New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-15

Even as compared with John Calvin. william Cobbett
and the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the room adon
ing you might think then phanthropiss Of the period
Just in from airing No. no. had anyone ATTEMPTED
to stick pin in me to sec whether were wax or NOT
personal feeling might enter into this criticism but AZ
1t IT, write thus because grieyousy disappointed
where had been led TO expect great deal and IL "a
my Free unbiased and unprecedented opinion that in thu
IN OF the proprieors Of these works might yer
properly be boiled in their And while the Dot
was on, all Anatomical Museum might also be
trea led 10 penny dpi
AT the Tower If you dcxterousy dodge the warde
(more commonly called Beefeater y, in velvet hat and
coored ribbons who guides the party and loaf round BY
yourself you may have good time OF It, But rather
than be compelled to listen his stereotyped stuff and
be made hurry through without really seeing anything
buy lot of Tower photographs and read up in history
at home.
For enlde book prattle once begun,
Bequeatled by te1Ols sire tO son,
Though often told Is never done.
No blood spatters the walls do not expect to be IT'LL
lated in that way even in the Bloody Tower where I'd
ward " and his brother the Duke OF York. supposed
10 have cruel fate nc the hands of their usurpnr
uncle so the sins OF the father arc visited upon the
children for here Henry VI was helped along the road
to heaven il not landed directly there by Edward Of
York Oh yes the white rose has splashes Of red IT,
and this tower may indeed be called Bloody"
find Clarence. his hands yet wet with the blood of
Henry's son. spilled at Tewkesbury, floating in butt Of
malmsey for which his brother, this same Edward w.
stood treat"-alnost as sweet death to die, this,
that OF a ly in amber 3d. II stains are now found the
floor they may quite well be Of wine as Of blood and
in any event you need drop no tears on them.
In this little Devereux Tower " good Queen Bess"-
sweet virgin that she xas-wroo her recognizable sign
manual in the blood of her favorite Essex IN yOn
White Sewer Sir Walter Raleigh imprisoned; there
he wrote his History OF the World" and here he lost
the head which instructed his pen In this Brick Tower
Lady Jane Grey lodged and thence was led clay
her lovely head upon the block From this great Fort
ress Palace Prison. taken in its entirety Anne Boyn
went with pageantry unprecedented to be crowned
and here too the caprcious hand which set the
upon her head snatched it rudey off, and the graceful
mead as we'll One can believe that the body Of
her but few days before Henrys beloved Queen was
thrown into q common chest Of em-tree made TO put
arrows in and burned in the chapel within the Tower
before II o'clock the execution at IL But the
record tells it. 90 Father o, Creatorl Thou who an
the way tue truth and the lifel Thou knowest have
not deserved this DEATH" Certainly these words which
tie unfortunate Queen spoke on hearing her sentence
We not tho language of guilt And she walked
to the block as Dhey she rode to her brida-whieh
IL little to wonder at indeed considering whose wife she
had been Three years later, only another OF Henrys
queens beautiful Katharine Parr paid here the Usual len
atty for having wiyed this brckaced Biuebeard-Who
head never in picture without wanting 10 punch
it, And up Tower Hill, which you see from the nigh
window the same gentle monarch sent the venerable
Bishop Fisher; on the summit too by royal command
the white hairs OF Sir Thomas More made 10 stream
in the wind era4he ak fell which clothed them with
blood "Going up the scaTod, which was so weak that
il was ready to fall he said hurredy to the Lieutenant
Il pray YOU Master Lieutenant, me safe up, and for
my coming down let me shift for mysef' To set the
head OF this loved Lord Chancellor on London Bridge
toll ind I'm he q
ini1uty would scarce have been filled without Does
not vision OF the Countess Of Shrewsbury come upto
YOU lady lin her S0th year, think whose only crime
WAS her royal blood led TO the scadod at the tyrans
word, but stoutly refusing to lay her head
on the block $50 do traitors use to do, anu am no
traitor" she said. But while we look the headsMan
drags her by her gray hairs to the block there is gilt
ter Of steel in the air and keen-edged deseend
seneing all circumstances. Then the Earl OF surrey
poet dbut let dismiss the ghosts OF those VINO IN
mournful procession have gone up this Horrible hA
Tho eve scarce reaches TO end and sickens Of
building which has not pleasant ACKNOWLEDGMENT os
even Queen Eizabeths funeral celebrated within
walls Rather than show the structure to strangers En-
gland might better it down and distribute the 40
cursed bricks of its walls at the bottom of the Theses
xhe q they can only tell tales of what they have VIZ
messed to cold-boodcd pike and Dream
II dsnosed YOU can now examine an interestinglOtof
old and useless arms, and some thousands OF harunE
Henry rifles which will soon nave pace III inc 'ae o
lection Here too is some curious armor representing
dates and usages OF warfare, but as We long ago
cave onr arder the Slip the chances that If found
struggling by ourselves be suspected OF designs
on the crown Jewels. and spcared or shot through
with some trusty and rusty old pike or arqueoue ooe
we can expain-whch were little worse than 10 nave
been bored TO the center by t"alas'
"a we should have been If we had not
shunted7 az the head Of the first stairs But let usou
fort la l..
attraction for one accustomed 10 the gratutous display
AT TTinys and when go to Paris youl IND that the
Palas Royal can discount this Crown show to deaih
YOU really DO want to wind up with something grand %
fore leaving London, We will call on smaiey a'IH'
tribune Bureau Pail Mall and get the last news per
haps see the rush for TRIBUNEs when the steamer Aa
arrives which hope will not be on the day OF our vt
a, there would be little fun In taking our places w e
Iaii of queue in Cockspurs and waiting Two 2 In'es
hours for our turn. "'''N A