The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1866.

T " B 0 X F U it D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.,
THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON.
Successful Revival of Offenbach's " ORPIIEE AUX
ENTERS." and " TROMBALCAZ It."
Comedy by Dnriah and Davies, and Harry Sydney (the
political Momus).
Gymnastic Performances by the Zamezou Family, Les
Freres &c. ureat success of " Les Amizones au
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Sara a UiI3IIC9P, assisted by their talented troupe of artistes.
In preparation the Lyric Drama of the "RUINS OF
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read by a distinguished member of the theatrical prof( scion.
Musical Director and Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Open every evening at 8.

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GABRIEL, Mayoir.—The . first Court of Mayor
and Aldermen. holden at the Mansion House of the
Lord Mayor of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 13th day
of November, 1866, and in the 30th year of the rei„gn of Vic-
toria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, he.,
Resolved unanimously—
That the sincere and heartfelt thanks of this Court be pre-
sented to the Right Hon. Benjamin Samuel Phillips, late
Lord Mayor, for the highly efficient and dignified manner in
which he has so satisfactorily discharged .the many and im-
portant duties of the high office of Chief Magistrate of this
City.
That tills Court is desirous of expressing it:, the same time
its deep sense of the energy displayed by him In taking mea-
sures for the relief of the sufferings of his fellow-creatures in
all parts of the world, and more especially under the recent
outbreak of cholera in this metropolis, and for the prompt
and effident measures which were taken under his guidance,
and which not only tended to the alleviation of the sufferings
of the dying, but to secure provision for the widows and
orphans of those who had perished under the calamitous
visitation.
At the same time this Court cannot but acknowledge in the
warmest terms the great satisfaction they feel, in common
with their fellow-citizens, at the distinguished compliment
paid to the i ity of London, and to the Lord Mayor as its
Chief Magistrate, by the King and Queen of the Belgians,
their loyal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh, and other eminent persons, and the admirable
manner in which the late Lord Mayor exercised his impor-
tant functions on those several occasions.
This Court is also anxious to express the hope that he may
long continue to exercise, for the benefit and advantage of
the Corporation and the citizens of London, the talents and
qualifications which have elevated him to the high position
he holds in the esteem and regard of his friends and fellow-
countrymen.

The November Meteoric Shower over the
Metropolis.

The fiery shower foretold by the science of America and
Europe for the night of November 13-14 in this year was
seen in full splendouryesterday morning between the hours
of 12 and 2. From about 11 o'clock occasional meteors
might be seen gliding along the sky from'east to west, but
these were only avant-couriers of the great legion that fol-
lowed at a later hour.

The numbers increased after 12 o'clock with groat rapi-
dity. From Paddington-green, a fairly open position, 207
meteors were counted between 12 and 12.30, and of these
the greater number fell after 12.20. The next 100 was
counted during the six minutes that succeeded the half-
hour. Soon after this it became impossible for two people
to count the whole that were visible from this station; and
doubtless from positions with a purer atmosphere, and a
wider horizon, the spectacle must have been of surpassing
splendour. Indeed, from a window at Highgate looking
N.N.E., but with a circumscribedview, an observer counted
100 meteors in the fdur minutes between 12.32 and 12.36,
and no less than 200 in the two minutes between 12.57 and
12.59.

As the constellation Leo rose over the houses north of
Paddington-green and cleared itself of the haze, the diver-
gence of the meteor-paths from a point within it became
obvious, not merely in the directions of the streams that
shot from or through the zenith, but in those that left their
phosphorescent-seeming trails in the sky towards every
point of the compass.
Sometimes these rocket-like lines of light would glide
out like sparks flying from an incandescent mass of iron
under the blows of a Titanic hammer, but with the distinc-
tive features, first, of those lingering lines of illuminated
haze in their track, and secondly, of their rarely appearing
as if they originated in the region of the sky from which
their courses evidently diverged.
Sometimes the meteor was orange and almost red in its
colour, whereas the luminous trail seemed almost always,
probably by contrast with the surrounding light, of a
bluish hue. In one splendid instance the trail, after
having nearly disappeared, together with the rocket-head
that had produced it, became again lit up and visible coin-
cidently with a sort of resuscitation of brightness in the
body of the meteor. Now and then a little illuminated
puffball would appear in the middle of the constellation
Leo, generally more or less elongated or elliptic in form, as
it seemed to be more or less distant, and at the same time
convergent from an imaginary point that seemed about 3
deg. S. by E. of the star Leonis—and one, as near alkould
be estimated to such a point, was simply a star that waxed
and waned, and disappeared as one looked at it.

Sometimes a minute point of light, like a firefly, would
dart with an angular jerking motion and zigzag course
hither and thither, but still as if away from Leo.
Only about three meteors were seen during an bour and
a half to take a direction manifestly opposed to that of
these diverging multitudes. The meteors which shot to-
wards the western horizon seemed more brilliant and
larger in their courses than those which dropped into the
eastern ; indeed, very few seemed even to reach the roofs
of the houses from behind which Leo had arisen. This
was possibly only an effect of perspective, or it may have
arisen from the curtailment of the view. As regards the
longlines of light that lingered in the paths of the meteors,
it seemed that generally they were more dense and brightest
towards the middle of the visible path of the meteor, while
the meteor itself seemed brightest just before its extinc-
tion, an effect possibly due to an obscuration in the
I middle of its course by matter thrown off from it.
The meteors seemed also to lose velocity as they
went, but this might have been the result of perspective in
those passing through the zenith.
One singular feature in these celestial fireworks was the
rapidity with which the maximum of frequency came on
and went off again. About 2 o'clock the meteors seemed
to have become as scarce as they were at 12, though they
continued in smaller numbers till the verge of daybreak.
From half-past 12 or a quarter to 1 until about a quarter
past or half-past 1 the heavens seemed veritably alive with
stars rushing in many parts of the sky, in groups of two or
three together or in immediate succession on each other,
seeming as though racing over the blue vault, except that
their courses so rapidly diverged.
The cloudless beauty of the night near London was a
happy circumstance, on which we may congratulate every
" watcher of the skies," not only as allowing the forecasts
of the astronomers to be thus signally and splendidly veri-
fied, but still more as having, we trust, enebled them to
take such a store of facts regarding the nature of the light
and of the motion of meteors, and su many simultaneous
observations of them in different parts of our islands, as
may lead to soma accurate knowledge of their laws and
their nature, and add ono more chapter to the sublime
volume of astronomical physics.

