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Masonic Chit-Chat.
visits to Trinity were always a source to Mm of long-anticipated and heartily-enjoyed pleasure ; and the members of that distinguished society will transmit to their successors their reminiscences of his urbanity as of a character much more manly and agreeable than that of mere royal condescension . There was no pomp or parade expected by his Royal Hi ghness on such occasions ; the prince breathed , as if relieved by escaping from the atmosphere of high life into the calmer region of
philosophy , and no one except an eye-witness can conceive how delightful were the parties ivhich he graced , whether in combination or private rooms , and which were marked by learned conversation without pedantry , and by festive hilarity without excess . His Royal Highness was not himself what can be properly termed'a learned man , though for a prince he was far above the ordinary mark ; but lie possessed a general and more than superficial knowledge , which rendered him no mean critic of the comparative pretensions of others ; and , added to this , his extensive knowledge of hooks , of all rare and variorum editions , rendered him the most entertaining and instructive of bibliomaniasts . An anecdote on the
latter point may not be out of place . " At a private party in Trinity , about twenty-two years ago , his Royal Highness observed to one of the tutors , ' Mr . , it is strange that you have not yet a good stockhook for students on hydrostatics , & e . I saw one in Paris , a little while ago , Bossut ; but I believe it is nearly out of print . " The remarks transpired the next morning , and a spirited student employed a then obscure bookseller , named Johnson , to procure him a copy of Bossut ,
from Paris , at any price . The book was obtained , but will it be credited that no Cambridge publisher ivould publish a translation ?—and for the simple reason ( for the matter need not be minced ) , that it ivould have destroyed the value of the copyright of the old and ivorthless stockbooks on the same subject . MS * , copies of Bossut , however , were soon multiplied , and a confederacy on the part of the leading students to use no other system but Bossut ' s in the Senate-house soon compelled
moderators and examiners to make themselves masters of it ; so that I may fairly say that we owe to his Royal Highness ' s knowledge of books the adoption of a vastly superior mode of teaching a most important branch of physical philosophy . "
THE AVIDOW OP THE DUKE OF SUSSEX . —Lady Cecilia Underwood is daughter to the late Dr . Sanders Gore , Earl of Arran , by his third wife , Miss Underwood , the daughter of a respectable banker in Dublin , by whom the earl had a large family . She ivas very beautiful , and correct and amiable in her conduct and maimers . Lady Cecilia , very young , married Sir C . Buggins , Knt , an attorney in Hatton-garden , from whom she has £ 1000 per annum jointure . A few years back she was
married at St . George ' s Church , Hanover-square ( ivhich the register will show ) , to his Royal Highness-the Duke of Sussex . It was on that occasion she took her mother ' s maiden name , having , by such a ceremony being performed , lost all claim to the name of Buggins . Her ladyship is ha ] f-sister to the late Marchioness of Abereorn , formerl y Lady Anne Gore ; also to Elizabeth Monck , and Lady Carberry . One of her own sisters is Lady Julia Lockhart . The Earl of Arran had large families by his three wives ; and all his daughters were highly married . This is a true statement , from a lover of truth and correct statements . — Guernsey Star .
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Masonic Chit-Chat.
visits to Trinity were always a source to Mm of long-anticipated and heartily-enjoyed pleasure ; and the members of that distinguished society will transmit to their successors their reminiscences of his urbanity as of a character much more manly and agreeable than that of mere royal condescension . There was no pomp or parade expected by his Royal Hi ghness on such occasions ; the prince breathed , as if relieved by escaping from the atmosphere of high life into the calmer region of
philosophy , and no one except an eye-witness can conceive how delightful were the parties ivhich he graced , whether in combination or private rooms , and which were marked by learned conversation without pedantry , and by festive hilarity without excess . His Royal Highness was not himself what can be properly termed'a learned man , though for a prince he was far above the ordinary mark ; but lie possessed a general and more than superficial knowledge , which rendered him no mean critic of the comparative pretensions of others ; and , added to this , his extensive knowledge of hooks , of all rare and variorum editions , rendered him the most entertaining and instructive of bibliomaniasts . An anecdote on the
latter point may not be out of place . " At a private party in Trinity , about twenty-two years ago , his Royal Highness observed to one of the tutors , ' Mr . , it is strange that you have not yet a good stockhook for students on hydrostatics , & e . I saw one in Paris , a little while ago , Bossut ; but I believe it is nearly out of print . " The remarks transpired the next morning , and a spirited student employed a then obscure bookseller , named Johnson , to procure him a copy of Bossut ,
from Paris , at any price . The book was obtained , but will it be credited that no Cambridge publisher ivould publish a translation ?—and for the simple reason ( for the matter need not be minced ) , that it ivould have destroyed the value of the copyright of the old and ivorthless stockbooks on the same subject . MS * , copies of Bossut , however , were soon multiplied , and a confederacy on the part of the leading students to use no other system but Bossut ' s in the Senate-house soon compelled
moderators and examiners to make themselves masters of it ; so that I may fairly say that we owe to his Royal Highness ' s knowledge of books the adoption of a vastly superior mode of teaching a most important branch of physical philosophy . "
THE AVIDOW OP THE DUKE OF SUSSEX . —Lady Cecilia Underwood is daughter to the late Dr . Sanders Gore , Earl of Arran , by his third wife , Miss Underwood , the daughter of a respectable banker in Dublin , by whom the earl had a large family . She ivas very beautiful , and correct and amiable in her conduct and maimers . Lady Cecilia , very young , married Sir C . Buggins , Knt , an attorney in Hatton-garden , from whom she has £ 1000 per annum jointure . A few years back she was
married at St . George ' s Church , Hanover-square ( ivhich the register will show ) , to his Royal Highness-the Duke of Sussex . It was on that occasion she took her mother ' s maiden name , having , by such a ceremony being performed , lost all claim to the name of Buggins . Her ladyship is ha ] f-sister to the late Marchioness of Abereorn , formerl y Lady Anne Gore ; also to Elizabeth Monck , and Lady Carberry . One of her own sisters is Lady Julia Lockhart . The Earl of Arran had large families by his three wives ; and all his daughters were highly married . This is a true statement , from a lover of truth and correct statements . — Guernsey Star .