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TBE NAVY.

Capt. C. F. Schomberg, superintendent of the
steam reserve in the Medway at Chatham, has re-
signed that appointment and retired from the com-
mand of the Cumberland, 70, guardship of the Steam
Reserve, he having been appointed by the Admi-
ralty to the command of the Edinburgh, 6), 450
horse power, employed on the coastguard service at
Qucensferry, Scotland.

The paddlewheel steam frigate Sidon, 22, Capt.
Richard B. Crawford, 10 days from Simon's Bay
for Portsmouth, touched at the island of St. Helena
on the 4th of December.

The preparation and despatch of munitions of war
for North America and the West Indies is still con-
tinued at Woolwich with unabated expedition.
Yesterday the fine screw steam transport Spartan,
Capt. Wiggins, laden with 1,200 tons of shot, shell,
and other heavy stores, left the Royal Arsenal Pier,
and was towed down to Greenhithe to bs adjusted
for sea. The Parthenon, Capt. Robinson, freighted
likewise with heavy war stores of a similar descrip-
tion for Jamaica, yesterday hove off to the buoy, to
take in her coals and water in preparation for de-
parture.

Her Majesty's screw steam storeship Adventure,
recently undocked and in basin at Woolwich, yes-
terday commenced receiving a set of new boilers
and machinery.

The screw steam sloop Rapid, 11, was yesterday
reported ready for commission at Woolwich; and
the paddle steamer Vesuvius will be also ready in a
few days. _

The Galatea, 26, 800 horse power, moored near
the entrance to the Medway, had her compasses
adjusted yesterday, preparatory to leaving Ply-
mouth. A navigating party, consisting of 150
seamen and riggers, selected from Chatham and
Sheerness dockyards, have been placed under the
orders of Flag-Lieut. T. K. Mackenzie, of the For-
midable, 84, to assist in completing the frigate, and
navigating her round to the westward. Owing to
the hurry in which she was sent away from Chat-
ham, to allow the iron ship Defence taking her
place, she is still somewhat incomplete in several of
her fittings, especially in her rigging, contrasting,
in the latter respect, rather unfavourably with the
screw frigate Severn, 51. Altogether, however, the
Galatea is the finest frigate which has ever been
despatched from Chatham.

The iron masts for the iron steam frigate Resist-
ance, 18, 600 horse power, arrived at Chatham dock-
yard yesterday, the vessel conveying them having
been towed round from the Thames by the paddle-
wheel steamer Widgeon. The aggregate weight of
the three masts and bowsprit for the Defence is be-
tween 40 and 50 tons, the mainmast and fittings
weighing 16 tons, the foremast 15 tons, and mizen-
mast 7 tons. An improvement is to be effected in
the bowsprit, which will be constructed to slide in
and out like a telescope, so as not to interfere with
the action of the ship when used as a ram in run-
ning down any hostile vessel at sea. There can be no
doubt, however, that experience will convince the
Admiralty of the absolute necessity of doing away
with the bowspirit altogether from the iron steam-
ships, and fitting them with a fourth mast. The
exactly like her
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et opbeefebnacreq.o e rigged,
The paddlewheel steamer Fearless, Master Com-
mander W. Taylor, having completed her repairs at
Sheerness dockyard, arrived at Chatham yesterday
with a party of naval invalids from the fleet at the
Nore. The invalids were admitted into Melville
Hospital.

By the death of Admiral Sir Edward D. King,
K.C.H., Capt. the Hon. Josh. Denman, in command
of the Victoria and Albeit steam yacht, obtains his
flag rank, and in consequence the command of her
Majesty's yacht is at the disposal of the Admiralty.
The gallant officer was appointed to the royal yacht
on the late Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence being made
Rear-Admiral.

