The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-10 00:00:00

calm, and we could work to advantage. As I am pre-
paring a minute description of the serpent, I will merely
give you a few general paints. It was a male; the length
103 feet 7 inches; 19 feet 1 inch around the neck; 24
feet 6 inches around the shoulders; and the largest
part of the body, which appeared somewhat distended,
49 feet 4 inches. The head was long and flat, with
ridges; the bones of the lower jaw separate ; the tongue
had its end like the head of a heart. The tail ran nearly
to a point, on the end of which was a flat firm cartilage.
The back was black, turning brown on the aides; then
yellow, and on the centre of the belly a narrow white
streak two-thirds of its length; there were also scattered
over the body dark spots. On examining the skin we
found, to our surprise, that the body was covered with
blubber like that of the whale, but it was only four
inches thick. The oil was clear as water, and burnt
nearly as fast as spirits of turpentine.
We cut the snake vp, but found great difficulty, and
had to " flense" him, the body would net roll, and the
blubber was so very elastic that when stretched 20 feet
by the blocks it would, when cut off, shrink to five or
nix feet. We took in the head, a frightful object, and
are endeavouring to preserve it with salt.
We have saved all the bones, which the men are not done
cleaning yet. In cutting open the serpent we found pieces
of squid and a large blackfish, the flesh of which dropped
from the bones. One of the serpent's lungs was three feet
longer than the other. I should have observed that there
were 94 teeth in the jaws, very sharp, all pointing back-
wards and as large as one's thumb at the gum, but deeply
and firmly set. We found it had two spout-holes or
spiracles, so it must breathe like a whale; it also had four
swimming paws, or imitations of paws, for they were
like hard, loose flesh. The joints of the back were
loose, and it seemed as if, when it was swimming, that
it moved two ribs and a joint at a time, almost like feet.
The muscular movement of the serpent after it was
head made the body look as if it were encircled by lon-
gitudinal ridges. We were nearly three days in getting
the bones in, but they are now nearly clean, and are very
porous and dark coloured.
The heart I was enabled to preserve in liquor and one
of the eyes, but the head, notwithstanding it is cool, be-
gins to emit an offensive odour; but I am so near the
coast now that I shall hold on to it as it is, unless it is
likely to breed a distemper. Every man in the ship par-
ticipates in my anxiety.
2 P.31,—1 have just spoken the vessel. She proves to
be the brig Gipsy, Captain Sturges, eight days from
Ponce, P.R., with oranges and merchandize, bound to
Bridgeport. Ho has kindly offered to put these sheets
in the Post-office when he arrives. As soon as I get in
I shall be enabled to furnish you a more detailed account.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES SEABITRY, Master,
Whale-ship Monongahela, of New Bedford.

THE MINISTERIAL CABINETS OF ENGLAND,
FOR THE LAST 17 YEARS, AND THEIR RESIGNATIONS.
G. T. F. Smith's predictions of the crisis and resigna-
tion of the Ministry of 1852, as predicted and published
in the year 1848, in the " Queen's Horoscope;" and re-
published in the Cheltenham Free Press, February 25th,
1851, in the following words:—" I have now a further
prediction to submit, that is, in the year 1852, there
will either be a dissolution of the Parliament or the
Ministry, no matter whether Whig or Tory be in power.
I have stated either the Parliament or the Ministry;
they are so indissolubly connected that science cannot
discriminate between the two; and also sad disasters in
Ireland."

