"_Premonition._ It has pleased the AUTHOR _of_ CREATION to cause (to His _human and reasoning_ Creatures of this generation, by a '_combined_' appearance in His _Zodiacal_ and _Cometical_ system) a '_warning Crisis_' of universal concernment to this our GLOBE. It is this '_Crisis_' that has so generally 'ROUSED' at this moment the '_nations throughout the Earth_' that no equal interest has ever before been excited by MAN; unless it be in that caused by the 'PAGAN-TEMPLE IN ROME,' which is recorded by the elder Pliny, '_Nat. Hist._' i. 23. iii. 3. HARDOUIN." After the accounts given by the unperceiving astronomers, comes what follows: "Such has been (_hitherto_) the only object discerned by the '_Wise of this World_,' in this _twofold union_ of the '_Zodiacal_' and '_Cometical_' systems: yet it is nevertheless a most '_Thrilling Warning_,' to _all_ the inhabitants of this precarious and transitory EARTH. We have no authorized intimation or reasonable prospective contemplation, of '_current time_' beyond a year 1860, of the present century; or rather, except '_the interval which may now remain from the present year 1843, to a year 1860_' ([Greek: hemeras HEXEKONTA]--'_threescore or sixty days_'--'_I have appointed each_ "DAY" _for a_ "YEAR,"' _Ezek._ iv. 6): and we know, from our '_common experience_,' how speedily such a measure of time will pass away. "No words can be '_more explicit_' than these of OUR BLESSED LORD: viz. 'THIS GOSPEL _of the Kingdom shall be preached in_ ALL the EARTH, _for a Witness to_ ALL NATIONS; AND THEN, _shall the_ END COME.' The '_next 18 years_' must therefore supply the interval of the '_special Episcopal forerunners_.' (Matt. xxiv. 14.) "See the 'JEWISH INTELLIGENCER' of the present month (_April_), p. 153, for the '_Debates in Parliament_,' respecting {352} the BISHOP OF JERUSALEM, _viz._ Dr. Bowring,[731] Mr. Hume,[732] Sir R. Inglis,[733] Sir R. Peel,[734] Viscount Palmerston.[735]" I have quoted this at length, to show the awful threats which were published at a time of some little excitement about the phenomenon, under the name of the _London Society_. The assumption of a corporate appearance is a very unfair trick: and there are junctures at which harm might be done by it. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST. _Wealth_ the name and number of the Beast, 666, in the Book of Revelation. [by John Taylor.[736]] London, 1844, 8vo.