1632 Canada, Acadia, and Cape Breton, restored to France by treaty.
Montserrat settled by the English; and St. Eustatia by the Dutch.
1634 About 200 Catholics commenced the settlement of Maryland.
Death of Wallenstein. Battle of Noerdlingen.

The Dutch take Curacoa from the Spaniards.

1635 Foundation of the French Academy. Alliance of France and Sweden aProvidence, R. I. settled. [gainst Spain and Austria.

Martinique and Guadaloupe settled by the French.

1636 Saybrook, Hartford, Weathersfield, and Windsor, Ct. begun to be settled Utrecht University founded. [by emigrants from Massachusetts. 1638 March 24, Newport, R. I. settled-June 1, great earthquake-Sept. 29, Harvard College founded-New-Haven settled.

1639 First printing press in America, established at Cambridge, Mass. 1640 Portugal shook off the yoke of Spain. The House of Braganza. 1642 Death of Galileo [b. 1564]. Castelli and Torricelli, his disciples. 1643 Barometer invented by Torricelli.

1644 Death of Hugo Grotius. Dan. Heinsius [b. 1580, d. 1655].

Great massacre by the Indians in Virginia.

1648 Oct. 24, Peace of Westphalia. Confirmation of the treaty of Passau. Spain acknowledges the independence of the Low Countries. Marigalante settled by the French.

1649 Charles I. king of England, beheaded. Cromwell.

1650 Harvard College incorporated. Anguilla settled by the English. 1651 Sect of Friends (Quakers) appeared in England. Navigation act passed in England. Province of Maine attached to Massachusetts.

1652 First forge, for the manufactory of iron, erected at Raynham, Mass. Grenada settled by the French.

1654 The Cossacks pass under the dominion of Russia. 1655 The English take Jamaica from the Spaniards.

Persecution of the Valdois by Charles Emanuel II.

1656 Independence of Prussia recognised. Huygens [b. 1629, d. 1695].
1661 Dutch evacuate Brazils by arrangement with Portugal.
Dominica captured and settled by the English.

1662 Royal Society established.

1663 English take Bombay. Locke[b. 1632, d. 1704]. Dryden [b. 1631, d. 1701]. 1664 Elizabethtown, the first town in N. J. settled by emigrants from L. Island. New Netherlands surrend. to the English-name changed to New-York. 1665 Great plague in London. New-Haven and Connecticut united. 1666 Tea first imported into England. The great fire in London. 1667 The Dutch take Surrinam. Milton [d. 1674].

First, but unsuccessful, attempt made to settle S. Carolina.

[d.1695]

1668 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Moliere [b. 1620, d. 1673]. La Fontaine [b.1621, Yellow fever prevailed in New-York attended with great mortality.

Port Royal, S. C. settled.

1670 Corneille [b. 1606, d. 1684]. Racine [b. 1639, d. 1669]. Boileau [d. 1711]. 1671 City of Charleston founded. Danes seize upon St. Thomas.

1673 New-York retaken by the Dutch, and 1674 ceded by treaty to the English. 1676 Bacon's insurrection in Virginia, and destruction of Jamestown. 1677 First war between Russia and the Ottoman Porte.

Ukraine. Death of Spinosa [b. 1632].

1678 Peace of Nimeguen. Habeas Corpus act passed.

Russia seizes on the

1679 Louis XIV. takes possession of Alsace, and 1681 of Strasbourg New-Hampshire erected into a separate government.

1682 Foundation of Philadelphia, by Wm. Penn. French seize on Tobago. 1683 Delaware bought from the Duke of York by Wm. Penn.

1685 Edict of Nantz revoked. Massacres. 50,000 reformers quit France. 1686 Air pump. Calderon (b. 1601, d. 1687]. April 22, New-York chartered.

Albany chartered. First Episcopal church in America formed in Boston. 1688 William III. Prince of Orange, lands in England. Flight of James II. 1689 Toleration act passed. Episcopacy abolished in Scotland.

ASPECTS.

f Venus

d Conjunction or in the same longitude Vc. Quincunx, or 5 signs

Ss. semisextile, or 1 sign distant

* Sextile, or 2 signs

Quartile, or 3 signs

A Trine, or 4 signs

Dominical Letters

Opposition, or 6 signs

Ascending or Northern Node
Descending or Southern Node

COMMON NOTES FOR 1836.

Lunar Cycle or Golden Number

The Planet Venus (?) will be Evening Star till July 25th, when she will be in inferior conjunction with the Sun; after that she will be Morning Star through the year. Venus will be invisible a few days before and after the conjunction, on account of her nearness to the Sun.

Jupiter (4) will be in opposition to the Sun on the 2d of January; after that he will be Evening Star till July 19th, thence Morning Star.

Mars (6) will be Morning Star the whole of this year.

Saturn (5) will be Morning Star till April 21st, when he will be in to; then Evening Star till October 30; thence Morning Star again.

ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR 1836.

There will be FOUR ECLIPSES this year-two of the Sun and two of the Moon, in the following order:

I. The first will be of the Moon, on Sunday, May 1st, partial and visible, and calculated as follows:

First contact of the

with 's penumbra, at Oh. 56m. morning, A.T.

Beginning of the Eclipse, at

Last contact of the with's penumbra,

2 11

do

Quantity eclipsed 44 digits, on the Moon's southern limb.

