The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-17
GENERAL SUMMARY.

lie n ~ IL M vi III
BRouonAM ON THE Pnlxs-In the course of discus
sion ia the British House OF Lords article in the
London Examiner alleged be libel Lord Plunkett
bishop of Tuam, Lord Brougham remarked, that with
gard TO the article which had been cad was doubt,
strictly speaking breach OF the privileges Of their lord
ships House but of what would IL be TO contend
with the press in such cases these He remembered
one occasion his friend Mr. Marriott represented
in newspaper having said ut public meeting in the
city that he would not go in procession to that id
old church, meaning particular church in the city
OF London He felt much annoyed at the circumstance
and wrote letter TO the editor in which he stated that
his actual words that he would not go to that
damp old church" A taught The next day there
appeared in the newspaper statement to this effect
We have given place in columns to the contadic
ton which Mr. Marriott has made but, at the time
think it right to that have referred the matter
to reporter who is certain that he used the words
id old church, and to add that we have the most
perfect confidence in the accuracy of reporter
Great laughter The gentleman complained to him of
that treatment and he lord Brougham) recommended
him in future not to be too hasy in conradicting any
statement that might appear in newspaper Hear
hear
BALLOON TRAVELLING ENGIAYpA voyage of two
hundred and fifty miles has been done in tie space Of
five hours by professional aeronant who, with two
amateurs, started from North Woolwici near London
and terminated their aerial tramp at Tavistock the
Cornish coast The travellers crossed the southern part
of the big village and then must have steered due west
There fine moon shining, and as the daylight broke
found themselves in nautical phaseology hugging the
coast and going along at considerable speed The river
Exc crossed Stacross Station between Exeter
and Exmouth Dartmoor havcrsed the prison.
when Mr.. Coxwel finding that fresh wind prevailed in
the lower current, determined to avail himself of the
shelter afforded by the hills and descended therefore
in valley about three miles from Tavistock where suit
able meadow presented good landing place. 1t was
some time before the particulars of the journey obtained
crednce At Newton the balloon declared to be the
comet but the railway guard stopped the panic by de-
clarng the aerial visitor to be Mr.. Coxwells balloon.
A GRAND TouR. THn GREAT EASTERN. The Canadian
Railway Guide, July 4, says that the Great Eastern
steamship will positively sail from Holyhead Harbor
her point of departure from Engandfor Portland in
April next year. and that tourist tickets win be issued by
her for five weeks trip the period during which the
Great Eastern will remain at Portland 1t is intended
that these tickets should include the passage money out
and home, and all railway and steamboat fares from Port
land to Quebec, Chicago st. Louia, Baltimore Washing
ton, New York, Boston, and back to Portland The
price of the tickets it is supposed will be $780,
The steamer Arctic sailed from New York last week for
Halifax and ST. Johns, N F., to be engaged during the
coming two months in surveys in connexon with the
laying of the trans Atlantic telegraph Captain--0. H.
Bergman lieutenants--J. p. X Mygatt, John Irwin
A. S. Weaver engineers VIM L. Iamdn, John S. Al
bert.
The Athens Ga Herald announces that there will APP
pear exhibition in that city, in few days. mule that
stands FL hands high (seven et Is ten feet in cir
conference, anu weighs over 1000 pounds
The Montreal Commercial Advertiser states that the
captain OF the Montreal took the only epreserver
board her to his life, and that he, the mate
and others Of the crew. watched until the drowning the
passengers would give them opportunity to swim off
without danger of being laid hold OF by the sinking
BosoN During the last week there were sixteen sud
den and violent deaths in Boston five from explosion Of
firearms two from fits two from delrum trcmens
two from being crushed to death from suicide one
from murder one drowned and two over Life
appears to be cheap In Boston.
1t is stated that the deeds for the line Of the pub
lie works of Pennsylvania will be delivered to the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company about the 18TH when
immediate possession viii be given
The New York and Erie Railroad Company have re-
duccd the fare their road from Buffalo to New York
and Boston To New York the fare is but fee dollars and
to Boston the fare is only nine dollars
CUITIvATING A RAuRoAD The Auburn m w Amer
lean says that es and Of miles within the fenced
track Of the Central railroad planted with potatoes by
the employees of that great road" These railroad
farms attended to mostly by the wives of tho ON
ployees,
TEXAS WooL.--The editors Of the New Orleans Pic
have been shown lot of wool from the pairies in
Texas which is equal to the best imported Saxony 1t
said that in few years the Str State will furnish more
wool than any of her sisters.
The Weight COMEB. M. Babinct estimates the
weight of comet large the earth at so 600 ko-
grammcs the weight of thirty cubic metres of water
SO that a comet, with the dimensions of our planet
weighs only 66, 100 lbs