The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

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naltams to Ilieiker him; bat amok ats am yea ban
me to woes* to polities end his thisiesousdlskall
*Annear to dimileme me famed* with al Illesilboesdit
to year eitehe se may be iaziscor Wham" m 4 be
in good the delevadiele this
be owing to my Men* the . Dr. Rain=
feeler Owen, Yr. Reheat lawns, aid Celend
I beget with satresmay MM of sedwitedfdre
trtimitzeser has bma ilmthelidombf • Lli•••••iftte
pedlar ever mad,' as the lewd etre*
exerehed beim ebieswaties; end delraWg
onervaden the Wilma sad' lone ef • planet • which
elides.* end white boss went, =Sr by
observed* It lad Mom m the great
mama of Dysmdato deleritle• Me distarbeares
by the ineenal soden of "the steer in their mums,"
*ea whoa** mil= gad their obits were fully knit* ;
let it Ye hen sessevei far them dam to reverse the Mo-
ors', ame te inenelleeds hem ens ditesedenee actually
observed the adtems.aad thence of the wondrous
stranger whisk ha ha— elhaely, dna its crer
lion, exerting tide myslosions power. I am aware
that Lanai, awe Asa 60 years ago. did observe
what is now fatly 0.88**,4 to have been the planet
Neptune ; but though Uranus had just been added to
them bright orbs which to mortal eyes for more than
MOD years had beta known to circle oar Wen; Leland*
moved, net only that the number of the planets round
the sun had pawed the mystic number of seven Mate
Rendul had matted that indent belief bat that
ethers might also remain to rewind the patient labours
of ether observers. He, therefore, dutraetad his own eyee,
and preferred to believe that he bad been mistaken, raiher
than that the existence and tome of a new planet had been
reserved for the dimovery of this latter age. What kis
eyes saw, but whet his judgment failed to discriminate
mad apply hes sine co a recognised
fact in
* I *es. will not presume to measure the claims
of the two illustrious names of Leverrier and Adam,.
I will trust myself with only two observations. The one,
my earned hops that the rivalry, not merely of the illus.
MWus Leverrier and of my illustrious countryman Adams,
bat of the two greet nation which they represent, France
and England respectively, may always be confined to pur
suite in which victory is without woe, and to studies which
enlarge and elevate the mind, and which, if rightly directed,
may produce alike glory to God and good to mankind ; and
the other obseive my equal hope that for than who
employ the game edeMifio training and the same laborious
industry whisk he,. marked the researches of Loverrier and
Adams Men may still remain similar triumphs in the yet
unpenieressil mime of space; and that Unlike the greater
sou of • geed father, they may not have to mourn
that there me so mere worlds to be conqut red.
It remarfenbie hot that the seeing of the planet Neptune
was alined as entlidenly at Berlin, by means of one of the
star oar wid* have proceeded from an association of
Orman sotroml=sea. It is another remit of the circulation
of these stir map that a comet can hardly be within the
reap et a Mims*, for • few hours without its presence
being dissevered mad announced through Europe. Those
comees vied* have been of larger apparent dimensions, or
have mad** homer within view, have, in consequence, for
more than teethousand years, been observed with more or
he and the return of some have been determined
with a peent,a which in pad ages exercised the wonder of
nations; bet sow improved maps of the heavens, and im-
proved inatnamits by which the stars are observed, carry
knowledge where conjecture lately dared not to
penetrate. It is not that more comets exist, as
some have add, but that more are dawned. I cannot
refer to the enlarged means of astronomical obser-
ved= est** by the present age, without some allusion to
Lord ler re of the viespreddents of this day, who, him-
self deemed
arms* as hare in Oxford, has devoted large
arm and endwise Wray to the completion of the mat
weatisdlel istessepo whisk science, art, and wealth, have
ever yet mead* leparbet. They have been retarded by
theme" temasslieetoad, I will say, higher duties which,
m a magiedsts, es • landowner, and es a Christian gentle-
men, ha owed, and hen been paying, to his neighbours, kis
tenantry, and his (Pantry, dunng the late awful visitation
which has afflicted Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Yet I think
that Dr. Robinson, that great observer and greater philo-
sopher, might have carried on the observations whirls this
mighty telescope alone can effect, and thus have enured for
his own division of the empire the discovery of the planet
Neptune. (Hear.) The catalogues of La** and of the
Histoire Celane are now before the world, and with the
catalogue of our association constitute a series of meet im-
portant gifts conferred on mtronomy. The Astronomer
Royal hes done me the honour, by a paper which I have
just received from him, to make me the vehicle of communi-
cating his wisdom to you on a most interesting discovery of
the past year. The hon. baronet here read the common*.
non, wineh, after referring to the differences found to exist
between the lunar theory and actual observations, and
stating that such differences could only be reconciled
by the assumption of some varying error affecting
the epoch of the moon's mean longitude, stated that
two disturbing causes were at length discovered, both
attributable to the influence of the planet Venus.
