Peter Parley does not like to croak, nor to look back upon unpleasant things. But there was once an evil May-day, as it was termed. In the reign of Henry VIII. a great jealousy arose in the citizens of London towards foreign artificers, who were then called strangers, and by the interference of one Doctor Standish, in a spital Sermon at Easter, on the 28th April," divers young men of the citie picked quarrels with certaine strangeres as they passed alonge the streets. Some they smote and buffetted, and some they threw in the channell, for which the Lord Mayore sent some of the Englishmen to pryson. Then suddenly rose a secret rumour, and no men could tell how it begun, that on May-day next following the City should slay all the aliens." This was met, however, by the King in person and the Lord Cardinal. We had a Cardinal then as we have now, of more plague than profit; "and the Cardinal made a great fuss concerning the matter, and frightened the sober people out of their wits almoste; because a few apprentices made an uproore, and for this thirteen were adjudged to be hung, drawn, and quartered; and for execution thereof, ten payre of gallowes were put up, and were set upon wheels, to bee removed from street to street, and from doore to doore. On the 7th of May, John Lincoln, one Sherwen, and two brethren named Betts, and divers others, were adjudged to die; and they were drawn on hurdles to the standard of Cheap, and first was Lincoln executed; and as the others had their ropes about their necks, there came a commandment of the King to respite the execution.

"On the 13th of May, the King came to Westminster Hall, and then other prysoners were brought to the number of 400 and 11 women, each with a halter round the neck. The Cardinal laid some

grave things to their charge; but the King heard their cries for pardon, and pardoned them all, and the prisoners shouted all at once, and cast their halters towards the roofe of the hall, at which the said Cardinal was sore discomfitted, at which the King laughed righte heartylee, as well he mighte."*

Let us hope that in our May Fair we shall look upon foreigners as brothers, and not strangers.

Song for the Spring.

Come forth, come forth! it were a sin

To stay at home to day; Stay no more loitering within,

Come to the woods away.

The long green grass is filled with flow'rs,
The clover, tipt with red,

Is brightened by the morning showers
That on the winds have sped.

Scattered about the deep-blue sky

Are white and flying clouds;
Some fresh, brief rains are all that lie
Within those snowy clouds.

Now look-our weather-glass is spread,
The pimpernel, whose flow'r
Closes its leaves of spotted red
Against a rainy hour.

Peter Parley

AMONG THE

KAFFIRS AND HOTTENTOTS.

“All among the Hottentots capering ashore.”—OLd Song.

HE Cape of Good Hope, discovered in 1493 by Bartholomew Diaz, a Portuguese, is nearly the extreme southern point of Africa. A large expanse of ocean surrounds it on three sides; and extends on the west to the continent of America, on the east to Australia, and on the south to the Antarctic Pole. The Cape was called by its discoverer the Cape of Storms, but this name was afterwards changed to its present one, on account of the prospects which it excited with regard to the East-then the great current into which European enterprise, and particularly that of the Portuguese, was setting. An unsuccessful attempt was made to form a Portuguese Settlement; but, for a long period, the only advantage