391 deg. to 404 deg.
My best thanks are due to all the officers of the
Arsenal, and particularly to Mr. John Anderson
and Mr. -Wallace, the gas engineer, for his care in
the preparation of the gas.

Blackheath, Dec. 11.

&TAMES GLAISIIER.

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THE CASE OF THE REV. S. HAWORTH.-It wi
be remembered that in September the Rev. S.
Haworth, vicar of Salhouso and Wroxham, Norfolk, wall
fined by the Taverham magistrates for an assault on a
young girl whom it was alleged he had seduced. A com-
mission appointed by the Bishop of London to investigate
this and another charge has come to the conclusion that a
/winza facie case has been made out for further inquiry, and
the matter will therefore be proceeded with in the Court of
Arches. Th 3 proceedings before the commission - which
was presided over by Mr. C. Evans, Chancellor of the Dio-
cese of Norwich—wero conducted with closed

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