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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-18 00:00:00

THE COMET.

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are now perfectly known, the calculations ha\ It of
the comet
with the utmost precision. Six complete ol}ig been made
seems, have been made at the Luxembour • )s(ilrvations, it
under the direction of its illustrious chief, byls\
lbservatory,
Mauvais, Eugene Bouvard, and others. The
1. I Langier,
have been executed by the two first named vzcalculations
astronomers, on the one hand, and by M. 80-uval and able
of his colleagues on the other. We subjoin the and one
the former, which are those carried to the highest results of
degree of
perfection :
Period at which the comet was nearest the sun or passage
at the perihelium which takes place when the comet has
reached the summit of the parabola) ; 27th February, at the
4-10ths of the astronomical day, which is reckoned from
noon. Distance of the comet from the sun, at its greatest
proximity or perihelium distance, with reference to the
radius of the terrestrial orbit, taken as unit, or which mean
m the
same thing, to the mean distance of the earth to the
0,00548, or about the 5-1000dths, rather more than the radiussun
of the sun; which, therefore, cannot have been touchedbtthe comet's passage. Longitude perihelium : 278 h. 45m. 58 sec.
Inclination of the orbit of the comet,. or measure of the • sec,
which the plane of its orbit forms with that of the ecliptinigle
of the terrestrial orbit: 35deg..31rnin. 30sec. Logitude, or
the ascending node : 2deg. 13min. By the ascending node7f
meant the point of intersection of the ecliptic, and of the
orbit of the comet when it goes from the south to the north
of the ecliptic. Movement : retrograde, or in a direction ---
contrary to the movement of the plants, that is to say, f-ra,„east to west. "-4
The astronomical pupils of the observatory have drawn up
a detailed table of the very. remarkable circumstances of th-
movement of the comet in the vicinity of the periheliurn /et
is seen by this table, firstly, that from the 2/ th to the.2Bth
of February, the comet, sup
to be seen from the centre
of the sun; went over the enormous distance of 292 deg ine
twenty-four hours ; secondly,. that 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 180 deg. in the interval of two hours. ; thirdly, that
in twenty-four hours, its latitude heliocentric
ror relative to
the sun's centre varied also very considerably. rhe difference
was of above 00 deg. It is seen, likewise, that the vector
radii, or distances of the comet, also changed much ir: the
same interval of time. M. Arago concludes the narrative of
this pas accelere peregrination of. our comet by stating a fact
more curious than all the preceding ones; it is that from a
comparis • -on of the heliogeocentric latitudies, the comet must
have found itself twice in coojunstion with the sun ; that is
to say, produced two successive inverse Felipses, the first at
the moment of the passage by the ascending node, at 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 WEIS then between the earth. and the still. Bnt, con-
• the hour, it may be conceived that it could only be
seenring in the other hemisphere. M. Arago adds, that the sur-
face was rather near being swept b i
face of our gy the tail of
a. ..met. This extraordinary phenomenon would inevitably
have taken place if the tail had been longer and thinner, or
if it had moved in the pt... !,f the ecliptic. The learned
secretary regrets much, as a scientine ~.., that it has been
otherwise

