Star.
London, England, 1828-08-18 00:00:00

PLYNIOIHH, Auc. 16.

The Russian squadron will require some repairs before
it can again proceed to sea. They have been surveyed
by ufficers horn this dock yard, and men are now em-
ployed on board, repairing damages. The Constantine
has one of her beams sprung, and three or four knee.,
broken, tie niaiiimast wrung it.t the head, and must
come nut; the Vladimir shows se niptoms of weakness;
iequire• some additional fastenings to Vie beams, and
must be caulk-d; the Eli:anti:l has several of her
knees sprung. and requites caulking; the Olga, Alex•
an 're, and Maria, are but little dam.4ged.
ship aie finished much after the Eri:ch style, ss ith cir-
cular flea I rails. 'Pre tinaon. I has a mood stein, but
in point of appearance is far inferior to out sitips aft
klescr iptinn. Tire repairs of the Ow Cc nstautore
will occupy ten days, by which time the squadron w ill be
,e4..4y for sea,and will iiumediately proceed to the Moira.
Numbers of the officers hive taken up their residence (in
They are in genet al a tine body of men, but to
:•,,r Eng isit troti-ins are badly ridged. Several hundred
..;.ws are distributed among the crews, as by an edict
17. the E.‘:PEROR all classes ate compelled to serve both
•a at my and navy. The ships' companies do rn,t
cujiiy the comforts afforded to the ,eainen belonging to
Old England's wooden walls ;" they have neither
t 'tiles nor chairs, and when t.dc;ng tl,eir meals sit upon
rte decks. The Officers give put that the squadron was
ordered to proceed to i\lalta &tea, to relieve Count
lletrnav, but den) that it was prohibited from entering
a lit riish :riot. The ComsionortE, many of the Officers,
with .1. Huts KEN, dined with Admiral Lord
NOREHL3K, on Thirr,day, where they were met by a
large pa ty of British officers.

'The ascent of Mr.GREEN frt,m White Conduit Howe
ell Friday, was not on horseback, al stated. he mistake.
Instead itf the pony, Mr. Green was acconipanit.rd by
M . Hen4ning, a e emist. The balloon left the earth
at twenty minutes past six, and tire greate,t altitude
reacted was, according to the barunieter,•ll,ooo feet.
At 10:ty minutes pa-t seven, tho aerial voyagers landed
ell the estate of 13-Jd, at Bexley, a mile beyond
Msidstoite. Mr. Hempling has given the following
accnent or his cbservations dining this rapid flight:
Whet see started, the bat:inlets- r stood At '29.91, and
the thei inometer at 71 in the sum At our maximum
cf...iitude the barometer was 19.8. and the thermometer
$2l our is4.t:.de (in r..und numbers ) about two
mires arid 750 feet. At this elevate. u, alcohol, which
eras bi ileJ by a mixture of sulphuric acid and water, in
an apparatus prirposely constructed, indicated a tern
periture of 1531. The expansion of air confined over
water in an euJinmeter tub., and over mercw,y,in the
syphon errs-horns:ter of D. Ute, indicated results pie
cisely Twenty•four ministry after our depar-
ture, a.though espied to the direct solar rays, the ther,
oinme'rer sod At 34 degrees, the mercury having in
that time fallen 40 degrees. At four minutes psst seven
the thermometer was at 31 degrees, and tie surface of
snoielivarer in an cudiemeter leg vas frozen ; a shower
rt. fritillute particles of snow was also distinctly visible,
although we had not a cloud above us, and its appear.,
ante was singtAarry beautiful. It hail not: the light
fleecy appearance of snow falling. near the earth's-bar-.
fate, but its pa: tides appeared in a closer.state of aggre-
gation, and reflected the sun's t ays with great-brilliancy.
My pulse at our gre nest altitude was at 94; at depar-
ture it was at 78, and on our descent
_at .80. -About a
mile from the earth's surface we encountered a dense
sass of
,clouds, whose appearance, from a greater ele-
ratiOn, was prt diet), to,tite Alpine ,mtauntains
rlaring the winter sea'on, when all are covered with
snow. 03 pa+sing thr,:ugh them we were for a few
seconds in almmt utter die kness, and I experienced con-
siderable inconve;.iersce from the extreme cold. It was
rxtraordinaty to witness the gradual rise of the mercury,
in A delicate.t:ternsomete; constructed for the purpose,
which was kept in. boiling alcohol during cur rapid
descent..l could not at. any time perceive any vat iation
in 'the voice, nor did there appear any reverberation of ,
souri'd by the 'clouds.• The diminution of atmospheric '
piesseire 'ad an altitude of about two miles, occasioned
gr eat n'ex expansion of gas, notwithstanding the low
terkieraftgq, that the balloon was distended to the tit-
mtiq,'althotigh before.rts ascent it would have required
atleasq,lVO More cubic feet of gas to producethis effect.