THE Sun enters the Equinoctial sign of Libra on the 23d at 17 minutes past eight in the morning, when the Autumnal quarter commences, and the days and nights are of equal length in every part of the globe. His declination on the 1st is 8 degrees 18 minutes north, and on the 30th it has changed to south, being 2 degrees 48 minutes southward of the equator. On the 1st his semidiameter is 15 minutes, 53 seconds, and 3 tenths, and on the 25th 15 minutes, 59 seconds, and 4 tenths; the time that his semidiameter occupies in passing the meridian on the 1st is 1 minute, 4 seconds, and 2 tenths, and on the 25th 1 minute, 3 seconds, and 9 tenths: his hourly motion in space on the 1st is 2 minutes, 25 seconds, and 3 tenths; and on the 25th 2 minutes, 27 seconds, and 2 tenths.

The Moon enters her first quarter on the 6th at noon, in the 13th degree of Sagittarius, her latitude being 5 degrees south on the 13th, at 24 minutes 54 seconds past five in the morning, she enters the Earth's shadow; ten minutes later she sets, having 1 degree, or digit, 19 minutes, 22 seconds, eclipsed on her southern limb: she is full the same morning at 29 minutes past six in the 20th degree of Pisces: at 6 minutes past twelve at night, on the 19th, she enters her last quarter in the 26th degree of Gemini; and on the 28th, at 3 minutes past two in the morning, she is new in the 4th degree of Libra. She passes the planet Jupiter on the 5th at twelve at night, Saturn on the 23d at 15 minutes past eight in the evening, Mars on the 26th at 15 minutes past nine in the evening, and Mercury on the 30th at seven in the morning. She is in perigee on the 13th, and in apogee on the 27th.

The planet Mercury is too near the Sun to be visible this month, he crosses the ecliptic in his descending node on the 10th, and is in aphelio on the 22nd. The situation of Venus is unfavourable for general observation during this month, but the expert astronomer may probably obtain a view of her, and he will observe 10 digits illuminated on her western limb, her apparent diameter being 12 seconds on the 24th. Mars is also hid from our view by his proximity to the Sun; he is in aphelio on the 3d. The planet Saturn now becomes conspicuous in the morning, rising at 37 minutes past two on the 1st; and at 27 minutes past one on the 25th he is observed receding from three small stars in the

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Crab, marked as follows: the northern 78, the southern 68, and the middle 71, he is slowly approaching Regulus in the constellation of the Lion. Jupiter is rapidly receding from our view, he may be observed at first to the west of w Ophiuchi, which he soon passes, and slowly recedes from; on the 5th, at 23 minutes 5 seconds past seven in the evening, his first satellite emerges from his disc.

GLEANINGS.

New South Wales.-The Sydney Monitor of the 3d of February, 1829, thus notices the melancholy death, by drowning, of Mr. Robert Howe, proprietor and editor of the oldest Colonial Journal, the Sydney Gazette, to the columns of which we have been indebted for many interesting articles." Mr. Howe, it appears, bought a boat on the morning of the 29th of Jan, and in the afternoon, about five o'clock, taking his infant child and his groom along with him (the latter carrying a basket containing refreshments,) he went on board, and rowed near to Pinchgut Island, and there made the boat fast while they fished. Some time elapsed in fishing, when the sails underwent, at the hands of the groom, some handling or alteration. Mr. Howe rose suddenly to take his child from one situation in the boat to fix it in another, when the little vessel went over, and every thing fell into the water. All instantly went down, and the groom says were down a good while. When he came to the surface, he saw Mr. Howe seize the child, and hold it above his head with both hands. The groom also seized the child, and both then swam towards the nearest ship, distant about two huudred and fifty

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yards, although Pinchgut Island was not more than one hundred and fifty. Mr. Howe became exhausted; he said. We shall all be drowned, and I shall leave my poor wife a widow; save the child if you can,' and immediately sank. In a minute a boat from the nearest ship approached, and took in the child. Mr. Howe was found the next day near Pinchgut Island; and, most marvellous to relate, his basket was found suspended to his neck! It is conjectured that the unhappy gentleman, in going down the second time, fell in with the lines and basket-that he caught at the lines, and supposing them thrown to his assistance, wound them about him to make them tight, hoping to feel a friendly hand at the tight end; and

thus, in his dying efforts, the basket handle slipped over his head."

