The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-03 00:00:00

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
to Cambridge.

party upon the platform re-entered Trinity Lodge
and partook of some refreshment before preceeding
to the Senate-house. Their departure was the sig-
nal for an outburst of cheering, such as is not often
heard even in a University, exceeding all previous
efforts upon their arrival, or during the progress of
the proceedings in old Trinity.
The Senate-house meanwhile filled rapidly, and
long before 3 o'clock, the hour named for the con-
ferring of degrees, except in places especially re-
served, there was not standing room for another indi-
vidual. The body of the hall and galleries were, as
usual, crowded with members of the University, and
in the reserved seats places were set apart, among
others, for the following :---The Duke and Duchess
of Manchester, Earl of Powis, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Granville, the Earl of Carnarvon, Duke
of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, Marquis
Camden, Marquis and Marchioness of Carmarthen
and Ladies Osborn (2), Marquis of Hartington, Earl
of Morton, Earl Stanhope, Earl and Countess Fitz-
william and Lady Frances and Laoy Mary Fitz-
william, Earl and Countess of Hard wicke, and Lady
Agneta Yorke, Lord and Lady George and Mies
Cavendish, Lord Richard Cavendish, Lord Edward
Cavendish, Lord George Manners, Viscountess Mid-
leton, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Viscount
Royston, Viscount Eversley, Lord and Lady Al-
wyne Compvon, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Bishop of
Lichfield and Miss Lonsd.ale, Lord and Lady Rollo,
Lord and Lady Wharncliffe and Lady Mary Las-
celles, Lord and Lady and Miss Leigh, Lord and
Lady Wenlock, Lady Belper and Miss Strutr, Sr
Robert and Lady Affleck and Miss Affieck, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Fisher, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth
Adeane and Misses Adeane (2), Mr. Walpole, M.P.,
Mr. Selwyn, M.P., Provost of Eton and Mrs. Good.
ford, Mr. Beresford and Lady Mildred Hope, the
High-Sheriff, &c.

The habitual repose of the ancient and learned
town of Cambridge has been practically in abeyance
since it was known that a visit from their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales W 39
impending ; and the result shows that even a seat of
learning when once it yields to pleasurable excite-
ment can pursue enjoyment with as keen a zest, and
abandon itself as fully to the events of the moment,
as if it were not gray with the experience that be-
longs to the storehouse of centuries of wisdom. It
is true that the occasion hardly possesses the same
charm of novelty as before the late royal visit to
Oxford, and that Cambridge, as a town, is wanting
in much of that architectural grandeur which im-
presses every visitor to the sister university. But a
royal visit to a university is one that can never fail
to excite strong interest, especially where there is on
every hand so marked a desire to see and pour con-
gratulations on the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Whatever may be wanting in mere externals in
Cambridge is certainly made good by cordiality of
sentiment. As to the earnest feeling stirring the
university through all the many grades of its thou.
sands of members no doubt whatever can exist, and
in the manifestations of non-university residents the'
old rivalry of " town" and " gown" in its best hens()
is worthily maintained. If time, or indeed human
energy, permitted the royal visitors to remain in
Cambridge a week instead of the three days allotted
to their visit, the entire period would doubtless be
converted into a fete as brilliant as that during
which it will be possible for them to remain. But
to all things, even to public receptions, there is a
limit, and the mere record of the proceedings in
which their Royal Highnesses have already taken
part, or are still to take part, would create fatigue
in many an ordinary individual.

At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the special train
arrived at the railway terminus, conveying their
Royal Highnesses and suite from London. The
Prince and Princess of Wales were accompanied by
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and at-
tended by Earl Spencer, Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord
Harris, the Countess of Morton, General Knollys,
and the Equerry to his Royal Highness the Com-
mander-in-Chief. On alighting, the Royal party
were received by the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord
Lieutenant of the county, with some members of
his family, and by the Duke of Manchester. Mili-
tary honours were rendered by the members of the
University Volunteer Corps, which marched to the
station, and was drawn up on the platform for the
purpose. The corps looked in its usual state of high
efficiency, and the attention of his Royal Highness
was drawn to the fact that every one of the officers
and privates wore a small red and white riband as a
mark of sympathy and respect. A mounted escort,
consisting of the Duke of Manchester's regiment of
cavalry, numbering nearly 200 men, waited outsid e
to accompany the Royal party to Trinity
lodge.
The scarlet uniforms, sombre helmets ,
and splendid
horses of this corps made a very •
:affective fentau in
the court-yard of the
`....%atan, and worthily
heralded the public er:a_.
y compliment to the
occasion, also, the i• • -
the first time., A amnion of police appeared for
•In their new uniform, and by their
admiralal-
arrangements at all points contributed to
the g.4access of the spectacle. Both in the station
;•
.*self and along the route of nearly two miles to the
quarter where the Colleges are grouped the enthu-
siasm was very great. The houses, with few excep-
tions, were draped with flags or evergreens ; in the
places where vacant frontages existed stands had
grown up filled with gaily-dressed spectators, flags
floated from the different steeples, the bells rang
out merrily, bright sunshine gave a finishing touch
to the animation of the scene, and as regarded the
enthusiasm of the gE zlre—

