30-2 Astro now if. 



generally represented riding on an au ; and the father of the. 

 child to be inoculated brings her an offering, consisting of 

 corn, which he takes from his bosom, and gives to the ass 

 to feed upon. The ceremony is repeated as soon as the cow- 

 pock appears. Governor Duncan, of Bombay, has transmitted 

 this information to Dr. de Carro, with a handsome letter,- 

 and a present of two valuable shawls and three pieces of 

 most beautiful muslin for his lady. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Bremen, Sept. 8. 

 Mr. Harding, about 10 o'clock in the evening of the 1st, 

 discovered from the observatory here, in the sign of Pisces, 

 a new planet perfectly similar to Ceres in light and apparent 

 magnitude, and moving retrograde towards the west with 

 increasing southern declination. The following are the 

 observations which have been made : 



Sept. 



Nothing nebulous can be distinguished around this star 

 ny the best telescopes, and in all probability it is a sister of 

 the new discovered planets Ceres and Pallas. 



A correspondent has favoured us with the following par- 

 ticulars of this discovery : — " M. Harding, of the observa- 

 tory at Lilienthal, near Bremen, who has been making an 

 atlas of all the stars down to the eighth magnitude which 

 lie within and near the orbits of the two new planets Cere* 

 and Pallas, as announced in baron Von Zach's journal, has 

 discovered a third new planet. While examining the stars 

 in the constellation of Pisces on the 1st of September, he 

 observed a small star, about the eighth magnitude, of which 

 he could find no account in Lalanclc's Histoire Celeste ; and 

 therefore, not knowing its true place, he put it down in his 

 charts as near as he could estimate by the eye : but two 

 days after, lookiug for it again, he found it was gone, and 

 observed another star exactly like it a little to the south- 

 w est of its place, which he had not seen in that place be- 

 fore. This raised his suspicion that the star he had ob- 

 served was a planet ; and, looking at it again on the fifth, 

 he was satisfied it was so. Since then several observations 

 have been taken of it. Its place, as settled by Dr. Olbers, 

 9\\ Sept. 8, was at M. T. 8 h II* 2CT, A. R. 1* 29' 39", 

 4 dec! in. 



