The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-06 00:00:00

THE IVEATHEit.

EXTRACT from a METEROLOGICAL JOURNAL for DECEM-
UER, 1823, kept at the OBSXRYATORY of the _ACADEMY
(Dr. BURNEY'S), GOSPORT, HANTS.

This month has been wet and windy, but mild
for the season. Strong gales of wind blew on ten different days,
and it rained, more or less, on 23 days. The prevalence of the
South-west wind filled the air almost every day with dense va-
pours, which are generally more unwholesome for free respira—
tion at this time of the year than at any other, perhaps from the
slow evaporation, and the decayed foliage, &c. on the ground,
the noxious smell of which uniting with the air, is wafted iri
every direction by the prevailing currents of wind.

The barometer has met with several sudden depressiOns, and
the aggregate of the spaces which the quicksilver has run
through is great.
The mean temperature of the external air is 5 deg. 38 min-
higher than that of Last December, and 2 deg. higher than
the mean of December for many years past.
It is a remarkable circumstance, that the maximum of Ceffi-
perature for the day and night, has occurred on seven different
nights this month. This happens at the time of rain, and is
occasioned by the more equal temperature of the days and
nights when the sun is passing out of the sign Sagittarus
into Capricormts ; for then the semi-diurnal arcs, which
the sun seems to describe to us in this latiiude (arising irons
the earth's diurnal and annual motions around him), are
not quite half so large as in the opposite season : hence the
diminution of solar influence in winter, and its great power in
summer.

Spring-water has only decreased one degree and a half since
-the last day of November. •
Some of the hailstones which fell here in the evening of the
2d inst., measured upwards of half-an-inch in diameter. The
icy eflorescences appeared both on the inside and out.iide of the
windows in the mornings of the 10th and 14th, and on the latter
morning, at sunrise, the ice was one-eighth of an inch thick.
The most disagreeable day was on the 17th, when a heavy
gale blew from the South and South West with incessant rain,
which amounted to half an inch in depth, and the mercury
the baiorneter sank three-qmarters of an inch during the day.
and at -the rate of one-tenth of an inch per hour, for several
hours in the evening, when the7gale increased to a hurricane,
attended with the usual disaster* on the roofs of houses, and
among the ships and vessels in and about Portsmouth Harbour.
. In the morning of the 18th, Portsdown Hill was covered
snow. It is worthy of remark, that this is the first fall of snow
that has been seen here this winter, .yet a great quantity felbar.
Salisbury and places more to the itestward, in. the night of the
3lst of October, with a hard gale from the North.
The atmospheric and nietwr:c phenomena that have mine
within our observation this month, are two parphdia, one solar
and four lunar halos, three rain Lows, twenty-two meteors,
lightning and thunder on three different nights, and ten gales
of wind, or days in which they have prevailed, namely, one
from S.E., two from S., three from S.W., three from W., and
one from N.W.

Clouds.—Cirrus, 18; Cirrocumulus, 15; Cirrostratus, 27 ;
Stratus, 0 ; Cumulus, 11; Cumulostrotus, 9 ; Nimbus, 23:•
A scale of the prevailing winds.--N.2 ; E. 2; S.E. 1; S. 1 ;
S.W. 9; W. 8; N.W. 9-31 days.
Summary of the Weather.—A clear sky, 2; fne, with va-
rious modifications of. clouds, 10 ; an overcast sky without.
rain, 10 ; rain, 9—Total 31 days.
JANUARY 3, 18242—The Cornet is still visible on bright
mornings from five till. half-past six o'clock. It rises E.
by N. at about four, and sets with the sun, a few degrees
north of west. Its presenp longitude is 8. 12. 17. and its
latitude 7. 20. N. Its nucleus is small and ill defined,
and its tail 2i degrees lolig;' pointing upwards, or towards
the Northern Crown ; but -it occasionally contracts ,and
expands, according to the levity or density of the atmo-
sphere. It is smaller than any one of the other three that
has appeared to us during the last, thirteen years. Those ac-
quainted with the constellation and Trineipal lia,ed=stars, will
find surrounded by a Lyra, a Aquilte Antares, and Alphaqa,
Gemma in the Northern Crown, and A tile drawn from Antams
to the head of the Harp passes over the Comet nearly. We
should suppose it has passed its perhelion it was discovered
several weeks ago by the officers of his Majesty's brigarastikop-
,t
per, on their return from NewfounZand.

Mg; LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 6.

.• [MORNING CIIRONICLE:]
,latlrid letters of the 2.2 r& ult. mention that
acknowledgment of the Constitutional Loans
1104 been completely laid aside, which shews
Ikst
,nothing on that subject was expected to be
tio4e. The Treasury is represented as being
empty, but the demands upon it are not so
pressing as it is expected they will be when the
army,is organized, as then the payments to the
troops must be regularly made. Other descrip-
tions of creditors are told they must have
ptktience, and they go home perfectly resigned.
This will not be the case when the military esta-
blishment is arranged and filled up.

Sitme time ago, and before the commercial re-
lations between Great Britain and the Brazils
were established on their present footing, a dis-
pUtefarose whether or not the clearance of Bri-
tish vessels, bound to the Brazils, required the
signature of the Portuguese Consuls here. This
dispute led to declaration on the part of the
Emperor, by which he made known that the sig-
nature of the Portuguese Consul should be re-
quired in Brazilian ports, for the entry of any
vessels arriving:there; and on this declaration
reaching England, an order from the Treasury
Wastransmitted 'to the Custom-house of London
in.last August; ordering vessels to be, cleared
for the Brazils, without the old formalities. A
Correspondent inquires of us, whether a similar
order from the Treasury has been transmitted to
Liverpool, for it is understood that shippers
tVere are still paying the fees to the Portuguese
Consul, for clearance to the Brazils.—(ibid.)