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LORD ROSSE'S DISCOVERIES. 



[1854. 



Tetu, J. Berthier, Canada, Woollen Night Caps. 

 | Thompson, Mrs. Quebec, Baby's Knitted Dress in Crotchet work. 



Saurin. J. J., Quebec, Canada, Two Sleighs. 



Dutton, Miss Eliza, Montreal, Knitted Cradle Quilt. 



Picton Mines, Nova Scotia, Coal, illustrating veins. 



Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Coal, illustrating veins. 



Ziegler, J. B. Quebec, Cornopeon, ingenious. 



Kearney Kichd, St John's Newfoundland, for a model of a Ship's 

 Hull. 



Reinhart, C. Montreal, Canada, for superior Hams. 



Royal Agricultural Society, Prince Edward Island, for samples of 

 Wheat, Oats, Buckwheat, &c, exhibited by Whitman & Wheelock, 

 New York 



Patterson J., Elgin Mills, Dundas, Canada, for specimens of Twilled 

 Blankets. With special commendation as the best exhibited. 



Upper Canada Provincial Agricultural Society, for a very fine sample 

 of White Wheat, produced by J. B. Carpenter, Townsend, Canada West, 

 weghing 66i lbs. to the bushel. 



Martel, Mile P., St. Ambroise, Canada, Lace Caps and Collars. 

 McGrath, James, Toronto, Berlin Wool Carpet. 

 Hollowell, W. Antrobus, Quebec, C. E., for an ingenionsly contrived 

 Fruit Gatherer. 

 Jobin Mad, J. B., Quebec, Knitted Woollen Over Socks. 



Winter, Dr. John, Chairman of Committee of Gentlemen, residents, 

 of St. John, Newfoundland, for specimens of Barley and Oats, and 

 preserved and smoked Meats. 



HONOURABLE MENTION. 



Madam Lamere, St. Laurent, C. E. — samples of Colored Beans. 



Lambly Quebec — samples of Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar. 



J. Muir, Hinchinbrooke, C. E. — cheese. 



R. C. McMullen, Toronto — specimens of Irish Lundy Foot Snuff. 

 M. Pacquet, Quebec — ■ sample of Beans. 

 John B. Pabb, Montreal — Wine Crackers. 

 Betsey Rousseaux, St. Hilaire, C. E. — Maple Sugar. 

 Francis Silverthorne, Toronto,— samples of Pot and Pearl Barley. 

 P. C. Sinclair, Cobourg — superior Cobonrg Sauce. 

 E. W. Thompson, Toronto — samples of Barley. 

 Asa Westover, Durham, C. E. — samples of Maple Sugar and 

 Syrup. 



A. McFarlane, Montreal — samples of Glue. 

 Caroline Schiller, Montreal — Bark box with Moose Hair, &c. 

 M. Pacquet, Quebec — Dressed Flax. 

 John Robertson, Long Point, C. W. — a Seed Sower. 

 Hypolite Blouin, Berthier, C. E. — Timothy Seed. 

 Louis Bovin, Cacouna, C. E. — samples of Wheat. 

 Smith Bartlett, Bellville — samples of Peas. 

 J. W. Bailey, Megantic, C. E. — Maple Sugar. 

 Francis Conture, St. Ambroise, C. E. — Skinless Barley and Canadian 

 Oats. 



Thomas Moore, Thornhill, C. W. Specimens of Axe Handles. 



Quebec Industrial Exhibition Committee — Money Purse, Table 

 Mats, Knife Sheath, Musk-rat and Mink Skin Bags, ornamented 

 Moose Deers and Carriboo Foot, Bark Wood, Card Trays, Baskets, 

 Cigar Cases, prepared, manufactured and ornamented by Loretto 

 Indians. 



■ McLaren, Tamaska, C. E.— Specimens of Roofing Tiles and 



Brick. 



James Herring, Toronto — White Marrowfat Peas. 

 L. A. Cummer & Co., Watertown ; A. Griffin, Ranson Mills, Water- 

 town ; J. B. Ewart, Dundas. — Samples of Flour. 



Col. Irvine, Quebec— a Maple Table Top, decorated with the Natural 

 Leaves. 



James Morgan, Quebec— Design and Cutting Gothic Stone Front.— 

 Colonist. 



The " Niagara Mall >> on Lord Rosse'a Discoveries. 



