show the exact fulfilment of other portions of said predictions. "I find (says Capt. Morrison, that arch-humbug, as Punch in his vulgar ridicule intended for wit, has this week dubbed him) "that Mercury and Mars enter Virgo together in the second week of the month, and form a square to Uranus during the third week." From these positions, in addition to the atmospheric phenomena already quoted he foresaw "much turmoil, great fires, injuries to buildings," &c. Simmonite [a classical academician] also declares in addition to atmospheric perturbations, "Important physical effects, improvement in propelling steam vessels over the ocean, some fearful explosions, railway accidents", &c.
Now, as before intimated, the planets Mercury, Mars and Uranus, and the moon, are represented as the cause (or tokens) of these events. On the 9th of September, Mars and Mercury entered the sign Virgo nearly at the time that Uranus formed two "aspects", and on the afternoon of day there was a terrific explosion of the Great Eastern, off Hastings; thus coinciding also with Orion's prediction "some fearful explosion may be apprehended". On the 14th, Mars, Mercury and the moon formed potent aspects, and on that day there was a fatal accident on the Great Western railway, and two fatal accidents on the Great Northern Railway. On the 16th, Mars, Mercury and the moon were again angularly posited, and the South-Western railway was the scene of another serious collision, whilst in Ireland, a frightful explosion of gas took place at Lord Limerick's mansion, and in Saxony, a tremendous conflagration destroyed 300 houses. This was followed by one of the most extensive fires within the city boundaries of London that had taken place for some years, also a collision, with loss of life on the Thames. From the 18th to the 21st, collisions, with loss of life on the Thames. From the 18th to the 21st, beginning with a square of Mercury and Uranus, and ending with a square of Mars and Uranus, the "disturbing planets formed no fewer than eight configurations, and during that time the following casualties occurred:- Mutiny on the Great Eastern; wreck of a Jersey steamer by striking on a rock; conspiracy to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey; 200 persons arrested; military riots at Bury; the Fury steam tug blown to atoms near Bristol by the bursting of its boiler; a collision also on the river Avon near Bristol (Bath and Bristol and their vicinities were specially mentioned by Orion as places where explosions might be apprehended); a steamer being sunk by such collision; frightful explosion of a steam-engine at Lewes; alarming collision of railway carriages at Nottingham; another serious railway accident near Hereford; a triple collision of vessels on the Tyne, and anticipated wreck of a large steamer in consequence. On the 26th, Mercury, Uranus and (new) moon again assumed untoward positions, and on the same day, a most appalling explosion at Birmingham, by which 18 or 20 persons were killed, and as many more injured; also an explosion -
