The Penny Bee-Hive. — 1870-05-07 (London, England)

THE .C.A.kTOL, or Chief Palace of Home.  The tyrannical reign of Tarquin the Proud was at length brought to an end, and with it the kingly power in Rome for ever, by an event recorded in stories that hare become part of the world's inheritance, famous for all time, and which must therefore be given at length. The legend runs thus :  pfkerieanss tte., at ,tu Wna eshl iettc,ihs owSieicokot ul asset, eo rsin s7,'lV'Stihtsae tt ihneOuksn,iensogn;i.lfig oht hft iErtdhg. been made goversor of Collatia. So they be,...an to dispute about the worthiness of their wives; and when each maintained that his own wife was worthiest, " Come, gentlemen," said Collatinus, "let us take horse and see what our wives are doing; they expect us not, and so we shall know the truth." So they galloped to Rome, and there they found the wives of nil the ethers feasting and revelling ;' but when they canle to Collatia, they found Lucretia, the wife of Collatiaus, not making merry like the rest, but sitting in the midst of her handmaids carding wool and spirming; so all allowed that Lucretia was the worthiest. Now Lucretia was the daughter of a noble Ronian, SpOins Lucretius; Prefcct of the City ; for it was the custom, when the kings went out to war, to leave a chief rnan at home to govern in the king's name; and he Was called Prefect of the City. But it chanced, that Sextus, the king's son, when he saw the fair Lucretia, was smitten with lustful passion ; arid a feW days after he came again to Collatia, and Lucretia entertained him hospitably as her husband's cousin ard friend. But at mitl. night he came with stealthy steps to her bedside : and holding a sWord in hi right hand, And laying his left hand upon her breast, be bade her yield to his wicked desires; for if not, he would slay her and lay one of her Slaves beside. her, and would declare that ho had taken than hi adultery. SO for shaine she consented to that which no far would have wrung from her: and Sextus, having wrought this deed of shame, returned to the camp. Then Ludietia sent to Rome for her father, and to the Camp at Ardea for her husband._ They carne in haste. Lucretius brought with hint P. Valerins, and Collations brought L. Junius Brutus, his cousin. And they cattle in and asked if tilt were well. Then she told them what was done; "but,?' she said, "my body only has. suffered the shame. for my will consented not to the deed. Therefore," she cried, "avenge me on the wretch Sextus. But though my heart has not sinned, I can live no loiter. Lucretia will not set an example of living in unchastity." So she drew forth a knife arta stabbed herself to the heart: When they saw that, her father and her hustar.e, cried aloud; but Brutus drew the knife from tx4., wound, and holding it up, spoke thus: "By tens pure blood I swear before the Gods that 1 w pursue L. Taientinitts the Proud and all his lait.t, y house with fire, sword, or in whatsoever y may, and that neither they nor ally othet sax hereafter be Kings ;n Rome." Then he gat the knife to Collations and Lucretius and Vate. and they all swore likewise, much marvehiingu hear such words from L. Junius the Dullard. At a they took pp the body of Lucretia, and carriedli into the' Forum, and called an the men of Collatia. to rise against the tyrant. So they set a guard at the gates of the town, to prevent any news of the matter being carried to King Tarquin ; and they themselveS, followed by the youth of Collatia, went to Rome. Here Brutus, who was Chief Captain of the Knights, called the people together ; and b told them whet had been done, and Called on them by the deed of shame wrought by Sextus, by all that they had suffered from the tyrants, by the abominable murder of good King Servius, to assist them in taking vengeance on the 'lsarquins. Sc WaS hastily agreed t 6 banish Tarquinius and hi s family. The youth declared themselves ready to ; follow Brutus against the King's army, and the seniors put them-selves under the rule of Lucretius, the Prefect of the City. In this ttimult, the wicked Tulliaited.ftom her house, pursued by the 'curses