The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

ECLIPSE TO-MORROW.

. There will be a Lugar Eclipse to.morrow
afternoon ;- it will be total, and partly visible in London.._
The Moon will rise at 18 minutes 46. seconds after four, at
which time she will 'be eclipsed 11 digits 14 minutes and
20 seconds. It will afford an extraordinary and.beautiful. phe-
, nomenon if the sky should thenlbe clear, to see the Moon thus
partly eclipsed at its rising; for it is far more usual to see the
shadow come on. Here the shadow will have in a small degree
obscured her phase before she rises, and appears to us in our
latitude. Shortly after Ascending the horizon her orb will be
wholly immerged in the dark shadow of the earth; this will be.
gin at 22 min. 26 seconds after four o'clock; the .middle takes
place at .511..11 in. 28 sec. ; the immersion, or terniination of
total darkness, will he at six o'clock, and the Moen will
quit the shadow of the earth at .'4l minutes 1 second after
six, apparent time. Moore, in giving notice of this Ealipse,
adds an interesting report of the Moon's vertical track of about
2,850 geo_graphicid miles in traversing the zenith during-the
time of this Eclipse :—Over the Phillipine Islands, in lad-.
tude 19. H..; 'China, Tonkin Laos, which it will occupy
at about the middle' of the course, in latitude 18 deg: 49 m.
North, lon. 101. deg. 47in. East thence passing directly over
Pagu, and some parts of the Bay of Bengal, it will enter the
Eastern shores of. Hindoostan, and it will become vertical .to
that celebrated region of Asia at the em! of the Bell*. The
'Moon will rise, when the Eclipse begins, to the Eastern part of
the Shetland Isles, the ,windward of Germany, the 'Western
parts of Turkey and Greece, the Eastern parts of Asia near
the boarders of Egypt and 'Abyssinia, and also to the South
Western extremity of Madagascar. At the middle she will rise
to East Greenland, Spain, some parts of Africa near the Cape
of flood Hope, and set to the Sandwich and Friendly Islands;
likewise to the Western 'shores of New Zealand. Near the
end, the Moon will rise at the Azores and St Helena, and set
to the Eastern coast of. New'Holland and the central part of
Van Diemen's Land.—Hence this Eclipse will be visible, from
the beginning to the end, over the whole of the Russian and
Chinese empires, Sweden, the dominions of the Grand Seig, nor,
and also Persia,, Arabia; Egypt, and Abyssinia. The dura-
tion of total darkness will be 1.11. 38 min. and 4 sec. The
Moon will be at full at 5 o'clock. The Sun will rise at 7h.
38 min. and set at 4h. 22 min. Jupiter is the evening star,
and will continue till the 10th of June next.

