The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-18 00:00:00

THE COMET.

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It would appear from a statement in one of the Paris
journals, that the parabolic elements and orbit of the comet
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have been executed by the two first named he calculations
astronomers, on the one hand, and by M. 130),Tmg and able
of his colleagues on the other. We subjoin
the former, which are those carried to the hi e results of
perfection : highest degree of
Period at which the comet was nearest the sun
at the perihelium (which takes place when the Or
passage
reached the summit of the parabola) : 27th Februaemet has
4-10ths of the astronomical day, which is reekornYeid at the
noon. Distance of the comet from the sun, at its from
proximity or perihelium distance, with reference to tigerestest
radius of the terrestrial orbit, taken as unit, or which' mean
same thing, to the mean distance of the earth to the is
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0,00348, or about the 3-1000dths, rather more than the su-t-i;
of the sun ; which, therefore, cannot have been touchreaddi
the cornet's passage. Longitude perihelium : 27811. 45m. 5 - b
Inclination of the orbit of the comet, or measure of the sec.
which the plane of its orbit forms with that of the eeii t!'ngle
of the terrestrial orbit : 35deg. 31min. 30see. LongiFulc, or
the ascending node : 2deg. 13min. By the ascending node °f
meant the point of intersection of the ecliptic, and of theeis
orbit of the comet when it goes from the south to the n
of the ecliptic. Movement : retrograde, or in a direction
contrary to the movement of the planets, that is to say, f on
east to west. r°l2l
The astronomical pupils of the observatory have drawn u
a detailed table of the very remarkable circumstances of the
movement of the comet in the vicinity of the perihelium. It
is seen by this table, firstly, that from the 2th to the 28th
of February, the comet, supposed to be seen from the centre
of the sun, went over the enormous distance of 292 deg. in
t
twenty-four hours ; secondly, hat from twenty-four minutes
after nine to thirty-five minutes after eleven, it passed from
its ascending node to its descending node
(the two Opposite
points of intersection of ecliptic and of the cometary orbit,)
thus going
our deg. in the interval of two hours ; thirdly, that
in twenty-four hours, its latitude heliocentric or relative to
the sun's centre varied also very considerably. The difference
was of above 90 deg. It is seen, likewise, that the vector
radii, or distances of the comet, also changed much in the
same interval of time. M. :trap concludes the narrative of
this pas acce/cre peregrination of our comet by stating
a fact
more curious than all the preceding ones ; it is that from a
comparison of the heliogeocentric latitudies, m t must
the comet
have found itself twice in conjunction with the sun ; that is
to say, produced two successive inverse eclipses, the first at
the moment of the passage by the ascending node, et twenty_
four minutes past nine in the evening, the moment at which
the comet was, with regard to us, behind the sun's disc; the
second at about fifteen minutes past twelve at night. The
comet was then between the earth and the sun. But, con-
comet
the hour, it may be conceived that it could only be
seen in the other, hemisphere. M. Asago adds, that the sur-
face of our globe was rather near being swept by the tail of
the comet. This extraordinary phenomenon would inevitably
have taken place if the tail doha been lnger and thin
ner. or
if it had moved in the plane f the ecliptic. The learned
secretary regrets much, as a scientific man, that it has been
otherwise _____..................

