nominated according to the rotation usually adopted, opposed Dr. French's election. The votes however were, French, 73; Ainslie, 35.

At a public meeting of the inhabitants, held at the Town Hall, on the 4th of December, it was resolved to establish a regular and efficient police. A committee was appointed to carry this resolution into effect, but the project fell to the ground until the Municipal Corporation Act came into force.

On the 12th of December, John Jeffreys Marquess Camden(1) K.G. LL.D. of Trinity College, was unanimously elected Chancellor of the University in the room of H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester, deceased.

On the 17th of December, Hugh-Percy Duke of Northumberland K.G. LL.D. of St. John's College, was elected High Steward of the University, that office being vacant by the death of Philip Earl of Hardwicke K.G.

1835.

Charles Philip Earl of Hardwicke was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Cambridge, in the room of his uncle, Philip Earl of Hardwicke, deceased.

At the General Election there was a contest for the representation of the Town in Parliament, the former members, the Right Hon. Thomas Spring Rice and George Pryme Esq. being opposed by James Lewis Knight(2) Esq. At the close of the poll, on the 7th and 8th of January, the votes were, Rice, 736; Pryme, 693; Knight, 688.(3)

(1) Eldest child and only son of Chalres Earl Camden Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, born 11th February, 1759, educated at Trinity College, M.A. 1779, LL.D. 1832. On the 21st of May, 1780, he was appointed one of the Tellers of the Exchequer. At the general election in the same year, he was returned to Parliament for Bath. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from July, 1782, to April, 1783, and from December, 1783, to July, 1788. In April, 1789, he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury, which office he held till May, 1794, when he became a member of the House of Peers by his father's death. In April, 1795, he went to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, and continued in that office till June, 1798. On the 14th of August, 1799, he was elected a Knight of the Garter, was Secretary of State for the Colonies from May, 1804, to July, 1805, when he was constituted Lord President of the Council, which office he held till February, 1806, and from March, 1807, to April, 1812. In September, 1812, he was created Marquess Camden. In 1817, he voluntarily gave up to the public the surplus fees and emoluments of his office of Teller of the Exchequer, amounting up to the time of his death to above a quarter of a million. He died at his seat, the Wilderness, in Kent, on the 8th of October, 1840, in the 82nd year of his age.

(2) Appointed King's Counsel Michaelmas Term, 1829. At the general election in 1831, he was returned to Parliament for Bishop's Castle, a borough disfranchised by the Reform Act. He afterwards by royal license assumed the name of Bruce, was in Michaelmas Term, 1841, appointed one of the Vicechancellors of England, and shortly afterwards received the honour of knighthood.

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The candidates for the representation of the County in Parliament were, Eliot Thomas Yorke,(1) Richard Jeaffreson Eaton, Richard Greaves Townley, and John Walbanke Childers Esquires. The three first-named were elected. The poll was taken in districts on the 15th and 16th of January, with the following results:

On the 6th of March, the Earl of Radnor moved in the House of Lords for certain returns respecting oaths taken at the Universities, and entered into a discussion of the subject. This occasioned a debate, in which the Duke of Wellington, Dr. Copleston Bishop of Llandaff, Lord Brougham, and Dr. Monk Bishop of Gloucester spoke. The returns required were ordered. So far as regarded the University of Cambridge, the return was confined to a copy and translation of the oath taken at matriculation.(2)

The Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Mechanics Institute was established at a public meeting (convened by the Mayor, in pursuance of a numerously signed requisition) at the Town Hall, on the 12th of March.

In April, certain inhabitants of the town addressed the King, expressive of confidence in Sir Robert Peel's administration. A similar address to the King, from certain inhabitants of the county, was also signed, together with an address to Sir Robert Peel, in which he was commended for his courage, talent, and straightforward honesty of purpose. These addresses were presented after Sir Robert Peel had notified his intention to resign office.

On the 9th of April, the Senate voted an address to the King, expressive of sorrow and alarm at witnessing the efforts then making to establish the principle that the revenues of the Protestant Church may be applied to other than Ecclesiastical and Protestant purposes. There were, Non Regents: placets, 54; non-placets, 17; Regents placets, 32; non-placets, 10. The address was presented at St. James's Palace, on the 6th of May, by the Marquess Camden

(1) In February, 1836, Mr. Yorke his brothers and sister had the King's permission to
enjoy the same title pre-eminence and precedence as if their father Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke,
had survived Philip Earl of Hardwicke and thereby succeeded to that title and dignity.
(2) Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, xxvi. 576.

Chancellor, accompanied by Dr. French Vicechancellor, the Heads of Colleges, &c., the Duke of Northumberland High Steward of the University, the Duke of Gordon, Earl de la Warr, Earl Brecknock, Viscounts Canterbury, Clive and Alford, the Bishops of London and Winchester, Sir Frederick Pollock Commissary of the University, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn and Hon. C. E. Law Representatives in Parliament for the University, and a long train of Doctors, Masters of Arts, Bachelors of Arts, and Undergraduates, in all above 200. The King, in his reply, stated that upon the great question to which the address referred, he should be anxious to receive the advice of his responsible ministers and of the great council of the nation assembled in Parliament, and that he trusted the measures they would recommend would be calculated to secure the safety of the Church, and to avert any impending danger.

At the County Sessions, held on the 10th of April, the Corporation were indicted for not repairing Garret Hostel Bridge. The indictment being removed into the King's Bench, judgment by default was entered against the Corporation.

