The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-15 00:00:00

.DIVIDENDS,

Aug. 5, S. Brookes, Bow-common, black-aSh-
manufacturer, at ten, at the Court of Conuniesionere—.Aug.ls,
J. Gibbs, Wardour-street, linen-draper, at eleven at the Court, of
Conuniseioners..-Aug. 11, A. Dixon, Huddersfield, York-
shire, and W. 'Taylor, Great Winehester.street, merchants,
at one, at the Court of Commissioners--Aug. 5, T. W.
Williamson . and E. Jones, Hacker's-court, Coleman-street,
merchants, at''' efeven, at the Court of Commissioners --Aug.
5, E. Jones, PaCker's-court, Coleman-street, merchant,
at ten, at the Court of Commieeloners—Aug. 12, J. C.
Horey, King Edward-etreet, Mile End New Town, ougar-m-
-finer, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—Aug. 5, C. Sims,
Crown-court, Broad-atreet, merchant, at ten, at the Court of Quit-
ruissionere---Aug. 8, J. Barlow and Doering, New-road, St.
George's, East, sugar-refiners, at eleven, at the Court of Commis-
sioners—Aug. 12, R. Stein and A. H. Sim, Tower-hill, brewers,
at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—Aug. 8, G. Lyrae,
Ceeil-street, Strand, tailor, at eleven, at the Court of Commis-
sioners—Aug. 12, W. Culyer, Loodoo-wall, harness-maker, at
eleven, at the Court of Coinmissioners—Nov. 10, W. Dement,
Sudbury, Suffolk, linen-draper, at eleven,at the Court of Commis-
sioners—Aug. 7,- J. Bird andaWtofe.leu)Byeinniiiinl,,airWtiietlicri_.ngo-uartAtreetolt:
Co6n,remjr-
Bchiaridits, ,Waattleilnevge_lnt,reeatt,
merchant,
atut,rt
Bath, draper, at one, ,at
titsißiTseirig—Ta;,tetrign: 4,B:Wri;tolll_l4o:76cea,:teEn., uthandeermuanrtdofWco. F.
Csimphell, Hattim-garden, jewellers, at
missioners—Aug. 5, D. Poulin), Leeds, Yorkshire, worsted-
spinner, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds---Aug. 12,, C.
Lucy, Bristol, corn-factor, at twelve, at the Commercial
Rooms, Bristol--._Aug. 5, T. Be Wilson, Frith-atreet, Sobo,
auctioneer, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners--Aug.
Hood, Trafalgar-street, Walwordt-road, Surrey, baker,
at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—August 15, N.
B. Hutchins, St. James's-street, china-warehouseman, at twelve,
at the Court of Commissioners--Ang. 6. C. Whittle, Hastings,
douraep,eart,
tabte,7;eelovrege,
lanen,thLeivceotivt of Cominiftioners, London--
Aug. 8, A. F.: O'Neill and illartaiAnntdugl:Tis7l..PEnisdPATe
IworsJ R.avt,
Holden, J. Catlow A. Craahaw,
,
%mill, Lancashire, calico-printers, at eleven, at ;he Hotel,
Blackburn—An. 5, H. Baxter' Hoghton, Lancashire, cotton-
spinner, at eleven, at the Hotel, Blackburn—Aug. h. J. Aldred,
over Damen, Lancashire, iron.founder, at eleven, at the-Hotel,

M. Ramond, on , the 13th of last month, read to the
French Academy of Sciences the conclusion of. his Me-
Moir on the Meteorology of the Pie du Midi (the high-
est mountain in Europe). M. Ramon( has- established
an important fact ; namely, that while the wind at the'
foot of the mountain, blowi in all directions; at its sum-',
unit it is constantly southerly ; and that this southerly
current isthatswhich the earth's motion produces in the
higher ,regions of the atmosphere, from the Equitoi to-!
wards the Poles. !One day M. 'Lamontl was witness, on
the Pie tin Midi, to a singular! spectacle : his own
shadoW, and the'dtadowi of two persons who were with
him, were thrown oa a cloud a little distance
,above
them, with a surprising exactness and sharpness of !out-1
line; and, which was more extraordinary, these sha-
dows were surrounded by resplendent glories, of the most
bueS. '" A beholder of this magnificent sight;"
M. Rathoad Observes, " might faney himself present at his
own apotheosis." Bougner, Saussure's sons, and others,'
have enjoyed a similar spectacle; but none of them re-'
marked that sharpness of contonr, which. can he explained
only by the great srimothitess of the surface of the cloud
on which the shadows w6re projected. As for the glory,
Boueer supposes that it May be the result of the decom-
position of the light produced by frozen particles sus-
pended in the cloud;—that the rays of the sun being in;
tercepted -in the place on whieJ-1 the shad6W falls, an
increase of cold is occasioned, and the frozen particles, .
be-
coming more numerous there and on the edge of the
Shadow, produce, by the decomposition of the light, this
play of its various rays. M. Ramond does not adopt thiti
explanation. .In the instance which he describes, he con
ciders it as certain that the slightly elevated cloud on
which the shadows appeared could not, in consequence of
the temperature which prevailed on the pie,!hold in suspen-
sion any frozen particle. The extreme transparency of
the air in these elevated Situations which. prevents the
caloriffe rays that pass through it, Worn heating it directly,
causes several affects different from those which are ob-
servable on the harface of. the earth. Thus* the heat of
the soil, Which absorbs the solar rap, is 'frequently upon
those heights, out of all proportion to that of the atmos-
phere;! Thus, again, the assembled rays at the focUS of a,
lens, have much greater power than if they had Passed
through gross and less transparent air. M. Raneond
,remarited that a lens a a very small
,diameter was suffi-
cient to set fire to a body which another lens of double its
size could scarcely have, heated in low places.