... .-The following letters from SirJ. Herschell, and other scien- tific gentlemen, have appeared on this subject:- -odirecttbattenn o lling MoodaMrch 19. SIRt-I wish to directte attention'of your astrouomical readers to the fact, which I think hardly admits of a doubt, of a comet of enormius magnitude being in' the course of its profress through our sstem and at present not far from its ...

... : The members of this association celebrated its ?? on Wednesday, at the Commercial Hotel, Ashtono, O Mrs occasion an excellent dinner was served up by she hostess, 1e;, Newton. On the cloth being remove, WNrn nb . Gibbs, was given in excellent style, when t e Chairman W, Esq. after a few appropriate and Iheyarlt of the pegople. The Queen, and long mov she live in thehatoftepol.Te National ...

... On Tuesday, the police received information that on the 22nd ult. the Throne Room in the Palace of Holyrood, Edinburg4, wats entered by thieves, and a variety of articles stolen therefrom, the property of the managers of the Exchequer of Scotland. The property stolen consists of six yards and a half of rich silver lace (gilt), 38 silver tassels, and 16 or 18 imitation ?? Wedsesday afternoon a ...

... . - ?? -- Dirty streets6 warmn winds, and most people who 6an'get awvy amrusing themselves in the country: this is a short his- torv of{he town during the last weed of the year 1842. They who have remained in townhave hbad perhaps, rather nore iban the augl quantity of news to discuss, when it is consi- deted, that Parliament is not sitting, nor any distinct notion entertained of Government ...

... The Lord Chancellorhas appointed William John Williams, of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.-On Tues- [day, the horses attached to the carriage of General Corfield, bolted and ran into the shop-front of Mr. J.Beattie,gunOaltrer, Regent-street, smashing the whole of the windows, which were of plate-glass, and damaging about 200 ...

... INTELLICENCE EXTRA. i NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETITNG, 1843 MONDAY.-Mr. Thornhill's Extempore, 8st 1bb, agst Ar. Sloane Stanley's Cuwvolip, 8st -lb; D.M- 20 'h.ft. dbroke's Evenus, FRIDAY.-Lord EIxeter's Saros, yrs, agst Lord Stra 3 yrs, 8st 51b each; D.M.; 200, h. it. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1843. THuUSDAY.-Col. Peel's two yrs old (Heal ed uC , agot Mr. Copeland's two yrs old (sealed up), 8st 71b ...

... FRANCE AND SPAIN. The Pais Lpapers. of Thursday--conitin nothing new of an official oharacter-,from Spain.- The Jorsitsl des Dibads fives a sumnary- ofrecent Spanish news; which;bears marks ofau- thenticity. The rebel Juntas appear to be losing- ground, not only at Barcelona, but everywhere else. . Saragossa continued to be blockaded on the 5tb, and is said to-endure all the incon. venieceet, ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- MENT OF SCIENCE. CORK, WEDNESDAY.-. meet if of the general comnmittee was held yesterday afternoon, when grants of money to the amount of 1887 were awarded. The following are the de- tails of the dif'erent grants:- SECTION A.-Sir David Brewster, for continuing hourlyr meteOrO- logical observations at Kingressie and Inverness, 121.; 'Mr. W. S. Harris, for ...

... E VIC UALLERS', PRO- , IRRMINO ~ ECINSCIETY. l,,NuASS, FaIlly NIoDBT,-The members'and friends istii~~ga Licensed Victisallers' Protection Society of the B~irminghr i. so Tvr, celeij~se505 tntyirst anniversary, at the Atf aen andlet ?? to report-that the in- inrest inr the cause hasr not abated since t at ebation en 1842, if we layudge byfthe character of the attendance, ot e8tati feeling and ...

... Philosophy has most ably demonstrated the precise quanti- ties of oxygen and hydrogen which make up the air of comfort- able existence,so much less of the former, and more of the lat- ter, marking the distinction between a man and a fish. But this said philosopby hbas been eminently deficient in assigning the due proportion which it is essential for us to swallow in the moral and social ...

... - OUR- ARPET BAC. 1 gwRss5gitrSNT.Eln tbe advertisemeut of the 'I 0SjdtinOto55 live stock, Mr. Gerge Robins an- fTN WhEDiLBRED COLTS AND FILLIES. This is o0noes j jinformations as we may possibly next hear of vegratiftn pg . Deferential Donkeys, Obliging Oxen,. several 1'ise Courteous! Cows, and: Hogs of insinuating Genteel led elegant habits. Whilst noticing this progress l calien, wet find, ...

... THE TEMPERANC5 MOVEMENT.-The Rev. Theobald Mathew on Monday concluded his total abstinence la- bours in the metropolis by administering the pledge in Calmel buildings. Manchester square. Having per- formed mass and preached in the Spanish chapel. Spanish place, he breakfasted at the residence of the Rev. Dr Piquot, in company with the Spanish Ambassador, the Dowager Countess of Clare (who took ...