The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-02 00:00:00

CRICKET.

A Cricket Match was played on Lord's Ground, between the
Marylebone Cricket Club and the County of Middlesex, and
decided on Tuesday in favour of the Marylebone Club.
MARYLEIrOIif.I. DIIDDLESICX.
Ist Innings - 1201 Ist Innings, - -90
2d ditto - '283 2d ditto . - 182
.408 . . 272
The _Match was given up to' the MarylibOne 'Club, when.
Middlesex had four wickets.th'gto •-,,

anti DESCENT of MR. GRAHAM.

GRAHAM and Ctiptain CAPES ascended on
Tuesday'.from the Montpelier Gardens, Walivorth. The fol-
lowing-is Mr. Graham's- account .:—" The-.process of inflation
being, as far as was practicable, completed. and the car attached,
I deposited the necessary instruments for experimental informa-
tion in the car,amongwhich were some .of a perfectly novel kind,
made u elder my, directions, by Mr. Bancks, ofthe Strand. .When
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the Captain was seated, I discovered that-the-quantity of gas was
inSafficiezit to' raise us both with the other weighty appendages,
and 1 was -reluctantly compelled to remove the whole of the
instruments, with tfie exception of the mountain barometer
and cork'brilinae.' I was even obliged'to leave the= grappling
-iron below. In -this situation the balloon left the platform,
and,took a directioato the. S.W., barometer being 2,9. 7. The
intervening aouds ho the rays Of the sun on the machine,
and the gas becaM6 so much condensed, as to cause, in a
short time, a 'partial- descent. Having neither grappling iron
nor ballast,- I was, of course, very desirous to avoid a descent
—at alreirent;; until I had cleared the hletropolis, and we
the:efore eiriptled our pockets of our money, and every thing
of the Jel§t.sceight. -I also threw my cap and my companion's
hat, and soon, afterwards
;released a carrier Pigeon.. were
.st 11 grieliill2.deseending, and I ht length thre* Out our only
bottle of- brandy. • --We were new over the Thames,, anti watch-
ing the motion of the water, I saw when the bottle reaches it,
and almost immediately after I heard a report sithilat to that
:of a pisteil..NiThis I attribute to the principle of- all fluids
dergoing different degrees of expansion -at great Aotiloes, so
nivh so'us pt times to force out the cork of the bottle; and the
•i6roaiiy-eif the descent not giving time for the field to contract,
the bottle doubtless - burst on coming., to the. Water.
Not-
withstanding the loss of every portable article, we were unable
tii'Yegain an ascending power; and I therefore cleenied it ad-
Cisable, in order to ensure a safe descentoo make the balloon
form -itself into a parachute. This being done, We descended
in sonic gardens at Chelsea. I immediately requested
tarn Capes Capes to step- out of the car,- he reluctantly
.complteel,
,being extremely desirous of re...ascending alone, 1%
however, observed, that there was a great difference between
milutical and aerial navigatiOn, and so well rkillediik he might
'be in-the former, I would not trust him, at.the latter.. -I then
desired some persons who had come to our assistance to let ,o
the car, which they did, and the balloOn rose With great rapi-
dity, passing through several strata of clouds, and in three
minutes I attained my greatest altitude. The barometer at
that time was 16-7, and I calculate I was about three miles
Ctnil a quarter distant from the earth; and 'I
-here felt a, tempo-
rary difficulty of respiration, and an expansion of the blood-
vessels. In this situation I tried the experiment of the 'cork
--balance, as described by Sir Isaac Newton, ;and found a great
inclination in favour of the cork. This experiment I wished
to -have continued during the desCent, but the gas which
' escaped from the valve, so sensibly afrected•rne; that I- was un-
able. After being in the air one hour ?,ndiflfty-six minutes,
'descended safely in a clover field belonging to Mr. Atkinson, at
Morden, in the County of SUrrey; This. gentleman,- with se-
veral other persons, assisted me in packing the . balloon, and
conveying it to the house of Mrs. Ridge, of Morden Park, by
whom I was entertained with genuine English I
arrived in London at l l o'clock-the same night. It is my in-
tention to ascend from Greenwich on Monday night,
. G. GRARAM."

The Papat,Governynent: has, recently adopted'
energetic measures against.the,brigandsi who in-
fest the provinces.contiguous, to, the -.Neapolitan
.territory. •:: z.. .; , ;..
We regret to state) that on Ttie"saay evening
Major MrittßAY, Of Dgekti WWI. peer Windsor, tne.,t, with a
.serious accident. He was 'driven to the' Math in a jaunting
'car with his lady arid.diughleic arid on their retain thecar was,
by some accident, ,upset. The Major fell with his head on the
gravel, and was dreadfully. contu.7ed. He was taken up in a
senseless coraiitipa, and; wi4 immediate
bled. by a surgeon,
who happened to present. He wasen conveied home,
where he remains in a most precarious state. Neither Mrs-
Murray or hei ditighter were seriously injured.
ROBBERY AT.•THE EARL Of JEasEit'4,--The
gang of horse-stealers, Who now infest the vArious
parts of the country, three days since paid a visit
to Acton Bottom,- and stole a. !pitiable. brown
horse, the property of his Lordship, with, which
they got off. It is marked with a 'tar in the fore-
head, a little white about the heetai and a switch
tail, A reward of ten pound* has beenoffered
for the apprehension of the offenders.,

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ESCAPES FROM TUE HULKS AT WOOLWICH:
Denham, one of the men whnhavelately escaped
from Woolwich, was brought spin the custody
of two of, the Bow-street pt4tol, at Highgate,
where he was secured ; and a set of irons, found
At a chandler's-shop, have been identified as
Those worn by one of the convicts who escaped,
and which were left by him for security. Ile was
I remanded for the attendance of the proper officers.

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