gentleman
Ccsrom HOUSE FRAUDS.—On Wednesday last an in
quisition was held before two commissioners at the Sheriff's
Court, London, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount
of money owing frem.thaEtdvivnatrhdisViindsetlaanneed,
wChhaicrhlesiglibuuret lontoe
Her Majesty's duties on gloves imported by them
abroad. It appears, from
out of mane, a conspiracy has for some time existed between
the defendants and pa Custona-house officer named Tye to
defraud the revenue. How successful this has been will be
thus causing a loss to the Crow of
ne best
e office gatheredoffroph
et lisenl evidence
eir otfhAeicr.us Bullock,s,w a 0
eposedll
that
ofthree coo of goods brought by the Harlequin, it;
1840, one which held 704 dozen pair of gloves, and should
have paid £176 duty, only paid £4l 7s. 6d., the amount f
.f.d u 1 t3y4 onl2
51.865dd. (); n of
zaenddpaanirosiber which held 921 dozen pair,
which ought to have paid £231 duty, in reality erd , and
£7O 12s. 5d.. by which the Crown lost upwards of Yxrai
Again, that upon several cases goods,ef_e which were received
by the Belfast and William J011a... vessels, the duty
payable
was £495, the duty paid £l3O IS. 2d., thus
cheating
Crown out of £364 13s. 10d• On the 11th of January, the
the defendants cleared from the Belfast goods on wiic h"l'
duty payable was £lB5, but on which they did rot the
pa
than £44 4s. 4d. Other and similar instances welr'emote
proved against these persons, and the jury returned a verdictalso
for the Crown, finding the amount of debt due b .
the Ist of March 1 Y the de-
fendants between , 840, and the 31st
December, 1841, £5,238. of
REBECCA ASB HER DATIGIITERS.—We regret to
that Rebecca and her daughters are still at their old state
the lower part of this count work i
y,
.notwithatanding th n
'ties to discover e utmost
exertions of the author]
_. the parties implicated
in these outrageous proceedings. About twelve o'clock o
the night of Friday last, Rebecca and a numerous party
her daughters proceeded to Pwlltrap, near St. Clears : ofa
after arriving at the gate, the following colloquy took ' ,a"
between the old lady and her youthful progeny. RebeccaPiaci!
leaning on her staff, hobbled up to the gate, and ,
greatly surprised that her progress along the road seemed
d'Children, (said she, •
interrupted.
gat • e
staff,) there is some.thing. put up here, I can't go emu
e with her
--." W hat is it, mother?nothing
Daughters
your w• ,6
Rebeccay a.— I do not know, children ; lam
well."
not see old, and can.
Daughters.—",,Shall we come on, mother,
out of your way ? and remove it
Rebecco.—" Stop, let me see, (feeling the
staff;) it seems like a great gate put across gate with her
ft
your old mother. the road to stop
Danglaters.—" We will break it,
hinder you on your journey.,,mother, nothing shall
Rebecca.--" No, let us see, perhaps '
the lock.) No, children, it is bolted it
will open, (feeling
not go on. What is to be done?" and locked, and I vas
the
It must be taken d
you and your children must pass.,, owns mother, because
Rebecca.—" Off with it then
u
business here. , my dear children, it has no
With that the whole of the children
than ten minutes
there was not set to, and in less
posts remaining. Rebecca and her a vestige of
the
gate nor
by,
eying comple
and immediately disappeared, children then pa
h
destruction. The London ted the work of
police
the time, but we are not awareice were at the Blue Boar at
mation of what was • that they had the least inti-
going forward,
be of no avail.— Carm a rthen Joud, until their services could
Journal.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—The neighbourhood of Boher-
buoy was greatly excited onMonday evening by the report
of a boy having been found
cut from ear to ear, in a 11d almost lifeless, with his throat
. onesome piece of ground adjoining
the new barracks. On
foul deed wasinquiry it was ascertained that the
perpetrated
re-
giment, named Thomas Rbayffne young soldier of the 36th
privately induced the little fellowrty,t a
sell
s. native.li pair9,f of Galway.o andwho a
regimental trousers for him, and aot dusit a thrown from
his window the boots, and subsequently the trousers but it
appears the boots were taken off by some person who heard
them fall, and the young accomplice, not being up to time,
found only the trousers. The soldier, exasperated by the
loss, knocked the boy down, and with a knife, which be
drew from his pocket, cut his helpless victim's throat acrotss
in a shocking manner. The poor creature was bleeding
h °
death, and was removed to his father's house, where
Surgeon was
Promptly attended by , the surgeon of the 36th, and
erv. Immediately
Wilkinson, who entertain hopesonof recov . _
Inxwell, On the same
on hearing of the outrage, Col el 3
ssive of the horror
evening, issued a regimental order expre
he felt at a soldier of the 36th being charged
invent
with such t
to e adro-
city, and calling upon every soldier in the ren ea.
your to discover the lawless wretch who had disgraced his
uniform, by so inhuman a deed. The commanding officer
also directed every man to be confined to barracks till the
assassin was found out. This prompt and well-advised order
was read in every soldier's room
that evening, and had the
desired effect, for the suspected party was soon discovered,
and lodged in the military prison ; and the Colonel issued a
second regimental order yesterday morning, conveying the
great pleasure he had in rescinding the previous order confi-
ning the men to barracks, and that it was a consolation &
him to know that the prisoner was none of his old and va-
lued soldiers, but a young recruit, undisciplined and unprin-
cipled, who, during his brief military career, had been re-
peatedly a delinquent. The accused was yesterday escorted,
handcuffed, by a serjeaut's guard, to the police-office, and
handed over to the civil authorities by the adjutant of the
corps, and remanded for
th fuerther exam
rs ofinathision
own regiments He w
hooted out of barracks soldieandignante they b
ay t this disgraceful conduct. Lim:
so i weer
rick Chr0nic1eL.....................,

The Neu, York Times says :—" The idea of a mermaid
standing over a kettle of boiling water, cooking her own tail,
is rather incongruous."

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