Celestial phenomenon.
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A friend informs us that on Saturday night be witnessed a beautiful spectacle an the heavens tor nearly m hour. l: txactly resembled cross, was quite luminous, and lil,le south of tue moon, ubich doubtless caused it. Tie Rev. James Mckay has furnished the follow ing description of the phenomenon to correspondent of the Courier. Mr. Nc Kay states the length of time which the cross was seen, to have been l5 minutes but our friend thinks he must have ob- served i, for nearly an hOur:-

 "On the night of Saturday, the 9th lh- stant, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, very extraordinary phenomenon appeared in the heavens when the moon was about eight or tcn degrees above the horizon. Thcre was a ve,v thin veil of mist in the East. Al precisely the same elevation as that or the moon, and about 20 degrees to the south of it, we saw luminous appear ance which strikingly rescmbled crosS' the horizontal beam extending beyond the vertical one, three times further on the south side than it did on tho norih.- Both beams appeared to be almost per> fec,ly straight; the breadth of each be- ing about quarter of degree. Al 'heir intersection we observed an ill-de6ned spot, twice or three times as bright as any other part. The upper end of the vertical beam showed faint prismatic colcrs. Tho northern part of the ho1i- xontal beam disappeared when the re- maining parts of the figure became most brilliant.

 "This phenomenon was visible, as have said, on the south side of the moon and it lasted about fifteen minutes. A''sf we had gazed in as,ouishmsnt for about five minutes, we observed on the north side of the moon, at the same distance from the Iuminary. and tho samo eleva- toa above the horizon. 0 bright appear euce without any definite outline. Al first if was very faint; but it gradually became about as brigh. as the Milky Way l on clear night

 "Bo,h vanished about the same t'me' bu, not suddenly. l looked for other pbeno,nena, but could discover none. Ii theso were arcs of great cirles around the moon, the remainders of the circumter- enccs vera invisible. ."-New Haren P0'' laaium, March 25.