The southern press., 1851-08-27

| to the circumstances of the tragedy
The justice of man is complete God has par
doned the young culprits, who have lost their
lives by having trusted their faith to the infam-
GUS falsehoods Of the New Orleans papers,"
| A letter to the latest moment from Havana,
says, it is feared the tr ops sent against Lopez,
have gone over to him, as his forces were every
hour increasing. II was feared by the authori-
ties at Havana, that the country was all turned
in his favor. III reinforced, Lopez will have an
uninterrupted march to Havana.
The Total Eclipse, as seen ON the Coast OF
Norway.
The Scotsman has very interesting commu-
nication from the Astronomer Royal Of Scot
land, who obtained steamer from the commits
sioners of the Northern lighthouses, and per-
mission from the Swedish authorities to land on
any part of the coast of Norway. He was ac-
companied by Rev. DIR. Robinson, of the Ar
magh Observatory. A station was selected on
one of the outlying Blue Islands, in lat. 6l deg.
90 min. This was in the centre of the line Of
shadow, and clear horizon in the direction of
the sun at the time OF the eclipse was obtained.
The weather was very inauspicious, the morning
being cloudy, and immedia ely after the total
observation, deluge Of rain fell. We copy
the main portion Of this account:
"The instruments We're landed at an early
hour, and there were sufficient glimpses of the
sun through the clouds to obtain the necessary
observation for time and for latitude; and before
the commencement Of the eclipse, each observer
was told of with his Instruments prepared, and
with a code of Instructions. These, too, were
SO arranged, that by division of labor il was
hoped that, although the important part of the
eclipse was Of so short duration, and the number
Of phenomena to be noted so many and various,
that yet none of them, whether referring to the
purely astronomical bearings of the case, or to
cosmical or to terrestrial physics, could be well
lost sight of-that is, weather only permitting !;
but this was by no means so favorable us could
have been wished. Still, however, the COM
mencement Of the eclipse was fairly observed,
and sufficient was seen during its progress to
enable the observers to take accurate notes of
some spots on the sun, and of mountains on the
edge of the moon, so as to be prepared to state
their degree OF connection, as regards place, to
those wondrous tongues of light, and the va
riations of the corona, the most ineXplicable and
the most important of all the phenomena pre-
scented during total eclipse Further, the in
stant of complete observation was observed very
accurately, and some interesting features Were
remarked, tending to explain anomalies per-
| ceived in former total eclipses, and indicating
rapid fuctuation in the degree Of brightness of
1 the suns surface.
/ Immediately after this, however, the clouds
became so very thick that the enerson of the
sun was not seen at all, and heavy rain begin
ming soon after, continued through the rest Of
the evening. But the terrestrial phenomena, 10
which more attention could be turned, on the
loss of the celestial ones, were of a nature
abundantly sufficient to satisfy any soulcapable
of entering into and appreciating the awful and
| the sublime
AS the totaity approached. the air felt SEN
/ sibly colder at every moment, and the darkness
plainly increased the clouds seemed TO lower,
and under the sun was seen an appearar ce of
rushing descending streams of them, while the
sea-birds appeared by their noise to be gathering
around the rocks for their nightly rest or for
shelter. The difference of illumination had also
become very marked on the mountains at diff
! ferent distances, those, far from us being
brought out with vividness and di.tnctness
which made our own increasing gloom the
more observable. Suddenly, at the moment Of
totality, the very extremity of darkness seemed
to fall upon us. Not so, however, absolutely,
for the rain-clouds which closed in the greater
| part Of the horizon. left open n strip of sky ex-
tending from N. w. to f. NJ f, and two or
three degrees high, and which at this moment
became of Il dark lurid orange color, verging
from red on one side to greenish on the other
and enabled US barely to see each other, by
faint unearthly sort of light small hand lamps,
fifty or sixty yards of, in hollow, were as Wis.
ible as in n dark night, and, with their red
color, contrasted strangely with the general
geen hue Of everything Immediately around
But the appearance Of the country, seen
| through that iurid opening under the clouds,
| fha -,
the centre Of the shadow, we could yet, by rea.
son of their great height, see the distant peaks
Of the lefty Jostedals and Dovrelei,d mountains
still Illuminated by the rays of the sun descend.
ing upon them from on high but We were shut
out into utter darkness. Some approximation
TO the appearance might be obtained by watch
ing the opportunity Ola similar coniguration of
clouds in the north from the Caton hill during
a mdsumnIer's midnight but still it would be
only an approximation, for never have we OBJ.
served all the light of heaven and earth so
entirely confined 10 one narrow strip along the
horizon, never hat peculiar greenish hue and
never that appearance or outer darkness in the
place OF obsersa,on and Of extensive distance
IN the verge of the horizon (caused in this case
| by :he hills there being more highly illuminated
IA they rccedcd, by less and less eclipsed sun:
while in morning or evening sky, they are, on
| The contrary, most IN The shade, and therefore
are dark aud unnaturally thrown forwafd)
Though none of US were unmoyed with graft
tude at having been allowed 10 witness such
spectacle, though we should have been glad TO
have enjoyed its teachings for a longer space Of
time, and should have been alarmed, Indeed, if il
had not happened as it did, and with such won
derful accuracy TO the computed lime, yet cer-
tain feelings Of relief were experienced when
the urid streak 10 the sky suddenly changed to
yellow when the clouds frightened mp, and the
darkness seemed 10 be waited visibly away TO
the southeast
| The sea birds that had stopped their screaming
during the darkness, now rcappcared; but The
wild Norsemen Of those rocky isles, who had
congrcgatcd so curously around us during the
commencement of the eclipse, when tile light
returned, where were they! Gone 10 hide
themselves in their huts, thinking that they were
in the jaws Of destruction among tho stones of
darkness, and in the shadow of death. Such
We heard nflprwnrds woa Tho oena,al co.I;,,