Colonel Burnaby's balloon voyage to France ended success- fully yesterday
week, the balloonist descending in a meadow near the Chateau de Montigny, in Normandy, after an eight hours' voyage. The adventure showed great pluck, and so far as we can see, nothing else. Except so far as Colonel Burnaby wished to increase an already sufficiently-established reputation for audacity, he gained nothing in the world by his voyage, and had only the right to speak of the current of air which sprang up to waft him from the Channel to France as "providential," on the general ground that everything which is not determined by man's will, must be determined by the will of the Creator. That "Providence," however, is intent on always saving the lives of rash adventurers, who cannot even hope to advance any human interest by their risks, is assuredly not in the least true.
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