URANUS is yet unfavourably situated for telescopic observations he rises about the middle of the month at one in the morning.

NEPTUNE is not in a good position for the telescopic observer during this month, owing to the strong twilight: he rises a few minutes before Saturn.

ARCTURUS, the largest star in Boötes, is due south on the 1st at half-past nine, and on the 16th at half-past eight, in the evening.

Note.-June 12th, 1764. La Land observed a comet eclipse a star in Cygnus.

June 20th, 1670. A new star discovered in the head of Cygnus it continued diminishing in magnitude during the years 1671 and 1672, till it ultimately disappeared, and has not been since seen.

June 21st, 1633. Galileo conducted in a penitential dress to the Judges of the Holy Inquisition to receive judgment, by which the venerable old man was called upon to renounce and abjure as heretical the opinions which his whole existence had been consecrated to form and strengthen.

June 22d, 1633. The abjuration of Galileo. It is said that Galileo, as he rose from his knees, stamped on the ground and whispered to one of his friends, " E pur si muove," "It does move though." For a venerable old man, who had enlightened Europe by his discoveries, to be seen upon his knees before an assembly of haughty ignorant bigots, renouncing, by their compulsion, those truths which nature and his own conscience affirmed to be incontrovertible, was a spectacle that cannot be thought of without indignation and abhorrence.

POETRY.

PSALM CXXXVII.

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept," &c.

WHERE Babel's streams meander'd,

Through Asia's desert land,
There, worn and spent, we wander'd,
A weeping, captive band;
And, as the waters tingled

Melodious on our ears,

We fell, and with them mingled
A flood of gushing tears.

The harps that were intended
To soothe our anxious care,

HYMN FOR THE OPENING OF A NEW SCHOOL.

From "Household Verses," by Bernard Barton.

UNLESS the house be rear'd by Thee,
And Thou the city's keeper be,

O Lord, in vain we toil!

The first shall crumble in decay;
The last shall fall an easy prey,

And prove the robber's spoil.

Thus have they thought, and felt, whose care
Hath sought this fabric to prepare,

Childhood to lead to thee;

Though rank and wealth, with generous aim,
Have striven to glorify thy name,

The blessing THINE must be.

Then hear from heaven, thy dwelling-place,
Our grateful song, and give thy grace
To crown this work of love;
That so the teachers and the taught
May, for the Saviour's sake, be brought
To meet in joy above.

QUAKER GRACES.

From "Household Verses, by Bernard Barton." To these thy gifts, and all to thee we owe, Thy blessing, Lord, the crowning grace imparts; Deign then to give it, and on us bestow

The added boon of humble, grateful hearts. We ask this in His name, and for His sake, Who, when below, thus bless'd the bread He brake.

Father, we thank thee! from thy bounteous store Thy gifts, like manna, round us ever fall: Teach us to feel thy goodness more and more, Who for us gavest thy Son, and to us ALL.

Whether we eat, or drink, or whatsoe'er

We do, or speak, or think, let all be done,
Said, thought, in holy love, and godly fear,
Of Thee, our heavenly Father, and thy Son!
That in the use of every gift supplied,
The Giver by his gifts be glorified.

IN PROSPERITY.

"REJOICE with trembling!"

May we think of this,

When life's full cup is with thy bounty crown'd;

That so we be not blinded by our bliss,
Or "fall asleep upon enchanted ground."

IN ADVERSITY, OF GOD'S APPOINTING.

I OPEN'D not my mouth, for it was thou,

O Lord, who didst it; and thou canst not err;

Enable me unto thy rod to bow,

And be, thyself, thy rod's interpreter !

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