versed with him, and saw nothing to indicate insanity in his conversation. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased destroyed himself, but there was no evidence to show his state of mind at the time." 29. STATUE TO LORD HERBERT.-A memorial statue of the late Lord Herbert of Lea was uncovered at Salisbury. Lord Palmerston was to have officiated at the inauguration, but his recent attack of gout prevented him from being present. Earl de Grey and Ripon, however, occupied his place and uncovered the statue. The ceremony was imposing, and caused much interest. 30. THE RE-OPENING OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, after alterations and restorations of different parts of the edifice, took place with great ceremony. The restorations, so far as they have gone, have cost more than 40,0007. Towards this sum the Dean and Chapter of Hereford have raised 13,0007. by mortgage on the fabric estate, and the cathedral body have subscribed 10,0007. in addition from their private resources. The public have contributed some few thousands more, and there is still an outstanding balance to a large amount. JULY. 4. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK IN NEW ZEALAND.-The Rev. T. H. Campbell, Principal of the High School of the colony, was drowned, together with his wife, five children, and two servants, on the day after his arrival from England. They had crossed the ocean rapidly and prosperously, and arrived at Port Chalmers on Friday, July 3. On Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. Campbell proceeded to Dunedin, and were welcomed by the chief authorities of the colony. They returned to Port Chalmers in the afternoon to bring their children to their new home. On the voyage, as it might be from Portsmouth to Southampton, their small steamer, the "Pride of the Yarra," was run down in the darkness of a hazy evening by a large vessel, the "Favourite." Eleven lives were lost, and nine of these were the family of Mr. Campbell. They were all in the cabin when the collision occurred, and nothing was heard or seen of them till the corpses were recovered next day by a diver. The Colonial Government voted them a public funeral, which was attended by the whole population of Dunedin with every mark of respect. 11. BALLOON NAVIGATION.-The following interesting account of his twelfth ascent was given by Mr. Glaisher, the well-known scientific aeronaut : "This ascent was intended to have combined extreme height and distance, and almost until the time of leaving the earth there seemed to be a promise that both purposes, in these respects, would be realized. As the direction of the wind was due east, the paths of the pilot balloons were such as to indicate that our course Iwould have been towards Devonshire. "The sky was nearly covered with cirrus and cirrostratus clouds, and the air was in very gentle motion. The earth was left at 4h. 55m., the balloon moving towards the west till 4h. 59m, when in a moment we came under the influence of a north wind, and moved almost due south; at this time the balloon was 2400 feet high. At 5h. 19m. we were nearly over Caterham, where a large number of persons was collected celebrating some festival; at 5h. 36m. were near Epsom Downs, at 5h. 49m. near Reigate, at 6h. 37m. over Horsham, and at 7h. 14m. within five or six miles of Brighton. Up to this time we had frequently consulted together, with the view of ascending higher; but it did not seem prudent to attempt extreme elevation, as we were running so directly towards the sea, and therefore we kept low, with the prospect of crossing the Channel to France, and then ascending to four or five miles; but on approaching the Channel the circumstances did not promise success. We therefore abandoned the attempt. On descending, when at the height of about 2400 feet, we again fell in with an east wind, being at the same elevation as we lost it at five o'clock. After this time we were compelled to keep at a low elevation, and moved very nearly parallel to the coast, at the rate of about fifteen miles per hour, at elevations varying from 1000 feet to 2000 feet, till, at 8h. 35m., we were over Goodwood Park, the seat of the Duke of Richmond, where Mr. Coxwell determined to descend, and managed the balloon so that finally it had to be pulled down, and we were not aware when the car touched the earth. "The temperature at the time of leaving the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was 75 deg.; at the Crystal Palace it was 74 deg.; in the balloon it declined to 59 deg. by 5h. 4m. at the height of 3000 feet. We then entered a warm current, temperature increasing to 61.5 deg.; then decreased to 60 deg. at the height of 4300 feet. We determined to descend to repeat the observations, and found all temperature down to 3000 feet nearly 5 deg. higher than at the same heights on ascending. We then turned to ascend, at 5h. 35m., and the temperature decreased gradually, agreeing with that at the same elevation as last taken, and continued to a height of 6200 feet, at 6h. 28m., where the temperature was 52 deg. We continued at this elevation, with very slight variations, for half an hour, during which time the temperature fell from 1 deg. to 2 deg. "At 7h. we were nearing the coast, and we descended to 900 feet by 7h. 20m., the temperature gradually and constantly increasing to 65 deg. From this time we were moving westward almost parallel to the coast, and were compelled to keep below 2000 feet to avoid approaching the sea. The temperatures at these elevations varied from 63 deg. to 65 deg., and was 68 deg. at Good wood at 8h. 50m., about ten minutes after we had touched the ground. At this time at Greenwich the temperature was 64 deg., at Brighton, as communicated to me by J. O. N. Rutter, Esq., it was 68 deg. "On comparing the successive temperatures at the same elevations taken after 5h. 8m. with those at Greenwich, a corresponding decrease was shown, but somewhat less in amount. "At 5h. 27m., when at the height of about 3000 feet, the 'Times' newspaper, folded four times, fell over the car. Its descent was watched. After a time it looked like a gull. It reached the ground at 5h. 35m., passing over seven or eight fields in its descent. "Whilst passing from Brighton to Chichester, without any sense of motion ourselves, at an elevation of less than 2000 feet, over a beautiful country in all respects like Devonshire, with its fine parks of