’No kiss, no smile, but aye that clasp—­
      Tender, and close, and brave;
    While, like a tortured thing, upleapt
    The boat, and o’er her deck there swept
      Wave thundering after wave.

    ’I looked not to the stormy deep,
      Nor to the angry sky;
    Whether for life or death we wrought,
    My whole world dwindled to one thought—­
      Where he is, there am I!

    ’On—­on—­through leaping waves, slow calmed,
      With salt spray on our hair,
    And breezes singing in the sail,
    Before a safe and pleasant gale,
      The boat went bounding fair: 

    ’But whether to a shore we came,
      Or seaward sailed away,
    Alas! to me is all unknown: 
    O happy dream, too quickly flown! 
      O cruel, cruel day!’

    Pale Helen lived—­or died:  dull time
      O’er all that history rolls;
    Sailed they or sunk they on life’s waves?—­
    I only know earth holds two graves,
      And heaven two blessed souls.

REMITTANCES TO AND FROM EMIGRANTS.

Within the past few years, a system of foreign exchanges has been perfected in this country, by which the smallest sum of money can be remitted either way across the Atlantic, with perfect security and the greatest dispatch.  Drafts are drawn as low as 1s. sterling, which are cashed in any part of Great Britain or the United States.  This, to emigrants who wish to bring over their money without fear of loss, or to residents here who wish to remit small sums to their relatives or friends in Europe, to enable them to come to this country, is of vast importance, as it guarantees them against loss; that is, when the drafts are good.  This is, therefore, the great point at issue.  To obtain drafts of undoubted credit and security is the first thing to be considered.  There are dozens of drawers on both sides of the Atlantic, all of whom have their friends, who place more or less confidence in the character of the bills drawn.  We have no doubt they are all sound and solvent.  We know nothing now to the contrary.  The drafts can be obtained in any city in the Union, for any amount, from 1s. sterling upwards, drawn upon some place in Europe; and drafts can be obtained in various European cities payable in any city of the United States.—­Abridged from the New York Herald.

FOREST-TREES.

In contemplating the length of life of one of the reverend and hoary elders of the forest, we are apt to forget that it is not to be measured by the standard of man or of the higher animals; for it is really not the measure of an individual existence, but, as it were, of the duration of an empire or a nation.  A tree is a populous community, presided over by an oligarchy, of which the flowers are the aristocracy, and the leaves the working-classes.  The life of the individual members of the commonwealth is brief enough, but the state of which they are members, has often a vast duration; and some of those whose ages we have referred to, could they take cognisance of human affairs, would look with contempt upon the instability and irregularity of human governments and states, as compared with the unchanging order and security of their own.—­Professor Forbes in Art-Journal.