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The Days OF Queen Mary.

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The Days OF Queen Mary.
The following description of the idea and man
ners of the age Of Queen Mary of England, we
take rom B.ack,co0d Read il, and say IT you
can, that the world has not advanced in morals
aud intelligence
To give only one or two instances of the man
ners and ideas OF the age Of which Queen Nlary's
lot was cast II is generally known that denry
VIII. put seventy two thousand persons, OF all
RELIGIOUS persuasions, to death on the scahoid,
during his single reign; but is it equally well
known that his daughter Elizabeth had an array
of three hundred heads of persons, convicted Of
hioh treason placed on London Bridge. including
lh0se Of her cousin and friend Norfolk, and her
fayorite romantic lover Essex and so far from
being shocked at the gbast!y array, she took the
foreign ambassador to see IT., III order to show
..hoW we serve traitors in England" Protestant
historians have recounted with just Indignation,
tina, the bloody Mary east TWO hundred and forty
men. women aud children into the flames during
her brief and alrocious reign but they have, not
equally prominently brought forward, that
yreater number Of Catholic priests and partizans
were. by her Protestant successor, secretly racked
70 the utmost limits which human frame can en-
dure. in that awful scene of human agony, the
Towsr OF london.
After the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the
ladies' of the Court Of Paris went out to examine
the long rows of the bodies Of the Huguenot cava-
Gers who had been slain during the iumult and
curiousIy turned them over when hall stripped OF
their garments, said to each Gther-"lhS must
have been charming lover; that was not worth
loIking at" -.
And when the fantastic assassin Ravillie was
brought ont into the Square OF Louvre, to undergo
durincr fou, hours the most rlghttu loruTes when
human ingenuity or malignity could devise, or
humanity could endure, the GhGle ladies OF the
Cour, Of Paris assembled to witness the spectacle,
and as high prices were given Tor the best places
on the street leading 10 St. PauFs, OH the ap-.
preaching occasion when the hrst and nooieSl o'
Britain attended her greatest hero 10 his last rest
lag place. . ::
yeyiny the annals Of the past, 10 bring ourselves
tc conceive how human beings could, Ia any age,
nader apy cjrrumslances, have been brought 10
lead themselves to such barbirlties But nothing
is more certain than tue greatest and best did SO
thew deesacd that they were doiGg Gods service
whom so cnoayed. Witness Sir Thomas Moore
fnggiru q prisoner with his own hanos IN his
sr,en. to convert him from heresy II we are
wise and mat. we will judge OF those VINO llveo IN
thuse saysre taes according 20 lhe ineasufe o' lhe
ideas with which they were surrounded, ana not
our own; and reflect with deeper thaDktu!ueSs on
our happier lot. when subjects are not cas!eo 10
UNDERGO such aacrfces in their dutY 10 'he' SOW
ereign, and ;he Queen On the throne can eA.ipi'
the spirit uf her pianlagenet iorelalheFs, anu 'He
graceS Of her Stuart ancestors, Without o,i"e eH-
posed TO the terrible trials which either underwent
Tyr Pace OF OI.D ALDERMEN.-A good
thing is going the rounds about ""e 'l oul ,. nn"
Alderman. which is related in this wise; ne
Grand Jury semmoned Alderman - befnFe
them for the purpose ot asking HIM some questions
Ha came herore them, and the following conver-
satiON occurred
..Ald.rmso -. has any one ever offered yon
any money in the shape oi b!lhe, Slnce your eioo-
top?'
.ov+,o was it 2" said one Of the Grand jury
..And how much did lie offer you?" inquired
enc of the othsr jurors.
"Twanty fave dollars" responded the Alder
man, with curl of his lip.
Did You take it 2" said the !Ormeman.
(Empoalinally) mo. Sir"
..M7. -. did You offer Alderman -
TWENTY-FIVE dollars as bTioe for voting go and
s0 pa
"Yes. Sir"
'eDid he take it ?"
NO. Sir.'
"Wby didn't he take it ?'' said one Of the ju-
rors, much surprised. =
..Weil. he said that he couldn't sell himself
for twenty five dollars. as hat ,cas The prlce q
old ,4laermen-the ne,c Orcs range higher -
Buffalo Republic.
Human DsstoNnENcY ANp ITS Cause.-The
law Of life is, in the sweat of thy brow 'hou
shalt cal bread No man can evade that law win
immunity. Like all Gods laws il is lis ovn eX
ecutioner. It has strange penalties annexed to 1t
would YOU knUw them2 GJ 10 the park, or
the esplanade, or the solitude after the night of
dissipation, and read the penalties ct being use
less, in the sad. jaded ,s,Iess counenances nay,
in ;he very triGes which must be con'rIved to
create excitement artifcially. Yet these very
ewes could. dull rs they are, bea9 with intelll-
uence on many of those brows is stamped the
mark of possible nobility. 7 he fact is, that the
capacity of eanm is one of the signatures OF mans
1t is his very greatness which
makes naciion misery. Il God had made MS on
ly 10 be insects. with 10 nqbeg care incumbent on
us than the preservation Of our lives. or the pur
suit OF happiness we might be content to flutter
from sweetness to sweetness and from bud to flow
er. But if men with souls live only to eat and
drink and be amused, is it any wonder if life be
darkened with despondeqcy ?-F. W. Robertson.
A PUZZLED IRIsHMAN.-Mr. O'Flaherty un-
derook TO tell how many were at the party:
The two CroganS was one myself was two
Nike Ficn was three and-and and who the
devil was four? Let me sec counting his
finxers) the two Crogans was one, Mike Finn
was two, myself was ee-and-bedad! there
was four of US; but ST. Patrick couldn't tell the
other. Nov il'S mPself that has it. Mike Finn
was one, the two Crogans was two. meself was
three-and- -and-by my sowl, think there was
out three of us after all.'
An inventive genius intends applying to pat
ept machine which. lie says, when wound up
and put in motion. will chase hog oyer ten
acre lot catch, yoke and ring him, or by slight
change Of gearing. i, will chop him into sausages,
work his briS'es into shoe brushes and manu(ac
ture his tail into curkScrew
He only is great man who can neglect the ap-
pause of the multitude, and eujuy himself igde-
pendent of its favor.
Coleman. the dfqmaSt, WAS asked # he kney