The account of the affair read as follows:-- "On the third day of the season of nuts, there will be the commencement of a great moral eclipse, in that portion of the monikin region which lies immediately about the pole.

The property in eclipse will be the great moral postulate usually designated by the term Principle; and the intervening body will be the great immoral postulate, usually known as Interest.

The frequent occurrence of the conjunction of these two important postulates has caused our moral mathematicians to be rather negligent of their calculations on this subject of late years; but, to atone for this inexcusable indifference to one of the most important concerns of life, the calculating committee was instructed to pay unusual attention to all the obscurations of the present year, and this phenomenon, one of the most decided of our age, has been calculated with the utmost nicety and care.

We give the results.
"The eclipse will commence by a motive of monikin vanity coming in contact with the sub-postulate of charity, at 1 A.M.The postulate in question will be totally hid from view, in the course of 6 h.

17 m.
from the moment of contact.