The Sun's Distance

. The New York World publishö3 a cable diepat ch f rom London, ea.ving : " The flröt tentativo compu'ationB made at Gieeuwieh of dataobtamndfiom obervatioiis of the recent trarsit of Vunus have yielded resulta Konn-.what d.ffereut from what wero expeoted. Four caïculations made independeutly give the tuu's paralax as being respeetively 906 Becoudn, 9J5 secondi, Ü25 sucouds, and 920 teconds, the rman being 2D4 peconds. The coniputatiorjs were made by Prof. O. Henrici, Ph. D , uf the Uiiiveruity College; Mr. Frederk'k Guthrif, of the Boyal School of Miuea and Art, and MeHsrw. Duukiti and Ellis, asiialauts at the Royal Obeervatory, Greenwich. No calculatious have vet been compïeted at Kew Observatory. The omputaliona na given were made ouly upon ho basis of laoinmts of external and iutpmal ontaot as reported from difforant poiata of boervation, and may bo c ousiderably moditd whcn photograpiiic and micromeuc moasrements are taken into ecjount." Based on thie dispatch, the World remaiks, n tho authority of an American antronomer, s fellowe : "To gay that the eun's parallax has bsen Bcsrtained to be 924 eecondö, is to eay that ie hun is distant from us about 22.323 semiiameteTs of the eartb, or 88,143,726 miles. m ia 6.Ü26. 274 miles less than the digtance ado out by Encke from observatious of the aat tratmit, and 3,(100,000 or 4,0(10,000 less ïan the resulta obtained by more recent ■SKUremente. If thi- ratio were constant, e xhfiUld requiro 1,410 years to overeóme he entire distance and f all into the smi. But, it is certa'n tbat our centripetal motion ould be vaetly accelerated continually &8 wo ot closer within the sphere of the nun's atractiou, unl;8 his orcen should be proporonally decreaeed orhis volume reduced, it is bo probable that wo ehould consume very much leBH time than is above given in making ie tremendom journey."