The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-25

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iIoOps, be pushed on Tor Cambridge, winch h5
reached that night.
Seventh Day. The samm r cum dawped on a
country wasting with passionate pam. In
every city the crowd WAS for Mary, while the
higher class OF thinkers aud reiocmers WAS for
Jane. Nicholas Ridley, Hihop of London,
walked down to Paurs Cross, and preached an
eloquent sermon againss the Scarlet woman;
while John Knox was laundering forth his pyo.
phetic warnings at Amershdm in Bucks. From
thousand pulpits England was that day
warned that house divided against i'self must
fall.
In the palace Of the Tower cry OF defect on
rose, but the garrison was too prompt TO action
for the evil spirit to get abroad. hbout O'Clock
the gates were suddenly locked, and the keys
carried up to the Queens room. Tue guards
were told that O seal was missing: but in fact,
the missing seal was the Lord High Treasurer.
Pembroke ard Winchester had tried to leave the
Tower privately; PEN broke had been watched
and taken, but Winchester had got aWay. Toe
first thought OF every man was that he had car
Ited OIL his money; and some arChers of the
guard were sent after him to his house, with
orders 10 arrest and bring him back. Tney
seized him in his bed, and delivered him at the
Tower wicket 10 Sir John Brydges, the Lieu
tenant, as the clocks were Ginning IL.
Eighth Day. Monday brought fresh sorrow to
Queen Jane. Her house was divided against
itself: the Duke, her father, had no confidence
IN the Duke, her iather-in.law; the Duchess of
Northumoerland was quarrel ng with the
Duchess of Suffolk; ana the foolish Guilford
was going about whimpering that he wanted 10
be king. Her council was also divided against
Itself. Dudley was absent: Pembroke and Win
chester were little more than prisoners; Paget
and Arundel were false; Bedford was suspected;
and Cranmer, if true to Jane, was acting as a
couucillor with the faint heart of a man who
feared that he was doing wrong. Her country
was divided too, but in no equal parts. Jane
| was popular, yet the people we're mainly on
MarJ's sides and no thunders of Ridley and
| Knox could make common folk understand
| that a woman ought to lose her civil rights
! because she held certain opinions ABOUT the
| Keys and the Bread and Wine. AS yet there
! had never been prince on the throne of
| hostile creed; and the people had yet to read
! in the light of Smithdeld fires the sad lesson
| OF country divided in its body aud its
! head The Commons felt for Mary, and they
| tanCied she could 40 no harm. Single and
! siCkly, she was not likely either to leave son
or even to live long. Her sister, strong and
| beautiful as pard, was English in blood and
| English in thought. What the Spanish weak
ness of Mary might put crooked, the English
| strength of her sister could set straight. They
would rather bear with Marys monks for a
| time-a very short time-than start on a new
| contention of Lancaster and York. Wise men
| might forecast the future in another way; but
| in days of turmoil, wise men do not shoulder
| pixies and brandIsh broadswOrds; and while the
! thinkers were weighing Arguments for and
| against the two queens, q hundred thousand
men, moved by their hot blood only, were
| bearing Queen Mary to her fathers throne.
! Ninth Day. On Tuesday morning the game
! was seen to be up. The Queens Council were
nearly of Que mind. CIanmer and Grey were
| true; but OF the NOBLE crowd who elboWed them
| at the table every other man was false. Most
| of them, Winchester, Arundel Pembroke, Paget,
! Shrewsbury, had made their peace, and Kept
| their places in the Council only to betray the
| girl whom they had forced to ascend the throne.
| The army was as rotten as the Council, When
| Dudley marched on Bury his soldiers mutinied
on the road, and forced him TO fall back on
! Cambridge, which was already filing with
! Queen Mary's friends. In fact when he took up
! his quarters in Kiugs College, he was a prl-
sOner, though suffered to sleep without the
| appearance Of a guard.
Next day the Council left Queen Jane in the
| Tower alone; Queen Mary was proclaimed in
Cheap and in st. Paul's Churchyard. The nine
| davs' reign was over.
When the archers came to the Tower gates,
| demanding admission in Queen Mary's name
Grey gave up the keys and rushed into his
| daughters room. The Summer Queen was sit
ting in chair of state, beneath a royal canopy.
! Come down, my child" said the miserable
| Duke, "ths is no place for you." Jane thought
go too, and quilted her throne without sigh.