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Except the 16th, geminas ex plumâ aures submittunt subrigunt-20th, and 21st, generally overcast: a little rain and snow at times. Rain fallen, 2 of an inch. : que." From these facts, Dureau de la Malle, December. Thermometer. in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, fixes Thursday 23 From 33. to 28. the country of the bird at Colchis or Mingrelia, Friday.... 24 whence we have also the common pheasant, Saturday. .. 25 Sunday.... 26 whose name is derived from Phasis, the prin- Monday cipal river of Colchis. M. Gamba, French Tuesday .. 28 consul at Tiflis, is stated to have seen and Wednesday 29 chased the golden pheasant in the chain of the 24th, generally cloudy, with frequent snow and rain. Prevailing winds N.W and E. Except the 23d and Caucasus, where large flocks are found in company with the common pheasant. Gold Mine.-The Charlestown Gazette announces the discovery of a gold-mine in South Carolina, which is so productive that it employs about five hundred workmen. The metal is said to be of singular purity. National Armies. Thermometer. Barometer. From 36. to 26. 30.23 to 30.26 20. - 37. 29.99 29.16 28. - 35. 30.04 30.09 27. 39. 29.98 29.66 20 32. New Moving Power. M. Zgiersky, of St. Petersburg, the author of several ingenious inventions and scientific works, is preparing a publication which will shortly appear in Latin, in Russ, and in French, and which will unfold some secrets of a nature calculated to be Aurora Borealis.-On Christmas Day, at half past 7 generally useful. This publication will conP.M., a very remarkable aurora borealis was observed tain the description of a new system for impeltended from north to west through a sky for the most from the vicinity of Keswick. Long arches of light exling air-balloons against the wind; and of the part clear, and almost eclipsed by their brilliance the reapplication of the same principle to put in moThese reIt has been computed splendence of an unclouded and frosty moon. tion carriages and agricultural instruments, that, in Prussia, there is one soldier in eighty glow arose in the west, like the dull light of some vast mained for some time stationary; when a sullen ruddy without the assistance of horses, or other inhabitants; in Austria, one in a hundred and and distant conflagration; and from this, as a centre, draught animals, and without steam-engines. eighteen; in France, one in a hundred and began to diverge streamers of fantastic form, which seemed to be composed of bundles of arrowy beams, for Cholera Morbus.-The Austrian government forty-two; in England, one in two hundred ever shifting like the movements of a mighty loom. At has sent several physicians into Russia to and twenty-nine; and in Russia, one in fifty-times, these appeared to press forward on the gaze with study the symptoms of the cholera morbus, and seven. almost dazzling lustre; and then again they faded, as the light leapt from cloud to cloud, into a pale saffron effulascertain the nature of that dreadful malady. French Porcelain.-From the year 1810 to gence. Once they assumed the likeness of Greek chaA similar mission is contemplated by the go- the year 1814, a beautiful piece of porcelain, racters traced out upon the sky. The stars were seen vernment of France. At a recent meeting called "The Tablet of the Marshals," which changes, in awful beauty, for about half an hour, the distinctly through them. After exhibiting these various of the French Academy, M. Moreau de Jonnes was placed in the museum at Paris, attracted streamers ceased to play; but for some hours afterwards, read a paper on the subject, and drew from the the attention of all the amateurs of the arts. that quarter of the sky retained a softened light, and the cloud-like arches were still perceptible. facts already established the following conclu- The painting upon it was considered to be Keswick, 27th Dec. 1830. sions-1st, That there is reason to hope that Isabey's master-piece. It was a monument to the cold of winter in the Russian provinces, the glory of the warriors who contributed to which are situated between the 45 and 57 the triumphs of the memorable campaign of degrees of latitude, will arrest the effects and the propagation of the pestilential cholera; 2dly, that, nevertheless, numerous and uniform examples give reason to fear that it will only be suspended during the winter, and that it will recommence its ravages in spring; 3dly, that if, unhappily, such should be the case, the whole of Europe may be invaded, one part after another, according to the opinion of Lord Heytesbury, the English ambassador at Petersburgh; an opinion confirmed by the consideration that the contagion must acquire new strength in passing into climates of a higher temperature than that of Russia. Vienna. In the midst was Napoleon on the TO CORRESPONDENTS. L.'s lines, though pretty, are inadmissible. 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