The scene inside the Senate belongs to a class that
has often been described, but yet loses most of its
freshness and life in the very act of being reduced
to writing. It is only at a place like one of our
Universities that such a gathering could be held.
All the venerable memories and associations re-
called by the name of a Senate, ail the ideas
clinging to the professional garb of law, physic,
or divinity ; representatives of ail that is grace-
ful and lovely in nature, and representatives
of all that are eminent by position, or have
made themselves famous by achievement, here
find themselves contrasted and• brought face to
face with the licence of the gallery of a theatre
educated, well-dressed, gentlemanly licence, it is
.--
true, but stilt a gathering which aantlione and, in-
deed, encourages the freest
a
gent allusions. Bef Tinment and most pun-
°)e mencement of tl' n-
time fixed for the com-
amused the ee 7:oceedings the Undergraduates
e-,
• —selves after their usual fashion. Three
cheers_ were given for Lord Palmerston and three
anmietakable groans for Earl Uuesell. Three hearty
rounds of applause for the Princeand Princess were
succeeded like the swing of a pendulum by as many
deeparnouthed revilings of " Gladstone and Demos
cracy,'' the sound, but not the sense of which latter
sentiment was afterwards changed to " Gladstone
and Bright," " The dark girl dressed in blue" was
enthusiastically honoured, and numerous inquiries
of " Where is she ?" immediately followed. The
cheering for Professor Kingsley was very hearty,
and that for " the South" loud, but not altogether
unanimous. Lord Granville entered altogether un-
noticed, and took his seat at first beside Lord Car-
nervon, who was one of the earliest of the distin-
guished visitors who appeared on the platform.
Apparently thinking that too close proximity to an
Opposition peer might be undesirable, Lord Gran
eille shifted about for a few minutes from place to
place, but was made happy before long by the ar-
rival of the Premier, whose appearance on the plat-
form was the occasion for a general outburst of
cheering. The heads of the University, in consi-
deration of the pressure to which the noble lord's
,ime trust be exposed, offered to present him
with his honorary degree of D.C.L. on the same
occasion that it was conferred on the Prince of
Wales. Lord Palmerston, h-)wever, expressed his
williugness to wait until the second day, in order
hat the honours on the first might be limited ex-
clusively to the Court circle. "Three cheers for
Bulwer Lytton" and three for the Chancellor, were
given heartily; and when the Chancellor arrived,
as be did at at five minutes to 3 o'clock, accompanied
by the Vice-Chancellor and the Earl of Powis, he
got three more hearty cheers from galleries and floor.
His grace took his seat upon the dais; and at 3
o'clock precisely the Princess of Waies was conducted
to the chair of State reserved for her. Until
her royal highness had reached her place there was
a respectful hush, but the moment this was attained
the cheers of the assembly, again and again re-
newed, poured forth in deafening volume to wel-
come her to the headquarters of the university.
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of
Cambridge and the members of his household, all in
the scarlet robes of Doctors of Law, entered shortly

