The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

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lt• three days she would see him and he would return
t v ern. The priioner said, a You must place- h Ypiicit
cc nfidence in me, and I will tell you the-truth." Mi,itness
th ought it v,ery extraordinary, as a few days pr eytotisly
'sh 3 had lent a fair young man
.three sovereign: She
th en predicted that in a very short time she S youl:4
"nu ~et with a young man of fair cotta 4.. k n?.icez,
vet ry good prospects, to whom she would be
ma rried, but it was necessary that she . should use
. • usual charm, and she would require of her a 4s. 6. d..„,
w. ti ich_ witness gave her, and she left the• litrusor•
sa .5 iti;g triarthe would call again and let her knew the:
re Rat of her powers. She subsequently called and!
in ormed her that, in order to give effect to the a spell,'"
would require some of her wearing apparel to brry-
t• u the earth for some time before the desired effect woua.
cs Sr nu., and the whole of them' and her money would be.
• t imately restored to her. Witness handed her her
• awl, a mousselain-de-laine dress, a pair of bracelets,
am 1 other articles, when the prisoner said that she could
not accomplish the :" charm" without burying a.. shift
with them, which witness gave her, and she saw no more
of he. until Tuesday last, when she saw her in the street
and tve her into custody.
The
_prisoner declared that she was not the person, and
never X..w the prosecutrix before in all her life.
The prisorier begged hard for merey,but she was com-
mit ;ed to the House of Correction, with hard labour.
for three months, with instructions to tEe officers to,
trace, if possible, the prosecutor's property, and restore
-it to, her.

Robert Clifford, a sturdy-looking fellow, was vlaced at
t he bar, charged by William Moore, 224, N. ,lisision,
w. 'th having assaulted and wounded him, and beii
ccr 'led, with others, in an attempt to drown him.
to prosecutor being sworn, stated that on Mo, lday
after, eon last he received information that a prize-fit ;ht
was ,ot ng forward in Pocock's-fields, Islington. He pro-
ceeeed tt: the spot, and found about 300 persons, and
two men stripped to fight. He entered the ring,
and appreh,,nded one of the combatants, when a.
.cry of "Resent.; kill that ," was immediately raised;;
of which the prisoner rizshed upon him, struck him seve—
ral times, and witness was knocked down and beaten by:
the crowd who surrounded ,him, in a violent manner..
witnos took out his staff to ,fend himself, when the
prisoner seized hold of it, and taking a knife from his
pocket he cut the string twisted round his (witness's)
wrist, and )vounded his arm severely ; the mob then
dragged him a considerable distance, the prisoner being
the ringleader, with a shout to " drown the .
pitch him into the river." The witness vas so dreafifully
punished, that he gave his evidence with much difficulty.
The prisoner denied the charge.
Mr. COMBE said, as he could not itlct arc adequate
punishment upon the prisoner, he woula comnut .hiat to
Newgate for trial.

UNION-HALL.
On 'Wednesday Ellen Barlow, a girl of 17 years of'
age, in the service of Mrs. Hannah Hubert? of No. 14,
Clarendon-place, Vassal-road, Brixton, was brought be-
fore Mr. Train, charged with robbing her mistress, sad
afterwards attempting to poison the family.
The complainant stated that the prisoner had been fit
her service about 14 months, and that, during that pe-
riod, she had exhibited great violence of temper ore
many occasions, and for which she had determined on•
discharging her. The prisoner had warning, and she
was to have left her situation on the preceding day,,
when the complainant missed a silver-spoon, and ques-
tioned the girl on the subject, who at first denied that,
she knew anything about it, but afterwards confessed.
that she had hidden it behind the sink in the wash
house, to carry it away on quitting. Her boxes then
underwent a search, and a great quantity of her mis- -
tress's property,- consisting principally of wearing appa
rel, was discovered.' At first the complainant's inten-
tion was to have retaken possession of her property, and
not have proceeded against her. Soon after her depar-
:ure, tea was prepared, by Mrs. Hubert -for herself and
fat,:ily. While, however, two of the children were in
the
.
act of eating some bread and butter, they were ob-
sorted tt :
-it had ; loathe the food, and complain of a nasty hot taste
ny when the butter came to be examined, it
was ,itscertain.'d that a quantity of vitriol had been
mixed With it ;.-a,:sd; as the prisoner had every facility of
cointitting such an I. :A, it was strongly suspected that
she,,and no.otherkerson,.was the offender.
Aid that the charge of finding stolen
proiierkt in thelifisoilesf box-es was clear enough, but
with-regard to
accubation, that-of mix-
ing iitkiol in thelihtter,:there must be stronger evidence
producol before.iteogjd be entertained.
Mr. 'TnAILL ailed the prisoner if she mshedto say
anything.' relative to the'vitriol found mixed withthe
buq,er,4n the kitchen cupboard ? The prisoner said she
knew nothin... about that, but remembered In.wing re-
cently used vitriol in cleaning some copper saucepans.
The MAGISTRATE said that he should remand the pri-
soner for further examination ; and in the meantime di-
rections were given to collect the whole of the evidence
relating to so serious a charge.

MR. C. GREEN'S BALLOO

ASCENT.