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CUSTOM 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 s
Her Majesty's duties on. gloves. imported
o f money
t e 0 fnrsop: a
cyh
by them from
abroad. It appears, that in this instance, which is but --
one
out of many,named T between
to
from the evidence of Mr. Bullock, a
thedef r
adnedf etnhtmrtes,
revenue.
a HC Custom-house swt om tiou s e
successful officerthi s
has
a s
best gathered gentleman
in the office of the Solicitor of the Customs, who d an
that of three cases of goods brought by the Harlequin,eposed,
1840, one which held 704 dozen pair of gloves, and should
in
have paid £176 duty, only paid £4l is. 6th, the am
185 dozed pairs, thus causing a loss to the _ amount of
duty onanother which held q Crown of
£134 12s. 6d.; and .
£231 d 9_l dozen pairs, and
which ought to have paid
the
Crown WI', in reality only
£7O 12s. 5d.. by whicha cases
d!ost upwards of yd:11)Ca)(i)d
l of
Again that uponn ev_Fr.
s Witham Jolliffgeo° s'
which were received
by the Belfast a d
£l3O " vessels, the duty payable
was £495, the duty paid
_. ls. 2d., thus cheating
the
Crown out of £364 13s. 10d On the 11th of January,
the defendants cleared from the Belfast goods lB4l,
) but on which on which the
than
payable was .£18:. , _ they did not
than 1:44 4s. 4d. Other and similar instan pay more
ainst ese ersons, and the jury ces were also
proved ag returned a v d.
for the Crown, finding
the amount of debt due er ict
fondants between the Ist of March, 1840, and the-
by the de-
December, 1841, £5,238. 3lst of
REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS.—We regret to
that Rebecca and her daughters are still at their old state
the lower part of this county, notwithstanding the utr in
exertions of the authorities to discover the parties im l. most
in these outrageous proceedings. About twelve o,eraeickated
the night of Friday last, Rebecca and a numerous -On
her daughters proceeded to Pwlltrap, near St. Cleaprasrty of
after arriving at the gate, the following colloquy took ; and
between the old lady and her youthful progeny. Rebecca,Pla"
leaning on her staff, hobbled up to the gat d
e, an seemed
greatly surprised that her progress along the r
interrupted. Children, (said she, feeling the
• oad should be
gate with '
staff,) there is something put up here, I can't pier
go on."
Daughters.—" What is it, mother ? nothing should stop
your way
Rebecca.-4, Ido not know, children; lam old, and can_
Daughters.—
out of your way ?"
Rebecca.—" stop, let me see, (feeling the gate with her
staff;) put it seems like a great gate
your old mother." across the road to stop
Daughters.—'‘ We will break it, mother, nothing shall
hinder you on your journey."
Rebecca.—" No, let us see,h(!ted and locked, and I e
?"
Perhaps it will open, (feeling
the lock.) No, children, it is
can-
not go on. What is to be don
Daughters.—" It must be taken down, mother, because
you and your children mustu
pass."
Rebecca.—" Off with it then,
my dear children, it has no
business here."
With that the whole of the children set to, and in less
posts remaining. Rebecca was not a vestige of the gate nor
and immediately ct a arid her children then passed by,
IFElPpeared having
destruction. The London , completed the work of
the time, but we are police were at the Blue Boar at
of what was '
not aware that they had the least inti-
mation going forward, their
until services could
be of no avail.—C artaart hen Journal.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—The ne'r bh d oho
„, i our oo reportbuoy was greatly excited '
on Monday evening by
of a boy having been found almost lifeless,
with his throat
cut from ear to ear, in
a lonesome piece of ground adjoining
the new barracks. On • • -
inquiry it was ascertained that the
foul deed was perpetrated by a young soldier of the 36th re-
giment, named Thomas Rafferty, a native of Galway,
who
privately induced the little fellow co sell a pair of boots and a
regimental trousers for him, and at duskhad th
trousers ; rown
but from
his window the boots, and subsequently the it
on who beard
appears the boots were taken off by some person .
• e not being up to time,
them fall, and the young accomplic ,
soldier,exasperated by the
found only the trousers. The
k 'f whichl
loss, knocked the boy down, and with a iii 0, he
drew from his pocket, cut his helpless victim's throat across
poor creature was bleeding to
in a shocking manner. The where he was
,
death, and was removed to his fathofer s house,
the surgeon the 36th, and Surgeon
promptly attended by
inson, who entertain hopes of recovery. Immediately
Wilk
bearing of the outrage, Colonel I%laxwell, OD the same
on
evening, issued a regimental order expressive of the horror
he felt at a upon the 36th being charged with such atro-
city, and calling every soldier in the regiment to endea-
vour 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
This prompt and well-advised order
assassin was found out.
was read in every soldier's room that evening, and had the
desired effect, for the suspected party was soon discovered,l
and lodged in the military prison ; and the Colonel issued
second regimental order yesterday morning, conveying thea
great pleasure he had in rescinding the previous order cool
ning the men to barracks, and that it was a consolatio * '-
him to know that the prisoner was none of his old ai (In to
We
soldiers, but a young recruit, undisciplined and kp
Va..
ipled, who, during his brief military career, had been 6°.
peatediv a delinquent. The accused was yesterda re_
pea by a serjeant's guard, to the police-office, y escorted,
handed over to the civil authorities by thep
air-office, and
corps, and remanded for farther examination. (Intent of the
hooted out of barracks by the soldiersof He was
so indignant were they at this disgraceful his own regiment,
.—Linte
rick Chronicle. conduct -

" Shall we come on, mother, and remove it

The Yrto York Tinsel: says :—" The idea of a mermaid
standing over a kettle of boiling water, cooking her own tail,
if, gather uacongraous.

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