Cje &pertator, augusSt 27t1), 1853 A DANGEROUS balloon-ascent has been
attempted at the Rotunda Gardens in Dublin. Mrs. Graham was the guiding aeronaut, and she was accompanied by a Mr. Kennedy, a gentleman who had formerly been disappointed of a trip in the air from the insufficient power of the balloon. On this occasion the machine was almost as inefficient. With difficulty, and by the discharge of the single bag of ballast, it cleared the trees of the garden; then the grapnel tore away the coping of a house; it presently caught in another wall, and retained its hold, the car resting on the roof of the house. A number of persons got on to the roof, and Mr. Kennedy was rescued: it took a great deal of persuasion to induce Mrs. Graham to leave the car. It was found necessary to slit the balloon to get rid of the gas, as the huge machine was knocking off the chimney-pots around, The voyagers were cut and bruised in their perilous trip.
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