Star.
London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

AEROSTATION.

Yesterday was the time appointed for the ascent of
GrahaM's balloon, at the Whi,e Conduit Gardens.

Among other indOcements which ornamented the gay
posting bills, announcing the spectacle, was a statement
that 11Iiis Stock!, the young Lady who escaped with
life at the time of Mr. Harris's t ttastropbe, would ac-
company Mrs. Graham io the aerial regtons. This was
well imagined, as to all 'roe lovers of &hews, the sight
of a Lady, who had ascended in a balloon, and barely
avoided destruction, about to subject herself to similar
dangers, must be peculistly agreeable. Accordingly,
1 )ng before the apparatus we prepared, the Gardens
were thronged with persons, on the very tiptoe fif ex-
pectation to see this dauntless female. The machine
was, however, filled, innumerable pilots were sent up,
'guns were fired, Mrs. G. took her seat. and still no'Miss
Stocks appeared. What the reason was, whether suffi-
cient gas could not be procured, or Miss Stocks's heart
failed her, remains a secret. Certain it. however, is,
that Mrs. Graham ascended alone, although in a *err
delicate situation : she exhibited no signs of alatin' but
waved her flags, and smiled triumphantly. The ma-
chine rose, with majestic slowness, in a north:east by
east direction. Unfortunately, it had scarcely proceeded
beyond the limits of' the Garden, when it deicended
among the neighbouring houses. By fleeing it of
same of its ballast, it again mounted, and continued its
Muse in the same direction, at about a hundred, or a
hundred and fifty feet from the ground:
The • premature descent of the balloon occasioned
great anxiety for the safety of'the fair traveller, and the
company in the gardens made a simultaneous rush
from thence to the adjacent fields. The machine rose
again, however, to a moderate height, and was again
borne slowly before the wind. The greater part of the
company returned to the gardens of the tavern, and
there awaited anxiously for some tidings of the aeronaut,
of whose return they had been confidently assured.--
Various reports were circulated in the course of the
evening, some of them of a disastrous nature.; but at
length, on the return of Mr. Adams, and others who
had set nut with the purpose of meeting Mrs. Graham,
it was learnt that she had alighted in safety, and in ex-
cellent spirits, near the Green, at. Stoke Newin.gtoll.
The company, generally, however, appeared in some
uncertainty, wail the arrival of Mr. Graham himself,
about ten o'clock, who publicly assured them of Mrs.
Graham's safety.

The rent at which Mr. Bun has taken Diury-lane
Theaste, it is said, is 12,5001 per annum. • -
A horrible accident occurred near Leinster on-Wed-
nesday se'nni;ht. Two drays, on their way to Water.
ford, laden with goods and a cask of gunpowder, whey
arrived at the door of a man named Hoban, were blows
to atoms by the explosion of the gunpowder, and two
young men lost their lives, and two others, with a wo-
man and child, were dreadfully maimed: the men are
since dead. Two of the young men and the woman
were the sons and the daughter of Hogan. Two houses
were blown down, and quickly consumed to ashes. 'The
drays, with their iron axles, were shivered to pieces, and
large bales of cloth, parcels of silk stockings, quantities
of tea, books, paper, deal planks, and other articles that
composed the loading of the two cars, were scattered
in fragments, and blazing in every direction, and pre•
sorted an awful appearance, heightened by the almost
frantic wailings of the unhappy Hoban and his wife,
who beheld the wreck of their family and property
thus accomplished in a few mon.ents. Some of the
burned fragments were driven so high, by the force of the
explosion, as to be carried nearly a mile from the spot.
A certain Alderman of Norwich, as much gifted as
suck 'death:so= are usually apt to be, reputed so author to write
a speech fee him, to deliver at the Guildhall, I most drat dime
%with/vat" replied the scribe, aud see how you open your smooth,
that I way kaow what surf of words wilt fit it.