The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-15 00:00:00

AU.RORA BOREALIS.

A correspondent at. Solvate, Pembrokeshire, says':
—We had a most extraordinary appearance in the
sky last Wednesday evening- which has quite
frightened tb,'e superstitious here. We had had a
fine day ex:zept two short showers in the afternoon,
the wine, had been south-east till this evening,
when '..t changed to south; the moon rose in nearly
a duddiess sky; there were scattered rain clouds in
the, eastern horizon, and rather a dense bank in the
western horizon ; a few very light filmy rain clouds
:vere moving rapidly from south-east to north-east.
At 6.30 there was a slight shower, after which the
sky was almost cloudless, the only kind
of clouds being a very few thin rain clouds at a
low elevation. The moon was unusually bright.
At 7.20 a brilliant red light appeared to the south
by east, about half-way between the zenith and the
horizon, it looked very much like the red smoke
from a pce.:t fire, and faded away all round from a
focus of Light in the centre (its shape was oblong) ;
in about 15 minutes it rose to the zenith, and as it
rose the red shot out from it in long streaks on alt
,sides, except to the north-east, but particularly oils;
oroad mass that stretched right away to the western
horizon, of a beautiful rose colour all- the 'way ;
some clouds near the horizon in its trael were
coloured purple by it. This may have been either
by seeing it through them, or by its being beneath.
them. The centre of the meteor was ne• ye dark crim-
son, blood red, darker than the clear sir!, bu t the stars
shone brightly through it. The reddest rays were
those to west and soutli (those to Use south gradually
faded to pale green; those to +; he north-west and
; and a few, after north were in more marked and finer lines, and
only red near the centre
appear-
ing for a short distance Matz green, shot out to the
north-east, growing wirlel- apart as they approached
the moon, and passed it, clearly showing that the
dark spaces betweer, the rays could net be shadows
caused by the mr,on. Only one ray to the north-
east was red 1 they were all fainter as they ap-
proached ttse moon, and much fewer in number ,
than on the western side of the heavens. It lasted ,
till 8.15 ; all the red colour gradually faded away,
and only left the focus from which it had sprung i
still in the zenith ; it became pile green, and then
disappeared. The last rays to fade were those to
the north-east. No rain fell during-the time it
lasted. The air was calm. A gciod deal of ground
sea ee;ming into the bay from the westward.

PROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

WHITEHALL, OCT. 12.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto James Cartar, Esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of New Brunswick.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 13.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Gauldree
Boilleau as Consul at Quebec for his Majesty the Emperor
of the French.

Tho Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
fiburcio Faraldo as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
INDIA-OFFICE, Dac. 9, 1858.
Tho Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Capt.
Christopher Palmer Rigby, of her Majesty's Indian Forces,
to be her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Buckingham—The Hon. William George
Cavendish to be Deputy Lieutenant ; William Backwell
Tyringham, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
County of Middlesex—Thomas Critchley, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieutenant.

sth or Royal Elthorne Light infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Herbert Henry Duesbury, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Boom, resigned.
Ist Company Stirlingtihire Volunteer Rifle Corps—R.bt.
Graham Moir, Esq., to be Captain ; Robert Sconce, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; Alex. "Wilson the younger to be I?.nsi,gn.
Norfolk Rifle Volunteers-3d Subdivision—Geo. Ed ward
Frere, Esq.,' to be Lieutenant; Thomas William Salmon,
Esq., to be Ensign. 4th Subdivision—Thomas William
Brograve Proctor Beauchamp, Esq., to be Lieutenant ;
Richard Henry Gilbert, Esq., to be Ensign.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia—William
Frederick Windham, Gent., to be, Lieutenant.

Huntingdonshire Militia—Edmund Carver, Gent., to be
Surgeon; John Eden Duncombe Shafto, Esq., to e En-
sign.
The Galloway Rifles—Memorandum—Her Majesty has
been pleased to direct that so much of the Memorandum in
the " London Gazett:" of the 6th February, 1857, as applies
to the disp)acing of Captain Maxwell from his commission
in the Galloway Rifles, shall be cancelled, and that the fol-
lowing be inserted in lieu thereof :—Geo. Augustus West-
phal Barry to be Captain, vice Maxwell, resigned.
The following appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the " Gazette" of the 20th September last :-
Ist Company of Berkshire Volunteer Rifles—Sir Clau-
dius Stephen Paul Hunter, Bart., to be Captain.