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tious enemy was worsted: he fell from the lofty throne he had erected, like Lucifer from heaven, to end the remnant of a troublous and enterprising life in a solitary isle of the wide-rolling Atlantic.

*29. 1825.-VINCENT DOWLING DIED, ET. 68, For forty years connected with the public Journals of this country and Ireland. Mr. Dowling was distinguished as a political writer in Ireland up to the passing of the Act of Union, and then removed with a family of eight children to this country. He was considered the father of the present race of Parliamentary Reporters, having spent upwards of two and twenty years of his life among them; and perhaps no man ever enjoyed more of the affectionate esteem of his fellow labourers. His company was ardently sought by all who knew him; and his original humour, added to the fund of anecdote of which he was possessed, rendered him the life and soul of the social circle.

None ever boasted yet to charm the hour
A wit more bright, a fancy of more pow'r,
Conjoined with learning and a taste refined,
Which captive led at will both heart and mind:
These were thy gifts; but thy life's steady aim
Was not alone to win a wreath from Fame,
To be recorded brightest wit among

Wit's vot❜ries, or the laughter-loving throng;
Oh no!-let me not wrong thy gentle shade.
Thou wert the friend of all who sought thy aid;
My friend wert thou when on life's treach'rous sea
Mid sunny skies I sailed, gay, prosperously;
And when to guide my bark grew past my skill,
I flew to thee, and found thee firm friend still.
I blush not, therefore, if my grateful heart
At thought of thee should bid a tear-drop start;
For thou wert prized by me as fond, as dear,
As human heart can prize a friend sincere.

RICHARD RYAN,

*30. 1282.-THE SICILIAN VESPERS,

Or a general Massacre of all the French in the Island of Sicily, to which the first toll of the bell that called to vespers, or evening prayers, was the signal. The number destroyed was computed at eight thousand!

Astronomical Occurrences

In MARCH 1826.

But thou, my Lyre! awake, arise,
And hail the Sun's returning force;
Ev'n now he climbs the northern skies,
And health and hope attend his course.
Then louder howl th' aerial waste,
Be earth with keener cold embraced,
Yet gentle hours advance their wing,
And Fancy, mocking Winter's might,
With flowers, and dews, and streaming light,
Already decks the new-born Spring.

SOLAR PHENOMENA.

AKENSIDE.

THE Sun enters Aries at 11 m. after 3 in the morning of the 21st of this month; and he rises and sets during the same period as in the following Table. For ascertaining the times corresponding to the intermediate days, see the preceding months.

TABLE

Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. March 1st, Sun rises 35 m. after 6. Sets 25 m. after 5

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If the following quantities be added to the hour marked by a good sun dial, the results will be the times that should be indicated by a well regulated clock at the same moments.

TABLE

Of the Equation of Time for every fifth Day.

m. S.

Wednesday, March 1st, to the time by the dial add 12 41

Monday,

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Thursday,

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LUNAR PHenomena.

The silver light, which, hallowing tree and tower,
Sheds beauty and deep softness o'er the whole,
Breathes also to the heart.

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Moon's Passage over the Meridian.

Should the weather prove favourable, the following times will afford opportunities for observing the Moon's passage over the meridian during this month;

viz.

March 1st, at 48 m. after 6 in the morning

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Time of High Water at London for every fifth Day. If the numbers given at page 21 of the present volume be added to the following, the times of high tide will be found for many other parts as well as London. Those for the intermediate day are to be found by proportion.

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PHENOMENA PLANETARUM.

Phases of Venus.

The phases of this beautiful planet now bear the following proportion to each other, which shows that the whole of her disk is as nearly illuminated as possible.

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Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites.

The following eclipses of the first and second of these satellites will be visible this month, viz.

Emersions.

First Satellite, 7th day, at 5 m. 47 s. after midnight

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1 in the morning 8 in the evening 3 in the morning 10 at night

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Conjunction of the Moon with the Planets and Stars.

March 5th, with 8 in Capricorn, at

13th,
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Saturn will be in quadrature at 45 m. after 9 in the morning of the 6th of this month. Venus will be in her superior conjunction at noon of the 10th; and Mercury at a quarter past 3 in the afternoon of the same day. Mercury and Venus will also be in conjunction at 5 that afternoon; and Mars will be stationary on the 30th.

METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA.

[Continued from p. 55.]

On Wednesday the 23d April 1806, about 2 o'clock p.m., four parhelia, which continued more than an hour, were observed by the inhabitants of Arbroath

and its vicinity. Through these parhelia and the Sun apparently there passed a corona or luminous ring, the centre of which was in the zenith. There was at the same time a common halo round the Sun, not so lucid as the corona. An eccentric arch coincided with the halo in its highest parts, but diverged from it on both sides till it terminated. This arch was irregularly variegated with the prismatic colours, and became less lucid as it diverged from the halo.

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The above figure is nearly an exact representa tion of the phenomenon, in which Z is the zenith of St. Vigeans in the neighbourhood of Arbroath, S the apparent place of the Sun, the letter P the four parhelia or mock suns, the circles passing through S and P the luminous ring parallel to the horizon, the circles HA the halo inclined to the horizon, and BHB the eccentric arch inclined also to the horizon nearly in the same manner as the halo.

During the phenomenon there was a perfect calm. Almost the whole hemisphere appeared coated with a thin cloud of uniform density, through which the Sun shone faintly; but about the places where the

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