Owing to the promotion of Capt. the Hon. Josh.
Denman a vacancy arises among the naval aides-
de-camp to the Queen.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty ;—Capt. J. F. B. Wainwright, to
the Shannon, commissioned; Capt. Henry C. Otter,
Lieut. W. Chimmo, and Lieut. Edward W. Hawes,
to the Fisgard, additional for surveying service ;
Commander Richmond Moore, to the Shannon; Sub-
Lieut. Frederick Walter, to the Nile, supernumerary
for disposal; the Hon. E. M. D. Browne, midship-
man, to the Edgar; T. H. Broughton and C. G.
Hunt, midshipmen, to the Orpheus ; A. Anderson,
H. Noel, R. W. Hope, A. H. du Boulay, H. Ching,
R. H. Eyre, and G. F. Trollope, midshipmen, to
the Shannon ; H. M. Tyler, A. P. Williams, and L.
H. Enson,naval cadets, to the Shannon ; R. G. Fair-
fax and H. M. Barkly, naval cadets, to the Orpheus;
Somerset J. Johnstone, naval cadet, to the Narcis-
sus ; William Hoghton has been nominated to a
naval cadetship.

and addresses of the wives and children of these
non-commissioned officers, upon receipt of which
authority will be furnished, as usual, to the regi-
mental agents to issue allowances to the said:wives
and children.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in Chief has nominated Col. J. K. Ripon to perform
the duties of Inspector-General of Militia during
the absence in Canada of the Inspector-General,
Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet, C.B.
The following list of promotions and appointments
in the corps of Royal Marines was yesterday an-
nounced in the divisional orders at Woolwich, by
command of Col. Campbell, Commandant, under
date Jan. 16, 1862 :—Brevet-Major Geo. Stephen
Digby, to be Instructor of Laboratory at the Artil-
lery Division, vice Brevet-Major Charles Loudon
Barnard, to be Acting Lieut.-Col. to the Division ;
Capt. William Penn Burton; of the Woolwich Divi-
sion, to be reappointed to the Artillery Division,
vice Digby ; First Lieut. and Adj. James Conway
Travers, of the Woolwich Division, to be Capt. at
that division, vice Burton; First Lieut. Charles
Bullen Hugh Mitchell, of the Woolwich Division,
to be Adj. at the same division, vice Travers ;
Second Lieut. John Ignatius Morris, of the Ports-
mouth Division, to be First Lieut. at the Woolwich
Division, vice Mitchell ; Capt. Enbule Dalish Thel-
well, of the Portsmouth Division, to be reappointed '
to the Artillery Division, vice Capt. W. Pitt
Draffen, to half-pay ; First Lieut. Frederick Lewis
David, of the Plymouth Division, to be Capt. at
the Portsmouth Division, vice Thelwall ; Second
Lieut. Gerald Altham Heseltine, of the Portsmouth
Division, to be First Lieut. at the Plymouth Divi-
sion, vice David, promoted.

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF CAM-

ER rDGE UNIVERSITY.

Yesterday afternoon his Grace the Duke of De-
vonshire was formally installed as Chancellor of
the University of Cambridge, in the room of his late.
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, at Devonshire-
house, Piccadilly, in the presence of a large con-
course of members of the Senate.

