With thee I could from rise of day
With rapture e'en till night-fall stray;
With lover's pure delight

Still wander all the night:

Then let me wedded be
Mine only love to thee.

SONG.

From the same.

Think not, dear love! that there can be
Within my heart one thought of thee
Which love would ever blush to own;
It beats for thee, and thee alone!
The breeze upon some crystal lake
Doth oft a transient ripple wake;
And for awhile the Naiad fair
Beholds not her own image there.
Thus often does a careless word,
Though lightly uttered, deeply heard,
Disturb thy heart's tranquillity,

And hide awhile my love from thee!

FLOWERS.

There is religion in a flower;

Its still small voice is as the voice of conscience.
Mountains and oceans, planets, suns, and systems,
Bear not the impress of almighty power
In characters more legible, than those
Which he has written on the tiniest flower

and anchored in Falmouth Harbour on the 19th. The Great Western departed from Bristol on the 8th of April, and she also arrived at New York on St. George's day! though some twelve or fifteen hours later than the Sirius;-and again, leaving New York on the 18th instant, reached Bristol on the 22nd. All honour to those who so boldly ventured and so ably triumphed. It is not two years since the assembled science at the British Association were engaged in warm discussion as to the possibility of that which has now been accomplished-done not only without accident, but with scarcely enough of perilous incident to awaken public interest. How far the facts will bear out some or many of the speculations of the philosophers remains to be seen; the influences of weather, the proportion of tonnage to power occupied by fuel and engine, the average rate, &c. were then considered: and we shall next week have an opportu J. D. nity of submitting to the scientific public full and ac curate data on these subjects; the Log-Book of the Sirius having been obligingly submitted for our use and their service. The Sirius had an unusually rough pas sage, and encountered severe gales, which she rode out with comparative ease. The passengers, indeed, speak in the highest terms of the seamanship of Captain Roberts, and the sea-worthiness of his vessel; in

Whose light bell bends beneath the dew-drop's weight.

the roughest weather, says one of them, "she rolled decidedly less than a sailing vessel: we sat down to table as usual, without having to put up the stanchions to the table." Her average speed we have not calcu

Domestic Life.-Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it with-lated, but we observe that the least was 89 and the ers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised, as they must be, in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are, perhaps, as necessary to the full developement of her charms, as the shade and shower are to the rose,

confirming its beauty and increasing its fragrance.

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greatest 225 miles in the twenty-four hours; but all such, and other interesting particulars next week. The superiority in speed of the Great Western we attribute in degree to her greater length. What then may not be accomplished by that noble vessel the British Queen, launched on Thursday, which is 275 feet long, being 35 more than any ship in the British Affection.-Affections well placed and dutifully che- navy? The generous and enthusiastic welcome with rished; friendships happily formed and faithfully main- which the officers of the Sirius and the Great Westtained; knowledge acquired with worthy intent, andern were received at New York does honour to the intellectual powers that have been diligently improv- American people; every possible testimony of respect ed as the talents which our Lord and Master has committed to our keeping: these will accompany us into another state of existence as surely as the soul in that

state retains its identity and consciousness.

From the Athenæum.

STEAM NAVIGATION.

The great experiment of traversing "the vast Atlantic" by the aid of steam has been triumphantly successful; the Sirius and the Great Western once again ride proudly in British ports. The Sirius, as we announced, left Cork on the 4th of April, and arrived at New York on the 23d, St. George's day! She again started from New York on the 1st instant,

and hearty good-will and good wishes were shown to them; not a whisper of regret was heard that the great enterprise had been accomplished by British skill; they were welcomed as brothers by men who saw only in the event the revolution which had been at once effected in the commercial, and, we may say, in the social relations of the two countries-an event which will form an epoch in the history of civilization itself-which tends to unite in the bonds of enduring fellowship the greatest nations of the earth, allied by language, by literature, by interest, and by blood; and offers to both, a guarantee, a thousand times more binding than all the treaties that were ever penned for the preservation of that honourable peace which now gladdens and enriches them.