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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 38, 14 February 1871, Page 4

A Letter from Toulon, in the Messager du Midi, communicated by Mr. Renter's express, says : — " A ballon monte, which had been sigi.ia.led by telegraph, was noticed in the clouds as it crossed over tlie Department of Vaucluse, rushing towards the south with headlong speed. The instructions sent to the Departments bordering the sea ordered everyone to follow its course carefully, and to help it in case of need. It seems that it struck ou the mountain top of the Sante-Baume where the aeronauts at last were able to alight, not on the ground but in tbe snow, having travelled over 200 leagues in less than fifteen hours. This balloon had left Paris the day before, aod iu its flight had met with a whirlwind from the north-west, whicli carried it away like a feather, and prevented its conductors from descending, and thus avoiding the overwhelming current of air. Tbe travellers were at last able to fasten their grapnel on a rock, about a thousand metres above, the level of the sea ; and it was high time td do so. At the first dawn of day they found they were in sight of tbe blue waves of the Mediterranean, where tbey would have run every risk of being drowned. The travellers and a hundred kilos of

messages are already on their way to Tours." A Photographer in Glasgow is said to have received orders from a London house for 60.000 photographs of tho Marquis of Lorn. Infallible Wisdom. — The Pope on being a?ked what, pM-t of Rome bis Holiness in fended keeping, replied, Vat-I-can.