THE TOWER OF LONDON.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 825, 29 September 1877, Page 2

THE TOWER OF LONDON.

LAST NIGHT'S LEGTUrtE. TUBES was a full attendance las; night at Le Que; ne's H»ll on the ocoashn of the lecture on ''The Tower of London." delivered by the Rev Charles Clark. Many had doubtless heard the lecturer before, while all had heard of his rare and marvellous powers of language and elocution. Great as was the expectation, tne realiiiition of intellectual c joyment was gratifi >d to the fullest possible measure The audience was' held m wrapt attention throughout, now provoked to m*rriinent at the delightfully vulgar sayings put into the mouhnsol kini_;B and bisbops, who li»ed ceuturies before the days of Artemua Ward, or by tne comic description of .he escape Q* the Bishop of Durham from the Tower— now wrougnt to a state of deeper feeling at the j affecting descriptions of tue deaths of venerable men and beautiful women wh» died within its walls, for conscience sake. The (l is tory of che origin an J daouessive addi ions to tne Tower was, of course touched upon, indeed the leoture wa* introduced by aa eloquent refereuce to the veueration m whicb every civilised mtion held the material mouu ments of history. Touching on* titt-r tin otbe on those various incidents of interest with wbioh the Tower is associated m t ie mind of the most rdmarily acqu»iuied wi'-a the hiitory ef ne Kugiishp o|jle— tue dramatic episode* tv tbe liv^d of Gloucester, Laiy Jane. Q-roy, Fisber, Ulssex, che patriot aud vlirtyr Sydney, RaliOgh, and many o.b tb, the lecturer brought bis tue.alow.i to the Tower as it exists m the reign of her oiesae 1 M .jeaty the Q iceu, iuung which tne walls uad .ever tch»ai to a prisoners groaus, aud thus conclude-* al otiro whicb, taking near y two boms iv its deivery, left not a iraca of wean ness on tbe audieuoo.