The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

MINING MARKET.

TUESDAY, Two o'Clock.
14 the Mining Market the dealings have been
b"inerous. The shares chiefly in request have been
rinee of Wales, Great Retallick, Seton, and West
Chiverton. Annexed are the current quotations :
earn Camborne, —s —8; Chiverton Moor, 7 71 ; Chon-
tales Gold, 9
2" ; Clifford Amalgamate, 5/ 6/ ; Cooks'
Xit
Drakewells,
fast Caradon,-8 —s; East Basset, 171 20 ;
S 51 ; East Cam Brea, 3 3i; East Lovell,
9 91; East Russell, 31 31 ; East Wheal Grenville, 2 21;
Great Laxey, —; Great North Downs, ; Great
Itetallack, GOs 703; Great South Tolgus, —s —d —s ;
Great Wheal Vor, 151 1.61 ; Marke Valley, 4 41; North
Crofty, 42- 5; North Roskear, G 7; North Treskerby,
21 21; Prince of Wales, 36s 388 Od; Prosper United, 3} 4 ;
edmoor, 9s lls; South Condurrow, —8 —d ; South
Grenville, —8 Od ; South Ilerodsfoot, —; Tincroft, 12
13 ; West Caradon, ; West Chiverton, GO 62 ex div ;
West sot„, ; West Drakewells,
h4s ss; Wheal
taeset, Wheal Buller, —— ; Weal Chiverton,
8 R.,
-i; Wheal Grenville ; Wheal Seton, 105 110.

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A meeting of the Liberal party, including the
Adullamites, was held at the residence of Mr. Glad-
stone's this afternoon.
The Committee of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution gratefully acknowledge the receipt of £4O,
being the proceeds of the third private ball held at the
Hanover Square Rooms, on the 24th January last, in aid
of the funds of this institution:
THE HILDEBRANDT COLLECTION.—The last
number of the Illustrated London News contains an
engraving of a "Street in Cairo," from the exhibition of
water colour drawings, by E. Hildebrandt, 48, Pall-mall.
This exhibition had to be closed, already, in January, in
consequence of the insecurity of the building, and the
Hildebrandt drawings will, therefore, not be exhibited
again at the same gallery.
MR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY, the caricaturist, author
of the Mrs. Brown papers in Fun, is said to bo the Rev.
G. Rose, who was at one time a curate at Stoke Newing-
ton, and afterwards held a living in the diocese of York.
lie became a Catholic some years ago, says the Universe.
TEMPLE BAR, as a civic monument, ought to be
preserved where it is, according to the Spectator; which
adds —it might easily form one-half of the bridge which
must be carried over the Strand, and what would hence be
lost in uniformity of style would be much more than com-
pensated by the great historical and literary interest of this
relic of an older London.
Ducal' OF CORNWALL.—The annual account of
the Duchy of Cornwall shows that the payment made to
the use of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
amounted in the year 1866 to £53,403, or rather above
£2,000 more than in the previous year. Tho salaries and
expenses of management also increased.

BIELA'S COMET.---On the 27th of February, 1826,
Professor Biela, an Austrian astronomer of Joseph-
stadt, discovered a small comet. When its motions

were carefully studied, it was found by M. Clausen,
another of those indefatigable German computists,
that it revolvel in an elliptic orbit in a period of
six years and eight months. On looking back into
the list of comets, it proves to be identical with
comets that had been observed in 1772, 1805, and
perhaps in 1818. Its return was accordingly pre-
dicted, and the prediction verified with the most
striking exactness. And this went on regularly till
its appearance (also predicted) in 1846. In that
year it was observed as usual, and all seemed to be
going on quietly and comfortably, when, behold !
suddenly on the 13th of January it split into two
distinct comets, each with a head and coma and a
little nucleus of its own. There is some little con-
tradiction about the exact date. Lieut. Maury, of
the United States Observatory of Washington,
reported officially, on the 15th, having seen it
double on the 13th, but Professor Wichmann, who
saw it double on the 15th, avers that he had a good
view of it on the 14th, and remarked nothing parti-

cular in its appearance. Be that as it may, the
comet from a single became a double one. What
domestic troubles caused the secession it is impos-
sible to conjecture, but the two receded further and
farther from each other, up to a certain moderate
distance, with some degree of mutual communication
and a very odd interchange of light—one day one head
being brighter, and another the other—till they
seem to have agreed finally to part company. The
oddest part of the story, however, is yet to come.
The year 1852 brought round the time for their
reappearance, and behold there they both were, at
about the same distance from each other, and both
visible in one telescope. The orbit of this comet
very nearly interiect3 that of the earth on the
30th of November. If the earth is to be swal-

lowed up by a comet, or to swallow up one,
it will be on or about that day of the year.
In the year 1832 we missed it by a month. The

head of the comet enveloped that point of our
orbit, but this happened on the 29th of October, so
that we escaped that time. Had a meeting taken
place, from what we know of comets, it is most pro-
ble that no harm would have happened, and that
nobody would have known anything about it. It
would appear that we are happily relieved from the
dread of such a collision. It is now (February,
1866) overdue ! Its orbit has been re-computed
and an ephemeris calculated. Astronomers have
been eagerly looking out for its re-appearance for
the last two months, when, according to all former

experience, it ought to have been conspicuously

visible, but without success, giving rise to the

strauge,st theories. At all events, it seems to have

fairly, disappeared, and that without any such ex-
cuse as in the case of Lexell's, the preponderant
attraction of some great planet. Can it have come
into contact or exceedingly close approach to some
asteroid as yet undiscovered ; or, peradventure,
plunged into and got bewildered among the ring of
meteorolites, which astronomers more than suspect?
—Sir John Herschel.