HASZARD’S GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 5.

enough. Come, in the name of Providence!’ So they took their places, and the word was given: ‘Let 0!’

The ﬁfteen men _whose hands were severely

pressed by the straining cords, desired nothing

etter, and in a moment the freed balloon be- gan to ascend majestically. The crowd shout- ed and clapped their han s.

‘ Ah! ’ cried Mr. Brown, ‘ this is delightful ! Don't ou think so!’ Not receiving any an- swer, e turned and looked at his travelling- companion. There he was, lying almost ﬂat on his face and hands, with his head over th side of the ear: his eyes were ﬁxed, his hair Blow! blow!’

X'lBtling- tried to obey.

‘ Are you afraid? ’ asked Mr. Brown. ' ltdoes not stir! Come, mounton my shoulders,

No answer. The balloon ascended ra idly, andpiirlt the balloon!’ And without consulting and erelong arrived at the region of the cliiuds. him any further, the giant caught him up. as if

urnin once more to his immovable ccmpti- he had lieen a feather, and held him above his nion, r. Brown shook him slightly by the liead,say-ing: Now. push the balloon!’ ’lhe urm,and said: ‘Are you ill .' ’ Still no reply, unlucky victim tried to obey, but the blood but a ﬁxed and solid stare. They were now at blinded his eyes. There was a horrible buzzing it great elevation ;clouds lay beneath their feet, in his ears, and lights ﬂashed before him. For ti above their headsa burning sun, and inﬁnite iiioirient, he thought of throwing himself over, space around them. in order to end his torments.

Suddcnl the stranger stood upright, his ‘Ha!’ shouted the madman, ‘ it does not go! ’ face pallidyas that ofa corpse. At that moment the trembling hand of Mr Brown touched accidentally the cord of the safety-valve. He made it play, and the collapsing orb began to descend rapidly. Through the clouds. it darted downwards, and the earth re-appeared.

‘ Ah !’ cried Anncsley, ‘instead of pushing the balloon, asI told you. you draw it downwards- Push upwards !—push, I say !

‘ You see that l am pushing

' No; for here is the ear !

‘It is only that the clouds are rising towards the upper regions.’

‘ Well, let us do the same. all our ballast.’ _

‘We have no more.’ Gerald Annesley laid

MR. BROWN'S LAST ASCENT.

Oirn ﬂue summer-mornin , a few you-g since,

tl_iore was wonderful excitement in the Irish village cfBs_ll dooley. All the idle men, we- Ilﬂ-Iy Ilfl ohil ron in the neighbourhocd—coin. pxehonding about nine-tenths of the opulation —wero assembled on the large level common which served as a racecourse and and balling- $?°°|1; Ind all tl_it'0n d towards some object $0213 °°D¢|'0i which ormed the nucleus of the

‘Theverysame!’ HASZARIWC GAZETTE.

* What mean you !' _

‘ I know where the wretch lives who stole your child ; we are noiv just above the spot. Draw the valve, Mr Annesley, and in I lllorl time you will embrace your Emma ! ‘ .

‘ No, no, you are deceiving me. My _Emma is not on earth; she is in heaven. Last night, she appeared to me in a dream, and told me so. 'l'hat’s the reason 1 want to ascend higher and higher. Come. my friend, help me: let us both blow as hard as we can on the balloon. As we are beneath, our breath must help it to rise. Mr Brown, moved by terror,

Wednesday, September 5, 1866.