" You would have thought the very windows spake,
So many greedy looks of 3 oung and old
Through casements darted their desiring eyes."
The procession turned aside through Lancefleld
road into Trumpington-street for the purpose of re-
ceiving an address of congratulation from the Mayoi
and Town Council, and just before it reached this
point the horses belonging to ono of the six Royal
carriages grew so uneasy that General iinollys and
the gentleman by whom he was eecompenied were
obliged to get out and walk the remainder of the
distance. Time did not admit of the Corporation
address being read, but the attention VrO3 briefly
and gracefully acknowledged, and the Royal party
moved en without further delay, and as fast as the
numbers and acclamations of spectators would per-
mit, to the great Court of Trinity College. For once,
the turf, which ordinarily to touch is to profane,
had to submit to the pressure of a dense multitude.
The wide quadrangle was filled with dignitaries of
the College and their academical subordinates, and
though the ladies present at the ceremony were sup•
posed to confine themselves to the rooms of their
relatives and friends, there were many who seemed
by grace especial to have acquired the coveted privi-
lege of gazing from a much nearer point upon the
Princess, and who helped with the flame-coloured
gowns of the doctors to give some relief to the
ordinary gloominess of a collegiate assembly.
Colleges are apt to stand stoutly upon precedent,
and at one time it was imagined there might be a
difficulty in admitting the cortege through the
great " King's Gateway of Trinity, as none
bat crowned heads of England had ever entered
in state by that venerable porch. Even the late
Prince Consort was compelled to make a detour and
to enter the precincts by an approach venerable
rather than savoury. Good taste, however, pre-
vailed in the present instance, and a blind adhesion
to collegiate etiquette was not suffered to mar one
of the most striking features in the reception. The
Royal party, leaving their cavalry escort outside,
having entered the quadrangle, filed pest the foun-
tain, r:.nd, passing before the steps leading to the
treat hall, alighted at Trinity Ledge, where they
remained for a few moments, and then, reappear-
ing, were conducted to a very tasteful little plat-
form erected under a marquee beneath the shadow
of the Dining-hall. To this point the Duke of
Devonshire (Char cellor of the University), the Vice-
Chancellor (Dr. Cookson), the Heads of Houses,
Professors and Members of the Senate proceeded is,
order to present a formal address to the Prince of
Wales. In this document expression was given to
the unfeigned gratification with which the visit of
his Royal Highness, accompanied as he was by his
illustrious Consort, was regarded by the University ;
the honour thus conferred was interrupted as a
proof that his Royal Highness cherished a kind's
remembrance of the period of his residence at Cam-
bridge; a hope was ventured that the Princess of
Wales would always find pleasure in visiting pieces
and scenes in which his Royal Highness felt an
interest, and the address concluded with assurances,
of loyalty and welcome. Tne Prince read a short
reply, in which he acknowledged the compliment
paid him by the University, and assured the Heads
of that body that in their address they had only
done justice to his own feelings. He could not
easily forget a period endeared to him by so many
pleasant associations. The Princess was very sen-
sible of the cordiality of the welcome accorded to
her, and equally with himself anticipated the great-
est pleasure from visiting the many objects of interest
to be found in the University. A procession, headed
by the dignitaries already enumerated, and consist-
ing of the Colleges in order of seniority, the divi-
sions between each being very successfully indicated
by the banners of the various boat clubs, then
marched past the marquee, each lowering its flag in
compliment to the Prince and Princess as it passed.
As soon as the procession, closing with the officers
of the Cambridge Town Volunteer Corps, had with-
drawn, the University Volunteers, who meanwhile
had packed themselves away in the closest column
known to military art, advanced in line as to the
centre, with both flanks thrown forward in front so
as to form, when the word was given to halt and
front, a hollow square about the nlatform. Her
Royal Highness in Ferson then proceeded to deliver
a very valuable list of prizes. Lieutenant-Colonel
Baker had the honour of receiving, in the first
w.aein-
stance,lsand Captain the chaalplenig:
Ross cap given by the Prince of
as
(to whom two cups
were presented for successive victories), Lieutenant
B Ensign France, and other members of the
corps were similarly presented with prizes won io
recent competitinne, When the distribution had
terminated, the Volunteers took up a new formation,
and marched past, after which the distinguished

afterwards, and his royal highness received a wel-
come little,
if anything, short, in point of enthu-
siasm, to that already bestowed upon his consort.
The undergraduates, however, were bent upon pay-
ing especial court to the princess, and the next cry
raised—" Three cheers for the King of Denmark,,
by thihresponse which it elicited proved what was
the feeling uppermost in their minds. Commensu.
rate groans for " Austria " followed, and seemed
likely to last for an indefinite period, until suddenly
some one, with a sense of propriety stronger upon
him than the rest, invited " three cheers for the
Queen," which were given with right goodwill, and
then the ass, mbly settled down to business. The
Prince of Wales, in the first place, was installed a
Doctor of Laws, his admission at the hands of the
Deke of Devonshire being preceded by a short ad-
dress in Latin on the part of the public orator, and,
as this was the event of the day, the acclamations
were of course proportionate. His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge was nest admitted, a refer-
ence being made by the orator to the share which
he had taken in the dangers of actual war. The
public orator (the Rev. W. G. Clark) then pro-
ceeded to deliver the accustomed oration, in the
course of which reference was made to the
oithusiastic welcome given to the prince and
princess, and to the ancient and constant loyalty
of the University, for which nowadays no credit
could be claimed, as our present Sovereign had
learnt how to reconcile the royal prerogative
with popular liberties, so that throughout the em-
pire there was no political prisoner nor any English
refugees abroad. The address enlarged upon the
t
domestic virtues of the Sovereign, which had made
whole people sharers in her joys and sorrows,
,led referred to the career of the late Prince Consort,
as an example to his son, That son's love of every-
thing English—sport as well as serious matters—
w,:s insisted upon as an additional bond of union
with the English
people. And then, turning to the
Princess, the Orator said, he would not praise them
to their faces, because the Princes of a tree country
ought to scorn even the appearance of flattery, but
sympathy and respect at the hands of subjects were
offerings which Princes might gladly receive, and
this observation led to a digression upon Danish
affairs, in which the courage and patriotism of the
King, her father, and the fortitude of his subjects,
were dwelt upon amid the plaudits of the assembly.
The Orator expressed an earnest hope that the young
Prince Albert Victor, when, after long years, he
came to the throne, might find all things quietly
settled by the wisdom and courage of his predeces-

