12 DECEMBER 1874, Page 3

The success or failure of the observations of the Transit

of Venus, which took place early on Wednesday morning, was known here on Thursday morning from the stations at Calcutta, Madras, Kurrachee, Shanghai, Cairo, Japan, and Siberia ; and on Friday morning information had been received from Australia, Transylvania, Teheran, and Taahkend. The successes have been more numerous than the failures. At a good many Russian stations, at Constantinople, at Tashkend, at Alexandria, and elsewhere the observations were mostly failures, from the state of the weather. But from the Indian stations, and Melbourne, Teheran, and Japan the reports are, on the whole, very favourable. The wonderful rapidity with which the astronomers at home have heard so much of the result is a romance in itself.