The absence of a sea-coast on the European side of his, even then immense territory, struck the Czar Peter the Great, as a fatal obstacle to the intended grandeur of the Em ire of which he was then meditatiu the fouu ation. Hence the millions expen ed in founding a second capital amid the iuortisscs at the mouth of the Neva. Hence the fortiﬁcations at Cronstadt, Sweaborg &c., and the successors of Peter have ever since pursued the same line of policy, nor have they emitted a single opportunity of ex- tending their dominions, so as to enlarge their facilities for foreign commerce. We look, therefore, u on the destruction of Sweaborg, aceompanie as it has been with little or no loss of human life, as the greatest feat accom- plished since the commencement of hostilities. It is a blow in the most vital part. Who will new venture to assert that Cronstadt is impregnable! It would not in the least sur- prise us, to ﬁnd on the arrival of the next mail that Cronstadt had surrendered. Men who put their faith in the security of fortfications are more easily appalled, when it is sliewn that that security is not so implicitly to be relied on as they had been led to imagine; at the same time, an in the same proportion as the faith of the defenders is beginning to be weak- cned,so does the conﬁdence and ardor of the assailants continue to increase. The old say- ing that familiarity begets contempt is as true in war and of enemies, as in peace amou ac- quaintances; we soon learn were to loo for the weak points of each, and havin found them, we are in a better condition eitherto

‘n‘}:6mntnl1en&v:'lhat’s the name ofit at all, at . an

‘ Is it tiod ‘tic (fltiti lt’.tai'is§l'ligtm.li‘:’osn up 1’ asked another.

‘A‘h, don't be_ foolish !’ exclaimed an old man, the sense-carrier’ of the_ district: ‘dou’t e '°?‘%3ll°:"8l1l'<)'pes he's going to hold on by 1’ her (1 9 0 . roane an old woman, taking

"*9": 01’ 8_ Ort black pipe, out of her iiiouth, and sticking it, lighted as it was, with- 11111 _tl:_e_ folﬁis of her_ cross-barred cotton necker- :..::.:..: :i.E".%:*°:.'.:'stt'a“:tat'° £°°*"°' with his ‘sacks of gcolti Wt?! coliiiinntorolvtvili-’ larm, after buying out the rule oul§ stock of the Deasys, we thought he'd have carriages and horses galore,_und maybe a ﬁne yacht in the harbour ; but it never entered the heads of any of us, that.nothing less would serve him than going coor_ing throu h the air, like it wild- gggseéatﬁ tail of it bal one, or whatsomever ,

‘going to go

‘ Faster ! faster ! ’ he exclaimed in a tone of authority; and seizing in succession three of the ba s of sand which served as ballast, he ‘ﬂung: iem out ofthe car, at the same time lttug ing in a strange wild manner. ‘He!’ he cried, ‘ that's the way to travel! We shall y t’ ,h - - [ distance the swallow, we shall tower above the th°%1;ﬁ?):’:h;'3°b£€: goi:gP‘;‘:]°?‘|’£§ ::g:t;','l§! eagle. Whenl was in the Abruzzi with my §’t.‘.’.‘$f. t‘t?é'l.'.§.“.i“’°?.i°'” ‘°?'°'°“ "°'““‘°“"¥‘ i‘.§'.3.‘.'1'I~‘..’t'.'L'I.”é'x’.'t't‘.Z.'i°'.iL° .i'3'.?.‘§“’ i'i§‘..'.§”.'i?.§§’.’ s o is * . . . ' regains against the C08: ELK 9l::’!°l::lll0l'iBt. :13 ‘ lives were in danger, now it is my own.’ £914 d°,,,,’,, seemed 0,”), ,0 {mm the “rim, ’ Very pleasant!_thought the owner of the of the bold aeronaut to dart upwards on its l’"'“°°5" I h"‘’ l’“’k°d “P 5°m° ""°°uy mu’ ‘my ian bri rid.

,as hard as I can.’

