The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-12 00:00:00

NEW COMET.

Extract of a letter from Bolanos, Mexico, dated 3nth
September :—" About two o'clock on the morning of the
19th instant I discovered a beautiful Comet in the fol-
lowing situation ; but I have not seen it since. Has it
been seen in Europe ?"

• Pleiades.

* Comes.

. Orion.
Bolanos is 23 days journey from Real del Monte.
A French journal quotes letters from the Isle of France,
stating that in the southern hemisphere there has been dis-
covered amongst the constellations of the South Pole one
of the greatest comets which has been seen for a long time,
and surpassing by far that of 1811. When it was first
seen, which was about the latter end of September, it was
nearly as bright as the Pleiades, elevated from 16 to 18 de-
grees, and with a very short tail. Its brilliancy soon in-
creased, however. and its tail becoming longer, these cir-
cumstances, together with its retrograde movement amongst
the stars, gave it an appearance of a near approach to the
earth. About the middle of October, at night fall, and
during the absence of the Moon, it was the most brilliant
object ►n the horizon. An astronomer attached to the
English ship Espiegle has made observations on this
('omet, which he has communicated to the Astronomer
! Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, who will bhortly publish
I the recruit.

The River Thames above the bridges displays abun•
dance of loose ice.
The thermometer on Tuesday afternoon stood at 26
deg. Fabr. Towards midnight it rose to 32—(freezing
point:)
THZ LATZ Sroast.—lt becomes our painful duty to
state, that during the storm on Friday night last, seven
vessels were wrecked at Dunleary. Wc are happy to add,
however, that our informant assures us no human life was
lost upon this awful occasion, the whole of the crews
having been saved by the life-boat.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal, Jas. 9.
A contract for 17,000 barrels of perk, to be delivered at
Newfoundland, has been entered into by two provision mer-
chants at Waterford; the price, we understand, to be 525.
to Ste. per barreL The contractors intend making up the
pork at Hamhurgh.
A new species of self-impelling carriage has been in-
vented by a M. Barret, of Lyons, which is capable of per-
forming a distance of 120 leagues in 15 hour*. It was
lately exhibited at Lyons by M. Barret, who went in it
from his own house, in the Place des Celestins, to the Porte
St. Clair. The carriage rests upon three wheels; one of
these is placed in front, and acts att a sort of rudder to re-
gulate
the motions of the vehicle. A person sitting in the
body of the carriage sets the two greater wheels in motion
by means of his feet, which he strikes alternately against
a piece of mechanism formed in the interior. The car-
riage, by each stroke, is made to perform a distance of six-
teen feet, from which the whole distance can be easily cal-
culated. The most remarkable part of this invention is,'
that the person who regulates the movements of the direct-
ing-wheel, or rudder, has it in his power to turn the car-
riage round, and give it a contrary direction, whenever he
pleases.
Tile SCIENCES AND Aars.—ln this age of universal
improvements, it is obviously desirable, that a respectable Weekly
Journal should regularly give a succinct but satisfactory account °CI
the progress of all the Sciences and Arts. The Proprietors of " The
News of Literature and Fashion" have. therefore. determined to de-'
vote a sufficient portion of their journal to that purpose, commenc-
ing
.with the tat ;s:umber for the year, published on Saturday, the
7th instant, which is also the Ist Number of their 4th Volume.
Henceforth, therefore, the public may confidently expect to find in
that work. not merely an exposition of every new fact or new troth
in thew hole range of .Scierce--physical and moral, but suoh an ap-
preciation of these as will fully satisfy even the scientific reader
that powerful thinkers and able writers are alone engaged in it.
The Title of the Paper will, therefore, in future be, " The, es
of Literature and Fashion, Science and A:t." 7, Brydges.ewer,
Covent-garden.