previous experience, insisted upon removing the boat to a greater distance. It was well they did so; for, gazing at the white face of the glacier at the distance of about a mile, a loud explosive detonation, like the crack of a whip vastly exaggerated, reached their ears, and at the same instant, with reverberations like near thunder, a great mass fell into the sea, obscuring everything in a cloud of foam and mist.

The undulations which radiated from this great centre of displacement were fearful. Fortunately for Mr. Grundeitz, floating bodies do not change their position very readily under the action of propagated waves, and the boat, in consequence, remained outside the grinding fragments; but the commotion was intense, and the rapid succession of huge swells such as to make the preservation of the little party almost miraculous.

The detached mass slowly adjusted itself after some minutes, but it was nearly an hour before it attained its equilibrium. It then floated on the sea, an iceberg.

ID pleasures and palaces though we | An exile from home, splendor dazzles in

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Be it ever so humble there's no O, give me my lowly thatched cottage place like home!

A charm from the skies seems to

hallow us here

again!

The birds singing gayly that came to my

call;

Which, seek through the world is ne'er O, give me sweet peace of mind, dearer than

THE CLOCKWORK OF THE SKIES.

EDWARD EVERETT.

E derive from the observations of the heavenly bodies which are made at an observatory our only adequate measures of time, and our only means of comparing the time of one place with the time. of another. Our artificial timekeepers,-clocks, watches, and chronometers, however ingeniously contrived and admirably fabricated, are but a transcript, so to say, of the celestial motions, and would be of no value without the means of regulating them by observation. It is impossible for them, under any circumstances, to escape the imperfection of all machinery, the work of human hands; and the moment we remove with our timekeeper east or west, it fails us. It will keep home-time alone, like the fond traveler who leaves his heart behind him. The artificial instrument is of incalculable utility, but must itself be regulated by the eternal clockwork of the skies.

This single consideration is sufficient to show how completely the daily business of life is affected and controlled by the heavenly bodies. It is they and not our main-springs, our expansion-balances, and our compensationpendulums, which give us our time. To reverse the line of Pope,

'Tis with our watches and our judgments: none

Go just alike, but each believes his own.

But for all the kindreds and tribes and tongues of men,-each upon their own meridian,—from the Arctic pole to the equator, from the equator to the Antarctic pole, the eternal sun strikes twelve at noon, and the glorious constellations, far up in the everlasting belfries of the skies, chime twelve

at midnight-twelve for the pale student over his flickering lamp-twelve amid the flaming wonders of Orion's belt, if he crosses the meridian at that fated hour-twelve by the weary couch of languishing humanity, twelve in the star-paved courts of the Empyrean-twelve for the heaving tides of the ocean; twelve for the weary arm of labor; twelve for the toiling brain; twelve for the watching, waking, broken heart; twelve for the meteor which blazes for a moment and expires; twelve for the comet whose period is measured by centuries; twelve for every substantial, for every imaginary thing, which exists in the sense, the intellect, or the fancy, and which to speech or thought of man, at the given meridian, refers to the lapse of time.

The lily-white doe Lord Ronald had brought We two will wed to-morrow morn,
Leapt up from where she lay,

And you shall still be Lady Clare."

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CRIME SELF-REVEALED.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

GAINST the prisoner at the bar, as an individual, I cannot have the slightest prejudice. I would not do him the smallest injury or injustice. But I do not affect to be indifferent to the discovery and the punishment of this deep guilt. I cheerfully share in the opprobrium, how much soever it may be, which is cast on those who feel and manifest an anxious concern that all who had a part in planning, or a hand in executing, this deed of midnight assassination, may be brought to answer for their enormous crime at the bar of public justice.