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

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Train rattles along with as motley a lot of
passengers as usual. "Marston Lynch," by Robt.
B. Brough, has its nineteenth chapter &voted to
"Ssumarez 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.-1 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, inthices the-in=quiry, " 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 subject, the article concluding with a
fairy s ory, showing " The origin of the present
mode of rewarding naen 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.— Price Current prefaces, as
of old, a catalogue of valuable books, with several
pages of archwological information of more or less
general interest.

SEVERE THUNDER STORM AT LOWE-
STOFT AND 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
masses of dark clouds advanced slowly; the lower cur-
rent of air moved briskly 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 l'eavy hail fell in the neighbourhood, doing
great damage, The excursion train to Norwich was Ml-
ahie to proceed more than a few milts, the road being
flooded and impassable for a time. The
lightning on the
sea was very brilliant. Some three or four miles distant
vessels could he distinctly seen. The lightning continued
to play all round the compass tin midnight, which
made the air much colder. The wind was light and
variable during the storm, the moon being on the equa-
tor at the time, in Libra Ist and 2d days, and moving
southward. Last month she was on the equator, 18th
and 19th, blowing strong, with thunder and rain. The
following are the days during this year when she will be
on the equator, and when stormy weather will most
I,kely occur :—Sept. 15 and 16 in Aries, and in Libra
28th and 29th ; Oct. 12 and 13 in Aries ; again in Libra
25 and 26 ; Nov. 9 and 10 in Aries, again in Libra 22
and 23. In Decen,her she will be in Ariee on the 6th
and 7th, moving northward, and in Libra on the 19th
and 20tb, moving southward ; on the- 26th she will be
in the tropic of Capricorn, being her last greatest
southern declination this year.
P.S.—The evening planet Jupiter, in the eastern
horizon, in the constellation of Aries, very hright. The
evening planet Venus, in the western horizon ; she is in
the constellation of Libra—both 011 the equator.
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