The doctrine of the influence of the moon and of the sun on
the tides was no sooner established than it was thought pro-
bable that that Influence must have the lighter fluid of air
also under its grasp ; and it is now clear, as the result of the
observations at St. Helena, by my friend, Col Sabine, that
there is a oorreeponding influence on both fluids, sad that
there are tides in the shoes in the sea, excited by the same
mums. It appears that in .each day the barometer at St.
Helena stands, on an avenge, four thane** of ea inch
•r at the two periods whoa the sseep la ea the. meridian
alibee or below the pole, than when she is di bras distant
hem *0 meridian on either ail; re proven*" between
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I am unwilleMddrealdest whit* n-
ag deep awn of • nederad *NM by
L'Went and laborious o 'sad reiperibm of my
eminent friend, Col. Sabine, ialediersiller,ind above all
Espdwin monoteetioa with ~ad ell nes tea&teet
.tof earth,_eadenaken at great seallei
are sir etaot is the egadery bides or
perbrea, WU re permit of sciessethe heetes Nike.
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fargenseMail epithelia whish the past
yeir hes sera, pothaputhet etionsted the slabours
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reseal hearresirteas hee eagpested with thb aredsdas
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we ctrl ha Oh likes, Where he is dieter of ear errs,
tity), resit re cipmeshee Ineetrime, in media Mat the
ibrelersermiliersi W those Yen are die te &el* sua
ante be re shish asses which ewe tlepir mot
rad parearl elhaveles is the antra sire sense.
a ber spe4 et ilime alestrtz= okb:
4.=2et s=isgmensimme reb= arseele—esadia
1, tempoinsk, emits
the err_ =aidaesitrThe all die been powers of siestrielty.
As kraal adder brims et the blesses of the *pear of
dim sa the Irma tar-4 =nit the rat year,
har Or 'are whir la pia has
aredired laof au mass rap variety et
lirares, and upeddicargapale at the awe
=ride ring em thet the
larg* cr eandemetroly fel ef
thaws magma meek eantiWar esepethass to
hi art awl resew her it ; but that whoa the bluer,
Is sired le eared as further thee to the enegnaden of
reemielea, die reserety r • gement rale atiegere. Uim
this reersiohle argosaly at whir will Ws rase the
arm el Dr. heirei. its Wha. awl Or et Dr./Urea. ite
ahistreessime, sawas the briers at ear esaassaarne.
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sena* systese. tad re arrilleaka d that Whims ea
Mona malasady dessevin thsinedgmesdna-
Ilea el the, Seed* M British
ee.de=nat doe rinse :seet bear la the
Porous thea Ara niers le lie id-
eart= the seastitur elearal bare
ra."7-—beelig sad hi their arra amass ; rad this re-
ran Is spesially reshot in this renal y, dad* the
whisk bee sredh der the timmemisaldem let the
Amelia** by Prewar Owes, la 111814 et lis eimmies
rie the Ware straseare el rreser awl red
arrah.
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set
the isioseirdial releseist a rite
baetrenToof the ashen et the Mir. et theeineresisa. riems
mos harm% end of ether &Heats _--rate
et re rpm et sirs hes been
ressediably advimer the
*Wel ire et the lareved urressopes dr ge
the repaid umegereate d the asore=t
seizZre ',ern ffarelay, the Dinh) 'yr be
le ma et misassinpie eirate.
Lula builder per el mieremegie eararkel risme
bee loess dat gam' aletevetioawere el On teen& ef the bind
from the inset= la the rig, a% retie of
the dieelellem of the**. Tuners Mle ryarisj4tepto
lepartreat et risme bee ens seelluere et Its
A sada sled reedesi as re prear—bria are Irma-
rtrtaissarias patippe la the sight direr= lira la
Weary. Nahislery rperabserly re edam
sheserra—a
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peeper etre mar yr el hareeli rale air
rapid selestilie irevrialt
dirrial6sairds et ear elect- him* sad dart moms
the detrarstra et dAe _reeilteala la
Illmeretima et the be Ael:= 1110 Me"' um'
trim sod the iew,meramperess whir the Delia Arseiera
Izera le the lereedicadde ethele, sad the pallirlha
The radiate etas sealleed radeperd re
widdsitmle berA mapporreapi bytheopealerithl:
dassr;atieeivir her are atgeham* ad this sew
arra ia ti b d umrrs bidcry ba gemeed, ad
el here versa la . peened now to aides the
misses of Wasp erg in these days by the ads*
lespe, and by sheisiiry, ei M ties draohlre, fund**, sad