THE WEATHER AT PARIS.--AII extract of a
private letter from Paris, dated Jan. 17, says—" The weather
at Paris continued to be extremely cold, but a considerable ame-
lioration has occurred since the date of my last, the 15th inst.
On the preceding day the mercury experienced at Paris a
greater depression than at say period within the memory of the
oldest person now living in France. It fell 3-4ths of a degree
below the minimum marked on the thermometers as the point to
which it descended in the memorable frost of 1741—eleven and
a quarter degrees (of Reaumur) under zero! Unaccustomed
as the English are to such an extreme of cold, those of your
countrymen now resident in Paris bear it much better than
their Ciallic neighbours—so much so that you would be in-
clined to say they had exchanged characters. On the. Basin
de la Vilette, near the Barrierre St. Martin, where there was
much skating, the English were left' undisputed masters of
the field. Many of the latter went through a number of
beautiful evolutions upon the ice, in a style which proved
pretty clearly to me that :the performers had graduated on the
Serpentine. One party executed with admirable precision
several quadrilles, without making a single faux pas in the
intricate chain Anglais—others engraved their own initials of
0. R., upon the frozen tablet, while the more aspiring and
dexterous essayed and succeeded in the spread eagle. Deterred
equally by the cold and the rivalry of John Bull, not a single
Pouliot. Franuais appeared on the basin or, the canal d'Ourcq.
In Paris the English were not idle. The Marquis of Worcester,
in a superb sledge, headed a line of at least a dozen similar
machines, several French were amongst his followers, one of
whom (the Duke de Guiche) you will recollect to have seen
in London. Flying _past the Tuileries, up the Rue
voli, across the Place Louis Quinze, ascending the Champs
Elysees, back again, up the Rue de la Pali, and along the
Boulevards, this cortege had a picturesque and tine effeet.
:From the centre of each cat rose a species of mast, which was
surrounded by a gaudy and 'nodding plume of feathers ; the
trappings of the horses by which they were drawn, studded
with innumerable glittering bells, while (the pun is irresistable)
the Belles inside each vehicle vied with each other in the pro.
fusion and costliness of the furs in which they were enveloped.
This scene has been daily repeated since, and as there is no
prospect of a thaw, bids fair to enliven the north of Paris for
some time to come.
Extractofa letterponi YOrk, dated Wednesday,
Jan. 22 The signal defeat which old Cob-
bett, the bone,dealer; received last Friday at
Hereford, has given universal satisfaction to every
lover of reform, and has struck with dismay and
disappointment all its opponents. I will mention
to you an anecdote, which will show you in
what light the Ministerialists of this town look
upon that political tinker's itinerant labours, and
perhaps it may be taken as a good specimen of
the value which the friends of Government
throughout the country set upon his services its
their cause. A Yorkshire Clergyman, who, for
his great activity in supporting the powers
that be, has' already received one living, and
exists in the hope of soon receiving another, was in-
formed of Cobbett's ignominious defeat at Here.
ford. Instead of exhibiting that pleasure which
he ought to have felt as a lover of social order
and rational liberty, he eppeared extremely
vexed and dejected, Being asked why he did
not share in. the general joy produced by this
event,. he replied, I feel no joy in it, it gives
me great pain ; for believe me, Cobbett, though
he pretends to fight in your ranks, is one of the
most active auxiliaries we have. Ought not this
admission from' such a quarter to. speak volumes,
even to the miserable wretches whom Cobbett
has contrived to delude ?'--(Times.)
As the carriage of the Right lion. the Earl of
BRADFORD was way from this town to Wilda
on Saturday, and passing a waggon at the Grange,
near Moutford, Bridge; the postillions called out
to a party of warneif.to get out of the
Unhappily a poor woman, Elizabeth Jones,
aged 71, and somewhat deaf, ran exactly in
front of the leading horses, was thrown down, The Thermometer, yesterday morning, at
and the wheels passed over her body. The Noble eight o'clock, was 24 deg. ; and at one, 27 deg,
Lord, who was in the carriage with his son, the Yesterday morning, a fine child, the son Of
Hon. Captain Charles tridgeman, on being its- Mr. THOMAS LucAs, in Waterloo place, Vaux-
formed that an accident had occurred (of which hall-road, was left alone in the parlour whilst
they were till then unconscious, rushed out his mother went on sonic casual business up
of the . carriage, and pers /tally assisted in stairs, when he set his dress on fire, his piercing
carrying the poor woman to the adjacent farm.... screams being heard by the servant in the
house, the Grange. His Lordship instantly sent kitchen, she hastened to his assistance, and put
to Shrewsbury for surgical assistance, and re- out the fire, but he was SO dreadfully burned
mained with the sufferer a- long time, and in a that he was carried to the hospital withoet hopes
state of distress, characteristic of his kindly and of recovery..
humane feelings. Every effort to preserve the SHOCKING Occunnexce.---On May
tram life of thepoor woman proved unavailing. His Lord. instant), about twelve oil:lock lit noono,nd 11 wom(l3
an ship directed that the remains should be buried at of the name of Dancer, residing in Mill-street, in
his expellee ; and had she left any relations de- Stourhridge, nearly severed off the bend Of her
pendent upon her (which happily is not thecase) child, about nine months old. Sfte had so manglEd
he proposed to haTeSQll(Fibtlied us much as pos... the poor innocent with a large knife, that It was sible to mitigate ,their distress. From the.eii- dreadful spectacle. A Coroner's inquest has deuce taken, before the Coroner, it_was clear been held before Mr. IlAeere, and she is con-
there was no biametsklm attached to the post. witted to our county ►gaol- on charge of murder,
boys, and the Jury returned a verdict it tag- considered she is iliseoe.'s--(-Worce.der "Accidental Death."---YBhreresbary Chronicle,) Journal)