This year, the Duke of Northumberland High Steward of the University presented to the Observatory a magnificent telescope of nearly 12 inches aperture and 20 feet focal length made by M. Cauchoix of Paris.

On the 11th of June, the Earl of Radnor introduced into the House of Lords a Bill to do away with the necessity of subscribing to the Thirty Nine Articles on matriculation at either of the Universities.(1) His Lordship moved the second reading on the 14th of July, and supported the motion in a lengthened address. Dr. Howley Archbishop of Canterbury moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months, and Dr. Copleston Bishop of Llandaff, Dr. Monk Bishop of Gloucester, and the Duke of Wellington severally spoke in favour of the amendment; whilst Viscount Melbourne and the Duke of Richmond supported the Bill. Their Lordships divided on the original motion, which was rejected by a majority of 106. Contents: (present, 28; proxies, 29;) 57; Non-Contents: (present, 85; proxies, 78;) 163.(2)

On the 12th June, in a Committee of Supply of the House of Commons on a vote of £2000. for salaries and allowances to certain

(1) Subscription at matriculation not being required at Cambridge, it seems the bill did not affect this University, except by abolishing subscription of being a member of the Church of England taken by Bachelors of Arts, so far as regarded persons being under 23 years of age.

(2) Hangard, Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, xviii. C12; xxix. 496.

Professors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Mr. Tooke opposed the grant, because those Universities opposed a Charter to the London University. Mr. Goulburn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Pease supported the grant, which was carried by 86 against 3.(1)

In the evening of the 4th of July, the Marquess Camden Chancellor of the University arrived at Trinity College Lodge, where he was received by the Master and Fellows. Dr. French Vicechancellor, the Heads of Houses, &c., immediately paid their respects to the Chancellor, who was also visited the same evening by the Duke of Northumberland High Steward of the University, who was staying at St. John's College Lodge. On the following day (Sunday, the 5th) the Chancellor attended divine service at Great St. Mary's Church, both morning and afternoon. On the 6th, he held a levee at Trinity College Lodge, and then proceeded to the Senate House, where he created twenty-seven Honorary Doctors of Law and seven Honorary Masters of Arts, and where some of the distinguished visitors who were members of the University of Oxford were admitted ad eundem in this University. After the congregation, the Chancellor attended a levee held by the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Sidney College Lodge; and afterwards dined with the Vicechancellor, in Jesus College Hall. On the 7th, the Chancellor again presided in the Senate House, where, after the usual ceremonies and proceedings incidental to the Commencement, the following Installation Ode, written by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth M.A. fellow of Trinity College, and set to music by T. A Walmisley Mus. Bac. Organist of Trinity and St. John's Colleges, was performed :

I.

Recit. In happier hours of olden time,

While hearts heroic earned a juster fame,
When to the Valleys of his native clime
And lofty Citadels the Victor came,
Crown'd beneath the olives hoar

That fringe with silver the Olympian plain,
Or, where the surges of the double main
Beat on the weary Isthmian shore;-

Air. Before his Car a Virgin train

Showr'd roses, and a Youthful Band

Danc'd in his path, and festal pæans sung,

And o'er him, waving in her hand

A glistening palm, while breezes fann'd

Her pinions gently pois'd, a Nymph-like Victory hung.

(1) Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, xxviii. 772.

II.

Scena. Wherefore flashes yonder gleam
Of Warriors arm'd that pour along
Through Alban vales an argent stream?
Usher'd by the swelling Song,

And rich with pictur'd trophies torn

From Indus, and the rifled Morn,

See the Latian Conqueror come!

Him, Father of his Country, mighty Rome
Salutes, and welcomes with that issuing throng.
Him the champing Coursers bear

Along the Sacred Slope, o'erspann'd

By Arcs triumphal, on whose marble head
Monarchs and bearded Captives stand;
Cities and Kingdoms are before him led,

And Provinces that weep with trailing hair.

And thus his ponderous wheels, slowly revolving, roll
Up to his Heav'n on Earth, the golden Capitol.

III.

Quartett. Fair is the Warrior's mural crown,

And fair the laurell'd wreath,

The flow'rs that with them twin'd have blown
Fade not, bedimm'd by death.

Recit. Trophies and triumphs are there, not of War;
Peace on His brow her olive wreath shall bind,
Who wielding weapons of undaunted Mind,
Wealth for his Country wins, and spurns his own:

A Victor, chaining to his peaceful Car

Passions his Captives: Hence is His Renown,
And these his Crecys, these his Talaveras are!

IV.

Chorus. Then let a peal of Joy prevail

Solo.

CAMDEN! to bid Thee hail!

Thee to her sacred Fanes, and storied Halls
Hung with their own heraldic blazonry

Of Names in Arts renown'd and graceful Chivalry,
Names of her deathless Sons, Thee GRANTA calls!
Welcome to the arching Groves

That musing Meditation loves,

And to the Temple's holier shade

By pensile stone in woven fretwork made.
Grand Chorus. And welcome to Thy venerated Throne

Where Villiers' grace of old and Cecil's grandeur shone,
Fill it! By Patriot Right Thou hast it for thine own!

V.

Scena. But ah! the passions of the trembling Lyre!-
What changeful notes those Elder Names inspire!-
For now, another Name, a Royal Name

Is there, with those that heard, but can no longer hear;