How to Catch, and how to Cure a Cold.-At this time of the year, says a correspondent, colds are easily caught, and difficult to cure. The following will be found effectual:-After a quick walk in the evening, sit in the draught to cool; the consequence will be a severe cold, attended perhaps with cough; the next day hoarseness, short breath, and much expectoration. In the evening, at seven, go to a well-frequented tavern, and drink three or four glasses of strong punch, or stiff rum and water; stay till eleven or twelve o'clock, walk home cosey, and go to bed, You need not get up the next day, but send for the apothecary; the following day you must send for the Physician, and the third day your friends will send of an autumnal cold afterwards.

for the undertaker. You will never feel the effects

Crime and Education-Mr. Justice Park, in his late

address to the Essex Grand Jury, observed," Although crime had appeared to decrease in this county, be regretted such was not the case in general through out the kingdom; on the contrary, there was an increase. Many good and excellent men (said his lordship) had endeavoured to account for the increase of crime, but the task appeared very difficult. It might be considered, however, that crime would keep pace with the increase of population. There were those who attributed the cause to the spread of knowledge, and who asserted that education had done no good. I (said his lordship) am of a different opinion, else the greater the increase of crime, the larger would be the number of educated persons upon its lists. He thought the fairest view of this subject had been adopted by a rev. prelate (the diocesan of this county,) who had

given his opinion, that but for education, within the last sixteen years, the people would have been in a state worse than that of total ignorance."

Caution to Children.-On Friday morning, Aug. 7th, 1829, the following singular accident occurred at Camberwell:-A girl, about thirteen years of age, while amusing herself alone on a swing, and giving herself a rotatory motion, slipped from her seat in

such a manner as to get the rope twisted about her neck, so that before she could loosen it she was firmly suspended, and hung unobserved for several minutes. When cut down, she was, to all appearance, quite dead. On employing, however, the usual means of resuscitation, she began slowly to evince signs of returning life, and in a few hours the vital functions were restored. Delirium, however, accompanied with convulsions of the most distressing kind, continued for five hours, at the expiration of which time she regained entire possession of her mental faculties, but could not recollect any thing of the accident,

Leeches.-It is said to have been lately discovered, that leeches twice applied possess the property of communicating to the second subject the disease of the first.

American Aloe.-The fellow plant to that which flowered last year at Brislington hall, is now in flower, and bids fair to form a specimen finer than the former, the flower-stalk having already reached the height of twenty-two feet.

The Giraffe, or Camelopard.-The following account is given of the present state of the giraffe presented to his majesty by the pasha of Egypt. From the period of its arrival at the menagerie in Windsor great park, to the present time (June, 1829,) the animal has grown eighteen inches. She can now reach about thirteen feet. Iler usual food is barley, oats, beans, (which are split,) and ash leaves. She drinks milk. Her health is not good. Her joints appear to shoot over, and she is very weak and crippled, affording little probability that she will recover her strength. She is occasionally led for exercise round the paddock, when she seems well enough; but now, in the day, she is seldom on her legs. Indeed, so great is the weakness of her fore-legs, that a pully has been constructed, being suspended from the ceiling of her hovel, and fastened round her body, for the purpose of raising her on her legs without any exertion on her part. When she first arrived she was exceedingly playful, and perfectly harmless. but she is now much less active, although as gentle as before. She appears to know her keeper, and every object by which she is surrounded attracts her attention.-Library of Entertaining Knowledge.

Meeting of Thieves in London.-It is said that a meeting of notorious swell thieves took place a short time since, at a flash house near Temple Bar, to determine what course the fraternity should pursue in the present aspect of affairs, as regards the new police act.

Fine Silk Shawl.-There is at present in the pos session of an ingenious lady in Clontarf (Ireland,) a crimson silk shawl, containing 9,880 threads in the warp, 4,300 shoots, or 8,600 threads in the weft, 5-4ths square; weight two ounces, produced from worms of her own rearing; reeled in the raw by

herself.

