the national debt. Mrs. Curran, however, was a barrister's lady, and what was wanted in wealth she was well determined should be supplied by dignity. The landlady, on the other hand, had no idea of any gradation except that of pounds, shillings, and pence. I walked out one morning to avoid the perpetual altercations on the subject, with my mind, you may imagine, in no very enviable temperament. I fell into the gloom to which from my infancy I had been occasionally subject. I had a family for whom I had no dinner, and a landlady for whom I had no rent. I had gone abroad in despondence-I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, 20 golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady, bought a good dinner, gave Bob Lyons a share of it; and that dinner was the date of my prosperity! Such was his own exact account of his professional advancement.-Phillips's Life of Curran. *14. 1804-JACOB BRYANT DIED, ET. 99. He employed his deep and extensive learning in the noblest of purposes: he most deservedly ranks among the first men of his age; and, from having consecrated his great talents and acquisitions to the service of religion, will be ever entitled to the veneration of mankind. 17.-SAINT HUGH. Our saint was a native of Burgundy, or Gratianopolis. At first he was only a regular canon, but afterwards a Carthusian monk, and at length, through the favour of King Henry I1, was constituted Bishop of Lincoln. In this see he obtained great fame, not only for his extraordinary austerity of life and excellent economy, but for his rebuilding the cathedral from the foundation. Hugh died on this day, in the year 1200, of an ague. In 1220, he was canonized at Rome, and his remains were taken up October 7, 1282, and deposited in a silver shrine. 20.-EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR. Edmund, king of the East-Angles, having been attacked by the Danes in 870, and unable to resist them, heroically offered to surrender himself a prisoner, provided they would spare his subjects. The Danes, however, having seized him, used their utmost endeavours to induce Edmund to renounce his religion; but, refusing to comply, they first beat him with clubs, then scourged him with whips, and afterwards, binding him to a stake, killed him with their arrows. 22.-SAINT CECILIA. Cecilia was a Roman lady, who, refusing to renounce her religion, was thrown into a furnace of boiling water, and scalded to death. Others say that she was stifled in a bath, a punishment frequently inflicted, at that time, on female criminals of rank. ' She suffered martyrdom about the year 225. Cecilia is regarded as the patroness of music, and is represented by Raffaelle with a regal in her hand. 23.-SAINT CLEMENT. He Clement I was born at Rome, and was one of the first bishops of that place: this see he held about sixteen years; from the year 64 or 65 to 81. was remarkable for having written two Epistles, so excellent, and so highly esteemed, by the primitive Christians, that the first was for some time considered canonical. Clement was sentenced to work in the quarries, and afterwards, having an anchor fastened about his neck, was drowned in the sea. 23.-0. MART. Old Martinmas-Day, an antient quarter-day. Our saint was born at Alexandria, and received a liberal education. About the year 305, she was converted to Christianity, which she afterwards professed with the utmost intrepidity, openly reproving the pagans for offering sacrifices to their idols, and upbraiding the Emperor Maxentius, to his face, with the most flagrant acts of tyranny and oppression. She was condemned to suffer death by rolling a wheel over her body stuck round with iron spikes. 27.-ADVENT SUNDAY. This and the three subsequent Sundays which precede the grand festival of Christmas take their name from the Latin advenire, to come into; or from the word adventus, an approach. 30. SAINT ANDREW. Andrew was the son of James, a fisherman at Bethsaida, and younger brother of Peter. He was condemned to be crucified on a cross of the form of an X; and, that his death might be more lingering, he was fastened with cords. The Order of the Thistle is described in our last volume, p. 283. Astronomical Occurrences In NOVEMBER 1819. THE Sun enters Sagittarius at 36 m. past 2 in the morning of the 23d; and he rises and sets during this month as stated in the following TABLE Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. November 1st, Sun rises 12 m. after 7. Sets 48 m. past 4 6th, 7 7 Equation of Time. 16 9 From the apparent time, as indicated by a good sun-dial, subtract the following quantities, and the remainders will be the mean time corresponding to these several epochs. Monday, Nov. 1st, from the time by the dial subtract 16 15 Saturday, Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday, Friday, 26th, Phases of the Moon. 16 14 15 52 15 8 14 3 12 39 Moon's Passage over the Meridian. The Moon will pass the first meridian at the following times in the course of this month; which will afford convenient opportunities for observation, if the weather prove favourable: viz. November 9th, at 53 m. after 5 in the morning. 10th, 38 20 23d, 1 45 41 32 25th, 20 7 8 8 9 10 Phase of Venus. Nov. 1st {Enlightened part Dark part 11.94161 digits. 0.65839 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. The following are the eclipses of Jupiter's first and second satellites, which will be visible at the Royal Observatory this month: viz. EMERSIONS. 1st Satellite 6th day, at 21 m. after 6 evening. Other Phenomena. 1 Jupiter will be in quadrature at 45 m. after 10 in the evening of the 1st of this month. The Moon will be in conjunction with ẞ in Taurus at 7 m. after 8 in the morning of the 5th; with Pollux at 53 m. after 6 in the evening of the 7th; with Spica in Virgo at 3 m. after 6 in the morning of the 15th; and with a in Scorpio at 30 m. past 3 in the afternoon of the 18th. On the EFFECTS of GRAVITATION. [Continued from p. 263.] Among the effects of gravitation on terrestrial bodies, there is none more astonishing, or more demonstrative of its power, than the periodic flux and reflux of the ocean; nor, amongst all the inquiries which relate to these effects, is there one more interesting than that which relates to the Tides. The weight of bodies; their descent to the surface of the Earth when unsupported; their deflection from the direction of their projectile motions, when these are not perpendicular to the surface of the Earth; and the vibrations of the pendulum, are so many striking proofs of the universal influence of terrestrial gravity; while the variations in these at different points of the Earth's surface afford strong indications of its figure, and even furnish a ground-work for the application of science, by which we are enabled to attain conclusions relative to the ratio of the equatorial and polar diameters. But the phe nomena of the tides afford the nearest and most striking proof we possess of the gravitation of terrestrial matter towards the celestial bodies. The tides are produced by the action of the heavenly bodies, particularly the Sun and Moon, upon the waters of the ocean. The varieties in the relative situations and motions of these bodies, and the in clination of their orbits compared with the plane |