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Masonic Chit-Chat.
merciful Power which presides over this meeting and this cause as He does over every religious and gootl cause , looks down equally on the lowest as on the highest , on the black man as well as on the white . " Anti-Slavery Reports .
His Royal Highness was a member of the Maitland Club , the distinguished literary and antiquarian association of this city ; and the library at Kensington Palace contains one of the few complete sets extant of the publications of the club . His Royal Highness continued to the latest to take a warm interest in his magnificent library , and to exert himself to the utmost to add to its completeness , as well in works of theology as in those of historyscienceand general literature . Little
, , more than a month ago , his secretary , at his Royal Highness ' s command , opened a correspondence with our learned townsman , Dr . Smith , of Crutherland , with the view of procuring , for his library , books or . the interesting subject of the early history of the Church of Scotland . — Glasgow Paper .
THE library of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is forthwith to be disposed of . In the will it is expressl y directed that this valuable collection of books and manuscripts shall be , in the first instance , offered to the British Museum ; and that if the authorities of that national establishment shall decline to purchase , it shall be sold in such manner as the executors may think proper to arrange , as most expedient under all the circumstances . Messrs . Evansof Pall-mall
, , have been entrusted with the valuation of the library , prior to any further steps being adopted . It appears that the collection , in which the late Duke took so great an interest , consists of upivards of 45 , 000 volumes , most of which are in excellent condition . In addition to these , there are numerous valuable manuscripts , consisting of early copies of different portions of the Hol y Scriptures , and in various languages , ancient and modern .
" THE following anecdote of the late Duke may be implicitly relied on as truth , and is communicated to us by an old correspondent . Some few years ago , as the Duke of Sussex was returning on foot from a Masonic meeting , held in the north , and not quite himself , from the effects of too much wine , on crossing a bridge he staggered against a merchant ' s clerk , pushed him off the stones , and used language of rather an unprincely nature . The gentleman , not relishing this , soundly belaboured bis Hi
Royal ghness with a thick stick , being ignorant , hoivever , of his rank . Some bystanders having informed him it was the Duke , the clerk , on the following morning , took an early opportunity of calling and making an apology , at the same time reminding his Royal Highness that he struck \\ iefn-st blow . ' My good sir / said the Duke , 'I know it all . I was in the wrong , I am the party to apologise . You served me right ; and if you had treated me as I deserved , you would have thrown me over the bridge . ' Having thus honourably acknowledged his error , he tendered his hand to the merchant ' s clerk , and gave him a hearty shake . "
UNIVERSITY OP CAMBRIDGE . —Amongst the associations which the Duke of Sussex cherished , perhaps there were none more dear to him than those connected with the University of Cambridge . His periodical
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Masonic Chit-Chat.
merciful Power which presides over this meeting and this cause as He does over every religious and gootl cause , looks down equally on the lowest as on the highest , on the black man as well as on the white . " Anti-Slavery Reports .
His Royal Highness was a member of the Maitland Club , the distinguished literary and antiquarian association of this city ; and the library at Kensington Palace contains one of the few complete sets extant of the publications of the club . His Royal Highness continued to the latest to take a warm interest in his magnificent library , and to exert himself to the utmost to add to its completeness , as well in works of theology as in those of historyscienceand general literature . Little
, , more than a month ago , his secretary , at his Royal Highness ' s command , opened a correspondence with our learned townsman , Dr . Smith , of Crutherland , with the view of procuring , for his library , books or . the interesting subject of the early history of the Church of Scotland . — Glasgow Paper .
THE library of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is forthwith to be disposed of . In the will it is expressl y directed that this valuable collection of books and manuscripts shall be , in the first instance , offered to the British Museum ; and that if the authorities of that national establishment shall decline to purchase , it shall be sold in such manner as the executors may think proper to arrange , as most expedient under all the circumstances . Messrs . Evansof Pall-mall
, , have been entrusted with the valuation of the library , prior to any further steps being adopted . It appears that the collection , in which the late Duke took so great an interest , consists of upivards of 45 , 000 volumes , most of which are in excellent condition . In addition to these , there are numerous valuable manuscripts , consisting of early copies of different portions of the Hol y Scriptures , and in various languages , ancient and modern .
" THE following anecdote of the late Duke may be implicitly relied on as truth , and is communicated to us by an old correspondent . Some few years ago , as the Duke of Sussex was returning on foot from a Masonic meeting , held in the north , and not quite himself , from the effects of too much wine , on crossing a bridge he staggered against a merchant ' s clerk , pushed him off the stones , and used language of rather an unprincely nature . The gentleman , not relishing this , soundly belaboured bis Hi
Royal ghness with a thick stick , being ignorant , hoivever , of his rank . Some bystanders having informed him it was the Duke , the clerk , on the following morning , took an early opportunity of calling and making an apology , at the same time reminding his Royal Highness that he struck \\ iefn-st blow . ' My good sir / said the Duke , 'I know it all . I was in the wrong , I am the party to apologise . You served me right ; and if you had treated me as I deserved , you would have thrown me over the bridge . ' Having thus honourably acknowledged his error , he tendered his hand to the merchant ' s clerk , and gave him a hearty shake . "
UNIVERSITY OP CAMBRIDGE . —Amongst the associations which the Duke of Sussex cherished , perhaps there were none more dear to him than those connected with the University of Cambridge . His periodical