Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-03 00:00:00

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said I will have valued and sold, if necessary, all my
jewels for the success of this holy enterprise. I will cut
..Mr. down my luxury. A simple string of coral will sit more
etical secure on my neck than a necklace of diamonds, if the
King latter can serve to defend our own beloved Spain, and

her renown.'

COURT LIFE UND.

EIGHTH HENRY

curious manuscript was presented to the Antiquarian
Society of Yerkshire in IMB. It contains sundry rules
to be observed by the household of Henry VIII., and
enjoins the following singular particulars :---" None of
his Highness's attendants to steal any locks or keys,
tables, forms, cupboards, or other furniture, out of noble-
men's or gentlemen's houses where he goes to visit. No
herald, minstrel, falconer, or other, to bring to the court
any boy or rascal, nor to keep lads or rascals in court to
do their business for them. Master cooks not to supply
such scullions as go about naked, nor lie all night on the
ground before the kitchen tire. Dinner to be at ten, and
supper at four. The Knight Marshal to take care
that all such unthrifty and common women as fol-
lowed the Court be banished. The proper officers are,
between six and seven o'clock every morning, to make
the fire in, and straw, his Highness's privy chamber.
Officers of his Highness's privy chamber to keep secret
everything said or done, leaving harkening and in-
quiring where the King is, or goes, be it early or late,
without grudging, mumbling, or, talking of the King's
pastime, late or early going to bed, or any other matter.
Coal only allowed to the King's, Queen's and Lady
Mary's chambers. The Queen's maids of honour to
have a Chet loaf,'a manchet, a gallon of ale, and a chine
of beef for their breakfasts. Among the fishes for the
table is a porpoise, and if it is too big for a horse load,
a further allowance is made to the purveyor." The
manuscript ends- with several proclamations. One is to
take up and punish strong and mighty beggars, rascals,
and vagabonds who hang about the court.

XTi.AORDINART RE-LICE Or ANCIENT SWITZER-
LAND.—The relics I was now surveying came from a
tumulus, opened some years ago, under the direction
of Professor Treyon, of course in a forest, on a hill. The
hill and the forest are about five miles inland from
Lausanne. The relics are three earthen pots which are
filled with a calcined-looking stuff ; then, sundry small
bones of animals ; then, a number of warlike implements,
and a still greater number of female ornaments, consist-
ing of glass bead necklaces and bracelets, that have an
Egyptian character, and. a very curious appendage, like
a little bronze cage with a round white stone loose in
it—a child's rattle, in fact. These objects were found
in the following ()Frier : lowest were the earthern pots
that held all which had once been a hero, or heroes.
Above these came a vast assemblage of bones, supposed
'to be those of the warrior's favourite animals, which
were slain in order that they might accompany him
into Hades. At the summit of the tumulus—crowning
the terrible interest—were four skeletons of females,
supposed to be the warrior's four wives, also sent after
him to Hades. Concentrating the interest, I take
the professor's account of the uppermost skeleton. It
was that• of a young female, in an attitude of suppli-
cation and wild agony. The knees were bent, as if she
had implored for life ; the arms were cast on high,
as if in frantic deprecation. of her fate. She had
evidently been tossed upon the top of the pile, and her
limbs yet retained the very posture in which she died.
Then earth and stones-had been thrown hastily over
the corpse, to crush out the remains of life, if any
remains of life there were. A large stone had shattered
one of her feet;- another lay across her arm, the bone
of which it had, broken. "Was she stoned to death ?"
I asked. , uNor replied the professor; ‘she was
probably slaughtered at a stone-alter, which was close
to the tumulus, and in which the customary, blood-
basins of the heathen are still to be seen in situ—for,
the altar, as we had others of the same kind, we-did not
remove from its place. Besides, it was the wish of the
owner of the wood that the relic should remain on
his property." " Did you preserve the skeleion ?" " I
could not. It fell into a thousand pieces in being re
moved from the pile. But here
skull ;and
you see by the teeth (magaifict
not ?) that the poor thing was young.'

