or hereafter to be vested in such Universities and Colleges respectively, anything to the contrary herein contained notwithstanding (1)

On the 2nd of July, a Grace passed dispensing with the entertainments theretofore given by the Proctors at Midsummer and Sturbridge Fairs.

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This year, the following works of art were presented to the University by the Duke of Northumberland Chancellor, a copy in bronze of the Warwick Vase; by Richard Burney, M.A., of Christ's College, an Ivory Model of the Tage Mahal at Agra; by Rundell, Bridge, and Co., goldsmiths, London, a bronze cast of Flaxman's Shield of Achilles; by Sir Grenville Temple, a series of casts of the ornaments of the Alhambra. The vase was placed in the Senate House Yard, the other presents have been deposited in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

The festival in honour of the Installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of the University, took place this year.(2) His Grace arrived at St. John's College Lodge in the afternoon of Saturday the 2nd of July, and shortly afterwards received a congratulatory visit from the Vicechancellor, Heads of Houses, Proctors, &c. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, also arrived at Catharine Hall Lodge the same evening, and was welcomed to the University by the Vicechancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, High Steward of the University, and Dr. French, Master of Jesus College. On Sunday the 3rd, the Chancellor attended divine service at Great St. Mary's, both morning and afternoon. Music acts were also performed there after each service. On the 4th, the Duke of Wellington arrived at Cambridge, from Bourn Hall, the seat of Earl De La Warr, amidst the acclamations of a vast concourse of people. On the same day, the Chancellor held a levee at St. John's Lodge, and proceeded thence to the Senate House, where H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, was created LL.D., and other honorary degrees were conferred. The Chancellor dined on that day with the Vicechancellor, in Emmanuel College Hall. On the 5th, the Chancellor again presided in the Senate House. After the creation of Doctors,(3) and other customary proceedings, the following Installation Ode written by the Rev. Thomas Whytehead, M.A., fellow of St.

(1) Stat: 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45, ss. 8, 9, 10, 27.

(2) In ordinary course this festival should have been held in 1841, but was postponed on account of the political excitement, which ultimately resulted in a general election. (3) The Masters of Arts were created in the Law Schools at 7 o'clock A.M.

John's College, and set to music by T. A. Walmisley, M.A. and Mus. Bac. Professor of Music, was performed:

I.

FLING the gates of Music wide!

Hold back no more the rush of song;
But, like an unchecked torrent, deep and strong,
Pour forth in one triumphant tide

The gathering burst from every side
Of joy and gratulation and exulting pride.

II.

Hark! how rolls the flood of sound
These monastic walls around,

Sacred to studious watch and holy calm,

The river as he stealth by
With soft pace and silently,
Lingering to listen to the chaunted psalm

Duly from the chapel borne,

Hears another strain this morn,

And wonders at the unwonted minstrelsy.

III.

Strangely the voice of song and music falls

Startling these unworldly halls,

Where, in quiet, priest and sage

Many an unrecorded age

Have trimmed with pious hand the fire of Learning,
Watching o'er it day and night

On Heaven's most blessed altar burning,

And made its lustre yet more bright

For the pure incense, that they ceased not giving
Unto its fragrant flames, of meek and saintly living.

IV.

But, Granta, at thine own command
That ancient stillness now we break
Thyself doth strike the key-note loud

Of the song we wake.

By all the stirring names of power
Hotspur, Douglas, and Glendower,

That blazed in famous Border Annals stand:
By all the lays and legends proud
That cling round Alnwick's Donjon-Tower
Like a gorgeous sun-set cloud

Mantling some stately peak of Cheviot-land;
By all she owes to his own princely hand,
She bids the song of welcome now

Names of old renown are there,

Majestic forms and unforgott'n faces;

Villiers and gallant Devereux, princely pair,
In that august assembly take their places,
And gaze conspicuous on the pageant fair;
While wisdom beams in Cecil's tranquil air
Prelates whose counsels swayed the realm,
On their golden crosiers lean.

Foremost of all undaunted Fisher stands,
With look benign and stately bending mien;
Glad to behold beside the helm

The son his own loved cloister bred,

And lifting high his aged hands

Thus speaks the benediction of the Dead.