The afternoon was not the most favourable for my
purpose, there having been a fall of rain, and the:
evening atmosphere was considerably impregnated with
damp, which in some degree affectedxy preparations ;.
but, nevertheless, I had completed 'my T arrangements,,
and was ready to ascend at a quarter to twelve. It.
being' one of my smaller balloons, I of course could not
avail myself of the company of a companion ; and I may
here add, that with the Nassau balloon to ascend at night,
considering the obstacles which I might have to encoun-
ter ih securing a landing, and, consequently, the pro-
bable damage that the vast machine might sustain,
have prevented me hitherto from attempting a voyage
by night with it. I struck the trigger of liberation from.
terra firma at a quarter to twelve, and mounted at a.
rapid but steady rate, clearing the gardens with scarcely
' time to overlook my festive friends ; my instinctive
conveyance shaped its course east by north. I had
suspended a beacon lamp about twenty feet beneath
the car, which made my progress easily marked
throughout my whole career, but the balloon itself, as
a matter of course, was soon lost to the observation of my
brother bipeds below. The direction of the wind carried
me over Deptford, and on crossing the river by the Isle of
Dogs,_l fired a blue light, during the combustion of which
theeeffeet was to my own fancy most magnificent ; the
light was strong enough to display the entire of the bal-
loon and appendages, and the peculihr reflection from the
bell was so beautiful to my eye that I regretted when_
the exhausted composition left me once more in darkness.
I am convinced that the balloon, while the light was
burning, must have been an exceedingly interesting object,
when viewed from the river or the river's banks, to those
who might have been fortunate enough to witness it.
I now had time to gaze, for a brief snatch, upon the only
visible feature left me to contemplate of the vast metro-
polis, and its vast adjuncts, its outlets and suburbs,
namely, to gaze with admiration upon its countless
thousand lights, between which individually distance had,
to my eye, become' as nothing, and I saw in one mass
of sparkling lustre a body studded with brilli ant gems ;;
and as my position rapidly changed, fancy. niight have.
pictured it as an enormous centipede, using its many
legs to escape my view ; as if distrustful of one who.
envied, or had a design upon the glaring wealth of which_
it was possessed. The splendour, the grandeur of the
scene, in fact, was far beyond my power of description.
After crossing the river, I found the wind tacked round
to east by south, but I was still on the ascent, and at
the elevation of 2,000 feet from the earth I found the
upper current vas carrying me in a north-we sterly
direction, and which, by its rapidity, I calculated that
in half an hour I should be carried out to sea, OT at
all events to a space of water wide enough to pre's'ent
me having choice of a point of descent. I conse-
quently, without delay, lowered the balloon until I
had diminished the elevation to within 400 feet, and I
then found the lower current of air moderate:3Y wafting
me towards the direction of a part of Essen, where .I
thought it would be convenient to cast anchor. It be.•
comes a matter of great consideration at this season 01.;
the year, the description of country in which a land-
ing can be effected, and particularly at night, because,,
should there be full crops on the fields, there is,pe risk
of doing damage to the property of the_
aP.:9late
r.gh,i
are the owners, and who of course )a! ha tlto expect remuneration. I then lowered
and, as on every
guide-
line till it touched the earth,
da ,
its immense teality in
occa-
sion that 1 have used it,'
opinion
swell as that which I was
f9un of the country I was
enabling me to form an ,
immediately passing
ra, distance from the earth. From
mine more certainly ----; •
nearly approaching. and also its enabling me to deter-
nearly
knew by the noise indicated by the line
as it dragged overprevailed the roads and the lands that a stormy
red for a rude reception on my
experience I.
and be prepa
pact
tern firma, and therefore 1 determined
return to
Ltto9u:descent on the first favourable opportunity
that the country presented. By the light of the moon -.1
tolerable distinctness a distance, ,-•; about
I e„,,.,,,asneu my .A.
two bunnred g••)0,_ In advance. se , .
' biuting, in a large •marsh,
i ' a si,ot quite
jest shortly, in r . --E x• When I threw out the
in the parish of Barking, Fs .
as soon as it had taken firm the.
of and_el
~i
make
it'bvith .
was instantaneously brought
of the groundi th
dbal occasioned by the bon-
at the mom t den rage so
there toight be a chance of the
violently that I feared , . _ut
epr ottnhesas of the wand°ll se°s
ha. ki
eh. .
able to obtain any immediate assistance, I exhausted the grappling iron being forced from. ats. holding. Not beige
gas by the valve as speedily as I coui3 ; but the balloon
still retained sufficient buoyancy to be hewn about
roughly on the ground by the force of fee wind, and
single-handed I could not prevent its then sustaining
considerable damage. I was within 100 yards O f the
highway, and my hallooing at length brought to my as-
sistance a young man, whom I dispatched for more ha Ip,
and we seon secured my trusty vehicle, after a voyage Of
a quarter of an hour. Had the wind been in an inlaid.
direction, it was my intention to have kept up during the
night ; as the wind was, I deemed that imprudence to.
risk. Among .my earliest assistance were some of the
police, who had observed the beacon lamp on its first as-
cension, and who had followed it with their eye in won-
der. At first they conceived it was a shooting star, but
its extraordinary sphere of travelling, and its oscillating
motion, had baffled all their philosophical knowledge ;
but keeping in the direction of its progress, and coming
to satisfy their curiosity,- they were the more ready to
render me early help. Without personal inconvenience I
returned to Vauxhall a little past three o'clock, and spent
a pleasant hour with some of the friends with whom I
had parted, and who had waited there to welcome My
return.

• BAGPIPES IN INDIA letter from the Pun-
jaub, a country in the north-west of Hindostan Proper,
dated " Peshawar, 27th May, 1841," and written by one
of Captain Broadfoot's party, mentions that " the moun-
tains near the Attock are famous for a race of a wild.
military .kind of robbers, which the Seikh Government
can't put down. They are a fierce and more warlike race
tHhiagnbitlinecirebsagt,paipned, wexhaacttlyis
invesroyunsatraanna shapege,they use the
like our
own, bat play no Scotch ail's."