Let us throw out

There is

‘ Here he is ! ’ exclaimed the outward strag- ers of the crowd; and presently a carriage PW Ill}. _&nd_out stepped Mr. Brown the Eu-

ﬁlish millionaire, who had lately become an

_ ish landed proprietor. Mr. Brown, was a litttle do per man, whom a very small amount

love with the soil of his ado tion. He was

one_ of those unlucky individua s who meet an gtccideut atlevery turn—who, inentering a room, invariably slip, tumble, knock down some piece of furniture. or sit down beside their chairin- stead of upon it. He seldom escaped upsetting his ink-stand’; sending his meat and drink the

‘wrong way, and then _coughing and choking

for half an hour : cutting his ﬁngers, tearing

his coat, or knocking his forehead against a

door, so that he rarely appeared in society

without scars, plasters, or bandages. In prac- tising gymnastics, he had knocked out three

‘Will; In yachting at Cowes, he had been four

fimes nearly drowned ; in shooting on the moors an Scotland, he had left the grouse unharmed, but he had blown off two of his own ﬁngers. .A_ taste for pyrotechny had singed handsomely lug eyebrows, hair, and whiskers; and as to railway travelling, his hairbreadth ’ scapes and xnovin accidents, amid collisions, u sets, and explosions, would have served to 11 two or three handsome orange-coloured volumes of the _English Railway Librar , or the French Btbliotheqtu des Clieniins de er.

At length. having tried the three elements of north, water, and ﬁre, it occurred to Mr. Brown that the.remai_ning one of air, as a medium of locomotion, might be more agreeable, and could not more Iperilous, than t e others. He ac- cordingly, car before, when residing on his estate in evonshire, had purchased an excellent balloon, and, strange to say, had made_several ascents, and had come down a- gain_in perfect safety. On this occasion, he nieditatcd a ﬂight over the Green Isle, and in- _tended to come down at Belfast; but the best informed members of the crowd asserted that lie was going ‘every step of the way to Ameri-

A London friend,_ who had come to Ireland on a ﬁshin -excursion, had promised to join M_r. Brown in liis ﬂight; but, as it would seem, his courage failed, and he came not. In no- '_wiso discouraged,_ however, Mr. Brown was Just about to ste into his aerial car, when a ﬁll strongly-‘but t man suddenly stepped for- ward and politely saluting the aennaut, said : ‘Ma I ask you a question, sir 1’

'&rtainl .’

‘Is it true that

you are going to America 1’ sN?;

_merply to Belfast, wind and weather

permitting.

‘Belfast,’ repeated the stran er in a musing miaiinor~—‘ the north of Irelan . Well, that is ytist the direction towards which I want to , and hate land-travelling. Will you, siii, accept me as a companion!

Mr. Brown hesitated for a moment; but as he really wished for some one to accompany him, he saw_ no serious objection to'the plan, and occordin ly signiﬁed his, acquiescence, imerely remar ing to the stranger, that his cos- hmo seemed too li ht for the regions of cold air which they woufd have to traverse.

‘Bah!’was the l. ‘Iii passed

through more ehangxbf cl.i.l.|l8h‘:l°tIlI that, and I am happily very robust.’ ‘ Well,’ said Mr. Brown, looking at the mas-

.-,-Jln frame of the unknown, ' my car is large

ugi istic force would have suﬂiced to la l

‘ Better to ﬁght with the elements than with customhouse oﬁcers 1’ continued] his compa- l nion_. The balloon ascended at a terriﬁc rate.

In his turn, Mr. Brown stood up, and laying l his hand on the strauger’s arm, said : . ‘ For Heaven’s sake, don't stir ! Our lives

are at stake. I must allow some of the gas to e, in order to repair your imprudencc.‘ ‘ owdoyoudoit. ’

‘I have only to draw this string, ‘vhich is connected with the valve.’

‘ And if you had not that resource, what would be the r--inscquence. ’ .

‘ We should .nntinue to ascend, until every- thing would hurst from excessive dilatation.’ The man continued for a few moments in deep thought; then suddenly drawing out a knife, he cut the cord as hi h up as he could reach.

‘ Faster ! faster! ’lie reiterated. The stran- ger was a giant compared with Mr Brown, who,

erceiving that he could obtain nothing by

orce, began to try conciliation.

‘ Sir,’ said he in ti soothin tone, ‘ you are a Christian, I make no doubt. ‘Veil, our religion forbids homicide!’

‘ Faster ! ’ shouted the giant; and seizing the remaining sacks of sand, e scattered their con- tents to the clouds. Mr Brown fell on his

nees.