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special purpose which is set before us, the special
machinery by which that purpose is to be attained.
I was glad to hear that passage in the report
where it is distinctly pointed out that the work
of this mission is not to be the. exclusive work of
the two Universities ; they are to be the nucleus
from which

the efforts are to sprinz, around
nit our hope and con-

which they are to centre

.4ngland will be anxious and ambi-
tious to share in this good undertaking, and that
rsities will have done no more in Vths than

the uniVe
their sp(

function to-day, which is to point

out to our countrymen the way in which they are
to go. (Cheers.) But the resolution which I have
undertaken to gecond. 'meals by its language
specially to our minds the 'union of the -two uni-
and although I am sdrry, and almost

3rsities

3d, to introduce one word of what is per-
sonal in connection with such weighty and,holy
rs as those we 'have before us, yet I may be
permitted, at least upon this day. to say that it
is a particular pleasure to feel that in the vest
which I wear, by your favour, the union of the
two Universities is in some degree signified and.
represented. (Loud cheers.) It will always re-
main ' among the most delightful

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and hon

ourable recollections of my life th-at the associations
of reverence and affection with which every Ox-
ford man must regard the University of Cambridge
have been, increased on this particular occasion by
the honour—little, indeed, deserved—but not
upon that account less to be valued and remem-
bered. (Cheers.) But the union of those Uni-
versities signifies :much, indeed, that pertains
alike to the present purpose of the meeting and
to the welfare and happiness of England. In
that union is contained rivalry not only compati-
ble with respect and affection, but it is that kind
of rivalry in which they draw a stronger and a
higher vitality. They have before them a com-
mon work : they are the heirs in common of re-
collections such as scarcely any institutions in the
world .can boast ; and at this period of what might
be thought their extreme old age,,they are, thank
God, developing themselves with new vigour upon
every side, and promising from day to day, and
year to year, to become less unequal to the enormous
calls which the wants of this mighty nation con-
stantly make upon them. (Cheers.) Never can
the Universities be united fora better, holier, or

wiser purpose than that in which they are now
engaged ; and, permit me to,say, never can they
be united for a purpose, which is more naturally
germane to their work, if their work be, as we
hold it is in the first instance to be, the bulwark
of the Christian faith ; for he has narrower views
of the functions of the Universities who can con-
sider that in a single operation, even though
it be the greatest of all connected with the
development of the mind of man, the Office of
the university can' be confined. Their very
name—l do not now enter into the question
of its origin—may serve as an example of the
extent of purpose which they contemplate. And
when you are told to undertake missionary
work, you know well that you are invited to
go forth alike as the ministers of spiritual and
temporal blessings, and that as our Lord, who
brought, light and immortality into the world,
spent the greater portion of his time in a direct
mission for the consolation and relief of human
woe, so you, when you carry the Gospel into
Africa, are not only to provide the natives of that
country with the passport to immortal life, but
you are to give them hope for themselves, for their
children, for their descendants, for all that is dear
to man in this world, as well as the other ; there
will be, with all the blessings which belong to the
other world, everything, too, that can belong to
this. (Cheers.) Eminently is it fitted for the
University to undertake to be in the van of such a
work,' and well it is that we should see that
if the growth of civilisation and the immense
development of this nation in all ranks, classes,
and pursuits, has rendered it far more difficult
in this period of the , world's history' than, it
ever was before for Universities to answer
the demands made upon, them, yet that at least
there will not be wanting effort or will ; but if it
be a question, of extending their operations to
classes hitherto not within their reach in Eng-
land; or if it be a question of carrying the truth

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self beyond the narrow limits of the particular
organisation with which he was immediately re-
lated.' Desiring the propagation of the Gospel
in Africa, he asked himself where he could find
miist power,"and the most desirable and effective
engine for the .prosecution of that work, and
his heart, his conscience, and his intelligence
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