The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

METEOROLOGICAL SOCIBTY.

A meeting of this society was held on Tuesday eve-
ning, the 13th of Dec. inst. at the Mechanics' Institu-
tion, Southampton-buildings, Dr. Birkbcck, President, in
the Chair.
Several letters were read from various parts of the
country on the late tremendous gale that visited this
island on the 29th of November last, and many of the
members present stated the phenomena they had observed
on the. same day. From the circumstance that the va-
riations of the wind were observed to take place in
different directions at different places, it was considered
that this gale belonged to the class of hurricanes that
traverse the Western basin of the Atlantic ; they consist
of a large body of air movino•b with considerable velocity
round an axis which describes an elliptic or parabolic
curve ; the apex of this curve is situated about the paral-
lel of the 20th degree of North latitude.
P. Munpliv, Esq., read a paper on the anticipated
state of the weather during the approaching month of
January, 1827. The author observed that the tendency
of the weather throughout the month will be to drought.
About the .sth, if not earlier, frost may be expected to set
in, and the greatest cold may be expected to occur in the
night of the 13th, or morning of the 14th, succeeded by a
thaw ; from the 13th to the 22d the weather will be squally
with rain, and from the 22d to the end of the month it will
be frosty, dry, and harsh.
It was suggested that meteorologists should rigorously
observe the phenomena during the month, accurately record
their observations, and report them to the Society, by which
Mr. Murphy's anticipations may be corroborated or refuted.

Prince de Talleyrand and the Duchess de Dino ar
rived in Paris on Saturday night from Rochecotte, the
Duchess de Dino's seat. On Sunday night be had a long
conference with the Kin, of the French.
On the 2d ult., at a Congregation at Cambridge, the
degree of Doctor in Divinity was conferred upon the Rev.
J. B. Smith, of Christ College, rector of Sotby and
Martin, Lincolnshire, head master of Hof.ncastle Grammar
School, and formerly a compositor in York. This gentle-
man, who has advanced himself by his own Close appli-
cation to the highest degree of university honour s, was
apprenticed to the late Mr. W. Blanchard, printer of the
York Chronicle.—Manchester Chronicle.
On Tuesday evening last, as the Wolverhampton
coach was on its road from Kidderminster, one of the pas-
sengers, in a state of intoxication, fell off near the Park
Gate, unnoticed by the rest, when one of the wheels passed
so close to his body as to sever nearly the whole of his ear
from his bead. He is now going on well, and is considered
out of danger.—lVolverhanipton Chronicle.
Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock,
the following lamentable accident, attended with the loss of
human life, occurred on the line of the London and Bir-
mingham Railroad, near to the (Hampstead-road :—A lad
named John King, 15 years of age, the produce of whose
labour was the sole support of a widowed mother and
two children, was pursuing his usual employment of driv-
ing a train of excavation waggons, when he suddenly
slipped down, and falling across the rail of the tramway,
the off-wheel of the waggons passed over his body and
limbs, causing a fracture of the skull and extensively lace-
rating the flesh, also severing the right arm just above the
elbow, and completely crushing the thigh and lower bones
of the legs in a most dreadful manner. When taken up
lie presented an appalling spectacle, and was immediately
removed to the North London Hospital, in Upper Gower-
street, Bedford-square, where he expired in about two hours
afterwards.
We understand that the recent failures connected
with Dundee have had a very injurious effect on the ma-
nufacturing interest in the counties of Fife and Forfar. In
Kirkaldy and neighbourhood weavers' wages arc lower, last
-- week, fully 15 per cent. upon some descriptions of goods.—
Edinburgh Courant.
We are enabled to lay before our readers the result
of the registration of this year, as compared with that of the
last ; by which it appears that there is an increase of Par-
liamentary voters on this year's list of 498 ; the registra-
tion of 1835 being 19,981, while that for 1836 is 13,449.
It is in the highest degree satisflictory to state that the in-
, crease is on the part of the householders, there being a de-
crease on the freemen's list of 326, leaving 794 more re-
gistered household voters than on the registration of 1835.
—Liverpool Telegraph.
The Rev. W. Malthus, of Exeter (son of the cele-
brated Mr. 'Malthus), and his escaped destruction
during the storm the week before last by sleeping from
home : a chimney and part of the roof was found in the
morning to occupy their beds.
By accounts from Madras we learn that such ar-
rangements hail been made with the house of Messy:;.
Guichard and Co., as would enable that firm to resume its
payments, under very encouraging circumstances. It was
understood that definitive orders had been received from
the Home Authorities for the re-establishment of the Mint,
at Madras. The commercial part of the community is
said to have suffered severely by its abolition. The wea-
ther had been very oppressive.
The following is the result of the ballot at Lloyd's,
on Wednesday, for three members to fill the vacancies in
the Committee :—Samuel Smith, Esq., °27 ; Francis Ca-
vendish Aberdein, Esq., 200 ; James Bischoff, Esq., 199 ;
George Whitmore, Esq., 173 ; Thomas Octavius Towles,
Esq., 166. The three first were consequently elected.
Among the Fellows of the new Whiff University is
‘‘4 r, the Noble Premier's apothecary.
It is rumoured in the clubs that a Noble Lord's re-
.
cent winnings at cards must exceed 60,0001.
Duripl the late hurricance the celebrated yew tree
•its Dibden church-yard, between Lyndhurst and Lyming-
:
\ • - tad, mentioned by Gilpin in his " Forest Scenery" as the
c"'
- largesyyew tree in England, was completely torn up by the
roc)* It was 30 feet in circumference, with three vast
rf~fth 'mine, the weight of which greatly aided the power of the
' wind inks destruction.