‘ Ah ! ’ he exclaimed, ‘ if you have no regard for your own life, at least have some ity on mine. I am young, rich, happy ; I ave a mother anda sister : in their name, I conjure you to stretch your hand up to the valve, and save us from a dreadful death, by allowing some a to escape.’

_Sh 'ng his wi d locks, the stranger drew cﬂ his coat, and exclaiming : ‘ We are not ascend- ing ! ’ ﬂung it out.

‘ Your turn now ! ’ he continued ; and without the smallest ceremony, he despciled the un- fortunate Brown of his paletot, and threw it

over.

The balloon pursued its wild career without stop or stay. ‘

‘ Ha! ha ! ’ said the stranger : ‘ while we're thus climbing so pleasantl towards the sky, I'll tell you a story—-sha l I ? ’ His unhap y companion did not stir. Already, from this extreme rarity of the air, the blood was as - ing from his eyes and ears. ‘ Listen! hree years ago, I lived in Madrid. I was a widower, with one little daughter, a gentle bright-eyed angel: her long curling hair is waving this moment before my eyes. One day, I went out earlmnd did not return until late; my child, my utiful Emma, was gone; banditti had come and stolen her from me. But, my friend, have you a cannon here! ’ Mr Brown made mechanieallya sign in the no tive. ‘ What a p_ity!—I would have bombar ed 8 in! Ever since, I have searched for my chi d in eve country of Europe, but in vain. Now I thi she may be in the north of Ireland. Have you alucifer-match hero! ’ Mr Brown made no reply, but shook his head. ‘ You have not! A ! if I could get one, I would set the balloon on ﬁrogand then, when reduced to ashes, it would_be much lighter! When you ﬁrst saw me this morning, I was examining the stupid faces of you crowd, to see if the dark foreign ttllllle of my Emma’s robber might be amongst

em.’

It was evident to poor Mr Brown that his trsvollui on wasa conﬁrmed lunatic.

A sad on idanitruck him. ' What is r name! ’ he asked. ‘ Gerald ngloyﬂ

Mr Brown gently in the bottom of the car.

‘ We have no more ballast, you say 1 ’ he asked, looking ﬁxedly at him.

' No more.’

‘ How much do you weigh ? ’ This question fell on poor Broivn like a stunning blow. ‘.How much do you weigh? ’ repeated his companion in a lender tone.

‘ Ah, very little—notliing that could make the slightest diﬂ‘erence—a mere triﬂe.’

‘A mere triﬂe! Well, even that will make some diﬂerence.’ The immineiice of the peril

ave our aeronaut presence ofmind.

‘ My friend,’ said he, ‘ our child is not dead. lsaw her last week near elfust. She is livingt with ti family who love her, and treat her as their own. In a very short time, ifyou will allow us to descend, you will meet her.’ Tltc madman looked at him with a wild doubting gaze.

‘ Yes.’ continued Brown eagerly, anxious to confirm the impression he had made; ‘ you will see her, your darling little Emma, running to meet you with outstretched arms, and her ir golden curls waving in the win —-

' You lie! you lie! Emma’s hair was as black as jet! Man ! you never saiv her! How much do you weigh . '

‘ Ah! a mere nothiug—ciily ti few pounds! ’ Gerald Annesley seized Mr Brown with _ both hands, and held him suspended over the side of the car. In another moment, he would have dropped him into the abyss of space.

‘ Annesley ! ’ exclaimed the poor man, ‘ yoti want to mount higher? ’

' es ! yes! ’

‘ Your only wish is to lighten the balloon l ’

‘ Yes.’

‘ Then, how much do you weigh yourself! ’

‘ Two hundred pounds.’

‘ \Vell, ifyou were to throw yourself over, the balloon, lightened ofsuch a great weight, would dart upwards with inconceivable rapidity.’ The madmann reflected for a moment.

‘ True! ’ he said ; ‘ you are right!’ He laid Mr Brown in the bottom of the car, and stared wildly around.

