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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1211, 27 November 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

A great dispute has lately been going on as to Cromwell’s skull. Two skulls appeared* One was in the possession of Mrs. Frank, land Russcll-Astley, lineal descendant of the Protector. Another was lodged at a countryhouse near Sevenoaks, the property of Mr Wilkinson. The two skulls would have been embarrassing had not one turned out to be a plaster cast. 'The first and only one, had, however, a cm ions’ and degrading history. It was exposed on one of the pinnacles of the Westminster Hall frontage* until it fell, in a storm, into Ohl Palace-yard. Picked up by a soldier, it was passed on to a Drury - lane actor, who parted with it for a consideration to a member for Lambeth, through whom it has descended to Mr Wilkinson. There seems to be no doubt of its identity, strange as is its story. An honoured grave in the Chapel of a king at Westminster, a shameful exposure at Tyburn, an exaltation of disgrace at Westminster, a sacrilegious fall, rhe prize of a soldier, th-* curiosity' of an actor, and the ornament of a library last of all, a priceless though rather grim relic—such have been the successive fates of the skull of the man who once ruled England. Imperial Casar’s “clay” stopping a hole to keep the wind away was no such mad flight of fancy after all.—“ Liverpool Mercury.” A Beuesiiixg Contrast.— Diffrent localities seem to have astangc effect upon some people. In the Strand Messrs. Spiers and Pond appear to have no difficulty in keepingup their Gaiety, but in Piccadilly thev have a good “ Cri ” You Bex!—A certain old lady is much exercised in the mind to account for so many people’s partiality for Good wood Stakes. She thinks that, however good the wood may be, the stacks muse be anything but digestible or nourishing. For her own part she mean to stick to the juicy rump.