Sea in New Holland.-Some black natives, who lately visited Sydney, have reported the existence of an extensive sea in the interior of New Holland, and an expedition has been fitted out by Sir John Jamieson, to ascertain the fact. It had long been supposed, from the absence of any river of great magnitude emanating from so large a continent, that there must be some extensive morass or reservoir of water in the interior; and if this be found to be the case, and the inland sea prove navigable, the discovery will be of vast importance, and remove many of the drawbacks which now exist against settling in that colony, in preference to Van Diemen's Land.

Living Barometer.-One of the most sensitive of all animals is the leech; a disposition owing probably to the curious arrangement of the cutaneous annules of its outer coat. This creature, being put into a phial nearly filled with water, has been used as a means of foretelling changes of weather several hours beforehand. In fair or frosty weather it will lie rolled up in a spiral form at the bottom of the vessel, but, prior to rain or snow it will creep to the surface; if there is wind, it will glide quickly about the bottle, and if lightning be approaching, it starts convulsively near the top, and gets as much out of the water as it can.

To remove Grease, &c.-The following method of removing grease and oil spots from silk and other articles, without injury to the colours, is given in the Journal des Connaissances Usuelles:-Take the yolk of an egg, and put a little of it on the spot, then place over it a piece of white linen, and wet it with boiling water; rub the linen with the hand, and repeat the process three or four times, at each time applying fresh boiling water; the linen is to be then removed, and the part thus treated is to be washed with clean cold water.

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Munificent Contributions-The services at the Anniversary Meeting of the Manchester Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society, commenced on Sunday, June 7th, 1829. At the public meeting, on Monday evening, Mr. George Hadfield again came forward, as on two former occasions, and offered to subscribe 100/. to the funds of the society, if the rest of the meeting would undertake to increase that sum to 10007. He was seconded, as before, by Mr. Samuel Fletcher, with another 1007.; and in the course of an hour and a half, the sum of 10231. 6s. was subscribed. A general collection was then made, and 671. more were received. The services of the anniversary concluded on Wednesday evening, when the collections at the different services, independent of the contributions on Monday evening, amounted to about 800/., making an aggregate sum of 18901. to be appropriated to the Missionary Cause.

Literary Notices. Just Published.

No. V. of National Portrait Gallery, with three splendid Likenesses, of Marquis Wellesley, Sir Humphry Davy, and Sir Henry Torrens,

Part III. of Lancashire Illustrated, containing six. teen beautiful prints, with descriptive letter-press. No. I. of Illustrations of Devonshire and Cornwall, containing four highly finished engravings, and Vignette, with historical descriptions.

Part III. of Jones's Illustrations of Edinburgh. Part I. of Bath and Bristol, and Part III, of Views of Gentlemen's Seats, are ready for delivery.

Morning and Evening Prayers, adapted for family worship.

The Preacher's Manual, in two vols. Vol. II., by S. T. Sturtevant.

The Sabbath Minstrel, by I. Taylor.

The Apocrypha of the Book of Daniel, &c., by Lake Howard.

A Brief History of the Life and Labours of the Rev. T. Charles, A.B., by the Rev. Edward Morgan. M.A.

The Female Servant's Adviser, with plates.
Gideon and other poems.

Popular Lectures on Biblical Criticism and Interpretation, by William Carpenter.

The Evidence of Prophecy, from a work by the Rev. A. Keith.

Welcome to Affliction, &c. by the Rev. Samuel Shaw, M.A.

Immanuel, &c., by Samuel Shaw, M.A.
Baxter's Saints' Rest, abridged.

Help to Zion's Travellers, by Robert Hall. Elementary Thoughts on the Right Process of Education, with Suggestions for the Formation of a Public School, by Geddes Mackenzie Scott, M.A.

Noon-day Sun-set, a Sermon addressed chiefly to Young People, at New Broad Street Meeting House, London, on the decease of Mrs. T. C. Everett, of Reading, by I. P. Dobson. Second edition.

Calvinistic Predestination Repugnant to the General Tenor of Scripture; shewn in a Series of Discourses on the Moral Attributes and Government of God; delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, by the late very Rev. Richard Graves, D.D. M.R.I,A.; King's Professor of Divinity, in Trinity College, Dublin; Dean of Ardagh, &c.

In one vol, demy 12mo. Scriptural Characters and Subjects Versified, by R. Tobitt.

The Eleventh Volume of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in the United Kingdom, by J. P. Neale, being the last but one of this popular and interesting work, which will contain upwards of 800 highly finished engravings.

Christian Visitor, Nos. 1 and 2.

Preparing for Publication.

The Arguments for Predestination and Necessity Contrasted with the established Principles of Philosophical Inquiry. In two sermons, in Trinity College, Dublin, 1828. With Notes and Appendix, by Richard Hastings Graves, D.D.

In the Press.

A Topographical and Historical Account of Me thodism in Yorkshire: giving a detail of its Rise, Progress, and Present State, in the City of York, and in every Town, Village, Hamlet, &c. in the County.

Captain Brown has in the Press, a Work to be entitled Biographical Sketches and Authentic Anecdotes of Horses; with a Historical Introduction, and an Appendix on the Diseases and Medical Treatment of the Horse.

MEMOIR OF HENRY FUSELI, ESQ. R.A. (With a Portrait.)

When the death of this celebrated artist, in April, 1825, took place, we immediately sought after his portrait, and a memoir of his life. The latter was soon procured; but instead of the former, we could only obtain a bust, both of which appeared in the Imperial Magazine for November in the same year. The excellent engraving now presented to the public, is from an admirable likeness of this distinguished individual, with which we have lately been favoured. The memoir which follows is original; and as it includes numerous facts and incidents not inserted in that of 1825, it can hardly fail to interest and gratify every reader.-EDITOR.

THE family name of this eminent painter was Fuessli, which, for the sake of euphony, he altered to Fuseli, after his settlement in England. His father, John Gaspard Fuessli, a native of Zurich, in Switzerland, went, at an early age, to Vienna, and thence to Rastadt, on the invitation of the prince of Schwartzenberg, with whom he became a great favourite. He excelled in portraiture and landscape painting. On leaving Rastadt, he took up his residence at the court of the duke of Wirtemberg, where he lived very agreeably, and painted many portraits of distinguished personages, until the war of Poland and the irruption of the French into Germany, obliged him to remove to Nuremberg. While there, his patron, the duke, died, on which Fuessli returned to Zurich, and at the age of thirty-four, in the year 1740, he married. Although his wife was a very excellent woman, he used to say that marriage was incompatible with improvement in the fine arts. If, however, he felt any inconvenience in that state, he had the happiness to communicate the principles of painting to his three sons, Rodolph, who settled at Vienna; Gaspard, who died in the prime of life; and Henry, the subject of this memoir. The elder Fuessli was not only a good artist, but an admirable biographer, as his memoirs of the Swiss painters, in five volumes, and his catalogue of engravers and their works, satisfactorily prove. He died at Zurich, aged seventy-five, in 1781.

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the year 1743. Of his childhood also little is known; but he was wont to say, that he was a very wayward boy; and frequently incurred severe chastisement for neglecting his lessons at school. His mother was a very accomplished woman, to whose instruction, Mr. Fuseli attributed much of the knowledge which he acquired, and of whose tenderness he always spoke in terms of affectionate veneration.

Notwithstanding the indications of genius which Henry evinced, his father would by no means encourage his propensity for the art of painting; but did every thing he could to thwart his inclination. This opposition only served to stimulate the youth to the exercise of his natural powers. All his leisure moments were devoted to the pencil; and he frequently purloined ends of candle from the kitchen, that he might sit up and pursue his studies when the family were gone to rest. Michael Angelo was even at that early period his greatest favourite. As his father happened to have a large collection of prints after that great master, young Fuseli caught the style by repeatedly copying these engravings. But he was not content with being a servile imitator.

Among his juvenile productions were several sketches in outline, illustrative of a wild German romance, called the Hour Glass, representing imps engaged in all kinds of mischievous sports. Some of his drawings he used to sell to his school fellows. Having by this means saved a small sum of money, he laid it out in a piece of flame-coloured silk, which he had made into a coat. Being laughed at for this showy dress, he threw it aside, and from that moment never could endure any thing like gaudy apparel. His father having designed him for the clerical profession, placed him in the college at Zurich, where he had for a fellow student John Casper Lavater, of physiognomical celebrity. An intimacy soon commenced between them, which ripened into a friendship that lasted through life.

About this time, a circumstance occurred which displayed in a remarkable manner the keen sensibility and elevated character

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