12 FEBRUARY 1870, page 13

The Situation In Rome.—ix.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Rome, February 5, 1870. Two rumours have been going about which I omitted to take notice of before, but now think it my duty to mention. The......

Measuring Star-heat.

L AST year the scientific world hailed with interest the dis- covery that heat comes to us from beyond the infinite depths which separate our earth from the fixed stars,......