"up In A Balloon."

M. Sezanne, a Froncli eng-ucer, in a letter to a fiiend, thus deïcribes the excitements und iiüvolties of a ballopn ridu from Paris tü Maus: I left Paris on Tuesday, the 2d of November, wilh tho sailor Logloarme. Tho wind was etrongj it was difficult to manage tbe balloon, t lic Fulton. Il was uecessary to loave abruptly. I had sorne ballast thrown overboard, and we uoon uttained a heigbt of 1200 raetres ; tliat 8 to gay, the range of a chassopot. The firing soon made itself henrd. I saw the oannon hidden behind fiotitioua hodges, the tents in good order, the oavalry oxi'rcNiny ; the soldier in groups, snluted us in thoir miiimer with cries, uinong which I distinotly recognizod some Gurinai) insult?, and with discharges of fiioarms, tho balls from which we did not even hear The eky wa8 dappled with pretty little white clouds like a flock of sheep ; I contrived to keep just above them ; that is, at 1200 metros. Wo moved together, and I liould fancy myeelf the Bhepherd of an innumerable flock. - I hit upon a very simple mothod of a8certaining our diroctiou. It is cnough to notice any etrikiDg object over which ono passas - a large houae, a steeple ; and wheü one is a fow kilomotres off, by ooking at this landmark again, the exact diroction one'a course has taken can 30 determined. I left Paris in a south■■outhwestcrly direction, bat soon inclined to the southü.ist, and continued bearng toward tha-'v int till my arrival. - Next to the ■ --.tpaea, tho barometer plays an important part ; it must not be lost Bight of. 'The balloon is every momout taken with an inclination o descend, whioh I canuot yot entiroly explain to my satisfaotion, a phenomenon is then produced which a little refleotion would have taiight me to guard against. Tho bal'oon, eeized by a current of cold air, contraots and instantly desoends. A. littlo ballast must bethrow out to check tbis tendenoy, but not too much. The fact is that the balloon continúes to descend in conpequence of the Ímpetus it bas acquired long after the equilibrium ia rastored. If then, too much ballast is thrown out, the balloon, baving couquered its downward tendenoy, rises a great deal higher than is required. This is what befell mo at Chartres. I had recogniïed the oathodral rather far away on my right, and made the point on my map wbon the balloon began to descend; I threw out too much ballast, and soon bogan to reascend much higber than I wiahed, Tho sun beated my balloon all the moro that the air was rarified, and I itoon saw myself carried to a height which I could not exactly measure, fur it surpassed tho limita of my barometer. 1 calcúlate that I was nearly 3000 tnetres from the enrth, which hcight is, lowever, not excessive, and caused mo n,i ioconvenience The sKy becamo blacker'Hhe features of tho country wero no longpr distiuct, the cloud-sbeep, seen from sunh an elevation were reduced to light flakes, and the sounds of the earth no longer reached us. COMING DOWN. I measured on vay map the exact dis :anoe wo had traveled from Paria, and fouDd tha wc were' going fifty-five kilo metres an hour. Th.it is to say, in abont two hours I ebould be over the 8ea ; - frora the height at p-'ich I was I seemed alrcady to sec ÜJ jenacing azuro of the ocean. I had left Paris resolving not to dpscend bcforo three o'clock, tbat is to eay, before tho moment when the wind, after havir.g attained its maximum about one o'clock, generally fall. I then thought I was gning towards the oenter of l rsnec. I yas now obliged to accomplish my des'jot-i at the timo of the day when tbe w;tHl sv?irongest, and I was travcliug' at_ tbo rato tif at least sixty kilometers ai, hour, sinoo my average peed had beon fifty-five. ilowever, it would not dto hesitate. I saw tbe ground becomiDg more and more difficult-, nnd the copses of La Vendoe Bucceeding to tho I tbon opened the valve for some seoonds, and wo bean to descend ; but I was soon frightened at the rapidity of the fall. - The barometer rcse as if the needie had been pushed with the finger. Legloarmo and I threw out tho ballast by hanrifulls. Nothing did any good. AVi.liflut haring time to look at the barometer, I saw by the inereasing size of the trees that we wero going to touch the ground. "Out the fastening of the guide rnpe," cried I ; nd the snilor immediately executed tho maDCPiivrc. The guide ropo is a rousrh cord, full of knots 400 metres in length, which is earried in the car, coiled up and fastoned with packthrend. As soon as tho pnekthrend is cut the guido ropo' unooils itself and runs out, one end remaining fast to the cnr, while the other seeks the earih. - Tho fall of the rapo rclieved the bulloon for an instant, and mnde its full slower, without, however. arrestingit; but the rope as it ran nut weighed more and mire, and wo bcgaa again to doscend tuur'.' qnicklv. LANCINO. At the moniont wheii we touohed the tops tf U'e trees, the ssilor by mf orders let go the anchor, and we touched the ground for the first timo almost immedintclj ; the hoek was inucli less violoot than I had expeeted. We were in a country muoh intersected by hedgos and dotted over with trees - oake or npple-treea. We touched the grouod two or ihree times, tho balloon, suddenly relioved from thu weight of the car, made a bound and carried na abovo tho treos. We thus took three or four leaps of a liundred or two metres, holding tightly on to our ropes, with our heads bent down to avoid tho braBches which (Hruck U8 m the face. PLIT BALI-OON. All tbis time wo held tho valve wi open. The balloon bocame less and etn diatended. The guide-ropo and anchor dragging od the ground and tearing up the branches and hedges, alackoDed our epeod, At last the car carne full iuto an appla tree, which it rubbed th wrong way; the treo groaaed ia its language, whilo the'cnr expressed by email oracks that the adventure was not to its taste ; we aguin went beyond tho apple-lreeg ; but the anchor which draggcd after us hooked itself bo firmly to a trunk thnt a shock ensuod po eevere that the balloon could uot stond it; it split throughout its wholo length, nnd feil with ua iu the most pitiablu manncr. But for a few ecratches on our hands we wcre unhurt. All this happened so rapidly and our position was go comical, throwu as we were into the ruidst of the ropes nnd parcela, that we barst into a fit of laughter, not hayiuj{ liad time to feol any fear.