forest trees, noblemen's mansions, and all the features of rural landscape-a moving panorama, in fact, of great extent appearing in quick succession-like a fairy scene, the voyage was most enjoyable; and I must confess it was with some regret that we were compelled to conclude the aerial journey. "The currents of air on this occasion were remarkable; there was no transition state from one to the other; the stratum of air moving from the north must have been in contact with that from the east. After reaching Horsham, the north wind must have been confounded with some west-that is at heights exceeding 5000 feet -which was lost on falling below this height, for then for a time. we were moving towards Worthing. When near the south coast the smoke was frequently moving in a different direction to that of the balloon. At Arundel it was moving in the opposite direction. It was this uncertain state of things which prevented us passing to the Isle of Wight, as I very much wished to have some observations over the sea. "At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the horizontal movement of the air between the hours of five and nine was at a rate of less than two miles an hour, whilst during three hours and three-quarters the balloon had passed between sixty and seventy miles. It is very evident that our instruments on the earth do not give any indication of the real velocity of the air. A similar result was shown last year in Mr. Coxwell's rapid journey from Winchester (seventy miles in sixty-five minutes); whilst the anemometor registered at Greenwich fourteen miles only; and on every occasion on which the actual motion of the air has been measured by the balloon it has been a multiple of that determined by instruments. The difference between the two is so large that it seems scarcely to be accounted for by the undulatory motion of the earth's surface, and implies that our hitherto estimated velocities of the air are erroneous. "Shortly after we left, the sky was overcast, mostly with cirrostratus clouds of such density that at times there were faint gleams of light from the sun; but, for the most part, the sun's place was only just discernible, and for some time before sunset there was no trace whatever of the sun. "These clouds, when viewed from a height exceeding 6000 feet, seemed then to be as far above as they did when viewed from the earth; they must have been four miles high at least. The atmosphere was thick and misty, very distant objects were invisible, and the earth not being lighted up by the sun at all, was dull. "The fact of clouds reaching to four miles high, where the temperature of the dew point must be some degrees below zero, as on the preceding ascent, implying the presence of very little water; yet, there was enough in both cases not only to be just visible, but to exclude every thing beyond them. This fact is important, and indicates that our theory of vapour will have to be reconsidered. "In this ascent we were favoured with the company of Frederick Norris, Esq., of the Conservative Club, and Lieutenant H. Turner, of the Rifle Brigade. "The place of descent was Goodwood Park, the seat of the Duke of Richmond; and our best thanks are due to Captain Valentine for the assistance he kindly gave us in every thing, not only in having my instruments properly taken care of, packing up the balloon, &c., but also for his kind hospitality." -PUBLIC SCHOOLS' CRICKET MATCH.-Lord's cricket-ground was the scene of a very animated contest between the schools of Eton and Harrow. The attendance of visitors in carriages and on foot was numerous beyond all precedent, and a most lively interest was manifested in the varying fortunes of the rival players by their friends and schoolfellows. In the first innings Harrow gained a considerable advantage, but the second innings of Eton was so successful as to give their partisans sanguine hopes of a triumph. Unfortunately, however, the match could not be played out for want of time, the Eton players having kept up their innings till after seven on the second, which is necessarily the last, day of the match. The result was such as to leave it quite an open question to which side the victory would have fallen. The score was as follows :— Sir Cress SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO SIR CRESSWELL CRESSWELL.-As Lord Aveland's carriage was driving up Constitution-hill the axletree broke. The horses, becoming unmanageable, rushed forward, dragging after them the forepart of the carriage, and struck Sir Cresswell Cresswell, who was riding in front of the carriage, with such force as to knock his horse completely over. well fortunately escaped with merely a fracture of the kneecap and a severe shaking. He was picked up by Sir Thomas Freemantle, who was passing at the time, and conveyed at his own desire to St. George's Hospital, where his injuries were attended to, and afterwards was removed to his residence at Prince's-gate. This accident, though its effects seemed for a time to be not of a very serious kind, and though it was believed that medical skill and care would speedily restore the learned Judge to health, was probably one of the causes that contributed to his lamented death, which took place, as will be seen by our obituary notice, not long afterwards. 17. FEARFUL ENCOUNTER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.-A murderous assault was made in a railway carriage on the London and North-Western line by Mr. Michael Lyons, National School teacher, of Bampark, Ballymascallan, near Dundalk, upon two fellow-passengers. The assailant had taken a return excursion ticket for a month from Ireland to London. As the 9.15 express train was about to start from Liverpool to London, he, Mr. Peter M'Lean, and Mr. James Worland, of Plaistow, Essex, entered a second-class carriage, in which there was previously an elderly lady. After the train had started, the prisoner, who had a large carpet bag, placed himself close by the window. He was heard to say something incoherently, but almost in a menacing sort of way. Mr. Worland and Mr. M'Lean, who were conversing, looked towards him, as did also the lady, who was seated near the window on the opposite side of the carriage. The prisoner, however, sat down quietly, and continued so until after the train had passed the Bletchley station. Then he suddenly jumped up from his scat, and, with a large open claspknife in his hand, rushed at |