PRINCE AND CARDINAL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

PRINCE AND CARDINAL.

The Prince of Wales attended a luncheon given at the Mansion House yesterday in honour of the Duke of York and the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House. In the evening His Royal Highness dined with the Benchers of Gray's Inn. It is fully 200 years since the Monarch or the Heir- Apparent dined at the Inn, and the members were disposed to make the most of. it. Long before the hour fixed for dinner — eight o'clock — the students had gathered in force, heralded by certain enthusiastic Orientals, who had eschewed the " swallow-tail," and appeared in their national dress. The Earl of Scrafford was the first guest to arrive, and after him followed in ' quick succession Sir Richard Webster, Cardinal Vaughan, the Lord Chancellor, and the .Lord Chief Justice, all of whom were welcomed with applause from the students. Immediately on the Royal guest's arrival, tho "loving cup" went round. The Prince rose only to drink to "the pious, glorious, and immortal memory of good Queen Bess." The toast is drunk in the old Saxon fashion — two guests standing together. It was when the cup passed to Cardinal Yaughan that the interest culminated. Immediately facing him as he rose was the portrait (by Zucchero) of the Virgin Queen, that bulwark of the Protestants, the daughter of Anne Boleyn. | Around him was an audience keenly alive to the little drama — " What will he do with it?" — enacted in their midst. It is due to the Cardinal to say that he passed the ordeal triumphantly. The words were clear, distinct, and without emendation — London Evening News, June 15th.