So far the prediction referred to, and the results are
now moving side by side with the prediction, though
published four years ago. I have now a further
prediction to give—notwithstanding the formation of
a new Cabinet—that between now (February 24th)
and September next, 1852, there will be another dis-
ruption of the Ministry or a dissolution of Parlia-
ment, one or both. The following are the several
Cabinet Councils whose resignations I have uni-
formly predicted, some of them years, none less than
twelve months prior to their occurrences IV.'s
Miliiitry of 1835; Queen Victoria's Ministry of 1839;
Louis Philippe's Ministry of 1842. Sept. 16, 1843, pre-
dicted the resignation of the then Ministry to occur in
1846, also their very critical position for the year 1850,
predicted in 1848, when in the month of July they were
within an ace of resignation; the Times styled it to be
the first grand crisis they had sustained since their
official career began. And in the year 1848 also
predicted the dissolution of the Parliament to
occur in 1851, in place of which wo had the
Resignation of the Ministry, and as the existence of one
branch of the Legislature is tested by the pulsation of
the other, I submit the prediction as applicable to either.
Then, lastly, we have the crisis and resignation of 1852,
moving truthfully with a prediction published in 1848,
and brought forward " Feb. 25th, 1851." Also, in the
postscrip of 1851—mark the following—" From thecom-
mencement of 1852 to the am,umn of the year, a gloom
overshadows the interests of England; war or disasters
and conflicts of a serious character will prevail in the
history of England, see her Majesty's speech, for the
affairs in Ireland, time will show the rest."

" Facts are stubborn things." Mark the uniformity
of these predictions, and their fulfilment; are they not
a beautiful proof of the power of abstract laws, from
whence the judgment is derived, and wherein is seen
that statesmen and potentates are alike subservient to
the controlling Magnets of Heaven; and the eventful
affairs of Europe are either precipitated or held in
abeyance, as those laws, under the will of Providence,
may direct.

I intend shortly to publislt every Cabinet disruption or
Parliamentary dissolution that will take place in Eng-
land during the next fourteen years, presuming that my
predictions for the last seventeen years, so prospectively
given, and truthfully borne out, may be considered as
the guarantee to future correctness; the entire data is
taken from the Sovereign's Horoscope. The peculiar
study in astral science has been instructively improved,
from an observance of electrical phenomena, sensi-
bly aff,cting the human constitution in connection
with certain impressions existing at birth, both
mentally and corporeally, as may and has been
instanced either in diseases or chronic affections; the
great sources of electricity revolving round our globe,
are continually exciting the enfeebled or afflicted
functions, and faculties of organized life. Unre-
mitting study and obsei:vation will establish the
truth of this doctrine as clearly as astral influence
or the power of the luminaries is established by
analogy, and perceptible even from the changes of
the seasons, the elasticity of the atmosphere, of their
action on the specific gravity of the waters, the vicissi-
tudes of which are rendered manifest, from the peri-
odical returns, and configurations of those luminaries
and their several culminations, regulating as they do in
duo order the flux and reflux of the tides, and upon
which that phenomena entirely depends the parallels—
conducive to these conclusions—become interminable,
and therefore,
.man an integral portion of the earth he
inhabits must be affected. by the laws by which the sub-
stance or mass is governed, varying only according to
the difference that exists in organized vitality—
" From God above to man below,
We can only reason from what we know."
The proofs I have hitherto published of this science
cannot, I trust, create less than an exalted feeling, and
an intense conviction, that every discovery we make is
not only productive of adequate gratification, but must
bring home to our minds the verity, power, and wisdom
of the great Author of our being
Rodney-terrace, Cheltenham, Feb. 24.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1852.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*207
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 54
Tubercular Diseases ...
~. 196
niseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 127
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 49
Diseases of tho Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... 231
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 61

Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. •• .
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ...
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ••• ..•
Malformations... ... ... ..• •114
Premature Birth ••• ••• •• •••
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Old Ago ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Sudden ... ... ... ••• ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specifiei ... ... ••• •••

... 20
... 11
... 10

... 35
... 23
... 40
... 10
31
... 18

DEATHS FRO:iI ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,128
1.) opulation Deaths in corns- Deaths
Enumerated, spending week in the
1851. of 1851. Week.
West Districts... 376,427 . . 175 ... 170
North Districts.. 490,396 ~. 220 ... 230
Central Districts .393,256 ... 255 ... 175
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 272 .., 193
South Districts .. 616,635 ... 325 ... 360

Totals... ..... 2 ,362,236
Males ..„
Females

-. 1,247

... ,
1 128
. 566
. 562