‘ . y Maker!’ he cried, ‘ I go to meet Thee; I go to embrace my child, my Emma! And ﬂinging himself over, he disappeared.

he balloon and its owner reached the earth in safety: the latter, however, lay for many weeks raving in brain-fever. hen he recovered, he gave orders to have his perilous plaything sold at any sacriﬁce, and soon afterwards provided himself with an excellent care-taker in the shape ofa pretty young wife, under whose tutelage ‘the mother,’ as his Irish valet reruaaks, ‘is growing a dale more handy in himself.’ So this was Mr. Brown’s last ascent to the clouds.

Mr. Ward, of Thorold, U. C., has in- vented a very destructive shell. During its trial from an eight-inch Coliitnbian gun, some of the shells took a ricochet on the sand in front ofthe target, and litter the ricochet, hit the target and exploded, doin serious damage, cutting several 12-inc timbers in pieces, and destroyin the tar- get. Should this invention be rought to perfection, it will probably work quite a revolution in fort and naval warfare; for instance take a gun of 10 or 12-inch cali- bre, working upon the deck of a naval steamer; one shot of this calbre, taking effec, at wind and water, would sink the

defend ourselves or attack others. truth as well as poetry in the words of the song, - “Britannia needs no bulwarks no towers along the deep," and he who ﬁrst penned the line. ~* Britannia‘s best bulwarks are her wooden walls," was the author ofa axiom as sound and indis- putable in politics as those of Euclid in mathe- matics. Shotild Sobastc cl have fallen, its there is every probability, tie commerce of Russia both in the Baltic and the Black Seas, may hereafter revive and increase, but her future ascendency as it naval power is out of the ques- tion. Should either of these events—the fall of Sebastopol or that of Cronstadt—take lace while the Queen is in France, what a bril iant age will be added to the history of both nations. The ﬁeld of the cloth of gold will lose its lustre in the comparison. We can hardly concei_vo a spectacle iuore really grand, than the Sovereigns of the two greatest nations on the earth, for so many years rivals, now congratulatin each other in the most renowned ea ital of luurope, on the stop put to the career 0 that semi-bar- rism that would have reduced civilization and reﬁnement to its own level, and they ma justly indulge in the pride that the nations of which they are the ostensible heads, have been selected as the means under Providence of re- storing peacc to the world, and enabling science and commerce to go hand in hand con- tinuing to dispense the blessings the extension which have marked the progress of the last half century. _—1-}}———

To run Enirori or Haszaitn's Gaurrn. Sir;

B your Paper of Saturday, 1st September. an dvertisement headed Columbus.’ Columbus.’ A Cltancefor the three Counties, appears decla- ring a Lottery to have been undertaken, set up for this celebrated Horse, to take place on 26t of September, at the Globe Hotel.

I did not suppose our Legislation on the sub- ject of public morals was so much behind that of Nova Scotia. By the Volume of Revised Statutes of that Province published in 1851, Chap. 158, Sec. 1., p. 445, the following pro- visgin is made on the subject of Lotteries or

e . " 6. Whoever shall undertake or setup, or shall by writing or printing, publish the under- taking or setting up, of any lottery or rallle for money or ds, with intent to have such lot- tery or re e drawn or thrown, or to induce persons to purchase tickets or to give money or other valuables for any such lottery or raﬂo, or shall play, throw or draw at such lottery or ralilo, or shall purchase any lot or ticket for ppé such lottery, or shall take t in any such o, shall forfeit a sum no

oxcoedin ten pounds, and in default of [pa out shal be committed to jail for a pa not exceeding

thirty days.”

To correspondents.

" A Teacher,” Prince County, with name, was mislaid, it would have appeared in this is- sue but for its great length.

“ J. Ii. F.” will appear in its turn.

We must repeat, that no Communication will be inserted without the name of the author ismsdekiicwn to iisasagaarsiitsetothooor- rectnoss of his statements.

largest ship of the line.