The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-27
City Intelligence.


friends, and mourned BY the profession generally
city Intelligence.
PROFESSOR MTTcHELL's observation-disclosures Mitchell
gave the second in his Of astronomical lectures
last evening att the Minerva Rooms The audience pro-
badly owing to the incemency of the weather, was
small one but highly respectable The lecture was on
La Places system Of astronomy. The professor
menced BY sayng-The subject which we have to dis
cuss tonight is one from which some minds seem to
shrnk-that it is attempting to go beyond sphere
that we have no right to pry into creation but ii
CO. far should CO. In order understand the
theory Of La Place we must go back little We may
Ter broke through the circle which ancents sup
posed the planets reyoved and discovered that they
vovedi in elinses This was the first discovery OF KEEP
ler Up to this time there union-each planet
voved in its own orbit, with connection But Keper
believed that there some proportion between the
times of revolution round the and its distance
6s he conceived that the square of the periodic time
Of the revolution Of planet to the of the
periodic revolution Of any other planet the cubes Of
their distances from the He found he had commit
ted some blunder in his work but he rectied it, and
the whole came out perfect The discovery of these
nomcal discoverers And il planet be discovered
land am happy to state that one has been disco.
vered within few days(-in this new planet, the mo.
ment we get the periodic time OF its revolution this
great law of Kepler will give the distance the
centre Aer hepIsr had gone thus far the grand inquiry
orbits Keper conceived that there must be some GEN.
trail attraction But he did not live long enough to per-
feet it. 1t was reserved for the mind OF Newton dis.
cover the great law that all matter attracts all other
matter directly as the mass and inversely the square
verned the motors Of the heavenly bodies II is mpos.
sole to obtain any proper idea ofhe magnitude Of this
sum- and the whole planetary system is governed by
single law. When Newton iscovered this law there
kind of curve described by planet revolving under
tns law he hoped would be an elipse, for Kspler
epses But what was his aonhmsSy 0o TO % nS that
the curve might be any Of four. Either elipse
circle PaI,bois or hypsrbola BY telescope OBJ
elipses-some Of the satellites in circles and the
comets IN parabolas and hyperbolas. La Place
menced whore Newton left. He asked how was it that
the planets revolved in certain manner. He asked
whether by some mighty law, this great system had
and clusters of which were not capable OF being
resolved into individual found some Of these
by the application Of more powerful glasses did resolve
themselves into individual stars But he found other
OBJECTS In the constellation Andromeda, he found
large nebulous mass Again, in examining great ne.
Dula In ORION he found just visible to the naked
He came to the conclusion that there matters in
space that were not stars Hersche in his exploration
that bound him. He said, II see star in the field of
view, surrounded ny hazy light" Now, what could
this object be II the central point were star, and
the hazy light was made up Of stars, how
great must be the contrast between the sizes Of the two
Herschel conceived the idea that's the whole universe
was formed from this chaotic nebuous matter. He did
that point La Place took up the investigation You eli
Know the fact that in every revolving centrifugal
dency to fly of from the centre now this force would
have tendency raise up the matter around the equa
tor and throw it off, There must then DO in the bro.
cess oil time certain amount Of matter thrown of from
the equator in the form q ring which would continue
to revolve with the same velocity as the body from
which It was thrown. The outer ring then, we may
suppose formed Herschel This is simple explanation
oil La Places theory OF creation. do whether
you believe not The professor stated III at his
System.
Professor Mitchells object in these lectures is to OBJ
tain money sufficient to furnish the Cincinnati observe.
tory with the instruments needed there We trust that
plan SO dnterested and laudsble will be forward
ed by our citizens when they at the same time will
ceve instruction by It, rarely impaired in beautiful
and concise manner
OF Troy, delivered lecture on Sunday evening, in
Rutgers street church The subject was the Conver.
text the 18th chapter of Pauls EpstIe to the Romans
25th, goth and 27h For would not brethren
.sous BE- ,s be Of this les.
part 10 happened 10 Israel until tho fullne Of the Gen
tiles be come in And ell Israel shall be saved it
writ, n there shall out OF Zion the'Deliverc
and shall turn away odiness from Jacob For this
Is my covenant unto them when shall take away their
sins The scope Of the reverend gentemans disc
was TO show that the fulness OF mercy the Genles
could never be obtained until after the Reconstruction OF
the Christian church. and conversion Of the Jewish
people, which he argued were to take place at the
time and IN support OF his argument gave many beauti
full illustrations from the scriptures In the conclusion
his DISCOURSE he warned his ever korpg
for more than the conversion Of remnant of
people. the conversion Of the whole could take place
until the Genes but still thay saoud
not sscken in their lsbors for all hope Of mercy hspp
ness and peace earth depends upon the inc IN OF
the Jews The reverend gentleman delivered a very
eloquent discourse, and listened 10 with treat Al
tention by numerous and hgaly RESPECTABLE coners
cation. After he finished collection NJ tss 10 a..
sist in ameliorating the condition Of the people Who
were the subject Of his discourse.
YrsrHRpAv-slush mud fog, splash, &c. rnaAs up IN.
talet Of yesterday in New York Tins charge IN the
weather 10 almost equal 10 descent ron te sublime 10
,ns , ridiculous The merry gingns o. sssfh bells
gliding OF runners over the sparkling have again
oeen exchanged for the rumhlnG 81 the nibasss a.
.nsy a.aE through the .lush and mud hs ~es.hsr