Now, let us see what the almanac oracle of the present time--“Francis Moore, Physician”--says about the weather, for June, 1832. He says, in one of his narrow columns which runs parallel with the calendar of the present month, “Variable, with thunder showers flying about. Some showers at intervals, attended with electrical _phenomena_, EVEN TO THE END.” Be it remembered that this prophecy is for _all parts_ of the United Kingdom--for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland;--for the hilly districts and for the plains,--for the coasts and for the inland countries. A correspondent, who writes to us about the weather, very sensibly says, “Does it not often happen that they have many rainy days successively at Manchester, whilst not a drop falls at Leeds? How then can any man’s tables about the moon, or general rules for the weather, or the prophecies of almanacs, answer for both the hilly and level districts? The Cheshire men say that their rugged-topt hills knock out the bottoms of the clouds, and leave them as leaky as a sieve while passing over Manchester.” So much for the _universal_ application of these astrological predictions of the weather. But let us further examine this prophecy of Moore’s Almanac for the present month of June. There are some who impudently defend the publication of such predictions, as well as the predictions of political events which the same almanac contains;--and they say that the weather prophecies are only intended to give the average results of many years of actual observation, which make more impression upon the farmer’s mind in this form than if he were to refer himself to meteorological tables of the barometer, of the thermometer, of the hygrometer, and of the rain-gauge. Now, here is a prediction calculated to frighten the credulous agriculturist into a belief that the whole of June, throughout the country, will be unfavourable to hay-making:--“Showers at intervals, attended with _electrical phenomena_, EVEN TO THE END.” Electrical phenomena! This is a phrase as terrific as the obscurities of the ancient oracles. A phenomenon, as most of our readers know, is an appearance--anything made manifest to us in any way; and as electricity is doubtless one of the most important agents in producing particular states of the weather, rain and sunshine, wind and calm, heat and cold, may be equally _electrical phenomena_. But “showers at intervals, attended with electrical phenomena,” is a phrase naturally calculated to frighten the ignorant into a belief that the weather of June, “even unto the end,” will be rainy, attended with heavy storms; the most unfavourable state, because producing the greatest uncertainty and expense in the work of getting in the hay-harvest. This prediction was probably manufactured a year ago: it was printed in October last; and so far from giving a notion of what is the _average_ weather for June--the only matter upon which the prediction monger could possess the slightest