sore—
V‘Pacatumque regat patriis virtutibus °them."
Honorary degrees were then conferred upon Lord
Spencer, Lord A. Harvey, Lord Harris, and General
Knollys, and the proceedings in the Senate-house
were brought to a close by the presentation of
medals to, and the recitation of prize poems by,
successful competitors in the recent examination.
At half-past six o'clock the Vice• Chancellor (Dr.
Cookson) and Mrs. Cookson had the honour of
entertaining at dinner in the Kali of Peterhouse
their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess
of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, the members of bis Royal Highness's
suite, Lore Spencer, Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord
Harris, Lady Morton, Gee. Knollys, Major Tees-
dale, the Duke of Cambridge's Equerry, and the
t3llleituCha et:t:ri, lithe 117 Marquisd Rutland, the
e'
following distinguished company :—The Duke of
DevortBhire, K.G . and Li6y Louisa Civendibh •
Dade Lord GarnadnviD.fra,c4t3G.o,l

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1864.

Camden, the Marquis of Hartington, Lord Powis,
Lord Stanhope, Lord and Lady Hardwick() and
Lady Agneta Yorke, Lord Carnarvon, Lord Richard
Cavendish, Lord Eversley, Lord and Lady Palmer-
ston, the Bishop of Ely, Lord Leigh, the Right
Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Right
Hor. Mr. Walpole, Hen. Sir W. P. Wood, Sir
Charles Eastlake, the Dean of Westminster,
Dr. Phelps, Master of Sidney; Dr. Whewell,
Master of Trinity, and Lady Afileck ; Okes,
Provoist of king's; Dr. Corrie, Master of Semis;
Dr. Pulling, Master of Corpus; Dr. Bateson, Master
of St. John's ; Dr. Phillips, Master of Queen's ; Dr.
Atkinson, Master of Clare; Dr. Geldart, Master of
Trinity hall ; Dr. Guest, Master of CAus; Hon.
Latimer Neville, Master of Magdalene; Mr. Selwyn,
M.P., Mr. Beresford Hope, Dr. Watson, Professor
Hoffman, Professor Wheatstone, Mr. Godfrey, Mr.
13esant, Mr. Porter, and Mr, Cookson.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, in the Committee on Metropolitan
Railways, Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., opened the case of
the North London, the object of it being to enable
the company to exercise additional powers, to make
a new dock, and to widen their line at Poplar, and
to raise £50,000 by shares and £16,000 by wort•
gage. Evidence in favour of the bill was adduced.
The consideratio❑ of the Teign Valley Bill closed,
and the committee declared the preamble
proved. Mr. Phinn, Q.C., stated the case
of the proposed Ilfracombe Rsil vay, the
capital being £210,000 in shares and £70,000 by
loan for a line of 12 miles in length. Mr. Galbraith,
C.E., and other witnesses were examined in favour
of the project. After several days' sitting, and the
examination of about 100 witnesses, the case for the
promoters of the Great Eastern Northern Junction
Railway was concluded, and Mr. Salisbury was
heard for the opposition of the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, and Mr. Merewether, Q C.,
tor landowners. The evidence of Mr. Hodgson,
chairman of the North British Railway, occupied
the committee on the proposed Glasgow and North
British Bill, to raise £1,350,000 in shares and
£450,000 by loan, with power to create a 5 per cent.
debenture stock. The case of the Drayton Junction
closed in Mr. North's ccmmittee, and the opposition
to it of the London and North Western commenced,
Mr. Mason being examined. Evidence occupied the
committee on the Brecon and Merthyr Junction, the
East Glocestershire, the Dublin Trunk Connecting,
and the St. Helen's Bill. Iu Earl Devon's commit-
tee the case of the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax
Railway was considered.