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Solar SpOts.-On Saturday last the appearance of the sun was well calculated to call forth the easily excited feelings of the supersttous and to awaken the curiosity of the speculative. The early part of the day was cloudy, allowing but occasional gimps- es of sunshine. At these times the ground and the interior of houses which were exposed to the action of the sunbeams, exhibited asoftenedbriliance

 what resembling that seen during an eclipse, but diff

 ferlng in color, being deeply tnged with pleasing blue. Towards the evening the clouds dispersed, but the same shadowy light continued; and although nothing but the usual atmosphere ntervened the eye could gaze steadasy on the suns disk, without the slightest feeling of pain. A large spot, nearly egu- distant from the centre and the south-easern limb

 was distinctly visible to the naked eye, and we fan

 cied that we could distinguish even the faint shading of the nebuous border from the darker matter in the middle of the spot. The solar spots were first dis covered by Gallieo, in 1610, after he had com pleted his magnificent telescope; but although the was, previousto that time unknown the effects had been observed. It is related by Putarch that

 in the first year of the reign of Augustus, the suns light was so faint and obscure that one might look steadily at it with the naked eye." From the red- dish color sometimes presented by the sun when ob. scured by spots Helper conectures that they mo- thing more than dark clouds, floating over the suns surce while others think that they stars or pla- nets transitiDg his body. Dr Derham, in his Philo- sophical Transactions, supposes them to be voca- noes, and Dr Franklin thinks they are suphurious vapors which. having been previously detached by the action of heat, collect in cloudy masses re-de- scend, and are burnt over again. The color of the sunbeams on Saturday and Sunday seemed to strengthen the Doctors conjecture, as the reflected rays of the sum- which had previously passed through the smoke arising from burning sulphur, presented an appearance exactly similar.-Nsrberm, N.C Sen.