The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

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Richard Graves Macdonnel

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Linnaeus Banks, Esq.

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Tite, Esq., M.P.; F. W. Co,
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of London
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Mayor of London
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The Lord Bishop of Wor

cester
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in Wynne, Esq.,
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pole, M.P.
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GLORIFICATION OF SUCCESS !—A Saturday Re-
viewer actually remarks as follows :—" It is pro-
bably hardly possible for a Roman Catholic to understand
how deeply rooted in all Protestant countries is the notion
that to succeed in life is a kind of religious duty, that the
divine commands apply at least as much to the present life
as to any other, and that temporal prosperity is thus not
only the natural consequence of obedience to them, but the
best evidence of it " So that, according to the Satut day
Review's notion of things, if you ever see a man who has
failed, or is in adversity, the natural inference is, you may
no sure he is a scoundrel I

THE SOLAR PARALLAX.—Mr. Russell Hind thu,
enumerates a few of the numerical changes which
will follow upon the substitution of M. Le Verrier's solar
parallax (Bwin. 95sec.)
for that of Professor Encke, on
which reliance has so long been placed. The earth's mean
distance from the sun becomes 91,328,600 miles;leing a
reduction of 4,036,000. The circumference of her orbit,
599,194,000 miles, being a diminu'ion of 25,360,000, Her
mean hourly velocity 65,460 miles. The diameter of the
sun 850,100 miles, whim is smaller by nearly 38,000. The
distances, velocities, and dimensions of all the members of
the planetary system of course require similar corrections
if we wish to express them in miles; in the case of Nep-
tune, the mean distance is diminished by 30 times the
amount of correction to that of the earth, or about 122
millions of miles. The velocity of light is decreased by
8,000 miles per second, and becomes 183,470 if based upon
astronomic,' data alone. These numbers will illustrate th,
great importance that attaches to a precis© knowledge of
the sun's parallax, in our appreciation of the various dis-
tances and dimensions in the solar system,

Charles Nicholson, Bart,; Sir
I, C.B.

Stirling Coyne, Esq.; G,

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