Mr. J. R. hind writes to The Times respecting
he meteor shower which took place yesterday morn-

rig -

During the night of Tuesday next, Nov. 13-14, there is
reason to expect a remarkable display of shooting stars,
one of a series which occur at intervals of about 33 years.
Since the extraordinary shower in November, 1833, chiefly
witnessed on the North American continent, much atten-
tion has been paid to the subject of periodical meteors, and
the grounds upon which the prediction of a grand exhibi-
tion during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday
next is founded appear worthy of some confidence.
Professor Newton, of New Haven, United States, has
shown that the principal recorded showers of meteors at.
this epoch accommodate themselves to a cycle of 33k years,
and that these bodies in all probability emanate from a
vast group extended round the sun in the form of a ring of
unequal density, nearly circular, and with an annual period
of 365:27 days for the meteors composing it, which revolve
in a retrograde direction, or opposite to the earth's motion
in her orbit. The inclination of the ring to the plane of the
ecliptic is about 17 deg., and its point of intersection there-
with has an annual progressive motion from the mean equi-
nox of about 1.7, in consequence of which movement the
shower takes place on a later date now than formerly.
The November meteors diverge chiefly from apoint in the
constellation Leo, situate nearly midway between the stars
marked Epsilon and Eta, 8i degrees north of the ecliptic.
This divergent point or radiant will be on the horizon in
London at 10:12 p.m. on Tuesday, and on the meridian at
6h. 18m. the following morning. As it ascends in the sky
the number of meteors may be expected to increase, and
may reach
a maximum towards daybreak. Professor New-
ton's calculation would rather indicate that the display will
be most remarkable on the Western Atlantic, but this pre-
diction is necessarily open to some degree of uncertainty.
The grand and imposing character of the phenomenon
when the earth has been involved in the denser portion of
the meteoric ring may be gathered from a few extracts of
the many descriptions we possess of these exhibitions.
Thus, on the morning of October 13, 902, it is related—
" There were seen, as it were lances, an infinite number of
stars, which scattered themselves like rain to the right and
left, and that year: was called the year of stars.'" On
Oct. 10, 1202, "on the last day of Muharrem, stars shot
hither and thither iu the heavens, eastward and westward,
and flew against one another like a scattering swarm of
locusts, to the right and left ; this phenomenon lasted till
daybreak; people were thrown into consternation," &c.
This shower was witnessed at Bagdad, and is recorded by
several of the Arabic writers. In 1366, "22 days of the
month of October being past . . . There was in the
heavens a movement of the stars such as men never before
saw or heard of. From midnight onward all the stars
moved from the east to the west, and after being together
they began to move, some in one direction and others in
another; and afterwards they fell from the sky in such
numbers and so thickly together that as they descended low
in the air they seemed large and fiery, and the sky and the
air seemed to be in flames, and oven the earth appeared as if
ready to take fire. That portion of the sky where there wore
no stars seemed to be divided into many parts, and this lasted
for a long time." So we are informed in a Portuguese
chronicle quoted by Humboldt in his "Cosmos." The ex-
traordinary shower on the night of Nov. 12, 1799, was wit-
nessed by this celebratedphilosopher and his fellow-travel-
ler, Bonpland, at Cumana, in South America. Thousands
of fire-balls and shooting stars fell during a period of
four hours, the number attaining a maximum about four
a.m. Some of the larger meteors bore comparison with the
moon in apparent magnitude, and it is recorded that a few
were visible even after sunrise. This one display was
observed as far north as Labrador and Greenland, where
"it greatly frightened the Espimaux." It is not commonly
known, I believe, that the shower was remarked in this
country. Generally, the weather appears to have been
cloudy in England ; but at Hartlepool and Hull the sky
was clear. At or near the former place meteors and balls of
fire 'were first observed between five and six o'clock in the
morning in an eastern direction, and continued falling in
succession and together till daybreak. The atmosphei e was
very clear, and the moon, which was full, shone with un-
common brilliancy. The fireballs continued nearly
itni-o
hours, and were succeeded till nearly eight o'clock by s itg
flashes of lightning. The general appearance wassubl
sea.'
awful, particularly to the Hartlepool fishermen then at i,
al.,
At Hull "the heavens exhibited an awful and grand appear -
ance" from the number of the meteors and their sparkling
trains. Remarkable exhibitions occurred in.
In 1832 the
November, 1832
and 1833, particularly in the latter yeah
meteors were chiefly seen in Europe ; in South Russia they
were so numerous as to be compared to " a rain of fire;'
and the eminent astronomer M. Leverrier, who observed
them in France, bears testimony to their astonishing num-
ber. The splendid display on, 13th November, 1833, pro-
bably obscured by clouds in Europe, was seen over a great
extent of the North American continent, and will be found
detailed in many of our popular works on astronomy. It