of our telescopes; and that with a 10 feet Newtonian, charged with a magnifying power of only 60, he saw all the 5 old satellites; but the 6th and 7th, which were discovered and were easily seen with his 40-feet telescope, and were also visible in his 20-feet instrument, were not discernible in the 7 or the 10-feet telescopes, though all that _magnifying power_ can do may be done as well with the 7-feet as with any larger instrument. Speaking of the 7th satellite, he says, ‘Even in my 40-feet reflector it appears no bigger than a very small lucid point. I see it, however, very well in the 20-feet reflector; to which the exquisite figure of the speculum not a little contributes.’ A late observer asserts, that in 1825, with a 12-feet achromatic, of 7 inches aperture, made by Tulley, with a power of 150, the 7 satellites were easily visible, but not so easily with a power of 200; and that the planet appeared as bright as brilliantly burnished silver, and the division in the ring and a belt were very plainly distinguished, with a power of 200. The planet _Uranus_, being generally invisible to the naked eye, is seldom an object of attention to common observers. A considerable magnifying power is requisite to make it appear in a planetary form with a well-defined disk. The best periods for detecting it are, when it is near its opposition to the sun, or when it happens to approximate to any of the other planets, or to a well-known fixed star. When none of these circumstances occur, its position requires to be pointed out by an Equatorial Telescope. On the morning of the 25th January, 1841, this planet happened to be in conjunction with Venus, at which time it was only 4 minutes north of that planet. Several days before this conjunction, I made observations on Uranus. On the evening of the 24th, about 8 hours before the conjunction, the two planets appeared in the same field of the telescope, the one exceedingly splendid, and the other more obscure, but distinct and well-defined. Uranus could not be perceived, either with the naked eye, or with an opera glass; but could be distinguished as a very small star by means of a pocket achromatic telescope magnifying about 14 times. It is questionable whether, under the most favourable circumstances, this planet can ever be distinguished by the naked eye. With magnifying powers of 30 and 70, it appeared as a moderately large star with a steady light, but without any sensible disk. With powers of 120, 180, and 250, it presented a round and pretty well-defined disk, but not so luminous and distinct as it would have done in a higher altitude.