THE ECLIPSE OUT OF ENGLAND. —Punch has received from his own astronomers—and that, too, with the greatest despatch—the fullest account of the late eclipse of the sun, as seen from different points of Europe. Some of these reports divested of astronomical terms are simply as follows: Rome—Very dark, indeed, the moon appeared something like a fisherman’s ring—our readers are, no doubt, familiar with the trinket—on the disc of the sun; wherever the ring was visible, the light of the sun was altogether intercepted. Naples—The sun was edged with blood; and the moon itself, now looked like a bomb-shell, and now, as the man in the moon showed himself, a portrait of king Ferdinand. Madrid—Here the moon appeared upon the sun elongated, thus, 0: which cipher was interpreted as having some significant relation to Spanish bonds. Vienna—Total darkness; clouds shaped like a huge double eagle, blotted out the sun, birds went to rest, and even the Ministry pulled off their boots for bed, believing midnight come. Paris—the moon—as described by M. Arago—appeared like a pitch plaster upon the face of the sun. Certain deputies, however, declare it to be like a monstrous blot of censor’s ink.

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