(1) The Earls of Northumberland have thrice been allied by marriage with the House of Plantagenet.

(2) The names that follow in (VII) and (1x) are those of former Chancellors of the University. John Fisher, Cardinal, and Almoner to the Lady Margaret, 1504; William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, 1558; Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 1598; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 1626; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, 1674; and Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset, (an ancestor of the Duke of Northumberland) 1688,

VIII.

"Heir of our ancient trust, with thee "Long may the keeping of the fountain be, "That guards the unsullied springs of Truth "From touch of profanation free;

"Here may the eager lips of youth "Still quench their thirst in streams as pure "As those which did thine early steps allure, "And led thee up to this proud company."

IX.

Granta, while gazing on that lordly line,
What more than mother's joy is thine,
To see how England's noblest ones,
Glorying to be called thy sons,

Have vied thy deathless wreath around their brows to twine:
Yet, 'mid those splendour-circled names,

One pitying look ill-fated Monmouth claims,
Where in the illustrious throng he stands concealed;
Nor shalt thou fail to mark the while
How there sits a radiant smile

On the curled lip of haughty Somerset,
To see his generous race can yield
To Learning's halls a patron yet.

X.

Still, of that stately train the last,

Upon one reverend form thine eyes are cast,

And they with tears are filling fast.

O, cease awhile, ye sounds of gladness,
And let the plaintive notes and slow
Mingle with the thoughts of sadness
Which from the memory flow,

Of all the greatness and the worth,

That with our honoured Camden, passed from Earth.

XI.

And Thou, around whose brows this morn

The crown yon famous line has borne

Spreads its laureate leaves unfaded,

Long by that wreath, in lustre worn,

Be thy temples shaded!

Under thine auspicious sway

May Science still her daring way,

Held by a hand unseen, in safety keep,

Amid the stars of Heaven and caverns of the Deep.
Here let Plato's holy theme

Still find another listening Academe

While from Religion's ancient Altar

The soaring flames that never falter

Far o'er the illumined land with steady radiance gleam.
O Percy may that beaconing blaze

Yet more majestic mount on high

Beneath the calm of thy propitious days;

Where Priests may feed their censers bright,

And Patriot hands their torches light,

Nor let the olden fires of Faith and Fealty die!

The Chancellor afterwards attended a Grand Fete given in the grounds of St. John's College, to above 1400 persons. On the 6th, there was a ball in the Fitzwilliam Museum, which was attended by 1602 ladies and gentlemen. There were performances of sacred music at Great St. Mary's, on the evening of the 2nd, and on the morning of the 6th of July; and concerts in the Senate House on the evenings of the 4th and 5th. On the 4th, there was a fete at Magdalene College, and on the 5th, a grand display of fireworks at Jesus College.(1) On the 4th, the Council voted a congratulatory Address to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, to whom it was presented on the same day, at Catharine Hall Lodge.

On the 3rd of September, the Corn Exchange on St. Andrew's Hill was opened. It was erected by the Corporation, aided by a subscription amounting to £691. 15s. Od. of which sum the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Lieutenant of the County, gave £50., Thomas Mortlock, Esq, £21., J. P. Allix, Esq. M.P. £20., and R. J. Eaton, Esq. M.P. £20. The cost of the building, &c. was £1734 12s. 4d.

On the 12th of October, was formed the Cambridge Cemetery Company. Their Cemetery is situate on the Histon Road, in the Parish of Chesterton.

A new and handsome Shire House within the precints of the Castle, was completed this year, and opened on the 21st of October, when the General Quarter Sessions for the County were held there. The Architects were Messrs. Wyatt and Brandon. To the great regret of the lovers of antiquity, the spacious and massive Gatehouse, the sole relic of the Castle, was removed to make way for this Shire House. The lease of the Shire Hall on the Market Hill,(2) was

(1) Mr. Peters set forth an Installation Medal in gold, silver bronze. and white metal, having on the obverse, a portrait of the Chancellor with this legend." PRINCEPS ILLUSTRIS, HUGO PERCY NORTHUMB. DUX ACAD. CANTABR. CANCELL. 1842" and on the reverse, an exterior view of the Senate House surmounted by his Grace's Arms and motto, "ESPERANCE EN DIEU" and having underneath, the Arms of the University, and "ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA."