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great atmospheric derangement therefore? Yea, that there is; and if we look to the heavens, we find the mighty Jove is this day stationary, pouring forth, therefore, a continuous flood of reflected solar light, not destitute, we presume, of the electric ray, and so conveying some electric or magnetic action to the earth. Then, again, we find also a conjunction this morning of the two planets Mars and Mercury, nearly in the last punctum of the sign Scorpio. Now this conjunction led us to predict that the weather would be "stormy and dull;" which it is. And we

made this prediction sixteen months ago, on the faith of a long catalogue of similar results attending such conjunctions. We find that these effects have ever been noticed to be the same; for not only does Ramesey, in 1655, say that it produces "sudden great windes," but Dr. Goad, in 1699, says, " and we shall find to be a tearing aspect." And at page 260 of his "Aphorisms" he gives a long list of instances, from 1652 to 1682, during thirty years of uninterrupted observations. He says, after giving a diary of the weather for 853 days, on which these conjunctions were operating, "Let us have leave to ask our dissenter what is the reason of these sudden storms? Alas! Messrs. Chambers can give no answer, if the question be now repeated. The same phenomena attend the same aspects after 200 years. And, as Goad says, "They who please may see more to their satisfaction in Kepler or Kyriander; and so much for the UNRUHIGTEN* pair of planets, & and in aspect."

Now, the writer in Chambers, like a sleek Quaker, would quietly deny the influence of these planets on our atmosphere, although every time they come together in the heavens they give the lie to the silly chatterers, who attempt to establish meteorology on any other basis than that which it has pleased the Almighty to ordain; viz. the mutual influence of the several bodies of the solar system on each other. He who runs may read this influence; but our modern philosophers, our Airys and Herschels, will not read; and although they do run, it is only their hapless heads against the post they have themselves erected on which, if not wilfully blind, they might read, in letters of light, the great truth that IGNORANCE and PREJUDICE GO HAND IN HAND. On these subjects only may these men. be justly termed ignorant, being so through prejudice.

anruhig, unquiet, turbulent-German Dictionary. This name was given these planets, when in aspect, by the Germans; the great Kepler, especially.

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PLANET NEPTUNE-ASTRO-METEOROLOGY.

THE PLANET NEPTUNE.

THIS body is ascertained to be about 30 times the distance from the Sun that the latter is from the Earth. But as this distance is 95 millions of miles, and as light, which travels 200,000 miles in a second of time, takes therefore eight minutes to reach the earth from the sun, we have only to multiply this by 29 to find the time a ray of light striking on the planet Neptune takes to be reflected back to this earth. This is 3h 52m. And as it is now proved, beyond all doubt, that light and electricity are ONE SUBSTANCE, we find that this distant body must affect the electricity of our atmosphere; and hence the temperature, elasticity, &c., thus affecting the bodies of all those beings who breathe that atmosphere. Here, therefore, we perceive the simplicity of the

Theory of Astro-Meteorology.

The light of the sun being always accompanied with electricity, it follows that, when it penetrates the atmosphere of a planet and is reflected thence to this earth, it will either gain or lose electricity, and so bring more or less of that substance to us. But as the various coloured rays are more or less refrangible and enter the atmosphere, therefore, at different angles, we see that a red ray will be brought more direct, and hence produce more electricity than a blue ray. And we know, therefore, that the red rays of the planet Mars must excite electricity in our atmosphere more powerfully than do the blue rays of Saturn. And this is consistent with facts observed; which prove that, when the Earth passes in a right line with the Sun and Mars, the air is more electrified and drier than when the Earth is similarly situated with Saturn.

The evidence of this fact exists at page 254 of the Journal published by the Meteorological Society; where it is shewn that, during 242 months' observations at Aberdeen, Carlisle, Edmonton, and Hereford, there fell 590 inches of rain, Saturn being in conjunction with the Sun; while, at the same places and during the same period, there fell in 114 months only 232 inches of rain, Mars being so situated.

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That this period was not unfairly chosen, is proved by the fact that both periods occurred during a

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Total months 741

Total of rain.. 1678.8

This gives a mean fall per month of 2.266 inches, which is 266 of an inch more than what fell during Mars' action, and 172 of an inch less than what fell during Saturn's action; yet the mean of the above 356 months differs only '045 of an inch from the mean of the whole 741 months.

The importance of this matter will be obvious to the farmer, when he considers that the monthly excess of rain, when Saturn's aspects are in operation, being 438 of an inch, amounts to 92 butts per acre of additional water, or about 3 butts daily. For the imperial gallon contains 277.274 cubic inches of water; and if we multiply the number of inches on an acre, viz. 6,272,640, by 438, and divide the product by the contents of a gallon, we get 9909 gallons, which are equal to 92 butts.

APHORISMS TOUCHING WEATHER, METEORS, &c. By J. CARDAN.

1. WHEN Saturn passes out of one sign into another, you may expect for several days together strange meteors and splendid sights and apparitions in the heavens.

2. When Saturn is combust in the houses of Mars, and Mars beholds him, he often begets conical figures which are seen in the air, composed of vapours that ascend, and are signs of earthquakes. [This circumstance will take place about the 25th of March, 1850; when it will be well to observe whether such phenomena do not occur.-Z.]

3. Saturn and Mars, and Mars and the Sun, and Mars and Mercury, cause hail; Saturn most in summer, Sol and Mercury most in autumn; and those that cause hail in these two quarters cause snow in the winter and spring.

4. Saturn with the luminaries, Jupiter with Mercury, and Mars with Venus, make an apertio portarum, or opening of the

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gates, and usually cause some notable change of weather. [Their aspects cause these effects less extensively but their conjunctions cause great electrical effects.-Z.]

5. Whenever Saturn is joined with the Sun, the heat is remitted and cold increased; which alone may be a sufficient testimony of the truth of astrology. [We shall give ample evidence of this fact in the course of this work; a fact that it would better become the "philosophers" of the British Association to attempt either to refute or to explain, than the shaking up soapsuds in a bottle to demonstrate the nature of the bubbles, as we have witnessed them occupied in doing.-Z.]

6. When Mars and Mercury are joined, and behold the Moon or lord of the ascendant in the 6th or 7th house, they portend a great drought to ensue. [This means in the figure of an eclipse or ingress, &c.-Z.]

7. The star has a great efficacy on the air, to which the Moon shall be first joined after her conjunction, opposition, or square with the Sun.

8. The mixture of the beams of Mars and Jupiter in moist signs gives thunder, with sudden showers.

9. Jupiter naturally raises north winds*, Saturn easterly, Mars westerly, Venus southerly; and Mercury mixt winds, as he may apply to other planets.

N.B. These seem to have been a few of Cardan's notes on the effect of the planets on the weather, and they well deserve the attention of the students of astro-meteorology. They do not comprise the tenth part of that science, which is still far from perfect, but which is destined to become as exact as any part of astronomy itself.

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FULFILLED PREDICTIONS.

PREDICTION. "Jupiter in Leo still gives peace to France and much prosperity."-Oct. 1848.

FULFILMENT. State of Trade in Paris.-The prefect of police in Paris says, "The capital continues to enjoy perfect tranquility and the greatest security. The accounts from the departments are of a nature to consolidate this happy state of things. On all sides, in fact, work is being resumed; most of the factories and workshops have resumed their operations, and some of them have again become as active as in the most prosperous years."-Stroud Observer, Oct. 14, 1848.

*Job says, "Fair weather cometh out of the north;" and that is because 24 raises north winds and brings fair weather at the same time.

FULFILLED WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

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PREDICTION. "This eclipse will be visible at Ceylon, Madagascar, Borneo, ALL AUSTRALIA, and the Cape of Good Hope; and will work much mischief there; and sad destruction to the cattle in those countries, especially SHEEP." [Page 33 Almanac 1847, on the total eclipse of the sun in Aries (14th April, 1847), that sign ruling "sheep," &c.]

FULFILMENT. By late advices from Van Dieman's Land, we are informed of a great mortality among the sheep. One gentleman lost 19,000, another 20,000. An entire flock died in a single night. The writer stated that he was surrounded by 36,000 dead sheep, and in momentary expectation of the devastation extending to his own flock.-London Paper, 28th Oct. 1848.

So much for Australia; and at the Cape, fearful wars occurred about " cattle." At Ceylon an insurrection broke out also, and awful bloodshed followed.

FULFILLED WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

"Such an invaluable month of May never was known: from its first hour the crops have progressed rapidly and without intermission."-Greenock Advertiser, June 1848.

The prediction was,

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A fine, warm month; vegetation very forward."

While remarking these meteorological predictions, we will offer the following very striking instance of affection of the temperature by the planet Mars, who always brings very dry and warm weather when he is with the Sun; a fact easily determined and easily disproved, if it were not true: Why do not our philosophers refute this assertion?

"The mean temperature of the week ending June 13th, was 7 deg. 4 min. higher than the average temperature of the corresponding week for twentyfive years. On Friday, June 12th, the temperature was 10 deg. 4 min. higher than the average temperature of the corresponding day for the same period of twenty-five years."-Pictorial Times, June 20th, 1846.

N.B. 12th June ↳ was stationary and the O in par. declination to and DA; the O having been in Sto♂ on the 10th, and on the 15th ☀ and were in the same declination.

These things might be thought of little matter, if they did not always occur; but let our readers recall the last month of November, in which only one inch of rain fell, though four inches fell in the comparatively dry month of August. Why? Just because Mars and the Sun were in conjunction and both in aspect to Jupiter. We foretold, "A fair and dry month;" and it was so. Will the philosophers never learn wisdom, or respect Nature's FACTS?

ASPECTS, &c. OF THE PLANETS ON MARCH 26, 1812.

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ABOVE, you have the aspects, &c. of the planets at the time of one of the GREATEST EARTHQUAKES ever known in South America, accompanied by

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