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London, England, 1815-06-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

occupied the centre, advanced to the rails of park, form.
ing double line,, three deep, the life-guards on the right,
and the blues on the lift. The Duke of York, nn foot,,
and. surrounded by an immense crowd, who had ac.
companied him from York House, appeared front
of the line, and was received by the military *kb the
usual honours, and by the company with Juud and
reiterated acclamations. A fru-de-joie was now'filed from
the extreme right of the line to the h fr, the effect ef which
was greatly enhanced by the cavalry iiischarging their car.
!rifles. The foot guards then fell back to their usual peft.
Lion; the cavalry closed from tight and left. The Duke of
York, accompanied by a number of Field Officers, read The •
London Gazelle, containing the glorious news from the
theatre of the war ; at the conelusinn of which the military
and the spectators united in three mote loud cheers, after
which the military filed off, some to their quarto s, and
others to relieve the different guards.

A rumour prevailed nn the parade, that the eagles which
had been taken would be exhibited as proud trophies of the
victory; but this exhibition is postponed till the solemn
ceremonial of depositing them in Whitehall Chapel shalt
take place ; when, we doubt not, many others will be added
to the number. The captive eagles are now at Carhoe
(louse. They are quite new, and are two of those that were
presented by Buonaparte to his household troops at the
memorable assembly of the Champ de Mai, aud have under
them a magnificently embroidered colour, about the size of
the vandard used by the cavalry.
EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMINON IN TUE SUN.—The
newspapers, both in America and England, have noticed
the remakable circumstance of an extraordinary phewsmat
non in the Sun. The following is an authentic and correct
account, for the truth of which Captain Hayes, of his Ma-
jesty's ship Majestic, now lying in Plymouth harbour, and,
the whole of his officers and ship's company. may be
ap-
pealed to :—On the morning of the 27th of August, 1
.813,
the Majestic being then Mr Boston, the men on board ob-
served at the rising of the Sun, the complete figure of a man.
in the centre of that luminary, with a flag divided by three
lines in his hand. Ile was at first on his back, but as day
advanced he gradually assumed an erect posture, and at
mid day stood upright : towards evening he as gradually. de-
clined, descending with his flag head-foremost.--On the
28th it retained the same outline, but had become a skele-
ton.—On the 29th the figure was disjointed, and its parts
gradually assumed the appearance of six separate flags,
united in a circle by an apparent cord or line. Mier this,
nothing more was observed on the sun's disc but a few small
sports.---The American papers notice only the extraordinary'
appearance of the sun on the above-mentioned d Is. Per-
haps the observers on that Continent were not in a position
to catch the precise appearance which the particles of mat-
ter presented to the ship's company of the Majestic. There
could be no optical delusion on the occasion as the pheno-
menon was observed by so many different eyes, and for sp
long a time, The fist figure was seen during the whole of
the 27th, the skeleton the whole of the 28th, and the Raga
during a great part of the 29111.—The above is an occur-
rence which may merit the attention of the philosophic. it
is singular, we conceive, but nothing miraculous or spoten-
tous, Indeed, as the Sun is the centre of a system of plan-
ets, several of which are much larger and probably more
important than ours, no reason can be assigned why this.
common luminary should shape his face, or have it shaped
;for him, SO as to indicate the particular occurrences of thit
eartb.

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