Oh, God! if such communion be The solace of his loneliness- And Angels, who his visions bless- 25.-SAINT CRISPIN. Crispinus and Crispianus, two brothers, were born at Rome; whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion. Being desirous, however, of rendering themselves independent, they gained a subsistence by shoemaking. It having been discovered that they privately embraced the Christian faith, and endea voured to make proselytes of the inhabitants, the governor of the town immediately ordered them to be beheaded, about the year 308. From this time, the shoemakers chose them for their tutelar saints. There is a curious anecdote relative to this day in T.T. for 1816, p. 291. The fraternity of shoemakers have unquestionably given rise to some characters of great worth and genius. The late Mr. Holcroft was originally a shoemaker, and, though the principles which he professed at the beginning of the French revolution were extremely obnoxious, yet he was certainly a man of great genius, and, on the whole, a moral writer. His dramatic pieces must rank among the best of those on the English stage. Robert Bloomfield wrote his poem of "The Farmer's Boy,' while employed at this business; and Dr. William Carey, Professor of Sanscrit and Bengalee in the College of Fort William, Calcutta, and the able and indefatigable translator of the Scriptures into many of the eastern languages, was Y * in early life a shoemaker in Northamptonshire. The present Mr. Gifford, the translator of Juvenal, and the supposed editor of the Quarterly Review, spent some of his early days in learning the craft and mystery' of a shoemaker, as he tells us, in one of the most interesting pieces of auto-biography ever penned, and prefixed to his nervous and elegant version of the great Roman satirist. 26.-PROCLAMATION OF KING GEORGE III. His present Majesty was proclaimed King on the 26th of October, 1760, the day after his accession to the throne. 28.-SAINT SIMON AND SAINT JUDE, Apostles. Simon is called the Canaanite, from the Hebrew word Cana, to be zealous; hence his name of Simon Zelotes, or the Zealot, Luke vi, 15. After enduring various troubles and afflictions, he, with great cheerfulness, suffered death on the cross. Jude is called both by the name of Thaddeus and Libbæus: Matt. x, 3, and Mark iii, 18. Jude, the brother of James: Jude, verse 1. And Judas, not Iscariot: John xiv, 22. He was of our Lord's kindred; Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James and Joses, and Simon and Judas?' Matt. xiii, 55. After great success in his apostolic ministry, he was, at last, for a free and open reproof of the superstitious rites of the Magi, cruelly put to death. He has left one epistle of universal concern to Christians. *29. 1804.-GEORGE MORLAND DIED, ÆT. 39. His conduct was irregular beyond all calculation, and all powers of description; and while the vigour of his genius and the soundness of his judgment never forsook him in a picture, they scarcely ever accompanied him in any other employment, action, or sentiment of his life. Capable of the most regular and profound reflection on every thing connected with his art, capable even of the clearest distinctions of moral rectitude, he never appears to have dedi cated a single leisure hour to sober conversation or innocent pleasantry, to any of the endearing intercourses of domestic or social life, or to any rational purpose whatever. He is generally acknowledged to have spent all the time in which he did not paint, in drinking, and in the meanest dissipations, with persons the most eminent he could select for ignorance or brutality; and a rabble of carters, hostlers, butchers' men, smugglers, poachers, and postilions, were constantly in his company, and frequently in his pay. He was found at one time, we are told, in a lodging at Somers-town, in the following most extraordinary circumstances: his infant child, that had been dead nearly three weeks, lay in its coffin in one corner of the room; an ass and foal stood munching barley-straw out of the cradle; a sow and pigs were solacing in the recess of an old cupboard; and himself whistling over a beautiful picture that he was finishing at his easel, with a bottle of gin hung up on one side, and a live mouse sitting (or rather kicking) for his portrait, on the other! Astronomical Occurrences In OCTOBER 1819. THE Sun enters Scorpio at 9m. after 6 in the morning of the 24th of this month; and he rises and sets during the same period at the times specified in the following TABLE Of the Sun's Rising and Setting for every fifth Day. October 1st, Sun rises 11 m. after 6. Sets 49 m. after 5 6th, 11th, 16th, Equation of Time. If the following numbers be subtracted from the time as indicated by a good sun-dial, the remainders will be the time which should be shown by a well regulated clock at the same instant. October 1st, from the time by the dial subtract 10 7 Friday, Wednesday, 6th, Monday, 11th, Saturday, 16th, Thursday, 21st, Tuesday, 26th,. Sunday, 31st, 11 40 13 3 14 18 15 10 16 0 16 12 Moon's Passage over the Meridian. The Moon will pass the first meridian of this country at the following convenient times for observation, if the weather prove favourable: viz. October 1st, 39 m. after 10 in the evening. The Moon will also be eclipsed on the 3d of this month. But as the eclipse begins about 36 m. after 1 in the afternoon, and she does not pass the meridian of the Royal Observatory till past 12 at night, the eclipse will necessarily be invisible in this country, as the Moon will not have risen at the time. {Dark part 11.99159 digits. 0.00841 Venus is at this time evidently very near her superior conjunction, since nearly the whole of her disc would be seen enlightened, if not for the rays of the Sun, which prevent her from being visible at this time. Her conjunction, indeed, takes place at 30 m. after 6 in the evening of the 9th. Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. The following will be the eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites visible at the Royal Observatory this month. EMERSIONS. 1st Satellite 4th day, at 40 m. after 9 evening. Mercury will be in superior conjunction at 15 m. after 8 in the morning of the 21st. after 6 in the evening of the 9th. β Venus at 30 m. Mars will be in quadrature at 30 m. after 12 on the 15th. Jupiter will be stationary on the 4th. The Moon will be in conjunction with Saturn at 59 m. after 5 in the evening of the 2d; with ẞ in Taurus at 2m. after 11 in the night of the 8th; with Pollux, at 32 m. past 10 in the morning of the 11th; with Spica in Virgo, at 14 m. after 9 in the evening of the 18th; and with a in Scorpio at 19 m. past 9 in the morning of the 22d of this month. On the EFFECTS of GRAVITATION. [Continued from p. 234.] The effects of gravity are familiar to us in the oscillations of the pendulum, from which society receives |