past 7 o'clock in the evening, a severe thunder storm passed over Edinburgh and Leith, at the last of which places the lightening killed a boy.

On the 10th of August, during the night, there was a good deal of thunder, lightening, and rain at London. During this storm, about half past one o'clock in the morning, the whole of the sky appeared to be covered with one unbroken mass of black pitchy cloud, in which no break was visible, even during the vivid flashes of lightening, which seemed to come from an inferior region of the sky. Over, or rather below this dark surface, were spread light and flocky clouds, broken into larger fleeces, and apparently luminous throughout. They seemed full of little dazzling and dancing specks of light, that sometimes shone as stars through a misty cloud. Some of those increased gradually, and then died away; but one of them increased to such a degree as to equal Venus in size and lustre. This luminous body moved with considerable rapidity round the edge of that mass in which it appeared. Another brilliant meteor of the same kind appeared in a similar cloud at a considerable distance. It was distinctly observed by Mr Staveley, to whom we are indebted for an account of the preceding phenomena, that no lighten ing broke from the luminous clouds, but that they emitted a light of a pale phosphoric colour.

On the 11th, at half past nine o'clock in the evening, a meteor appeared at Edinburgh in the northwest. It was seen at the same time in Glasgow.

On the 12th, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, there was at Edinburgh a great storm of thunder and light ening, accompanied with torrents of

rain.

On the 13th, at 1 o'clock p. m., there was another storm of thunder and lightening, with heavy showers of rain and half-melted hail.

On the 17th, lightening appeared at London in the east in a dark and lurid sky.

On the 25th, at 1 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a good deal of thumder was heard at London.

On the 30th, in the evening, lightening appeared at London in the east.

SEPTEMBER.

During the greater part of this month, the weather was very variable, and by no means favourable for the operations of the harvest in this part of the kingdom.

On the 4th, at I o'clock p. m., there was thunder in London,

On the 19th of this month, between 5 and 6 o'clock in the evening,appeared a meteor in the south, at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from the small commune of Breziau, in France. Those who observed this meteor assert, that it was about a quarter of an hour in collecting, and that after it was completely formed, it began to move in a northerly direction, and was accompanied with a frightful noise like the rolling of a chariot, or the noise of rain driven violently by the wind, and was afterwards attended with thunder and lightening. After moving for some time in the same direction, the meteor was suddenly changed into a column of fire, which, with the fog that accompanied it, appeared to rise to the heavens. It continued about a quarter of an hour in this state, at a short distance from the forest of Beaulieu, and at last sunk a little, and disappeared, leaving behind it a thick fog without any smell.

October.

This month was one of the finest in the year. Even on the 30th the ash trees had not lost their foliage, and the bat was still flying about in the evening.

NOVEMBER.

The weather was so open and mild that several jarganelle trees were covered with a second shew of blossom, and full-blown roses were gathered in the second week of this month.

A pretty hard frost began on the 18th, and on the 19th the mercury was so low as 22°; but on the 20th, the weather again became mild.

DECEMBER.

The whole of this month was uncommonly mild, without any storms of

snow.

On the 4th of this month a severe shock of an earthquake was felt at the Cape of Good Hope. On the 1st, 2d, and 3d of December, the weather was extremely hot and oppressive. On the evening of the 3d of December the wind suddenly veer

ed about from N. W. to S. E., ac companied with a thick and obscure atmosphere, and during a considerable portion of the evening dead calms prevailed. On the 4th, at noon, the thermometer was at 76, and the wind S. E. and moderate; but increasing towards the evening, when it degenerated into a perfect calm. At half past ten o'clock the first violent shock took place, and lasted about two minutes, accompanied with loud subterraneous noises, and after the interval of a minute, a still more violent concussion took place, lasting about two or three minutes, and attended with a still louder sound, proceeding, apparently, like the first, from the centre of the Ward or Devil's Mountain. Before three o'clock in the morning, no fewer than 13 shocks took place, running always in the same direction, but gradually diminishing in power. On the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th of December small shocks were distinctly felt. During the severe concussions on the 4th and 5th, the watches and clocks lost a good deal of time; a fire-ball was observed over the mountains in the west; various shooting stars appeared; the firmament was completely free of clouds, and the barometer, which was 29.80, fell gradually.