The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-03 00:00:00

MISCELL ANEOUS.

The Train rattles along with as motley a lot of
passengers as usual. "Marston Lynch," by Robt.
B. Brough, has its nineteenth chapter devoted to
"Saumarez made easy," or a popular analysis of
the worthy bearing that name. The scene of the
succeeding chapter is "The Great Metropolis." A
paper on " Quevedo," the great Spanish satirist,
will repay perusal.-7 he .Educational Times, a.
journal comprising " The Governess" and " Edu-
cational Review," appears to be doing good service
towards the promotion of the objects for which it
is designed.—The Mechanics' Magazine contains, as
usual, a variety of information, and a number of
useful suggestions for the benefit of mechanics and
others who are interested in the progress of
mechanical art. A paragraph on the application,
on a large scale, of a wicker-work, supported by
bundles of broom and ballast, for the protection
of a Dutch dyke, induces the inquiry, " could not
Goodwin Sands be managed by such a huge appa-
ratus ?—Newton's Journal opens with an article on
" The Monster Gun of the Mersey Ironworks," in
which sundry practical remarks are made on this
important subjecr, the article concluding with a
fairy story, showing " The origin of the present
mode of rewarding igen of genius." As usual, the
reader is presented with a description of the various
inventions of importance in connection with the
arts and sciences for which patents have recently
been obtained.— IViiiis'‘s Price Current prefaces, as
of old, a catalogue of valuable books, with several
pages of arehtoological information of more or less
general interest.

SEVERE THUNDER STORM AT LOWE-
STOFT A,ND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

(Front a Correspondent.)
LOWESTOFT, SEPT. 2.
This town and neighbourhood was visited on Monday
evening with a severe thunder-storm. As early as five
o'clock p.m. thunder was heard in the west, while heavy
mass:es of dark clouds advanced slowly ; the lower cur-
rent of air moved bri,kly from the east. From 7to 8
p.m. the rain descended very heavily, the lightning being
very vivid and of various colours, accompanied at times
with heavy peals of thunder, like the explosion of artil-
lery. Much Leavy hail fell in the neighbourhood, doing
great damage, The excursion train to Norwich was un-
able to proceed more than a few milts, the road being
flco led and impassable for a time. The lightning on the
sea was very brilliant. Some three or four miles distant
1 vessels could be distinctly seen. The lightning continued
to play all round the compass until midnight, which
made the air mush colder. The wind was light and
variable during the storm, the moon being on the equa-
tor at the time, in Libra let and 2d days, and moving
southward. Last month she was on the equator, 18th
and 19th, blowing strong, with thunder and rain. The
following arc the days during this year when she will be
on the equator, and when stormy weather will most
likely occur :—Sept. 15 and 10 in Aries, and in Lib' a
23th and 29th ; Oat. 12 and 13 in Aries ; again in Lit', a
25 and 26 ; Nov. 9 and 10 in Aries, again in Libra `., 2
and 23. 1n December she will be in Aries on the 6;11
and 7th, moving northward, and in Libra on the 1111th
and 20th,
moving southward ; on 1110 26th she will Le
is the tropic
of Capricorn, being her last greatest
southern declination this year.
P.S.—The evening planet Jupiter, in the eastern
lierz m, in the constellation of Aries, very bright. The
evening planet Venus, in the western horizon ; the is in
, the COntitollation of Libra-14th vu the equator.