During the progress of a political meeting held in the town of Cambridge, it so happened that the late Dr. Mansel, then Public Orator of the University of Cambridge, but afterwards Master of Trinity College and Bishop of Bristol, came to the place of meeting just as Musgrave, the well known political tailor of his day, was in the midst of a most _pathetic_ oration, and emphatically repeating, "Liberty, liberty, gentlemen--" He paused,--"Liberty is _a plant_--" "So is a _cabbage!_" exclaimed the caustic Mansel, before Musgrave had time to complete his sentence, with so happy an allusion to the trade of the tailor, that he was silenced amidst roars of laughter. Another instance of-- A TAILOR BEING TAKEN BY SURPRISE, But by an Oxonian, a learned member of Christ Church, is recorded in the fact, that having, for near half a century, been accustomed to walk with a favourite stick, the _ferule_ of which, at the bottom, came off, he took it to his _tailor_ to have it repaired. * * * * * REASONS FOR NOT PUBLISHING. The famous antiquary, Thomas Baker, B.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was long _Socius Ejectus_, lays it down as a principle, in his admirable _Reflections on Learning_, "that if we had _fewer_ books, we should have more learning." It is singular that he never published but the one book named, though he has left behind him forty-two volumes of manuscripts, the greater part in the Harleian Collection, in the British Museum, principally relating to Cambridge, and all neatly written in his own hand. * * * * * DECLINING KING GEORGE. When "honest Vere" Foster, as he is called by "mild William," his contemporary at College, and the grandfather of our celebrated traveller, Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke, was a student at Cambridge, where he was celebrated for his wit and humour, and for being a good scholar, St. John's being looked upon as a Tory college, a young fellow, a student, reputed a Whig, was appointed to deliver an oration in the College Hall, on the 5th of November. This he did; but having, for some time, dwelt on the double deliverance of that day, in his peroration, he passed from King William to King George, on whom he bestowed great encomiums. When the speech was over, honest Vere and the orator being at table together, the former addressed the latter with, "I did not imagine, sir, that you would _decline_ King George in your speech." "_Decline!_" said the astonished orator; "what do you mean? I spoke very largely and handsomely of him." "That is what I mean, too, sir," said Vere: "for you had him in every case and termination: _Georgius--Georgii--Georgio--Georgium--O Georgi!_" Another of "honest Vere's" CLASSICAL JEU D'ESPRIT