The gentlemen who formed the deputation—
doctors of divinity, doctors of laws, and masters of
arts—assembled at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-
street, and thence walked in procession, to Devon-
shire-house, headed by the different officers of the
university, bearing maces and other insignia of
authority. The doctors wore their scarlet robes,
and the other members of the Senate were attired
in academic costume, and their appearance in the
street soon attracted a large crowd of spectators.
The ceremony took place in one of the splendid
drawing rooms of the mansion, along which the de-
putation ranged themselves in two rows ; and on
the noble duke, 'who wore the richly embroidered
robes of the Chancellor of the University, walking
down the centre to his seat at the end of the cham-
ber, he was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
The persons present included the Bishop of Llan-
daff, Lord Monteagle, the Hon. Spring Rice, the
Rev. J. Barlow, F.R.S., the Rev. A. B. Suter, the
Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P., Dr. Paget, Dr.
Aldis, the Rev: Sir Nicholas Chinnery, the Rev. J.
Russell Stock, the Rev. Joseph Brown, rector of
Christchurch, Southwark; the Rev. Canon Lens-
dale, the Rev. C. J. D'Oyley, Lord Wriothesley
Russell, Mr. James Heywood, the Rev. J. Bury
Harrison, the Rev. Dr. Howson, the Rev. J. W.
Blakesley, the Rev. 3. F. Erskine Goodeve, Pro-
fessor Stokes, the Rev. T. Borlase Coulson, Mr. W.
F. Moorsom, the Rev. S. Leathes, Mr. J. Story, the
Rev. E, D. Kershawe, the Rev. G. R. Tuck, the
Rev. Dr. Peile, the Rev. Dr. Phillips, the Rev. A.
IL Williams, Professor Adams, Mr. E. F. Moore,
Professor Lightfoot, Mr. Snell, the Rev. Dr. Eng-
lish, the Rev. R. M. Wheeler, the Rev. J. C.Ebden,
the Rev. I. J. Soden, the Rev. C. W.Hyne, the Rev.
T. Sikes, Mr. J. B. Goren, the Rev. R. Graves, the
Rev. B. Sams, Mr. Cracknell, the Rev. S. T. Gib
son, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Heath, the Rev. J T. Walker,
the Rev. W. Welch, the Rev. G. E. Pattenden, the
Rev. J. J. Tuck, the Rev. S. E. Marsden, Mr.
Brooke, Mr. Babbage, the Rev. T. Radcliffe, Pro.
fessor Willis, Mr. C. W. Lawrence, the Rev. T.
Fuller, the Rev. J. W. Gleadall, Mr. Bright, Mr.
W. Helps, the Rev. Walter Mitchell, Dr. Philp,
Mr.Halswell, the Rev. R. A. Holden, Mr. Stan-
ford, M.A., F.R.S., Mr. Charles De la Pryme.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR of the UNIVERSITY, the
Rev. Dr. Phillips, President of Queen's College,
said—My Lord Duke, it is my duty to present to
your grace the letters patent of the office of Chan-
cellor of the University of Cambridge, to which
you have been unanimously elected by the Senate.
Your grace was pleased to comply with the strong
wish expressed by a great and influential portion of
the university that you should accept the office
which was rendered vacant by the death of, the
much lamented Prince Consort. Permit me to say
to your grace, that deeply as that mournful event
is deplored by the country at large, nowhere
has it caused greater sensation and pro-
duced more heartfelt grief than in the University
of Cambridge. (Cheers.) During the years his
Royal Highness was the head of our academic body he
watched with solicitude every change which was
introduced for the purpose of promoting its welfare,
and in general he took a lively interest in all its
proceedings. But that Prince is removed from us.
It is better that we should submit with Christian
fortitude to the will of God than to indulge in ex-
pressions of idle regret. We are required by our
statutes to fill up the void so painfully caused
within a very limited period, and the acceptance by
your grace of the office of Chancellor has contri-
buted to raise us from the grief which the loss of
that illustrious Prince has produced. Of public
men eminent for their rank, their virtues, or their
deeds, the university felt that the selection of your
grace to fill the high office of Chancellor was the
most appropriate. It has thus secured for its head
a nobleman not only distinguished for the virtues
which adorn private life, but also a nobleman who
has himself won the highest honours which it has
to confer on its meritorious youth. (Cheers.) We
feel that your grace has by these academic triumphs
set an example most worthy of imitation by the
youth of the aristocracy of England. (Cheers.)
I am glad to be able to state to your grace that that
example has not been 'without its effect, and that
since your grace's time there have been others born
to the inheritance of coronets who passed through
the Hniversity and carried away with them high
academic distinctions. (Cheers.) We aro aware
that your grace has throughout, both publicly and
privately, taken a deep interest in the progress of
science, and we feel that in consequence of that
interest, as well as by your academic achievements,
you have nobly sustained the name of your illus-
trious house, which for a century past has been so
well known as associated with scientific dis-
covery. (Cheers.) To your grace it will not be
a matter of surprise—it may be one of some plea-
sure—to know that the same activity which has
marked the busy world without during the last
quarter of a century has also manifested itself
within the precincts of the university. During
that period the area of university education
has been at different times extended. New sub-
jects of study have been introduced and new
honours and trip3ses established, by which
fresh paths are open to our youths for academic dis-
tinction and reward. Your grace is doubtless aware
that the constitution of the University of Cam-
bridge as well as those of its colleges, have recently
undergone by legislative enactment considerable
change. It is hoped—it is certainly desired—by a
vast majority of those who have spent their lives in
the service of the university, that whilst that
change was intended to adapt the ancient institu-
tions of Cambridge to the circumstances of modern
society, it may still be found in most of its essential
features not to be inconsistent with the principles
on which those institutions were founded. (Cheers.)
II hare now only to express my earnest wish that it

