SOLAR srors.-The Boston Mercantile Journal
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says :-

 A dark spot of uncommon magnitude is now vis- Ibe on the disc of the It is more than ten thousand miles in diameter, and its area is greater than of the Pacific ocean. This spot was first ob- served tbe 18th inst the eastern limb of the sun, and little above his equatorial diameter. It has now advanced nearly to the centre of the disc, and will occupy seven eight days more in passing across to the western mb, where II will disappear. It cannot be seen without difficulty by the naked eye but is shown distinctly with telescope eight or ten inches Tn length. In making observations re- htng to the sun, the eye should be carefully protected by means of coored glass. piece of window glass rendered quite dark by the smoke of lamp BssidesIhe princralspot visible the suns disc there are five others of sufficient dimensions 10 be seen with 52 inch achromat,c telescope The sun has not been entirely free from spots for several weeks. On the 3lst of January fifteen counted, though most of them were comparatively small.

 The theory most generally adopted by astrono . mers in regard to these spots is, that they are DOT. tons of tho solid and opaque mass of the sun, seen throu5 openings in the luminous atmosphere or phosphorescent clouds with which that body is sur rounded. ..T ....