The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-01 00:00:00

WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA.

The Refforme publishes the following summary of
the intelligence it had received from Jassy, Bucharest,
and Cronstadt :—" In Moldavia the Russian agents,
assisted by Prince Stourda, considered themselves
entitled as Cossacks to respect nothing, and
they even violate the law of nations and the
privileges of foreign flags. The Austrian Consul,
wishing to secure his fellow-subjects against the
effects of Russian occupation, presented a note to the
reigning Prince, who insolently replied to him, that
Moldavia could at present do without an Austrian
Consul. M. Eisenbach, on receiving that reply,
immediately struck his flag, and forwarded a report
on the subject to Vienna. At Bucharest, on the
contrary, the Consul of Austria, having shame-
fully refused to protect the Wallachians, who claimed
his aid, on the 26th September, to escape being mas-
sacred by the Turks, all the Austrian subjects residing
in Wallachia protested against their agent, M. Timoni,
and asked to be considered as British subjects. M. Col-
siuhoun, the English Consul, gave them an asylum in his
house, and afterwards saved two members of the
Provisional Government, General Tell and John
Ellad, who are now in Transylvania. A portion of
the army of General Lieders has already crossed the
Wallachian frontier, but the Turks will not allow him
to advance to Bucharest. It is to be remarked that
several Russian officers declared that the 40,000 men
of General Lieders were not intended to occupy the
principalities, but to march upon Vienna."

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HALSTEAD, OCT. 28.—An autumnal gala was fixed
for the 27th of October at Halstead, and Mr. C.
Green, the veteran aeronaut, was to have made his
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morning offered no improvement upon Friday, as the
storm from the south-west increased.
The inflation of the balloon, however, had pro-
gressed most favourably; the committee had made
the best possible arrangements; all parties concerned
were in harmony, and anxious to give satisfaction—
but the elements forbade the fulfilment of their de-
sires. The storm increased, the wind kept up
its attacks on the restrained aerial monster as
though determined to sweep it away. Moored to
the earth by five strong ropes and stakes, ballasted
by about one ton and a half of iron weights
attached with ropes to the ring or hoop, surrounded
by about 30 or 40 powerful labourers and members
of the committee, employed under the control of Mr.
C. Green and his brother, in governing the furious
rolling and violent lifts and plunges of the grand
prisoner; it seemed for a long time that the
efforts and resolute energy of humanity might
be allowed a victory over the fury of the
blast. But, alas ! about a quarter to twelve
o'clock, when the hurricane was at its height,
the immense inflated creature was raised by a
sudden jerk a few feet from the earth. Again and
again it lifted and rolled and dashed itself to the
ground; and on the part
stuck to the of the brave fellows who
ropes and netting there was an indomit-
able perseverance scarcely conceivable. The danger
of being dashed among the dangling weights, or vio-
lently hurled to the ground, was most imminent; but
all held on manfully until, at twelve o'clock, one of
the long strained ropes was snapped by the throes of
the immense machine. At once, the hoop with the
iron weights and twenty human beings were lifted up
six or eight feet from the ground. The hoop broke
in halves, dropping men and iron weights in a con-
fused heap beneath; and doubling its height the bal-
loon rose to sixteen or eighteen feet, with the stakes
by which it had been confined wrenched from the
ground, and two or three men still hanging on the
hoop. The netting, however, being no longer equally
retained by the broken hoop, and the balloon rolling
entirely over on its side in the air (owing to the de-
tention of one remaining rope), the netting suddenly
ripped up on the side of the balloon then uppermost,
and the silk enclosure, shelling itself out of the
ripped envelope, burst from end to end. The men
and weights and netting fell mingled in confusion—
away flew the immense mass of silk, rent ii every
direction, and the grand balloon was no more I

IMPRISONAIENT FOR DIRT IRELAND.—To-day
(Wednesday) the new Act to abolish imprisonment for
debt and to recover possession of small tenements in
Ireland, comes into operation. By this statute persons
in custody for debts not exceeding 101. are to be dis-
charged; and henceforth persons are not to be arrested
for sums under that amount, except in cases of slander,
deceit, seduction, criminal conversation, and breach of
promise of marriage. It is provided by this Act that
tenements or parts of houses where the holding is for not
more than a month, and the rent 1/. for the period, may
be romered in a summary way before a magistrate.