The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-06 00:00:00

Astrology," as " Cosmogony, or the Creation of the
World," as " Astrology and Spiritualism." Two
chapters of biblical criticism are of a character cal-
culated to fix the attention at any season,. but par-
ticult.rly at this season of Christmas. " The Star in
the East" is the subject of one, the other having re-
lation to the "Eclipse of the Moon at Jerusalem at
the time of the death of King Herod." There are
among the other contents of the number certain
remarkable weather predictions for the three first
months of the new year just commenced, by the
president of the Astro-Meteorological Society—front
) the last number of whose Record, just issued
(No. V.), we quote the subjoined weather predic-
tions for January—predictions penned by the
society's secretary :
JANUARY.—As the year 1861 is likely to terminate with
seasonable wintry weather, so will the year 1862 commence,
from the stationary position of Saturn. There may be a
little mitigation of the temperature on the 4th for four or
five days. The first week ends gloomy, with d•Avrifall.
The triple aspect of the Sun, Mercury, and Saturn, ran the
12th, will produce cold, stormy, and tempestuous winds,
with snow, from the diminution of temperature about this
time. The third week seasonable weather. The fl.st week
very tempestuous. Mars being no less than three times an-
tagonistic to Herschel. Seamen are cautioned to beware,
about the middle of the last week. Milder temperature
at the end of the month.

The prediction of the late Prince Cossor.T's
Death—given a whole twelvemonth since in Z.31)-
KIEL'S Almanack for 1861 —is certainly very
astonishing. Public attention was drawn to it
the other day, it may be remembered, in the police
court down at the Mansion-house, by Alderman
HUMPHREY. If the prediction of one day's frost
made the fortune of MURPHEY through the medium
of his weather almanack—Zadkiel, if only by rea-
son of this distinct and positive prediction about
the late lamented Prince, ought to be a millionaire.

THE IVEAT.HER.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day, D. F.
etween 8 and B. E, 3r, C. I. S.
9 a.m.
Nairn , 29•93 35 I 34 W.S.W. 4 3 c. 6
Aberdeen , 29'98 35 34 W 3 9 o. 2
Leith.... 30.03 37 35 NW. 1 3 c. 1
Berwick ' 29'95 39 36 W. 2 9 o. 3
A rdrossan 30'09 36 34 S.S.E. 2 5 14f. 2
Portrash ' 30'97 44 43 S.W. 3 4 o. 2
Shields '3o'os M 31 N.W. 3 3 Zo. 5
Galway :30.15 38 37 S. 0 9 in t
Searborough„ 3000 38 36 NN. W. 4 8 o. 4
Liverpool
Valentia. 3o'lB 40 39 7- 0 2 b. 2
Queenstown 30.17 41 49 N. W. 2 0 0. 1
Yarmouth 29'99 36 35 N.N.W. 4 8 a. 9
London 3009 35 33 N.W. 2 9 f. 0
Cover 3 )'O6 37 34 N. 4 6 c. 2
Portsmouth 3o'll 38 37 N.N.W. 3 6 1 in. 2
Portland
Plymouth
Penzance
Ex PLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
032 deg at mean eea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
ausing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
eg abovt 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.

EXPLANATION
0 32 deg at mean e
ausing about 1-1001
eg abovt 32 deg
Exposed thermomel
evaporation and dew
not magnetic). F.
(1 to 9). I. Initials
, fog; h., hail; 1.,
cast (dull) ; r., rain
turbanco (1 to 9).

.B. Barometer, corrected and idueed
.ea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
`,h of an inch diminution, and each 10
tusing nearly 3-100ths increase.
or in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
•-point). D. Direction of wind (true--
Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
:—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached);
lightning; m., misty (hazy) ; 0., over-
s., snow; t., thunder. S. Sea dis-

THE ST. LAWRENCE.—A private letter from
Quebec, dated Dec. 13, 1861, says :—" This is a wonder..
fully open season ; the river (the St. Lawrence) is still clear

of ice, and the snow that had fallen nearly all melted."
THE AMERICAN QUESTION.-MEETING AT PAD-
DINGTON.—On Sunday evening a public meeting of inhabi-

tants of Paddington was held at the Nbw Lecture Hall,
Edgware-road, to hear an address from Mr. Washington
Wilks, on the question now pending with America. At the
conclusion of the address a memorial to Earl Russell in.
favour of arbitration was adopted.
THE PROFITS OF PIANOFORTE MAKERS.--The
will, with three codicils, of Mr. Thomas Broadwood, sen.,
Holmbush, near Crawley, Sussex, and of Cadogan-place,
Belgrave-square, was proved by the executors and trustees,
the Rev. John Broadwood, M.A., the nephew, and Mr.

