The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-02 00:00:00

HULL MA RKEZ—Jan. 3L

Wheat, Old 46s 51s. bal. New ...... 50i. Ws. 635.
Foreign —s.—a. --s. In bond... —s. —s. —s.
Oats,' Poland --s 22s 23s ......Old —s. 245. 25a.
Small or Feed.... --s. —s. 20s —s. —a. 235.
—..—. Foreign .....1. —a. 3 —a. ..,C. —.S.
Barley, Norf. & Suf ... —s —a. 32a. Liam. & Wold —8.315. 354
-- Foreign .0.... —a.-- 1. ..t.
Beans
____ . 36s 3Ss 42, Foreign
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Pease, ..... 36‘..3.31. 43s Grey 325. 365.
Tares Vs. 44s Foreign 313.365.
Rapeseed. in b0nd......n0ne Free, per last 324 331.

The Bath Gazette states that the keeper of a gen-
tleman of Nettleton, Wilts, having observed an extraordinary
number of starlings alight on the branches of a small planta-
tion, went in the night, accompanied, by some, men and boys,
with a lantern, and firing 26 shots at random •among the
branches, brought down no less .than 802 birds, which com-
pletely filled a four-bushel sack, and their weight being
1-101bs. In the morning, upwards of 100 more.wero picked
up wounded—making little short of 1,000 birds killed with 26
shots.

THE NOVEMBER METEORS.—Another link has
been added to the chain of evidence tending to prove that the
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appearance of falling stars in November s periodical. M.
Arago had arrangements made to insure simultaneous observa-
tions for the night between 12th and 13th November, and the
report gives the following result :—At Paris the number ob-
served was 170, at Dieppe 36, at Arras 27, at Strasburg 85,
at Vonaltemare 75, at Anjcrs 49, at Rochfort 23, and at
Havre 300. At the Paris Observatory watch was kept the
whole night, but at the other places observations were only
continued two, three, or four hours. In the great meteoric
shower of 1833 the falling stars appeared to issue from a point
in the constellation Leo. At Bercy 120 were seen, of which
57 traversed lines, which, if continued, would have ended in
that constellation ; and others seen elsewhere had similar
courses. Supposing the portions of meteoric substance (or
asteroids) to exist in the part of the planetary spaces where
the earth is at the middle of November, the reason why they
seem to come from the constellation Leo is obvious. Though
the earth's course round the sun is a circle, such a small
portion of it &is is traversed in two or three days, scarcely
differs from the straight line called its tangent. This tan-
gent, or line of the earth's annual motion at the 13th and 14th
November, points exactly towards the constellation Leo ; and
supposing 'any masses of fluid matter to exist in a stationary
state at the part of space where the earth then is, she will be
impelled against them in this direction, and with a velocity of
18 miles per second. But from our natural though delusive
impression that the earth is in a state of rest, we transfer the
motion to the meteors, and suppose that they are rushing to-
wards the earth. It follows that the point from which they
seem to come will be that towards which the earth is moving
at the time, namely, the constellation Leo. To simplify thee
ease, the asteroids have been supposed to be stationary, but
they are unquestionably in motion, performing a revolution
round the sun in some place different from that of the earth's
orbit. Neither is the motion which produces their descent
entirely in the earth also assumed, for they will-be acted upon
by the carth'S attraction and rush towards it with a motion
resulting from that attraction independent of the course they
were describing, Their periodical recurrence is now un-
doubted, and the appearance in the particular part of the hea-
vens Aliticiod to itcyouqtycl for,