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with large hail-stones, which cut every thing to pieces inthe garden. This, we have reasel 
to believe, was partial; at Islington and Highgate it was slight, in comparison of what was 
experienced at Holloway, where the weight of a cloud seemed to rush down with tremendous 
violence. 
We can reckon but seven or eightbrilliant days out of the thirteen ; and on sixteen we 
have had rain, snow, or hail ; and on the 11th was_a violent hurricane, that brought te 
the ground the newly-built nests of the rooks, which, as yet, are wholly undefended by 
the opening leaves. / 
The wind has blewn chiefly from the Easterly quarters. i 
According to our Correspondent in the Isle of Wight, the average temperature for the 
first three months of the present year is 2s follows: 
r “99 
= hel pen This account was taken at Shides | 
March 43+ nearly. near Newport. 
ASTRONOMICAL ANTICIPATIONS. 
The new moon, or change, will be on the 14th, at four minutes past twelve, noon; and 
the opposition, or fuli moon, on the morning of the 29th, at 18 minutes past eight. On 
the evening of the 2Sth will take place another occultation of the star y In the constellation 
of the Scorpion, by the moon, and is the last of this star that will be visibie in Great Fritain, 
for several years. The immersion will be at the eastern side of the moon’s disk at 4i5 minutes 
past ten, apparent time 3 and the star will emerge from behind her wesvern edge at 54. mi- 
nutes past eleven, after been occulted ih. 9im. At the time of the immersion, the star 
will be four minutes, and atthe emersion three minutes, tothe north of the moon’s centre. 
At the time of the above phenomenon the clock will be 5 minutes 7 seconds behind the 
sun dial. The planet Hersthel or Georgium Sidus will be above the horizon almost the 
whole night. Onthe morning of the 1st, he sets at 43 minutes past four, five mimutes after 
sunrise, on the morning of the 16th, at 44 minutes past three ; and onthe morning of the 
31st, at 45 minutes past two. On the 1st he may be found with the telescope 4° 53’ to the 
west in longitude, and about 7 minutes to the north in latitude, of the bright star in the 
balance named «. On the 16th their difference of longitude will be 5° 30’, and of latitude 
7 minutes; andonthe 3ist their difference of longitude will be 6% 3’, the star being still 
about 7 minutes to the scuth of the planet. Saturn will be a fine object for observation- 
this month. He will be in opposition to the sun, or, which is the same thing, in his perige, 
on the morning of the 22d at four o’elock. ‘The quantity of his re:rograde motion for the 
month willbe 2° 4’. Onthe morning of the 3d, he will come into conjuction with the yin 
the Scorpion, a star of thé fourth magnitude, when their difference of latitude will be 52 
minutes, the star being to the south, and on the morning of the 25d he will be in the same 
longitude with the @, a ster cf the second magnitude in the same constellation, the planet 
in this instance keing 1° 8’ to the nerth. Jupiter will be a morning star, rising an hour or 
two before the sun. Mars will be up in the evenings. Till the 20th his appsrent motion 
in longitude wil} be retrograde. He will be stationary in 8° 54’ of the anastrous sign Libra, 
1° 24° to the west of the y in the Virgin, astar of the third magnitude. For the remainder 
of the month he will move direct, or according to the order of the signs. Venus will be an 
evening-star till the 24th when she becomes a morning star. Her inferior conjunction hap- 
pens on the morning of the 24th, at 40 minutes pastseven. On the ist her elongation from 
the sun, will be 30° if, on the 4th 27% 22’, on the 7th 24° 2’, on the i@th 20° 17, on 
the 15th 16° 25’, on the 16th 12° 5’, and on the 19th 79-35’; a‘ter which she will not be 
readily seen with the naked eye, on account of her then near approach to the sen. The 
telescopic appearance of this planet will be extremely interesting this month. Onthe 4st, 
she wili resemble the moon when she is about 32 days ald, or more correctly, like the moon 
when she is 443 degrees ‘rom the sun. Till her inferior conjunction, the quantity of her illu- 
Mminated disk which is turned to the earth will rapidly decrease.. About the middle of the 
morth she will become a very fine crescent, similar to what the moon puts on, on her ear- 
liest appearance after a conjunction with the sun. Mercury, for the three first weeks, will 
be too near the sun to be observed without the aid of the telescope. On the evening of the 
25th, about an hour after sun-set, he may be seen nearly in conjunction with the northern 
horn of the bull, a star of the second magnitude, named likewise 6, their difference of lati- 
tude being 3° 22’, the planet being to the south. ©n the 29d Mercury sets at 12 minutes 
past nine ; on the 25th, at S2 minutes past nine; on the 28th, at 48 minutes past nine ; 
and on the 31st, at one minute before ten. That singular star in the head of Medusa, cha- 
racterized by the Greek literal 8, may be observed twice at its least brightness; viz. en the 
morning of the 13th, at 51 minutes past two; and on the eveniag of the 45th at 40 minutes 
pasteleven. ; 
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. Errata —In the Astronomical Anticipations for 4pril, ‘ 
Liae 8, for * south,” read north; line 27, for “* maritine,” read matatine: line 53, for 
‘© between $ and 4 degrees,” read between 2 and 4 dezreese . 
