The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-20 00:00:00

SUDDEN DEATII.—An inquest was held yesterdayaged fifty-one, for City, on th
many
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and Dalgains, merchants,
at the Rose and Crown, Old Broad-street, e
of Austin•friars. Mr. John Shackelton said he asked
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the deceased when he entered the house that morning to
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get the invoice ready for the overland mail. Deceased
was going for it, hut while shutting the door after him
he fell on the floor, exclaiming, " Oh my God!" and
died instantly. Witness had never heard him make the
slightest complaint of illness, but observed him to be
over' assiduous at his business, and too abstemious, as he
never took anything from the time he came in the
morning until he left in the evening, witness advised
him to take more rest and sustenance. Verdict, " Natural
death."
TDB MISSING PLANET.—PARIS? SEPT. 15—The
only sittings of the Academy of late in which there was
anything worth recording, and even this was not of a
practical character, were those of the 29th ult. and
the 11th instant. On the former day M. Ba-
binet made a communication respecting the planet
Neptune, which has been generally called M.
Leverrier's planet, the
.discovery of it having, as it was
said, been made by him from theoretical deductions,
which astonished and delighted the scientific public.
What M. Leverrier had inferred from the action on
other planets of some body which ought to exist was
verified, at least so it was thought at the time, by
actual vision. Neptune was actually seen by other
astronomers, and the honour of the theorist obtained ad-
ditional lustre. But it appears from the communication
of M. Babinet that this is not the planet of M. Lever-
rier. He had placed his planet at a little distance from
the sun equal to 36 times the limit of the terrestrial
orbit; Neptune revolves at a distance equal to 30
times of these limits, which makes a difference of
nearly 200,000,000 of leagues. M. Leverrier had as-
signed to his planet a body equal to 38 times that of the
earth. Neptune has only one-third of this volume. M.
Leverrier had stated the revolution of his planet
round the sun to take place in 217 years. Neptune
performs its revolution in 164 years. Thus, then,
Neptune is not M. Leverrier's planet, and all his theory
as regards that planet falls to the ground. M. Leverrier
may find another planet, but it will not answer the
calculations which he had made for Neptune. In the
sitting of the 14th M. Leverrier noticed the com-
munication of M. Babinet and to a great extent ad-
mitted his own error. He complains, indeed, that
much of what ho said was taken in too absolute a sense,
but he evinces much more candour than might have
been expected from a disappointed explorer. M.
Leverrier may console himself with the reflection that if
he has not been so successful as he thought be had been,
others might have been equally unsuccessful, and, as he
has still before him an immense field for the exercise of
observation and calculation, we may hope that he will
soon make some discovery which will remove the vexa-
tion of his present disappointment.
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