The Niagara Mail of the 8th February, in a notice of the January 

 number of the Canadian Journal, remarks at length upon the lecture 

 by the Rev. W. Scoresby on the Earl of Ross e's Telescopes and their re- 

 velations in the Sidereal Heavens. — We subjoin a portion of the notice 

 of the Mail, in which attention is drawn to a curious and interesting 

 passage in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. 



"This discovery of the spiral motion of starry systems among each 

 other is supposed to be original, and as such is styled the "Rossean Con- 

 figuration. " — But it is remarkable, that over a hundred years ago, 

 viz : — in 1755, the celebrated Emanuel Swedenborg in his work on the 

 "Worship and love of God, " promulgated the same fact, and showed 

 that the starry systems move round each other, in forms different 

 from those of the planets round the sun ; he styles those higher forms 

 spiral and celestial — and in fact, asserts the very theory which the 

 Rossean telescopes have recently demonstrated to be true. As this 

 work is very rare, we adduce a passage on this point, and also his 

 general views on the forms of celestial motions, which are striking — ■ 

 when considered in connection with the late discoveries in physical 

 astronomy : — " 



Around the great system of the sun, and its wandering orbs, and of 

 the moons which accompany them, shine innumerable stars, which 

 constitute our starry heaven, divided into twelve signs, according to 

 the sections of the zodiac, and present its immensity visible. All 

 these stars remain fixed, and as images of the great sun, being im- 

 moveable in their centres, they also occupy a kind of a plane, excited 

 by their rays, which they subject and ascribe to themselves as their 

 own proper universe. There are therefore as many universes as there 

 are stars encompassing and crowning our world, according to the vir- 

 tue and quantity of light emitted from them, greater and lesser. These 

 heavenly circuses mutually press and bind each other by contact, 

 and by continual concatenations enfold together a heavenly sphere, and 

 by infinite orbs complete a form, which, is the examplar of all spheres 

 and forms, in which all and singular the starry orbs harmoniously 

 conspire to one and to the same end, viz: that they may mutually es- 

 tablish and strengthen each other, by virtue of which union resulting 

 from the perfection of the form, this complex of universes is called 

 the firmament ; for in a grand body thus consociated, no member 

 claims anything to itself as its own, unless it be of such a quality that 

 it can flow in from what is general into what concerns itself, and 

 again, as by an orb, can re-flow into what concerns the other uni- 

 verses, or into what is general ; on which account also they do not 

 Bhut up their lights and torches within their own sphere, but diffuse 

 them even into the opaque bodies of the solar world, and into their 

 earths, and when the setting sun causes night in the hemisphere, they 

 supply his place. 



This form, which the stars with their universes determine or co- 

 effect by intermixture and harmony with each other, and which on 

 that account is called celestial, cannot at all be acknowledged as the 

 most perfect of all forms in the world, if we depend only on the view 

 presented to the spectator's eye on this globe of earth ; for the eye 

 does not penetrate into the distances of one star from another, but 

 views them as placed in a kind of expanse, one beside another, hence 

 they appear as without order, like a mass of confusion. Neverthe- 

 less, that the form resulting from the connecting series of all the 

 starry universes, is the exemplar and idea of all forms, may appear 

 not only from this consideration, that it serves as the firma- 

 ment of the whole heaven, but also from the consideration, that the 

 first substances of the world, and the powers of nature gave 

 birth to those universes, from which, and their cooperation, nothing 

 but what is perfect flows forth ; this is confirmed also by the distances 

 of the stars from each other, preserved for so many ages, without 

 the least change intervening. — Such forms protect themselves by their 

 own proper virtue, for they breathe somewhat of perpetual and in- 

 finite ; nevertheless, they cannot be comprehended as to their quali ty, 

 except by lower or lowest forms, the knowledge of which we have 

 procured to ourselves from objects which affect the sight of the eye, 

 and further by continual abstractions of the imperfections under 

 which these forms labor. But let us view these forms in their ex- 

 amples ; the lowest form, or the form proper to earthly substances, is 

 that which is determined by mere angular and at the same time by 

 plane subjects, whatsoever be their figure, provided they flow together 

 into a certain form ; this therefore is to be called an Angular Form, 

 the proper object of our geometry. From this form we are enabled to 

 contemplate the next superior form, or the form perpetually angular, 