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may please God to grant that your grace may enjoy
many years of life to hold the office of Chancellor ;
and I hope that this new trust will be a source of
some satisfaction to yourself, as I am persuaded it
will be of honour and of advantage to our univer-
sity. (Loud applause.)

The SENIOR PROCTOR (the Rev. W.Ethety, of
Corpus Christi College) then read the patent of ap-
pointment which was in Latin, and confided to his
grace all the powers which the university could
confer upon the chancellor.
The oath was then administered to the noble duke
by the Vice-Chancellor in the following form

" Dabis fidem to bene et fideliter prre3titurum
omnia gum speetant ad officinal Cancellarii
demi ea Cantabrigiensis."

His GRACE responded, " Ita do fidein," and then
took his seat upon the throne. _ _ _

The PußLic ORATOR (Mr. W. G. Clark, of
Trinity) delivered a Latin oration, congratulating
the noble Duke upon his appointment as Chancellor.
He addressed his grace as follows ;—Munus, quod
suffragis unanimis destinaveramus, certiores facti to
non abnuere, adsumus hodie ut solemni more in-
auguremui, to scilicet anetoritate summa induamus,
in locum illius Principis quem iniquo fate ab-
rentum, et universe gens, et academia nostra, ut
viium prmcipue celuerat, ita nuns prrecipue
deplorat. Tam vero et tibi et nobis gra-
tins futurum erat, moram interponere, per aliquod
temporis spatium curulem sellum vacantem
contemplari, mcerori desiderioque indulgere ; Sed
vetant statute, sed maturate opus est; capita enim
suo orbata, neque alius cujus vis negotii capax eat
academia, neque etiam potest, quod, primum pietatis
est officium, ad Reginam suam tanti societatem dolo-
ris et fausta in posterum vote literis rite conscriptis
mandare. Quod cum proximo curandum sit, nunc
ne extra ordinem prrecipiamus, neque enim par est
initia novi muneris omnibus minus latis contristare,
et persuasum habemus non immoderate luctu sed
ipsius consilia revocando, ipsiusimitando exemplum,
ipsius operum, si quid inceptum modo ante imper-
fectum reliquit, ad eulmen perducendo, optimi viri
memorise optima consulendum esse. Nobis igitur,
amisso duce, ante omnia curio erat virum exquirere
dignissimum qui ilii sufficeretur. Nimirum permul-
tis alumnis academia censetur, his propter locum et
natales, illis literaram atque artium scientia illustri-
bus, to autem, utlique ornatum laude, cmteris, ut
par est, preetulit ; to Cancellarium salutat, magna
cum fiducia, si quam identidem disciplince vel studio-
rum mutationem tempus et ratio flagitet, to provi-
dum consilii auctorem, sive aliquando jura ex an-
tiquo stabilitadefendere oporteat, to acrem fortemque
esse adfuturum patronum. (Cheers.)
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE replied as follows :
Vice-Chancellor and Gentlemen of the Senate,—
The ceremonies which in conformity with ancient
usage are observed on the installation of chancellor
having been completed, I present myself to you as
your chancellor, to discharge the duty which first
devolves upon me—the duty of offering you my
grateful acknowledgments for the high distinction
of which by an unanimous vote you have pronounced
me to be worthy. (Cheers.) The language in which
my election has been officially announced to me, as
well as that which the vice-chancellor has just ad-
dressed to me, leave no doubt in my mind as to the
reasons which influenced your choice. Undoubtedly I
must attribute my position to-day principally to the
academic success which I had the good fortune to
achieve at the close of my university career. That
success was in itself an ample, and more than ample
reward for any diligence I may have exercised in
studies which were congenial to my inclination,
(Hear, hear.) I had never expected that my con-
duct as a student would, after the lapse of 30 years,
be still remembered, and would be considered as a
sufficient qualification for the highest honour which
it is in the power of the university to bestow. The
vice-chancellor has said other things of a very flat-
tering nature; but upon matters of personal charac-
ter it is always irksome and unwe!come to dwell,
and I would not have touched on them had I not