Thomas Broadwood and Mr. John Jervis Broadwood, the
stns. The personalty was sworn under £350,000.
THE EASTERN COUNTIES AND CHRISTMAS.—The
following is the bill of Christmas fare delivered at the Lon-
don station of the Eastern Counties Railway, from the 18th
to the 25th Dec., 1861 :—Ozen, 1,498 ; sheep, 9,247 ; pigs,
620 ; calves, 181; turkeys, 6,641; geese, 3,468 ; ducks,
1,561 ; hares and pheasants, 884 ; oysters, barrels of, 2,308 ;
oysters, in bags, 24 tons ; meat, 357 tons ; poultry, 350 tons ;

fish, 329 tons; Stilton and other cheeses, 495; boxes of
oranges, 1,368; bags of nuts, 685; boxes of dried fruit,
2,053 ; boxes of almonds, 150 ; sacks of flour, 15,103 ; quarts
of milk, 57,583; casks of beer, 4,129.
ANOTHER FATAL PARAFFIN ACCIDENT.—On Fri-
day afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, acting for Mr. Wak-
ley, held an inquiry at the Gower Arms, Store-street, Bed-
ford-square, touching the death of Alice Grace Middleton,
aged four years, who died on last Sunday evening from
frightful injuries received through the ignition of paraffin
oil while a lamp was being trimmed. Mr. John Middle-
ton, bookseller, 20, Store-street, Bedford-square, said—
On the evening of the accident I was burning a paraffin
lamp, which was on the table when my three children
were standing. I was ignorant of the nature of paraffin oil,
and I was pouring the oil into the lamp from a bottle while.
the wick was lighting, as I had sometimes done before. One
of the children knocked or upset the lamp, and the oil
immediately ignited, and ran over the table in sheets of
flame. The deceased was only a little higher than the
table, and the burning cil ran over her face and set her
clothes on fire. There was over a pint of oil in the lamp,
which all ran towards deceased. Her mother and I put out
the flames with some difficulty, and we sent for Dr. Ri-
chardson, of 36, Bedford-square, who did what was possi.
ble to save her life. The injuries, however, were so severe,
that she died from the shock to the system. The oil had
been purchased at Mr. Creed's, Tottenham-court-road, at
sd. per pint. This evidence having been corroborated, the
jury returned a verdict " That deceased died from exhaus-
tion consequent on burns received through the upsetting of
a certain 'paraffin oil lamp, and that in the opinion of the
jury some means ought to be taken to guard against the
dangerous properties of paraffin oil by warning purchasers
thereof."

THE FRESCOES AT WESTMINSTER PALACE.—Mr.
Maclise's large mural picture of the " Meeting of Welling-
ton and Blucher on the field of Waterloo," upon which he
has been almost exclusively engaged for the last two years,
is now completed, and fixed in the place for_which it was
designed in the House of Lords. It is a noble work. The
two heroes constitute the centre of a large and nume-
rous group of figures. They are on horseback, and grasp
each other's hands. The attitudes of both are finely ex.
pressed. Behind each the space is crowded with military
forms, and with the evidences of the fierceness of the yet
unfinished fight. There is young Howard—the gallan
Howard immortalised by Byron in " Child e Harold"—being
borne off to a soldier's grave, and there lies the Marquis of
Anglesea, who lost his leg by almost the last cannon shot
that was fired, when our troops were well advanced to the
front. '1 here is another person especially celebrated—
a wounded Highland piper, who sat on the ground and
blew his pipes till he fainted from loss of blood. Near the
duke are Lord Edward Somerset, who commanded the
heavy cavalry brigade, and Sir Hussey Vivian, the leader
of one of the hussar brigades, with Lord Sandys and the
surviving officers of the duke's staff. Behind these are some
of the Second Life Guards, of whom so few were left, that
when the remnant was mustered towards the close of the
battle, and an officer rode up asking where the regiment
was, Col. Lygon replied with a sorrowful heart, pointing to
the few remaining files, " These are all." Blucher is painted
in a forage cap, which is perfectly correct, the old soldier
was still suffering from the fall he had at Wavre, Behind
him are Bulow, Gniesenau, Ziethen, and other distinguished
officers, and a staff ; and again, behind these is the Prussian
band that played " God save the King," which, on the
other side, was received with a British cheer. The whole
spirit of the stirastirring scene is wonderfully expressed by
the great painter.—Observer.
ALARMING ACCIDENT IN A MENAGERIE.—Ma-
como, "the Af.ican lion tamer," well known throughout
England in connection with Mender's menagerie, is now
confined to his bad at Norwich, having met with rather an
alarming accident a few days since, while going through
some of his exciting performances, It appears that Ma-
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a young lion suddenly reared and caught him by the shoul-
der. Macomo had a spangled dress on, or probably the
performance would have been his last ; as it was he was
dragged down, and the lion fastened upon his left hand.
Macomo, however, happily slipped, and fell under the lion
near the railing of the large den in which the hunt had
been represented, and his assailant being beaten off with an
iron rod, he was quickly released from his critical position.
It was found that he had been severely bitten in the hand,
and part of the forefinger has since been amputated. Ma-
come, who was bitten in the leg by a lioness while exhibiting
in Norwich two years since, is now progressing favourably.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT MALTON.—On Satur-
day night, the 28th ult., a cattle dealer named Mr. John
Dowson, who had attended Malton-market, suddenly dis-
appeared. His residence is at Pickering, to which he ought
to have gone by train that evening His continued absence
led to search being made for him, and bills were issued
offering a reward for his discovery. It seems some trace of
a man answering the description had been found. This per-
son got into the York mail at Mallon, and travelled to Hut-
ton, it is said in mistake. He wished to get back to Melton
and set off by the river side. On a search being made theret
a hat was found, and in the belief that it belonged h
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day night the mystery remained unsolved,
that the wife of the missing man cannot identify
commenced to
found. A party of Pickering volunteL
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drag the river on Saturday. Dowson w
probable he had a good sum of
known as a dealer, and it is
money on him when lost. i. tis stated