Shower on the 1st, P. M.; on the 3d, A. M.; on the 5th, A. M.; on the 14th, P. M.; on the 19th, P. M.; on the 20th, P. M.; and a great rain, from the 16th to the 18th. Whole quantity of rain during the month, 5.32 inches.

9 P. M.

87 A. M.

1

30.26 30.20 30.29 78 | 68 | 52 | Fair | Fair | N.W.3

2 30.17 30.14 30.09 51

9 P. M.

7 A. M.

9 P. M.

7 A. M.

9 P. M.

W.

63

N.W.

S.W.

78 55 Clo. Clo.

79 48

56 55

29.69

29.75 | 55 | 57 | 53

A shower on the 3d, in the morning; on the 11th, P. M.; on the 12th, P. M.; on the 14th, P. M.; on the 17th, P. M.; on the 18th, heavy rain during the night; on the 22d, rain through the day. Whole quantity of rain, 4.86 inches.

On the 28th, early in the evening, an aurora borealis. It rested as usual upon a regular arch of a dark cloudy aspect, rising ten or fifteen degrees from the horizon, and extending fifty or sixty degrees each way from the magnetick north. There were a few perpendicular streamers, beside the steady equable light over the arch, that sometimes shot up twenty or thirty degrees, with a sort of twinkling, intermittent light. It died away gradually, and disappeared about 11 o'clock. Stars were visible through the cloudy arch at the bottom.

Mean temperature deduced from three observations each day 65.72°

CAMBRIDGE.

The terrible storm on the 23d of this month, was very severely felt in this place. The wind was east in the morning, and pretty strong. Between 9 and 10 o'clock in the forenoon it shifted to the south-east, and afterwards to the south. It appears to have been most violent about the time of its changing, both before and after, for chimneys were blown both to the west and north, but shingles and slates, that were torn from the roofs of buildings, were carried to the greatest distance in the direction of about three points west of north. The greatest destruction took place between half past 10 and half past 11, the wind varying from south-east to south, and being at the same time more and less violent alternately. The rain ceased about the time the wind changed. A clear sky was visible in many places, during the greatest violence of the tempest, and clouds might be seen moving very rapidly in the direction of the wind. The air had an unu sual appearance. It was somewhat darkened by the excessive agitation, and filled with the leaves of trees and other light substances raised from the ground, which were whirled about in eddies instead of being driven directly forward, as in a common storm. The river raged and foamed like the sea in a storm, and the spray was raised to the height of fifty or sixty feet, in the form of thin white clouds, which were drifted along in a kind of waves, like snow in a violent snow storm. Several persons in attempting to reach the river were driven back, when they came to an open place, by the force of the wind, and were obliged to make several efforts, before they could overcome the violence of the pressure. It was impossible to stand still in a place exposed to the full force of the wind. Being abroad with several others, we were obliged to shelter ourselves behind some obstacle, or to keep moving about; and as we passed from one place to another, we inclined our bodies towards the wind, as if we were ascending a steep hill. It was with great difficulty, that we could hear each other speak at the distance of two or three yards. The wind pressed like a rapid current of water, and we moved about almost as aukwardly as those do, who attempt to wade in a strong tide. The barometer descended very fast all the morning, and at the time the wind was highest had fallen about half an inch. It began to rise as the wind abated, and recovered its former elevation by the time the air was restored to its usual tranquillity.

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MISCELLANEOUS AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

The late Hon. Isaac Royall, formerly of Medford, and at his decease of Kensington, Great Britain, by his will dated 1773, and a codicil 1779, bequeathed to the University certain lands, with power to sell them and apply the income of the capital obtained, towards endowing a Professorship of Law. The income, although not sufficient for the maintenance of a resident professor, affording a compensation for a competent number of lectures in jurisprudence, considered as a part of general education, the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers, have added to the institution a Professor of Law. He is styled the Royall Professor of Law, so long as the endowment by Mr. Royall shall constitute the largest part of the fund appropriated to this professorship, but may have another name if at any time hereafter his bequest should be exceeded by the benefaction of some other person.

The lectures are to be given three or four times a week, between the middle of March and May of each year, to the members of the senior class, to resident graduates, and to students of law, and others specially admitted.

The Hon. Isaac Parker is appointed to this office, which he has accepted with the view of commencing the lectures the next season, it being a part of the year when the official duties of the Chief Justice will not interfere with those of the Professor.

We are happy that our educated young men are to be guided to a knowledge of the general principles of law, and their application to our forms of civil and ecclesiastical polity under the auspices of a civilian, so entirely the object of publick confidence.

The Rev. John Snelling Popkin, D. D. has entered upon the office of College Professor of Greek, to give the whole instruction to the classes in that department. He succeeds Mr. Asher Ware, late College Professor of Greek, who has resigned his office. Six students have been admitted into the sophomore class, and sixty four into that of the freshmen, since commencement.

John C. Warren, M. D. late adjunct professor, was recently publickly inducted in the University Chapel, into the office of Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery.

Jacob Bigelow, M. D. was announced as Lecturer on Materia Medica and Botany. And,

* Walter Channing, M. D. as Lecturer on Midwifery.

*The lectures of the Medical School of the University, commence this month in Boston.