felt that I could not, without disrespect to him,
have left them altogether unnoticed. I now come
to a more painful subject. We must all of us be
deeply impressed by the peculiarly mournful cha-
racter of the circumstances under which I have been
chosen. Rarely could the election of a chancellor
have taken place in a season of deeper gloom. In
the long catalogue of chancellors who during the
lapse of centuries have been placed at the head of
this university, can be found the names of some of
the most eminent personages—some of the most
distinguished statesmen who figure in the pages of
English history; but it may well be questioned
whether the office at any time was more appro-
priately filled than by my immediate predecessor,
the late Prince Consort, whose premature death has
excited such universal sorrow among all classes
throughout the country. The active interest he
always took in every pursuit which tends to elevate
and adorn mankind, his powerful and cultivated
intellect, his virtuous and blameless life, surely
peculiarly fitted him to be the head of this ancient
establishment of learning. (Cheers.) It is difficult
to speak in exaggerated terms of the loss you have
sustained in being deprived of a chancellor on whose
sympathy you could always depend, and on whose
sound and sagacious advice in any emergency you
could with confidence rely. The period of his
chancellorship has been prematurely cut short ; it
will never be forgotten in the history of the uni-
versity. (Applause.) The vice chancellor and the
public orator have spoken of those improvements and
alterations which have been recently introduced
in the system of the university education. Of
those improvements the late Prince Consort was no
mere observer—he actually cooperated in their
introduction. Whilst he recognised the great claims
which this university has to be considered the
patron of learning and science, he felt that the time
was come when the importance of other branches
of study to which it had not hitherto devoted its
attention should be fully acknowledged, and the
study of them encouraged. I feel it is no light
honour to have been elected his successor. I feel
that the post to which you have summoned me, as
the successor of one who so admirably discharged
the duties of the office, is an arduous one. I cannot
hspe to repair your loss, but I shall endeavour, to
the best of my ability, to follow the excellent ex-
ample he has set me, and any assistance it may be
in my power to contribute towards further advances
in that good path which the university has lately
pursued with so much zeal and diligence, and of
which she has also cheerfully approved, shall be
freely given. From early associations, as well as
from a sense of the favours and benefits conferred
upon me, I must always entertain feelings of
am
the
strongest attachment to this university; but
v
convinced that you would not expect
to regard it with that blind and
tion which would make me indifferent or hostile to
(Applause.) Ido not
other institutions founded in more recent times for
exclusivei
nor wish
ene mr:
the promotion of learning•
wish to forget—it almost seems to me my duty to
remind you—that for several years' held the highest
office in another university—the University of Lon-
dou—an institution demanded, it appeared to me,
by the state of so
society and by the circumstances and
opinions of the times in which we live. Witb that
university I am still connected as a member of its
senate, and I should not do justice to my own feel-
ings if I did not avow that I take a warm interest
in its success. (Cheers.) You have placed me in
this high office with a full knowledge of that con-
nexion ; and allow me to say that it gives me great
satisfaction to find that it is not regarded with
disapprobation, nor considered as in any respect
disqualifying me for the position to which you have
elected me, and elected, I know, in the full con-
viction that my best energies will be devoted to
your service. I trust that your expectations will
never be disappointed, and that you will always
find me a faithful ',guardian of those rights which
you possess for the public advantage, and which
are essential to the due exercise of the functions en-