II. The second will be of the Sun, on Sunday, May 15th, visible at New

York, and calculated as follows:

Beginning of the Eclipse, at

Middle, or greatest phase,
End of the Eclipse

Quantity eclipsed 8 digits, on the Sun's southern limb.

do

do

The first contact of the Moon's penumbra, or imperfect shadow, with the Earth, in this eclipse, will be at a little distance south of the city of Quito, on the Andes, South America, between the peaks of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, at the rising of the sun; and the last contact, at sunset, will be near the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean, a little northeast of the island of Candia.— The centre of the penumbra, and path of the annular eclipse, will first strike the earth at sunrise in the Pacific Ocean, in longitude about 98° W. of London, and latitude 8° N.; and taking an easterly and northerly direction withal, will pass over Guatimala, the Caribbean sea, Jamaica, the southeastern part of Cuba, and the northwestern part of St. Domingo into the Atlantic Ocean, where it will bend its course a little more to the north; traversing the Atlantic to the east coast of Ireland, it will again gradually change its direction to near a due east course, cross the northern part of Ireland, the North Channel, the north of England and the south of Scotland, the North Sea, Denmark, the southern part of Sweden, the Baltic and the northern parts of Prussia and Poland into Russia, and inclining to the south, it will pass off to the Caspian sea, where it will leave the earth at the going down of the sun. At all the above places, at the time of greatest obscuration, there will appear round the dark body of the moon, a golden glittering ring or wire of the sun, of variable duration, from 20 to 90 seconds.

III.

The third will be of the Moon, at the time of its full, October 24, at 8h. 21m. in the morning, invisible. A very small eclipse.

IV. The fourth and last will be of the Sun, on Tuesday, November 8th, at 8h. 56m. in the evening, of course invisible; but it would also be invisible, on account of the Moon's south latitude, were it to happen before sunset. In the Indian and south Pacific oceans it will be visible and very great. Central and total on the meridian in the Southern Ocean, about 550 miles south of Van Dieman's land. The course of the Moon's shadow over the Earth will be from northwest to southeast. The penumbra and partial eclipse will first strike the Earth at the rising of the sun in the island of Java, and leave the Earth at the going down of the Sun in the south Pacific Ocean, in longitude 139° 59′ W. of London, and latitude 40° 18' S.; but the umbra and total eclipse will first strike the Earth at sunrise in long. 83° 26' E. and lat. 9° 33′ S. and leave the Earth at sunset in long. 116° 45′ W. and lat. 51° 12' S.-that is, the Sun will rise totally eclipsed at the former place, and set totally eclipsed at the latter.

The Moon's mean distance from the Earth is 289 960 miles.

D. for day-h. for hour-m. for minute-M. for month-even. for evening -morn. for morning-N. for north-S. for south-E. for east-W. for west -Inf. for inferior-Sup. for superior-declin. for declination-pl. for placefor degree for minute-" for seconds.

LAKE ERIE AND NEW-YORK CANAL.

A Committee at Buffalo have made a report to the Common Council of that City, from which we gather the following information as to the opening of the Erie Canal at that place and at Albany, and the opening of Lake Erie at BufFalo, for nine years past.

MERCANTILE ALMANAC.

1836.

This Almanac (or Table) will be found very useful in calculating the time when notes become due. For instance-if a note is dated the 13th of February, at 90 days, that date, as will be seen, is the 44th day of the year, being in a line with 13 in the index, or left-hand column, to which add 93 days (which includes 3 days grace) and the table shows the 137th day of the year to be May 16th, and falling on Monday.

INDEX.

12

JANUARY.

13 FEBRTARY.

MARCH.

32 61

33

Sun. 34 63
35

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APRIL.

36 65 96 37 Sun. 97 7 Sun. 67 98

39 68 99

10 Sun. 41

11

12 12

13

13

14

92 Sun. 153 183 214 245 275 306 336 93 123 154 184 215 246 Sun. 307 337 Sun. 124 155 Sun. 216 247 277 308 338 64 95 125 156 186 217 Sun. 278 309 Sun. 126 Sun. 187 218 249 279 310 340 127 158 188 219 250 280 Sun. 341 128 159 189 Sun. 251 281 312 342 Sun. 160 190 221 252 282 313 343 40 69 100 130 161 191 222 253 Sun. 314 344 70 Sun. 131 162 Sun. 223 254 284 315 345 11 42 71 102 132 163 193 224 Sun. 285 316 Sun. 43 72 103 133 Sun. 194 225 256 286 317 347 44 Sun. 104 134 165 195 226 257 287 Sun. 348 14 Sun. 74 105 135 166 196 Sun. 258 288 319 349 15 15 46 75 106 Sun. 167 197 228 259 289 320 350 16 16 47 107 137 168 198 229 260 Sun. 321 351 17 Sun. 48 Sun. 138 169 Sun. 230 261 291 322 352 18 18 49 78 109 139 170 200 231 Sun. 292 323 Sun. 19 19 50 79 110 140 Sun. 201 232 263 293 324 354 20 20 51 Sun. 111 141 172 202 233 264 294 Sun. 355 21 21 Sun. 81 112 142 173 203 Sun. 265 295 326 356 22 22 53 82 113 Sun. 174 204 235 266 296 327 357 23 23 54 83 114 144 175 205 236 267 Sun. 328 358 24 Sun. 55 84 Sun. 145 176 Sun. 237 268 298 329 359 25 25 56 85 116 146 177 207 238 Sun. 299 330 Sun. 26 26 57 86 117 147 Sun. 208 239 270 300 331 361 27 27 58 Sun. 118 148 179 209 240 271 301 Sun. 362 28 28 Sun. 88 119 149 180 210 Sun. 272 302 333 363 29 29 60 89 120 Sun. 781 211 242 273 303 334 364 30 30 121 151 182 212 243 274 Sun. 335 365 31 Sun. 244 305 366